UK rock band Livingston will be coming to South Africa in
August 2015. Their tour will kick off at Oppikoppi The Fantastic Mr Vos Vos and
show dates for Cape Town, Johannesburg has just been announced:
14 August - Arcade Empire, Pretoria.
15 August - Rumours Lounge, Johannesburg
22 August - The Music Kitchen, Port Elizabeth
27 August – Aces & Spades, Cape Town.
The band will also spend time on a farm in Newcastle to
write and record their next album. Having formed in the multi-cultural hub of
London, Livingston searched high and low to find their collective musical feet.
With singer Beukes Willemse and a guitarist/keyboardist Chris van Niekerk from
South Africa, guitarist/percussionist Jakob Nebel from Germany and bassist Phil
Magee from the UK, it seemed almost impossible that their paths would cross.
However fate took hold when Beukes was re-united with Chris in London to find
the missing pieces to the Livingston puzzle. The band has since also set up
roots in Berlin and currently operates between the UK and Germany. Finding
their feet with 2008’s debut Sign Language and 2012’s Fire To Fire (Universal
Music Germany), the band achieved numerous successes including Top 20 in the
German Sales Charts and Number 1 Amazon & iTunes Rock Charts. Their single
“Broken” went to Top 20 and their second single “Go” was the official song for
German national broadcaster ZDF during the winter Olympics of 2010. The Band
also collaborated with Hugh Masekela and Till Brunner for a song for the
Football World Cup in South Africa (2010). The Band and their Music where also
featured in the international blockbuster movie Chalet Girl featuring Bill
Nighy, Felicity Jones, Brooke Shields and Ed Westwick. Retreating to a hunter’s
cabin in the woods just outside Berlin, an unorthodox location for a band who
had previously recorded at the hallowed grounds of Abbey Road and Sonic Ranch
with producers such as David Botrill .(Muse, Tool, Placebo) The band wrote,
produced, recorded and mixed Animal entirely on their own. The result? Animal
is Livingston at their purest. Livingston released Animal in the UK, Benelux
and GSA in Autumn 2014, followed by successful tour where the band displayed
their best and most dynamic live shows to date. Listen to the single
“Chemicals” off the album (submitted to SA Radio in June 2015) here:
https://soundcloud.com/livingstonmusic/livingston-chemicals-radio-edit
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