ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Announces SA Tour 2008
Cape Town
Date:
Saturday, 11th October, 2008
Doors open 8pm
Venue:
Club Galaxy / West End
Cine 400
College Rd
Rylands
7764
Western Cape
Ticket price:
R 170 Tickets available through www.computicket.com
Through the venue – R 160Arrested Development Live in Cape Town brought to you by JUMP Media, Club Galaxy, Heart Radio & Computicket
FOR FURTHER MEDIA INFO:
Please contact Dionne Domyan
prwork@iafrica.com
083 326 1776
JUMP Media is proud to announce that the prominent Hip Hop sensation ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT is soon to tour South Africa. One of the major success stories of the nineties, Arrested Development are a progressive rap collective fusing soul, blues, hip-hop, and Sly and the Family Stone-influenced funk with political, socially conscious lyrics. The group was founded in the late '80s by rapper Speech and DJ Headliner, who decided to make the transition to a more positive, Afro- centric viewpoint after hearing Public Enemy. Arrested Development's debut album took its title from the amount of time it took the group to secure a record contract- "Three Years, Five Months and Two Days in the Life of..." and produced the hit single "Tennessee"- a strongly spiritual track that hit the Top Ten and sparked the album to sell over four million copies. Its two follow-ups- "People Everyday" and "Mr. Wendal" did likewise. Accolades poured in- Arrested Development won Grammy's for Best Rap Album and Best New Artist, and were named Rolling Stone's Band of the Year in 1992.
The group describes their sound as "Life Music." A.D. respects women, and promotes family, spirituality and "male responsibility." They are about consciousness, the earth, African self- determination and love. They define themselves as hip-hop artists but also just artists. They are dancers, vocalists, turn- tablists, drummers, and everything in between. Arrested Development is and has always been a communal music community with any number of talented members on board, picture your family reunion but more musical. Speech may be the most known member of the group, being the front man, but Dionne Farris, Eshe (Black Life), Rasa Don (Raz), Baba Oje (the elder), Nicha and many others have contributed much to this Kaleidoscope of image and sound.
A.D. has sold over 6 million albums to date.
Right now Arrested Development is fresh outta the studio, they took their time in recording the album of their career! Speech says, “Hip-Hop is very unforgiving and the fact that we’ve done a lot doesn't matter to the average head out there, they wanna hear heat, and that’s what we yearn to give."
They are on their way to SA to blow away their legions of fans with hits like "Tennessee, "People Everyday" and "Mr. Wendal" and many more, making new fans along the way. Don’t miss the opportunity to see this impressive band perform live.
