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WRESTLERISH
THE RUDE MECHANICAL
Out March 2010
Wrestlerish’s much-anticipated debut album, The Rude Mechanical, will be released by Rhythm Records in March 2010.
Wrestlerish is the brain child of songwriters Werner Olckers (Vocals and guitar) and Jacques Du Plessis (Keys and vocals) and is completed by David Grevler (Bass) and Gavin Flaks (Drums). After a whirlwind year of touring and performing in 2009, the band is now set to release their debut album “The Rude Mechanical” in March 2010 through Rhythm Records.
Wrestlerish has quickly become the band that seems to have everyone talking. After making a critically-acclaimed festival debut at Splashy Fen last year, the band went on to play Oppikoppi: Smoorverlief, where their performance was selected by 5FM to be part of the Live@5 Oppikoppi campaign. They also played Oppiaarde, Rocking the Daisies, Old Mutual Encounters and Magic in the Music with MNET.
The band plans to follow up their debut single, “Bad News” (which already went to # 1 on the TuksFM charts and is playlisted on several campus radio stations, with the video enjoying heavy rotation on music channel MK) with two more music videos, confirmed performances with international acts Johnny Foreigner (UK) and Balthazar (Belgium) and a full national tour during March and April to promote the album.
Says Olckers, who was previously in SHU with Peach van Pletzen (Yesterday’s Pupil) and Barend Pieterse (Kidofdoom) “I mostly write about what is happening in my life… friends, family, love. I don’t have a set formula when I write. Sometimes it is the tune that gives shape to the entire song, sometimes it is only a few words…”
Wrestlerish captivates not only through their exquisite, simultaneous musical richness and simplicity, but Werner Olckers’s octave-shifting voice also has that rarest of qualities – conveying meaning and feeling with every word he sings.
Download Wrestlerish’s first single “Bad News” for free at http://rhythmmusicstore.com/music/6152/Wrestlerish/The-Rude-Mechanical
Read more about Wrestlerish here: http://www.speakerbox.co.za/content/feature.aspx?id=208
Watch the music video of “Bad News” here:
“When I listen to Wrestlerish I think of driving in the passenger seat and losing out under street lights and I think of
bicycles and glitter and I think of girls and the way hearts used to break so well in the old days.
A quarter-life crisis is a ridiculous thing to have, but he’s making the soundtrack to mine.”
Hunter Kennedy
WRESTLERISH
THE RUDE MECHANICAL LAUNCH TOUR DATES
When: Friday: 19.02.2010
Where: Pretoria Hot Box Studios
Address: 1072 Schoeman Street, Arcadia
Entrance fee: R70.00 before 20h00 & R80.00 after
Starting Time: 18h00
Website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=279017281239&ref=ts
With many more
When: Saturday: 27.02.2010
Where: Cool Runnings Victory Park
Address: Shop 28, Victory Park Shopping Centre, Rustenberg road.
Entrance fee: None
Starting time: 19h00
PLEASE NOTE: This show is an acoustic set featuring Jacques & Werner
When: Friday: 05.03.2010 – Album Launch
Where: Cape Town &Union
Address: 110 Bree Street, Cape Town (St. Stephens Church)
Entrance fee: None
Starting Time: 7pm
OFFICIAL ALBUM LAUNCH
When: Saturday: 06.03.2010
Where: Ramfest, Johannesburg
Address: Emmarentia Botanical Gardens, Olifants Road.
Entrance Fee: Pre-sale: R100.00
Door tickets: R150.00
Starting time: 12h00
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=273450937677&index=1
With many more
When: Thursday: 11.03.2010 – Album Launch
Where: Tings & Times, Pretoria
Address: 1065 Arcadia Road, Hatfield
Entrance Fee: R30.00
Starting Time: 19h00
With Yesterday’s Pupil
When: Friday: 12.03.2010
Where: Back2Basics, Johannesburg
Address: Cnr. Perth and Lancaster roads, Westdene
Entrance Fee: R50.00
Starting time: 19h00
With Jack Parow
When: Monday: 22.03.2010
Where: The Waiting Room, Cape Town
Address: 273 Long Street, Cape Town
Entrance Fee: R20.00
Starting time: 19h00
PLEASE NOTE: This show is an acoustic set featuring Jacques & Werner
When: Tuesday: 23.03.2010
Where: Aandklas, Stellenbosch
Address: 43A Bird Street, Stellenbosch
Entrance Fee: R30.00
Starting time: 20h00
With Thieve
When: Wednesday: 24.03.2010
Where: Kunskafee, Durbanville
Address: 1 Scher Street, Durbanville
Entrance Fee: R20.00
Starting Time: 19h30
With Fox Comet & Mt Rooms
When: Friday: 26.03.2010
Where: Mercury Live, Cape Town
Address: 43 De Villiers Street, Cape Town
Entrance Fee: R30.00
Starting time: 20h00
With Balthazar (Belgium) & Ashtray Electric
When: Saturday: 27.03.2010
Where: Jo’burg Burning, Johannesburg
Address: All around Melville
Early Bird: R80.00
Pre-sale: R100.00
Door: R130.00
Event link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119231607004&ref=ts
With many more
For photo’s, interviews or more information, please contact:
Riana Wiechers
RHYTHM PROMO
riana@rhythmrecords.co.za
C: 072 341 6439 H: 021 801 0663
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