Face To Face

Formed in Johannesburg in 1984 with Simon Le Fevre (Lead vocals), John Campbell Le Fevre (guitar, glute, vocals), Keith Armour McFarlane (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Simon Fellow (bass) and Jarrad Jay Aston (drums).

They released two albums: Here We Are (1984) and Night of the Long Knives (1985). Their 1984 single “Here We Are” achieved substantial chart success.

Falling Mirror

Cape Town band formed in 1979 by Nielen Marais (vocals, percussion), Alan Faull (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass) and Pat Humphreys (drums, percussion).

Launched their career in 1979 with the album Zen Boulders and the single ‘I Am The Actor’/‘Making Out With Grannie’. They continued to release albums and singles through the early to mid-1980s, achieving their biggest chart success with the single ‘Johnny Calls The Chemist’ in 1986.

Although not releasing any new music after that they periodically continued to perform live and released two compilation albums.

Feather Control

Formed in Johannesburg in 1981 with Gary Finch (guitar), Charles Kuhn (vocals), Mella Palmantouras (guitar), Tony Otto (keyboards) and Jae Velleman (drums).

In 1984 Jimmy Nichols replaced Mella Palmantouras and Dave Sharp replaced Tony Otto when the two left to join Café Society.

Their debut single was “Footprints” release in 1982. They released further singles in the 1980s, the last one being “Summer girl” released in 1987.

Finch & Henson

Brian Finch and Kenny Henson were both successful solo artists who first performed together in 1975 in the short-lived band Collinson McBrian along with Colin Pratley and Ramsay MacKay. The band broke up but in 1977 and Finch and Henson formed as a duo.

They released the single “Free and Easy” and the album Playgrounds In Paradise in 1977 and went on to release several more singles and two more albums, High Octane (1978) and At Home In The Dark (1980). T

hey continued to perform together over the years until Kenny Henson’s death in 2007.

Flash Harry

Formed in Johannesburg in 1978. After some initial lineup changes the group that performed on their first album was Keith Berel (songwriter, vocalist, lead guitarist, sax and flute), Gerry Salendis (keyboards, vocals), Joh Hansen (bass) and Fred Knowles (drums). In 1978 released the single “Eyes”, followed by “No Football” in 1981.

Received substantial airplay on Radio 5 with “Shame On You” (1982).

They also released two albums, Going Straight (1981) and Take What You Can (1982). They broke up in 1983.

Friends First

Formed in 1986 with the idea of spreading a Christian and political message, working towards a post-apartheid society.

It was a musical concept involving many people including songwriters Nick Paton and Steve McEwan. The core band was Malcolm du Plessis (vocals. Producer), JB Arthur (vocals, guitar, keyboards, producer), Dany Bridgens (guitar), Victor Sibusiso Masondo (bass) and Lloyd Martin (drums).

Released the albums We See A New Africa (1986), Another Friend In Another City (1988) and Dumisani Ma-Afrika (1993) and the single “Jabulani Afrika” in 1987.