A women-only band with Cindi Alter on vocals, Glenda Hyam on keyboards and vocals, Lee Tomlinson on bass and vocals, Jenny Garson on guitar and vocals and Ingi Herbst on drums.
Clout arrived on the South African scene with the single “Substitute” in
1977. The single was very successful in various European countries and in New Zealand. This was followed by further chart success in South Africa and abroad.
Tours to Europe followed. Changing membership ended the women’s-only status of the band in 1978 when Glenda Hyam departed and Sandy Robbie (guitar) and Bones Brettell (keyboards) joined. In 1980 Gary van Zyl replaced Lee Tomlinson on bass.
Clout broke up in 1981.
Discography
Singer songwriter who appeared on the Johannesburg folk scene in the late 1960s.
Released the duet “Johnny’s Gun” with Cornelia in 1968. Was prominent on the folk scene throughout the 1970s. He recorded several demos between 1968 and 1977 but it was only in 1980 that he released his first album Born Guilty, with Third Ear Music.
“Dancer” and “Stopping Time” were playlisted on Capital Radio but did not make the Top 40 countdown chart. Despite the lack of commercial success he continued to compose and perform into the 2000s.
Johannesburg-based singer and guitarist who started out with The Anchors, Flaming Souls and Flaming Ghettoes before joining Harari in 1981.
When Harari broke up he assembled a backing band, Lumumba for exiled artists Letta Mbulu and Caiphus Semenya. Lumumba also constituted Condry Ziqubu’s backing band and in 1984 he released his first single along with Lumumba, ”Yellow Mieliemiel”, followed by “Skorokoro” and “Via Orlando” in 1985.
He continued to release singles throughout the eighties and also several albums: Shut Your Mouth (1987), Pick Six (1988), Magic Man (1989) and No Money, No Love (1991).
With the return of exiled musicians in the early 1990s Ziqubu continued as part of Mbulu and Semanya’s backing band but also performed solo on occasions.
In 2003 he released the album, Condry Ziqubu and Friends. He is also involved in studio session and production work.
Formed in Springs in 1980. James Phillips (guitar, vocals), Carl Raubenheimer (bass, vocals), Herbie Parkin (rhythm guitar), Mark Bennet (keyboard, vocals) and Chris Hattingh (drums). Hattingh was replaced on drums by Henry Jantzen.
Recorded two songs for the WEA Records Six of the Best (1979) compilation: “Victim’s Victim” and “Goddess of Depression”. Released the 7 inch EP “Fridays and Saturdays” in 1980, including four songs: “In The Night”, “Brain Damage”, “Johnny’s Conscience” and “Rock And Rolls Royce”.
The band broke up but James Phillips, Carl Raubenheimer and Steve Howells (drums) reformed the band in 1982 to record new versions of original Corporal Punishment songs in the Shifty Records studios. These recordings together with original Corporal Punishment recordings were released on cassette along with the James Phillips and Carl Raubenheimer project, Illegal Gathering, in 1986.
Real name Robin Graham began his music career as Crocodile Harris in the 1970s, releasing the single “Miss Eva Goodnight” (1973) and an album You’re A Woman, I’m A Man (1974) as well as follow-up singles before forming the Wright Brothers with Richard Wilson in 1977.
When the duo split up in 1979 he went solo again. In 1982 the single “Give me the good news” received lots of radio play on South African radio stations. In 1983 he released the album Give Me The Good News.
His last single release was “The world is an explosion” in 1984.
He died in 2015.
Western Cape actor and singer who performed in many musicals including David Kramer and Taliep Peterson’s District Six (1986). He played the role of the hawker, Uncle Henry, and sang the songs “Watermelon” and “Heart of District Six”. He died in 2009.
