Preserving South African Musical History
Short-lived group who released one album and did live gigs in the late 1990s. Formed by Warrick Sony of Kalahari Surfers (keyboards, guitar, vocals) and Brendan Jury (viola, vocals) after Urban Creep broke up. They released the album Killing Time in 1998.
Songwriter, composer, vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist and producer who rose to fame in the mid-1970s with the group Rabbitt (formerly Conglomeration).
He left Rabbitt in 1977 to pursue a solo career while also an in-demand session guitarist and was involved in the studio projects Disco Rock Machine and Come With Me.
Launched his solo career in 1978 with the singles “Fantasy” and “Stay With Me” and the album Beginning. This was followed by Face to Face (1979) and Wolf (1981) before he joined Yes for their album 90125.
He continued after that with Yes, as a solo artist and a very successful composer of film music.
Formed in Johannesburg in 1984. After the break-up of the Asylum Kids, Robbie Robb (guitar, vocals) formed Boys Next with Fuzzy Marcus (bass), Neils Jensen (keyboards), Bruce Williams (drums).
Williams changed to keyboards when Clive Dickenson came in on drums.
They released the single ‘Between the sky and the stone’ in 1984. In 1985 they changed their name to Tribe After Tribe and released the Bob Dylan cover ‘As I Went Out One Morning (Damsel)’ as a single and the album Power.
Robbie Robb relocated to the USA soon after and a second album – Tribe After Tribe – was released in 1991.
The 1991 release saw a substantial change in the band’s line-up. Joining Robbie Robb were Robby Whitelaw (bass guitar, bass synth, vocals), PK (drums, percussion) and Barry C. Schneider (techno primal drums). Four further albums were released over the following 16 years.