OppiKoppi's ready to rock
2005-06-30 13:15
Johannesburg - Are you ready for a music marathon? Then gear up for this year's OppiKoppi Wired Festival.
The annual music festival will be held from August 6-8.
Over the years the festival has grown from its wild rock 'n roll infancy to a benchmarking South African and international event which plays host to an array of tunes.
Consequently the event results in an annual almost haj-like music pilgrimage around the Women's day long weekend, to the farm just outside the one-horse-Limpopo-province-metropolis of Northam.
Stages
With the OppiKoppi festival once again firmly rooted in its bushveld setting over the last two years, it has become possible for the organisers to start erecting more permanent fixtures.
This process was started in 2004 with the erection of two stages at the foot of the two koppies on the farm. In 2005 the process will be taken another step further with the erection of another new permanent structure for, what was known to regular OppiKoppi attendees, as the 206 stage.
This will result in a total of four permanent structures being available for programming in 2005. With the addition of the half a stage for comedy and theatre this should once again result in a jam packed three days of musical mayhem.
In addition the new structures will also allow OppiKoppi to move and twist genres within the festival itself. The most striking change would be the move of almost all jazzy, bluesy, traditional and laid back tunes from the original OppiKoppi stage to the newly erected stage on the second koppie, The Sipho Gumede Stage.
The original OppiKoppi bar and wooden stages will play host almost exclusively to singer songwriter sets as well as acoustic sessions, in a decidedly relaxed atmosphere.
Artists
The line-up at this year's festival will be catering for elements of tunes from all over the South African music landscape.
This will include rock, punk, metal, traditional, jazz, acoustic, folk, blues, hip-hop, kwaito, house, drum 'n bass, afro pop and genres event the programmers and finding difficulty to memorise.
Artists that have so far been confirmed include 340 ml, Blow, Chris Chameleon Fokofpolisiekar, Freshly ground, Anika, Blunted Stuntman, Evolver, Prime Circle, Mafikizolo and Sipho "Hotstix" Mabusa.
To check out the complete line-up go to www.oppikoppi.co.za
Tickets:
The tickets to the OppiKoppi Wired festival are being sold at R350 per ticket. Ticket prices include entrance, camping and a whole smattering of tangled webs for the entire four-day long-weekend.
Where can I buy my ticket?
Tickets will be sold through Shoprite, Checkers & Checkers Hyper Money Market Counters. For telephonic bookings, please call 083 918 0001 or for internet bookings visit www.ticketshop.co.za.
Tickets will also be sold through all Computicket outlets.
www.computicket.co.za.
Also all Levi's Stores in Gauteng will have OppiKoppi tickets on sale.