We are very excited to be entering the Climate Change Leadership Awards for the third year in a row!

The CCLA are the first awards in South Africa, and Africa, that recognize, reward, motivate and celebrate businesses, communities, youth, schools and individuals that are taking the lead through positive voluntary action by implementing a range of activities to combat global warming. The CCLA contribute significantly to inspiring and promoting awareness and action towards a low carbon economy, and thus a healthier society and a more sustainable planet. Now you can be rewarded for your efforts in saving our planet.

If you feel you have what it takes to be a climate change leader, enter now! Entries close on 10 February!

Sowing the Seeds, a CONVERSE Collaboration, is coming to Magaliesburg in the form of an amazing 2-day music festival on 24^th and 25^th of February!  Jo’burgers will have the opportunity to enjoy a full weekend premier camping experience with a set up like no other festival in South Africa.  Music and lifestyle enthusiasts can now enjoy a bush festivalsurrounded by the breathtaking Highveld landscape, at Warthogs Game Farm.

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Here is the list of lost property in our possession (desperately looking to be reunited with their owners)

Toiletries bag belonging to:

Kirsten Davies

Wallets / Purses belonging to:

Wade Skinner

Mr JH Welthagen

C van Jaarsveld

SL Zietsman

Mr G Dreyer

Jessica Lassen

Brad Neil Stelly

Ian Ross

S Hodge

Jacques Fourie

S Zwane

L Mitchell

TJ Rixon

Cavan Fyfe

Cards belonging to:

Mr T Harding-Goodman

Roeland Kraan

Dr J G Kinsman

J Zabbia

DG Grobbler

ID Book:

Siyanda  Collex Veli

Wallets without names:

Black purse

Brown Manchester United Wallet

Black material K-Way Wallet

Handbag without name:

Brown leather MNG bag with silver heart attached

Others:

3 Cellphones (Please email description)

3 sets of keys (one Land Rover key, one with a yellow beaded J keyring)

2 Pairs of sunglasses (Please email description)

1 Pair of spectacles

Please contact us on hello@rockingthedaisies.com or call on 021 461 9822

We have a box full of keys, cell phones, wallets and handbags (no camera’s unfortunately) lost at the festival. From Thursday we will be putting huge effort into reuniting lost items with their owners and will be posting drivers license names etc. on our website. In the meantime please email hello@rockingthedaisies.com with details of your lost property!

From us here at RTD headquarters we would like to say the biggest and most genuine thank you possible. To our immediate crew, thank you for slaving away for days before the event and then grafting during the hottest of hot days into the wee hours of the night. Your hard work reflects directly on the success of the event! To our many gracious sponsors, thank you for trusting in us and having the faith to put your brands in our hands The feedback that we have received is nothing but the most amazing positive reviews and we know that without you, the festival would not have been possible (one final big up to 5 GUM! You guys are just awesome). To all the traders and restaurants, you are the face of the festival and help make it the awesome vibe that it is, thank you! And lastly to every single person that came to the festival. Your positive energy and unrelenting determination to have a good time has made this festival a weekend we will never forget! We will now be getting the days of sleep that we have missed out on for the last 8 months, but before you know it we will be back on the horse preparing to blow everyone away at Rocking the Daisies 2012! See you all there

Thank you to EVERYONE who made this happen! Rocking the Daisies was the best fest ever. thanks Fruit & Veg City for your support and DONT PARTY for this EPIC vid that featured on the main stage big screen

Also a big thanks to HEMPORIUM, once again, for the awesome tshirts and biodegradable soap sponsored for all walkers!

Check it out HERE

Its time to say a special thank you, to a special company: A big Thanks to Hellfire Productions for Sponsoring the Stage and Backline for the Nu World Beat Ring this year! Providing Technical Production, Engineers & Crew, Sound and Lighting.Contact them at ‘sound@hellfire.co.za 021 448 2848′

A big thanks to Pick n Pay for contributing to all the green initiatives at the festival this year! We are truly thankful to have them on board supporting Rocking the Daisies for the second year running!

We are excited to have Red Hot Events, the owners’ of UP THE CREEK music Festival, part of Rocking the Daisies this year. Having been part of the music festival scene since 1990 they will be styling the Daisy Den with glamorous furniture to ensure maximum comfort and in addition, providing some of the accessories for the luxury tented camp. So, when you’re done and dusted after a successful Rocking the Daisies, diarise Up The Creek from 3 – 5th February 2012. Like their facebook page or follow them on twitter. Early bird tickets will soon be on sale. You can also call Kirsty at Red Hot Events on 021 510 0547 for further information.

Don’t miss a single World Cup Game at Daisies this year! The Black Label Champion Zone will house plenty of screens all showing the rubgy! Plus make sure you catch the SA game live on the Main Stage big screen… Bright and early – 7am Sunday!

5 GUM with Rocking the Daisies will be giving away the ultimate VIP  prize: Double VIP festival tickets, 2 return flights (if you live in JHB), fancy Kreef Hotel accomodation, access to the 5 Gum Experience viewing platform ALL weekend, access to all VIP areas, and, wait for it, get to hang out back-stage. Winning is simple: tickets will go to the most deserving. Click HERE to win by writing a song, making a video, drawing a picture, whatever. Wrigley’s will decide which 5 Fan deserves this kick-ass prize. So, put a lil’ effort in, and go!

Newly launched in SA this year, Wrigley’s 5 Gum has already become synonymous with cutting edge, crazy cool events. The awesome news is that Wrigley’s 5 Gum will be the Title Sponsor at Rocking the Daisies this year.

Expect a sensory overload at Daisies this year – a show that will blow your mind and rock all 5 senses. Wrigley’s, in association with Daisies, will also be bringing us all a world-class festival activation. This will be based on their previous 3D Building-Mapping that a special few caught in Jozi and Cape Town earlier this year.

Think crazy techie toys, state of the art installations, underground music – overall, a world-class experience. The Wrigley’s 5 Gum Daisies experience will be one to remember. As you know, at Daisies we do our best to blow your mind every year, and thanks to our association with Wrigley’s 5 Gum we will most definitely be bringing it this year!

Get your entry for the Walking the Daisies on the Fruit & Veg City Facebook page now!
Applications close on Monday, 26 September. Successful applicants will be notified on Wednesday, 28 September.
Entries are limited, so get going!

Apply HERE now!

Whatever your taste in dance music is, whether you prefer electro to house, drum and bass to trance or dubstep to techno, chances are you have Kevin Saunderson to thank somewhere along the way. There are few people alive in the modern millennium who can legitimately lay claim to having shaped the musical future to the extent that he has, so hosting him at Rocking the Daisies 2011, presented by 5 Gum, is nothing short of a landmark achievement.

Read the full story on Dont Party

We are incredibly stoked to have the british rock band Band of Skulls as headlining international act on our Daisies main stage on Saturday, presented by 5 Gum! Success on both sides of the Atlantic has made them a high-profile and much sought after act.
Russell, Emma and Matt formed the group after meeting each other at College. Since then they released their first album, Baby Darling Doll Face Honey, in September 2009, went on Tour for 2 years and recently started recording their second album, which is due to release in early 2012.
Many of their songs were featured in commercials, such as Hugo Boss and the trailer of The Hangover II and their song “Friends” made it on the soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: New Moon in 2009.
Check more out HERE

We are so amped to have the internationally acclaimed Civil Twilight on our main stage on Saturday at the festival!

The three lifelong friends—brothers Steven and Andrew McKellar and Richard Wouters—who make up the Wind-up Records recording group Civil Twilight have been playing music together since they were teenagers growing up in South Africa, emulating the rock music they heard coming out of Europe and America, from Oasis, U2 and Nirvana to The Verve, The Police, Muse and Radiohead.

“We were always really influenced by British and American artists,” says Wouters.

Which is why you don’t necessarily hear a whole lot of the music of Africa on the band’s self-titled debut, but you can hear the continent itself in Steve McKellar’s ambitious lyrics, their existential questioning and spiritual longing the perfect correlative to the music’s expansive atmospheric soundscapes, at once lush, feverish and exotic like a jungle, with the vast, arid spaciousness of a desert. From the dramatic flourish of “Anybody Out There,” with its plea for communion, the Beatlesque melodies-meet-grunge dynamics of “Next to Me” and the nervous apocalyptic jangle of “Trouble” to The Police-like world beat of “Soldier” and its chilling depiction of wartime, the moody “Save Yourself” and the wide-screen canvas of the closing “Quiet in My Town,” Civil Twilight envelopes you in its multi-layered sound and vision. The band’s name itself a reflection on that in-between time, not quite daylight, not quite darkness, but rather a shifting shade of gray.

We can’t wait to see them at Rocking the Daisies! Presented by 5 Gum!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Come fly on the Daisy Plane, brought to you by Velvet Sky Airlines. For the first time ever our Johannesburg based fans will be able to make their way down to the Festival for an unbelievable R999. This deal includes return flights and entrance into the event- all inclusive.

There will be a number of flights to choose from so make sure you get your tickets now!
NB: ONLY 200 TICKETS AVAILABLE

For bookings at: http://www.webtickets.co.za/EventCategory.aspx?itemid=3745672

On Saturday 13th August the Daisies crew were lucky enough to go witness YOAV in the flesh at Assembly. Now we had heard a lot about him and heard a lot of him on the radio, but being able to watch his unique set of skills LIVE was a completely different experience.

<Click here> to read more on Dont Party

Cycle tickets go on sale NOW!

For just R300, 150 keen cyclists will get to enjoy a beautiful outdoor ride and the awesome benefit of finishing at Rocking the Daisies just in time for the party to start!

Route details attached: Read More »

We stumbled upon this incredibly interesting article by Matthew Stone and thought his insights would be a great read for anyone involved or interested in the industry.

He points how the evolution of the internet and the worlds digital generation have affected musicians, and more so record labels, in the promotion and selling of an artist’s music.

“The act of selling music in a modern world is difficult, as songs are simultaneously your promotional tool and product. No-one buys your music until they have listened to it enough, and allowing them to freely listen to it doesn’t incentivise them to buy it.”

Other great points:

Independent versus Major Label

Choice:

▪ Region locking

▪ Micropayments

▪ Music selling/sharing

▪ Profit share

▪ The album model

Full story on memeburn.com

One of the most common questions we at Rocking the Daisies get asked is how we go about picking the artists on our line up, and this is in fact quite a complicated process. Read More »

Rocking the Daisies Festival was invited to the French Island of Reunion to attend the first Indian Ocean Music Market and the Sakifo Music Festival in June this year.

This was festival Director, Brian Little’s response to his experience. Read More »

We are so excited to announce that Rocking the Daisies has once again won the SA Climate Change Leadership Awards! The CCLA are the first awards in South Africa to recognize, reward, motivate and celebrate South African businesses, communities, individuals, youth and schools that are taking the lead through positive voluntary action by implementing a range of activities to combat global warming. Read More »

We would like to give RSAWEB a huge thumbs up for keeping rockingthedaisies.com green by providing clean, energy-saving Web Hosting. Hosted on RSAWEB’s own home-grown Cloud Hosting product, rockingthedaisies.com enjoys the most environmentally-friendly form of Web Hosting available; using up to 90% less energy than traditional Hosting products.

Sowing the Seeds has come and gone and oh boy what a party and a half. This small and intimate day festival has always had a very special place in our Rocking the Daisies hearts and we think it’s because of the great energy this festival always produces. Beautiful girls, smiling faces, laughing children, drinking, eating and a whole lot of dancing! Read More »