“Formed December 2005, Desmond & The Tutus plays an
infectiously awesome blend of Rock ‘n Roll, Indie, Kwela,Pop
and Genius. You will have fun or else you will die. Not
because we’re going to get all offended and poke your eyes
out with sharp sticks or anything but rather because you’ll be
trampled to a bleeding pulp by all the happy dancers
jumping around like little crazies” (quoted from their MySpace page)
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A while back, the song Kiss You On The Cheek was on high rotation on radio, and Tattoo is also a really cool song. At the moment, I’m obsessed with Zim Zala Bim, the song which comes off the album that these crazy fools actually made an informercial for (warning: Dobson gets really irritated with the rats and starts using some… colourful language):
The video is a sort of audiovisual version of those dubious (and most times downright hilarious) pamphlets that people give out at just about every street corner in Johannesburg.
You know the ones: they’re all about “abortion this” and “lost lover that”. Sometimes, I feel like the world is really just a scary, scary place…
Anyway. Desmond and The Tutus put a fun spin on these strange doctors and the outlandish illnesses they all claim to cure, and use this as an introduction to their latest album, Mnusic.
Zim Zala Bim sees the same man from the infomercial taking the lead role, and with lines like “where have his flippin’ pants gone?/ Oh! They’re behind his ears”, I think they did Dobson the Mysterious and his magical prowess justice.
I’m waiting to find a strategically-placed concert poster with directions to the secret location where all this Awesome is going down next.
Nkhensani Manabe 