For Mandela’s 94th birthday I made this song. The song contains samples of Madiba’s inauguration speech in 1994, and also a sample of Madiba speaking on tolerance and forgiveness. The hope of this song is that it will inspire South Africans to remember the legacy that Mandela left.

“Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.”

Madiba Day encourages us to take responsibility for changing the world into a better place, one small step at a time, just as Madiba did for more than 67 years. All profits made from the single sales will go to the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

The Rob Forbes show kindly invited us for an interview and a live performance on 5FM! Rob Forbes and Fix were really great interviewers and there were many laughs. Was a really awesome experience and one of the most nerve racking performances I think we’ve ever done. It’s weird playing to millions of listeners but not being able to see them. I shanked my trumpet solo in ‘Never Again’ a bit, so we edited it out coz I cringe every time I hear it Otherwise it went pretty well! Check out the recording here.

The producer ‘The Pranksta’ kindly filmed us while we were playing, check it out.

It was so awesome that I was feeling kind and gave everyone a Kiffness T-shirt. We took a photo and looked like a group from a team building exercise.

So The Kiffness’ first single ‘Voetsek’ has made it onto the 5fm playlist. We were thrown into the deep end when Rob Forbes decided to put us up against ‘The Harlem’ shake for the #NewFavourite feature. The odds were seriously stacked against us, but somehow we got more votes than The Harlem Shake!! What the kiff?? Thanks to everyone who voted. We’re excited to see how Voetsek does on radio after a really awesome start Also a MASSIVE thanks to Thusi from Universal for hustling super hard to get the song playlisted. What a legend!!

We recorded the show so you can listen to the madness that went down here:

The Kiffness started their residency ‘What The Kiff’ at Mystics Stellies with a bang! Next gig is 23rd March. Hope to see you there! Check out the FACEBOOK EVENT for more details. All photos courtesy of Alex Searle from ASP Productions.

The Kiffness have landed a residency at the notorious MYSTIC BOER in Stellenbosch for the last Saturday of every month! The band had a massively successful residency (Friday Kiffness) over the 2012 December holiday period at Surf Cafe in Plett, and ‘What The Kiff’ promises to be even kiffer.

Dave on Mystics: ‘We’ve jammed at Mystics a couple times and have a good running relationship with the manager Greg. Every gig at Mystics has been nothing short of awesome, and the crowd there really seems to get what we do and makes us feel right at home. We’re super amped for the next few months!’

The event kicks off on 23rd of Feb. Expect nothing short of a massive jam, trippy visuals and many WTK?? moments of awesomeness.

For more info, check out the FACEBOOK EVENT

Ok so from the end of November till the beginning of Jan, we played 6gigs in a flippen row every Friday at our favourite local hangout, Surf Cafe. We called the event ‘Friday Kiffness’. It was so much kiffer than we ever expected it to be. It started off pretty chilled, but week by week more and more people started coming. This is very encouraging for us. Thanks to everyone who came, we had so much fun. Hopefully we can do it again! Check out the video. Nice

The last Friday Kiffness after 6 incredible shows at Surf Cafe. Thanks to all who came and made it the success that it was! See you again next year. A video is coming soon!

Kiff kiff kiff kiff kiff kiff kiff. Download a pic of yourself and put it on Facebook, and be like ‘Yeah yeah nice nice’.

Around 20 billion pics from last Friday’s festivities for you to peruse.