Shot aan Shaun wat vir ons die interview op short notice gedoen het terwyl ons in die Kaap gesuip het, deur hoere geklap is ('n storie vir 'n ander dag) en awards gewen het. Foto's deur ons tjommie, Ingrid Pienaar.
Julle kan Kongo's weer later in Januarie uitcheck as hulle weer in Gauteng is. Check gerus hulle tourdates uit op hulle website. Ons sal dan weer met die die ouens opvang en 'n follow-up doen.
Julle onthou die video wat verlede week op Watkykjy was van die goose wat haar grill losgeval het? Sy was lekker van haar fokken trollie af. Ons het met haar kontak gemaak en so paar vrae gevra. Sy het ook 'n paar lekker foto's aangestuur. Smaak my nie sy is haar pa se lelikste kind nie. Net om jou geheue so bietjie te verfris, gooi ons weer die video. Daarna kan jy 'n kort interview met haar lees en nog 'n video check. Een waar sy nie haarself faktap val nie.
O ja, die cherrie is Engels en gevolglik is die interview ook in Engels, so van julle stadiger beertjies gaan dalk sukkel om by te hou. Kyk dan maar net na die prentjies van die mooi meisie…
Griff: Wat kyk jy?
Trolley chick: The ground apparently and the left wheel of a game trolley.
Griff: Right, before we get to the introductions and what nots, first tell us: Do you still have tits? And how does your koek feel, because that was one fuckin' hard fall off that trolley. You also seem tall, so you must have travelled for months before hitting the earth. Hard. Amongst the tits.
Trolley chick: Haha! Well, to tell you the truth, I only have 1.5 tits, as the other half landed on the floor and probably got sold on the black market by some sangoma who found it on the road. I heard for one breast you can get up to R1000, so let's hope for his sake he made some nice cash from me. I'd love to say I have long giraffe legs, but I'm actually quite small - only 1.65cm tall… I mean meters.
Griff: Mkaaay… Why do you steal trolleys?
Trolley chick: I hi-jacked the trolley off some homeless guy. Don't worry, he got it back. In my Superwoman 101 handbook I thought a trolley would be a good way to teach all super women wannabe's how to fly.
Griff: It was a poescool landing. Where did this whole thing happen and who was the person standing ready with the camera?
Trolley chick: One of SA's up and coming photographers, Garreth Wheeler (GM Wheeler) was ready and waiting with the cam. He was meant to be taking a still photograph. Little did I know he caught the entire incident on camera. "Who's the idiot now??" Haha!!
Griff: Your airbags came in handy. So what was your cupsize before the unfortunate accident?
Trolley chick: Haha! Dynamite comes in small packages, so these babies may be small (size 34B), but believe me they are dynamite. However, I am a fan of the noombies and may ONE DAY just treat the boys to a little enlargement… you just gonna have to wait and see…
Griff: We'll be in touch. Pun intended. Normally people just make sex tapes. A kopkou here, a vleisdas there. Are you aware of any other videos out there of yourself?
Trolley chick: Haha, there may be a private HOME collection, but sorry boys those will NOT be getting out so you gonna have to enjoy the pictures and maybe a few more trolley videos. Maybe I will do a bush dive next…
Griff: I have too many visuals in my head now. Anyway, now that we've got all that out of the way, please introduce yourself to the Watkykertjies. Who are you, where are you from and what do you do apart from moering off trolleys?
Trolley chick: Hello Watkykertjie rockstars. My name is Lisa. Entrepreneur by heart, own my own events company called "Just Add". You can get anything you want from us. We customize services for clients by just adding anything you want to all events, campaigns, brand activations and we throw really cool parties.I also own a production company called BMO (Big Moving Objects) with Paul Clark and we come up with cool concepts for SA TV programmes.I am also one of the co-hosts on the new IAN F show on 2Oceansvibe Radio.
Griff: So if I for instance decided to gooi one moerse Watkykjy party in Joburg or Snor City, you would be the person to put such a thing together?
Lisa Davis: I put the animal in Party Animal, so yes, I could organise a piss up in an eskimo hut… LIVE IT UP!!! Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll and gooi in some watkykertjies ;)
Griff: Are you sure your tits are OK, because we have a long queue of people who would just like to make sure, you know, out of concern for your health.
Lisa Davis: I will be setting up assessment points all around Johannesburg. Let me know when you want to make an appointment, so you can give me a full assessment.
Griff: Don't worry. I will keep your number safe…
Vat fokken baie ligte, strobes en so paar ton vuurwerke. Voeg nou heavy kitare by, synths, bass en drums. Bliksem Duits in. Staan terug en moet om godsnaam nie probeer roer nie. Dit sal vanself ontplof. End result? Raaaaaammstein!
Rammstein was verlede week in Kaapstad en Joburg en het die stages letterlik aan die moederfokken brand gejol. Hulle nuutste album, Liebe Ist für Alle Da (Love is for everyone) is einde 2009/begin 2010 release en 'n world tour het gevolg, hence die gigs in Suid Afrika waaroor almal bitter fokken bly was. Dit smaak my die ouens gaan weer terugkom Suid-Afrika toe, so as jy volgende keer aan die slaap is, kry iemand om jou 'n poesklap te gee. Dis iets wat jy nie wil/moet mis nie.
Ons tjommies by Universal Music het 'n interview vir Watkykjy ge-organise met Rammstein. Griff het hulle lead guitarist, Richard Z Kruspe backstage gekry en hulle het gesit en kak praat vir net so oor die 20 minute …
Hierdie is die langste post op Watkykjy ooit, so gaan kry solank toebas, koffie en skywe…
Hier volg 'n transcription van griff se audio recorded interview met Richard Kruspe van Rammstein:
griff: Hi I'm griff from the website, watkykjy.co.za and it seems that I have 15 minutes to talk to you, so lets start. This is Rammstein's first time 
performing in South Africa.
Richard Kruspe: Allright, I'm Richard, pleased to meet you. First time, ja.
griff: First time ever. Why did it take you so long to come here? Have you been here before on holidays?
Richard Kruspe: Well, I was actually married to a South African.
griff: Ja, I'm aware of that.
Richard Kruspe: I've been here a couple of times a couple of years ago – Johannesburg, Cape Town mostly. So, on Holidays, Christmas actually. And the reason that I took so long is because sometimes things have to make sense in each direction which means our show is quite expensive and we don't mind to go and play if we don't make anything. That's allright, but if you have to pay on top for that, then you know, it becomes an issue. I don't think think anyone likes that.
griff: Ja, haha, I don't think so.
Richard Kruspe: So you know, that's why it it took so long to get the right offer. We still don't make anything right now, because it is an investment for us. It is a very interesting market right now here for us. So that's why we're here and developing a new market.
griff: Well, welcome to South Africa. It's a great pleasure and an honour to have you guys here.
Richard Kruspe: Thank you.
griff: If I've got my numbers right, you guys have sold over 15 million records worldwide? You could probably update me on that?
Richard Kruspe: Could be, could be… I stopped counting a couple of years ago. It doesn't really matter anymore.
griff: Leading off from that question, what do you guys spend your money on or is money not such an issue to you?
Richard Kruspe: Oh yeah, you know, I mean when you get older, first you have a couple of kids. Hahaha!
griff: Ja, that can be expensive.
Richard Kruspe: It needs some kind of money, right? I'm basically spending most money in studios and you know, also sometimes when someone comes along (points finger) "You have to think about your future. You should invest in this and you should invest in that shit." In the beginning no-one really knows what we had to do and what do we spend it on and you know, we're buying stupid stuff and we lost a lot of money. So I like, bought some buildings in Berlin because I believe in the real estate market in Berlin for example. After a while I got really frustrated because I didn't know anything about financial things, so I invested in some stocks and stuff. I got burned and I started to study economy.
griff: As a result of you fucking up your money?
Richard Kruspe: As a result of losing money and also trusting other people. I was just tired of not understanding why I would lose money that I was earning so I started a journey to just understand where money was coming from and how the world is running or how the system is running and how we consume and all this stuff, so it was an interesting time just to understand where we were at that moment, you know? I think we were in deep shit actually, haha! But I do invest. I'm investing in silver at the moment, actually.
griff: Ok? That's… different. You guys have been around for almost sixteen years now. Your band has never changed, your line-up has never changed. You get bands who break up all the time. How the fuck did you guys manage to do that, to stay together. I mean, there must be fights, coming close to the brink where you just want to kill each other?
Richard Kruspe: Well, not killing but definitely splitting up and its a big burden, you know, I suppose everything has a good and a bad side, obviously. I do believe that we have this special chemistry between us and I would try to make any kind of compromise possible to not change that. Everyone has to, because we have this little democracy going on in the band and… which is very 
difficult to live as we know in real life. The same thing as in a band. You know, the older you get, the more complicated it gets because everyone has his own way of dealing with things and it's complicated but not undoable. So you have to be patient, you have to be trying to compromise a lot, you always have to see the bigger picture. You just have to try and put your ego behind the door and try to think is it really important for you right now or is it just an ego thing?' It is kind of a life therapy that you go through. At the end of the day it's worth doing. It is kind of like the same thing with relationships – you're changing and breaking up everytime you have a problem until you realise 'well, if the next girl or whatever comes, then you have the same problem'. So I mean the problem really here in life is to learn and I see it more like 'why can't you learn right now' rather than to do it to someone else? Haha. I'm trying to do it right now, here.
griff: So obvisouly you run it is a tight business as well?
Richard Kruspe: Well ja, of course, at some point you realise you're 43 right now, you've achieved something very special with the band, you know. And there is a lot at stake. You know, you don't wanna throw it away, you're financially independant. In a way, You're afraid of losing it. There's a lot of things there too. You think twice before you make a decision and there are so many times where anyone felt like "That's it, I'm moving out. I can't fucking take it anymore!" Everyone has his own little trick to deal with it. My trick is to move away to New York so I have the distance between the band and myself.
griff: Cool. Tell me, on your new album – you guys had over 40 songs that you sort of thrashed out to eventually get it down to 12.
Richard Kruspe: Oh, more like ideas. I wouldn't say songs…
griff: Oh, okay?
Richard Kruspe: It was more like, we had a whole lot of ideas
griff: So what what happened to the rest of those ideas because obviously there must be something left to carry on to a next project or a next album?
Richard Kruspe: Well, at the moment I don't want to think about it. Something somebody told me is "if you wanna make God smile, tell him your plans", so haha, we don't need plans anymore. At the moment they're in the computer and they weren't strong enough to survive the record, so you know, there must be something wrong with that, you know? And everything belongs kind of to a time. That's my experience with music. You know, when you're in a special moment and a special time you write certain things and its kind of odd when like 5 years later you getting … unless it's strong otherwise its kind of dull because it wasn't on the record and when you listen to it you're moving yourself too… My guess is it will stay in the computer, haha.
griff: Haha, true. Ok, don't take this the wrong way, but your music has very basic riffs. Its very… very.. uhm…
Richard Kruspe: Minimalistic?
griff: Minimilistic, Ja, haha, thanks. Minimalistic. How do get from there, from those riffs to blowing it up to what it is? Why are you guys a phenomenon with that specifically?
Richard Kruspe: First of all, we like to make things simple because we have so many layers of so many things. If we would like start to, even like
start from the beginning with difficult riffs there would not be enough space for other layers or instruments, you know with all the electrics and sequencers and all that stuff. Personally I just like to be simple at music.
griff: Well, it works brilliantly
Richard Kruspe: Ja, its kind of a trademark. It started out that way and it's something that I am actually proud of – that we actually developed a trademark, something that you don't… I mean you have bands like this, bands like The Ramones or the Pistols or AC/DC. Those are people, when you listen to it, you know that's them and with so many other bands you don't really know because the songs sound like someone else..
griff: There seems to be a lot of those these days…
Richard Kruspe: Ja, I like the fact that when you turn up whatever, your ipod or your radio and you listen to a song and you know its "Ah, it is Rammstein. It can only be Rammstein." It has to be authentic, it has to be original and that is what Rammstein is all about.
griff: Of course ja. Your song "Wiener Blut" Am I pronouncing it right?
Richard Kruspe: Yeah
griff: It seems to be about Jozef Fritzel. Now, there seems to be like lots of extremes of love on the album. Theres this song and then you've got a song like "Pussy" which is totally on the other side. What was the idea with all these different themes? Are you reaching into the different corners of love or…
Richard Kruspe: I think that must be a question for Till because he writes the lyrics, but I can relate to it because we're always searching for… somehow for the darker side of love, sex, whatever it is. Something that just interests us. It's you know… The way we are interested in things in life. Interests in the darker side of life, you know – a serial killer, a cannibal, all this kind of stuff. Something rings inside me.
griff: Ja…
Richard Kruspe: To explain that… Maybe it is something to do with how we were brought up. Maybe it has something to do with the system that 
controlled us over years, that we got sensored over years. Maybe we're trying to break out of that? There can be so many explanations for why we are interested in that, but we are. And songs like "Pussy" is just one of those party songs.
griff: Haha, it is, it is.
Richard Kruspe: Just some horny motherfuckers! Hahaha!
griff: Hahaha! The one thing that I actually found quite hilarious from "Pussy" is 'blitzkrieg mit dem fleischgewehr'. Now that to me – 'fleischgewehr' – it is such a fuckin' funny word for a dick. We have similar things which we call zef slang on our webiste, Watkykjy. On that same note, I actually brought you guys presents, keeping in line with that. It's a shirt.
Richard Kruspe: Ah nice! It has a fish coming out.
griff: Ja, and what it says there is "Broeksnoek" Now 'broek' is, I think in German 'hosen', pants. So 'snoek' is a South African fish.
Richard Kruspe: OK?
griff: So 'broeksnoek' can be linked to 'fleischgewehr' in a way. It is another word for 'pussy'
Richard Kruspe: Ah, I see. Thank you very much!
griff: There is some more stuff in there for each band member. There is another shirt that says "Fokof jou fokken fokker!"
Richard Kruspe: Hahaha, cool! Thank you very much!
griff: One more thing. Sorry, second last thing. Last week, you guys were in Australia, am I right?
Richard Kruspe: That's correct, ja.
griff: You guys had some drinks with Die Antwoord. Yo-Landi Vi$$er told me you all had some tequila and champagne which you shake together.
Richard Kruspe: Exactly
griff: You know she missed her flight the next day?
Richard Kruspe: Really?
griff: To South Africa, ja.
Richard Kruspe: Bad for her, hahaha!
Richard Kruspe: Weren't they like going to Japan or something?
griff: Ninja was going to Japan. Yo-Landi was supposed to go to Cape Town, I think on the same flight as you guys and she totally missed her flight.
Richard Kruspe: Well, I bet you she had a good experience, haha.
griff: Did you find them to be nice people?
Richard Kruspe: Yeah, they were really interesting people. We were watching the shows then he came… Actually funny, when he came to Tool, ha, for some reason he got lost – he was trying to meet Till, our singer and he went to the dressing room of Tool and said like "I want to speak to Tool" And we're like 'oh wait' and the singer came and said "Oh well, I'm Tool". So there was a bit of a misunderstanding until they realised he was talking about Till, not Tool.
griff: Haha! I sort of see maybe a tie-in with them and you guys. You guys begin German – a lot of people don't understand it. They just sort of live for the music and like it and the the same goes for Die Antwooord in other countries, them being Afrikaans. Do you agree?
Richard Kruspe: You know, again, I think that if you create something thats authentic and unique as Rammstein, then I don't think you really have a 
problem with the language. I just remember when I was a child I couldn't understand English and I was still rocking and it worked for me. Also I think that because we're so visual when we play live that we kind of are trying to build visual riches that people understand. It becomes more of an opera. You know, when you go to an opera then you expect people to sing Italian or German or whatever. So with Rammstein it is kind of the same thing. If you have this visual character that we do have then language just becomes more of an instrument.
griff: That's cool, ja. Last question before I go: Why is Flake always getting fucked up? He is getting tied to bombs, set fire to…
Richard Kruspe: Becasue he is the weakest
griff: … fucked in the ass…
Richard Kruspe: Hahahaha!
griff: … those kind of things. Your album is about 'love' supposedly. Why don't you guys take turns? Hahaha! Why don't you guys take turns with getting beaten up a bit?
Richard Kruspe: It is his character.
griff: Issit?
Richard Kruspe: Ja. We wouldn't make fans. If Till had to do it to me… I would probably you know, like… uhm.. I'll do… something. I think it kind of makes sense for his character because he is thin. It's just his role that he plays and I think he plays it really well – he symbolises the humour …
griff: He is like the little kid that gets fucked up at school but he still somehow has buddies …
Richard Kruspe: Of course! He is definitely a big part of the band, it's just an act that he does. It's just working, it is just so obvious in a way that it 
just makes sense. We wouldn't substitute him for anyone else.
griff: It seems that my time is up. Thanks a lot. It was great meeting you.
Richard Kruspe: Thank you, and thank you for the t-shirts.
griff: Cool, man, it is a great pleasure.
Richard Kruspe: Enjoy the show.
griff: Looking forward to it, thanks. Cheers, have fun.
Richard Kruspe: Cheers!
Hier is twee videos wat fans in die crowd geneem het en vir ons gestuur het:
(shot aan Riaan en Errol vir die videos en Jahn vir die fotos. Dankie aan Universal Music vir die interview. Dit was poeslekker gewees)
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Van Coke kartel – “Dis ‘n Land” music video & interview.
Van Coke Kartel het 'n music video geskiet vir hulle tweede single, 'Dis 'n Land' van hulle nuwe album, Wie's Bang wat hulle in November verlede jaar release het.
Dis redelik tough vir bands in Suid-Afrika om met befokte video productions op te kom. Budget constraints is gewoonlik 'n probleem, maar daar kan altyd 'n plan gemaak gemaak word en daar is altyd iemand reg om uit te help. Die ander main rede vir die min cool videos in SA is pleinweg kakgeit en onoorspronklikheid, wat in VCK se video gelukkig nie die geval is nie.
Griff het met Wynand Myburgh, bassist van Van Coke Kartel gesels om vir julle outjies bietjie lig te werp op watse tipe kak agter die skerms gebeur met hulle video shoot.
griff: In 'n nutshell, hoe het julle dag verloop? Julle het die shoot in een dag gedoen as ek dit nie mishet nie?
Wynand: Ja, ons call time was 6h30 en ons het seker eers 11h00 met die eerste shot begin. Alles te danke aan die serious make up session. Ons het so 22h00 die aand klaargemaak. Dit was 'n lang dag, maar ons het geweet dit sal die moeite werd wees. Ons het net gebly focus op die feit dat ons die dromme en instrumente teen die einde van die shoot kan destroy!
griff: Daar is 'n paar kinders sonder instumente wat nou sit en huil… Gee ons bietjie 'n idee van die video se location en set-up…
Wynand: Ons het die video in 'n klein teater, The Theatre at the District in 'n dodgy Distrik 6 straat geskiet. Die grootste rede hiervoor was die ongelooflike mooi chandelier wat 'n groot rol van die set gespeel het en dan natuurlik – budget. Ons het die Jewish community ingeroep (te danke aan Jedd) om die video te doen.
griff: Dis nice van hulle. En wat was die main idee? Om Carike Keuzenkamp hairstyles te gooi?
Wynand: Die idee was om op tannie Karike en 80's tannies te speel. Aangesien die chorus 'n speel op haar original 'Daar's 'n land van kleure en klank' is, het ons gedink die video sal lekker daarmee gepaard gaan. Die video sou eers baie meer intense gewees het met allerhande ander karakters uit die song soos die 'een oog koning', moordenaar, die magnaat ensovoorts. Die budget het ons net vier tannies en 'n befokte set gekoop.
griff: Julle het dit afgepull. Wie het met die main idee van die video opgekom?
Wynand: Die director en producer het met 'n extravagant video opgekom en as gevolg van budget constraints het ons besluit om net 'n performance video te doen. Die idee dat ons soos tannies gaan lyk het gestick en daar het die pret begin… dit was hulle plan van die begin af. Ons was eers effe onseker, maar was baie keen om vir die eesrte keer in tien jaar met 'n razor te skeer.
griff: Wie was die mees ongemaklikste in hulle outfits? Dit kan nie Francois wees nie want hy’t die hele fokken tyd net gesmile in sy rokkie.
Wynand: Die outfits was darem nie te ongemaklik nie. Die hoëhakskoene was die kakste, maar hulle het ons tussen shots remove. Die sit en wag vir al die make-up op al die members was die ergste. Jedd het die meeste gekla so ek neem aan hy was ongemaklik, maar het ook gelyk asof hy in plek is met die drag. Jedd het die mooiste vrou gemaak en ons was convinced dat hy dit gelike het!
griff: Ja, hy lyk nogal scarily gemaklik in drag. Het Jedd panties ook gedra?
Wynand: Jedd dra altyd panties, maar het sykouse bo-oor dit aangehad.
griff: Jirre. Hoekom het Francois ‘n blonde pruik gekies?
Wynand: Hulle het dit vir hom gekies. Dit vervul seker maar die cliche van busty blonde front woMAN.
griff: Wat was die mees challenging deel van die shoot?
Wynand: Die lang ure met make-up en dan soos seker enige shoot, die 'hurry up and wait'. Jy is lank op jou bene en jy moet daai song endless times perform deur die loop van 'n vyftien uur shoot. Wanneer jy klaar gelunch het en moeg is, (want jy is al klaar sewe ure op set) dan is daar nog agt ure se shoot oor. Jy moet maar vasbyt en aanhou perform vir die beste results.
griff: En beste results is wat julle gekry het. Geluk, dis goed gedoen, ouens.
Wynand: Lekker bro, en thanks,.
So bietjie ekstra info:
Crew:
Producer – Darren Wertheim
Director – Quinton Lavery
Director of Photography – Darren Wertheim
Editor – Matthew James
Art Direction – Rebecca Brett & Lior Phillips
Make-up Artist – Quimaine Fourie
Camera Assist & Gaffer – Pierre De Villiers
Production Assistants – Paul Gardyne & John Dodds
Catering – Julsie Babe
Location: “The Theatre in the District” (Cape Town, South Africa)
Shot on: Canon 7D with an 8-15mm Canon Lens
Edited on: Final Cut Pro
En net om vir julle te wys hoe ver music videos al gekom het in Suid-Afrika, gooi ons tannie Carike Keuzenkamp se music video vir Dis 'n Land. Hierdie tune het expats wat vroëer jare Londen toe gefok het om hulle self te "gaan vind" baie huilerig gemaak en laat verlang na mamma, pappa, Marmite, Afrikaans, lyfstraf en.. fokweet.. die weermag?