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The 33-year-old arrived in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening
We need to get this out of the way early: no under 18s will be allowed into the venue (Orlando Stadium) on Saturday. No, not because Usher is that sexual, but you know, HANSA will be flowing freely. Anyway, the US singer is in the country for a one-night only performance, although he’s been in the country since Tuesday evening. We’re all hoping it’s not one of those 1 hour and then he’s off kind of shows.
A lot has already been tweeted and said, so we’ll just give you a numbers breakdown for Saturday.
6 LEGENDS IN THE MAKING- Mo and the Dark Knights (GP), Busi M (Western Cape), Shoelance (Eastern Cape), Mapak’shop (Northern Province), Mo Klaassik (FS) and Abdus (KZN)
30 000- The capacity for concert (although Orlando Stadium is a 45 000-seater)
50 000- The litres of water to be made available (who cares about the water? It’s a Hansa gig!)
30 000- The meals (does this mean no seconds? Jokes!)
40- The medics that will be in the vicinity
2- Doctors on call
450- Security personnel that will patrol the stadium
250- Toilets
2 500- Hansa Festival of Legends staff on site
100 000- The watts of sound that will be pumping from 12.30pm until late on Saturday
25- Generators on site. I mean this is Joburg
320- Stage lights
2 100- The size of the stage in square metres
18- You won’t be allowed in if you’re under this age. No matter how many poster of the man
Imiso Ceramics is the brainchild of Andile Dyalvane and Zizipho Poswa
We’re very excited to head to Jozi tomorrow for this gig.
No, we’re not off to drink (ok, so we are, but only because we believe this is such an exciting visual campaign). Absolut has commissioned hundreds sculptors, glass designers, fashion designers and musicians from all over the world to use the recognisable vodka bottle shape as a blank canvas to express themselves by turning it into art.
Mzwandile Buthelezi hard at work perfecting his "bottle"
The launch event tomorrow (which will be set on the backdrop of the Nelson Mandela Bridge) is expected to draw around 500 guests, including quite a few stars from various industries including fashion, music and art- all to celebrate South Africa’s leg of Absolut’s “It all starts with an Absolut Blank” campaign.
Faith47 is a Cape Town based grafitti artist with an eye for the dark side
We will be represented by artists including Imiso Ceramics, Faith47 and Hac One’s Mzwandile Buthelezi. A lot of these guys are already lauded for their work, but this could propel them to proper global recognition. We wish them well
For more info on the campaign, more pictures and artist profiles, check : http://www.facebook.com/AbsolutBlankSA and @AbsolutBlank_SA
