Toneelhuis: Thursday 2 November, 19:00 to Saturday 4 November, 20:00

Tickets from Quicket
https://www.quicket.co.za/events/236416-climb-up-on-my-music-a-tribute-to-rodriguez/#/

Rodriguez

Real name Jesus Sixto (pronounced Sees-too) Diaz-Rodriguez (10 July 1942 – 8 August 2023)

Rodriguez changed the lives of a lot of kids in the 70’s. 

Cold Fact was the go to album for some comfort and escape in the tumultuous and heavily authoritarian place that was South Africa at the time. He sold more records here than Elvis.

He was bigger than the Rolling Stones, whereas back home in Detroit he was barely known. His story was documented in Searching For Sugarman, a movie put together by South Africans Stephen Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom (directed by Malik Bendjelloul) which won a BAFTA award for best documentary.

Rodriguez performed in South Africa more than 30 times between 1998 and the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

Real, Raw & Local

Our production, Climb Up On My Music – A Tribute To Rodriguez, consists of 4 kids from the 70’s who can no longer contain themselves about how the music of Rodriguez changed their lives. Cold Fact was the centre piece among albums like Band On The Run by Paul McCartney, Machine Head by Deep Purple and Goats Head Soup by the Rolling Stones. This was the music we could not wait to get home from school and listen to. Cold Fact was the soundtrack to us flinging our school bags into the corner, ripping off our uniforms and hastily pulling on our cozzies so we could go play on Gonubie beach (fill your after school activities in here). Then when we got home, we’d listen to it again. Man, that record just never got old. And it still isn’t. 

So, these kids from the 70’s are Flip Squad, Roy Kassel and James Kibby, each having a story to tell and songs to play from the legend that was Rodriguez. This isn’t just a tribute show, it’s a time machine that’s guaranteed to make you remember..

The show will feature projected photographs of Rodriguez by Nardus Engelbrecht