Reigndear on WMPG 90.9 & 104.1 FM University of Southern Maine Radio
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Reigndear are now playlisted on WMPG 90.9 & 104.1 FM, which is the University of Southern Maine’s Collage Radio Station. We would all like to thank the station for their support!
You can visit the WMPG home page at www.wmpg.org, the station can also be listened to online via iTunes or Real Player by clicking here.
WMPG also have a studio request email, send direct requests to the studio via the DJ Request Email: djrequest@wmpg.org or you can call them direct should you be in the area listening to WMPG hoping to hear Reigndear via their On-Air Studio Requests line (207) 780-4909!
Sincerely
Reigndear
Tags: Blackeyes, Collage Radio, Hurse, Playlist, Reigndear, Requests, Royalties, University of Southern Maine, Wee Embers, WMPG
Reigndear Featured on GlobalMoguls.com
Posted by Reigndear | Filed under Press
Reigndear worked together with Globalmoguls.com allowing their content to be displayed on the DEMO page. Please note that most of the information is incorrect as the organizers needed to fake a collaboration between us and a creative team. Those of you who know Reigndear will know that we are in fact our own creative team meaning that we take care of everything Reigndear. However as mentioned earlier, for demonstration purposes, Global Moguls have created a fake creative team consisting of fake people who don’t really exist.
Fans of Reigndear will be interested to see the DEMO page as it includes a live version of Royalties not yet uploaded to our own YouTube/Reigndear.TV Channel so click on the link and go check it out!
Bands, creatives and people who just love music might also be interested to enter the competition as Global Moguls is a competition aimed at all these aspects of music and with names like 5FM, KlipDrift & Coke-a-Cola sponsoring the event you know the prizes are going to be big.
Reigndear, will however, not be entering.
Yours sincerely
Reigndear
Fine Champagne Cognac feat. Gus Warden (Live)
Posted by Reigndear | Filed under Audio, Life, Live
During our trip to South Africa and my stay at Nicole Court, Wesley and I met many talented musicians, we also met Gus Warden who plays drums for a great Cape Town band called the Pinkertons, Gus Jammed with us on a number of occasions and even helped with developing some of the ideas we had been playing around with in our heads for Fine Champagne Cognac which is one of the tracks slotted for re-recording and ultimate release on Good Old Fashioned Life due 11/11/11. Currently Fine Champagne Cognac is available as a live track on Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth and we recorded this take of the song featuring Gus one night during an improvisational session. We all loved the way it came out thanks to Gus’ amazing brushwork.
Reigndear would like to thank Gus for jamming with us and giving so freely of his time and art, and for alowing us to post this version of the song. We hope you all enjoy.
Sincerely
Tags: 2010, Cape Town, Fine Champagne Cognac, Gus Warden, Kent Dylan, Live, MP3, Nicole Court, South Africa, The Pinkertons, Wesley Jay
Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth by Reigndear on Soundcloud.com
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Tags: Blackeyes, Fine Champagne Cognac, Fourteenth, Free Download, Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth, Hurse, Luap Nhoj, Reigndear, Royalties, Sleighbells, Sllebhgiels, SoundCloud, The Second of the Fourteenth, Wee Embers, [your imagination goes here], ∞
The 30 Human Rights
Posted by Wesley | Filed under Life
2. Don’t Discriminate
3. Right to Live Free
4. No Slavery
5. No Torture
6. Universal Rights – You Have Rights No Matter Where You Go
7. We Are All Equal Before the Law
8. Human Rights are Protected by Law
9. No Unfair Detainment
10. Right to Trail
11. Innocent Until Proven Guilty
12. Right to Privacy
13. Freedom to Move
14. Right to Asylum
15. Right to Nationality
16. Right to Marriage & Family
17. Right to Ownership
18. Freedom of Thought
19. Freedom of Expression
20. Right to Public Assembly
21. The Right to Democracy
22. The Right to Social Security
23. Worker’s Rights
24. The Right to Play
25. Food and Shelter for All
26. The Right to Education
27. Copyright
28. A Free and Fair World
29. Responsibility
30. No One Can Take Away Your Human Rights
Tags: Birth, Death, equality, Human Rights, Kent Dylan, Life, Reigndear, responsibility, society, Wesley Jay
I Cried
Posted by Wesley | Filed under Life, Poetry
I cried today,
Not openly,
But inside,
I cried for everything,
For anything,
And for everyone.
I cried for sorrow,
For joy,
And happiness,
But most of all,
I cried for you and me,
And everything we should have been.
I cried for man,
I cried for pain,
I cried for the world,
And my beloved ocean too,
I cried cause I had too,
Because if I didn’t,
I would have been an empty shell filled with an eternal void,
I cried but inwardly,
Had it been aloud,
The whole world would have heard,
I sat and sobbed,
For the past, present and the untold future,
For yesterday, today and tomorrow.
I cried not for pity,
I cried for understanding,
Of myself,
And of everyone else,
But still I have no resolution for all my tears,
But most of all I cried for love,
I cried until there was nothing left,
And why did I cry so?
Because I wanted to,
I needed too,
But not openly,
Just inwardly.
Peace, Love & Respect
– Wesley
Tags: Birth, cry, Death, Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth, Life, love, peace, Reigndear, respect, Wesley Jay
Locked in the harsh conundrum of life
Posted by Wesley | Filed under Creative Writing, Life
Intense faces stared at each other from across the courtyard of the playground. The air was so tight with tension that you could almost cut it with a knife. From an outsiders view one could see how separated the boys were at that moment. They spat across insults at each other, which seemed only to heighten the agitation that was a clear feeling amongst the whole crowd of boys. Any minute now they would start fighting and everyone knew it. It was just a case of who would back down first. And of course both sides had two much pride to do so. When you are a young boy you hold onto your pride, because no one wants to be seen as weak. Some of my classmates had called me a coward for not wanting to be apart of it all. They had sneered and jeered me, because I didn’t see the reason why I should fight. I tried asking them why we were fighting with them and was laughed at in return.
“We have to stick with our own kind Sundow,” Adam Robson replied to me. I hated it when he called me by my surname. After all, my name was Jeffery not Sundow. Every time he called me Sundow it raised a bad taste in my mouth like I had just eaten something bitter.
“After all they’re just Kaffirs,” Garth Scultz said in a matter of fact tone, “and a Kaffir needs to know his place in our school.”
“But doesn’t the whole school belong to everyone?” was my timid reply. To this they issued roars of laughter and this made me feel like I was shrinking in their presence.
“Sundow you just don’t get it do you?” Adam said as if their point was the simplest thing in the world to understand. “If we back down now and let them win then what’s next? A black prefect? A black head boy? No this is a case of who is superior and we need to show them this by any means necessary.” And so he continued his brainwashed speech, which his father had undoubtedly pumped into his head from an early age. But I didn’t feel angry towards him. I felt pity. Pity, because he didn’t understand that the world was moving on and change was inevitable and in order for us to build a new and stronger country that we all needed to work together and not against one another.
I was mocked for being a Kaffir lover and for being a yella-belly-chicken-shit-piece-of-dog-turd. I had never liked being called a yella-belly-chicken-shit-piece-of-dog-turd, but I wouldn’t let name-calling influence me into making a decision that I clearly knew was wrong. How long had it been since they had abolished apartheid? I thought back to the day that Nelson Mandela had been released from prison and tired to calculate. It must have been about five or six years since that, but here we were still locked deep in the monotonous battle of racism. Each screaming for equality, but everyone still placing such a huge emphasis on what color you were. I mean if they were truly striving for equality then why should people be referred to as black, white, colored, Indian, etc. Surely people realized that by stressing what color you were that that was going to cause people to still feel alienated from one ano…..
“SUNDOW!” Adam shouted. “ Are you in or out pussy, because if you’re not with us then you’re against us.”
“ I can’t fight,” I replied, “ because some of those guys, that you refer to as kaffirs, are my friends too and I don’t want to become enemies with any of them.”
“If you’re too much of a pussy to fight then just say so,” Garth said.
And so the insults had continued until I eventually felt as thought I was going to burst and I got up and left the room with threats following me that if I left then I’d be out of the group and no one would be my friend. But I didn’t care. It wasn’t about whether I had friends or not. It was about what made me who I was. This was about what was right and what was wrong and wasn’t about doing something because you were being pressured to do it. Why should we fight just because someone else tells us to?
“ If your friend told you to stick your head in the fire would you?” my mother had said to me once when I had tried to give her a weak excuse as to why I had done something I was not supposed to and that saying had stuck with me ever since. This was one of those times that I could clearly see what she meant by saying that and I understood how right she was.
As I stood to one side, of the soon to be war zone, I was overwhelmed with sorrow. I wanted to jump in the middle of the two groups and scream at them. I wanted to tell them that what they were about to do wouldn’t solve anything. That in fact it would just cause more problem and push us back instead of forward. I wanted to tell them that we are supposed to be pushing towards a brighter future, not always looking back at how things were. Surely they realized that if we were always looking back over our shoulders at the past that we would never see what was in front of us and miss all the possibilities for a better future for the younger generation. Why didn’t they see it?!
But I just stood there and said nothing. My palms were sweaty and every few seconds I had an involuntary shudder. I felt powerless. Everyone was feeding off of one another’s negative energy. They were hyping each other up and all someone had to do was to throw the first punch or brick and then the battle would begin. I just prayed that no one would die. “Please dear God don’t let anyone die today,” I thought hopelessly.
(I wrote this when I was studying in Taiwan. Many of the facts are true and most of this did indeed happen where I went to school. I had really hoped that when I returned to South Africa that things would have changed a lot, but was saddened to see that many of the people who weren’t racist were big racists upon my return. I’d hoped that South Africa had grown, but it had only become more greedy and locked into a frame of thought that was best left alone. For the past two and a half years I tried to fit back in to the society after being gone for such a long time and eventually I decided that I didn’t want to be a part of it any more.
For those of you who read this and are from South Africa, don’t hate me. Despise the system. Despise the powers that have made it so. We are making a mockery of everything that was fought for so we could have these freedoms and NONE of us want to claim responsibility anymore. We are all pointing fingers. We are all haters. Not against colours even, but against one another in the worst kind of way.
I love our land, but I pity our people. Even so, I still love you all.)
Peace, Love & Respect
- Wesley
Tags: Birth, Death, Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth, Life, Reigndear, South Africa, Wesley Jay, Writing
Reigndear UCT Radio Interview
Posted by Wesley | Filed under Birth, Life, Photo, Press
Well, we know it was quite a long time ago, but yeah we had our first radio interview courtesy of UCT when we were in Cape Town. The interview went smoothly and the DJ was very energetic and helped us feel comfortable. We were lucky enough to have four tracks of ours played on the show during our interview.
Luckily we were fortunate enough to have Alina Ozheredova, who was visiting SA at the time, there to take pictures for us. We’d like to thank her personally for coming along to shoot us & hope to work with her in the future. Here are some of the pics from the interview. Hope everyone enjoys!
Peace, Love & Respect
- Wesley
Tags: Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth, interview, Reigndear, UCT
Stepping up
Posted by Wesley | Filed under Creative Writing, Life
Use the power of your mind to overcome everything,
Your spirit needs to be fearless to overcome anything that tries to hold you down,
Free yourself from idol insignificant things and move to a place that will elevate you above the normal way of thinking,
Be someone that no one else wants ever change,
Love everything about your life and get rid of everything that doesn’t make you happy,
Feel certain about you decisions and even if you aren’t, be happy that at least you made a choice,
That you are a free person and had the right to do it,
Don’t let rules and restrictions stop you from being the person you always wanted to be,
Live your life doing what you feel is the right choice for you,
Not what everyone else wants you to do, or else you won’t live your life as your own,
Love irrationally and feel unselfishly,
Don’t be follower, be an individual.
Peace, Love & Respect
– Wesley
Tags: Birth, fearless, Life, love, rebirth, Reigndear
Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth Review by ELL
Posted by Reigndear | Filed under Birth, Death, Life, Press
Reigndear’s Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth was reviewed by Masaya Tanikawa of East London Lines click here to read the review.
Sincerely
Reigndear
Tags: Album Review, Blackeyes, East London Lines, Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth, Masaya Tanikawa, Reigndear, Royalties
East London Lines Interview with Johnny Atterbury
Posted by Reigndear | Filed under Birth, Life, Press
Johnny Atterbury was interviewed by Masaya Tanikawa at East London Lines click here to read all about his music, influences and involvement with Reigndear.
Sincerely
Reigndear
Tags: Blackeyes, East London, East London Lines, Embers, Johnny Atterbury, Reigndear, Royalties, Sleighbells, Wee Embers
Reigndear Available from Music Mix in East London, ZA.
Posted by Reigndear | Filed under Life, Stores
Reigndear’s Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth (Limited Jewel-Case Edition) is now available in East London, South Africa at our favorite record mega stores, Music Mix!
Music Mix stores are located at both Vincent Park & Hemingways in East London and both stores have a great selection of music and a very useful mail order service (Tel: (043) 726 8106) for anyone outside of the East London area.
We are very happy to be part of their comprehensive selection and encourage fans to go have a look or give them a call if you would like to support Reigndear‘s physical presence in the world today.
Would you like to have Reigndear products at your favorite local record shop? Get in touch with us via reigndearband@gmail.com and we’ll make it happen no matter where in the world you are!
Sincerely
Reigndear
Tags: CD, Compact Disc, East London, Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth, Hemingways, Limited Jewel-Case Edition, Music Mix, Reigndear, Vincent Park
BAKU – Shadow Puppet Film By John Atterbury
Posted by Reigndear | Filed under Life, Video
Reigndear’s own John Atterbury has directed his first shadow puppet film ’Baku’. Baku also includes Jasmine Neale and Alex Geldenhuys who both worked on Reigndear tracks for the recording of Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth. The short film is about a mythical creature who eats bad dreams. And everyone here at Reigndear love it and commend Johnny & Hikari in their achievement!
BAKU features:
John Atterbury – Director/Editor/Story/Composer/Glockenspiel/Piano
Hikari Kono – Puppets/Story/Artwork
Simon Cliff, Nino Amoroso – Puppeteers
Ikhwan Kim – Cameraman
Michael Reed – Violin
Jasmine Neale – Cello
Fabiana Palladino – Piano
Alex Geldenhuys – Voice
For More on BAKU click here.
Sincerely
Reigndear
Tags: Alex Geldenhuys, BAKU, Hikari Kono, Japanese Culture, Jasmine Neale, Johnny Atterbury, Shadow Puppet
Reigndear Back on the Road
Posted by Reigndear | Filed under Life
After living and touring in South Africa for the past 2 and a half years and playing at some of South Africa’s best venues including Tanz Cafe, Voodoo Lounge, The Bohemian, Purple Turtle, Zula, & Boo Radley’s to mention a few, Reigndear have finally come to the end of their time back in South Africa and are now heading back to Taiwan for a few months to tour and play surrounding areas in Asia. The Band are all excited by the prospects of seeing friend and fans in Taiwan and plan to spend 6 months on the island before heading to NYC for their first Christmas in America!
Over the next 6 months Reigndear are planing to finish up recordings for their 10th of the 10th 2010 release of Good Old Fashioned Death Afterlife the final version of Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth, after which Good Old Fashioned LIfe Afterbirth will only be available as the 4th bonus disc in the 3 album Collection, Good Old Fashioned Death, Birth & Life to be ultimately released on the 11th of the 11th 2011.
Recording sessions in Taiwan are already in the works with Andy Long who was responsible for recording, producing and additional instrumentation for Reigndear’s first single Hurse, the band are all extremely excited about the prospect of recording with Andy and Digital Vintage Production Studios again.
The band are also very excited to be working closely with 1ncoming Magazine in Taiwan on a Reigndear article and look forward to much involvement with Jason Chang & 1ncoming Magazine in the near future.
Over the next few month before Reigndear’s jump to NYC the band hope to play Japan, Hong Kong and with any luck Thailand, there will be more of this in news to come so please keep your eyes pealed for news of these tours. Any fans in any of the above mentioned destination can also subscribe to Reigndear’s mailing list by visiting Reigndear.com and following the Subscribe link, please remember to include your country so that we can send relevant tour dates to you closer to the time.
Sincerely
Reigndear
Tags: 1ncoming Magazine, Andy Long, Boo Radley's, Digital Vintage Production Studios, Purple Turtle, Reigndear, South Africa, Taiwan, Tanz Cafe, The Bohemian, voodoo lounge, Zula
Reigndear – Royalties
Posted by Reigndear | Filed under Life, Video
Tags: Official Music Video, Reigndear, Royalties
Official Music Video For Royalties OUT NOW!
Posted by Reigndear | Filed under Birth, Life, Video
After a long and deliberate wait, Reigndear are proud to announce that Royalties is now available for your viewing pleasure in the form of an Official Music Video!
Royalties, the first single released from the album Good Old Fashioned Life Afterbirth and was written and recorded over the the span of 2 islands (Taiwan & the United Kingdom) and 1 continent (South Africa) which makes sense why the Official Music Video needed a similar worldly touch being shot in Grand Cayman and featuring imagery from Taiwan & South Africa.
Most of you out there don’t know that Wesley Jay is a certified underwater videographer and has worked professionally in Video Editing for a number of years which will explain the fact that the Royalties Music Video was filmed and edited by him and includes photographic images provided by himself & Kent Dylan.
Since the release of the Royalties Video on the bands YouTube Channel ReigndearTV, it has been noted by YouTube as the 75th most viewed video from South Africa and the 25th most viewed directors video in the same region after a mere 2 days online. This was achieved by fans of Reigndear spreading the word, and Reigndear would like to express our love and gratitude for all who have been part of this modest yet inspiring achievement.
We hope you will enjoy and share the video with anyone you love and cherish.
Sincerely
Reigndear
Tags: Official Music Video, Reigndear, Royalties
