This week, Rocking The Daisies has started to announce some of the local acts playing at this year’s festival. To date, acts like Matthew Mole, Blxckie, DBN Gogo, Will Linley, Sun El Musician, Kid Fonque, Nasty C and more have been announced as performers and now, British electropop sensation Clean Bandit has been announced as the festival’s first international headliner.
Clean Bandit is best known for their global smash hits ‘Rather Be’ and ‘Rockabye’ and have since been at the forefront of electronic dance music dropping hits like ‘Symphony’, ‘Solo’ and their brand-new a7S-assisted single ‘Everything But You’.
For the first time, the Rocking The Daisies festival will take place take place in both Cape Town and Johannesburg over the weekend of 7 – 9 October.
“At the core of the Steyn Entertainment company values, our plight is primarily concerned with empowering and stimulating the South African entertainment landscape, especially post-pandemic where the industry is attempting to pick itself up after the profound knock it’s taken,” says General Manager, Shannon Valstar in a statement.
Shannon adds “We are extremely proud of the incredible international talent that the Rocking in the Daisies stage has been able to attract over the past decade and will continue to create the kind of environment where robust and meaningful cultural exchange between artists and fans of different countries and continents is encouraged to thrive. With that said, with the current global musical renaissance happening – being led by Africa – it has never been more palpable that we are producing art parallel to the best in the world. In 2022, not only will Rocking the Daisies be presenting electrifying talent from across the globe, our stages will be co-headlined by local artists as well.”
Phase 1 tickets for both legs of Rocking The Daisies in Cape Town and Jozi go live on 26 May via www.quicket.com.
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