“I’ve had a listen and they’re really good!” – Rav Singh, News Of The World

Packed with more passion than the South African scrum, The Parlotones songs merge innovative and authentic ideas with their trademark pop melodies. Led by showman and front man Kahn Morbee, the hotly tipped quartet will kick off the year with a bang by serving up their 4 track EP, ‘Beautiful’ on 4^th February.

‘Beautiful’ was handpicked as the soundtrack for Fujifilm’s TV advertising campaign in Ireland and was the single to kick start it all outside of South Africa.

The genius of the band was recognised earlier in the year when the Gold selling ‘Radiocontrolledrobot’ (released early in 2008 in the UK) won them the SAMA Best Rock Album at the South Africa’s Music Awards (The equivalent of the UK Brits) and spawned 3 top ten singles including a number 1.

Already chalking up the kudos from both peers and music fans, the rockers are set to share a stage with Razorlight in South Africa after Johnny Borrell requested a club show with a top South African band - The Parlotones were the obvious choice! Heroes to their people, The Parlotones were invited to perform at this year’s Nelson Mandela’s 46664 aids awareness concert in Johannesburg and made history when they became the first artists to perform twice at the Coca Cola Colab Massive Mix concerts – the biggest international music festival South Africa has ever seen. Last year it attracted the likes of Metallica, The Rasmus, Fat Boy Slim, Stereo MCs and the Audio Bullies.

No strangers to stadium crowds, The Parlotones have opened for super group Live on their Black Mountain White Light tour in October with sell out performances in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. This was followed by an invitation to perform at Live Earth South Africa as well as the band being voted ‘Music Stars of the Year’ at the YOU Awards.

Their debut UK single, the delightful ‘Dragonflies & Astronauts’, has been nominated for two international awards, one of which is the world renowned ResFest Digital Film Festival (www.resfest.com) for best video.

Hoping for similar success with their next offering, the boys released ‘Beautiful’ in the UK on 4^th February 2008, followed by the album, ‘Radiocontrolledrobot’, later in the year.

Watch this space!
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