Battery 9

Battery 9 Pronounced In Afrikaans As Battery Nege An Industrial Music Project From Johannesburg South Africa Is The Brainchild Of Paul Riekert Who Writes Plays And Records The Music In A Mixture Of English And Afrikaans. Riekert Started Recording Under The Name Battery 9 In 1994 Bored With The Creative Constraints Of A Standard Rock Band Format. A Platform To Run Various Projects From One F Music Was Subsequently Founded In The Form Of An Independent Record Label And A Small Home Studio. The First Battery 9 Album Protskrog Was Released In 1995. Made And Backed By Little More Than A Shoestring Budget It Sold Well Enough To Warrant A Licensing Deal With Independent Record Company Tic Tic Bang. The Next Release Strop 1996 Saw Battery 9 Break Through To A Wider Audience With The Song "Kiss The Machine" Receiving Daytime Airplay And Eventually Charting On 5FM A Major Nationwide Commercial Radio Station. For The First Time The Major Industry Took Notice And The Project Received Major Media Coverage While The Live Act Played For Increasingly Bigger Audiences Culminating In A Solo Show At The Viper Room In Pretoria In 1997 That Drew 1200 People. In The Same Year The Album Gris Featuring Remixes Re-Interpretations And Interactive CD-ROM Data Was Released. Wrok Was Released In 1998 And Was Awarded Best Rock Album In That Year's South African Music Awards. After A Few Major Live Performances Including Supporting The Prodigy And Faithless On Their Tour In South Africa Battery 9 Took A Break For A Couple Of Months To Re-Assemble The Live Act. In December Of 2000 And January 2001 Battery 9 With The Newly Formed Live Act Performed A Well Received Short Tour Of South Africa. The Set Included New Songs From The Album Sondebok Which Was Released In 2002. After A Long Break A Sixth Album Straks Was Released In Late 2005 With Almost No Marketing Or Promotion. The Next Album Galbraak Is Expected During The Second Semester Of 2008. read less