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ironic that it's nearly only Afrikaners that understand his music in this
land, says the singer and song writer Duncan Faure. Faure made girls' - who these days are over forty - knees weak, as the blonde sensation from South African pop/rock group Rabbitt, and after that with the Scottish group Bay City Rollers. Along with his Afrikaner appreciators, Faure as a solo musician has a following in mainly the USA, Germany and Japan. It's his popularity in these countries that decided local movie maker Neil Hetherington on making a movie called D-Rated with which he'll tell the Duncan Faure story . Hetherington was very much impressed with Faure's instrumental compositions for one of his movies and was surprised when he realized how well-known Faure is in the outside world. It's not entirely clear how the Duncan Faure story will be presented in the movie...However, various well-known sponsors have committed themselves and filming has already begun and is described by Heatherington and Faure in terms such as 'zany', 'crazy' and 'fun to tell', that it also includes interviews with different well-known people from the entertainment world . Faure (jokingly) says that ultimately he would have rather made a movie set in a game reserve where he would take all the people who in his life time had ripped him off regarding money and feed them one by one to the lions. Heatherington wavered/refused but eventually agreed to shoot a scene in a nature reserve. As part of the marketing campaign for the movie, Faure's latest CD, and simply as an opportunity for further filming, a series of concerts are being planned in South Africa, Mozambique and Kenya. The first R1.3 million D-Rated concert will take place on the 13th March by the Events Arena in the Menlyn-win-kelsentrum in Pretoria. For the time being at least two former Rabbitt members, bass player Ronnie Robot and drummer Neil Cloud are set to join Faure along with various other musicians. Faure is very enthusiastic about this. He hopes that the 4th previous member, Trevor Rabin, will interrupt his work as soundtrack composer for some of the biggest Hollywood movies and also show up. After all his experiences with some of the best known people in the music industry Faure he has never again worked with as talented a group of musicians as the then combination of Rabbitt."Some musicians may well have had the hair, but never the talent" he says. Tickets for the concert in Pretoria can be booked from the 14th February at Computicket. Concerts will also be held in April in Johannesburg and Cape Town. |