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The Plastics
The Plastics pay homage to retro-rock and classic pop imagery; their live shows are as much about on-the-spot improvisation as they are about energetic, well-rehearsed songs with catchy melodies woven into modern dance rock jams.
Emerging onto the Cape Town scene fresh in 2008, The Plastics - Pascal Righini, Sasha Righini, Karl Rohloff, Arjuna Kohlstock - wasted no time in pooling their resources to put together a six track CD EP (simply called ‘The Plastics’), only to give them all away.
Their first single found its way to national music radio, (scoring them a Number One chart position on Cape campus music radio station MFM and Joburg Campus Radio Station UJFM) and in June 2008, the quartet snuck out a music video (‘Monkey Simulation’), onto the Web and local music channel MK.
By the end of their first short year out as a band, The Plastics had racked up some notable accolades including being invited to play Zimfest ’08 (joining a line-up of heavyweight South African bands such as Freshlyground and The Dirty Skirts), being voted as one of the top three Cape Town bands to play at the Road to Virgin Festival competition, being voted by the public onto the bill of 2008’s Rocking The Daisies music festival in the Red Bull Radar Competition, and then going on to win that competition through a live performance that generated one of the best crowd responses of the three-day festival.
2009 has been a no–less frenetic year for the young power-pop band, what with main stage sets at the popular Ramfest, Up The Creek, and Rocking The Daisies music festivals and the release of the album 'Kiss The Plastics' featuring the hit 'Tiny Islands'.