Biography
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Years Active
1994 – present (30 years)
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Members
- Adriaan Brand
- Arno Blumer
- Arno Carstens
- Francois Kruger
- Theo Crous
The Springbok Nude Girls (or just the Nude Girls or Nudies as they are affectionately known) are one of South Africa's more popular bands. Their music is a blend of alternative, rock, ska and sonic metal with jazz and acoustic influences.
Arguably South Africa's best rock outfit. The lead singer Arno Carstens has since embarked on a prolific solo career.
The albums to date are:
1. Neanderthal 1
1995. Quite raw and minimally produced.
2. Afterlifesatisfaction
1997. Becoming more "international", with a number of hits.
3. Surpass the Powers
1999. Their most acclaimed and professional sounding release.
4. Relaxzor
2000. Heavy, hard and fast.
A fifth album called Peace Breaker was scheduled for a March 2007 South African release. A UK release of Peace Breaker is scheduled for June 18, 2007 and will include 2 extra tracks. The band have chosen to release it in the UK under the name Nude Girls, dropping the inherently South African Springbok moniker for some reason. They also released 2 compilation albums The Fat Lady Sings preceding their break-up in 2001, and then a UK-only release as Nude Girls, called Nude Girls upon their reformation in 2007.
http://www.nudegirls.co.za/
http://www.myspace.com/thenudegirls
"The Springbok Nude Girls (a.k.a the Nudies, or the Nude Girls) is a rock band from Stellenbosch near Cape Town, South Africa.
The band is named after the glamour models that graced compilation album covers of the old and long-since defunct local radio station, Springbok Radio. These models were fairly scantily clad and titillating for the time, and considered to be fairly shocking in the Calvinistic and conservative social climate of 1950s South Africa.
An alternative rock band, the Nude Girls introduced punk, ska and metal into their songs, introducing a new world of music to the youth of South Africa in the early 1990s. The Nudies became not only favourites in South African households, but stars and influences in the South African music industry at large.
They played their first big gig in September 1994 to a full house at a local venue in Stellenbosch. At the time the South African music scene was in the process of transformation, as was much of rest of post-Apartheid South Africa. They were hailed as a breath of fresh air and one of the country's most promising new bands.
The Nude girls have toured extensively all over the world and recorded an international album in New York in April 1999. Minor success in Europe kept them touring but their popularity was still unequalled compared to South Africa. In 2000, the band received a South African Music Award for Best Rock Album (Surpass The Powers).
The Nude Girls was voted the Best South Africa rock band in a poll conducted by South African radio station 5FM." - wikipedia
Updated discogs:
Neanderthal 1 - (August 1995) (initially on Bluegum records CDSNG1, Epic)
It Became A Weapon (October 1996) (Epic)
be-vest@iafrica.com (1997) (Epic)
I Love big EP (1997-03-04) (Epic)
Afterlifesatisfaction (Epic, 1997)
Omnisofa (April 1998) (Epic)
OPTI MUM EP (November 1998) (Epic)
Surpass the Powers (July 1999) (Epic)
Un-EZ EP (1999) (Epic)
Relaxzor (November 2000) (Epic)
The Fat Lady Sings - Best of the Springbok Nude Girls 1995-2001 (October 2001) (Epic)
Goddank Vir Klank 1994 - 2004 (July 2004) (Sony Music)
Nude Girls (Exclusive UK release) (July 2006) (Golden Fairy Records/SonyBMG)
Peace Breaker (March 2007) (Sony/BMG)
Apes With Shades EP (December 2011) (Sony/BMG)
Beautiful Evolution Single (April 2018) (Sony/BMG)
Partypocalypse (September 2021) (Mongrel Records)
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