Review: Jerome Rex online concert, Locally Produced

Review: Jerome Rex online concert, Locally Produced, January 2021

Terrific energy and gees in Locally Produced – featuring Jerome Rex, DJ Ready D and a 5-piece band. There is also a surprise guest, a cameo performance with Rouchelle Liedemann. Rex and Liedemann perform Hoe Jy My Liefhet– a new song. It is the first time, the song has been performed on stage. Yeah, it is the digital stage but that is what we have, January 2021, Covid, lockdown South Africa. It is great to see Rex and Liedemann perform and I look forward to the music video, which is due for release, soon. I loved watching Rex singing with grandmaster DJ Ready D (aka Deon T Daniels)- a number off DJ Ready DJ Ready’s Ghoema Music album which came out late last year [2020]: “In the shadow of the mountain, yeah yeah yeah; we can party and the beat goes on…” Stirring words.  There is also a magic set with Rex and DJ Ready Neva Again by POC [Prophets of the City], released in 1994 by POC, to celebrate the first democratic elections.

The concert was streamed from Pro Stream Studios in Woodstock- with lighting and sound generated in-house. It is not easy to perform a high energy show from a studio and I think that they have done a fine job. Support South African artists and get a ticket via Quicket. This is a quickie review – working around load shedding – but I don’t want to delay in getting this out.