Fellowship of Rock & Roll

Some of South Africa’s top bands will be gathering at Malongane from 2 to 6 September for the second FORR festival. The focus has definitely been on quality rather than quantity with crowd entertainment being the main criteria. More bands will be added to the line-up soon including at least 3 up and coming bands selected from the FORRTunes evenings. Bands wishing to partake in the FORRTunes evenings can contact Albert (albert@forr.co.za/083-399-3066).

So far the following artists (in alphabetical order) have been confirmed:

Chiba Fly
Cortina Whiplash
Dan Patlansky
Die Kaalkop Waarheid
Laurie Levine
Margaret’s Daughter
Mrs B
Nibs van der Spuy
Radio Kalahari Orkes
Scicoustic
Svengali Project – Rian Malan & Lani Pieters
Valiant Swart

More bands will be annouced soon. For more information on these bands please visit http://www.forr.co.za/?page_id=638

To book for the festival please visit http://www.forr.co.za/Bookings

Once again Nudidivers will be presenting scuba diving courses before this year’s FORR festival with final qualifying dives taking place during the festival.  If you always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, there will be no better opportunity than this one and they are actually presenting the courses at last year’s prices.

Open water courses start from R2 500, includes 2 ocean dives during the festival and you don’t need to own any scuba equipment, it will all be provided.

Advance diving course cost R 2 000 and includes 3 ocean dives during the festival.

You can book your course for the festival through our online booking system: http://www.forr.co.za/Bookings. More information can be downloaded from http://forr.co.za/Bookings/Scuba.pdf

Credit cards payments are now available on the FORR booking systems. Follow these steps to pay by credit card:

1. Logon to the forr booking system (http://forr.co.za/Bookings) with your email and password.
2. Click on the “Payments” tab.
3. Scroll down to the credit card payment option.
4. Fill in the amount you want to pay and click on “Credit Card Payment”.
5. Confirm the amount you want to pay and click on the “Pay Now” button.
6. You will be re-directed to the secure PayFast website. Fill in the details and complete the transaction. Your payment will immediately reflect on the  “Payments” screen on the FORR booking system.

We have already signed a few of the old favourites for this year’s festival but are still looking for some fresh sounds to come and entertain us at Malongane. Bands wishing to apply for this year’s festival can download more information on how things work from this document (Band_Proposal_request_FORR_2010)

Once again this year we will host a few FORRTunes evenings where bands can come and show us why they should be included in the line-up. The first evening will be held on 14 July. For more information or if you wish to play at the FORRTunes evening please contact Albert ( 083-399-3066 / albert@forr.co.za ).

Bookings for this year’s main festival wil open this Friday 4 June at 13:00.  All accommodation types (except the Loggerhead tent) will be available. For a full list of rates for the festival please visit http://www.forr.co.za/?page_id=604