The Dirty Skirts Say Dubai To South Africa

Leading South African rock band, The Dirty Skirts, will next week be heading to Dubai to perform at the Middle East’s most esteemed music industry conference and festival, Dubai Sound City.

The 2009 South African Music Award finalists for Best Rock album have been invited to perform alongside industry luminaries such as The Human League, De La Soul, Gabriella Cilmi, Echo & The Bunnymen, Super Furry Animals, The Wombats and The Doves. Also performing at the festival is fellow South Africans, The Parlotones.

Dubai Sound City is a 3 day music industry conference and festival focused on allowing delegates to do business, network, learn and discover new and established artists from across the Middle East and around the world. It is predicted that within the next three years, it will become THE Music Business Convention and Festival within Dubai and the Middle East.

Aimed at those entrepreneurs that embrace innovation and change within music, Dubai Sound City offers opportunities for organisations from all over the world to showcase their products, services and artists to the professionals who will shape the future of music and entertainment and the fans who ravenously consume it.

This four piece from Cape Town released their debut EP independently in 2005, which stormed various South African charts with singles “Feeling the Pressure” and “Set me Alight” both reaching number 1 on regional stations. Established in late 2004, the band has now performed on every main stage of South Africa’s festival circuit, toured to the UK, USA and United Arab Emirates, and consists of Jeremy De Tolly on lead vocals, guitar and synth; David Moffatt on guitar; Maurice Paliaga on Bass and Mark De Menezes on drums. Their debut full length album, “On a Stellar Bender”, was released in May 2007. 2008 has seen the release of “Daddy Don’t Disco”. Following the successful launch of the new album in South Africa the band toured to the UK and Dubai. The Dirty Skirts were a featured band on the 2009 Coca-Cola Zero Festival line-up.

Quick Facts

-          Reached #1 with the track “Feeling The Pressure” on various charts in 2005

-          Toured with Oasis, Snow Patrol and Panic At The Disco in 2009

-          Won the Redbull Soundclash in 2009 versus Tumi and the Volume

-          Performed on every main stage on the SA festival circuit

-          “Daddy Don’t Disco” nominated for Best Rock album at the South African Music Awards in 2009

-          Invited to perform alongside artists such as The Human League, De La Soul, Gabriella Cilmi, Echo & The Bunnymen, Super Furry Animals, The Wombats and The Doves at Dubai Sound City in 2009

-          Toured the USA, UK, UAE and RSA

-          Performed at SXSW in 2007

-          Reached #1 with the track “Homewrecker” on various charts in 2006

-          Reached #1 with the tracks “Can’t Remember Your Name”, “Daddy Don’t Disco” & “Rolling Like Thunder” on various charts in 2008 and had a top 10 hit with “Wake” in 2009

-          Performed alongside top South African artists such as Freshlyground, Springbok Nude Girls, Zola, Arno Carstens, Louise Carver, 340ml and Parlotones

-          Been featured by most of the main media in South Africa such as GQ, FHM, SL Mag, You, Insig, One Small Seed, Blunt, Stage Mag, Cosmopolitan, MTV Base, SABC, ETV and MK

-          “Feeling The Pressure” used in a promo by Supersport (RSA) in 2008