Rock/Metal
The development of rock as a popular genre in Botswana has been a slow one. The music has however started to gain some momentum, partly due to the youth's exposure to mainstream media like MTV, Channel O and the internet. The native Batswana have since showed appreciation for this genre. Since 2000, many new bands have been formed. Most these have played locally and a few have toured Southern Africa. The rock culture is now evidently recognized, with these bands coming together to fight AIDS under a tour titled "Rock Against AIDS".
Notable bands include:
- Amok
- Crackdust
- Disciplinary
- Dust n Fire
- Metal Orizon
- No!semakers On Parade
- Nosey Road
- Overthrust
- Remuda
- Skeletal Saints
- Skinflint
- Sms Blues Band
- Stane
- Stealth
- Vitrified
- Wraith
- Wrust
The National Music Eisteddfod is held annually in Selebi-Phikwe .
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Famous quotes containing the words rock and/or metal:
“Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)