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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Beatenberg
- The group consists of Matthew Field: (guitarist) and vocals Ross Dorkin: (bass) Robin Brink: (drums)
- They Love to perform and party Johannesburg
- Pluto broke the record for the most plays over a seven-day period in Media Guide and has enjoyed the longest stay in the No 1 position compared to any South African single
- The various videos for Pluto have had more than 400 000 hits on YouTube
- They describe the main difference between a Gauteng audience vs a Cape Town audience is that the one audience is at sea level and the other is at about 1600m above sea level
- Some of their performing highlights include opening for the “The Tallest Man On Earth” and for “Bastille”
- They’re influenced by jazz, classical and world music, as well as artists, writers and poets, and would love to collaborate with local producer and DJ Black Coffee, and Korean singer Psy
- Their song “Chelsea Blakemore” is about Ross’s ex-girlfriend is Chelsea Blakemore, a girl who now lives in London. Matt wrote the song as a playful tribute to their romance
- They got the inspiration for their band name when Mathew saw a sketch of the Swiss town Beatenberg in a book of lectures on modern art by the Swiss-German expressionist Paul Klee
- The song “Rafael” refers to both Rafael Nadal the athlete and Raphael the renaissance artist
