The Lectric Monks is a South African upbeat dance folk band formed in Pretoria, Gauteng in 2013. The group features a 7 piece ensemble with various instruments. 

Drawing from roots rock, folk, classical, blues, indie, jazz and psychedelic music, the band's image and sound evoke a nostalgic blend of music of the past with today’s modern styles, creating an upbeat dance experience for all.

The band's name is based on a character from Douglas Adam’s Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, a being from a planet very far from the Earth, coincidentally humanoid, designed to believe anything.

The group's first show was played November 1, 2013 at Rafters Stage, Pretoria opening for Die Heuwels Fantasties. 

The Lectric Monks started out as a two roommates (Francois van der Merwe and Gareth Peacock) sitting on a living room sofa, improvising lyrics with nothing but a Ukulele and a passionate love for music. They started jamming as The Lectric Monks since 2013 officially, once they had recruited lead guitarist, Henk Oosthuizen, violinist, Robyn Thomas and percussion and vocalist, Liza van der Walt. The 5-piece changed to a 7-piece when the band called on the drumming skills of Martin Raath and Michael Thomas on bass and they continued to gig where ever music needed to be heard.


Uit die baard van die boland is gebore ’n ondier. Vier jong mans het besluit om liewer saam geraas te maak. Die resultaat was katastrofies. ’n Harige blinkoog monster het wankelend oor die strate begin loop en saggies skree. Benags het hy in skaduwees en die donker hoeke van feeste en Straatbyeenkomste geremoer. Die musiek was regte Afrikaans en dus eerlik rou. Dit was nie te sag nie, en nie te hard nie. Dit was die hartklop van ’n dier.

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Ben Howard returns with his 4th album, Collections From The Whiteout, produced alongside Aaron Dessner (The National). The foreboding darkness that coated Ben’s second record I Forget Where We Were and thinly veiled its follow up Noonday Dream, isn’t so evident on Collections. These are songs written from headlines scanned, or news stories scrolled past, providing inspiration for a selection of vivid narrative snapshots – the death of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Crowhurst’s Meme); Russian fraudster Anna Sorokin (Sorry Kid); the man who stole and crashed a plane in Seattle (The Strange Last Flight Of Richard Russell); and the dismembered body a friend of his father found in a suitcase floating along the Thames (Finders Keepers). Alongside them, the personal anecdotes from the same scattered period living between Paris, Devon and Spain. Yussef Dayes features, as does Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Kyle Keegan (Hiss Golden Messenger), and Dessner. Thomas Bartlett, St. Vincent’s go-to pianist, and Rob Moose, a long-standing arranger of strings for Bon Iver, are also present. Long-term guitarist to Ben’s band, Mickey Smith (A Blaze of Feather), remains a reassuring constant. It’s a sonic adventure that continues this nagging suggestion that Ben is one of the UK’s most inventive and naturally talented songwriters. CFTW is his latest opus, and arguably his most fully realised to date.

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