A Saturday night at The Assembly recently confirmed to me the type of rewards that await the true follower of “live” music. It does entail switching off the DVD player and getting your butt off the couch on a cold winter’s evening, but once in a while, you see why it’s all worth it in the end. After a performance noteworthy for its combination of original music, blistering musicianship and overwhelming professionalism, I was lucky enough to chat to the BLK JKS for over an hour, totally charmed by their unassuming manner and devotion to their craft. Not once did these youngsters from Soweto even come close to alluding to the fact that an article about them had just appeared in the August edition of Rolling Stone (in fact it was only thank to Google the following day that I found out), who called them “Africa’s best new band”. Mark my words, the BLK JKS are bound for recognition of the best kind and continue to make us proud to be African. See http://www.rollingstone.com/ for more...