SCOOTERS RE-UNION

Nux Schwartz has reassembled most of Scooters Union for an appearance at Berea Bowling Club in Glenwood on Friday, 6 October at 7 pm.  FULL CASH BAR and Steak and Boerie Rolls on Sale

Before forming Scooters Union in 1996, Nux cut his teeth as guitarist with Syd Kitchen and the Utensils from the mid-1980s.  He later recorded some of Syd’s most seminal works including “Africa’s Not for Sissies”.

Scooters Union went on to record and produce the SAMA-nominated album, “Vivid Memories of Static”.  It was referred to as a “gem of an album” by SA Rock Digest contributor, Kurt Shoemaker and when Koos Kombuis was interviewed by Stephen Segerman in Gordon's Bay in February 1998 he referred to the album, which was playing when Segerman arrived, as “really fantastic.”

Along with high-profile gigs including opening for Crowded House, the band collaborated with The Fantastic Flying Fish Dance Company for “unfinished(r)evolution” created by acclaimed choreographer David Gouldie.

They were regulars at festivals including Splashy Fen, Oppikoppi and at Grahamstown’s National Festival of the Arts but were as at home in a dingy bar, of which they played plenty!  He has also performed with such diverse acts as Blondie Chaplin (Beach Boys and Rolling Stones), Sipho Gumede and The Kalahari Surfers.

Nux remains a relatively unrecognised songwriter and guitarist but one whose pedigree stretches back to the mid 1980’s.  Since then he has dedicated his time to not only mastering the guitar and to maturing as a songwriter, but has earned great respect as a recording engineer.

Nux will be joined original Scooters Union members: drummer Steve du Plessis and all-rounder Greg Leisegang who’ll be playing bass on the night.  They’ll be performing a number of classic Scooters Union originals along with some old-school rock and roll.