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Jo Day is a Rock artiste based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her sound could be called "Heavy Melodic Modern Rock". Her influences vary from Gospel to Heavy Metal. Often compared to Garbage & Guano Apes, her music is generally "heavier" than both.
In early 2002, Jo - working with co-writer / producer Jon Buckley (producer of the original Saron Gas, now Seether) - released her first album: "icon", which yielded 4 radio hits. She formed JO DAY, the B.A.N.D. (Bad-Ass Nocturnal Dudes) and began to tour and perform extensively.
In 2003 Jo released her acclaimed second album, "No Warning", which gave another 3 radio hits. Later the same year Jo left her label (Legend Music) and went 'indie' with the launch of her third album: "The Truth" - which outsold 95% of the artistes at Woodstock 5 and yielded 3 radio hits.
Jo disbanded the B.A.N.D. at the end of '04 and took a break from live performances to work with Jon Buckley on her fourth album, "Princess", released through Intervention Arts on 26 April '06, which delivered 4 radio hits.
SA Rock - Where does Jo Day fit in?
The average JO DAY fanclub member is 21.5 years old. About half (44%) are female. The Jo Day fanclub continues to grow, and extends as far afield as the UK, Europe, USA, New Zealand and Australia.
JO DAY has a very broad appeal on the SA market. Successfully appearing with such diverse artistes as: Tweak (pop/punk), Rhutz (heavy metal), Karen Zoid (Afrikaans rock), Wickhead and 16 Stitch (nu-metal), Zen Arcade (adult-contemporary), and even the indefinable Wonderboom and Fuzigish.
Jo has a great love and respect
for her SA rock contemporaries - featuring fellow SA bands in her free monthly
e-mag THE 'ZINE (which has a readership of nearly 4 000!) and even sponsoring
RhutZ on their SA tour with Soulfly.
Good Stuff (see "Achievements" for details)
JO DAY has had enormous radio success - even breaking records!
'Above
My Room' remained on the TUKSfm & KOVSIEfm charts for a record number of weeks,
was a record high new entry on KOVSIEfm, & went on to top charts on several
MP3 sites and other radio stations.
Campus stations nationwide regularly
feature her tracks, as does Radiowave (Namibia). She's also been playlisted
on 94.7, RSG, SAfm, Kfm, UCT Radio, Radio PUK, UJFM, Radio Toady &
Radio 2000.
JO DAY videos receive regular flighting on DSTV.
JO DAY has performed amongst the headliners at most major SA festivals.
Contact:
jo@joday.com
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JO DAY - ACHIEVEMENTS
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RADIO
| "Believe" |
# 2 on 5fm Top 40. (Featured: 94.7) |
| "Phone Booth" | High rotation - 5fm & Radio 2000 |
|
"Breaking Point" |
Radio 2000 |
|
"Remember" | # 3 on 5fm Hi5 |
|
"The Truth" |
# 1 on TUKSfm |
| "Seed" |
# 3 on 5fm Modern Rock Chart |
|
"Porn" |
5fm Alternative Playlist |
| "Above My Room" | # 1 on TUKSfm / # 1 on KOVSIEfm |
| "Never Die" | # 3 on KOVSIEfm /# 2 on TUKSfm |
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"Multiple Oblivion" |
# 2 on KOVSIEfm / # 3 on TUKSfm |
| "Real" |
# 1 on KOVSIEfm |
| "Prey" | # 2 on KOVSIEfm |
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"Princess" |
DOUBLE # 1 UJFM SA Top 10 / #
3 UJFM Top 40 / # 3 TUKSfm
SA Top 10 / |
"Suffer In Silence" | # 1 on UJfm SA Top 10 / # 1 on KOVSIEfm SA Top 30 / # 4 Radio PUK SA Top 20 / # 6 UJfm Top 40 |
"Three Steps" | # 3 Radio PUK SA Top 20 |
"Sixteen" | # 4 UJfm SA Chart |
MUSIC VIDEOS
| "Above
My Room" | Oak Films |
| "Multiple
Oblivion" | Exposed Films |
| "Remember" | Flying Wolf Productions |
| "Princess" |
Team Freelance |
HEADLINED AT:
- The
Rock Concert 2
- Jamaican Street Party
- Woodstock 4
- The Rock Concert
3
- Zeplins Sun to Moon Festival
- Oosmoot Festival
- The Rock Concert
4
- Lusitoland Rock Festival
- Southern Cross Festival, Mooiriver
-
Woodstock 5
- Rock the Bay Festival, Cape Town
- Southern Cross Festival
'04, Mooiriver
- Splashy Fen '04, KZN
- Easter Rock Festival '04, Rand
Easter Show, NASREC
- V-Town Rock
- Doorstock '04
- Sun to Moon Festival
'04
- Radiowave Birthday Bash, Windhoek, Namibia
- TUKSfm Birthday Party
-
TUKS Spring Day Festival
- Powerzone Music Festival, Port Alfred
- Woodstock
6 (alternative stage)
- Tempo's Lady Rock Fest
- Doorstock '06
- NamRock
Winter Meltdown Festival, Windhoek, Namibia
- Tempo's Rock Festival
TV
APPEARANCES
- Draadloos, DSTV
- Phat Joe Show, SABC
- Interview - Channel O ("Playroom")
- Interview - GO, DSTV
- "One on One", SABC
- "Selemintuzi", SABC
- Interview
- eTV
- "Meltdown", DSTV (several)
- "On The Couch",
GO, DSTV
- "PLAY TV" - SABC 1
- "Meet the Fan" - GO,
DSTV
- eTV Morning Edition
- Barney Simon's GO TV show
- "Dis Hoe
Dit Is" (Steve Hofmeyr's show - flight date: 1 June '07)
- "Wys My
Jou Huis" ("LEGENDS" episode) - DSTV's MK89
PRINT MEDIA
- COVER FEATURE: SLICE magazine
- PEOPLE magazine
- LEISURE OPTIONS
- SANDTON CHRONICLE
- THE STAR
- DIE BEELD
- DIE BURGER
- EP Herald
- Zululand Observer
- D-TUNED magazine
- PULSE magazine
- COVER FEATURE: Noiseworks
-
STAGE magazine
- BLUNT magazine
- YOU magazine
- MakeSomeNoise magazine
- Marie Clare magazine
- FLAMINGO magazine (Air Namibia in-flight magazine)
- UMTA magazine
- FEMINA magazine
- COVER FEATURE: STAGE magazine (Feb/Mar
'05)
- Featured artiste - Kulula in-flight magazine (Oct '05)
- SPACE magazine,
Namibia
- Featured artiste - OneTime Airlines inflight magazine
RADIO INTERVIEWS
- 5fm - (several)
-
RSG - (several)
- TUKSfm - (several, including "Celebrity Co-Host",
breakfast show & SA Top 10)
- Mfm - Stellenbosch
- KOVSIEfm - (several)
-
RMR - Grahamstown
- CBfm - Eastern Cape
- Redcap Radio
- RAU radio -
JHB
- Kfm - Cape
- 702 Talk Radio - JHB
- Radio 2000 - (several)
-
Radiowave, Namibia - (several)
- UCT Radio
- Radio Today
- MCR
- UJFM
MEDIA QUOTES
"JO DAY - this lady definitely deserves the title of QUEEN OF ROCK. A true professional. Performing both old hits and songs from her new cd, "PRINCESS", JO DAY had the crowd begging for more." - Tempo's
"You better believe that she is one of the best hard rock singers in the world today. Princess? ... More like Empress!" - Benjy Mudie, Radio 2000
"[PRINCESS]...
one of the year's strongest releases... there isn't one weak track... Garbage
and Meridith Brooks have dropped to d*ldo status. JO DAY is the real thing."
- WickedRock
"If Jo Day isn't the next to join Seether on the ladder to international fame, there is no justice in the world." - alternative.co.za
"In this age of chicks fronting bands being en vogue, there's one who stands head and shoulders above all and runs with the best of the boys, never mind the girls - that's Jo Day." - Marq Vas
"Now I know why Marq Vas was raving over Jo Day! Not only did the power of her songs blow me away, but the performance was that of a major international rock act." - Ripchord
"One of SA's greatest - the Queen of SA Rock!" - TUKSfm
"JO DAY - the new Queen of ROCK!" - SLICE magazine
"She's turning the music industry around …the best female rock in South Africa" - Wicked Rock
"You should have seen Jo Day rocking the crowd! It was unbelievable!" - Barney Simon
"… by far the most popular on the night… Jo Day… delivered an emotionally charged show that had her fans exhilarated" - makesomenoise.co.za
"Jo Day displays the stage presence that has made her a household name" - Sandton Chronicle
"JO DAY… an electrifying performance!" - EP Herald
"In a poll conducted among Stage readers, music journalists, industry players and others as to who should be featured on the Stage cover, one name kept coming up... Jo Day." - Stage magazine