WONDERBOOM


In 1997, a fusion of The Electric Petals and the Eight Legged Groove Machine created the band Wonderboom. Two days later they appeared live on Dali Thambo's People of the South show and a week later they toured with Simple Minds as their opening act. This popular five-piece band has Cito as the lead singer, Danny de Wet on drums, Martin Schofield on lead guitar and Wade Williams on bass.

Wonderboom have toured and played at campus gigs and raves and have headlined all the major South African music festivals. In 2000, they appeared with The Mission at the Rand Easter Show and were the opening act for Live on their nation-wide tour. In 2001 Wonderboom appeared unplugged on the Steve Hofmeyer TV show.

The 1998 release of their album Is It, yielded two top 10 singles, She Cries and Jafta Rebel. In April 2001, their album Never Ever Ever was nominated in the Best Rock Album category for a South African Music Award and they performed at the Awards ceremony that same year. Wonderboom have signed up with David Gresham Records and released the CD single Something Wrong which reached number two on Radio 5FM.