Liam Karabo Joyce liam.joyce@inl.co.za It’s been 25 years of non-stop music-making for rock band WONDERboom and they have released their latest album to celebrate this milestone.
Titled 25, the album celebrates the band’s career, which has seen them win awards, travel the globe, delve into other genres of music beyond rock and release nine albums.
The band was formed by Martin Cito Otto, Martin Schofield, Wade L Williams and Jonathan Bell in 1996 when Martin, Wade and Cito, originally in an underground band called The Eight Legged Groove Machine, were approached by former member Danny de Wet, the drummer for the rock band The Electric Petals, and their manager, Patrick Horgan.
They formed a funk-rock supergroup called The Electric Petal Groove Machine. Two weeks after the combination of the two…