Dax returning to South Africa (cancelled)

Update:

To be honest, this shit hurts my f*cking heart. I spent so much time manifesting this South African tour only to have it not work out due to operational discrepancies that were beyond my control. I want to apologize for any delayed communication. I was working with my legal team to ensure the refund process for all those who purchased tickets [SEE DETAILS BELOW FOR REFUNDING]. I want to thank everybody who wanted to share this experience with me and participate and just know I’m still trying to figure out how to make this work. I will not give up. I apologize for the inconvenience. PLEASE READ BELOW FOR TICKET REFUNDING!

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Dax

Have you ever listened to a song, at a certain period of your life, and felt like it was written for you? Or, if you knew how to put it in words, that would be exactly what you would’ve said? I have bad days and sometimes they get really bad. On this particular day, I overheard my partner listening to one of his favourite tracks and it just felt like I was punched in the gut. Bear in mind, this is a song he listened to several times but this is the first time I actually really listened. The words were as follows:

I can’t find myself, I get lost inside my brain

I think I might need help but I pushed all of ’em away

I took the cards they dealt ,and there’s nothin’ I can change

So when I’m by myself, I just pray for brighter days

This is the chorus from the song Depression by Dax. It’s a song that really captured what I felt as it was around the time that I started with therapy. I wanted to know if this was a fluke or if the overall catalog of his work would be as hard-hitting. I listened to “Dear Alcohol” and honestly, the words describe why I drink sometimes because I often don’t want to deal with my thoughts. I went on to listen to “Dear God” and man, it really hit a nerve as it voiced questions that I usually ask God in silence. The one thing about his music that stands out is the fact he’s a wordsmith, for lack of a better word. Honestly, if you listen to his music you will realise that the words and puns really make you think. It’s honest music, I think that’s the best way to describe it.

Do yourself a favour and check out his one-take, 20-minute-long video for “The next rap god 2”. You know when you listen to a song, then pause it at certain points to allow the words to sink in? I don’t think I’ve ever done that before but with this song I did. You’d think that a 20-minute song would be boring as it would essentially be saying the same thing, right? Wrong, not in this case as it doesn’t even feel like you’re listening for 20 minutes. 

I can honestly tell you that I don’t know anything about Dax’s life aside from what I’ve learned by listening to his music. So often we get caught up in an artist’s life and it evolves from being about their music to being about them as human beings. As much as my inner alien appreciates all human beings, in this case, I’m glad that my focus had only been his music. I feel that music had been created to speak to us and that’s what it should do, unspoiled by who the artist is as a human being. For me, Dax will be the artist and his music is the art form, regardless of who he is as a human being.

Dax was renamed “Muzi” in 2021 by his South African fans and I’m sure that they’re very pleased that he’s making his way back to our shores. I’m a new fan but I’m quite excited to see him live and the fact that the Cape Town leg is happening around the corner from where I live is an added bonus. He will be doing 8 shows, which is about 4 more than most international artists do when they’re on this side. Places like Soweto, Rustenburg, Polokwane, and Mbombela are rarely included in international tours and I love seeing them on the list.

Image courtesy of Dax’s Facebook here.

Tickets are very affordable, starting from ZAR 300, and are available from Webtickets, Pick n’ Pay, and Boxer stores nationwide, making it more accessible for everyone. At the time of publishing this post, I haven’t been able to find the tour tickets on Webtickets and I think it is a technical issue.