Being a Christian parent in a post-modern world comes with a plethora of issues and stresses. The information age has significantly shrunk the world and every company on the face of the earth is gunning for your family’s attention and for your pocket. Between streaming services, social media and […]
Author: Mike Beets
Sidetracked with The Altar Band: prophetic and spontaneous sound
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] The Altar Band is a prophetic worship band from Johannesburg, South Africa consisting of a husband and wife team Amiel and Octavia Govender. This dynamic and anointed team started […]
Sidetracked with Back2Basics: Singing the Gospel from the heart
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] If you listen to Radio Pulpit or frequent church bazaars and festivals I am pretty sure you have tapped your feet to a catchy Back2Basics tune. Their foot […]
Sidetracked with Retief Burger: an every-day worshiper
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] After taking a sabbatical to focus on his church ministry Retief Burger is back with his first solo worship offering. Retief enjoyed enormous success with four Luidkeels albums; three […]
Sidetracked with Tree 63: rock legends bringing out new album
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] After a seven year hiatus the legend that is Tree63 is back! Following a successful Kickstarter campaign and some studio time in Nashville the boys are getting geared to […]
Sidetracked with Victory5- Role models for a generation
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] Finding wholesome role models for our kids is near impossible in an age where moral values get chucked out the window in favour of illicit, Miley Cyrus types that […]
Sidetracked with Bertha Le Roux — new season with “GodLiedjies”
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] After a successful twelve years as the popular character “Emma” in the evergreen Afrikaans soap “Sewende Laan”, Bertha Le Roux has decided to close this chapter of her life […]
Who is Bouwer Bosch?
Following the recent racial twitter spat between popular Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr and puppeteer Conrad Koch with his puppet Chester Missing a YouTube video emerged from a certain Bouwer Bosch; a spoken word video in Afrikaans titled “Kleurblind”. The video has since gone viral and made headlines in most of […]
Sidetracked with LigWeg — passionate worship by passionate people
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] LigWeg is the solo brainchild of Gert Smit, and has been around for a number of years releasing their self-titled debut album in 2013. Gert is no newbie in […]
Sidetracked with Boompie Alleen — breaking down stereotypes
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] In an overfilled and saturated Christian music market originality is more often than not overlooked and forced to take the back seat in favour of the perception of what […]