A whole bunch of new merch available on our new merch store – click here!
Big thanks to Cool Your Jets and Adi Koen for all your hard work! Check out some behind the scenes photos below courtesy of Lucky Pony!
Here’s the music video and 3 exclusive remixes for our new single “Teenagers”!
Our dear friends Bittereinder have made a remix of our ode to Moot meisies “Pretoria Girls”, it’s available on iTunes now!
In May of 2013 we went back to Japan and toured through a few cities. Here are some pics we took along the way. Thanks to Dawa at Flake Records, Chihiro, Ai and everyone else that was so kind to us during our stay.
Sometimes we think that being in a band is just an excuse to dress up in funny outfits. In 2013 we did 4 x Ali G and we’ve done some other good ones too!
This is a screengrab of our old website. Lots of fun to make but about 0% practical so we moved on to this spiffy new one.
Directed by Hanro Havenga
These are some photos that Doug took back in 2010 during our writing sessions at Bassline Studios, Newtown. A lot of the material we came up with here became songs on our 2nd album “Mnusic” Check out Craig in the moonboot!
Directed by Leigh Ogilvie.
Our first ever album “Tuckshop” was released in 2009. Our first album Tuckshop is available for download on iTunes / Emusic / Amazon / Here is an old photo of Shane busy putting this cover together!
We used to own a video camera and we also used to think we were very funny.
Our new song, what do you think?
Director/DOP: Fausto Becatti & Tom Revington Editor: Jordan Koen Colourist: Jarryd Duhoit Post Facility: Mushroom Media Thanks to Fujifilm for supplying cameras
Park Acoustics is one of the really special regular events that happens at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria every month. Here are some pics from our last performance there.
Our third album “Enjoy Yourself” is out on Just Music now! Grab it on iTunes!
Our second full length album was released in 2012 by Sony Music Africa. You can download it on iTunes, Nokia Ovi and Amazon. Here is some of the original artwork from the album sleeve.
Greg Rom helped us film this wild infomercial for our album Mnusic.
Do we love fancy dress? Guilty as charged!
Directed by Hanro Havenga and filmed enroute to one of our favourite venues in the country, Live.
Directed by Hanro Havenga
Our dear friend Andrew Berry of We-Are-Awesome came with on our first trip to Japan in 2010 and he made this weird movie.
Hot Box Studios in Pretoria is another one of those lovely live music spaces that didn’t last long but will live on forever in the hearts of those that spent any time there.
This one time Doug turned 21, and we threw him a birthday party. Waverley Bowls Club, 22 June 2007.
Tempos in Northriding was a weird place, but we sure had some good times there.
We formed Desmond & The Tutus in December of 2005, in Doug’s bedroom in Pretoria. Here are some pics from our early rehearsal sessions and our first few gigs.
In case you missed it last week, to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our debut album we have released “Tuckshop Deluxe Edition” – includes remastered audio, original demos, lost remixes, a brand new version of Kiss You and over 100minutes of audio commentary by your boys. Check it out…
Here’s the new video we shot for Boogie Man! Many thanks to Greg Rom from Gentlemen Films and everyone else that helped out! Here are some behind the scene photos by Angie and Roy!
Shot and edited by Hanro Havenga, titles by Cool Your Jets
It’s no secret that we are absolute dress up geeks, and for Halloween 2014 we dressed up as the Harry Potter cast for Arcade Empire’s massive annual Halloween party!
Our first teaser for the album ENJOY YOURSELF!
Our latest band merch is available at our new merch store. Here are some pics of t-shirts from the last few years.
A little while ago we threw a roof party in Braamfontein with some friends. Adriaan Louw shot and edited this little video.
Sovereign Academy Halloween 2006, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Sovereign Academy Halloween 2007, we went as KISS!
Directed by Chloe Coetsee.
We commissioned a bunch of remixes when Tuckshop came out, download a zip file of the best ones here.
In 2008, our dear friend Paul Holden (aka King of Town) did a remix for our song Kiss You On The Cheek. He posted the remix online to some of his DJ friends, word spread and it was soon picked up by Tigersushi Records in Paris for a 12″ release.
Directed by Greg Rom.