ROCK YOUR WORLD WITH STAY OFF THE GRASS
TV YOUR MUM WILL HATE!

MTV base’s new show Stay Off the Grass is hard to define. Is it a mockumentary? Rockumentary? Stoner comedy? Improv drama? Surreal music-comedy-mockumentary hybrid? Naah…combine two meat-head South African rockers with surreal spaced-out comedy skits and the best alternative videos there are, and what have you got? Dunno really, but whatever it is, it makes you laugh. And it’s definitely a cult TV classic-in-the-making…

Stay Off the Grass chronicles the mundane lives of two anti-heroes from the West Rand. Welcome to the world of Kevin and Headrick - a pair of spaced-out music-loving drop-outs who lead tragically unfulfilled, uneventful lives, perpetually doomed to be unskilled, hopeless temps. Kevin and Headrick are job centre regulars – these guys just can’t keep a job down. Whatever they turn their hands to: they mess up. Whatever they try to achieve: fails. Talking, fighting, carrying a tray, caddying at the golf course, lusting after women or just stumbling painfully through an uncaring world: Headrick and Kevin can’t do a thing right.

Just one thing unite these two wannabe rockers: a deep abiding love of alternative music in all its forms – and the dream that they too, will one day make it big on the rock circuit.

Fronted by ‘Headrick’ (played by Crazy Monkey and Footskating 101 comic genius Brendan Jack) with sidekick ‘Kevin’ (a real-life rock nut and record label A&R executive), Stay Off the Grass is MTV base’s first dedicated alternative music and comedy show, conceived and produced locally by MTV base producers Tim Horwood and Suede . Each half hour episode features ‘Kevin’ and ‘Headrick’ facing another tough employment challenge – only to fail once again.

Along the way, the lovable losers introduce us to clips from the hottest African and international alternative videos, including acts like SA rock legends Springbok Nude Girls, indie heroes The Parlotones, Daft Punk and Groove Armada. In each show, musicians and celebrities get to interact with Kevin and Headrick and their surreal world – and usually wish they hadn’t… Stars lined up to appear on the show include international stars Evanescense, Hoobastank and Stain’d as well as top South African rockers Arno Carstens, The Parlotones and Nathan Rowe.

Bottom line: if you love alternative music – you’ll love this show, and if you like left-field, deadpan – and frankly quite strange - humour: you’re in business!

Comments Horwood, ‘Stay Off the Grass is like a live-action, South African Beavis & Butthead – on acid. The best thing about the show – apart from great music and improv comedy – is that your dad won’t get the joke and your mum will hate it!‘

Stay Off the Grass airs weekly on MTV base (DStv Channel 88) from 6 June 2007 at 21:00.

Below are links to watch the short video clips from our new show, premiering this wednesday at 21h00 CAT. Take a look and let me know what you think- the humour is very dry but its hilarious!

Headrick and Kevin video