Shortstraw and Friends

Shortstraw are an indie rock band from Johannesburg South Africa. Shortstraw have earned themselves a place as currently being one of the biggest bands in South Africa, with some of the most loyal fans a band could ask for. After 2014 took the band outside South Africa, Shortstraw continue to bring their uniquely South African “Indie-Bele” sound to the rest of the world.

Shortstraw won Best Indie at the 2013 MK Awards for the music video for One Long Day, and at the 2014 MK Awards picked up Best Album for Good Morning, Sunshine and Best Video for Waterworks. Shortstraw was nominated for Best Alaternative at the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards. In 2015, the band’s latest album Youthless debuted at #1 on the South African iTunes Chart.

Shortstraw has also had the incredible opportunity to have toured with a number of great international bands both in South Africa and abroad, including The Kooks (UK), The Jungle Giants (AUS), Bombay Bicycle Club (UK), Last Dinosaurs (AUS), and the Dune Rats (AUS).