Beach Boys

It’s summertime at GrandWest Casino

Since the 1960s the iconic American pop rock band The Beach Boys represented the best of summer.  They gained popularity for their laid back harmonies and lyrics celebrating the easy beach and surfing lifestyle of southern California with albums such as Surfin’ USA, All Summer Long, Summer Days and Summer Nights and All Summer Long.

The reformed band - which includes founding members Mike Love and Bruce John - will perform live in Cape Town at the GrandWest Grand Arena between 6 and 7 December, where they will perform many of their hit songs such as I Get around, Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, California Girls and Kokomo.

Over the past 49 years, the band’s accolades have included more US top 40 hits than any other US rock band (36), being listed twelfth on Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and the number one selling American band of all time by Billboard.  In 2003 Rolling Stone voted the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds the second most important ‘500 Greatest albums of all time’ and Good Vibrations the ‘Number one song of the century’.

The founding members of the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. They have appeared on countless worldwide television shows, been nominated for a Grammy Award and honoured at the 2001 Grammy Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Most recently, the band’s 2006 Sounds of Summer: the very best of the Beach Boys album was certified double platinum.

The current band consists of founding member Mike Love on lead vocals, Bruce Johnston on vocals and keyboards, Christian Love on guitar and vocals, Randell Kirsch on bass and vocals, Tim Bonhomme on keyboards and vocals, John Cowsill on percussion and vocals, and Scott Totten on guitar and vocals. 

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