Limited Edition is a South African acoustic duo featuring guitarist Mel Botes and keyboard player Simon Orange. Together they present a collection of classic popular songs interspersed with stories and anecdotes. It's real, live, entertaining music without resort to drum machines or backtracks. The show starts in the blues, detours through rock and soul and ends up in contemporary pop.

Mel and Simon have played hundreds of shows across the country ranging from large theatres and corporate events to small, intimate venues. Recently they worked together on 'Crazy Diamond' a Pink Floyd tribute show which played to packed houses at the Victory Theatre in Johannesburg.

Mel Botes started playing the guitar at the age of eight. He has worked in the music industry for well over twenty years and composed music for various tv dramas, documentaries, films and corporate clients. He is a multi award winning songwriter and has produced seven original albums. Visit his website at www.melbotes.co.za

Simon Orange has been playing blues piano for more years than he'd care to remember and has worked with many South African artists. He is a longstanding member of the Blues Broers and the Valiant Swart Band and is a songwriter in his own right. For more information visit www.simonorange.co.za

Previous Clients include...
  • Citroen vehicle launch
  • The University of Stellenbosch
  • Little Switzerland Resort
  • MNET
  • De Oude Paarl Hotel
CONTACT

Alishia on 083 635 4717
alishia@planetcrossing.co.za

Songlist

Jazz
Masquerade (Leon Russell)
Fever (Davenport / Cooley)
Sunny (Bob Hebb)
One For My Baby (and One More For The Road) (Mercer / Allen)
Summertime (Gershwin)
Autumn Leaves (Cosma / Prevert)
Mannenberg (Ibrahim)

Latin
Cucho (de Rivera)
Gdansk (de Rivera)
Corcovado (Jobim)

Blues
Lay Around (Ray Charles)
7th Sun (Dixon)
Hoochie Coochie man (Dixon)
Wang Dang Doodle (Dixon)
Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox (Blaylock / Perdew / Phillips)
Magnolia (J.J. Cale)
Blue Monk (Thelonius Monk)
Buddy Bolden's Blues (J. Morton)
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Jimmy Cox)

Soul / New Orleans
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (Nina Simone)
Mos'Scocious (Mac Rebenack)
What Is Success? (Alan Tousaint)
Louisiana (Randy Newman)

J J Cale
Sensitive kind
After midnight
Call me the breeze

Eric Clapton
Wonderful tonight
Cocaine
Drowning in a river of tears
Before you accuse me
Layla
Tears in heaven
Sunshine of youe love

Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler
Sultans of swing
Money for nothing
Brothers in arms
The man’s too strong
Private investigations
Romeo and Juliet
What it is
Darling pretty
The last laugh
Sailing to Philadelphia

Bob Dylan
Tweeter and the monkeyman
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
Summer days
Knocking on heaven's door
Make you feel my love
Forever young
Mr Tambourine man
Mr Bojangles
Like a Rolling stone
Just like a woman

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Tin pan alley

Robbie Williams
Advertising space

Lenny Kravitz
Fly away
Are you gonna go my way

Carlos Santana
Black magic woman
Smooth
Africa bamba
Put your lights on

Jimi Hendrix
Hear my train a coming
When the wind cries Mary
Red house
Foxy lady
Voodoo chile
All along the watchtower
Purple haze
Hey Joe

Deep purple
Smoke on the water

Piet Botha
The station

Bill Whithers
Ain't no sunshine

Pink Floyd
Another brick in the wall prt 1,2 & 3
Comfortably numb
Wish you were here
Echoes
Time
Shine on you crazy diamond

Mel Botes
Blues for Julie
30 Years blues
Birdsong 2
Earthed prt 1 & 2
The coming of the crow
S.T.O.R.M.
Nice to meet you
Gotta love yourself
Torremolinos
Don't touch ma holy body with your filthy hands
Imaginary friends
Stay

Abba
Summer night city

Gary Moore
Parisienne walkways
Still got the blues for you
Walking by myself
Midnight blues
As the years go passing by


Z Z Top
La Grange
Rough boy
Sharp dressed man
Tush

Chris Rea
Road to hell

Simon and Garfunkel
Mrs Robinson
The boxer

Kris Kristofferson
Help me make it through the night

Beatles
Let it be
Yesterday
Love me do
All my loving
While my guitar gently weeps
Help!
Hey Jude
Can't buy me love
Hard day's night

Elvis Presley
Can't help falling in love with you
Love me tender
Blues suede shoes
Are you lonesome tonight?
Jailhouse rock
Always on my mind
Heartbreak hotel

Frank Sinatra
Fly me to the moon

Willie Nelson
Crazy

Van Morrison
Moondance
Brown eyed girl

Louis Armstrong
What a wonderful world

Irving Gordon
Unforgettable

Rolling Stones
Angie
Ruby Tuesday
Satisfaction
You can't always get what you want

Recordings

These MP3 recordings were made at a recent live show. Sound was taken straight from the mixing desk.

Clip1 1.28M Download
Clip2 0.5M Download
Clip3 1.0M Download
Clip4 0.9M Download


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Copyright Limited Edition 2008