WHO IS THE MORNING AFTER?

When he’s not working on perfecting the band’s fashion sense, Dirk is killing it on lead vocals and guitar in The Morning After. He defies all the musician stereotypes with his perfectionist tendencies earning him a lot of “abuse” from the rest of the band. It’s all a show though because they would be lost without his unrivaled attention to detail and they know it.

Dirk is a multi-instrumentalist and has been making music for more than three decades. He is completely self taught and since the age of ten hasn’t put down the guitar. Dirk loves reading, traveling and also has his own original Afrikaans music out under his stage name “Dirk Roeper” (Check him out on Apple Music and Spotify on the links below)

When he is not being cultured, you can find him and Gerhard playing Blackjack. They are yet to win big...

Name an instrument and Gerhard can probably play it, but in The Morning After he is both the occasional vocalist and the guy slapping the bass. G is a seasoned musician that played for several popular South African acts before he teamed up with his best friend and business partner, Dirk to form The Morning After. G takes care of the operational side of the band with an uncanny ability to sort out and organise just about anything. It helps that he is the ultimate people’s person, so it’s pretty hard to say no to him. When he grows up he hopes to grow a big bushy beard, which will go well with his dream car – a Mustang. He is also known for cracking a lot of jokes (of the dad jokes variety); so when you hear his booming laughter just go with it!

There are a lot of unflattering stereotypes about drummers floating around – they are always late, they can’t read (what?); that drumming is the easiest gig in a band... you get the picture. When it comes to Shannon, check all those stereotypes at the door. He is always on time, he is a genius (for real, challenge him to a game of trivial pursuit genius edition if you dare) and drumming is not just bashing around, it’s a pretty technical skill. Drummers are the backbone of a song, which they can completely break if they lose coordination or focus for a second. Thankfully it’s not all serious, Shannon is the band clown and if you let him he will tell you the same joke a thousand times! Jokes aside, he is a SAMA award-winning musician, an avid golfer (5 handicap thank you very much) and is the real-life equivalent of Bob the Builder. Can he fix it? Yes he can!