“By supporting this year’s Bushfire, you will be rewarded with wonderful music as well as helping the Young Heroes Aids Orphans initiative. Like that Beatles song -HELP-ME-HELP-YOU-HELP-WE-HELP.”
Award-winning actor Richard E. Grant has shown overwhelming support of the Bushfire Festival by becoming the festival’s patron. Born and raised in Swaziland, Richard heart is still very attached to the Kingdom- he even wears 2 watches, one set to Swazi time!!
Having studied at Cape Town University, he co-founded the Troup Theatre Company before moving to the UK where he got his first big break with the cult hit “Withnail and I”.
We asked Richard a few questions about his involvement in the festival:
BF: Do you still feel a connection to Swaziland?
REG: Where I was born and brought up, so like a swallow, fly back every year.
BF: Favourite thing about Swaziland?
REG: My friends, Sibebe, swimming in the Umbeluzi and the spirit of the country
BF: House on Fire is...
REG: the creative heart and hearth of Swaziland. Warms your soul.
Q: Bushfire Festival in a nutshell?
REG: Nothing lifts your spirits higher than experiencing live music together with other people.
Q: Tell us your thoughts on Bushfire's 'social message'…
REG: Music and drama ‘ feed’ the soul and imagination like nothing else. Bush-fire aims to spread the message like wild fire.
Q: What's your interest in being a patron to Bushfire?
REG: Hoping that I can give something back to Swaziland that has given me so much.
Q: Bushfire is unique because...
REG: Founders, Jiggs and Sholto Thorne are the sons of my late great friend Jenny, who inspired enormous loyalty and did things ‘her’ way, when many people ‘nay-sayed’. Her spirit of adventure and creativity are alive and well in her sons who have created this unique venue that attracts people from far and wide.
BF: Do you still feel a connection to Swaziland?
REG: Where I was born and brought up, so like a swallow, fly back every year.
BF: Favourite thing about Swaziland?
REG: My friends, Sibebe, swimming in the Umbeluzi and the spirit of the country
BF: House on Fire is...
REG: the creative heart and hearth of Swaziland. Warms your soul.
Q: Bushfire Festival in a nutshell?
REG: Nothing lifts your spirits higher than experiencing live music together with other people.
Q: Tell us your thoughts on Bushfire's 'social message'…
REG: Music and drama ‘ feed’ the soul and imagination like nothing else. Bush-fire aims to spread the message like wild fire.
Q: What's your interest in being a patron to Bushfire?
REG: Hoping that I can give something back to Swaziland that has given me so much.
Q: Bushfire is unique because...
REG: Founders, Jiggs and Sholto Thorne are the sons of my late great friend Jenny, who inspired enormous loyalty and did things ‘her’ way, when many people ‘nay-sayed’. Her spirit of adventure and creativity are alive and well in her sons who have created this unique venue that attracts people from far and wide.
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