I couldn’t resist sharing this music video for one of my favourite South African bands, Goldfish, that was animated by my friend (since primary school), Mike Scott. Click play and witness the product of creative genius:
Given the difficulties that South African groups have breaking into the global market (ask Just Jinjer), I think that investing in a world-class music video (that people are compelled to watch over-and-over, and show their friends) could really help Goldfish get more airplay on YouTube and international TV stations. Rock on!
This tour will culminate in a live music event on the 20th April entitled “Bring & Braai“. The name refers to the social aspects of burning music and other content on CD’s and sharing it with friends.
It’s being held at the Armchair Theatre in Obs on the 20th April (this venue was chosen because of it’s vociferous support for free artistic culture in SA).
The Muso’s have organised a kickass music lineup of some of SA’s hottest new bands, who will lead the way in freely licencing some tracks on the SA Free Music Database.
Bring & Braai is about more than just entertainment and speeches though, as Heather Ford (Executive Director of iCommons) explained (<< video) at the recent 27dinner. The Free Culture cause is a matter of protecting our rights to create and share content online, which are currently under threat from the old guard who are scared by the emergent online culture of open-access citizen media.
iCommons is looking for some sponsorship of the event, as well as a bit of help with the publicity. Us bloggers can do help by writing about it and linking to the Bring and Braai blog. The buttons I’ve used were created by Shinjuku for this purpose, you can use them too.
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