SA Rocks

To celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 89th Bday I have chosen to use two videos from The Times website and mutlimedia team.

I have had the chance to see how hard they work lately and think they deserve some blogosphere exposure:

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Celebs wishing Madiba a happy happy:


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I absolutely LOVE this band. Taxi Violence is phe-bloody-nomenal and has international appeal with a dose of local SA flavour.

If you haven’t heard of them or heard any of their music, best you get a move on. Visit their MySpace page and listen there. They are gigging throughout SA and will be in Stellies in the next few days.

You should without a doubt have heard the above song on local radio stations around SA.

Do yourself another favour, support local music, visit the Taxi Violence site and buy their album.

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This advert is brilliant. Using people and sports poses in place of gunshots, guns and bombs. Fantastic.

Unfortunately I couldn’t locate the video on youtube or zoopy. Follow the link, check out the blog and see the advert. Sheer brilliance.

UPDATE: The Nike advert has been removed from the blog where I found it. Apparently it’s a part of the bloggers corporate work and he was asked to take it down. As soon as the video has been posted on the official site I will link to it!!

UPDATE #2: Here is the Video:

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The Times has a short interview with Ruda regarding her move from the hit T.V. programme Carte Blanche.

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CherryFlava features a phenomenal post on the best SA television adverts.

Here’s a snippet and a video from the post:

Number 1: BMW ‘Mouse’ – a true 80′s Hunt Lascaris / Keith Rose classic. Marketers are to this day still briefing in jobs to their agencies with the instruction that they want a BMW ‘Mouse’ ad. A no-brainer for top spot.

Read the full post and see all the videos at CherryFlava.

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This is a phenomenal advert. I personally don’t think that men are the only ones who are this bad, or that men are this bad in general, but a great ad nonetheless:

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Wow it has been a very long time since I heard a South African band with a catching, new, individual and potentially massive sound. Bloodmoney has all of these things.

Myvideo has their latest release:

Maybe I am just in the mood for some rocking SA tunes, or maybe this band is truly fantastic, but the above video is incredible too. I have seen worse videos by some of the biggest bands in the world.

After visiting the bands website I now realise why they sound so damn good. Two of the founding members of Sugardrive are present in the Bloodmoney lineup. Sugardrive had seven albums that I know of so it is no bloody wonder that Bloodmoney sounds the way they do.

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