Poster by Stathi Kougianos
Today we have something special to get you in the mood for Gil Hockman’s album launch tomorrow. Follow the link here for a free mp3 off the new album titled “Too Early In The Journey”
Poster by Niall Bingham
If you like real Rock & Roll and you’ve been out to your local gig venue, you know Taxi Violence aka Rock out with your cock out!!! Today we bring you their latest video off their new Unpluged album Long Way From Home, directed and produced by Murg Film Design. The song is rad, the sound is rad and the video is, wait for it, RAD.
Sit back and enjoy Taxi Violence - Long Way From Home.
We would like to encourage more bands and artists to make beautiful posters for all kinds of events, be it gigs, film festivals or art exhibitions. It looks great on the dull walls of your city or our living room.
Something exciting happening, but without a great poster, is the Isochronous Inscape album launch tour starting in Pretoria this week. More about that here.
And onto the posters:
Poster by Farah Hernandez Martinez
Today we bring you some talent from over the waters, Brooklyn NY to be exact. Dana Tanamachi is known for her special skill in custom chalk lettering. This is one for the purists again. It’s an awesome mix of old and new, but I have too say that here the old school wins by a fair margin.
Check out these time lapse videos to get a better understanding of what this little lady does. Enjoy.
Nagging Doubt “The Pull” from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.
Ace Hotel Room 1021 from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.
The By & By from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.
Yes, we are running at normal speed again and we have a fine collection of posters for you this week.
We would like to wish Bittereinder a successful tour out in Holland, including the Lowlands Fest, and can’t wait to see what the new Sleepers sound like!
Be there when it happens!
Poster by One Horse Town
I’m still a bit pissed off about not being at Oppikoppie this year and reading all the good and bad reviews on the blogs does not help.
Thanks to all the good reviewers for giving me some idea of what I missed this year.
No thanks to all the PR whores who are forced to mention (brand name here) 1000 times to pay for their tickets.
Poster by One Horse Town
In this week’s video post we feature, yet again, the talents of Louis Minnaar. This time its for the new Bittereinder video - Slechte Mensen (feat. Tim Beumers). This video is one big visaul smack in the kisser. High intensity editing combined with the Bittereinder beat brigade makes it our favorite video for this week.
Here it is!
Oh yes, while we’re on the subject of Louis Minnaar look at this.
After very long internet battles and other things I will not bore you with it seems that we are a go! again. At least you had the 10and5 Poster Picks and Chris’s Video Thursday posts to keep you entertained.
This is a slow start and after Oppikoppi it seems like everyone is resting and recovering. We hope those bruises are healing nicely.
Poster by Fred Viljoen (Room 13)
Today we feature the music video for the Pretoria based Folk outfit Fulka entitled, Dancing In Our Darkest Days. Directed by Louis Minnaar, a favorite here at Social Contract, the video fuses perfectly with the music.
Here’s an extract of Fulka’s bio that really captures the essence of their music - “Fulka’s drawcard lies in their clever merging of electronica and folk, making not only the often intimidating aural landscape of electronica palatable to listeners, but using it to showcase the complexity inherent to the seeming simplicity of the folk genre”. Well put indeed.
Sit back and enjoy Fulka - Dancing In Our Darkest Days.
Adam Hill
Andrew Ringrose
Andre Pereira
Ben Rausch
Brett Jones
Bruno Morphet
Chris Slabber
Doktrine
Eaton Crous
Eckardt Kasselman
Jaco Haasbroek
Jacques Strauss
Jean Lombard
Jarryd Kin
Kronk
Louis Minnaar
Mary-Anne Hampton
Merwe Marchand Le Roux
Michael Dos Ramos
Michael Pauls
Milkbox
One Horse Town
Rouleaux van der Merwe
Stathi Kougianos
Stephen Wallace
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