Fun week so far and its only getting in to Tuesday ! This morning the cool cats from Atmosphere have kindly invited me to the launch of a new TV political comedy show called ZA news at the fab Grand Daddy Hotel in CT. Some people may remember the show was originally called Znews but after the local state run TV station SABC refused to air it for allegedly “lacking balance” it was never aired and so sat derelict. However the great guys at Kulula and Mail & Guardian have picked up the show so now we can see what cartoonist legend Jonathan Shapiro & co can get up to when given some puppets and air time. This time however the show will be online and free for all !!!! Will let you know how it goes, am being joined by local hero Matthew Buckland for the launch.
In other news my favourite phone people over at Sony Ericsson have launched a partnership with SA band legends “The Parlotones”. To celebrate it, all new W995’s (the same I have) now will come with exclusive Parlotones content, think pre-release new album (before anyone else), video interviews, themes etc etc !!! The W995 also recently won “Best Product in the European Music Phone category” at the prestigious EISA awards so not only do you get great content but now you know it will sound legendary too. On a related note congrats to the Parlotones for releasing their own branded wine called “Giant Mistake”, my good friends Sir Justin Hartman and Sir Stii have assured me its music for your taste buds, so if you see it around why not give it a try. Will be interesting to see how many other bands follow suite with personalised wine. Check out the website, some pretty good content on it for a wine website, nice to some innovation again in the wine space.
Thx Sir Chris! You should try it fosho!