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Band of Skulls Winner Chosen

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:08:00 +1000

Band of Skulls have chosen the winning video for Fires. Congratulations to Alex Mavor and Ed Kaye (L'Oeuf Sacre) - their video will now be serviced to media internationally in support of Fires' single release and they'll pocket £3000. You can watch their winning video here: http://genero.tv/watch-video/10290

Booka Shade Teenage Spaceman Winner

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:56:00 +1000

Booka Shade have chosen the winner for the Teenage Spaceman music video competition. The winning video was made by Matthew Harris from NZ and you can watch it here. Congrats Matt! Matt will now receive €3000 and his video will be serviced to media internationally in support of Teenage Spaceman's single release.

We were very touched to see such an amazing response to the video competition. It was the first time we did a competition like this and we were really surprised at how professional and convincing most of the videos we saw were. Watching them was very fun and also moving at times.

In the end, it was a battle between Quirky and Cool:

On one side, we kept coming back to the video from Alex et Ol. We liked the idea of different people with a common interest walking forward in their daily lives while the rest of the world walks backwards. We've had exactly the same feeling when leaving a club after a beautiful party night. The video had the best look of all the videos and the casting is amazing. The flow and style is without a doubt perfect.

On the other side, there was the video from Matthew Harris, where a loner finds contact to the world again with a self made space suite. The narrative is held together with amazing special effects from Fergus Jack-Hinton and Fred Marshall and a fantastic performance by Scott Orr. The video is freaky, funny, a little trashy (in a a positive,dee lite circa early 90s, way). We've never had a video with a sense of humour before and our initial reservations were slowly quashed as something kept making us return to watch it over and over.

In the end, we could only pick one and after much back and forth between ourselves, our family and friends, we picked the entry from New Zealand. Congratulations Mathew. Make sure you celebrate properly with Scott, Fergus and Fred.

We also want to single out Protonsanon and Rivetting. How do you all make such incredible videos with no budget?! Amazing! The characters you created will be etched in our heads for a very long time.

Also, we want to say hi to the town of Troyes. It is a very surreal experience to see so many great dancers move to your music. Maybe one day we can come and play there and see you all dance in person.

Thanks everyone.

Best,

Walter and Arno

Band of Skulls Finalists Selected

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:50:00 +1000

The finalists for the Band of Skulls comp to make the official video for Fires have now been chosen. Again it was really hard to narrow down all of the entries to just 4 finalists (to go with the 2 finalists that got the most votes). We'd like to give some honorable mentions to a few film makers who were really close to being selected. Sorry you weren't selected but we could only choose 4: Winther12, isabelewen, stupid banana, FRABfilms and gcmp.

A message to all of the other entrants from Band of Skulls:
"Thanks very much to everyone who entered and spent so much time and energy putting their videos together. It was a very interesting experience to see how others interpreted our music and there were some fantastic entries. Thanks again."

Booka Shade Teenage Spaceman Finalists

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:54:00 +1000

OK we've finished the very hard task of choosing the finalists for the Teenage Spaceman video competition. There was such variety in the entries so it was really tough to narrow it down. There were plenty that would have sat very comfortably as finalists and the official video for the song.

The 4 finalists chosen by Booka Shade and Genero.tv are:
Video 10066 - protonsanon (NZ)
Video 10242 - Rivetting (USA)
Video 10754 - DOLCEROCCA (Denmark)
Video 10594 - Matthew Harris (NZ)

The 2 finalists based on votes are:
Video 10130 - jeremyjaoui (France)
Video 10514 - Alex et Ol (Belgium)

Band of Skulls comp closed

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:47:00 +1000

The music video competition for Band of Skulls' Fires has now closed. Voting is open until 11:59pm GMT, July 21.

Booka Shade 'Teenage Spaceman' comp closed

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +1000

The competition to create the official music video for Booka Shade's Teenage Spaceman has now closed. Voting is open until 11.59 GMT on Tuesday July 20.

Extension for Band of Skulls 'Fires' comp

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:30:00 +1000

Due to a number of requests from people who found out about the competition late in the piece the close date has been moved to July 18. The key dates are now:

Entries close: 11.59pm GMT, July 18
Voting closes: 11.59pm GMT, July 21
Finalists announced: July 22
Winner announced: July 26

New Booka Shade competition

Tue, 25 May 2010 18:32:00 +1000

Arno Kammermeier and Walter Merziger have been making music together for almost 25 years culminating in their fourth Booka Shade album More!. Thanks to massive underground hits like 'Mandarine Girl', Booka Shade already have a serious cult following in clubland, but in the last two years their live show has seen them infiltrate festivals, like Coachella and Glastonbury, where most dance acts would fear to tread.

Now you could make the official music video for their next single off More!, Teenage Spaceman. The winner will receive €3,000 and have their video serviced to media globally as the official music video in support of it's single release. Entries close on July 14. See all the details here: Genero.tv/booka-shade

The Break - Winkipop winner!

Mon, 24 May 2010 20:34:00 +1000

The Break have now chosen the winning music video to be used for their new single Winkipop. Congratulations to Michelle Kee from Canada who will now receive US$2,000 and have her video serviced to media in support of Winkipop's release. Watch Michelle's entry here http://genero.tv/watch-video/9058.

Jim Moginie, guitarist from The Break speaks about why they chose Michelle's entry...

Band of Skulls comp launched

Tue, 18 May 2010 17:30:00 +1000

You could make the official music video for Band of Skulls' next single, Fires! The winner will receive £3,000 cash and be serviced worldwide to media outlets (including TV) as the music video for the global release of Fires in August.