Coca Cola Zero Fest 2010 – Cancelled – My Coke Fest

This is a little off topic, but I’m going to post about it anyway. It’s time again for the 2009 SA Blog Awards. Nominations for the SA Blog awards ends on the 18 March and I thought I’d ask some of you, that stood up for me and this blog as the controversy around Mycoke.co.za and the lawyers threatening High Court action against me for running the blog.

There really is only 1 category I could win, that being The Most Controversial Blog of 2008, so I’m going to take a stab at it and see if I can get nominated!

Head on over to http://www.sablogawards.com, scroll down to Most Controversial Blog, fill in http://www.mycoke.co.za and hit submit! I would really appreciate all the help I can get!

Alternatively, click on the image below – it does all the hard work for you.

Big Concerts are offering discounts on the general admission tickets until the 27th of March. If you buy 3 tickets, you will only pay R325 per ticket, and if you buy 5 tickets, it will cost R300. So you saving R50 and R75 per ticket respectively!

3 tickets = R325 per ticket (R50 saving)
5 tickets = R300 per ticket (R75 saving)

So head on down to a Computicket branch and grab your cheaper tickets!

Below is the full press release from Big Concerts.

Dear Music Lovers,

By now we hope that you’ve heard that Oasis, Snow Patrol, Bullet for My Valentine, Panic at the Disco, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Zebra & Giraffe, Cassette, aKing (CPT only), Dirty Skirts and Foto na Dans are playing the Coca-Cola Zero Festival in Johannesburg on the 10th April 2009 and in Cape Town on the 13th April 2009.

That is 10-hours of music from some of the world’s top rock royalty and if this hasn’t taken your breath away then how about these amazing specials for those fans who are feeling the economic pinch this year – If you and 2 of your friends buy your general admission tickets together you’ll only pay R325 per ticket, a saving of R50 per ticket! BUT wait that’s not all… If you are very popular and you and 4 of your friends buy your general admission tickets together you’ll only pay R300 per ticket, a saving of R75 per ticket! To take advantage of this offer you need to go to any Computicket outlet before the 27th March 2009 so hurry to avoid disappointment.

After last weeks fiasco with the closing down of mycoke.co.za, I had so many people come out in support of me and the blog. All the emails, comments, tweets and phonecalls were really testament to the number of music fans out there. So after chatting to my partner who helped start mycoke.co.za way back in 2007, we came up with a plan. Why not move the blog, redirect all the traffic, remove all the offending logos and trademarks, add a word between “The” and “My Coke Fest Blog” and get the blog up and running again!

Obviously I hadn’t updated any details about the Coke Fest while everything was in “closing down” mode, but I’ll get right into it and make sure all the details of the event are updated ASAP! If there is anything you think I have missed, let me know.

Keep the music alive!

I never thought I would have to write this post, but the time as come. Coca Cola’s legal team, through Adams & Adams attorneys, have started legal proceedings against me for this blog.

I started this blog along with a mate of mine in the beginning of 2007. All we wanted to do was blog about the event, the bands, put up all the info pertaining to the Coke Fest and anything we thought would be of interest. After all, we weren’t here to steal,domain squat or rant – just provide a place for you guys to comment on and read up on the latest goings on with regards to the Coke Fest.

Since 2007, this blog has been linked to from some high profile news sites – the BBC, Times Online, tons of blogs – even an article was written in The Times newspaper! Great publicity for the concert and this website. Then, the 2009 Coca Cola Zero fest came along, and we carried on in much the same vain as before – writing about the event.

On launch day, this blog became the 3rd biggest blog in South Africa and is currently still in the top 25 – all thanks to everyone visiting the site and commenting. So big thanks to you guys. Just take a look at the previous post which has over 2500 comments. That is unheard of in the South African blogosphere. Along with that, there are just over 2000 people subscribed to updates to this site. Quite an achievement I’d say.

What could of been

When the lawyers contacted me, I immediately wanted to get in touch with Coke to explain myself, and also offer them the opportunity for us to work together on this blog. The idea was to totally redesign this blog and add some really cool features to allow the community that exists here to get more interactive with the blog. Along with that, run competitions for tickets, interviews with the bands, interviews with the fans and so much more. But, being a huge company with more red tape than ribbon on their coke cans, the message never got through. I wanted to work with them, not against!

So, that’s pretty much it. I’m going to leave this post up until 16th of February, when unfortunately, I am going to close the blog down.

Cheers and thanks for everything!
Jason Bagley

That’s right folks, the 2009 Coca Cola Fest, in association with 5FM and Big Concerts, are proud to announce the lineup and venues!

The Coca-Cola Zero Fest will take place at Johannesburg’s New Market Racecourse on Friday, 10 April 2009 and Cape Town’s Ostrich Farm on Monday, 13 April 2009.

The following international bands will be rocking Joburg and Cape Town:

• Oasis
• Bullet for my Valentine
• Snow Patrol
• Panic at the Disco

The local bands playing at the 2009 Coca Cola Zero Fest are as follows:

• Zebra and Giraffe
• The Dirty Skirts

There are still more bands to be announced, so stay tuned to 5FM or alternatively via RSS or fill in your email address below to get the latest updates from the mycoke.co.za!