Phil Selway from Radiohead was one of many celebrity drummers doing their thing for Sudan.
Today world famous drummers are supporting a new global campaign for Sudan - Sudan365 (www.sudan365.org) - calling on global leaders to take urgent diplomatic action over the next 365 days to prevent all out conflict returning to Sudan.Celebrity drummers - including Phil Selway of Radiohead, Jonny Quinn of Snow Patrol, Stewart Copeland of The Police, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, the renowned Egyptian drummer Yehia Khalil and Mustapha Tettey Addy from Ghana who has been drumming since the 1970s - have come together to create a global 'beat for peace’ for Sudan.
"I wanted to be involved in this project because I think music is such a powerful way of bringing people together. Of course, I'm biased in thinking that what's underpinning it all is always the beat - always drummers! Hopefully this film will show that together people can make a huge noise and through this film I hope people's focus will be brought back to what is happening in the Sudan over this very important next year," said Phil Selway of Radiohead who is supporting the campaign.
The drummers appear in a music film which was the brainchild of Jamie Catto - the drummer of Faithless who was behind the hit global music project '1 Giant Leap’ - and produced by Emer Patten and the team at Splinter Films, the specialist music film company who have produced concert films for Beyonc??, Foo Fighters and Kings Of Leon among many others.
The film features a drum beat for peace starting in Sudan and being picked up and passed on like a baton between drummers in over 15 countries around the world including Brazil, Mexico, US (NY and LA), UK, France, Spain, Senegal, South Africa, Ghana, Egypt, Mali, UAE, Japan, Russia and Australia.
To film will be launched on www.sudan365.org on January 9th 2010 and appear on the front page of YouTube. Campaigners will be asked to upload pictures and videos of themselves joining the 'beat for peace’.
On the 9th January 2010, thousands of campaigners will also gather in 15 countries around the world to screen the film and join the beat to call on world leaders to prevent a return to severe and widespread conflict in Sudan.
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