This track and, specifically, this particular version, resonates deeply for me. I watched it with a good friend before taking the night train down to London, then onto Harwich, Amsterdam and Berlin, where I cut free. I’ll always remember building up to catching the last tunnel bus late on Friday watching this on BBC 2 and being enthralled. It’s quite chaotic but, like someone said to me later on, “It sounds like the end of the world”. A pretty apt description. I didn’t see Fela Kuti live until 1989 I think, at The Brixton Academy, where I was surrounded by loads of drunk Nigerians having a great time. It’s not really party music, but I get it.
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