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Where's Bob Geldof when you need him?
Oh wait here he is...
At an Advertising Awards bash in Cannes, obviously - with his mate Kofi - The Saviour of Darfur, and Rwanda, and Zimbabwe - talking about his plan to stop climate change by re-recording an old Midnight Oil song
A quote just to whet your appetite...
"One feature of the campaign will be a We Are The World-style collaborative single, featuring artists including Geldof, Duran Duran and actress Milla Jovovich, recording a reworded version of Midnight Oil's 1987 protest song Beds are Burning."
Thank goodness. I hadn't really heard about climate change until now.
By the way, I've been to the said bash - and whatever is making the beds of advertising's glitterati burn - it's not the prospect of the polar ice caps melting. More a combination of something snow like and the agency's 19 year old receptionist.
Strewth, It's enough to unleash your inner Littlejohn
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My favourite post today
Fine use of the word 'strewth'. Made me Laugh Out Loud.
Song/Context
So a song about the reclamation of Aboriginal land now being used as a protest song against fossil fuels?
"Burning" - ah - I see what they did there.......
Where's Bonio in all this?
Twenty or more years ago, I was at a
dodgy Australian drinking club behind King's Cross on ANZAC day when the DJ played Beds Are Burning - the place went crazy bonkers.
Not sure why I mention this other than it obviously has a resonance amongst homesick, pissed Aussies.
No shame
You'd have thought that that blood-on-his-hands bastard Kofi Annan would have the decency to keep a low profile.
As you say, Saviour of Darfur....
Can it be any worse a dirge
than the cacophony of the original?
I suspect it can
Duran Duran are involved
Any mention of Durran Durran is a good excuse to
resurrect this masterpiece
Is it a cover? Is it a remix? Is it a bag of arse?
They should..
..record "It Ain't Necessearily So" instead.
Cause du Jour whores.