It’s finals weekend. Holland play Spain for the honour of being champions of the 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa. We’ll be there – there being in the comfort of our own home, in front of the tv. My prediction for this is a win for Spain, and though I’m a neutral I’d quite like [...]
You can’t really have a sequence of South African music without a track from Ladysmith Black Mambazo, can you? I think not and so this week I’m posting Shosholoza, one of south Africa’s most recorded songs. Joe Mogotsi of the Manhattan Brothers claimed that his group was the very first to record the song. Other [...]
I arrived back from a great week in Dorset just in time to watch a dismal England World Cup performance. They lost 4-1 against Germany and thus booking their flights home instead of a place in the quarter finals. So now I’m off to drown my sorrows with a glass or two of South African [...]
This week has conspired against me and instead of writing one post and preparing another to be super organised before my holiday, I’m scribbling this post and don’t have much hope for a great literary effort for next week’s one. This week at least the music is going to have to do the talking. I’m [...]
I’m tempted to change the plan to post a series of South African tracks. After the English goalkeeper’s calamitous fumble in the England v. USA game, I feel I should be posting It’s Not Easy Being Green by Van Morrison! But no, I’ll not be diverted from my original intention. South African music it is. [...]
Your 2010 FIFA World Cup starts here! The plan is, for the next 6 weeks, to celebrate South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup, I shall be posting South African music. Then, after the final, I shall post a track from the winning country. Don’t worry, it’s all organised. I’ve a fair amount of South [...]
I wanted to start with The Waterboys “Song from the End of the World” as the blog title Furious Music comes from the lyrics of this song. However, this is no longer in my collection (an Amazon delivery is expected soon!). Plan B was to start with “All Tomorrow’s Parties”, a Velvet Underground song cover [...]