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‘Yes we know it’s Christmas’ say African musicians as they finally record a response to Band Aid

The news that cracked me up this morning. I checked on YouTube but I haven’t found the video which I am looking forward to. ‘Yes we know it’s Christmas’ say African musicians as they finally record a response to Band Aid:

CAPE TOWN. After 28 years of silently tolerating it, a group of unemployed local musicians have joined forces to release a Christmas single, entitled ‘Yes we do,’  in response to the Bob Geldof inspired Band Aid song, ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’.

Speaking at the launch of their song, the musicians praised Geldof’s relentless quest for an answer and said they hoped their collaboration would free the Irishman and his friends to start looking for solutions to new and more important questions.

“Like Do they know about climate change in America? Or did Kim Jong-il have time to write down the abort codes for the nukes before he died? Or perhaps he can revert to the time-honoured classic – ‘Tell me why I don’t like Mondays.”

Speaking at the launch of the single, whose proceeds will go towards teaching discipline, literacy and contraception at British schools, composer and singer Boomtown Gundane said that for years he had been irked by Geldof’s assumption that hungry Africans were also stupid.[…]

Gundane said he hoped that his involvement with the song would turn him into an expert on British politics and economics in the same way ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ had turned Geldof and Bono into the world’s leading experts on Africa.

“If I’m not sharing a platform with the Queen and David Cameron by this time next year; or headlining at Glastonbury, then I will have done something very wrong,” said Gundane.

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  1. fightingsail reblogged this from concertinahero
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  3. theglitteringthings reblogged this from bluesnkitchens and added:
    #topfiveworstthingsbobgeldofhasdone #ever
  4. mindgoggling reblogged this from magicalgirlserena and added:
    Okay so I know this is totally old news by now but this is literally the best thing I’ve ever heard.
  5. alienanthropologist reblogged this from dotscollective
  6. dotscollective reblogged this from angrytranschick and added:
    Brilliant satire. I fucking hate that song. -Mel
  7. ohenjay reblogged this from rlottery
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  9. angrytranschick reblogged this from sickelgaita and added:
    This was written wonderfully
  10. sickelgaita reblogged this from impromptuonedykedanceparty and added:
    hayibo = south african version of the onion; this article is satire (but still awesome)
  11. maridee42 reblogged this from gwenfrankenstien
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  20. cmannned reblogged this from justasktheaxis and added:
    This song has always irritated the fuck out of me. I am so happy about this!
  21. justasktheaxis reblogged this from trousertheft
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  23. missdeen reblogged this from themoonandyou and added:
    this is truly a xmas miracle
  24. she-hulk-smash reblogged this from grumplstiltskin and added:
    oh my god YES paging gryffinclaw
  25. themoonandyou reblogged this from grumplstiltskin and added:
    Rofl, it’s as if this was written for Nadeen.
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  29. sententiola said: ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ was an especially insulting question since Band Aid was about Ethiopia, which was a major centre of Christianity centuries before England even existed.
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