Seun Kuti and Egypt 80
Botanic Park Adelaide
2009-03-07
no set list

very good sound and appreciative audience
SP-CMC-25 cards >SP BB > sony PCM M10 > 16bit wav >Soundtrack Pro ( remove excess applause , levels and minor EQ >XACT ( LEVEL 8 )>master remix 2015 adobe audition .
Stealth mode 8 metres from centre
taped and transferred by gods golfball

review
When they took to the stage later that night it quickly became apparent that it wasn�t bravado talking. They weren�t taking any prisoners. It was sharper, more aggressive, sexier than the record. Kuti himself was magnetic and in his black and white striped jumpsuit it was impossible not to see his father. Yet he worked hard. He was part of the band, not the leader. He was possessed by the music, writhing around the stage, waving his arms, ducking, weaving and backing away from the spirits Egypt 80 had conjured up. He was in battle. Picking up his sax and blasting away, then stopping with a huge smile on his face involving the crowd, �they have to hear us in Africa,� he proclaimed and the response was thunderous. The band were a cacophony of taut afro funk, noisy rattling relentless. They played much, if not all of Many Things (Cartell), the album that heralded their rebirth. The title track was a particular highlight, with Kuti using the intro to discuss the credit crisis, �aka the rich also cry,� wondering why when people are dying in Sudan or of aids throughout Africa there�s no money, but when rich people are about to go broke suddenly there�s trillions and trillions of dollars on hand. I�m not sure it can get much better than this. It�s an amazing world where you can build up your expectations to near impossible heights and then drive nine and a half hours to have them surpassed.

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