A Boy Named Seu
August 19, 2008 by Ailbhe Malone
Filed under Anablog
Seu Jorge is playing next Saturday as part of the Dun Laoighre Festival of World Cultures. While in Brazil he’s known for his original Samba-Funk music, Western listeners’ll probably recognise him from City of God, or from this:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvhGvxuOREw]
Tickets were €28, but they’ve long sold out. Content yourselves with the following instead, and be quicker off the mark next time, eh?
Jorge’s main claim to fame are his covers of classic Ziggy Stardust-Era Bowie songs, translated into his native Portuguese. Bowie himself remarked on “this new level of beauty” brought to his songs by the Brazilian musician. So, firstly, ‘Rebel Rebel’, or, according to a swift Babelfish ‘Rebelde, Rebelde’..
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvx_w79wbrE]
And secondly, ‘Life on Mars’ from The Life Aquatic:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6l8zrsf4LY]
Sa Dingding is also playing on the Sunday and tickets, priced at 29euro, haven’t sold out yet, wahay.
RE The Seu Jorge bit…Nooooooo! I’m quite bewildered and distraught. Not being in the country isn’t even good enough a reason.
Yeah, I found out ages ago, and spent far too long going ‘I ought to buy tickets for this soon’. Raging, so I am.
Oh no! I’ve done that before too, it is one of the worst ways not to go to something! Horrible, horrible, horrible.