LATIN QUARTER performing 'RADIO AFRICA' on TOTP

[Grimblicious]

Great, great song x

[keepfittildesley]

radio is the mother of bad news.

[yozzer56]

don't think he's in this video, but the one who wrote the lyrics, Mike Jones, is now a lecturer at my university. I have him for Music and Commerce :)

[tindalosion]

It's a nice song but it now seems more than a little naive.

When I was a teen i loved the key board player

[attlee1945]

@tindalosion. Steve Skaith has done an up to date version of this song and accepts that perhaps some of the lyrics haven't stood the test of time. Still a bloody good song

[23jordanian]

Classic...simple as

[MrDaisey2]

no rope as long as time, another great song

[dellboyp1]

lol African animals the didnt even know what a cart was until the white man was

there but then am a white man LOL.

[londonoverground]

@dellboyp1 an illiterate white man LOL

[davieboy198607]

what a shite song man get a grip

[starsloyalist]

truly a beautiful song for all time

[mrsjax]

I have the 12 inch single of this, bought in the 80's and I still love it. So sad to say that nothing has really changed in Africa in all that time. Such a cruel and savage country!

[nevermindo3]

after all these years heard this today on the radio, brilliant, thanks for posting it, have even found the cd on Amozon

[denboy]

Brilliant song, tragically still appropriate

[llloydx]

Listen to the record - and put it in the correct time frame - 2.06 Mozambique & Mugabe

[denny5545]

Theyre basically blaming White Men for all the troubles in Africa.

It neglects to mention some ot the lunatics running some African Nations, such as Robert Mugabe.

As someone said, Racism goes "Both" ways.....

[davefromrisca]

good question - they were referring to balancing out the mistakes made by both East and West in trying to 'help' Africa...hence the reference to the cocking up of trade terms by the West and the selling of arms by the East. At least, that's my interpretation!

[darkko666]

"It looks like Moscow got it wrong again" what does he mean with that?

[Yickbob]

@darkko666 Back then Russia had way more power than it has now and had fingers in lots of pies...

[davefromrisca]

WHAT A GREAT BAND....THEY DESERVED HUGE SUCCESS BUT SADLY MISSED OUT )-:

[popsie64]

@davefromrisca totally agree, pity some of these dickheads dont understand the lyrics well enough to appreciate how great they were

[zhunter71]

thanks so much for posting this.....i love this song and have waited years to see this clip! xx

[smi88y]

welcome

[nataly8773]

hermosa!!!!!!!!!!!! definitivamente hermosa

[boobiesgirl]

where are they from

[DennisGFreeman]

"Tanzania should be moving up a gear, instead they got to step on the brakes" -- always thought that was really good writing.

[slugworths]

Spelt aga wrong

[slugworths]

He is not singing ogaden,it ismore guns than food in the Agars tent as in the Agar Khan.

[TheJaking87]

Regardless of what the song represents, it's still a catchy tune. I like the particular chorus at 2:32, when the lead singer and the girls switch lyrics.

[LSomaL]

Very true indeed. there are more tanks than food in the Ogaden and there are more donky carts than cars in every city while the aid given to the people are spend in the military.

[sandprof]

its very 80s - are they afrikaans - they look very London

[mexile1]

A new arrangement of this song, with new lyrics, is on the new Steve Skaith Band album 'Latinm Quarter Revisited'. Out next year but downloadable now from various legitimate site.

[tetree72]

buenísima, me encanta, además recuerdo apartes de mi vida jóven.

[worldcoup]

from a bona fide reggae man to all others...this is a good tune...no reggae man or woman would tell you different.

white reggae is way up there with the great stuff too. A beat is a beat and a man is a man. the specials and toots were from the same stuff.

[worldcoup]

from me to you smi88y you africanner motherfuker. you'll get whats coming to you, just like your hero jeffrey dahlmer.

[smi88y]

lol,is that with a o??

[smi88y]

hahahaha,get to the real world,is afrikaaner by the way,or are you a dumb kafher?

[ultramarinegoat]

ouch, David Quantick is right: white reggae is rubbish.

[trossachs2003]

This really has got to be one of the most atrocious songs I have ever heard:  Musically turgid and lyrically fatuous beyond belief. "Tanzania, should be moving up a gear...." I want to tear my hair out. But of course this is exactly the sort of drivel that silly little white liberal middle class afrophiles lap up, thinking it is "deep"

Its the first time I've ever seen the band. I dunno if the fact they are white, excuses this crap or makes it worse.

[fergawdsache]

Wow, a real live critic, so caustic too, just like the real thing, mmmm.

[mrsjax]

20 years along the line, nothing really changes. So sad!

[AdmiralBirdseye]

I'm sick of hearing Africa - period. Nothing's changed in 50 years, nothing's gonna change in the next 50. We should stop making excuses for them fucking like rabbits on heat when there's no food in the kitchen (actually, there ain't even a kitchen. ROFL!)

[smi88y]

you still gonna get mugged by a caffa,so carry a gun,see,social equality

[worldcoup]

remember your grandfather should have swallowed you before blackmailing his daughter into marrying his son. shame on the peasant scum who raised you

[oraach]

never did understand what the song was about, the beats moved me now the words are a reflection on what african leaders are really GREED

[Seanogoals]

I love this song , and still true.

Latin Quarter were a very under estimated group of their time.

They did a great song called America for Beginners - check it out.

[jazzrfc]

More tanks than food in the Ogaden,pity f*ck all's changed.

Except its Washington DC and London thats got it wrong now.

20 YEARS ON SAME SH!T ONLY GEOGRAPHY HAS CHANGED.

TOP TRACK !!!!

[greencatmusic]

Understand why Geldof failed and you'll get it. Understand why there are some things you can't fight (see Dark Night blackmail scene) you can't stand outside the bilderberg group meeting avec megaphone caling names and expect them to stop doing what they're doing. They have a 30,000 year old agenda and they don't play nicely with the other kids. Love your enemy. It will kill them. Love each other as yourselves and refuse not to feed the starving even for one more night. You have a voice. Use it.

[anch0rman13]

did bob geldof do the right thing did we, we gave they took (well their leaders) the kids that only had days to live survived long enough to have their own kids who are days from starvation today nothing has changed except the leaders have mercs now not peaugots and the kids we saved are killing each other and as for blaming the west we had the vikings and the romans rape our country do we gripe, no we got on with sorting it out on our own

[SteffanLlwyd]

Bodica was mighty peed-off with the Romans, I think you'll find.

[smi88y]

wow,years since i heard this,still true now

[luddite71]

lol. listen tom the lyrics. it basically blames "white man" for all problems in africa. the final line blames white man for financial problems - like they could manage finances better themselves. lmao. seriously jus take a look at the management of finances within african nations throughout history. racism cuts both ways my friend.

[luddite71]

class song

racist lyrics

[SeamusPCollins]

sadly this song is still so relevant.haunting lyric & frightening reality!

[SeamusPCollins]

when you think what is happening im Africa now, This song, sadly, still has a strong & powerfull relevance. Should be heard more often.

[9657karl]

c vgood.

[SimplySonnet2008]

I can never get enough of this song!

[esteveeskaith]

Spike....there was no video for Dominion. It was written as the the theme tune for a documentary, shown on Channel 4, about man's relationship with the natural world. Pleased you like the song and in fact, if I may make a plug, it is being re-recorded (quite differently i should warn) for a new SSB album next year.

[mikeMCSG]

Hi Steve - what's Yona doing these days ?

[esteveeskaith]

Still singing. mainly doing session (film soundtracks for example) and in a group which she doesn't want any of us to see. Too naff she says, but pays the rent. Still looking 20 years old.

[mikeMCSG]

Cheers Steve. Good luck with the album !

[SteGreenall]

Many thanks for posting this, I can't add to some of the comments below about how relevant this song remains.

[1401spike1954]

great song, great band, but has anybody got "dominion" to me their best song. please post it if you have it. to those who don't know it is about mans destruction of the worlds wildlife. chorus lines from the song.

feline, reptile,amphibean, they suffer mans dominion.

raptor, equine, simian, they suffer mans dominion.

wonderful song, the whole world should be made to listen to this.

[dweep1234]

Liked this song for a long time but never knew these guys are white

[Nuiceltico]

My favourite band and song when living in 80s London

[ThePhunckyOne]

Radio Britain isn't much better, let me tell you.

[fergawdsache]

One of the songs that changed my perspective of the world as a teenager.

[MrMelas]

This might be my memory, but I'm sure I remember hearing something about a British radio station banning the song just in case listeners thought they had tuned into an African radio station.

Does anyone else remember anything about this?

[soulstylist]

Does anyone have the video for their 1986 single TOULOUSE?

[toonarmy1000]

I1ve got these on video from tube 1985. 3 tracks. But neeed adice on how to transfer. Any advice appreciated. If interested!

[blatch332]

Superb song -I've got the gatefold 7"

[grizzlylegend]

brings back so many memories. great song

[LeBonGirl007]

Also check out Steve Kaith band on Myspace...

[LeBonGirl007]

I still have this wonderful, haunting but so true tune on 12" Vinyl. Thanx 4 the post ;0} x

[mikedabookie]

well dessieosull you still surfin 4 those 80's gems..keep rockin bro

[mikedabookie]

this is 4 the MDC i Zimbabwee

[dessieosul]

well mikedabookie whats the crack LAD

[alien8ted]

"Independence has a hidden expense...

When the hands on the purse-strings are white!"

Brilliant and chilling song, sadly still too true today.

[Tosty99]

IMO, there were few better songs in the 1980's than this.

[cftb1]

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