Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Shaktar Donetsk

Here some entire songs live from "Let's Rock Again !"
On the original DVD you only got pieces of the songs. Here are the fully edited versions ...
Another movie were I participated as editor. Directed by my friend Dick Rude.
This is "Shaktar Donetsk", shot in several gigs across USA during Joe's last tour.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• JOE
• STRUMMER
• MESCALEROS
• DICK
• RUDE
• ARNAUD
• GERARDY
• ROCK
• SHAKTAR
• DONETSK

[sergeykovtunenko]

Cool! Viva la Shakhtar Donetsk football team!

[scoobysnaxxx]

Ukrainians don't just live in Ukraine, much of the eastern European nations were spread out across the Balklans, so yes not really bullshit after all.

[Swift2006]

To all those confused. The song is about the son of a Ukrainian exile living in Macedonia when it was part of Yugoslavia. The son (who supports Shaktar) comes to Britain in the back of a lorry and disappears. The End

[christpap7]

Favorite of favorites!

[jimjimtrains]

God! I adore this song so much! Joe is a fucking genius!

[thedarkglobe]

Gracias! Precioso. Hermoso hombre, hermoso artista, hermosa canción llena de sonidos profundos y muy puros. Thank you my God for Joe!

[pankygmind1]

Macedonia

[pankygmind1]

@lordwerewolf Fuck u fucking rasist cunt, Macedonia is Macedonia not Greek or something else in your patetic lives ..Macedonia Forever and never fucking ever mess music with stupid rasist bollocks like u did. Here are the lurics u prick: Welcome to Britain in the third Millenium

This is the diary of a Macedonian, Macedonian

He went to Britain in the back of a lorry

"Don't worry, don't worry, don't hurry."

Said the man with the plan

He said, "If you really wanna go - you'll get there in the end

[ofensive]

Barça goes to Wembley!

[lordwerewolf]

@vbbskmk (continue from last reply) two meanings: one is a nickname of residents of Makeevka in Ukraine, and another one is Macedonian like resident of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. so, it does make sense, and no, I think that Joe did not make mistake in his lyrics. Macedonian is just ambiguous word in this song. just to mention, this is only my personal opinion.

[lordwerewolf]

@vbbskmk

so, here's the lyrics:

"One of the Ukraine exiles of Yugoslavia"

i think joe mentions here ukraine people who left former USSR and went to Yugoslavia in hope of better life. So, when they came to Yugoslavia, they realized that there is war to come, and then they escape from Yugoslavia (what was not to hard to do, cause Yugoslavia had opened borders, which USSR did not had) to UK. i think this is the reason why is Macedonian mention, it has two meanings: (to be continued in next reply)

[vbbskmk]

@mvtmdn I know about the town of Makeevka,but i didn't know that it's nicknamed "Macedonia", thanks for that info. But the song still makes no sence! If he's singing about an Ukrainian from Makeevka, why he mentions "exiles from YUGOSLAVIA". Find the lyrics and you'll see. Macedonia was formerly a constituent coutry of Yugoslavia, so how is this related to Makeevka or Ukraine? I think Strummer confused everything up unintentionaly. That doesn't make him a bad songwriter,but people make mistakes