Johnny Clegg RIP

for horsemouth there's two tunes by Johnny Clegg that really reach him.



'third world child' appears in 'saturday night at the palace' a 1987 film by robert davies featuring bill flynn, john kani, and paul slabolepszy. it's apartheid south Africa, two white trash dudes show up at roadside dinner late at night as it is closing and demand to be fed, the black dude working there just wants to go home, confrontation ensues.

you know it's not going to end well.

in an earlier scene bill's character has been thrown out of his house for not paying the rent, this tune plays as he walks off up the road because it's the dilemma of afrikaans youngsters also 'learn to speak a little english'.

(thanks to luzette and richard for taking horsemouth to the movie)



the other is from the apartheid days when johnny clegg and sipho mchunu couldn't play payed gigs together only private invite parties in people's homes - and even doing this risked attacks from the state and random racists. horsemouth always found the acoustic guitar that opens a lot of zulu jive tunes amazing (insane and a little bit frightening), this one in particular blows his mind.