( more Hello Saferide here)įor some, the new year promises another cycle of being in a rut, which in itself can be a soul-destroying comfort zone, as Belgium’s finest observe. I haven”t told you yet, but I”m going to be with you.” Oh, I think I’m in love with Annika. Today”s word is dejected”), chief among them, “there”s you”. She makes resolutions (” I will learn a new word each day. The wonderful Annika Norlin wakes up on New Year’s morning and already knows it’ll be “another shitty year”. With its blend of global musical influences, the song is representative of the traditional sound of the coloured community (though most would probably rather listen to hip hop, R&B or jazz fusion). “New Year” illustrates the party spirit in the community. District Six – The Musical captured the life in District Six, and its demise, with great humour and heartbreaking pathos. Some of these new ghettos were cruelly named after District Six landmarks, so as to drive home the humiliation. By the mid-70s, District Six had been cleared, and the inhabitants of this close-knit community were removed to ghettos far away from the city (while huge swathes of the area are still vacant today!). In 1966, the apartheid regime decided that District Six was a slum “” which it was, seeing that the white rulers had little interest in developing and upgrading the area. The eponymous area was a large working-class suburb on the foot of Table Mountain, on the edges of the city centre, populated mainly by coloureds, one of four main population groups by which people were classified under apartheid. Go to any New Year’s Eve party in Cape Town’s coloured (mixed-race) community, and you’ll be hard-pressed to avoid this song from the hugely popular and deeply moving musical District Six. Lucky deserves much buzz it’s a very fine album. And last night I listened to Nada Surf’s new album Lucky, out on February 8, on which Gibbard guests. I hear a new album by Postal Service, which features Death Cab singer Ben Gibbard, is on its way, too. Will you feel any different at 00:01 on January 1? I think Death Cab are due another album soon, which gives us a good reason to be welcome 2008 with some anticipation.
The song that kicked off the stunning Transatlanticism album (the title of which I dedicate to the British music writer Robin Carmody) so brilliantly.
Bah! Still, don’t let me spoil it for you. I resent the pressure of having to have a good time as time hurtles forward another digit closer to the year of my death. Ten songs which review the year gone by and anticipate the next.
For the final post of 2007 we’re looking to the new year.
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