Play it Again: Interview with Samson Young
By Sophie von Wunster
Portrait of SAMSON YOUNG. Photo by Fritz Beck.
In 1984, Band Aid released the song Do They Know It’s Christmas? as an effort to raise money to aid famine relief in Ethiopia. In response to the song, whose Euro-centric, white-savior perspective might be deemed as narrow-minded by some, the Cape Town-based group Plaster Cast released a charity single produced by singer and songwriter Boomtown Gundane, Yes We Do. The little-known song, and its writer, was memorialized in a short news clipping online, which also mentioned the group of unemployed musicians of which Gundane is frontman for.
