某人去了南非慈善什么的
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把colin说成一个苍白温柔的男人有点啊啊啊啊 Radiohead rockstar Colin Greenwood spends time in South Africa with the Children's Radio Foundation charity A gentle pale man is surrounded by a small group of attentive kids from the local community. He is Colin Greenwood (43), the bassist for what is regarded by many critics and fans as the greatest rock band in the world at the moment, Radiohead. The underprivileged kids are part of the Children's Radio Foundation (CRF), which has more than 50 youth radio projects across Africa – Greenwood is a CRF ambassador who is on his first visit to South Africa, where the Unicef-funded organisation is training children at 12 community radio stations across the country. "It is an easy bubble being in a band," Greenwood says in our interview at a sidewalk cafe in Johannesburg last weekend. We joined him at a party with local musicians Joao Orecchia, Dan Roberts and the members from the BLK JKS, on Sunday evening and again for dinner on Monday. He is generous with his time and deeply curious about the world and people around him. It is his first visit to Africa, but as a voracious reader he was introduced to the continent as a kid through children's books, Ryszard Kapuscinski's books and then fiction from Ben Okri. I ask him: "If you had grown up here, would your music have sounded the same – some of your songs sound like music made by people who grew up in a cold country?" He answers quickly: "But it is also music for people who hungered to live in a warm country – it is dreams of other places that filter through. "Influences are everywhere – when we make music, we listen to a lot of hip-hop. You wouldn't think so. When we did The Bends we listened to a lot of Scott Walker, his album Scott 4." Greenwood rubs his chin and smiles: "You aim for the stars and hit the clouds – that's good enough." Greenwood's own musical influences come mainly from the American South. "I love soul, Otis Redding, Memphis, Hi Records, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, soulful songwriters, that's my passion. "I love reggae, but I don't know it as well. I've been to Jamaica ... does that count?" There is one part of the Radiohead UN where Greenwood will want to wield some power, though, and that is about the band coming to play in South Africa on their next world tour. He is clearly smitten with the country and the people he has met. "I phoned my agent this morning," he told me. "I told him that we have to come and play here." He is going to share his passion for the children's radio project with his Radiohead friends. "I'll tell them about it, and I'll be saying we've got to come back here and do some shows. "The only reason why we haven't come to South Africa yet is just fitting it in with the schedule; there's no other reason. We've never played in Africa and we'd love to." He admits it will be a good reason to see his new young friends from the radio projects again. "I'd love to ask the young people to come and see the shows ... " http://mg.co.za/article/2013-02-01-giving-back-from-the-bassline/
http://crf.waste.uk.com/ The children also wanted to listen to some Radiohead, so we played 'Reckoner' and 'High and Dry'. Their feedback: they liked the groove on 'Reckoner' but preferred the song 'High and Dry'. Astute A&R work. And great technical work by Jade (pictured below) on the recorder!
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