(Used to be) Springwood Colquhouns: So how do you end up liking Rachid Taha?

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

So how do you end up liking Rachid Taha?

As we drove home this evening, Jamie asked me how you get out of touch with popular music.
I began by telling him that none of us ever think we will. I remember Fiona and I giggling in bed in Dulmen over a copy of Smash Hits over our parents lack of musical taste. Thought it would never happen to us, didn't we . . .
For me, the beginning of the end came in emigrating to Sydney. Here the commercial stations all seem to play nothing but the 70s, 80s and 90s music - music I'd heard before. I got fed up with it and started listening to ABC radio instead - talkback radio with only a smattering of music.
Yes, but how do you end up liking Rachid Taha was what he really wanted to know . . .

Here's a YouTube clip of Rachid Taha doing a cover of The Clash's Rock the Casbah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOjTOn9lC9I

and here : Listen To Tekitoi you can sample some of his music.

And the answer is . . . I got to liking Rachid Taha via bellydance classes - we did a dance to the aforementioned Rock the Casbah.

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