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Seu Jorge Live @ The Mandela Hall, 29.10.08

Sunday, 9th November 2008 • posted by Will McConnell

Seu Jorge played the Mandela Hall, Belfast on 29th October 2008 as part of the Belfast Festival at Queen’s – to a delighted and weirdly partly brazilian audience (do that many Brazilians live in Belfast? Did they travel over especially?). With a few incomprehensible sentences in Portuguese, the crowd erupted. And with the more modest decree of ‘hello Belfast, welcome to Brasil Music’, we were off…

Seu Jorge – America Do Norte

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To those unfamiliar with his brilliant latest album America Brasil, most didn’t quite know what to expect. Isn’t he that guy who sings all those David Bowie covers in the Life Aquatic?

Seu Jorge in The Life Aquatic

With a 16 strong band, including violins, a harmonica, 3 guitars, and insane amount of drums and a lot of hip-shaking, Seu Jorge won over the crowd nearly immediately. Even the cold fingered residents if Belfast went a little tropical for a few hours that cold Wednesday night.
And he also did the David Bowie covers too…

Seu Jorge – Trabalhador Brasiliero

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