Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)

[JF]

Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?

yes I thought the same

[2manyguitars]

Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?

yes I thought the same

Yes! Those high priests of money....

[rmarques821]

Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?

Really? That's interesting, I had never thought about that. The lyrics always seemed to me to be inspired by british privateers search for gold during the 17th and 18th century.

"A pack of dog jackals and a rabble of ravens
Who'll come for his fortress, his castle on high"

"His axes and armour will conquer these devils
The turbulent raiders will falter and fall
Their leaders be taken, their camps burned and levelled
They'll hang in the wind from his citadel walls"

Would have never thought it was about bankers in 2008.

[Robson]

the first two stanzas talk about modern times and the next two about ancient times.

The same old fears and the same old crimes
We haven’t changed since ancient times

[dustyvalentino]

Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?

Really? That's interesting, I had never thought about that. The lyrics always seemed to me to be inspired by british privateers search for gold during the 17th and 18th century.

"A pack of dog jackals and a rabble of ravens
Who'll come for his fortress, his castle on high"

"His axes and armour will conquer these devils
The turbulent raiders will falter and fall
Their leaders be taken, their camps burned and levelled
They'll hang in the wind from his citadel walls"

Would have never thought it was about bankers in 2008.

Like many of Mark's songs, I believe he uses allegories and imagary and he doesn't write in a literal way here.

[Jules]

Yes, I think those are allegorical lines. Listening to KOG I always imagined a rich banker looking at the river from his very expensive flat near the Parliament house.

[Robson]

Mark about Hill Farmer's Blues:

[Robson]

... I've tried to make it wok for me"

[JF]

thanks Robson 
that's what I was talking about

[Pottel]

I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.

which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

[Jules]

I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.

which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

That's what he said, but can't find the interview.

Anyone knows in which interview he said that?

[2manyguitars]

I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.

which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.

Of course he was aware....

[dmg]

I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.

which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.

Of course he was aware....

I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela.  It was very much a landmark moment.

[Robson]

I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.

which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.

Of course he was aware....

I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela.  It was very much a landmark moment.

Exactly!

[KnopfleRick]

I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.

which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.

Of course he was aware....

I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela.  It was very much a landmark moment.

Exactly my thoughts!