A Fucked Up Christmas

by Peter Jolly

Canadian indie band Fucked Up are planning on releasing a cover version of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas (Feed The World).

Fucked Up won the coveted Polaris Prize in September, the Canadian version of The Mercury Prize here in the UK. Lead singer Damian Abraham told Vulture this week that they intend spending their $20,000 prize money on producing a new version of the classic eighties record written and produced by Midge Ure, with some assistance from a former member of The Boomtown Rats.

As readers will no doubt remember, the original 1984 record was a massive achievement that brought together some of the music industry’s greatest talents to record the song in order to raise funds to support the dying millions in Ethiopia’s worst ever famine. Five years later Stock, Aitken and Waterman knocked out a new version which was complete dog shit.

In 2004 for the twentieth anniversary of the song Ure put together another Band Aid of the day’s contemporary artists and managed another fairly disappointing version. So now it’s the turn of Fucked Up to fuck it up, or will they?

“David Cross, members of Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene, the GZA, Bob Mould, No Age, and Yo La Tengo are all confirmed. I’m still waiting on confirmation from Feist, Jarvis Cocker, and M.I.A. We wanted the biggest people we could get. If we could get a Jonas Brother on this, I would get a Jonas Brother.” Abraham told Vulture.

With that line up this new version already sounds promising. All money raised from the single will again be going to charity, but this time to some lesser known organisations such as Justice For The Missing.

The big question is, who will get to sing the line “Tonight thank God it’s them, instead of you”?

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