Watch FELA! Live in HD Tonight + More Fela Kuti Reissues

FELA! Live in HD
FELA! Live in HD

The new London production of FELA! will be broadcast live in HD in theatres nationwide on January 13, 2010 (today). Click here for a listing of theaters closest to you.

In other Fela Kuti news, Knitting Factory Records is about to release another set of reissues by the Nigerian aforbeat legend, including a six album vinyl box set curated Questlove (Feb 18) and a 10 album (7 CD) series entitled Power Show (Jan 18).

The vinyl box includes the albums:

Everything Scatter (1975)
Expensive Shit (1975)
Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense (1986)
Beasts Of No Nation (1989)
Fear Not For Man (1977)
Sorrow Tears And Blood (1977)

Power Show
Fela Kuti - Power Show

Albums in the Power Show set include:

Coffin For Head Of State (1979) / Unknown Soldier (1980)
Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense (1986)
Original Suffer Head (1981) / I.T.T. (1980)
Live In Amsterdam (1984)
Army Arrangement (1984)
Beasts Of No Nation (1989) / O.D.O.O. (1990)
Underground System (1992