Musicians such as Sting, Green Day, Ed Sheeran, and Mumford & Sons are uniting and raising their voices against poverty by re-recording protest songs.
The effort is all part of the agit8 project, which hopes to influence leaders at next week’s G-8 summit in Northern Ireland. The project is supported by the One Campaign whose leader is U2 lead singer Bono.
The agit8 project wants G-8 leaders to help increase African food production and make international aid a simpler process.
Sting has recorded The Police track “Driven to Tears” and Sheeran has recorded Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War”. Richard Curtis, director of “Love Actually”, has created a short film about the theme of the music and the protest. The film will be projected onto the side of London’s Tate Modern Gallery from Tuesday to Thursday evening.
