Out of Africa and into Cork's Live at the Marquee

Toto will play their classic mega-hit, and plenty more hits from their impressive repertoire, at the Marquee in Cork, writes Ed Power.

A countdown of the greatest rock songs of all time must of course include Africa by Toto. Not only does the 1982 soft-pop masterpiece display boundary-breaking chutzpah with lyrics that rhyme “company” and “Serengeti”. With its monsoon of synths and a cloud-bumping chorus, Africa is also the perfect synthesis of art and cheese, vision and kitsch, pop and profundity.