Spanish Sahara

The quartet treated their supporters to songs from their extensive back catalogue, including Sunday, My Number, Spanish Sahara, Exits, Mountains At My Gates, Inhaler and more at Digbeth Arena on Saturday and Sunday.

The most captivating moment, of course, is Spanish Sahara, the breathtaking Total Life Forever album centrepiece, with a heavenly vocal ushering over an entranced crowd.

Covering insurgence and counter-insurgence, the book offers geo-political background on European colonization of the region, then charts the impact of Cold War, local military build-up, the Sand War, the conflicts of the 1970s, and the last years of the Spanish Sahara. There is special emphasis on combat strategies, tactics, and weapons systems.

1975 Moroccan officials in Al Aiun proclaim annexation of the Spanish Sahara as some 5,000 troops march into the territory's capital.

The ceremony, which coincided with Green March Day, a memory deeply entrenched in the minds of Moroccans, where a mass demonstration in November 1975 forced Spain to hand over the disputed province of Spanish Sahara to Morocco.

From the rampaging funk of Mountain At My Gates, to a scintillating rendition of Red Socks Pugie, via a tender recital of Spanish Sahara, this set spanned the band's varied career and underpinned it all with a level of coherence that defied the transition from math-rock pioneers to art-metal chart-toppers.

1916s were converted to fire the 7.62mm CETME cartridge and issued to tiradores in Ifni and the Spanish Sahara (see below).

These camps were formed in the wake of Morocco's 1975 invasion of the Spanish Sahara and today are home to some 100,000 to 160,000 refugees (even the camps' population is highly contested).

Wearing their influences firmly on their sleeves, Foals' love for bands like Talking Heads, Mogwai and especially The Cure was all over tracks like Spanish Sahara and Milk & Black Spiders, but it worked, as they always took those inspirations as starting points before spiralling off in new, exciting directions.

Its antecedents are the 1976 decision by the Spanish colonial authorities to hand over to Morocco and Mauritania what Spain called Rio de Oro or the Spanish Sahara.

In 1975, following 100 years of colonial rule, Spain withdrew its forces from what was called Spanish Sahara and the Indigenous Sahrawi claimed possession of the territory.

Villagers' 'Becoming a Jackal' beat off competition from the brilliant everything everything and their song 'My KZ ur BF' as well as Foals' 'Spanish Sahara' to win the prize for Best Song Musically and lyrically.