The summer of 2005 started gloriously for the members of Massukos. They were championed by Charlie Gillett on BBC Radio London. They performed in venues from the Ritzy in Brixton to the British Museum. They played in front of 100,000 people at an Edinburgh rally for Make Poverty History. They met Gordon Brown and Bob Geldof. They delivered a petition to Downing Street.

Days later, they boarded the London Eye. Moments later, the Eye was surrounded by armed police. The band, who had lived through 17 years of civil war in Mozambique, were terrified. The police’s arrival turned out to be a response to the July 7 bombings. “They hoped they’d got away from all that,” says Chris Smallwood, from UK band Empty Boat, who have toured with Massukos. “Suddenly, it all caught up with them.”