Really often nowdays I see that a lot of people can't anymore relate to what other people feel. They become emotionally numb in a way. This digitalism is two sided thing, it brings people closer or at least it should, while on the other hand it lets people stay in their own bubble the whole time! Have you seen those people who are dancing with their phones in the hand and chatting in FB at the same time? Have you ever counted in a bus how many people are busy with their phones. We are starting get too found of electronics around us.
Just think for a moment how the world would react if Facebook, Twitter, and the internet would go out of order for even just one day or even for a week?! I think it would cause huge huge "problems" to people. We would have millions of people who wouldn't know anymore what to do with their time. The electronics around us, especially tv kills most of the creativity and the worse, our imagination!
Why is it so that more further the years go, the more isolated we get with our electronic stuff? Also reading the news about the big solar bursts makes me wonder what would happen when a really strong solar burst would hit earth, there's a possibility that our electronics wouldn't be working for some time. Remember still how much the ash cloud from Iceland mixed up/stopped all the flights?
"For the past several years the sun had been quiet, almost
too quiet. Part of that was the normal calm part of the sun’s 11-year
cycle of activity. Last year, scientists started to speculate that the
sun was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen maybe
once a century or so.
Now that super-quiet cycle doesn’t seem as likely, Biesecker said."
Still waiting for my copy of "Nude" to arrive from The Irrepressibles. Just listened the "Two men in love" which was before in the live concert year ago called "Prince" I like also the album version though it's quite different. I feel that the live version was more touching. But anyhow it stays as a very beautiful song!
Here is the live version from Amsterdam concert
And here are the beautiful lyrics to the song:
"If I asked you now, will you be my prince, will you lay down your armour and be with me forever... When you open me all the power in me moves, how y ou want to see all the depths of me real, when you open me, all the power in me moves, I feel real...
I love you
When I look into your eyes, there's a danger inside, when I see the edge I can never hide, See me running, running, running... To you, from you, to you...
There's a strange love inside, it's getting louder, and louder, and louder, and louder, and louder There's a danger I can't hide, who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am...
I'm in love
( Gonna build you up gonna help you believe sunny! )
There's a strange love inside, it's getting louder, and louder, and louder, and louder, and louder There's a danger I can't hide, it's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am...
There's a new single out from The Irrepressibles forthcoming album NUDE. It's called "Tears" and it sounds good. If you go to http://soundcloud.com/jamie-mcdermott/tears-remix_it_dance_it_make_art you can see that they have a competition to remix, dance or make art with this song. Read the rules and participate, there's time until 30 July 2012!
The Irrepressibles - "Tears"
And the lyrics!
"TEARS"
Jamie McDermott 2010
"Tears of a clown
My face has the tears of a clown
Tears of a, of a .. clown...
I lay here awake, unable to dream, here in a state...
Disconnected from you, oh oh!
A pretentious glare, how you don't care, Oh I don't care...
The Tears of a clown, falling, falling, falling, down my face,
Does anybody really care...
I'm just a clown, clown, clown, clown, clown, to you...
I'm just a clown...
(but) darling look over the moon, what do you see?
darling look over the moon, what do you see, what do you see?"
Finally a single came out from the forthcoming album "Nude" of The Irrepressibles. After having seen them live some years ago hearing the studio version of "Arrow" was a bit of a disappointment. They had put some awkward drum machine behind that messes up the whole song I think. Because the album name is Nude was also expecting something referring into that. But the video was also bit of an disappointment together with the song. Was a bit of a let down when I know how great the band can be! But furthermore without spoiling before everyone else has seen the video here it is:
The Irrepressibles - "Arrow"
And here is the live version from Holland Festival where I saw them too!
I have the feeling that the live version gives more space to the voice, it's more dreamlike song. Where in the studio version the drum machine totally takes that feeling away.
Listening live music. It's whole lot different from listening to a cd or watching a videoclip. Live music gives something special, but when it doesn't work in whole, then it doesn't. I went to see finally The Irrepressibles live and was waiting for something totally amazing, but was disappointed. It's a feeling when you are waiting for something great, but you get to hear only guitar and no singing. The debut album "Mirror, mirror" is great but now they played only one song from it, "In this shirt" but mostly songs from the coming album "Nude".
Beginning of the concert took too much time to start musically. Beginning was bit flat. Jamie McDermott has amazing voice but now the energy couldn't come always trough. Set up with big cube and turning stage was nice, but when you have to perform in four different ways and show is only one hour long, you get to see lot of the back of the performers which is a pity. White curtains that were hanging trough the whole show was blocking too much and keeping the performers distant. Special thanks go for using the video projections that were beautiful. Having a hall full of projected white flying birds is beautiful.
Here you can find a video of the performance at Holland Festival.
Also the costumes and "uitstraling" of the performers was less that I would have expected after seeing the videos. McDermott had a normal shirt with long wings sort of like straps hanging from the sides and the hair covered lot of his face. In the videos you see how they put so much effort on every small detail; the hair of all the musicicians, make up, costumes and movement. Now there was only couple moments where players took the movement into their playing.
The track list was partly something like this: "Ship", "The state of it all", "New World", "Pale sweet healing", "Arrow", "In this shirt", "Boy in the lake" and "Prince". The most special songs left in my mind were "In this shirt", "Prince" and "New world". "New world" had a special beginning that turned the whole hall into a sweet sound box. You didn't know where the sound was coming from anymore. You were send into a dream like world of sound. "Arrow" was a great song with a beautiful piano and cello. "Prince" was most beautiful and captivating song of the whole set, a beautiful song about love. McDermotts voice got the space that it needed and grew until the ceilings with beautiful lyrics...
"...see me running, running, running, from here, to you, it's a strange love inside, it's getting louder, louder..."
I was still waiting for to hear "Nuclear skies", "Forget the past" and "The tide" but the end of the concert came like crush into a wall with a hi-speed car. Sudden! It felt like something was brought only half away. Like somebody would guide you only halfway the crosswalk, to be hit by the cars? I think they could have given so much more. Also the audience was quite strange, lot of people left in the middle of the show and in the end you could hear some "Boos!" It feels bit empty when one of your favorite band lets you down live, when I know they could have given so much more.
I replace my loss with listening the missing songs from "Mirror, Mirror".
And watching the video clip of live concert "Mirror, mirror" from Queen Elisabeth Hall 2010 and Holland Festival the other day. Miss that costume, that make up and the hair. After watching the clip now two times from Holland Festival I start to like it again.
"Forget the past"
You'll be the way to begin
You'll be the the water on stain
You'll be there calling my name
Jamie, Jamie
You'll have a warrant to kill
All of my fears in you spell
Into me all of your world
Find me, find me (x3)
My love, my love
My love, my love
You'll be the essence of fire
You'll take all of my desire
You make me bold and inspired
Know me, know me
You'll be the eye of the storm
You'll be the lectures of warm
You'll be the dreams and the throne
Know me, know me (x3)
My love, my love
My love, my love
Find me inside the calm of the storm
Where lovers' desires might come with the dawn
we sit on the grass wait for machines
and forget the past (x2)
You'll be the way to begin
You'll be the the water on stain
You'll be there calling my name
Jamie, Jamie
