Music Concert Videos

One of my favourite bands are the waterboys (yeah that’s right the ones who sang ‘whole of the moon’). I was thinking about my past times travelling earlier today, and one of my biggest inspirations for going was Michael Palin (yes out of the Monty Python team). Now Michael has been all over the world and one of the many things that I remember him most is in Vladavostock learning Poliushko Pole. Anyway I guess I really enjoy the sadness and triumph of the Russian anthems. This leads me back to the waterboys who based their red army blues song on a traditional Russian theme and Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago.

This is such a beautiful arrangement, man I love the Sax and Mike Scotts lyrics are really hit home. ‘Used to love my country’ —- ‘I would have died for my country’ 

Red Army Blues - The Waterboys 

When I left my home and my family
my mother said to me
Son, it’s not how many Germans you kill that counts
It’s how many people you set free!

So I packed my bags
brushed my cap
Walked out into the world
seventeen years old
Never kissed a girl

Took the train to Voronezh
that was as far as it would go
Changed my sacks for a uniform
bit my lip against the snow

I prayed for mother Russia
in the summer of ‘43
And as we drove the Germans back
I really believed
That God was listening to me

We howled into Berlin
tore the smoking buildings down
Raised the red flag high
burnt the reichstag brown

I saw my first American
and he looked a lot like me
He had the same kinda farmer’s face
said he’d come from some place called Hazzard, Tennessee

Then the war was over
my discharge papers came
Me and twenty hundred others
went to Stettiner for the train
Kiev! said the commissar
from there your own way home
But I never got to Kiev
we never came by home

Train went north to the Taiga
we were stripped and marched in file
Up the great siberian road
for miles and miles and miles and miles

Dressed in stripes and tatters
in a gulag left to die
All because Comrade Stalin was scared that
we’d become too westernized!

Used to love my country
used to be so young
Used to believe that life was
the best song ever sung
I would have died for my country
in 1945
But now only one thing remains
but now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
but now only one thing remains
The brute will to survive!

Here’s a picture of shout out louds doing their stuff as a warm up to the magic numbers at building 9 in Cologne.

I don’t like who’s whispering, no, I don’t like it at all.
I just wanna hear your voice, As if i had a choice.

But in the end of the line, we will win the time.
And everyone will end up behind.
We’ll do it all over again, high upon the bend.
And everyone will end up behind.

 
Shout out louds Photograph

Hope that you enjoy these shout out loud photographs.