Music Concert Videos

I’ve been listening to a bit of the Dirty pretty things, for those who don’t know them they are the band fronted by Carl barat from the Libertines and Didz Hammond from another group I really like the Cooper Temple Clause; we’re gonna make you a killer movie. Anyway they’ll be playing in Boston and New York so I’ll prob go along with one of my friends, and hopefully get some good pics (unless I get my camera took off me again like at the recent Franz Ferdinand concert that i went to.

Anyway here are the lyrics to Deadwood by the Dirty Pretty Things.

You got the world boy

This all you make it? 
You had the choice lad
You wouldnt take it
The oldest charm

Only the best for you

And the years of my life,
Some they were so good,
But now and again I feel
I was a coward
Are the holes in my soul
In tatters for all these tears
Well you dont see it that way

Away, away

We’lll have it today

The dancing ones they really mean it

But something boy,
somethings gonna change

A way, a way

Youve got it they say
How do they know
When theyve never seen it?

And what will you do
When they forget your name?

Well you’ll up and get another one

Don’t give me that face
I know when I should live in disgrace
Not dig up the deadwood
I knew this place was never the place for me

And of the years that rolled by
Yeah some were so good
But now I know that
You were the coward
The holes in your soul
In tatters for all these years

But you cant see it that way

A way, a way

Well have it today
The dancing ones they really mean it
And mark my words
Something’s gonna change

A way, a way
Youve got it they say
But how do they know
When theyve never seen it?
And what will you do
When they forget your name?

Well you’ll up and get another one

A way, a way
We’ll have it today
The dancing ones they really mean it
But something boy
somethings gonna change

A way, a way
Youve got it today
But how do they know
When theyve never seen it?
And what will you do
When they forget your name?

Well you’ll up and get another one

if you like this stuff then why not watch the video over at http://www.dirtyprettythingsband.com/

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!

I was watching eddie izzard on BBC America the othe day so i feel that it is appropriate that i put some of the lyrics to the kinks up

I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like coca-cola
See-oh-el-aye cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola
El-oh-el-aye Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Now the funny thing about this song is that this version of the song was banned! How things have changed; the reason that the lola song was banned was because oft he use of  ‘coca-cola’ in the lyrics! the kinks recorded a radio friendly cherry cola version of the song for the radio. It hardly bears thinking about that a song could be banned for product placement, oh happy days. Nowadays it seems like pepsi cola and volkswagen have people writing lyrics for musicians!

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