This is the first article I've written for SoundNorfolk, an online music magazine based in Norwich. The Mucked Up Funkies are a Norwich band who've been together for just under a year. They played a great set and I will be watching eagerly to see where they go in the future.
This is just to let you know that the reviews of live shows posted to this site will be changing slightly from now on. I now write for SoundNorfolk, an online music magazine which can be found here, and so a lot of my gig reviews will go on their site. Whenever this happens I'll post a link here so that you can read it.
Some reviews will be posted in full on this site if they aren't affiliated with SoundNorfolk.
I'd been a fan, to say the least, of Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt for long time, but only recently did I watch the music video for it. I don't usually go for music videos since I often multitask when I listen to music, but I'd heard that the video for this song was particularly good so I checked it out. Here it is:
It's a beautiful piece. The emotion of the song is captured so accurately in the video with the image of the ageing Cash bringing tears to the eye. The video's full of imagery as well. For example the small house in the middle of nowhere as well as the closing of the piano at the end which seems to represent the idea that the song is Cash's final work, his epitaph.
Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails, How to Destroy Angels, and other projects) who wrote and performed the original says of Cash's version:
"I pop the video in, and wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps...Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore..."
It's a truly masterful piece, which isn't surprising considering it was written and performed by two of the most talented musicians of all time. It's a desert island disc for sure. I'll always hold this one close to my heart.
