anthems

mms

sometimes
been thinking about this recently after seeing jamie lidell live
on his last tune of the night "multiply" he shut up and let the audience fill in for him...
it was one of the most lovely moments of the evenin,g as the audience filled in with rare harmonies that wouldn't normally grace them, beautiful harmonies fit for a gospel choir, they must have suprised themselves, me certainly, it was almost moving like..
i hear the word anthem alot, lots of these indie bands are searching for an anthem but i occurs that the only anthem is one that transcends the audiences expectations of themselves - the grace of singing along in a voice you didn't realise is your own, rather than the deception of doing what exactly is expected.
these moments are rare, there is a transcendental religiousity to moments like that .
 
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