Black Country, New Road - 'Basketball Shoes' (Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall)
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2022
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Directed by Simon Hanning
Black Country, New Road are:
Charlie Wayne
Georgia Ellery
Isaac Wood
Lewis Evans
Luke Mark
May Kershaw
Tyler Hyde
Choir:
Alasdair Austin
Alec D’oyly
Anais Meiringer
Ava Gore
Bella Blazwick Noble
Florence Greensmith
Georgia Grint
Harry Shapiro
Presented at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
Choir feature on Opus, Basketball Shoes and Track X
Live engineering and mixing by: Sergio Maschetzko
Thanks to Bengi Unsal (Head of Contemporary Music, Southbank Centre) and Clemence Renaut.
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bro dropped the hardest song ever made and dipped
I still hope that somewhere, somehow, one day, I will get to see them play this one live. Isaac included, please. For sure one of the most beautiful live performances ever.
I can't remember how many times I imagined myself, crying while witnessing this, with all these things in my head, things that seem so insignificant when this song begins.
It's just... It gives me so much nostalgia, melancholy and feeling.
They are all still young and ants from up there is still gaining the band more and more fans each day and becoming an instant classic. I have a good feeling that we will see issac return to perform those songs at some point in the future. Wether that’s a year from now, five years, or twenty I’ll be there happy as shit.
@@terry10tnj i really hope so :(((
@@terry10tnj For what it's worth, they were fantastic live without him, too.
Long season 🤨
The way he perfectly encapsulates the feeling of finding the most beautiful thing you can imagine, and having it torn from you... gives me chills every time
Isaac's vocals are fucking insane here, probably the best version of this song
instrumentals are a lot better on the studio version, plus the lyric changes suit the song a lot better imo
The way Issac just sits there at the end looking so exhausted and distraught like he gave everything, his all in this performance breaks my heart. If you’ve been depressed or have anyone in your life who has depression you recognise that look. It’s a sad thing to see. All you wanna do is hug him. Depression isn’t being sad, it’s being so so tired of the sadness. Normal people are sad and then they can have a cry or a rant and eventually it’s ok. For people like us, like Issac no matter what you do every is exhausting and painful and you loose the passion you once had. Sometimes you have good days and the depression fluctuates day to day but it’s always there creeping from behind ready to take u like a wave. When the wave is there at first u can swim, u can keep it at bay but then a bigger wave comes along and engulfs you in water and now your fully submerged. All of a sudden it’s crying every day for no reason and then not crying for a month, it’s never eating and then binging till you feel sick, it’s never showering because you now have to prioritise your energy, it’s never sleeping and then sleeping for a day straight cos being alive is exhausting. It’s being alone but not wanting to be lonely. It’s staying in bed for a month without leaving the house. And if you don’t keep it in check, eventually it kills you. I’m glad Issac left, I think for his mental health it was the best thing for him. But be grateful we have songs like this one and the whole album of afut because Black Country new road has made music that’s so sad but so awfully beautiful. It hurts how beautiful basketball shoes is. He should be proud, they all should be, they’ve made something that could never be remade or repeated. Hope he’s doing better now
this comment is really beautiful
The way how music industry works pains him that's why he quit his dreams...... he did his best tho
You describe it perfectly. What's even worse is when the people you love try to help, but they just don't understand what you're going through (and you hope they never have to go through that). It's the feeling of being alone even when you're surrounded by people that love you. Nothing seems to change, that emptiness follows you everywhere you go.
@@holysoup2954 MAE
I feel like being depressed is the human condition, you’re just gonna have to learn to deal with it cause no one else is gonna
I just lived the dystopian nightmare of having ads pop up in the middle of this masterpiece of a song. So grateful to be able to hear this incredibile performance anyway.
adblocker does wonders
No hyperbole, this is one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard. Godspeed Isaac I hope you return to this band one day.
Whatever happens, bc,nr does stuff to my heart nothing else does. In a painful but comfortable manner. Whichever voice comes thru, could be yours.
binfing if fiasac
godspeed you! black isaac
yes
What the editor did was criminal. The camera should NOT have cut away from Isaac for even a second during that final "In my bedsheets."
Now that you say it its pissing me off so bad 😭 i wanna see his expressions
esp how low they mixed the raw catharsis in his vocals
i swear i'm gonna wipe my ass with sergey and larry's face is they ever put another advertisement in the middle of baskeball shoes
this is the greatest live performance of any song ever
Kind of a stretch tbh
@@jlirl5736 not really, name a better one
@@jlirl5736 hell no.
@@rag4877 Long Season
@@jlirl5736 nah buddy you caping
It is insane how many people have not seen this live version yet. This feels to me like one of those monumental live recordings which people will go on to associate with the band for many years to come.
Holding out hope Isaac will return some day, if it suits him. If not, thanks for the best album I've heard in 20 years, and good luck to ya mate
You sir, are a mouthful
you can see isaac needed some time. the way he puts the guitar on the floor and looks down like he's lost in the end... it broke my heart. if you've ever been depressed it's easier to recognize it when you see it. i hope he is well and wish him the best. he doesn't need to come back to the band. he has the right to live his life in his own terms. godspeed to the bcnr, hope they continue making awesome music together.
Surprised to realize that this video is only 10 months old. Already feels like a record of something that happened in some unreachable past
Seriously. It feels like I’ve always known this song. It’s crazy how stuff like this can just be birthed into existence at random
Now this comment is 10 months old
No more bootlegs, no more reversed video. Finally, the official one is out. Thank you BC,NR. Thank you Isaac
My number one song on Spotify wrapped. Played it 141 times - approximately 29,6 hours 👍
Seek therapy man
Mine was Concorde with 181 times, approximately 18 hours, maybe I should look into therapy too lmao
@@luigymrobles Extremely big W
i had the place as mine with 162, absolutely insane album
The spotify version sounds like ass compared to how it sounds on CZcams for whatever reason
New fan here, my son put this on . I am stunned this is absolutely wonderful, probably up there as one of the best live performances I have witnessed ever. Isaac I hope you find peace sir.
Old comment I know but check if your son is ok big man.
Same!!!
@@cornet468he’s fine.
this has always reminded me of the 98 fishmans preformance because i feel issac had a similar feeling to shinji sato knowing this would be his last preformance
Wow you're right...this is up with the live performance of Long Season as one of the most emotional swan songs out of any artist. I pray Isaac takes the time he needs and we see him back in some form, I am just so devastated that can't be the case with Shinji :(
a good song ngl probably the best song ever ngl
based
I cannot get over Isaac’s scream at 11:41 it’s just so damn perfect
10000% agree
9:36 The ways those drums hits resonate in the hall in this performance get me every time.
this song has been of more help to me in the month following the breakup from my fiance than any therapy, long walks, talks with friends and family could ever be. i don't think i've ever connected and related to a piece of art in the same way i do with this song. the line "your generous loan to me, your crippling interest" has changed me forever.
It’s just such a perfectly crafted line that you almost wonder how no one has said it before
@@GoldJerryGoldcan u explain it pls
A loan is expected to be repaid, but very rarely will you ever pay back the exact value of the loan you received, that extra value is called interest. So he is singing about a person who has given him a generous loan in a figurative sense, potentially someone who gave him the best time of his life, but loan implies it came to an end, and Isaac now feels like he has lost a lot more than he gained from the time in the first place, hence the crippling interest
from 10:09 on is Genuinely one of the most beautiful things i have ever heard . i love this band So much. godspeed isaac
I think this is probably the best song ever. If not definitely the best live performance ever. I’m amazed someone was able to capture what it all feels like in such a sort period of time - while being so young. This song doesn’t even really make sense
Wow the amount of sadness I feel after watching this is amplified 3x after issacs vocals at the end. I wish him all the best
Holy fuck - they killed it with this live performance.
Go BCNR.
Bows deeply.
Find your peace Isaac - the best to you and the band.
The freaking switch up of isaacs mannerisms at the end is so freaking chilling. Hes just singing one moment then you can just see the switch of the music flowing through him. Amazing feeling watching this. Still hoping one day to see this live
Everything about this is perfect. Isaac looking down mournfully as he plays the first few chords, the stylized footage of upper middle class life in Middle America, and the whole band playing their hearts out for one of the last times ever.
This is one of those amazing works of art that we as humans can be really proud of, to think that through hundreds of thousands of years everything evolved just so we can hear such a beautiful chaos of melodies and rhytms wrapped in a breathtaking explosion of emotions, this is the song that i will listen as an older man when i want to remember how it felt to be a teenager.
You know, I had a dream about Charlie XCX…
God speed Issac.
This might be the best performance of a song ever of all time
9 times out of 10 a single teardrop falls down my cheek while I'm listening to this masterpiece
sobbing so hard I don't think I've ever been more attached to a piece of music and to hear it raw and live like this ughhhhhhhhhhhhh feelings are being so very felt
I agree, it's a strong feeling
SAME
@@vivlaughlove_ let's go
so basically you have never felt this way, like ever?
@@ashutoshbaluni3188 ashy boy, I am the convo, you are the weather
You took tears from me once again. Ants From Up There is a record I'll treasure for the rest of my life lol
A gargantuan performance for a beautifully written and arranged song. Whether you listen from a place of doom or joy, this is fucking awesome!
This is the most perfect, sad, wholesome thing.
One of the greatest pieces of music of the last 30 years. Incredible musicianship
BCNR Friends Forever
@11:12 that culmination almost made me cry… Goosebumps all over!
still crying to this it’s just so good
Beautiful. I wish we could hear Isaac's screams in the final section.
Gotta admit It’s odd hearing this new mix rather than the original where Isaac’s scream at the end is so much louder than the rest of the band
rip jumpscare Isaac scream. That part always sent shivers down my spine
The album mix is perfect in every way. Just listening to how the instruments sit in the mix is fucking incredible.
The live mix, to me, is just a pretty good live mix. It's almost impossible to get that kind of perfection live. And they also aren't using some of the best studio engineers and mixers in this live mix.
@@kultenhughes3585 The original Queen Elizabeth Concert stream used different audio than this. It was floating around youtube prior to this official one, and many prefer that sound.
Someone on reddit explained that this audio sounds like it's straight from the soundboard, while the original stream sounds like it's from the PA.
The credits show the live album was recorded by Sergio, so utmost respect to the man.
@@ash.953 fuck, I didn't even realize that Sergio recorded the live version. I guess it's just almost impossible to get the same kind of instrument separation and localization in a live recording.
@@ash.953 do u know if u can still find that one?
2022 was such a great year for music and this was the peak
Previous to watching this I had never cried to any song ever.
That record has now been broken at least 10 times :)
que gran pieza, no puedes evitar sentir la melancolia que carga, la interpretación de isaac es perfecta, con esa voz rota y a punto de llorar me parece una de las mejores voces de la decada, los violines y el saxofon sombrio nos causan ese amargo sentir de despedida, y es aun mas evidente al ver que es la última cancion del disco, gracias por su musica y por ayudarme a sobrellevar el duelo de una ruptura
sin duda el pináculo de la ingeniería británica
the whiplash of getting a specsavers ad halfway through this is intense
I always come back to this one. Isaac's emotion is just so damn raw. It crushes - but there lies the beauty of it. Sensational.
this is the greatest live performance of any song, ever. period.
just sobbed my eyes out watching this this song is a masterpiece
I can't stop listening to this song. This is one of the best live performances I've heard.
Part I
Concorde flies in my room
Tears the house to shreds
Defines the night as such
A home for us, stick insects
And leaves no trace of luck
At every market that we intersect
I die like fifteen times inside
She counts yellow courgettes
And she glows like my mother
With the same warm brow
Like childhood holidays gone
I'll say something weightless like
Where the hell did you fall from?
And she understands me
Looks at me with wide eyes
Like she's found again
She's in soft focus all around me
Oh, I can't see the football game
On my dad's sofa
We are still
And we never look at our phones anymore
Part II
Oh I can't think of anything better
Pick a hair off my sweater
And drown in me
Like boyfriend jeans
Oh I haven't felt this way in like ever
She is the convo, I am the weather
And the clamp is a cracked smile cheek
That tortures me
And I haven't felt this way in like ever
She is the convo, I'm the weather
And the clamp is a cracked smile cheek
And it tortures me
Part III
Oh, in my bedsheets, now wet
Oh, of Charli
I pray to forget
In dreams, my face is still in your chest
Oh, your generous loan to me
Your crippling interest
My bedsheets, now wet
Of Charli
I pray to forget
In dreams, my face still in your chest
Oh, your generous loan to me
Your crippling interest
Oh, in my bed sheets now are wet
Of Charli
I pray to forget
In dreams, my face is still in your chest
Oh your generous loan to me
Your crippling interest
This is singlehandedly the most beautiful, moving, and devastating performance of anything ever. Like the pull-away that Isaac does at 11:11 is enough to give me chills, let alone the entire ending after that. God.
this is one of the best performances in years ,the musicianship’s insane. get well soon isaac! and best of luck to the band!
I cry so much with this song, I've been going through some tough times
Yeah I think that might have been a tough breakup
I have not heard anything as beautiful as this in my life. Thank you Isaac and everyone.
The first repeat of the final section at 10:42 is by all means incredible. If you didn't know any better you'd be hard pressed to imagine that they could take it an entire level beyond.
And of course, that's exactly what they do 🙂 so incredibly well done
It’s not a reprise.
@@slandersir7255 what would correct term be? I don't know music lingo super well
@@taylernrock They're just repeating. I don't know what musical term would be used to describe it. But it would only be a reprise if they'd gone onto a different section then returned to the 'bed sheets' part, whereas, in this they just stay on it for four run-throughs (one being instrumental). Maybe you could call it the second rendition of the refrain, but that sounds like too much.
@@slandersir7255 good to know - appreciate you walking me through that! Cheers
@@taylernrock hey do you now the name of the person at 8:52? ty
will absolutely go down as one of the best live performances ever
This song, this perfomance - it's surreal, to say the least!
What an absolute masterpiece.
11:59 is an absolutely iconic visual
goosebumps all over my skin. literally
This song and this version changed me fundamentally. I fucking love this song 💚
If I ever get to see "in my bedsheets now wet" live I'll probably faint
Been too long since I came back and relived this performance. What a moment. Hope Isaac is well.
This shit is banging oh my goodness
this is it the peak...
I love you Issac , know that you saved my life . I hope I will be able to see you live one day.
The only song I’ve ever cried to. Godspeed Isaac.
shivers all the way through, in both the best and worst ways imaginable.
i literally watch this every day. happy birthday ants from up there
Isaac just knew he'd created something special and remarkable. The pacing, the change-ups, the tension build, and finally that staggering ending.
the most generous loan
hes a real one thats for sure
the best live performance i have EVER heard.
I cried
One of the greatest performances of all time. Beautiful
Only discovered this band today and I have watched this performance all day, just absolutely powerful. Sending love to Issac ❤️ Good luck with the the US tour guys!
This is the best song of the 2020s so far. Unmatched
Thoughts with you Isaac, take your time. It's only love for you
This song makes me nostalgic for a life I’m yet to lead…
I’ve had this feeling about certain music for so long but never knew how to describe it.
This is probably the best thing I've seen all year
God this is beautiful
I saw them at Primavera, don't get me wrong it's still a great band. But Isaac brought soo much tension to the music that is now gone, or maybe they still need time to reinvent themselves. Or maybe it's just because I don't know the new songs. We just have to wait for the next release I guess. But at Primavera I imagined singing "The Place Where He Inserted The Blade" with the whole crowd there, that would have been something special.
Yea kinda agree about the new stuff. Really liked the first song, but it generally wasn't grabbing me like their earlier stuff. Bummed a bit but maybe they're still figuring it out.
@@gibbon.enthusiast maybe they all need to get clinically depressed first, would that make you happier? :)
Wow. And my brilliant 14 year old son sent it to me, so FUCKING WOW! I’m so happy he loves amazing (not over produced) music! This is astoundingly beautiful.
based son you raised him well
one of the most moving and powerful performance of these last years. BCNR are so deep into me.
i'm starting to feel some kind of terrible dread for this song but i can't stop listening to it. either i cry or my eyes just water a little. i can't imagine what it was like for isaac. it sounds and feels like a performance he'd dread, too, since the early days before it was even called basketball shoes. i'm so glad he left. i'm happy he didn't put himself through a whole tour of this just to make other people happy. he gave us more than he should have had.
Isaac lo dió todo en este performance, se nota al final. Ojala mejore y en algun futuro pueda regresar.
This video still blows my mind
Saw them open for black midi in Tucson in September and they were playing entirely new stuff. It was a mid-opener since it was unfamiliar music and they didn't seem to have much time to practice. I also wasn't too crazy about Ants from Up There but man, this video and Isaac's performance make me listen again. Hope he returns.
So great. Just beautiful.
listening to this song while stoned is a transcendental experience
YES
Such a beautiful song!!
This is just utterly perfect. Genius.
Amazing performance from everyone
perfection in imperfection
I would kill to hear this live
So beautiful.
That ending. Holy fucking shit
just incredible
peak of music