The other night i went to the Real Music Club at the Errigle Bar, Belfast. Martyn Joseph was playing the only Irish gig of this tour.
I started to get into things about 3/4 of the way through his set. It is always difficult with material that you are unfamiliar with, but it just took a little while for him to catch my interest.
I started to pay closer attention when he played "Cardiff Bay" a song that regularly plucks at the heartstrings of the most hardened 'tuff guy', due to its father and son relationship content.
One surprise was that he is responsible for mid 90's, "most ripped off in Christian outreach meetings", anthem: "What if God was one of us?". This performance of the song was a very different version than Joan Osborne's recording. The tone of the lines "Yeah, yeah, God is great/Yeah yeah, God is good" was sung with such sarcasm and bitterness. I'd mistaken this in the popular version as being an acknowledgment of God, rather than a statement of disgust. I was left in no doubt of his opinion.
A reasonable enough gig, but it will probably be the only time i'll go to see this guy live. Didn't really leave me wanting more.
I started to get into things about 3/4 of the way through his set. It is always difficult with material that you are unfamiliar with, but it just took a little while for him to catch my interest.
I started to pay closer attention when he played "Cardiff Bay" a song that regularly plucks at the heartstrings of the most hardened 'tuff guy', due to its father and son relationship content.
One surprise was that he is responsible for mid 90's, "most ripped off in Christian outreach meetings", anthem: "What if God was one of us?". This performance of the song was a very different version than Joan Osborne's recording. The tone of the lines "Yeah, yeah, God is great/Yeah yeah, God is good" was sung with such sarcasm and bitterness. I'd mistaken this in the popular version as being an acknowledgment of God, rather than a statement of disgust. I was left in no doubt of his opinion.
A reasonable enough gig, but it will probably be the only time i'll go to see this guy live. Didn't really leave me wanting more.
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