I wrote something about this on Facebook and linked your video to it. I'll share it here: Seeing Magical Cloudz live changed my life and I need to talk about it. It doesn't matter if this isn't read, I have to get it out. If anything, watch the video. It's beautiful. They played on a small stage at night for funfunfun fest, in a nice corner and only a small amount of people were there. When they first started I felt a little off about it because the singer Devon Welsh was really shaky and stiff and felt uncomfortable singing. I could see his microphone rattling against his chest as he bowed his head to voice himself, I was shaking along with him. They began with "Childhood's End" and continued in for a few songs that everyone sang along to. Suddenly, Welsh had us make a small circle and told us that he didn't want anyone to feel stoic, he wanted us to feel free, and said that we should dance however we felt compelled to in the circle. He kept saying that this was going to be a melodramatic show, that everyone had to move to. He decided to come down into the circle and sing around us, and then had us crouch down low on the ground and we all kneeled there around him together, hands on each other for support. The next song he had us "mosh delicately and harmlessly" and we all slowly collided into each other against the simplistic presence of his vocals. I felt like the crowd was an accumulation of their own relative waves, crashing back and forth, lapping against each other for split seconds before attracting to the next oncoming wave. It was so soft, so chaotic and formless. What was a mess of people blending into each other grew into a collective back and forth, an ocean of us connected and swaying to "Turns Turns Turns" like layers of concentric circles all pressing up against each other. We rocked back and forth around Devon, brushing past him momentarily, feeling his presence and his words closer than ever, "trying to breathe in, it turns, it turns, it turns..." And then he sang "I Do Sing for You" and I could see everyone closest to him beginning to tear up as they sang, and all us strangers held onto each other in this one moment of solace as we circled him in one giant embrace. I felt so whole and open and felt like everything could finally be simplified, nothing had to be complicated anymore. Existence was reduced into simplicity, one singularity. There was such a central message in his words, and they rang out with such a raw truth: "Loving you I'm loving you I'm loving you I want to I would love to You would laugh But I'm on stage for you I do sing for you Of course I do and I love to" During "Silver Rings," he had us trade off the microphone and sing the versus for him. The most powerful moments came when the line "I don't think about dying alone, oh oh oh" was shouted out in a desperate attempt to prove it was a truth. I felt it were the truth, everything was truth in the small intimate circles rippling from Welsh's honest voice. After the show, I ran to my friend Hunter Funk and held him for what felt like a long long time. I just felt like I needed to hold someone close to me, I felt like being alone wasn't an option, I felt thankful for everything. I listened to a boy professing to Welsh his absolute unyielding love for Magical Cloudz- in between profuse tears he thanked him for the music that came into his life at a time when he needed it most. Without realizing it, that time had come for me, and I had needed his words without realizing it.
Thank you for this. I have had a hard time putting into words what I felt that night, and it is comforting to know that others felt the same way I did.
Lexi Roberts That's awesome. I always felt there was something unique in their music and I'm so glad that it happens to be true. I cried just watching to this 3' clip so I can't picture how mind-blowing it was IRL. Artists like that are rare.
I wrote something about this on Facebook and linked your video to it. I'll share it here:
Seeing Magical Cloudz live changed my life and I need to talk about it. It doesn't matter if this isn't read, I have to get it out. If anything, watch the video. It's beautiful.
They played on a small stage at night for funfunfun fest, in a nice corner and only a small amount of people were there. When they first started I felt a little off about it because the singer Devon Welsh was really shaky and stiff and felt uncomfortable singing. I could see his microphone rattling against his chest as he bowed his head to voice himself, I was shaking along with him.
They began with "Childhood's End" and continued in for a few songs that everyone sang along to. Suddenly, Welsh had us make a small circle and told us that he didn't want anyone to feel stoic, he wanted us to feel free, and said that we should dance however we felt compelled to in the circle. He kept saying that this was going to be a melodramatic show, that everyone had to move to. He decided to come down into the circle and sing around us, and then had us crouch down low on the ground and we all kneeled there around him together, hands on each other for support.
The next song he had us "mosh delicately and harmlessly" and we all slowly collided into each other against the simplistic presence of his vocals. I felt like the crowd was an accumulation of their own relative waves, crashing back and forth, lapping against each other for split seconds before attracting to the next oncoming wave. It was so soft, so chaotic and formless. What was a mess of people blending into each other grew into a collective back and forth, an ocean of us connected and swaying to "Turns Turns Turns" like layers of concentric circles all pressing up against each other. We rocked back and forth around Devon, brushing past him momentarily, feeling his presence and his words closer than ever, "trying to breathe in, it turns, it turns, it turns..."
And then he sang "I Do Sing for You" and I could see everyone closest to him beginning to tear up as they sang, and all us strangers held onto each other in this one moment of solace as we circled him in one giant embrace. I felt so whole and open and felt like everything could finally be simplified, nothing had to be complicated anymore. Existence was reduced into simplicity, one singularity. There was such a central message in his words, and they rang out with such a raw truth:
"Loving you
I'm loving you
I'm loving you
I want to
I would love to
You would laugh
But I'm on stage for you
I do sing for you
Of course I do
and I love to"
During "Silver Rings," he had us trade off the microphone and sing the versus for him. The most powerful moments came when the line "I don't think about dying alone, oh oh oh" was shouted out in a desperate attempt to prove it was a truth. I felt it were the truth, everything was truth in the small intimate circles rippling from Welsh's honest voice.
After the show, I ran to my friend Hunter Funk and held him for what felt like a long long time. I just felt like I needed to hold someone close to me, I felt like being alone wasn't an option, I felt thankful for everything. I listened to a boy professing to Welsh his absolute unyielding love for Magical Cloudz- in between profuse tears he thanked him for the music that came into his life at a time when he needed it most. Without realizing it, that time had come for me, and I had needed his words without realizing it.
Thank you for this. I have had a hard time putting into words what I felt that night, and it is comforting to know that others felt the same way I did.
Lexi Roberts That's awesome. I always felt there was something unique in their music and I'm so glad that it happens to be true. I cried just watching to this 3' clip so I can't picture how mind-blowing it was IRL. Artists like that are rare.