The footage being projected behind James Blunt during this performance is from his own recordings that he made whilst serving in Kosovo as a member of the British Army. They were also used in the video for this song. Captain James Blount (the actual spelling of his name, although it's pronounced 'Blunt') was also one of the soldiers who stood guard over the coffin of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother during her lying in state prior to her funeral.
James Blunt was a British NATO Cavalry and reconnaissance Captain during Kosovo War and was lead officer when NATO entered Kosovo and lead 30,000 troops to Pristina Airport. James has a 4 part documentary on youtube when he returned to Kosovo years later to see the aftermath of the war. He wrote this song while serving in Kosovo.
I love this song for giving the perspective of the soldiers themselves. Start the war all brave and proud to be fighting for your country, but after the things you see begin to scar you, all that bravery fades away, and all that is left is sadness. Come back a changed person.
I was out there at the same time,it was a dreadful time, not a war situation as such for us more a trying to limit the civilian slaughterhouse, genocide allowed to be committed by governments and politicians with no spine and no balls, with innocent men,women and children paying the price.
In more recent performances you can see anger instead of sadness in his performance. He went back after a decade or so and the place and people he had been deployed to had been decimated and destroyed. There was a single person left that had been there when James was deployed to Kosovo.
You're right that James Blunt also sang You're Beautiful. That was the first single taken from his debut album, Back To Bedlam. No Bravery is the last track on that album. He was staying with Carrie Fisher, famous for playing Princess Leia, whilst making that album. Another superb song from it is Goodbye My Lover, which was apparently recorded in her bathroom because the acoustics were so good!
Your comments regarding differing of opinion is good, however in war like the Kosovo conflict or Ukraine right now, it's not about just talking sensibly, sadly
The war James saw in Kosovo was not a fare war all he saw was genocide he was there as a peacemaker but by the end all he saw in his men was despair and sorrow. Children fending for themselves as all the parents had been slaughtered. This was only 20 yrs ago.
@@nickbrough8335 Yep, you said it right Nick. He was there during the worst of it. Nato messed up, we should have went in hard and stopped it, but we didn't and we stood back and allowed it to happen
i hope i've got you wrong, but you seem to have no reaction to either the music or the cause for the music. You need to be more emotional if you want people to come back and hear what you have to say about other important issues, otherwise we'd be as well talking to ourselves.
Your point is a good one... he spoke of where he was "coming from" but really just listed off a bunch of political themes. Blount, like his father before him, entered the military as a career command officer and this song is an expression of his "hands on" front line experience in a killing zone and an assertion of his opinion. It is an expressive "stand" depicting real time real carnage real death. I think the "listener" took the song as just another "protest" song and did not really understand the foundation of the expression. If anything, I got the impression he was just lumping it in with issues like abortion and gay rights but even then didn't really make a connection. This particular video doesn't do justice to the song or its' meaning so that probably didn't help. Your point summed it up. Take Care David
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The footage being projected behind James Blunt during this performance is from his own recordings that he made whilst serving in Kosovo as a member of the British Army. They were also used in the video for this song. Captain James Blount (the actual spelling of his name, although it's pronounced 'Blunt') was also one of the soldiers who stood guard over the coffin of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother during her lying in state prior to her funeral.
he also prevented World War 3 while stationed there!
It shows why Soldiers come ho. With PTSD
James Blunt was a British NATO Cavalry and reconnaissance Captain during Kosovo War and was lead officer when NATO entered Kosovo and lead 30,000 troops to Pristina Airport. James has a 4 part documentary on youtube when he returned to Kosovo years later to see the aftermath of the war. He wrote this song while serving in Kosovo.
I love this song for giving the perspective of the soldiers themselves. Start the war all brave and proud to be fighting for your country, but after the things you see begin to scar you, all that bravery fades away, and all that is left is sadness. Come back a changed person.
He makes wonderful heart felt songs. Monster or goodbye my lover.
James blunt was a war hero that suffered with ptsd for years that was his own footage
I was out there at the same time,it was a dreadful time, not a war situation as such for us more a trying to limit the civilian slaughterhouse, genocide allowed to be committed by governments and politicians with no spine and no balls, with innocent men,women and children paying the price.
Bless you man I couldn't imagine going through this. You're a hero. And if you say you're not you're lying
In more recent performances you can see anger instead of sadness in his performance. He went back after a decade or so and the place and people he had been deployed to had been decimated and destroyed. There was a single person left that had been there when James was deployed to Kosovo.
I remember Kosovo. I spent months getting aide to refugee camps. What happened to those people was horrific
God Bless ya'll keep spittin the TRUTH
You're right that James Blunt also sang You're Beautiful. That was the first single taken from his debut album, Back To Bedlam. No Bravery is the last track on that album. He was staying with Carrie Fisher, famous for playing Princess Leia, whilst making that album. Another superb song from it is Goodbye My Lover, which was apparently recorded in her bathroom because the acoustics were so good!
Got me quite emotional absolutely love his voice great reaction thanku special lovelies much love an God bless always x
That is nice …😳
This song makes you realise how much you hate war.
Your comments regarding differing of opinion is good, however in war like the Kosovo conflict or Ukraine right now, it's not about just talking sensibly, sadly
The war James saw in Kosovo was not a fare war all he saw was genocide he was there as a peacemaker but by the end all he saw in his men was despair and sorrow. Children fending for themselves as all the parents had been slaughtered. This was only 20 yrs ago.
He saw the aftermath personally of the war.
it wasn't the aftermath - he was their as a peackeeper as the civil war was ongoing.
@@nickbrough8335 Yep, you said it right Nick. He was there during the worst of it. Nato messed up, we should have went in hard and stopped it, but we didn't and we stood back and allowed it to happen
i hope i've got you wrong, but you seem to have no reaction to either the music or the cause for the music. You need to be more emotional if you want people to come back and hear what you have to say about other important issues, otherwise we'd be as well talking to ourselves.
Your point is a good one... he spoke of where he was "coming from" but really just listed off a bunch of political themes.
Blount, like his father before him, entered the military as a career command officer and this song is an expression of his "hands on" front line experience in a killing zone and an assertion of his opinion. It is an expressive "stand" depicting real time real carnage real death.
I think the "listener" took the song as just another "protest" song and did not really understand the foundation of the expression. If anything, I got the impression he was just lumping it in with issues like abortion and gay rights but even then didn't really make a connection.
This particular video doesn't do justice to the song or its' meaning so that probably didn't help. Your point summed it up.
Take Care
David