It has been 2 and a half years since we lost our son, but I have come back to this video often and only now, with the passing of time has my deepest sorrow and torment begun to give way to a celebration of the 23 years we had with Mackenzie. Music was his consuming passion and this tribute from his friends honours him so tremendously. Thank you CS Showband gang for your contribution and Anthony Packwood for cleaning and publishing the video. Thanks Radiohead for an amazing song!

@MrMurph73

6 жыл бұрын

Im so sorry for your loss. It's clear how loved McKenzie was and this is an incredibly moving tribute.

@vfariello

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss sir. I cannot imagine how painful it must be to lose a child. As a father, I regard that as the worst thing that can happen to a man. This tribute gave me goosebumps and I'm sure partly relieves the sorrow.

@grantvandervoort4661

5 жыл бұрын

Very nicely put. This performance really captures both of those emotions. Sorry for your loss, keep his memory close!

@createurart8966

5 жыл бұрын

I am crying so hard i cry everytime i see this video,i didn't know your son i live in the other side of the world,but i was born the same year as him ,i feel really sorry for your loss,my deepest sympathies go out to you and your family, i hope you'll stay strong,he is in a better place . Yasmine

@ranaedalgetty177

5 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to hear a cover man I'm crying

@ericpa06

4 жыл бұрын

Literally me at this exact moment.

@hritikdhyani9111

4 жыл бұрын

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@DwayneJohnsonCochran

4 жыл бұрын

I like Radiohead. I came hear for a cover of one of their most beautiful songs. Now, I'm in tears. This is a funeral and I feel like I've invaded this sacred space but this song completely tears your heart out. Rest in peace.

@pasarocks

3 жыл бұрын

Like a baby

@booklover-hu9tw

3 жыл бұрын

oh god same

"I will see you in the next life"

Thom would be proud.

@HarperNguyen

6 жыл бұрын

cnote6923 Mackenzie would be too

@suereality8271

4 жыл бұрын

Be sure he IS

@MrMinusguy

4 жыл бұрын

@@suereality8271 yeah there isn't a chance he's never seen it

@lucass-posting

4 жыл бұрын

He ain't dead yet mate calm down

@MrMinusguy

4 жыл бұрын

@WilshirecityBlues that's pretty much my point

It almost feels wrong to see this. It's an obviously important part of this person's life and identity. Not knowing him or this group, I feel strange witnessing something so intimate. Beautiful nonetheless. Beautiful.

@alextoschi2242

5 жыл бұрын

It says right at the beginning of the videothat the person's name was McKenzie and you said him.

@6debbie12

5 жыл бұрын

I’d imagine it’s nice for his family to watch this video for years to come

@shawn4189

5 жыл бұрын

@@alextoschi2242 Mackenzie is a unisex name. There's also a picture of him on the projector above the band. Clearly male.

@jumpinjohnnyruss

3 жыл бұрын

@@alextoschi2242 Both of those things are true (if we're charitable to you about the spelling). Proceed to make your point.

@Yoshiyahu_

2 жыл бұрын

@@jumpinjohnnyruss no

I'm genuinely knocked back by this. Often on 'Radiohead' videos you sift through rediculous comments like 'OMG CRYING' and 'IN TEARS'. But I've actually just wept at my desk at work and had to leave the room. This is one of the most moving things I've ever witnessed. What a tribute to that man.

@TheWallAlfyan

4 жыл бұрын

I know this is an old comment but the same thing happened to me. I was working the weekend shift and there was not much activity so I started hearing covers of songs I like (as I usually do). I clicked on this one not expecting what was coming. I never tear up just like that but I couldn't help it, even though I knew I was in the office.

@stick_figure7858

3 жыл бұрын

Same exact thing happened to me. Was at my desk, listening to Radiohead covers, and then this one happened. Had to step away to compose myself

@maxwellk10

Жыл бұрын

i was in a perfectly happy content mood, went down a typical radiohead rabbit hole for a sec, ended up at this incredible video again, and literally like clockwork I had tears coming down my face. i honestly cant bear to listen to the song itself that much bc it makes me cry evertyme it seems like.... and I'm not a usual crier at all, not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just there is something there the music is getting at and we all feel and understand, some deeper connection and meaning between all of us and our shared experience of "life" together. Music (and specifically radiohead) is just so incomperensibly powerful and meaningful, at a universal level. vibrations affecting vibrations.

My mom died by suicide a week ago. My youth was really hard. I spent a lot of time in juvenile detention facilities, mental health facilities, and rehabs. When I was on the street, I had a beat-up tape dub of Radiohead's Kid A. It always brought me so much solace. I'd often fall asleep listening to Motion Picture Soundtrack on repeat. In the wake of my mom's death, I came to this beautiful video to grieve, to mourn, to cry. I'm so grateful these few moments in time existed on this earth and were captured so beautifully.

@DaddyMorphosis

3 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry for your loss ❤❤❤

@sugarsore

3 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry. Hang in there.

@javierbelenguer1484

Ай бұрын

dude, how are you doing? Im so sorry for your loss, really. I lost my mom to cancer a while ago and I’m still broken in pieces.

@JoshuaPlaysMusic

25 күн бұрын

Sorry for your loss. I’m sure you are mourning more than the loss of a parent but, also for your youth. I had a pretty abusive childhood, and I used to lock myself in my room and listen to OK Computer. Now, every time I hear, Exit Music (For A Film), I have a small moment of silence for the years I will never get back. Thank you for being so open about your experience, I hope it has helped you heal. If you ever need a place to vent, and no one to hear you, I will gladly listen.

I don't know Mackenzie May, but I can tell he was loved. Rest in Peace. Very powerful performance.

The sobbing right before they kick in with the final swan song.. If you don't feel that you don't feel anything.

@omarmega4093

4 жыл бұрын

:(

Thinking of you today Mackenzie, I showed this video to my husband so that he could see how many people loved you and how powerful our Motion Picture can be! Conducting this was an absolute honor in your name, I miss you so much.

@bevanmay7754

Жыл бұрын

Amazing Allie. I come back and watch this often and weep every time! It was such an honor for us that you conducted this!

@wezznco

Жыл бұрын

Allie, you did such an incredible job. You held the whole performance together when the room was in bits, you should be very proud. You all did so well in fact, that this video has touched hundreds of thousands of people online in similar situations. A homage to love and loss that cuts deep and reminds struggling individuals that people DO CARE. Thank you and the whole band. I wish you and your husband the very best

@Brett733

Жыл бұрын

This is one of the most moving performances I have ever seen. Thank you!

@guitarmaniac004

Жыл бұрын

You did an amazing job and held your composure beautifully given the circumstances. I know he'd be proud of you ❤️

@ruideng5722

Жыл бұрын

@@bevanmay7754 I hope I’m not being intrusive but I just wanted to say thanks, in some way. To you and your dear son Mackenzie. It sounds strange even saying this because I’m just a random stranger, but this video has become really important to me. I almost feel as if I am intruding to watch it. But it moves me unlike anything else I’ve seen...and many times, it has helped me greatly to watch it when I’m in a dark place. I find it beautiful and poetic that Mackenzie’s memory lives on in a way that touches so many souls from every corner of the world. It’s an honour to see this. Thank you and the biggest of big love. To Mackenzie, you and the rest of your family good sir.

Hell of a send off. I hope this many people love me when I'm gone.

@Buccarado

5 жыл бұрын

They will.

@jumpinjohnnyruss

3 жыл бұрын

I love you, Beet.

@skypekai

Жыл бұрын

They wont lol

Those gasps and whimpers in the silence just before they finish the song. I lost it. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my entire life. Thank you for sharing this.

Holy shit, i was not ready for this.

I'm a huge Radiohead fan and when I watched the video, I felt like I truly heard this song for the first time. Rest in peace.

Immerse your soul in love.

@an.s.7930

7 жыл бұрын

noslowerdna That's other song lol

@Oorzeek2021

7 жыл бұрын

jajajaja epic lol

@gerssoneduardo1512

6 жыл бұрын

noslowerdna c mamut xd

@ttobiasg

6 жыл бұрын

GerssonEduardo por qué xd

@helloismabye

5 жыл бұрын

Somehow reading this sent chills down my spine. I need to make some important changes in my life.

You weren't kidding about that crescendo, it hit me, and everyone in that video, right in the feels. Phenomenal job.

@knittingnickel

5 жыл бұрын

That's the moment, the first time a piece of music has actually made me burst into tears.

@HorribleSonofa

4 жыл бұрын

Sharing for folks who didn’t read Mr Packwood’s essay on his experience of this moment - this passage really expresses it magically: “it was deafening at it’s climax. This was no typical musical high point either. Brass has power. It was as though every atom in the room was vibrating it’s own individual harmony. A climax that made us all take notice. We were all carried somewhere in that profound moment of greatest crescendo. It was a visceral and tangible sense of Mackenzie being lifted in the music and sent off, and in this lifting, we were all lifted and moved. Much in the way one might follow a guest who is departing to the door on their way out, the music ushered us all to the door to say our good byes and safe journeys, but only Mackenzie would pass through. As for the rest of us, we were left wrecked. Splintered edges showing, it was in this moment that caused for many an undoing of our composure. Tears flooding in as all of the life in the room realized the significance of the moment. As the music faded, the space was filled with sobs of release and such abject grief. And of course the music had to end. And of course it did. Leaving us all somehow more alive than before.”

@gerrardhart6040

3 жыл бұрын

@@HorribleSonofa This is beautiful

@jumpinjohnnyruss

3 жыл бұрын

How did the performers get through that piece?

@ironman85000

2 жыл бұрын

@@jumpinjohnnyruss They must have had extremely song composure to not break down in tears during their performance. Hats off to them and everyone involved

I marched with Mackenzie and he was one of the greatest people I ever knew! Really funny and made people laugh so much. He always came to band with a huge smile and made everyone around him feel so loved. Miss you so much! :(

@MrRatmzapa

7 жыл бұрын

Concerned Citizen can you please tell us the back story to this, what happened to this young man?

@Accorinrin

4 жыл бұрын

We're still waiting :(

@sl33pw17h4ng3l5

3 жыл бұрын

@@Accorinrin He committed suicide. His younger brother organised the band as a send-off for his music-loving brother.

@Yoshiyahu_

2 жыл бұрын

@@sl33pw17h4ng3l5 that's fitting for the song, but that's still horrible.

I come back to this video every now and again and it felt weird to comment on it without feeling invasive or disrespectful, but I think I finally found the right words: Thank you for sharing such intimate and beautiful moment with the world. This song has become so much more than a Radiohead song to many people, and specially to fans, thanks to this video; and we’ll all be grateful for that for years to come. May Mackenzie rest in peace. May all his family and loved ones find peace and love with the help of this part of his life’s transcendence. May we never forget him and the legacy that his passing has left for so many of us through this performance.

I was in tears before they started to play.

@hectorherrera7498

6 жыл бұрын

I saw this at work and just wasn't ready for it, caught me totally off guard. Had to take down the video and just listen through my headphones, too beautiful for words.

@bikashjit007

6 жыл бұрын

Me too

@clarehill2375

5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and delivered with such love

If I ever need a cry.

This is what music is for.

8 years later and I can't think of this song or listen to it without thinking of Mackenzie

this is one of the most heartwrenching videos i’ve ever watched and i keep coming back to it

@zacheryandersen

4 жыл бұрын

I tear up every time.

@JK-gm6kk

3 жыл бұрын

There's a comedian I think its Dan Soder who has a bit called face Cumming. You should look it up.

This video has given me more release from pent-up rage and sadness than any other on youtube. I watch it often when i can't process things and need to let them out. I always feel less alone and fucked up after. Not like anything is solved; just less alone and less fucked up. I'm writing this because it seems only fair to leave some kind of tribute to the power of this performance, its dignity in the face of sorrow, and the incredible gesture it represents. Thank you.

@roydong2666

2 жыл бұрын

I do exactly the same. This performance reminds me, that really, we are never alone. To you my friend, I will be somewhere in the world feeling this loneliness, together with you. To Mackenzie, thank you for now being a part of all our lives. Your memory on this planet remains more than you may have ever imagined yourself.

@emilyadams1674

2 жыл бұрын

I also feel the same. I hope you are doing okay now

That is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

I never met Mackenzie, but in this moment I feel like I understood them. Rest in peace.

Every few months or so I find myself coming back to this. By far one of the most moving arrangements I've ever heard, especially in context. Extremely talented group of musicians, and an incredible farewell to a close friend

@displeasingcovers2089

5 жыл бұрын

It's kind of a really nice day..

@displeasingcovers2089

5 жыл бұрын

But what a moving performance. I was not prepared

@TheRectangularCircle

2 жыл бұрын

For anyone who stumbles on this comment nowadays, I’m still coming back :)

@TheRectangularCircle

Жыл бұрын

Another year later, here again!

Oh here come the feels

Not only is this an absolutely heart-wrenchingly lovingly and beautiful tribute, but it's actually probably the best arrangement and performance of this song I've ever heard. it sounds incredible and is SO well-performed, even through and maybe because of the sorrow.

This is possibly my favourite video on the internet.

Very touching. Especially when the camera focused on the conductors tearful eyes.

To the 17 dislikes...show some respect this was beautiful RIP

@roslynmusic3225

4 жыл бұрын

sometimes people hit the dislike by accident, maybe because their hand was shaking from the hysterical crying lol

@92SunburstMiata

2 жыл бұрын

Those dislikes magically went away. Glad those people came to their senses

@Brett733

Жыл бұрын

@@roslynmusic3225 I noticed when I would watch videos on some mobile devices I would inadvertently dislike videos when scrolling.

"... i will see you, in the next life."

I've come back to this video over the years for many different reasons. I'm coming back to it today after losing my dad last night to pancreatic cancer. RIP dad.

@jedistocky

Жыл бұрын

Dementia took mine earlier this year. It hurts, man.

@maxwellk10

Жыл бұрын

@@jedistocky Fellas (or ladies), I'm so truly sorry. I can't empathize and feel for you guys more, as someone with their own father's health issues. I am thinking of you and your dads, and sending prayers and positive vibes your way. Bruce's chorus in "Atlantic City" always makes me feel a little better about the ever-present existential creeping looming specter of death we face daily- "Well now everything dies baby, that's a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back. Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City." It reassures me somehow. I hope you guys are doing as well as possible brothers (or sisters). take care

@singinglawnchair

Жыл бұрын

I lost my sister to cancer in 2018 and I still come back to this. Radiohead was her favorite band, and she was a band geek in high school. Extending love to you and your family.

RIP Mackenzie. I don't know you, but I know you are loved.

Dear Sir, as a father myself I am loss for words. I am so very sorry for your loss.

I don't know why, but i come back to this video, again and again.

This feels like a send off to a king must have sounded a few centuries ago

I didn’t know Mackenzie May but since watching this three years ago, I always think of him whenever I hear this song. It always tears me up. He’ll be thought of always. Rest in peace and thank you for such a beautiful moment.

@ertygyhu131

Жыл бұрын

Such a tragic serendipity that is life

this is one of the most powerful covers of a song iv ever hurd, such a fitting tribute

The raw, pure emotion of all those musicians playing with everything they had for their friend. Watching them do it with tears in their eyes was incredible beyond words. That was an absolutely beautiful tribute to their friend.

“Lord Naoshige once said “There is nothing felt quite so deeply as giri. There are times when someone like a cousin dies and it is not a matter of shedding tears. But we may hear of someone who lived fifty or a hundred years ago, of whom we know nothing and who has no family ties with us whatsoever, and yet from a sense of giri shed tears.” - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

@amun1040

4 жыл бұрын

What does giri mean?

@HorribleSonofa

4 жыл бұрын

Hesham White - In reading about *giri* it seems the most common English translation is “duty.” But it’s deeper, in terms of an honor bound commitment to a community above oneself and one’s personal emotions and endeavors. It’s about a shared belonging and owing oneself to the greater collective group, whether that collective entity be a nation, or a company, or a guild. It’s a sense of belonging to a deeper and greater tradition, in which one is bound as a piece of the whole. It’s a sense of purpose differentiated from personal fulfillment or self-actualization, where dedication to an enduring community supersedes self.

When aliens discover our ruins 10,000 years from now, I hope this video is the first thing they find.

Rip Mackenzie May, the lord has you now

Bet he heard that

I've been visiting this video every few months for a few years now, when I need to feel something in my soul. It gets to me every time.

I will see you in the next life

Amazing job on the climax.

Today I was hurting real bad so I came back here and it gave me a glimpse of a life filled with love. It gave me some hope. Thanks Mackenzie and co x

I have never met him but am crying anyways. As a father my prayers go to you :).

Stunning. Seriously touching.

Someone send this to Radiohead. Incredibly moving.

To bare ones soul through music is a beautiful thing ...

there's a presence in this performance

Man, i sang and i cried for you.

Very striking, beautiful. Rest in peace, Mackenzie.

I miss you mom.

This is the best version of this song. Wow.

i miss you buddy

From the bottom of my heart... thank you. Thank you for sharing.

It's been a long time since this happened, and I don't usually post things like this but I just want to say I only met him a few times but I really did care about Mackenzie, and I still miss him. You are loved and missed every day.

You know when you're trying to hold back your tears to try and look strong? I bet a lot of people there were trying to do that, and just when they thought they were going to pull through, the 2:38 mark hits and completely breaks them. They just didn't stand a chance.

@XxSuperSuspiciousxX

4 жыл бұрын

You could see the conductor trying so hard to keep it together in that moment too.

@xSwordLilyx

4 жыл бұрын

the nice thing about a funeral is nobody fusses over you when they see you cry, if everyone else lets themselves cry too

Why there isn't an official brass band offering of this I have no idea. Simply beautiful.

What I would give to have heard and felt this live

Raise your hand if you’re still coming back to this Masterpiece in 2024, and you’re still moved by it!

I come back to this video it seems about once a month. I never knew Mackenzie May, but this is one of the most moving emotional performances I know of and it brings me catharsis in good times and bad. It really is amazing.

@petersweeny5016

Жыл бұрын

Me too. I've been visiting this video every few months for a few years now when I need to feel something in my soul. It gets me every time.

This is so beautiful and moving. I'm tears. I'm also a huge radiohead fan and the last line of this song is...I will see you in the next life. What a beautiful way to be remembered and honored by your loved ones.

to date, this is the only performance that has ever gave me shivers and goosebumps. absolutely heartbreaking.

I keep coming back to this video. I've never seen anything else with this amount of raw emotion. I am so sorry for your loss, but it makes me so happy to see that so many people cared about this man. Now, he is "remembered" by thousands of strangers because of this tribute.

1:37 lets go we got the radiohead drummer in the crowd

Incredibly moving thank you for this. I didn't know Mackenzie May but this brings me way back to 2003/4 when it was first being played and I was there. What a gorgeous tribute. Thank you to Mark Louie for this arrangement I believe, many lives have been touched.

@AnthonyPackwood

8 жыл бұрын

Your welcome. I'm glad you found it moving. I did a write up on what it was like to actually hear it live at the funeral. It was an incredible moment. If you are interested, check it out here (also in the video description). wp.me/p44jFF-7T

@lnb29

8 жыл бұрын

+Anthony Packwood thank you for this!

@kentpyper2672

8 жыл бұрын

+Anthony Packwood Do you by any chance have the sheet music to this? it would be much appreciated.

@AnthonyPackwood

8 жыл бұрын

Kent Pyper kentpyper I'll see if I can get one of the people in the band to come on and respond. I don't have the music myself.

@kentpyper2672

8 жыл бұрын

Anthony Packwood that would be fantastic, thank you so much! My band would be really interested in playing this

I can’t begin to describe how much this performance means to me. It’s the reason I’m still here. Thank you.

For any persons soul to be remembered in such a way, is nothing less than a pure and unadulterated testament to their character. Mackenzie May surely must have been someone to walk the mountains with. May perpetual light forever shine upon him.

@KokaKolaMusic

4 жыл бұрын

He was a pretty amazing person, yeah.

Not enough tears for this beauty and sorrow.

Holy fuck this is a beautiful video. Just when you thought Motion Picture Soundtrack couldnt get more tearjerking, here you have it played in a funeral with people audibly crying. If I was there I would probably end up singing the line "I will see you in the next life" because who wouldnt. Goddamn I love this video

@priscillaeich1898

7 жыл бұрын

Possibly the most beautiful tribute to a lost friend I've ever seen in my life.

That crescendo is just something else. What a beautiful tribute. Gave me chills

"I will see you... in the next life."

Devastatingly beautiful. I wonder if Thom has ever seen this video and, if so, what his reaction was.

@maxwellk10

Жыл бұрын

God im dying to know I think he would absolutely love it

Rest easy big fella

Rest in peace Mackenzie May. 🙏

This was the first time I ever heard the name Mackenzie May but I'm crying my eyes out for his death. We are through those around us and this is such a testimony to that, it really is as though this person were alive in that space when that band played and as though his spirit manifested to say goodbye to his loved ones. I am in absolute awe that I can be so moved.

To the family of this young man. 23 is no age to die. I am so sorry for your loss. What a beautiful piece of music to cover. Best wishes. X

Rest in Peace, Mackenzie May. 🤍

moved me to tears, thanks for sharing such a personal tribute,

the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard

This is the most beautiful and heartbreaking thing I have seen in quite some time. I have watched this over and over, time without count and my body aches from all of the retching tears my body has cried. I'm watching at a weird, weird time in which I can't help but think of how sad and scared a lot of people are feeling and watching this, I can't describe how much this genuinely cuts deep down into some naked part of me. Life is precious and the last nearly three months now have been mentally exhausting. I'm sorry you lost your friend, very little fills the numbness of that feeling.

@dowdallerno1

4 жыл бұрын

Hang tough, man. All things pass.😉💚🍀❤

Incredibly moving, that crescendo gave me chills. So sad to see a funeral for someone so young and what I assume are his parents at the front.

Rest in Peace.

Truly spectacular. I never met Mackenzie but this has really moved me.

hes is now somewhere else

I never even knew him, never heard of him, just looking for this song and I cried watching. What an incredible tribute.

I often (more often than I'd like to) think about my own funeral. As Albert Camus said: "all men in his sanity have at least once thought of being present at his own funeral" and the Idea of music is always so blended to this. I don't belive I'll be there seeing friends and family or anything. And where I live, given the conditions of life, DEATH is not so linked to symbolic worships whatsoever. When we die, we just get thrown into a cascket made of poor wood and the grave is dug as fast as they can do it 'cause people are dying aplenty. Old corpses and bones all dug beneath you. Anyways. It would be a dream of mine having some Symphony of something like "the host of Seraphin" when I'm gone. Well, thank you for posting this astonishing piece of Work. You are really loveable and awesome friends of the departed.

I can’t stop crying man. I’m with my family now and it’s embarrassing...

This is honestly one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

"I believe death is only a door. If I were to imagine heaven I would that door opening, and he would be waiting for me." RIP Mackenzie. There is no "without," you are now in the hearts of everyone you touched, including the strangers like me with this video. At the chemical, atomic level, we've literally changed the people around us. And given them pieces of ourselves. Our bodies die, but the rest of us just becomes other things. Our consciousness moves through everyone we affect. In that way we can't die, only move. It doesn't mean it's not heartbreaking for our loved ones when we go, but it it means we'll always be with them.

I dont know you Mack but you are crazy man and hell you be in my mind everytime I listen to this

I come to this video often. This is just too beautiful. I get tears every time

What a way to leave.

Damn. That was actually incredible. Never thought I'd see this actually played in memory of someone, but it's just as powerful as I thought it would be. Rest in peace.

I know it’s not funny but when that guy starts playing that damn elephant trumpet at 2:44 he drowns everyone out. What a beast of and instrument, he’s gotta be jacked to play that thing. Rip bro. You were surely loved.