One of my favourite pasttimes is watching the children in my neighbourhood fight. I’ll repair to the living room window at around 3.30pm, with a cup of coffee and a couple of Custard Creams, and wait for the post-school rucks to begin.

It’s like watching one of those Bravo shows hosted by Danny Dyer, only without the cockney waddle. I can get quite involved. My woopin’ and hollerin’ has seen several beverages go flying, I’ll tell ya.

Ruarri Joseph’s “More Than Most” is a lovely, softly-plucked number the likes of which you normally see visiontracked by strolls through forests or walks across hills. But “More Than Most”, from his current album Both Sides Of The Coin, has a video which will delight people who enjoy seeing nippers beat the crap out of each other, since it’s a splitscreen examination of a genuine Thai boxing fight between a couple of younglings.

It’s directed by Sam Walker, and goddamn him and Ruarri Joseph if they haven’t somehow made children fighting a sadder, more affecting affair than the good-time bloodsport I am used to. Watch it after the jump, although more sensitive types may find a lump forming somewhere around the vicinity of their throats.

Buy Ruarri Joseph’s Both Sides Of The Coin, or tracks from it, at Amazon.co.uk

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 12:50 pm