Category Archives: DVD REVIEWS

DVD review: MORRISSEY – 25Live

Eagle Rock www.eagle-rock.com This live DVD was shot at the intimate Hollywood High School in Los Angeles to mark Morrissey’s twenty five years as a solo artist. It’s a fans set list including some Smiths classics like ‘Meat Is Murder’ … Continue reading

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Album review: Released! – The Human Rights Concerts 1986-1998

Released - The Human Rights Concerts 1986-1998

Eagle Records [Release date: 28.10.13] 6-DVD set, 4 CDs 10th December 2013 marks the 65th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights  – instigated after World War II and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.  It provided the … Continue reading

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Album & DVD review: JIMI HENDRIX – Hear My Train A Comin’/Miami Pop Festival

Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin

Sony Music [Release date 04.11.13] It’s several years now since the Hendrix back catalogue was acquired by Sony Music and since then together with the Hendrix Estate (Experience Hendrix) they have been reinventing the legendary performer via a series of … Continue reading

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Album review: RORY GALLAGHER – Kickback City/Live In Cork

Kickback City

Sony Music [Release date 28.10.13] This release is a rather interesting twist on an artist’s legacy.  In recent years we’ve been treated to definitive remastered albums under the careful eye of Rory’s younger brother Donal but ‘Kickback City’ is an … Continue reading

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Album review: EUROPE – Live At Sweden Rock – 30th Anniversary Show

EUROPE - Live At Sweden Rock - 30th Anniversary Show

Interview edit: Joey Tempest, 10 October 2013 The Europe frontman talks about the ‘Live At Sweden Rock’ set earMUSIC 2-CD/DVD/Bluray [Release date 21.10.13] Since the dawn of GRTR! we have followed closely the progress of Europe, firstly Nikk Gunns and … Continue reading

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Album review: JOE COCKER – Live At Montreux 1987

Joe Cocker - Live In Montreux 1987

Eagle Rock (CD/DVD) [Release date 07.10.13] Joe Cocker’s career started in 1961, although he didn’t release a solo album until 1969. Remarkably the songs he is best known for singing were written by other people, yet he has the ability to … Continue reading

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DVD review: PETER GABRIEL – Live In Athens 1987

Eagle Rock (BluRay) There are two things you can be certain of with a Peter Gabriel gig – you know it’s going to be a great show and you know you are going to be entertained. Back in 1987 Gabriel … Continue reading

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DVD review: THE QUIREBOYS – Live at the Town & Country Club

The Quireboys

Wienerworld [Release date 24.09.13] New to DVD is The Quireboys October 1992 show from London’s Town & Country Club – or for those of you under, let’s say 30, The Forum. The band were touring in support of their recently … Continue reading

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DVD review: BIG COUNTRY – Live at the Town and Country Club, London

Wienerworld Recorded back in 1990 this is not quite the classic Big Country line-up as it features Pat Ahern on drums. Also it is just the concert, no extras or song selection, although with only nine songs perhaps one wasn’t … Continue reading

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DVD review: QUEEN + – The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

Eagle Rock Staged back on April 20th 1992 this was a the all star tribute concert held in honour of Freddie Mercury who had died the previous November as well as raising awareness of AIDS and funds for Mercury Phoenix … Continue reading

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DVD Review: RAINBOW – Black Masquerade

Eagle Rock Entertainment – Out Now Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Gillan’s long and well documented feud, the very one that brought Deep Purple to breaking point on numerous occasions throughout their long and illustrious career, came to an end in … Continue reading

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DVD Review: ANATHEMA – Universal

KScope [Release date 23.09.13] Success is a strange thing: the more you chase it, the more it eludes you and then, just as you are about to give up trying, lady luck gives you the most impassioned of embraces and … Continue reading

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Album review: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – Songs From The Road

Ruf [Release date 04.11.13] There’s nothing like a live album to deliver the bacon. I don’t mean a doctored product with overdubs and the like, but simply a live recording with an expectant audience, a hot band and the recording … Continue reading

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Album review: THE BLUES BAND – Live At Rockpalast

Repertoire [Release date 10.06.13] The Blues Band ‘Live at Rockpalast’ is that rare thing, a live DVD that connects as much with the viewer at home as the band did with the audience on the night. Too often a multi … Continue reading

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Album review: ALVIN LEE & TEN YEARS LATER – Live At Rockpalast

Repertoire [Release date 10.06.13] Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later actually came 5 years after the dissolution of Ten Years After. It was essentially a virtuoso power trio who relentlessly toured The US and Europe and on this live DVD … Continue reading

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DVD Review: STATUS QUO – The Frantic Four Reunion 2013 – Live At Wembley Arena

Status Quo - The Frantic Four Reunion 2013

Fourth Chord Records [Release date 30.09.13] When Quo announced the Frantic Four Reunion shows there was some consternation that the venues chosen were theatre sized rather than arenas around the country. It proved, however, to be a masterstroke that led … Continue reading

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Album review: RAINBOW BRIDGE REVISITED

Gonzo [Release date 15.04.13] OK first things first. While the significance of Jimi Hendrix’s Rainbow Bridge concert was that it was his penultimate American show, there’s nothing of interest here for the Hendrix fans, outside of a few vague anecdotes … Continue reading

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DVD Review: JACKSON BROWNE – I’ll Do Anything

JACKSON BROWNE - I

ADA Global [Release date 01.07.13 ] Jackson Browne is something of an enigma and a legend in equal measure.  A rock and roll hall of fame inductee and an acknowledged founder of the West Coast sound made global by the … Continue reading

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DVD review: RAVEN – Rock Until You Drop: A Long Day’s Journey

SPV www.spv.de Phew, what a mammoth metal feast this is. Well, I say feast, this is Christmas, Easter and several summer Metal BBQs all in one. Running to 4.5 hours, this is everything you’ll ever need by NWoBHM legends Raven … Continue reading

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Album review: THE DOOBIE BROTHERS – Live At Wolf Trap

Eagle Records/ Eagle Vision [Release date 25.05. 12] Somebody once said that despite having sold over 40 million records The Doobie Brothers could probably walk into your local pub and nobody would recognise them. And while that is stretching a point … Continue reading

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DVD review: FRANK ZAPPA – A Token Of His Extreme

Eagle Vision [Release date 04.06.13] What’s not to like about a TV special featuring Zappa in an intimate concert setting with one of the very best fusion line-ups of his career? It doesn’t get much better than this, though the fact … Continue reading

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DVD Review: MOSTLY AUTUMN – Live At the Boerderij

Self Release [Release Date - Out Now] This is the long awaited first live Mostly Autumn DVD release with Olivia Sparnenn at the helm on lead vocals and is a double disc set also available on CD (without the three … Continue reading

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DVD Review: GARBAGE – One Mile High Live

GARBAGE - One Mile High Live

Eagle Rock [Release date 27.05.13] Somewhere, lurking in my CD collection I have a copy of Garbage’s eponymous 1995 debut album.  But that aside, they’re a band I’ve never felt any great compunction to track over succeeding years. So it was … Continue reading

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DVD Review: PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS – Rockshow

PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS - Rockshow

Eagle Rock [Release date 10.06.13] 15 September 1975, seat A19 in The Royal Circle, Liverpool Empire.  I was there for Macca’s hometown gig on the UK leg of the ‘Wings Over The World’ tour.  My diary at the time recounts … Continue reading

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DVD Review: JETHRO TULL – Around The World Live

Jethro Tull - Around The World Live

Eagle Vision EREDV982 (4-disc/Book) One of the “strange decisions in rock” in recent years has been that of Ian Anderson to seemingly cast off his first lieutenant: Martin Lancelot Barre.  It seems that his trusty cohort since 1969 hasn’t really … Continue reading

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