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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The press release prior to 'Mad Band' being available spoke of performances from each city visited on the tour...and the back of the digipack lists the songs on the DVD and says which city they are from. However this isn't altogether factual.
The DVD film is a series of performances punctuated with short fly on the wall clips. Sounds great...but the soundtrack is mostly taken from one London show, and even the images are edited so that many different shows are present as part of the same performance. This leads to many continuity problems and also a lot of syncing issues. Also, the final performance of Bury me in Smoke from Donington looks like it was taken from a terrible source - as this was professionally filmed and edited so I find this very disappointing.
The two cds are the whole of the London show - so in 90% of cases the audio from the CD is the same as the soundtrack to the DVD. So again, the press release which boasted a package 'also featuring another whole show' is misleading at best.
Don't get me wrong - this is an enjoyable package for Down fans - particularly those of us that went to these shows. But it doesn't do 'exactly what it says on the tin' so for that reason it gets a three-star review.
The DVD film is a series of performances punctuated with short fly on the wall clips. Sounds great...but the soundtrack is mostly taken from one London show, and even the images are edited so that many different shows are present as part of the same performance. This leads to many continuity problems and also a lot of syncing issues. Also, the final performance of Bury me in Smoke from Donington looks like it was taken from a terrible source - as this was professionally filmed and edited so I find this very disappointing.
The two cds are the whole of the London show - so in 90% of cases the audio from the CD is the same as the soundtrack to the DVD. So again, the press release which boasted a package 'also featuring another whole show' is misleading at best.
Don't get me wrong - this is an enjoyable package for Down fans - particularly those of us that went to these shows. But it doesn't do 'exactly what it says on the tin' so for that reason it gets a three-star review.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This CD/DVD is awesome! I saw them in London on this tour and again at the same Download Festival featured on this DVD so was excited when this was to be released. My only gripe and what prevented me from giving it the 5 stars it deserves is that the video for each performance is spliced together from footage of that song from each of the two nights they played in that city. So the bands clothes keep changing throughout each song, and some parts look like they're miming as the audio is from one performance, and the video is from two. Apart from that, this is a must have for any fan of Down.
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Published 18 months ago by Sunshine_Elf
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"Diary of a Mad Band" is a must have.
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Published 18 months ago by Rusi Rusev
Amazing!
This is an amazing dvd/live cd
I love Down and every Down fans should get a copy of this!
I love Down and every Down fans should get a copy of this!
Published 19 months ago by Tromaville666
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first of all, let me say that i agree with the other people about the dvd, in my opinion the dvd is a waste of time. Read more
Published 19 months ago by pat
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