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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
For many years, Marc Almond has been hugely underrated in his own country. Press resulting from his recent near miss accident showed that as far as they were concerned, his career started and ended with Soft Cell and Tainted Love.
The truth could not be more extraordinary and this DVD shows why it would have been so disastrous to lose him. NO artist presents these style of songs anymore and it is to his credit that he has spent his career mastering the art of performing and writing, keeping this treasured art form alive while always seemingly swimming against the tide.
Arguably, his last album Heart On Snow was his best, a masterpiece after so many near misses. This marks that achievement and showcases the range of songs that have made Marcs career to date so interesting.
This is not a concert of special effects, dancers, costumes etc. It is an intimate presentation of stories to an audience that wants to listen. My father watched it and said it was the best concert he had seen since Pink Floyd. As you cant get two more different genres of performers, his review kind of says it all. Marc Almond is unique. Buy this if you want to settle down, dim the lights, turn up the volume and spend an evening with a master story teller. Highlights for me were all the russian songs and Catch a Fallen Star. Enjoy
The truth could not be more extraordinary and this DVD shows why it would have been so disastrous to lose him. NO artist presents these style of songs anymore and it is to his credit that he has spent his career mastering the art of performing and writing, keeping this treasured art form alive while always seemingly swimming against the tide.
Arguably, his last album Heart On Snow was his best, a masterpiece after so many near misses. This marks that achievement and showcases the range of songs that have made Marcs career to date so interesting.
This is not a concert of special effects, dancers, costumes etc. It is an intimate presentation of stories to an audience that wants to listen. My father watched it and said it was the best concert he had seen since Pink Floyd. As you cant get two more different genres of performers, his review kind of says it all. Marc Almond is unique. Buy this if you want to settle down, dim the lights, turn up the volume and spend an evening with a master story teller. Highlights for me were all the russian songs and Catch a Fallen Star. Enjoy
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
This is the best Marc Almond live DVD so far, showing him in particularly fine voice. The range of songs and styles is amazing, starting with those from his recent Heart on Snow album, through to old faves such as Tenderness is a Weakness, Catch a Fallen Star and Caroline Says. Songs like Amsterdam and Go To Hell really show what a fantastic singer this man is. A true star and so under-rated, this is a must buy.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I've had to watch this on my notebook computer because it's incompatible with my TV and yet I was mesmerized throughout. Few artists have given so much of such variety over 25 years, and fewer still have allowed their original audience to grow up with them. This 2004 Almeida concert presents Marc Almond in a space where he can pursue and perform the various songs he loves with passionate conviction, with a voice that just goes from strength to strength. The presentation is beautifully simple: a handful of gifted musicians, including longtime collaborators Gini Ball and Neil X, and Marc centre stage in gorgeous Dior Homme suits, looking amazingly youthful and yet possessed of more than enough experience to inhabit these songs. Act One builds from the exquisite melodies of the superb Heart on Snow to the heartstopping fierceness of "Amsterdam" and "Catch a Fallen Star", while Act Two references the jazz/torch tradition without sacrificing the edginess (see Lewis Furey's "Hustler's Tango" and the amazing "Suicide Saloon"). The audience sings its heart out when finally permitted the chance, on the chorus of "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" (the second encore). This dvd is of great value in also including a marvellous half-hour interview with Marc Almond, in which he holds forth generously and articulately on his motives in staging and his choice of material, and a four-song dress rehearsal set, with a heartfelt version of "Gone But Not Forgotten". All last fall I kept repeating "Marc Almond will perform again." This is proof of why we need him to do so.
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