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  • Actors: Echo And The Bunnymen
  • Format: Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Cooking Vinyl Music
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Feb 2002
  • Run Time: 130 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005UOGV
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 71,175 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Their passion for army surplus gear may have waned but Live in Liverpool proves that 23 years on, Echo and the Bunnymen are still one of the greatest post-punk bands around. Recorded in August 2001 in their home city, the show is a subtle mix of their greatest hits and more recent tracks. In an attempt to give the recording a 1980s chic, vintage cine-camera footage of the band on tour (shot in the style of Derek Jarman's work with The Smiths) is superimposed over the live material. While the classics ranging from "Nothing Ever Last Forever" to "Bring on the Dancing" significantly out-number the newer material ("An Eternity Turns" and "King of Kings") they nevertheless sit comfortably together.

Proving that they're not too old to rock, the recording begins with the band emerging from a pre-show party clutching bottles of beer. Throughout the live show McCulloch balances a cigarette between his fingers, demonstrating that he's still a bit of a rebel, but perhaps with less of a cause these days. He's still a wonderful performer, and combined with the menace of co-founder Will Sergeant, the Bunnymen are still a live musical force to be reckoned with.

On the DVD: Live in Liverpool on disc comes with a quality sound recording which successfully recreates the audio atmosphere of the concert, precisely balancing the bass, vocals and drums. The visuals are, at times, basic, but this is more than made up by the excellent sound and on-stage performances. The on-screen menu is also rather plain, with the strained bonus material perhaps only of being of interest to die-hard fans. Using the same material as that which is superimposed over the main concert footage, the short bonus films for "Crocodiles" and "Zimbo (All My Colours)" provide a flavour of the early Bunnymen. There are also the low-budget videos for "It's Alright" and "Make Me Shine", the two singles from 2001's Flowers. As well as this extra material, it is also worth noting that the DVD live recording and track-listing, differs markedly from that featured on the Live in Liverpool CD. --John Galilee

DVD Description
Tracklisting:

Rescue; Lips Like Sugar; King of Kings; Never Stop; Bring On The Dancing Horses; Seven Seas; Buried Alive; My Kingdom; All That Jazz; An Eternity Turns; The Back of Love; The Killing Moon; The Cutter; Altamont; Flowers; Villiers Terrace; Over The Wall; Nothing Lasts Forever; Silver; Angels and Devils; Ocean Rain

Bonus Features:
Crocodiles
Zimbo (All My Colours)
Videos to: 'It's Alright' and 'Make Me Shine';
Picture: Colour PAL 4:3. Running Time: 100 mins approx
Languages: English PCM Audio
Subtitles: none

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this for the visuals, 22 Sep 2003
This isn't a good DVD. Just because the band made good in the early 80s shouldn't mean their 21st century video should be rooted there, but unfortunately it is. Very basic video effects riddle this production from start to finish, and they detract massively from the finsihed article. Fundamental directorship ignornace is also demonstrated in bucketfuls...for example Will's finest guitar solos are omitted from view whilst the camera-work focuses on a rotating, solarised image of McCulloch, or a blended image of Les when he was 20. Anyone who saw Channel 4's ealry 'mirror image' video series of concerts will have flashbacks watching this. A few songs in and no end in sight to these production horrors left me treating the DVD as an audio item only - of which the performance and compilation of songs is most excellent. 20 years worth of material sounding fresh and good, extra tracks not on the CD sibling also worth it. But don't sit down in front of this for a Bunnymen visual-feast. It's a great shame the production on the first Bunny-video for so many years is so unimaginative.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Live in Liverpool-the band that put the 'hop' into Hope St., 1 Mar 2002
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Unfortunately tagged as an '80's band' by many who don't know any better, the Bunnymen's career actually spans [just about] 4 decades, from their first gigs at Liverpool's Eric's club in '78 thru to their recent tour of the U.K.
One of the most influential bands of the last 20 years, often namechecked by the likes of The Stone Roses and Oasis, the band managed to combine influences of punk rock, psychedelia, and even funk, creating a distinctive, non derivative sound.
A break during the early 90's and a brief spell with Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant performing as the grossly under-rated and brilliant post-grunge rocking 'Electrafixion' led the way to a reunion with original bassist Les Pattison and a reformation of Echo and the Bunnymen in '97. A critically acclaimed album 'Evergreen' folowed, which provided the top 10 U.K. hit ''Nothing Lasts Forever''.
Some of the newer material is less urgent than earlier Bunnymen tracks but they still bear the classic soaring Bunnymen sound, mixing darkness and light with equal measures.
It could be said that the Bunnymen wall of sound has been replaced in parts by a rather nicely painted picket fence, but this Live DVD and CD proves that these guys can still rock it with the best.
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2.0 out of 5 stars doesn't shine at all, 2 Feb 2004
Great, great concert. The band sounds better then ever. Ian's voice is magic. An absolute thrill to listen to. But not to watch. What a lousy registration.
If anyone can explain the philosophy behind the idea of editing file-material without meaning and non-descript street-pictures of Liverpool (and I suppose Florence) throughout the concert, please let me know. Can anyone explain why the three-minute "Villiers Terrace" has been sliced up into more than 340 shots (that's were I lost count, almost 2 shots every second)? An attempt to make that hallucinating song tangible on screen? NOT!
That's no concertregistration, that is an attempt to make an amateurish video-clip. But I don't want to watch a clip, I just want to see an EATB-concert .
The band always blew me away. From the first concert I saw in November 1980 in Amsterdam until the last one I witnessed in December 2003, same place. Their songs, their performance, their superb lightshows, the whole atmosphere.

Sorry, It can't be found on this DVD. It's simply not the Echo and the Bunnymenexperience I was hoping for.
The band once called itself the Real Madrid of rock, this DVD
belongs to the third division of concertregistrations. Echo and the Bunnymen deserve a Jonathan Demme (Talking Heads: Stop making sense) or Jim Jarmusch (Neil Young: Year of the Horse).

And please please please, I want their first European tour (1980) on dvd!

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