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Katie Melua: 'Concert Under The Sea'
This film is a document of “world superstar” Katie Melua’s record-breaking and mind-boggling underwater concert, which took place 303 metres beneath the surface of the North Sea off the coast of Norway in October 2006.
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The Flaming Lips: 'V.O.I.D.'
Last heard singing on The Sponge-Bob Square-Pants Movie soundtrack, this long-overdue DVD debut from US indie gods The Flaming Lips features nineteen typically surreal promo videos from the past thirteen years of their career in lavish Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound, complete with commentaries from the band.
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Moby: 'The Hotel Tour 2005'
Another act who never disappoints on the DVD front is everyone’s favourite Vegan, Moby.
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Iron Maiden: 'Death On The Road'
Some cynical folk believe the burgeoning music-DVD market to be little more than brazen cashing-in at the expense of loyal fans, passing off shoddily-filmed live shows and “exclusive backstage footage” that are ultimately just cheap EPK’s.
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Kaiser Chiefs: 'Enjoyment'
If you had to endure an eternally-single uncle in a loud bow tie on Christmas Day, pulling funny faces and making fart noises then pointing at your nan, you’ll know how really fucking annoying it is when someone’s trying too hard to be eccentric.
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Muse: 'Absolution'
A rather belated DVD release for the trio’s spectacular performance at Glastonbury in June 2004, this goes someway towards easing the agonising wait for their fourth album, due this spring.
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The Work Of Director Jonathan Glazer
Following on from last year’s must-own anthologies of work by Spike Jonze, Michel ‘Eternal Sunshine’ Gondry and Chris Cunningham, the Directors Label have put together another fine batch, including this collection of music promos and commercials by Jonathan Glazer.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: 'Live At The Paradiso'
Filmed back in spring 1989, The Road To God Knows Where sees Brighton’s gloomiest musical resident and his band touring around the US, and is universally acknowledged as one of the most accurate accounts of touring life ever captured on film.
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Kylie: 'Showgirl - The Greatest Hits Tour'
With Kylie spending the latter half of 2005 battling cancer, it’s easy to forget that just prior to her illness The Artist Formerly Known As Charlene was playing to 300,000 fans at 23 sold-out shows around the UK.
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My Chemical Romance: 'Life On The Murder Scene'
Released solely to serve as a “don’t forget about us” stop-gap following the New Jersey emo bunch’s over-hyped breakthrough second album Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, this suitably melodramatically-titled CD/DVD boxset has “shameless cash-in” written all over it (though at least it makes a pleasant change from just re-releasing ‘I’m Not Okay’ for the umpteenth time).
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