MELANIE ON DVD
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LIVE AT THE MELTDOWN FESTIVAL 2007 |
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Intro: Beautiful
People Soundcheck: Someday I’ll
Be A Farmer (extract) Tuning My
Guitar (extract) Hush A Bye Concert Part IThe Roamer Someday I’ll
Be A Farmer Beautiful
People And We Fall Smile To Be The
One Jammin’
Alone Poet Is King Brand New
Key I Tried To
Die Young Alexander
Beetle Beau Guitar
Solo 1 Beau Guitar
Solo 2 Peace Will
Come (From the film Glastonbury Fayre) Concert Part IICarolina In
My Mind Ruby Tuesday The Ballad
of Crazy Love Ordinary
Rain What Have
They Done To My Song, Ma? Lay Down
(Candles In The Rain) Motherhood
of Love Extraordinary Smile
(Reprise) DVD Released
1st October 2007 By A2B MEDIA
ODNM012 Copyright
A2B Media Ltd Exclusively
Licensed to Odeon Entertainment Glastonbury
Footage Copyright of
Euro London Films Limited Cover Design
by Spider Design |
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With guitar in hand, Melanie conquered Woodstock and the
original Glastonbury with her poetic song-writing and unique voice. She was
once hailed by The New York Times as the female Bob Dylan, and her music has
joined together powerful melodies with her reflections on life. Melanie was
the first solo pop/rock artist ever to appear at Carnegie Hall and The Sydney
Opera House and to date her record sales number more than eighty million. Throughout her career Melanie has continued to record and tour
world-wide, but her fans in Britain have missed out for nearly 20 years. However,
Jarvis Cocker’s special invitation for her to open the Meltdown Festival at
the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London in June 2007 marked her triumphant return.
This DVD showcases not only the complete performance, but also her road from
Glastonbury to London as this unique songstress tells the story behind her
songs. |
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What
the critics said after Meltdown “Melanie has earned her place alongside
Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Marianne Faithfull in the pantheon of iconic female singers” - Pierre
Perrone, The Independent. “On the evidence of tonight, the new
material stands up to her considerable catalogue – Melanie still has plenty to offer” - Rachel
Goldsmith, musicOMH.com “Her lovely-odd voice is exactly the same” - Helen
Brown, The Telegraph |
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COMMENTS The DVD provides a sort of documentary record of Melanie’s
appearance at Jarvis Cocker’s Meltdown Festival in June 2007 It starts with a two-minute sequence filmed on London’s
Southbank (outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall) of people enjoying a June day
with a soundtrack of Melanie singing Beautiful People and fades to a
brief interview. The interview continues into scenes from the sound check and
Melanie meeting Jarvis Cocker. During the sound check there are brief
excerpts from Someday I’ll Be A farmer, Tuning My Guitar and a
performance of Hush-a-Bye as well as more of the interview. We get a backstage view of a rather nervous Melanie being
directed to the stage to receive a rapturous reception from the thousand
lucky people who managed to obtain tickets for this sell-out show. The DVD records just about the entire
concert that Melanie performed on that night, though it has been edited to
cut out some of chat in between songs. Some times the songs are inter-cut
with further selections from the interview. In some cases e.g. Beautiful
People and Smile the songs include clips of dancing (and smiling)
hippies taken from the film of the 1971 Glastonbury Fayre. After Beau’s two instrumentals there is more of the interview
and film of Melanie singing Peace Will Come in 1971 from Glastonbury
Fayre before continuing with the concert. The DVD is
Region Free, Format 16:9, Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo |
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