Culture Club - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (20th Anniversary Concert)
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Actor: Boy George, Culture ClubBrand: Uni
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Live, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Empire Musicwerks
DVD Reviews of Culture Club - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (20th Anniversary Concert)
DVD Review: ALL OR NONE ...
Summary: 5 Stars
To me, liking Culture Club or Boy George is an all or none sort of thing: you either love them or hate them with no in between.
Myself I guess I am in the former category - I have always liked the songs and the voice of Boy George. His sound is both smooth & craggy at the same time - unique in that sense. And yet his speaking voice so different, so deep.
In a word I liked this DVD, I think the band never sounded better - George has never sounded better. There has always been a difference between the live sound of his voice and the CDs this is true but his voice here is very good in my mind.
I thought Euan Morton did an outstanding job - liked him so much I ordered his own solo CD ... Lynn Paul - there are no words - I love that ballad.
I think I like and admire George for standing up for what he is - love him or hate him - he is what he is and makes no bones about it. That takes courage, courage that most of us do not have.
As for the Statue of Liberty get-up is what I have nicked named it - it is something else in the altogether but that is Boy George ...
Nancy
DVD Review: At Their Worst
Summary: 1 Stars
I rented this DVD from Netflix and I'm glad I didn't buy it.
The concert starts off with this impersonator of George singing "Do You Really" and he is bad, I thought George would join in and sing it but this guy sings the entire song. He has no stage presence. Finally George comes out in this HIDEOUS outfit, rubber spikes on his head and checker patterned dress. I loved his outfits in the 80's but this was just distracting. The singing is just as bad. He sounds horse, he can't hit the high notes, he's out of breath, and he forgets when to start and when to stop singing in certain songs! My honest reaction was, "Is he on drugs?"Then this British singer comes out in the middle to sing this dreary ballad. It brings the concert to a screeching halt. It gives George a chance to change into a black suit, though he looks like a homeless person now, at least my eyes can rest. I've seen Culture Club in concert twice and had a great time, but this performance was just horrendous.
The interviews with George and John are good but what about Roy and Mikey?
DVD Review: Boy George...memories are made of this....
Summary: 5 Stars
Boy George music let me dance on the floor some years ago...
I found this DVD in a shop and bought it immediatly..why.. I don't know...maybe for the memories...
I was really surprised about this DVD, the quality, the sound, the really great fans, the enthousiasm musicans..this is really a perfect DVD....played now several times and I am dancing again...
I searched for a new concert from Boy George somewhere in the world, but never found it....
DVD Review: Total disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
I was an obsessed Culture Club fan through high school. I first saw them play in San Francisco in the early 80's when they first came to America. I think my ticket cost $12.00. So when I say I'm a Culture Club fan, it goes back a few years. I'm 40 now and still follow what Boy George is up to, so when I saw this DVD for sale, I was excited and had to see it. But I have to say, I was so disappointed and thought Boy George's performance was below average. He barely moved when he was performing. I wasn't expecting him to be jumping around like he did when he was 20-something, but he's just a big lump on stage and the hideous tank of a dress he's wearing DOES NOT help matters. And then he gets all pissy with some guy in the audience and he yells something foul to him and honestly watching/listening to George bicker with the audience is just boring, and sort of sad, really. It was pretty obvious that George didn't really want to be there. I think yelling at fans who have paid money to see you is pathetic (for any band) - but you'd just think George would be grateful that 20+ years later fans are still paying money to see him. They bring out that guy who played him in Taboo and watching him pretend to be Boy George back in the day was so annoying - I couldn't wait for that to be over. There is a lengthy interview of George included in the DVD which is good, if you can get past the look he's sporting. But it's like he's standing in some hallway being interviewed and it just looked like an afterthought. Jon Moss is also interviewed. It could have been way better. They never bother to interview Roy or Mikey. To label something as a 20th anniversary - at least put some effort into it. This DVD had a cheap quality to it and looked like it was thrown together. There was nothing special about it at all and some parts were just downright painful to watch. I watched this once and haven't had any desire to watch it again. DVD Review: OH MY GOD!
Summary: 1 Stars
What was that? Can you believe I am writing this review after just seeing the first half of this DVD? I dont even want to go back to it. What happened? I have always been the Boy's biggest fan, which is why I was thrilled to get this in the mail from Amazon. I was sooo not pleased. This is absolutely HORRENDOUS! George sounds like he's completely drugged out and none of the songs even sound like they should. I guess you can say that he's the first artist in history who murdered his own music. Terrible, awful, and completely disposable! I'm sorry, but I can't believe this was even released to the buying public. DON'T waste your time and money. A much better option would be their newly-released Greatest Hits DVD with all the videos, including great extras like a ten-minute interview with the band, and their "A Kiss Across The Ocean" concert in December' 83, which is even better than the videos and makes the price sooo worth it! This so-called 20th anniversary concert is a terrible black mark against the Boy (not the band because they are still great here), and I'm hoping such an atrocity by a well-loved, legendary 80's performer like him, never happens again.
Description of Culture Club - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (20th Anniversary Concert)
Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/28/2003Live at the Royal Albert Hall finds Culture Club celebrating its 20th anniversary with an infectious and expansive grandeur, all while basking in the love of adoring fans. The show actually starts with a great joke on the audience: Boy George, looking not a day over 20, glides onstage in his once-trademark derby and beaded hair extensions, delivering a warm and welcome vocal on "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" The startled crowd soon realizes he's an impersonator. The real, fortysomething George O'Dowd, looking a lot less androgynous and a tad thicker than in New Romantics days, smiles self-deprecatingly and launches into a pleasing set of white soul ("Cold Shoulder," "Miss Me Blind"), stark gospel ("That's the Way"), stirring raga-rock ("Bow Down Mister"), and even a classic (a lovely cover of Bowie's "Starman," complete with audience participation and muscular guitar by Roy Hay). A fine show all around. --Tom Keogh
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