Also making appearances in person were Burton C. She returned later in the set to duet on ‘The Tragedy Of The Commons’, another track in which she appeared on record. You also see just what a mess all of that made of the stage even at an early point in the show! The guest appearances commenced right from the first song, as Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz joined the band for opening song ‘Hands Of Gold’.
The snow effect looks spectacular on video, viewed from the back of this hall (a former church converted into a concert venue), cascading down on the audience amongst an array of lighting effects.
The band went to a lot of trouble to make this show a special one, it being a celebration of their tenth anniversary, and so you’ll see tickertape, fake snow, visual projections and a whole host of special guest appearances in this concert. Anyone who has that DVD will hopefully be pleased to find that Delain did not cut to the occasional grainy black & white shot the way Whitesnake did, though (a trend I found irritating in video production and thankfully one that seems to be out of style nowadays). It reminds me a little of how the Whitesnake live DVD (produced over a decade ago, now) was cut, that had similar direction in terms of the amount of camera angles used and how often they cut to a different viewpoint. The effect is to give the production a sense of ‘urgency’, if not quite like being there on the front row they’ve aimed to give the home viewer the next best thing. They also cut frequently to the other band members, it isn’t the ‘Charlotte show’ by any means. There are frequent cuts, sometimes showing singer Charlotte Wessels from one angle for a moment, then a different one two seconds later. The first thing you’ll notice is that they used a lot of camera angles – I do remember a camera on a boom arm flying over my spot on the night, and they used a lot more than just that camera to film this show. However I wanted to get my own copy before posting a blog on it, so after giving the DVD a spin (I still haven’t joined the Blu-Ray revolution, nineties kid that I am!) here are my thoughts:
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After all you are getting quite a bit for your money anyway.Īll that aside, what’s this filmed concert like? I saw it in full on the big screen in October when Delain arranged a special screening at a small cinema in Utrecht on the day of their concert at TivoliVredenburg. That’d be for the diehard collectors speaking as someone with plenty of ‘stuff’ already, the standard edition was fine by me.
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That’s the regular edition if you look on Delain’s own site there is a limited edition ‘deluxe’ set including all of the above, plus a ‘cover flag’, a laminated ‘pass’ with lanyard and six photo cards. They have also featured a short documentary showing the workings of the group behind-the-scenes on their ‘Moonbathers’ tour of 2016, and vox pop interviews with selected fans. I’ve described it as a ‘DVD’ in the title, in actual fact this package includes the concert, filmed at Paradiso in Amsterdam on 10th December 2016 (a show I attended) issued on both DVD *and* Blu-Ray discs, as well as audio of the complete set on two separate CDs. Rob van der Loo, Sander Zoer, Guus Eikensĭelain feat.It’s taken me a while to get around to this – Delain’s first long-form live video. All suggestions will be manually verified.ĭelain feat. Its not possible to enter the url of a release group.
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