I think we all need to check our sense of reality. The concert DVD is useless. First off why the hell would you want to rewatch a live show that’s had production tweaks and why would you not just go? Ok let’s say the entire band is dead. Well then maybe it would be nice 10 or 15 years later for there to be some sort of tribute DVD otherwise..crap.
Ok wait I change my mind. Say an old band that’s never getting back together- that’s a good one. It’s like a visual history, that’s fine
But current bands who are still in the game? Sit the hell down you’re milking the world. How about make a decent cost on the concert ticket and let people actually come see you? Nah, lets sell them a $20. DVD so they can sit in their double wides and become double wide.
Thanks Coldplay for adding yourselves to the narcissistic assbag brigade by releasing a concert DVD! Well played.
According to Chris Martin (who I don’t mind, he’s alright in my book)
“We wanted to make a film that was as intimate as it was epic, punctuating Coldplay’s colour-drenched performance with candid portraits of the band. The set is curated from several concerts around the globe, using the 75,000-capacity Stade de France as the backbone. Myself and JA Digital wanted to approach this film in the same way Coldplay approach their stage show: it’s essentially a film about people, and we wanted to highlight how the band have blurred the barrier between stage and audience to create a tour that reaches out to everyone from the front row of the stadium to those right at the back. It’s a 90 minute kaleidoscope of emotions. My main objective as a filmmaker was to make the viewers’ eyes widen and their hearts beat faster.”
If that’s not the most self loving quote you’ve read I don’t know what could be. They still tour, they’re not done. To release this is just a stroke. Please don’t join in. Just don’t.
Live 2012 will premiere November 17th on the TV network EPIX, online at EpixHD.com, and on the EPIX mobile apps. Then on November 20th, the film and the album will be available on CD/DVD, Blu-ray/CD, and digitally. Should be sold with lotion and a tissue.