Theatre of Death DVD

[Ravenred]

UK tour

[Lisacooper91]

Gotta be better than the YouTube clips we are stuck with now, LOL!!!

so true!

[Baz]

If the DVD of this tour doesn`t get released, it will be an utter disaster IMO as this was the greatest show ever.

Wasn`t it taking a risk by putting all the eggs in one basket by only filming at one gig ?

[TEENAGE NITEMARE]

yeah well it will be such a shame if they dont release it I've been waiting so long.
but even if its bad I'd still like to see it

could they decide to reshoot it this year when the tour starts up again. lol even if it's not in the UK like alice seems to seems to want

[ElectedPlus]

A bad DVD doesn't do anyone any good, but judging from the performance alone it'll be a great watch if the editing is as well executed... it'll all be in that from now on. Montreux would have been a great watch if it's wasn't for the high turnover of awful shots (despite the brilliance of the show and the cameras used).

[Holly Grail]

Why are you sorry worried if this dvd will be released?The Montreux show was released 1 year after its recording!

[Dragonlady]

Goes to show that most people don't really notice bad filming. I for one never noticed a thing.

And as a fan I prefer to have a lot of attention on the main man, so Montreux is wonderful, there are so many close ups on Alice's expressions and of his eyes

Someday I want to watch Brutal Planet again but my VCR is striking and I never got around to having it checked.

[suziginajackson]

Goes to show that most people don't really notice bad filming.

When I buy a music DVD, it's for the music mainly. Admittedly when it comes to Theatrical Rock, I love to see the stage show as well

[ElectedPlus]

Yeah it was more the too quick cuts that got me for Montreux, rather than the shots themselves (as you say, plenty of brilliant close ups and footage itself, just that the editing didn't seem concious of the show itself ... it just went from one cam to the next to the next to the next without settling. That kinda stuff seems to say 'we're going to have to make the editing really interesting by constantly changing it' as if the audience would get bored if they cool it and let what's happening on camera take it's time to develop).

Admittedly, it gets a bit better during the end of the show. or maybe I just get desensitised.

Whoever directed the Brutally Live DVD on the other hand did a brilliant job, think that DVD stands out for me as to how an Alice show should be done.

[Dragonlady]

Ah I see. I agree, I am not a fan of the constant changes either. It's distracting.
I really need to fix that VCR so I can finally watch BP again. Not to mention all my other Coop videos!

[Dave Conway]

Hmm, I am afraid I am just not that sophisticated....I LOVE the Montreux DVD and will be mortified if there is no T.O.D DVD release

[AC Collect]

Hope there will be a Blu-Ray version of the ToD DVD.

[killer wolf]

ToD was okay but i loved the RYF&Y tour theatrics, wish there was a proper DVD of that.

my greatest wish tho is that they'd film the Last Temptation as a film/musical. Set in a gothiccy old theatre etc etc. bet they could do it pretty cheaply (relatively!) and it would be a great tie in, given that the plan was to do the tour in theatres etc.

[AC Collect]

You know what, not a bad idea There was talk about a Welcome to my Nightmare Broadway musical. But a 'Last Temptation' would be wayy better. Considering the comics were brilliant.

[mestreech]

Oh no, please NO musicals!!!

[AC Collect]

Why Not?

[mestreech]

I hate musicals.
They do NEVER justice to the original artist.

[AC Collect]

I think musicals are good.
I saw 'We Will Rock You' The Musical last year in Birmingham. That was good, quite funny.

[ElectedPlus]

I could see a musical of Alice working well given that the songs themselves are inherently theatrical - it's possible it could be picked up by the right hands and created into something goodly different and still maintain that Alice-esque thing about his songs. Wouldn't cringe hearing Cold Ethyl for instance being performed by someone else in a Cooper musical, as long as they weren't trying to be Alice themselves, and they made it their own.

Although the story would be the trickiest part. AC Collect - saw We Will Rock You as well, ages ago. It was brilliantly done... sounded great but the story sucked ... little more of an excuse to sing a bunch of Queen songs than tell a story. However there was no Freddie Mercury in there, and the songs where done more as a chorus than a rock group which worked fine. In a hypothetical, doubtful it could ever work to make money sort of way, I could see an Alice musical working well.

He's had brushes with musicals before, could it be likely that it would work the other way round?

[suziginajackson]

Not so much a live show as a televison special, the American 1975 thing 'The Nightmare' worked quite well