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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0603497050321
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 22, 2005
Running Time: 206 minutes
Sales Rank: 38937
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Theatrical Release Date: November 15, 2005
Editorial Review:
Description:
November 2003 saw the release of Peter Gabriel's Growing Up Live DVD , chronicling his world tour, which was celebrated for its spectacular theatrics. Still Growing Up Live & Unwrapped brings Peter Gabriel together again with the award-winning director Hamish Hamilton, capturing his performances in all sorts of smaller and more intimate venues around Europe for the Live version of the DVD. For the 'Unwrapped' version (Disc 2), which explores the world behind the songs, Anna Gabriel took over the director's chair with the collaboration of Hamish Hamilton. A simpler approach suggested a different set list, and Peter, Hamish, and Anna were determined that this should be filmed in a very different style. It shows Peter Gabriel as many of his fans love to see him, just playing his music.
Amazon.com:
Recorded in Europe in the summer of 2004, Peter Gabriel's Still Growing Up - Live and Unwrapped is a follow-up to 2003's Growing Up Live. The idea this time was to capture Gabriel and his band performing a variety of songs not heard on the earlier tour, with the gigs taking place in what he describes as 'all sorts of smaller venues,' where 'we get up onstage with minimal lights and simply play the music.' Of course, 'smaller' is a matter of perspective; the town squares, outdoor amphitheatres, and other sites in Belgium, England, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France where the band appeared are still plenty big enough to hold several thousand people, and the production values are hardly what you'd call spartan. But whatever their dimensions, the shows yielded some extraordinarily powerful performances. After a haunting 'The Feeling Begins' (a track from Gabriel's Passion, the score for Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ), played solo on the Armenian doudouk, Gabriel and company take the stage and almost immediately forge a palpable bond with their audience. Indeed, what we are witnessing is as much a tribal rite as a concert, with the febrile, hypnotic intensity of the music matched by the crowd's chanted responses on such tunes as 'Solsbury Hill,' 'Sledgehammer,' and 'Biko' (along with the latter, songs not heard on the previous DVD include 'San Jacinto,' 'White Ashes,' 'The Tower that Ate People,' and 'Games Without Frontiers'; there's also a wonderful performance of 'In Your Eyes' among the bonus tracks). Overall, this is a moving experience that viewers with sophisticated home systems will delight in sharing. The centerpiece of the set's second disc is Unwrapped, an approximately 70-minute 'band on the road' documentary that would have been a standard variation of the form were it not for Gabriel's strong visual sense; check out the cool lighting and film projection effects used during the interviews with the artist. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - simply fantastic!
This dvd will like even not the most passionate Peter Gabriel fans! Show is fantastic and enjoyable! I admire Peter Gabriel ability to move people and give so good feeling! Strongly recomend to put this dvd in your most watched dvd list :)
Rating: - A reminder of Gabriel's greatness
This 2-disc collection is a reminder, once again, of Peter's greatness. The performances on the stripped down Still Growing Up Tour prove that Gabriel doesn't always need the elaborate stage and theatrics. He's fine and in his groove with his band - just playing the music. I always admired PG's funky side, as in Burn You Up, Burn You Down. And he can rock too, as in the case of The Tower That Ate People, which takes on a menacing force in this live version thanks to David Rhodes' always excellent ... Read More
Rating:  - Still Growing Up
This may be a special offering for fans. This video was shot at smaller venues throughout Europe on the Still Growing Up tour. While not as likable as Secret World and Growing Up there are some amazing performances here of some of the deeper cuts in the Gabriel catalogue. There are performances of seven songs that dis not appear on the original Growing Up disc.
While the material is worthwhile I could not rate it higher due to the multiple venue filming technique. When I buy a live DVD ... Read More
Rating:  - Not just shot at many places.
I'm a little surprised by the other reviews that comment on the different tracks being from different performances. It's much worse than just that. The video from many tracks is cobbled together from footage taken from a number of different performances, *within*, not just between tracks. That is, from one second to the next as the video cuts, you have no idea whether the video is even going to wind up showing the same stage as it did seconds before (and often very obviously isn't).
As ... Read More
Rating: - mildly annoying
I was really looking forward to seeing Gabriel in concert. Unfortunately, my experience was marred by the foreigh talk with subtitles between each song destroying the pace. Also, the drummer here is nowhere near as good as Manu Katche. Gabriel's music is very percussion driven, so to leave him out of the mix is almost a crime. I guess I'll have to pick up Secret World Live, even though I hear it has substandard image quality not to mention Red Rain has been omitted!
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