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Review |
SLive From London captures IQ live
at the Camden Palace in London in 1985. This was filmed not
long before singer Peter Nicholls left the band, and most
of the material on this disc comes from the then-current album,
'THE WAKE'. Original bassist Tim Esau is here too. Though
there's not much here in terms of extras or anything, it's
great to see some live footage of the early IQ. The sound
quality is decent for what it is, though probably wont impress
sound freaks spoiled by modern tampering done with other DVDs.
It's just great this footage exists. The lighting looks very
'stagey', live on TV type film. Classic stuff.
This is pre-Subterranea, pre-John
Jowitt joining, really 80's looking IQ. In fact in this DVD
they look more like a New Romantic outfit- you almost expect
them to sound like Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark or something
when they come on stage, but dark and dramatic Genesis-y type
music comes out instead. At one point Nicholls drops his microphone
onto the ground. Guitarist Mike Holmes looks like a punk Anthony
Phillips, and Martin Orford has hair. But enough about what
they look like, this 80's IQ broadcast is of its period but
still offers some timesless tunes. Special mention must be
made of 'CORNERS', which is more powerful and anthemic than
the studio version found on THE WAKE. Unfortunately, their
early epic THE LAST HUMAN GATEWAY is nowhere to be found on
this disc, but no matter. I know there's a CD of this DVD
in existence as well, called LIVING PROOF. You can't go wrong
with anything by this superlative band.
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