lördag 17 Dec 2005, 12:37

Yippeee!! Guess what?!? The Ian Brown dvd i ordered from Amazon already came in today, even though the amazon site said it wouldn’t be there before after the new year! I guess they’ve just been precautious… I don’t mind.. gives me a nice surprise on a dull saturday afternoon on which i’m supposed to study ;-)
Obviously i had to watch it straight away, as i've hardly ever seen any promos by Mr. Brown. Some of em are real ace (like Be There (UNKLE), Corpses In Their Mouths, Keep What Ya Got (with Noel Gallagher) & My Star (cuz its got lots of The Man himself). I don’t know what the makers aim was in the Golden Gaze video, but it really made me laugh! Its seems really low budget, as if they were just fooling around and oh yeah.. also shooting a promo. But i find that in its advantage.
As for the live performances at the end of the DVD (3 @ TOTP, 2 @ Jools Holland and one @ Dom Jolly (never heard of the latter btw)), most of em didn’t really make me feel happy. King Monkeys live qualities are not best known for his voice. And even though it aint all too bad, i guess you just shouldn’t watch him sing live – on the telly. If you’re in the audience you most probably don’t care too much, as for the atmosphere is there as well, but obviously and unfortunately you don’t get that buzz sitting in front of your tv. Now, I don’t wanna slag the man off, as he is and will always be a Hero and I know he cán sing well (some of my favourite tracks like Lovebug acoustic @ BBC6 radio and Little Wing, the Jimi Hendrix cover @ V98 are live), but these performances I just gotta skip…