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Blue Movies DVD, Live DVD & Tour

Blue Movies DVD Details

As previously mentioned, the band are releasing a DVD of videos from their previous albums and live TV appearances, it's out 22nd October. It's worth noting that the album is being sold by Townsend Records with an exclusive gift of four postcards to go with the DVD, designed by Scott Morriss, photography by Angela Leadbetter, they are a collection of behind the scenes, candid photos of each of the boys. Order from Townsend here.

The following is the press release for the DVD:

The Bluetones - Blue Movies compiles together 16 of the bands promo videos from their first single 'Bluetonic', to Top Ten hits 'Slight Return', 'Cut Some Rug', 'Marblehead Johnson' and ‘Solomon Bites The Worm' right through to the later singles 'Fast Boy' and 'Never Going Nowhere', all on DVD for the very first time.

The Bluetones burst onto the scene in the mid-90s with some classic singles and an album that knocked Oasis's record-breaking 'What's The Story Morning Glory?' off top spot in the album charts. To augment the singles, the band produced some innovative and stylish videos - from the perspective tampering 'If...' to the ground breaking '4 Day Weekend' - a manga style animation that MTV wouldn't playlist 'as they don't show animated videos'.

Additionally, there are 8 Top Of The Pops performances and Nifkin's Bridge - a featurette about the making of the remarkable Marblehead Johnson video - there's the band's performance from Later With Jools Holland.

The DVD comes lavishly packaged in a collector’s box with a 16 page booklet featuring stills from the videos

Tracklist

Films
1. Are You Blue Or Are You Blind?
2. Bluetonic
3. Slight Return
4. Cut Some Rug
5. Marblehead Johnson
6. Solomon Bites The Worm
7. If…
8. Sleazy Bed Track
9. 4 Day Weekend
10. Keep The Home Fires Burning
11. Autophilia
12. Mudslide
13. After Hours
14. Fast Boy
15. Never Going Nowhere
16. Nifkins Bridge – The Making Of Marblehead Johnson

Footage
17. Slight Return from TOTP – Feb 96
18. Cut Some Rug from TOTP – May 96
19. Slight Return from Later – Sept 96
20. Colorado Beetle/Carn’t Be Trusted from Later – Sept 96
21. Marblehead Johnson from TOTP – Sept 96
22. Solomon Bites The Worm from TOTP – Feb 98
23. Keep The Home Fires Burning from TOTP – Mar 00
24. Autophilia from TOTP – May 00
25. After Hours from TOTP – Apr 02
26. Fast Boy from TOTP – May 03

Bonuses

  • Audio commentary from the whole band and guests, including David Walliams, on all the promo videos.
  • Audio commentary from Edgar Wright (director of Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, etc) on the two videos that he directed for the band.
  • 5.1 Surround Sound
  • Jukebox

 

Live DVD - Beat Around The Bush

The long awaited live DVD from the band's appearance at the Shepherds Bush Empire gig on 18th November 2005, is available now from Secret Records.

The setlist from the gig is:

  1. The Jub-Jub Bird
  2. Bluetonic
  3. Liquid Lips
  4. Carn't Be Trusted
  5. Keep The Home Fires Burning
  6. The Fountainhead
  7. Happy Lobotomy
  8. Marblehead Johnson
  9. Cut Some Rug
  10. Serenity Now
  11. Fast Boy
  12. I Was A Teenage Jesus
  13. Mine In The Morning
  14. Slight Return
  15. Never Going Nowhere
  16. Nae Hair On't
  17. Solomon Bites The Worm
  18. If...

Tour Dates

The following tour dates have been announced to coincide with the release of blue movies:

26 Oct 2007 - Leeds - Rios
27 Oct 2007 - Newcastle - Academy 2
28 Oct 2007 - Liverpool - Academy 2
30 Oct 2007 - Oxford - Zodiac
1 Nov 2007 - Bristol - Academy
2 Nov 2007 - Birmingham - Academy 2
3 Nov 2007 - London - Shepherds Bush Empire
10 Nov 2007 - Luton - Live Room
11 Nov 2007 - Manchester - Academy 2
12 Nov 2007 - Cardiff, Wales - The Point
16 Nov 2007 - Southampton - Joiners
17 Nov 2007 - Warrington - WA1
8 Dec 2007 - Sheffield - Leadmill
9 Dec 2007 - Brighton - Concorde 2