Simple Minds: Celebrate – Live From the Sse Hydro Glasgow (2013)
Simple Minds: Celebrate – Live From the Sse Hydro Glasgow (2013)
Post Punk - Alternative | Bluray-rip 720p | Audio: English | Subtitles: None | Run time: 92 mins | 5.72 GB
AVC, MKV 1276x720 (16:9) 29.97fps, 8048kbps | AC3, 48000Hz, 6ch, 640kbps
Post Punk - Alternative | Bluray-rip 720p | Audio: English | Subtitles: None | Run time: 92 mins | 5.72 GB
AVC, MKV 1276x720 (16:9) 29.97fps, 8048kbps | AC3, 48000Hz, 6ch, 640kbps
On 27th November 2013 Simple Minds played a very special concert and filmed it at the brand new award-winning venue the SSE Hydro Glasgow, the first concert to be filmed there. Filmed in HD, this Blu-Ray package features a 93 minute edit of the concert unavailable elsewhere. To an enthusiastic home audience, the band delivers rousing versions of hit after hit after hit.
Reviews: I have seen Simple Minds a few times over the years and was eagerly looking forward to this one arriving on Blu Ray. The review from Fleece was great in terms of pointing out the track listing (real shame they did not have Belfast Child included in the set/disc) and my copy arrived from Amazon and was straight on to the player.
Sound quality is very good - what is not indicated anywhere is the fact that the disc has a 5.1 lossless PCM track and it sounds good. Perhaps a touch bright but good. Always remember the intro to Waterfront from the Verona DVD and this was a shorter version but still a brilliant way to start a show. Picture quality had me worried for a while as it was Black and White and felt like an arty decision had been taken to show the whole thing this way but quickly in to colour once Waterfront got going. Picture quality is very sharp for both close ups and crowd shots. The set was well lit and this makes for a great record of a Simple Minds show.
Where I feel the Blu Ray is let down (apart from the editing pointed out by Fleece in the other review here) is the £10 or so the producers must have spent on authoring the Blu Ray. There are chapter stops and if you press the remote control button to get you back to the main menu you can select a track this way but how much effort would it have taken to include the usual pop-up menu options so you can view the show then select the next track you want to view without having to stop the disc, return to main menu and select track. Rubbish approach and just shows a lack of quality control or ability by the producers in making sure the basic features of Blu Ray are not available to consumers.
Otherwise I would give 4x stars for the performance and show (less 1 star for the editing of some tracks) and 2 stars for the bare bones Blu Ray production so an overall 3 stars it is!
Overall though it is worth buying and great to see Simple Minds in HD but wish some more care could have been taken.
Tracklisting:
01. Intro
02. Waterfront
03. Broken Glass Park
04. I Travel
05. All The Things She Said
06. Promised You A Miracle
07. Glittering Prize
08. Theme For Great Cities
09. Mandela Day
10. Someone Somewhere In Summertime
11. The American
12. Love Song
13. See The Lights
14. Don’t You (Forget About Me)
15. New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)
16. Big Music
17. Sanctify Yourself
18. Alive And Kicking
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Simple Minds: Celebrate – Live From the Sse Hydro Glasgow (2013)
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Duration : 1h 32mn
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Audio
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Format : AC-3
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Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 32mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 423 MiB (7%)
Language : English
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Thanks to the original releaser