Currently watching this, you know - im as people have already said, the album is definately a grower, but the live performance is exceptional. They sound far tighter, and in my opinion sound better as musicians then Pulp do. Cant even beleive I have just said that.

Its pretty special. The Park is Mine it is not! But is that Mark's TIH guitar at 16:28? I dont think I've ever seen JC play such a normal looking guitar. He always has weird Japanese-kids guitars.

-- Edited by cutcopy on Wednesday 22nd of July 2020 01:44:52 AM

There was a cryptic credit at the end, on the page with loads of names crammed together, for a Marc Webber????? Bit weird. Could be coincidence, lots of them around driving fast cars and such like.

I watched on the telly with all the lights off last night and it was great except for the Youtube adverts that erupted in the middle of songs, shocking me out of my trance-like state. I hope it does get released in some format so I can watch it without that anxiety. I did think the promo for this seemed to be stressing the "free" part of the 24 hour availability.

I tried downloading it via VLC and it wouldn't stream, I even did the updating youtube.lua thing that's supposed to solve that, but no luck. But then, would it have downloaded it with the adverts in? I did succeed in downloading a random cat video by that method (Maru if you are interested) and that worked, so maybe there is some way of applying DRM to Youtube videos.

I got to watch it through twice again yesterday evening - started at 5 to 8 and it kept going as long as I didn't leave the video, so when it got to the end credits, I went back to the start. No ads this time either for whatever reason, maybe Youtube thought it wasn't there any more to serve ads to?? So that was great, a nice way to spend my birthday.

I've watched it six seven times and each time I've thought it was extraordinary. Life-changingly good, as is the album. Up with the very best of Pulp.

I can't imagine they would go to all that effort and then leave it on a shelf to rot..
Anyroad, i thought it was ace, perhaps it will surface as another beyond the pale bundle package?
Because as we know there aren't enough combinations and formats available..

I wanted to just RIP the audio but I was at work when it was up & ended up just having to watch it in chunks. I'm guessing that's why the ads came up in the middle of songs & why it was only up for 24 hours. They are wise to us getting wise!

I think it being available for a day and pulled immediately afterwards suggests it will be made commercially available, hopefully sooner rather than later. And probably more likely if the rescheduled tour dates later in the year fall victim to the pandemic again.

Though as a stand-alone dvd/blu-ray, I wonder if the estimated sales would be worth the outlay. Maybe it will just come to VideoOnDemand for a fee. Would be cool to see it available on Netflix and the potential for new fans it might pick up there.

I think this link still works if anyone is interested....
www.google.com/url

Thanks! So annoyed to miss this at the time :)

Finally watched this today. Fantastic work by all concerned. And as for Swanky Modes, that recording trumps the album version for me and the footage should be the video for a "single" (now redundant, I know) release of it.