The Chemical Brothers have just released two new videos online! Both are from their new live film called 'Don't Think: A Film By Adam Smith' which had a limited theatrical release last month, and is released for sale on March 26th. It will be released in three different formats - a cd/ dvd combo, a cd/ blu-ray combo, and there's also a limited edition 10" book format featuring exclusive images - that also includes the cd and dvd. You can pre-order them here: http://widgets.platform.emi.com/landing/64aa63cf3e5a44c2a20b9276045b719d.html
(Just as a side note... I usually try to do a new post everyday - but I missed doing one yesterday as I was kept busy with a trip to suburbia to the Red Robinson Theatre in Coquitlam to meet and greet William Roache - who plays Ken Barlow on the legendary British soap Coronation Street. Yes, I'm a massive Corrie fan! :) For those who don't know the show takes place in the fictional town of Weatherfield - which is based on the city of Salford - a suburb of Manchester - which is where The Chemical Brothers hail from, so it seems fitting to be featuring them today!
Here's an interesting bit of synchronicity for you - I saw the Magnetic Fields in concert on Sunday - and the first song they played over the speakers at the end of the show was E.L.O's 'Mr. Blue Sky' - and at the William Roache show last night they started his show off with a ten minute video featuring highlights from the first 52 years (!) of Coronation Street - and one of the three songs used to soundtrack it was 'Mr. Blue Sky'!)
Ok, back to The Chems...
The film has received rave reviews - here are a few quotes... Mixmag gives it five out of five stars and calls it 'the cinematic even of the decade', The Word calls it 'Phenomenally exciting - could well be the most thrilling live movie ever', and The Sunday Telegraph calls it 'An astonishing, celluloid rush of blood to the head'. So, it's good then? :)
Having seen The Chemical Brothers live (and met them - more on that below) I can certainly vouch for their mind blowing live shows. It's not just their music that has made them both pioneers and masters of electronica music - it's also been their live shows featuring their amazing visuals and light shows. Here's a clip from their new film 'Don't Think' - this is 'Star Guitar' (Live In Japan)... Enjoy!
The dvd/ blu-ray features 20 tracks and the cd features 10 - here are the full tracklistings...
"Don't Think" DVD Tracklisting
- Tomorrow Never Knows (intro) - Junior Parker
- Another World
- Do it Again
- Get Yourself High
- Horse Power
- Chemical Beats
- Swoon
- Star Guitar
- Three Little Birdies Down Beats
- Hey Boy Hey Girl
- Don't Think
- Out of Control
- Setting Sun
- It Doesn't Matter
- Saturate
- Believe
- Escape Velocity/ The Golden Path
- Superflash
- Leave Home / Galvanize
- Block Rockin' Beats/ Das Spiegel
- Another World/ Do It Again/ Get Yourself High
- Horse Power/ Chemical Beats
- Swoon/ Star Guitar
- Three Little Birdies Down Beats/ Hey Boy Hey Girl
- Don't Think/ Out of Control/ Setting Sun/ Saturate
- Believe
- Escape Velocity/ The Golden Path
- Superflash
- Leave Home/ Galvanize
- Block Rockin' Beats
Before I post the next video released from 'Don't Think' (Live In Japan) I'll tell you an interesting anecdote from when I met The Chemical Brothers. It was on the tour for their third album 'Surrender' in 1999. They were performing at The Forum here in Vancouver and DJ Shadow was opening. Shadow was amazing as always but mid way through his set we had to go to an office at the side of the venue to meet Tom and Ed.
I brought the cd cover with me (as I usually do to any concert - just in case - although this meeting was pre-arranged) for them to sign. I got to chat with Tom first for a while and then I asked him if he'd sign my cd - he said that he'd have to get a marker first. I replied that I had one as I like to be prepared. He then went on to say how that was the original title of that album - they originally intended to call it 'Be Prepared'. It was 1999 after all with it's pre-millennium tensions and uncertainty about what the future and the year 2000 would hold - Y2K was a genuine fear at the time. However after further thought they decided to go the totally opposite route and call it 'Surrender' instead - true story!
Needless to say their show that night was amazing and was one of the best concerts I've ever seen. So I'm looking forward to the cd/ dvd release of 'Don't Think' on Monday - this is the video for the title track from the film... Enjoy!
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