Product Details

• Actors: Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Victoria Peterson, Michael Steele
• Directors: Kerry Asmussen
• Producers: Katie McNeil
• Format: DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Shout Factory
• DVD Release Date: August 14, 2007
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000SQL4ZG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,885 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Bangles: Return to Bangleonia - Live in Concert" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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RETURN TO BANGLEONIA - DVD Movie

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than Expected, June 13, 2008

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Kevin R. Austra (Delaware Valley, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bangles: Return to Bangleonia - Live in Concert (DVD)

I have been waiting for a live Bangles concert since MTV's professionally produced broadcast of the band's December 1986 Pittsburgh performance. Even though I subsequently recorded a VHS copy of the rebroadcast live performance I was hopeful and official version would some day become available. Alas, it has not. Not yet, anyway. The next best thing is RETURN TO BANGLEONIA.

The 2000 performance was filmed at the famous House of Blues and is captured from various roving cameras. The digital recording is of superb quality. RETURN TO BANGLEONIA is truly a professional product. I hope that a CD version of the performance eventually becomes available. More importantly it was great to see the Bangles together again.

I was initially wary of buying this DVD. Some of the reviews gave rise to the belief that this was not a whole uninterrupted concert. The cartoony-looking DVD cover only served to perpetuate my quandry. When I finally made the purchase I was happy I did so. The DVD is a complete performance, and then some.

The Bangles went their separate ways when the group was just about at their peak. Following the very successful albums/CDs DIFFERENT LIGHT and EVERYTHING, the group stalled. The greatest hits CD, very often a warning sign, and its VHS companion hit store shelves in 1990. The Bangles went their separate ways. It was a decade before they fully reunited for an AUSTIN POWERS soundtrack and subsequently released DOLL REVOLUTION. Unfortunately the decade break took its toll. Marriages, families, and other important distractions ensured that the Bangles would enter the public eye at infrequent intervals.

Even in RETURN TO BANGLEONIA we are treated to some of the wear and tear on the band. Unlike the 1980s' Pittsburgh concernt, where the gals bubbled with energy and enthusiasm, Susanna Hoffs appears to be the only member of the band truly enjoying the performance. Even Michael Steele seems more distant. Maybe this was a precursor to her hopefully not permanent departure from the band. At the conclusion of the House of Blues concert you see her strut off stage while Hoffs and sisters Peterson group hug-bow. It is too bad that Steele does not appear in any of the interview segments in the special features.

In watching and listening to the BANGLEONIA DVD I noted that many of the numbers were performed in a more folksy manner. Accoustic guitars are more evident in this concert. There is no great effort to try and replicate the sound of the original recordings. In some ways this was a disappointment and in others it was refreshing. In any event, the price is right and DVD is high quality.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bangles concert for Bangle History, August 19, 2007

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This review is from: The Bangles: Return to Bangleonia - Live in Concert (DVD)

Now that Michael Steele has left the band, this concert performance is even more memorable. It was one of the first concerts the band performed after they announced their reunion in 2000, so if you're looking for concerts clips of the band in the 80's, this is not it. Instead, the girls are surrounded by lavender-colored candles, giving the whole concert a warm, incandescent, neo-hippie glow, and yes, there are
bum notes, off-key harmonies, Vicki's guitar string breaks but they're great! Like the great garage bands of they sixties that they so loved, the Bangles are unpretentious and have a genuine affection for all the songs they play (even the overplayed Eternal Flame and the dreaded Walk Like an Egyptian). Their affection comes through in their playing. With a warm hometown audience this concert shows the Bangles a bit older, wiser, without the 80s hype (and angst) doing what they love to do -- play together. It proves that the band was always about four equally-talented women and the music they loved since they were girls.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good But A Bit Disappointed, July 9, 2009

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Jacob Sullivan "horrorfan26" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bangles: Return to Bangleonia - Live in Concert (DVD)

I have been a major fan of The Bangles and when I heard about the release of the dvd I wanted to get it since I had seen the show years before when the House Of Blues website still let people view live shows and The Bangles were one of the band's that was on the site.
When I first saw the show on the website it was awesome I loved the performance with all their hits and new songs it was so cool and when the dvd came out I was excited but disappointed that some of the songs were edited especially when they did Manic Monday they had orignally included Waiting For The Man at the end it too was also edited out.
This dvd is still enjoyable but the music market needs to stop editing out so much stuff its getting so ridiculous that I am sure other fans are also getting fed up with them.