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Later... with Jools Holland - Cool Britannia

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First off, yes...this dvd is region 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. So if you live in America and don't have a region free dvd player...this won't work for you mate. It is also labled as "Playstation 2 Compatible" on the dvd but I have not bothered to see if it plays in it. If you want to buy a DVD player region free and cheap like I have, Philips has a nice one I paid about $72 for total with S/H that is sold by VCT ELECTRONICS and you can order dvd's from anywhere and be happy. You just have to set it to region 0 which another person explains in his review of it. It has this lable...

PHILIPS DVP3140 - ALL REGION CODEFREE MULTI SYSTEM DVD PLAYER WITH DivX. PLAYS PAL/NTSC DVDS FROM ANY COUNTRY ON NTSC TV. REMOTE INCLUDED.

Now, about this great dvd...here is all you need to know from A-Z:

You get 34 performances
~156 minutes of music~ & ~19 minutes of interviews~

Artist...Song...Date of gig played on show

Ash - Shining Light 27/04/2001
Blur - Tender 16/04/1999
British Sea Power - Remember Me 17/10/2003
Catatonia - Bleed 16/11/1996
Coldplay - In My Place 13/12/2002
Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha 06/12/1997
Doves - The Cedar Room 29/04/2000
Echo And The Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever 14/06/1997
Elastica - Connection 19/11/1994
Elbow - Fugitive Motel 07/11/2003
Embrace - All You Good Good People 08/11/1997
Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling 29/11/2002
Franz Ferdinard - Take Me Out 21/11/2003
Keane - This Is The Last Time 31/10/2003
Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life 31/12/1996
Morrissey - Boy Racer 11/11/1995
Oasis - I Am The Walrus 10/12/1994
Paul Weller - Sunflower 09/07/1993
Primal Scream - Movin' On Up 31/12/2003
Pulp - Disco 2000 11/10/1995
Radiohead - The Bends 27/05/1995
Spiritulized - Come Together 17/04/1998
Starsailor - Good Souls 20/04/2001
Stereophonics - More Life In A Tramps Vest 17/05/1997
Suede - So Young 04/06/1993
Super Furry Animals - Something For The Weekend 01/06/1996
Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz 03/06/1995
22-20's - Devil In Me 21/11/2003
The Beta Band - Human Being 16/11/2001
The Charlatans - Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over 09/12/1995
The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love 20/06/2003
The Libertines - Up The Bracket 01/11/2002
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 01/11/1997
Travis - All I Wanna Do Is Rock 07/12/1996

The DVD booklet aslo contains a good bit of info on each show
the performances here are taken from and the bands. Below is
an example...

Suded - So Young
04/06/1993 Series 2, Programme 4
with Soul Asylum, Fishbone, Bryan Ferry, Ed Alleyne-Johnson

It's hard to remember how barren young british rock was in the early 90's 'til Suede came along and ignited a generation. They were camp, deadly serious and they had a vison of Britian based on Bowie and the desperate yearnings of suburban kids going nowhere slowly. I'd produced a live session with them on The Late Show which turned into disaster; the sound mix got scrambled just before they went on air, Bernard's guitar drowned out everything and though he wound up the song clapping nervously, they clearly didn't enjoy the experience much. Here they were alongside Soul Asylum, a band breaking big on radio in the wake of grunge, and they were ready to be unashamedly foppish in the face of all that America angst. This is one of their early anthems and captures Brett and Bernard when they were still friends. Suede became regulars on the show as did Bernard, first with McAlmont and then solo but this is them back in the early days, taking on the world.

DVD also includes bonus features which are:
*Interviews with Doves and Travis
*Program your favourite 6 tracks to play in order


With the DVD and Booklet here in "Later...with Jools Holland presents Cool Britannia", this is a nice piece of British music in the 90's for not alot of money.

This DVD is testament to the type of music the Brits have been pumping out while America lost it's musical footing after grunge and, well, for most of the past decade. Melody and great hooks, two components missing in most U.S. bands, dominate this disc. While a large majority of americans spit on OASIS and BLUR, they keep getting BLINK-182'd to death, shoved 3 DOORS DOWN or put to sleep @ DAVE MATTHEW'S shuffling feet (Not to mention STILL WAITING for the next Greatful Dead to pop up...sad!). Bands like ELBOW, RADIOHEAD, CHARLATANS, SUEDE, DOVES,BLUR...hell, ALL THE PERFORMANCES HERE ARE TOPS! If you want to expand your musical horizon, look no further. This is a must have!

A wonderful alphabetical line-up of alt-Brit-pop performances from the 1990's to the present. It's all here - Pulp, Blur, Oasis, Morrissey, The Verve - hey, even Franz Ferdinand! Not exhaustive by a long shot, but SO much fun to watch and sing along to.

Great compilation, but.... it's PAL format and I couldn't watch it at home, just on PC changing the region set. I should've noticed that. Anyway

The music on this dvd is incredible, from the newest to the oldest. Some highlights:

Doves
Manic Street Preachers
Oasis
Blur
Cornershop

and the interviews with Travis and the Doves are excellent as well, nearly 30 great bands, this dvd is a must-buy

if it played in my DVD player. Amazon has is listed as being region 1. When I received my disk, I looked at the back and it stated region 2,3,4,5. Where was the region 1 disk that I ordered???

Buyer beware. If you enjoy returning orders, this is the DVD for you!!! Enjoy.