Placebo
These young men blend Britpop with sonic noise and hip-shaking glam rock to create something all their own. Androgynous singer Brian Molko sounds a lot like Geddy Lee (he'll deny it, but listen for yourself). Placebo's songs are kinetic and wiry at times, but alternately gritty and rocking in a way last heard when Suede imitated Bowie. When the band uses retrospection as embellishment over their foundation, you hear the true Placebo -- not to say that their version of "20th Century Boy" doesn't rock as hard as Marc Bolan's.
Placebo Concert Films
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We Come In Pieces
Placebo
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hr 24 min
This concert was filmed at London’s Brixton Academy in September 2010 at the culmination of the world tour in support of their “Battle For The Sun” album released the previous year. The tour had been an unqualified success with the band playing to over 2.5 million fans in all parts of the world. The concert film is a visual feast enhancing the live footage with skillful editing and selective digital effects to create a stunning film that really captures the essence of a Placebo live performance.
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Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Nirvana
Year: 2006
Runtime: 1 hr 37 min
An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public and they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood. -
Phenomenon
Coldplay
Year: 2020
Runtime: 1 hr 6 min
In the space of just three amazing albums Coldplay have transformed from unknowns to international superstars. Drawing on archive film and interviews with the band, a team of leading music critics and musicians reveal the secrets behind the Coldplay phenomenon. The result is the most hard hitting frank and penetrating review of the music and personalities which shaped the Coldplay phenomenon ever produced. Featuring highlights from: Speed of Sound, Politik, The Scientist, Yellow, Clocks, Trouble, Fix You, In My Place and more... -
Frat Party At the Pankake Festival
Linkin Park
Year: 2000
Runtime: 56 min
"Frat Party At the Pankake Festival" features 6 music videos including "One Step Closer," "In The End" and "Cure For The Itch." Also includes live performances of "Points Of Authority" and "Crawling" taped at the Dragon Festival in Southern California in February 2001. -
The Morning View Sessions
Incubus
Year: 2001
Runtime: 1 hr 49 min
October 23, 2001, on the release day of their album "Morning View," Incubus assembled in Sony's New York City studios to perform an intimate concert of their new material. -
The Beat is the Law: Fanfare For The Common People
Pulp
Year: 2011
Runtime: 1 hr 31 min
Glastonbury Festival, 1995: The Stone Roses pull out of their headline set after a mountain bike accident and Rod Stewart is unavailable. As last minute replacements, Pulp take to the stage to face 80,000 people. They deliver a set regarded as one of the best in the festival’s history and are catapulted to the forefront of the Britpop movement—an achievement that ten years earlier seemed like an impossible dream. Made with the full cooperation of Pulp, The Beat is the Law brings together original interviews, performances, promos, newly unearthed live footage and home videos to tell the story of Pulp and their contemporaries’ journey from the darkest industrial depths of Sheffield to the pinnacle of pop via the consciousness-raising techno/house of Warp Records. Featuring original interviews with Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle and Nick Banks, plus Richard Hawley (Longpigs), Mark Brydon (Chakk/FON/Moloko), Rob Gordon (FON/Warp), Adi Newton (Clock DVA) and many more! -
The Ultimate Review
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Year: 2019
Runtime: 1 hr 8 min
The rare ability to blend a raw hard rock sound with funk is the formula which propelled the Red Hot Chili Peppers from obscurity to international superstardom. Drawing on live performance footage drawn from Woodstock and Red Square, extensive interviews with the band, along with the reflections of band insiders such as former producer Andy Gill this is the powerful independent critical review of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Featuring highlights from: Power of Equality, Under the Bridge, Give It Away, If You Have to Ask, Aeroplane and more... -
Live at The Hordern Pavilion
Bloc Party
Year: 2013
Runtime: 1 hr 34 min
Armed with an epic laser show, the British indie mavericks delivered a thrilling show at Sydney's Hordern Pavillion in March 2013 and we were there with cameras rolling. The UK four-piece delighted fans with a stellar set of surging new songs 'Octopus', 'Truth', 'Ratchet' and classic Bloc busters 'Banquet', 'Like Eating Glass', 'Helicopter'. -
The Black Parade Is Dead!
My Chemical Romance
Year: 2007
Runtime: 2 hr 16 min
Leave it to My Chemical Romance to call their second full live album — and their second live release during The Black Parade era — The Black Parade Is Dead! Unlike 2007's mini-album Live and Rare, which patched together performances from MCR's fall 2006/winter 2007 dates in the U.K. and Europe, The Black Parade Is Dead! is a lavish CD/DVD affair chronicling two performances: the CD captures the band's October 7, 2007, Mexico City date — their last as the Black Parade — while the DVD features video of that show as well as their October 24, 2007, date at Maxwell's in their home state of New Jersey. The Black Parade Is Dead!'s grandiosity is only fitting, considering how elaborate The Black Parade was, and also fittingly, the Mexico City show is a song-for-song performance of that album — the only difference is "The Black Parade Is Dead," where Gerard Way announces to the audience that this is "the last performance of The Black Parade forever!" -
Live at The Enmore Theatre
Interpol
Year: 2011
Runtime: 1 hr 19 min
Interpol is an American indie rock band formed in 1997 in New York City. Here they perform at The Enmore Theatre, in Sydney, Australia, on January 4, 2011. -
Live at Eurockéennes de Belfort
Editors
Year: 2017
Runtime: 1 hr 10 min
Watch the performance of Editors live at the Eurockéennes de Belfort on July 7, 2017. -
Live From The Royal Albert Hall
The Killers
Year: 2009
Runtime: 1 hr 54 min
In July, 2009, the Killers set out to create a gift for their fans…a spectacular concert experience, at a uniquely majestic venue, featuring their greatest songs - filmed with pristine production values, for the bands first ever official live concert release. Includes the complete show with all the fan favorites performed live. -
Meeting People is Easy: A Film by Grant Lee about Radiohead
Radiohead
Year: 1997
Runtime: 1 hr 34 min
MEETING PEOPLE IS EASY presents a visual diary of Radiohead's 1997-98 world tour in support of their acclaimed album OK COMPUTER. The film includes behind-the-scenes and concert footage of the innovative band in Barcelona, Paris, New York, and Tokyo. Interviews with band members Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, and Phil Selway, along with director Grant Gee's artfully probing camera, provide candid, revealing insights into the difficulties of dealing with the unwelcome label of "rock star." This often melancholy documentary features clips of songs such as "Lucky," "Airbag," "A Reminder," "Paranoid Android," "Street Spirit," and "Electioneering." -
Live at Rome Olympic Stadium
Muse
Year: 2013
Runtime: 1 hr 57 min
This second live album from the English neo-prog superstars sees them bring their preposterously epic, stadium-sized live show to their Italian fans. The accompanying concert film, the first ever captured in 4K "ultra-high definition," presents the show in all its glory, featuring pyrotechnics, video walls, and acrobats as the band live out their rock god dreams, vamping it up for the cameras for all they're worth as they blast through hit after hit. -
One Mile High...Live
Garbage
Year: 2013
Runtime: 1 hr 33 min
After a five year break, 2012 saw Garbage back in the spotlight with a new studio album "Not Your Kind Of People" followed by their first world tour in seven years. Filmed on this tour at the Ogden Theatre in Denver, Colorado on October 6th, "One Mile High...Live" is the first ever film of a full Garbage concert. Charismatic singer Shirley Manson leads from the front propelled by the twin guitars of Steve Marker and Duke Erikson and the powerhouse drumming of Butch Vig with Eric Avery providing bass guitar for the live shows. The band mix highlights from the new album with classic tracks from across their career to produce the ultimate Garbage live experience. -
Live at the O2
Kasabian
Year: 2012
Runtime: 1 hr 48 min
Filmed in high definition at London’s renowned O2 Arena on December 15th, 2011. The show came on the back of the band’s No.1 album “Velociraptor!” and the setlist combines tracks from that album with hits and classic album tracks from across their career so far. The concert was part of a sold out arena tour that covered the UK and Ireland at the end of last year. Kasabian are the recipients of numerous awards for “Best Live Band” and “Best British Band” in recent years and this new show with its spectacular and innovative staging will be a must have for their huge and dedicated fanbase. -
Things We Do at Night (Live from Texas)
Blue October
Year: 2016
Runtime: 1 hr 47 min
Ten years after releasing their live DVD and album, Argue With A Tree, Blue October is set to release Things We Do At Night (Live From Texas). Filmed at the House of Blues in Dallas, Texas, Things We Do At Night (Live From Texas) showcases the live energy and raw emotion Blue October fans have come to love and expect. The live performance covers all of the hits and favorites from the band’s last four albums, Foiled, Approaching Normal, Any Man In America, and Sway. -
Live At The Paradise in Boston
Pixies
Year: 2003
Runtime: 56 min
The Pixies are one of the most influential American acts of all time. Initially spanning the late eighties and early nineties they created the blueprint for alternative rock that would be followed and embellished upon by everyone from grunge to Britpop. After 10 years apart the Pixies reformed in 2004. This program is the second release in our Club Date series and features the Pixies in the intimate Paradise Club in Boston. -
Musiques en Stock
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Year: 2015
Runtime: 1 hr 16 min
Watch Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's performance at the Musiques en Stock Festival in 2015. -
Live at V Festival 2008
Stereophonics
Year: 2017
Runtime: 23 min
Described as "classic UK rock delivered with whiskey vocals," the band have been summarised as possessing a sound akin to the genres of alternative rock and "British traditional rock". They are one of the most successful Welsh rock acts. Upon their release of “Pull the Pin”, they became the eighth group to achieve five consecutive UK number one albums (after the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, ABBA, Genesis, Oasis, Blur and U2).
In this concert feature the band is taking over the Download Festival performing all the hits like “Dakota,” “Have A Nice Day,” “Just Looking,” and many more. -
In Session: 2008
Snow Patrol
Year: 2008
Runtime: 12 min
Snow Patrol performs live at the intimate In Session in 2008. The Session, features performances of Take Back The City,” The Shutters, Chasing Cars.” The Session concludes with an interview with Snow Patrol. -
InRocks 2013
Suede
Year: 2013
Runtime: 1 hr 13 min
See the English rock band, Suede, performing at the InRocks festival in 2013, live from Paris, France.
