Culture Club - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (20th Anniversary Concert)

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Summary: Great Concert & Video DVD!
Review: This Boy George Concert DVD is Great, The Picture and Sound are Top Notch. A Must Buy.

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Summary: Save Your MONEY FOLKS
Review: this is absolutely awful. I have been a fan of this band for almost 22 years since I first saw them on Solid Gold back in 1982. I cannot tell you how terrible this DVD really is. Back in 1984 Culture Club had a fabulous concert on VHS titled A Kiss Across the Ocean which featured music from their first 2 albums, Kissing To Be Clever and Colour By Numbers. That was really worth its money but I cannot say the same for this. This is suppossed to be a 20th anniversary and it is ghastly. The show starts with a fantastic Boy George impersonator (you can tell because Boy is really fat now) and then it goes down from there. When Boy hits the stage he is dressed up in a clown outfit to promote Taboo his failed musical about the life of club sensation, Leigh Bowery. He does his best to belt out the classics such as Time, Do You Really,and The Crying Game. Which was nice to hear but then he turns on his fans and yells at them and berrates them to a pulp for talking? Why would you do this George? The band is really remarkable as always but Boy just comes off as a snob! The fact that the DVD was a ploy to promote the TABOO Broadway would have been quite clever if it really was interesting to begin with. I was expecting to see the history of the band or a cool documentary. Unfortunately, this was not a part of the package and it was rather disappointing. I used to really enjoy Boy and the band but those days are over. Who would have guessed that this once amazing band would adopt a circus like atmosphere to eclipse their legacy?

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Summary: I love ya George But....
Review: This was perhaps the worst live performance I have ever seen. I LOVE Boy George, and I know he has the chops to back up the diva attitude, but they were missing on this performance. In concerts, it can be about the art, costumes, sets, lighting, vocals, etc... but this concert had none of it. The one lone stand out was the opening by Euan Mortan. Who did a better Boy George than Boy George.