No, this isn’t a live music review in the traditional sense but it is a review of live music on a CD and therefore worthy of mention, in my opinion. The fact it’s by the world’s greatest band, The Wildhearts, is sheer coincidence. Honest.
When I heard that The Wildhearts were releasing a live record I was chuffed to bits because after attending their gigs for over 10 years I was dying to have a bona-fide, official memento of their superb performances. Perhaps it’s because my hopes were so high that it inevitably failed to live up to expectations.
Firstly, I should say that the track-listing is spot on – the usual blend of old, new, well-known and less well-known – mixing up songs from a couple of different shows and the fact it is a double-CD is a bonus. However, what was missing for me was the energy and enthusiasm of the live shows. Yes, it is hard, or even impossible, to portray this on record but even so I feel it is a huge dis-service to the band that their shows are left to sound this ordinary on record...[more]
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