Will Young: Live In London

Elly Roberts reviews

Will Young: Live In London
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  • Cert:
  • Cat.no: 82876679939
  • Running time: 136 minutes
  • Year: 2004
  • Pressing: 2005
  • Region(s): All, PAL
  • Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Languages: English
  • Widescreen: 16:9
  • Disc Format: DVD 9
  • Price: £17.99
  • Rating: 2/10 (Music); 4/10 (DVD)
  • Extras:Main Will Young interview, Behind the scenes journey of theshow from inception to its final performance, Videos for Friday’s Child, YourGame, Leave Right Now, plus their making, Matador and clown sequences.

It’s a massive thumbs down for Will Young’s new live DVD.

As the pre-show clock counts down, you’d swear you were in for something spectacular. Infact, it’s a big anti-climax, and no more than I expected.

With a stage personality of a wet lettuce, sugar-coated Will Young drags us through apainful 90 minutes plus of his Wembley gig from winter 2004. Early on healmost pleads with the audience to raise the atmosphere, hoping it wouldboost sales. When he gets under way, his pubescent grating voice may wellappeal to the teen element, but after a couple of songs, it annoys to thepoint of distraction.

Adopting the usual ‘pap’ tactics, the production boys wade in. There’s theproverbial dance troupe, backing singers, big band and visual backdrops whichfail to impress. Young’s routines and moves are as naff as you can get: hestruts his stuff like a big girl.


Technically, there’s sharp editing from the multi-angled shots from the everpopular arena, which compensate for the gooey musical interpretations. He’s avery nice boy, but with a show like this he’ll never get the credibility hecraves for. The amount of work necessary to improve his stage persona isprobably beyond him.

Worst bit? His destruction of Stephen’s Still’s classic Love The One You’reWith.

Best bit? End of show !

Weblink:Will Young.co.uk


The full list of tracks included are :

1. Friday’s Child
2. Out Of My Mind
3. Love Is A Matter Of Distance
4. Light My Fire
5. Very Kind
6. Save Yourself
7. Dance The Night Away
8. I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know
9. Free
10. Evergreen
11. Over You
12. Stronger
13. Love The One You’re With
14. Leave Right Now
15. In The Stone
16. You And I
17. Your Game

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