Peter Gabriel's spectacular live show Growing Up Live now on DVD

 Peter Gabriel's spectacular live show Growing Up Live now on DVD

It had been known for quite some time, but no one could await it. The release of Peter Gabriel’s Growing Up concert DVD is one of the potential highlights in this year. In November it is finally released. The world’s most spectacular stage show has been recorded onto DVD and can be bought by everyone. Can such a release live up to the expectations?To get more news about uplive top up, you can visit topuplive.com official website.

The (hi)story
Growing Up is a visual experience. The show was planned through to the last detail and left little room for spontaneity. Now and then Peter still managed to surprise the “repeated offenders”. Of course there is no room for anecdotes on a concert DVD based on two shows in Milan. Or is there?
As in 1993/1994, the two performances in Milan were picked for recording and release. When the North American shows were released as official CDs publishing the Growing Up tour on DVD was the next logical step. It seems the time of the normal live album has passed. It is not only Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Live that returned to the Top 100 in the DVD charts. The importance of DVDs in the album charts keeps growing, too.

That’s no reason at all for Peter Gabriel to produce something by halves. His usual perfectionism makes it all the more surprising that the DVD reached the stores less than half a year after the tour.

Outer appearance
Growing Up Live looks dang good. A fine digipak in a slipcase using the familiar design that accompanied us throughout the tour and that can also be found on the Encore Series CDs. In difference to other DVD releases this one is a single DVD. It had been planned for a long time and people feared that Gabriel would leave out several songs the way he did it on Secret World Live (albeit for other reasons).

The visual side
The show was filmed in 16:9. This has long become the standard. Most us have a 16:9 tv set at home or plan on getting one. The video quality is brilliant (unlike the Secret World Live DVD), but of course this time around the team could plan for the requirements of DVD technology. The image is artistically tampered with, but there is not interruption between songs. Everything is very smooth. The show was filmed by a large number of cameras and the DVD offers a fine mix of totals, close-ups and audience point of views.

The sound
Peter goes for the big option here. One can choose from the dated Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and the new but rapidly spreading dts sound (Digital Theatre System). The sound lives up to the expectations. Crystal clear, delicious, voluminous, just great!

The extras
There are the credits with a Growing Up remix as background music. There is also a nine minute tour documentary and a slideshow with photos taken by Tony Levin, accompanied by a different Elbow Remix of More Than This. The images cannot be accessed individually, but they form a video sequence.
The tour documentary is different from the one on the Secret World Live DVD. There is current interview material where Peter talks about the preparations and about his experiences during the show parts of the Growing Up tour.