Vertigo Cardiff (DVD)

 

Cardiff, Wales

06/29/05

 

- Vertigo

- I Will Follow

- Electric Co.

- Elevation

- New Year's Day

- Beautiful Day

- I Still Haven't Found

- All I Want Is You

- City Of Blinding Lights

- Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

- Love And Peace Or Else

- Sunday Bloody Sunday

- Bullet The Blue Sky

- Running To Stand Still

- Human Rights video

- Pride

- Where The Streets Have No Name

- One/Unchained Melody

- Zoo Station

- The Fly

- With Or Without You

- All Because Of You

- Yahweh

- Vertigo

 

 

The show was taped from an upper rank off Adam's side of the stage, approximately in the middle of the stadium. The camera is handheld and never hundred percent stable. Also, on a few occasions, the camera loses its focus and catches blurry images of the stage in weird angles. Since the taper is located in quite some distance to the stage, he canot zoom really close up but instead tries to catch the complete stage action. Details like facial expressions cannot be detected on this video. Most annoying, though, is the head of the guy in front of the camera: It is blocking the view most of the time (normally the right third of the picture but quite often he leans over to talk to his neighbour). Whenever there is no clear view on the stage because of heads, the taper focusses on the LED monitors over the PA stacks. During the Human Rights video is an edit which, killing some seconds. The tape starts again right at the beginning of Pride.

The DVD has no menu and the track divisions are arbitrary in the middle of the songs.

The audio quality is good to very good. There is some echo present and clapping or whistling can be heard also during the songs. But clarity and crispness are absolutely given.