Elly Roberts reviews
Will Young: Live In London
Distributed by
Sony/BMG
- 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 the
show from inception to its final performance, Videos for Friday’s Child, Your
Game, 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. In
fact, 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 a
painful 90 minutes plus of his Wembley gig from winter 2004. Early on he
almost pleads with the audience to raise the atmosphere, hoping it would
boost sales. When he gets under way, his pubescent grating voice may well
appeal to the teen element, but after a couple of songs, it annoys to the
point of distraction.
Adopting the usual ‘pap’ tactics, the production boys wade in. There’s the
proverbial dance troupe, backing singers, big band and visual backdrops which
fail to impress. Young’s routines and moves are as naff as you can get: he
struts his stuff like a big girl.
Technically, there’s sharp editing from the multi-angled shots from the ever
popular arena, which compensate for the gooey musical interpretations. He’s a
very nice boy, but with a show like this he’ll never get the credibility he
craves for. The amount of work necessary to improve his stage persona is
probably beyond him.
Worst bit? His destruction of Stephen’s Still’s classic Love The One You’re
With.
Best bit? End of show !
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