Ned’s Atomic Dustbin In
Concert – Shoot The Neds!
Picture: C+
Sound: B- Extras: C+ Concert: B-
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin is one of Britain’s better latter-day
post-Punk Rock bands and it is surprising they did not have even more success
in The United States to date. It looks
like even they may have been considered to smart, strong and subversive for the
mainstream and they are not even that hardcore. Fortunately, they have a solid fan base and have had consistent
sales. Shoot The Neds! is their
new concert DVD from MVD and Secret Records, showing the band has no intention
of letting up.
The band is as for real as any band in their genre that
followed, never selling out to a thing.
The following playlist includes most of their classics:
1) Not Sleeping
Around
2) Happy
3) Cut Up
4) Selfish
5) Walking
Through Syrup
6) Capital
Letters
7) Stuck
8) Trust
9) Nothing
Like
10) Intact
11) Until You Find Out
12) Bite
13) Scrawl
14) Kill Your Television
15) Song Eleven Could Take Forever
16) Aim
17) Plug Me In
18) Grey Cell Green
19) Terminally Groovie
20) Titch
Even those titles are great, but the songs are more than
up to not disappointing and this concert is a fine introduction to the band if
you have never heard of them or always wanted to look into their work. Sure, there are the albums on CD, but they
are great to see in concert like all real (and for real) Rock bands. The concert runs over an hour.
The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1/16 X 9 image is shot
on digital video and is not awful, but lacks detail. For the stage performance at hand, the shooting is fine, but this
could be a little clearer and sharper.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is a bit better, with some good surrounds;
though a band this good deserves DTS somewhere down the line. Extras include a sound check performance
always done prior to a show, text biography of the band set to music that is a
nice alternative to the usual frame-by-frame set-up and interview with the band
that runs about 45 minutes. Good disc.
- Nicholas Sheffo
