THE WHITE STRIPES
Under Blackpool Lights
XL/Third Man/V2
· Who needs overdubs?
Take 26 tunes worth of same-sounding-but-slightly-faster versions of all your White Stripes favourites, add in a couple thousand rowdy coastal Brits throwing stuff and jumping drunkenly into one another and commemorate the lot with shaky, grainy camera footage that occasionally seems a frame or two off.
The suggestion that live DVDs are often better with the picture off still holds true here. Despite his reputation as a born performer (which indeed he is), 90-minutes worth of Jack White strumming and hollering is really only a mindblowing experience if you're actually part of the audience. That Under Blackpool Lights is often just as well lit as Bowie's Ziggy Stardust (as in not really at all) makes watching it just about as interesting. An audience singalong to Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is certainly a hair-raising experience, but having experienced it first-hand in person, it's just a little bit of a wank on my TV.
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