21 March 2014
A concert documentary (shot at the O2, last year) which covers pleasant-enough numbers from the 1986 album "So", interspersed with backstage interviews with Gabriel and his touring band. We discover that the show is full of "humanity" and that the lead singer "radiates warmth".
Director Hamish Hamilton also provides plenty of close-ups of backing singers, Jennie Abrahamson and Linnea Olsson. Decrepit-looking guys, young and pretty backing singers. So original. That said, the rendition of “Biko” (almost) makes up for everything. It hasn't dated a bit. And it works perfectly in a stadium. The moving bodies, and fists, rise above the corporate nonsense. And, yes, radiate warmth.
