***Coming soon in 2008***

A brand new DVD release of the Ozric Tentacles playing live

This is a restored 16:9 presentation of an original documetnary 4:3 colour video recording of the band playing live at the Boston Arms in London on the 16th April 1990. It will be available in Region 0 NSTC DVD and at a later date Region 0 PAL DVD. Running time circa 90 minutes and includes encores.

It has never been made available before.

****This is a going to be a strictly limited edition****

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We will be featuring video clips and the entire soundtrack very soon

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The Ozrics performance came at the top of the bill of a whole day of alternative music on Easter Monday the 16th April 1990. The venue was the Boston Arms in Tufnell Park North London. It was a fairly big hall which had clearly been used in days gone by as a Palais de Danse. It was our job to try and capture the Ozrics in full flight using two colour analogue cameras.

Most of what you will see in the video was shot from stage left just a few feet from the guitar player. It was dark and save for some sporadic stage lighting and stobes, most of the lighting came from the back-projected 'Fruit Salad' light show. The other camera was located about eighty feet away by the sound board. Because the recording technology was analogue you will notice a slight flatness to the picture but otherwise very watchable with lots of varied shots of the band close-up and cut-aways to the light show and audience, its a solid record of what some people in the 1990s were to later call 'grunge' and yes it looks pretty sweaty and grungy. The audio is loud and very solid, simply recorded in mono by we documentary film-makers using ambient mics placed on stage, plugged into the camera via a mixer rather than a soundboard recording. There is no audio post production aside from fade-ups and fade-outs and no mutitrack recording.

There will be two bonus tracks on the DVD. These are linear edits of 'Sniffing Dog' and 'Og Ah Be' from the very same gig using material shot on both cameras and given false colour effects, more of an experiment but worth a watch. The audio used here is a mono soundboard recording.

The aspect ratio you will see will be the original 4:3 with 16:9 black bars around it. No attempt has been made to 'stretch' the picture into a 16:9 aspect ratio would would affect the picture quality.