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Mike + The Mechanics was shaped in the mid-80’s by Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford whilst Phil Collins was posterior his (very) successful piece for one person career. Joined by ex-Squeeze part of Paul Carrack, Paul Young, Adrian Lee, as well as Peter Van Hooke, the rope expelled 5 albums over the march of the 10-year camber from 1985-1995. Filmed Sep 7, 2004 during Shepherd’s Bush in London, Mike + The Mechanics take the theatre with the brew of brand new recordings from their 2004 bid “REWIRED” (”Fallin… More >>
Mike & The Mechanics as well as Paul Carrack – Live during Shepherds Bush London
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Reading the review, saw “all i need is a miracle” in the songs list.
At last, one of my favorite songs in a DVD, and in concert…
I’n still looking for the song!
The concert?… it’s O.K., nothing special.
Where is my miracle???
Rating: 3 / 5
DVD arrived, would not play wroing format for the UK, why send one when they must know it will not work in the United Kingdom, couldn’t send a replacement as then out of stock. This system ask’s for a star rating and will only let you submit with minimum 1 star, not even worth that!
Rating: 1 / 5
Only one other person has noted the wrong product description given to Amazon by the manufacturer. Namely, All I Need Is A Miracle is NOT on this DVD. Couple that with another US Top 40 hit, Taken In, and this lowers the rating. It is an average DVD, worth the cheap used price, but a rip-off if you pay full price. How they could not manage to include ALL of their few chart hits is inconceivable. It is not like they have a huge catalog like an Elton John does, and have to make tough decisions of what to include or not to include in a show. Pretty lame not to have all the (albeit few) hits on their only DVD release.
Rating: 2 / 5
I just happened to run across this in searching for other things on the site, and just had to buy it. I have been a Mike + the Mechanics fan for a long time, and have never had the pleasure of seeing them in concert live, so this was a great surprise.
It was odd seeing the band play without Paul Young being there (RIP Paul!), but Paul Carrack did a decent job on the few songs they did that were Paul Young leads. The only one that didn’t quite work was the last song on the DVD “Word of Mouth”, which they had the backup vocalist sing the melody (Young’s part), but Carrack sang along with him doing his version of harmony, which doesn’t quite work with that great tune. Definitely not meant to be a duet.
The DVD also includes several videos of several of their hit songs (many of which were “UK” hits, not US hits), but great songs and videos none the less. There’s also an interview with Mike and Paul about bringing the band back together to do another album, and the feelings of doing it missing Paul Young (or “Youngy”, as I once heard Rutherford call him in an interview not long after his death).
Overall a great DVD with good add-ons. I would’ve paid twice as much for the show!
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought it mainly to see what Mike Rutherford was doing. Not one to take the limelight, but no doubt a skilled songsmith and musician. I always enjoyed his work with the old Genesis it seemed that they were a more cohesive and interesting group than Phil Collins version. Not that Phil was not a highly skilled percussionist who added so musch to that early Genesis sound. I was suprised how many of these songs I was familiar with showing the skill of mike Rutherford. Also I was suprised at Paul’s capability as a singer even though I was not familiar with him and his previous work. Quite a nice concert film.
Rating: 4 / 5