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> Login to your account > RegisterVARIOUS ARTISTS Hoping For Palestine ILC
From page 88 of Classic Rock Magazine May 2005
Cover of May 2005 issue.
Worthwhile cause let down by poorly recorded charity bash.
Hoping For Palestine (a fairly self-explanatory children’s charity) held a fund raiser at London’s Brixton Academy last year, and now here’s the DVD of that event to raise more cash for the cause.
Despite there being an immaculate line-up here, the first two acts (Beta Band’s Steve Mason, and Nick Cave) are next to unwatchable due to the crazy decision to record through a DAT recorder rather than through the mixing desk, resulting in sound levels being violently off kilter and with a background layer of audience noise audible on everything.
Luckily these ‘difficulties’ are ironed out for Spriritualized’s set, and their I Think I’m In Love is arguably one of the greatest live songs by anyone, ever. And then the sound levels are back to ‘one mic inside a margarine tub’ for Primal Scream.
Unless you’re a Spiritualized completist, leave this on the shelf and donate a tenner straight to this worthwhile cause instead.
■■■■ ■■■■■■ John Doran
