Bilston Gig

Nice Review, Andrew! You're too kind!
Cheers chap!!
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Any news on whether the DVD is a goer ?

Stephen C

It's currently in the EDITING process.
As a non technically minded person, I don't know the ins and outs, but these things take time to put together!! But, good things come to those who wait! :0)

once we get closer to the finished product, a release date will be announced!
It's really nice to know you're looking forward to it!!!
We're flattered! :0)

That's great news because earlier posts had suggested that there was some doubt as to how much of the recoding could be used.

Certainly am looking forward to it as I could not get to the actual gig !

Also, looking forward to seeing and hearing the new line up in action in the near future.

Stephen C

Stephen C wrote:

That's great news because earlier posts had suggested that there was some doubt as to how much of the recoding could be used.

Stephen C

Hi Stephen (and anyone else)

Firstly my apologies if I've given anyone the wrong idea. Secondly this is a personal note, not from the band. But to summarise:

There IS, I'm fairly sure, footage of the whole gig. I was filming it from the mixing desk, Chris Walkden was filming close-ups and we've since seen a lot of it. To my mind the quality is excellent. There were three main cameras used - one totally fixed HD one that got virtually all of it, one HD one that was operating on pan/tilt/zoom that got all the first set and the majority of the second and one SD one that was used for close-ups that got much of the first set and all the second. Between them I hope every second has been captured at a quality level that is pretty damn good - indeed I was watching a retailed Man DVD and a Hawkwind DVD the other day and I'd say the BS footage is better quality than either.

But as Paul has said above, now it all needs to be edited together, not least because hopefully the sound will come direct from the mixing desk rather than the cameras (obviously it's going to be better off the mixing desk!), and of course the picture formats start off different so need to be converted to give a seamless DVD that you can play - lots of work!

The only proviso is that until someone puts all the footage side-by-side, second by second, no-one knows if just by chance all the cameras were off, or being moved, or something, at the same time meaning that part of a song got lost - and of course you can't really have a song with 10 seconds missing in the middle. So whilst it's probably all there, please don't shout if a song IS missing...

By the way, when it all comes out, apart from thanking the band for an excellent gig and for releasing it, thanks should also go to Paul Newsom for supplying the HD cameras and doing the editing, Paul Turner's wife for loan of the other camera, and Chris Walkden for filming the close-ups!

Thanks for the detailed update - much appreciated !

Certainly looking forward to seeing the end product when the considerable amount of work that will be needed has been done.

Stephen C