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Destined to be a massive seller this Xmas. i love the fact they have kept all the swearing in with her banter. Wouldn't want it any other way.
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As you’ll have no doubt heard in the news, Adele’s throat fell out and went on the floor and a bit of it came off and rolled under the fridge and now they can’t find it. But while scientists build her a new one out of lasers and string, there’s a DVD of her triumphant, tearful and extremely sweary concert at the Royal Albert Hall. So you can either relive the magic, or see what it would’ve been like if the gig you spent a fortune on hadn’t been cancelled.
The DVD opens with Hometown Glory, in which Adele annoyingly still censors the word “****”. Then she opens her mouth to speak and turns the air blue with the kind of language that’d make an East End market trader blush. Now we know how many ****s it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
Everyone loves Adele. They just do. There are people who say they don’t, but they’re lying to try and sound cool. But with so little opportunity to see her live this year, this DVD is a useful reminder that the Adele phenomenon has nothing to do with hype and everything to do with great songs sung by a great singer with an uncommonly common touch. She is the people’s diva – unable to take herself seriously, except when singing.
Adele’s between song chat is worth the price alone; as laugh-out-loud funny as any stand-up comedian. And if you were lucky enough to be at the show, there’s a good chance you’ll see yourself on telly as the cameras repeatedly pick out audience members giggling, snogging, crying or waving. Adele does a lot of waving too – singling out fans and making sure they know she’s seen them (one hilariously banal exchange has her flapping her hand at a disbelieving child, with the words: “Yes, I can see you. What’s that in your hand? Paper? Oh.”
The Adele live show is still a mercifully small production – just the songs, sounding mostly as they were recorded, with a respectfully faithful band. And that voice. The voice of perhaps the greatest living singer of her generation (Make You Feel My Love is warmly dedicated to the memory of Amy Winehouse – the baton reluctantly received). Strange to think that, in just a few years time, this film will seem like an artist barely at the beginning of her career which, as she points out during the deliberately contrived encore, she is.
Unlike most of the live music DVDs that sit on our shelves propping up dust, Adele – Live At The Albert Hall is likely to earn repeated viewings. It’s beautifully, though not overly-slickly, shot – with uncut rambling banter, false starts and all, to keep our interest.
Just don’t give it to your Someone Like You-loving granny for Christmas. Unless your Granny says “****” a lot.
Here’s the tracklisting (it comes with a CD version as well)
Hometown Glory
I’ll Be Waiting
Don’t You Remember
Turning Tables
Set Fire To The Rain
If It Hadn’t Been For Love
My Same
Take It All
Rumour Has It
Right As Rain
One & Only
Lovesong
Chasing Pavements
I Can’t Make You Love Me
Make You Feel My Love
Someone Like You
Rolling In The Deep
Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall is available on DVD and Blu Ray from Monday November 28
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