Return to Eden - Live at the Roundhouse
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2010 |
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April 30, 2009 |
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CD, box set (CD + DVD) |
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Title (number) |
18th |
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running time |
100 min 49 s |
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Mike Kaufman |
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Studio (s) |
The Roundhouse , London |
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Return to Eden - Live at the Roundhouse is the fourth live album by the British band Ultravox . The recordings were made on April 30, 2009 at The Roundhouse in London as part of the Return to Eden concert series , which in 2009 and 2010 led through Great Britain and other European countries. The tour marked the comeback of the commercially successful line-up Midge Ure , Billy Currie , Chris Cross and Warren Cann in the 1980s , after Currie had reactivated the band with changing members from 1992 to 1995.
The complete concert with a total of 18 titles was released as a box set on two CDs and one DVD. A CD reduced by five titles and a separate DVD were released as additional formats.
History of origin
Midge Ure and Billy Currie came together on the occasion of the new edition of the six albums from the time at Chrysalis Records a few days after the release of the Remastered Definitive Edition of Vienna to play an acoustic version of the almost 30-year-old title track for promotional purposes. The song was recorded on October 2nd, 2008 at Abbey Road Studios and broadcast live on UK radio station Absolute Radio on the Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show . Since the band members had hardly any contact after the dissolution of Ultravox in 1988 and Ure and Currie were also involved in legal disputes over the band name, the public appearance of both musicians caused a sensation in the fan base. Around the same time, the band's former manager, Chris O'Donnell, tried to make a comeback.
At the beginning of November 2008 the band announced plans for a concert series in the formation of the 1980s on their homepage. The reunion tour was named Return to Eden based on the fifth studio album Rage in Eden . More than 23 years after their last joint appearance on Live Aid , Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann gave a total of 17 concerts in Great Britain and Ireland from mid-April to early May 2009. On August 7th, 2009 the band played an additional concert in the Duisburg Theater am Marientor . Sold out halls testified to a very good audience response, which prompted the band to continue the tour across Europe under the title Return to Eden Part II the following year . In April 2010 a total of seven concerts took place in Germany and Switzerland. Together with other representatives of the New Wave era such as Alphaville and The Human League , the band had six appearances in August 2010 at the Forever Young Festival in Sweden, after having played at the Isle of Wight Festival and Lokerse Feesten in Belgium in mid-2009 had participated.
Track list
CD 1:
- Astradyne - 7:18
- Passing Strangers - 5:02
- We Stand Alone - 6:04
- Mr. X - 6:58
- Visions in Blue - 5:11
- The Thin Wall - 6:19
- I Remember (Death in the Afternoon) - 5:10
- Rage in Eden - 4:11
- Lament - 5:02
CD 2:
- One Small Day - 4:48
- All Stood Still - 4:44
- Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind) - 5:42
- Vienna - 5:21
- Reap the Wild Wind - 4:33
- Dancing With Tears in My Eyes - 5:29
- Hymn - 7:41
- Sleepwalk - 3:52
- The Voice - 7:24
The sequence of the tracks corresponds to the setlist of the concert, with the last two songs being encores. The DVD also contains the documentation Building Eden about the comeback and the rehearsals of the band. We Stand Alone , Visions in Blue , All Stood Still , Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind) and Reap the Wild Wind are missing on the reduced CD .
For the second concert series in 2010, New Europeans , White China and Love's Great Adventure were added to the program instead of Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind) . At the end of March 2011, live recordings of these three titles were released together with the German version Herr X of the song Mr. X on the EP Moments from Eden .
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The album was released on April 5, 2010 in the UK and four days later in Germany. On April 17, 2010 it reached number 75 in the British album charts and stayed there for a week. In addition, the DVD was released individually on July 12, 2010 in Great Britain and on July 30 in Germany.
Web links
- Return to Eden - Live at the Roundhouse at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ultravox at Abbey Road. In: AbsoluteRadio.co.uk. 2008, archived from the original on July 8, 2014 ; Retrieved December 15, 2015 (English, photos by Ure and Currie).
- ↑ Tourbook Return to Eden , interview insert, 2009. (no page number, English)
- ↑ Go behind the scenes of Ultravox new album 'Brilliant'. (No longer available online.) In: solo.uk.com. April 4, 2012, archived from the original on January 25, 2016 ; accessed on January 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ officialcharts.com: Ultravox - Return to Eden in the UK charts
