Showtime, storytime
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| Nightwish live album | |
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November 29, 2013 |
| Label (s) | Nuclear Blast |
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205 min 0 s |
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Showtime, Storytime is a live album by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish . It was released on November 29, 2013 via Nuclear Blast and is the first band release with the singer Floor Jansen .
Emergence
The DVD contains the band's appearance at the Wacken Open Air on August 3, 2013 as well as the almost two-hour documentary Please Learn the Setlist in 48 Hours . The DVD also contains two more live videos. A version of the song I Want My Tears Back recorded in Helsinki and the song Ghost Love Score recorded in Buenos Aires . The DVD is rounded off by a 16-minute video of a table hockey tournament that the musicians played on the tour. Directed by Ville Lipiäinen.
Originally the band only wanted to publish a tour documentary. The record company Nuclear Blast suggested adding a concert recording to the documentation. At first, keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen was reluctant to accept this suggestion because he preferred to publish a special kind of concert recording with an orchestra . Since this plan could not be implemented in terms of time, the musicians finally agreed. Since the DVD contains both a concert and a documentary, the title Showtime, Storytime was chosen.
The title of the documentary Please Learn the Setlist in 48 Hours refers to the circumstances in which the singer Floor Jansen joined the band. During the band's North American tour in October 2012, the musicians separated from their then singer Anette Olzon . Holopainen then contacted Floor Jansen and asked her to travel to Seattle for the next concert. 48 hours after this call, Nightwish appeared on stage for the first time with Jansen as a singer.
The separation from Olzon still had a major impact on the final production. Olzon asked the band and the director to be removed from all passages of the documentary that had already been cut and not even to be mentioned by name. According to Ville Lipiäinen, five weeks' work had to be thrown in the trash. Another two weeks of work were due for the new cut. Tuomas Holopainen stated in an interview that he cannot understand the motives of Olzon and her manager, as neither of them had ever seen the material. Holopainen wanted to discard the entire project, but was persuaded by the director.
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reception
Frank Albrecht from the German magazine Rock Hard praised the “first-class sound and picture quality” of the concert recording and the documentation, which “is never boring and leaves nothing out”. For Sebastian Kessler from the German magazine Metal Hammer , the events on the stage " create goose bumps even when canned ", for which he awarded six out of seven points.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leopold Lukas: Hard but warm . In: Blast !, issue 104, page 6
- ↑ a b Gunnar Sauermann: Flooreiche times . In: Metal Hammer , December 2013, page 18
- ↑ Frank Albrecht: Everything except dildos . In: Rock Hard , December 2013, page 24
- ^ Frank Albrecht: Nightwish - Showtime, Storytime . In: Rock Hard, December 2013, page 107
- ↑ Sebastian Kessler: Nightwish - Showtime, Storytime . In: Metal Hammer, December 2013, page 93