Matt Whittingham

This mediocre BBC adaption is barely above Midsomer Murder levels. And the crow barring in of contemporary issues only adds insult to injury.

It was OK, genuinely entertaining but not a patch on seeing a live act. The music for the most part of course is excellent, though the choice of The Visitors and two tracks off the recent and poorly reviewed album were strange choices, when more obvious and fan friendly tracks could have been included. Some of the avatar rendering is really quite odd, especially poor Frida who comes off worst, with expressionless eyes & face and only a few notches above games rendering. There were at least two extended anime type animations which took the pace off the sequencing and seemed to have no creative synergy with the rest of the show. The overall production is excellent with imaginative lighting, which was used effectively around the whole of the smallish (3500 capacity) arena, coupled with some impressive motion graphics. One gripe about the venue. Way too hot. One women next to us fainted and had to be helped out of the auditorium.