IQ – Stage (Dark matter live in America and Germany 2005)

Disc One
1. Sacred Sound
2. It All Stops Here
3. Leap Of Faith
4. Born Brilliant
5. The Seventh House
6. Drum Solo
7. No Love Lost
8. Widow’s Peak
9. The Narrow Margin (middle section)
10. Guiding Light
11. Harvest Of Souls
12. Awake And Nervous
13. The Last Human Gateway (middle section)
14. The Wake

Disc Two
1. Sacred Sound
2. It All Stops Here
3. Born Brilliant
4. The Seventh House
5. Drum Solo
6. No Love Lost
7. Leap Of Faith
8. The Wake
9. Harvest Of Souls
10. Awake And Nervous

Total Time 260 minutes

Line-up

Andy Edwards / drums & percussion
Mike Holmes / guitars & keyboards
John Jowitt / bass guitar & bass pedals
Peter Nicholls / lead vocals
Martin Orford / keyboards & backing vocals

Releases information

Disc One
NEARfest, Bethlehem, PA, USA: July 9th, 2005
Disc Two
Burg Herzberg Festival, Germany: July 16th, 2005
Special features:
‘Stage And Screen’ featurette
NEARfest soundcheck footage
‘Andy’s First Gig’: Le Medley, Montreal, Qc, Canada (featurette)
Photo Gallery.zberg Festival, Germany: July 16th, 2005

This 2 DVD set features 2 seperate live performances;
Disc one NEARfest, Bethlehem, PA, USA: July 9th, 2005
Disc two Burg Herzberg Festival, Germany: July 16th, 2005

A lot of stuff is played from the Dark Matter CD,their latest cd effort leading up to this release.

The First disc is a full front recording of the show mostly. A very solid performance and the sound is really great, it includes Widows Peak and some of the Subterranea album as well as Guiding Light from The Seventh House album.

The Second Disc sounds tighter. Also we see more camera-movement.

This is one of IQ’s best performances recorded on film. New member Andy Edwards gives his best. What a great drummer. Martin Orford is really a magnificent sound wizard. A big Thumbs up. A great performance by everybody. Also they play “no love lost” and that’s a threat for all you lovers of the Nomzamu album.

For everybody who has seen IQ play in the past and especially for all you people who haven’t had the pleasure to see them buy this dvd immediately. You will not be disappointed.

My Fav track’s are from Disc 1.

Sacred Sound
Leap Of Faith
The Narrow Margin (middle section)
Awake And Nervous
The Last Human Gateway (middle section)
The Wake
My Fav track’s are from Disc 2.

It All Stops Here
The Seventh House
No Love Lost
The Wake
Harvest Of Souls
Awake And Nervous

I give it 93%

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