Destination Docklands: The London Concert - Jean-Michel Jarre

''Destination Docklands'' was the name given to two huge concerts held on the London Docklands on Saturday October 8th and Sunday October 9th, 1988. The concerts were attended by over 200,000 people and coincided with the release of Jarre's 'Revolutions' record. The show was broadcast on BBC Radio One and on the night heavy rain and high winds battered the spectacular stage set. The performance stage floated in the middle of the dock and the concert was accompanied by the musician's trademark breathtaking firework and searchlight show. Sadly this CD issue does not capture the entire event, and in doing so misses some key tracks (in my opinion), ...  Read the complete review

I was actually at the 1st night of these two concerts so I can give a pretty good opnion of how this varies to the performance given on the night I attended. Essentially what your hearing on this cd is the music that was recorded on the night Mike Mansfield shot his Destination Docklands Video. Track 1 is a short intro version of Revolutions which I don't remember being played on the night itself at all. Track 2 is Industrial Revolutions Overture which was recorded on the 2nd of the 2 nights (I can tell because theres no 2nd set of cheering near the start when they screwed up getting one of the projections back to front then upside ...  Read the complete review