DVD Live 2003 de Human League !

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The tentative release date is for October 18th and the Secret Records site is now taking pre-orders for the DVD, retailing for the bargain price of just £11.99!

HUMAN LEAGUE - IN CONCERT AT THE DOME
Filmed & Recorded at: The Dome, Brighton – 19th December 2003
5.1 Surround Sound

Digitally Filmed & Recorded

Exclusive Interview


DVD Track Listing
Medley:
• Hard Times
• Love Action
Mirror Man
Louise
Snake
Heart Like A Wheel
Darkness
All I Ever Wanted
Open Your Heart
The Lebanon
One Man In My Heart
Human
Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Love Me Madly
Fascination
Tell Me When
Don't You Want Me
Empire State Human
Together In Electric Dreams
Sound Of The Crowd

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Biography
“Listening to the Human League, is like listening to 1980!”. These words came from David Bowie in 1979, a year or so before Jo Catherall, Susanne Sulley and the big hits all materialised. The Human League that Bowie referred to was a futuristic synth, vocals and slide-show experience, not a band in the normal sense.

Formed in Sheffield in 1977 by Martyn Ware, Ian Craig-Marsh and singer Adi Newton (and called The Future), former hospital porter Phil Oakey was invited to join, he says, just because he was tall. Adi left (eventually to join Clockdva) and Adrian Wright joined (on visuals and synth) shortly after their debut single ‘Being Boiled’ (out on the indie Fast Product label) was voted NME’s single of the week in summer 1978. It didn’t chart then, but got to number 6 when reissued in 1982. But it did help to get them a tie-in with Virgin Records.

Their EP ‘Holiday ‘80’ got them on Top Of The Pops, and the next single ‘Empire State Human’ remains in their set and is featured on this DVD. A modestly successful debut album Reproduction was followed by Travelogue which charted at 14 in May 1980.
Ego problems between Martin and Phil worsened as Oakey naturally became the band’s focus. So in October Ware and Marsh jumped ship (to form Heaven 17) just ten days before a major tour was due to start. Within days, Oakey spotted Jo and Susanne at Sheffield’s Crazy Daisy Disco and asked them to join. They did, even though they were studying for ‘A’ levels at the time.

1981 was the year that the Human League went Big Time. ‘Boys and Girls’ was the first single with the girls and another new face, Ian Burden, on bass and synth – it scraped into the charts at 48 in February. A couple of months later ‘The Sound Of The Crowd’ went to 12 ; shortly after that guitarist Jo Callis joined from the Rezillos. Then ‘Love Action’ got to number 3 in July. ‘Open Your Heart’ reached 6 in October, and everybody’s soundtrack for Christmas 1981 was chart-topper ‘Don’t You Want Me Baby’. These all came from the 5-million-copies-plus Dare album which made the band a mega act on either side of the Atlantic.

The hits kept coming in 1983 with ‘Fascination’ ‘Mirror Man’ and ‘The Lebanon’ even though band members were feeling the pressure of trying to come up with a worthy follow-up to Dare.
1984’s Hysteria went Top 3 in May and in October. Oakey also collaborated with his mentor and biggest influence Eurobeat maestro Giorgio Moroder on the top 5 single ‘Together in Electric Dreams’ (they subsequently cut a whole album called Chrome ).

Burden and Callis left before 1986’s Crash album. Produced by the Minneapolis soul/R&B team Jam/Lewis, this duo - the band themselves acknowledge - saved the Human League. Off Crash came the ‘Human’ single which got 8 in the UK but was a massive number 1 in America. After 1988’s successful Greatest Hits, 1990s Romantic only got to 24 and the single from it ‘Heart Like A Wheel’ (included on this DVD) scraped into the top 30. Virgin dropped them in late-1990.

They later signed with East West and 1995’s Octopus took them back into the top 10.
The three main players’ solid partnership continued through the ‘90s, focused on their co-owned Redtape Studios complex in Sheffield.

This live DVD - filmed in Brighton in December – marks the climax to their hugely successful ‘03 tour. It can’t be called a comeback tour: media exposure of them and their music – in clever car commercials or television rockumentaries - guarantees that the Human League will never lose profile. After all their brand of synth-pop was the sound of the 1980s