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Post by Quoincidence on May 2, 2021 0:25:35 GMT
Tracklisting in the comments, with date / venue information for the majority of the live clips shown in the doc.
Enjoy!
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Post by mortified on May 2, 2021 6:10:16 GMT
Oh, I remember that. Not the most flattering or well researched documentary. Wonder who within the camp sanctioned it? And didn't check it before it went out  The whole thing came across like it was a band on their knees playing the cabaret circuit. Mentioning, with apparent glee, presumably because it fitted their agenda, Brentwood Leisure Centre and totally ignoring places like Wembley, the NEC and the SECC. I haven't watched it since it was first broadcast so maybe I'd see it differently now but my recollections are quite negative. I might give it another whirl. |
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Post by matt on May 2, 2021 18:14:23 GMT
Given what we know about the reality of being in a band I don’t think it’s so bad as a warts and all doc.
Francis in particular comes across as a slightly strange and confrontational, deflecting any opportunity for a serious conversation.
I find this a bit frustrating. He talks about understanding show business etc but he doesn’t recognise the opportunity in front of him to showcase all that’s good about the band. He seems more interested in furthering this reputation that he seems to have given himself as being someone who tells the truth and ”talks too much”.
Well that’s all Good but don’t then complain if you’re playing Brentford leisure centre when 10 years before you were doing 3 sell out nights at the NEC
A few people I know watched it and said he was a right miserable bastard. Not sure why anyone would want to come across like that but he seems to want that for the sake of being real. I find his deflective attitude to a serious question as much of an act as anything.
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Post by freewilly on May 2, 2021 19:54:28 GMT
Given what we know about the reality of being in a band I don’t think it’s so bad as a warts and all doc. Francis in particular comes across as a slightly strange and confrontational, deflecting any opportunity for a serious conversation. I find this a bit frustrating. He talks about understanding show business etc but he doesn’t recognise the opportunity in front of him to showcase all that’s good about the band. He seems more interested in furthering this reputation that he seems to have given himself as being someone who tells the truth and ”talks too much”. Well that’s all Good but don’t then complain if you’re playing Brentford leisure centre when 10 years before you were doing 3 sell out nights at the NEC A few people I know watched it and said he was a right miserable bastard. Not sure why anyone would want to come across like that but he seems to want that for the sake of being real. I find his deflective attitude to a serious question as much of an act as anything. This! I saw the tour, gigs were great but, as a 13 year old, it planted the seed that Francis is an absolute bellend! Long before I knew the facts about the break up |
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Post by matt on May 3, 2021 7:43:34 GMT
I wonder if around this time Francis was enjoying the band? Reading the autobiography I can’t remember but I seem to remember he said he was thinking of jacking it all in.
He seems to be on a downer a lot - talking about how people won’t travel to see “this band” and that we are “here” as in somewhere not good
Coupled with the covers albums and chart success vanishing after decades of big gigs and sales maybe the reality was hitting home.
That said I do think if they’d recorded the heavy traffic tour the year later it would have seen a revitalised band and maybe a happier Francis.
But the truth is the 90s were a fallow period. Shit albums shit singles and self harming publicity stunts which led to them being the W object of ridicule and dwindling audiences captured here.
This is just before the attitude to heritage rock changed as did Quos reputation. I would be happy to watch a similar documentary about the band now.
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Post by mortified on May 3, 2021 8:48:04 GMT
At the time this was aired, Heavy Traffic had already been released and had been successful. As was the associated tour. Quo were on very good form, both on record and on stage. So the documentary was pretty much out of date in terms of what was going on by the time it went out. If it was ever going to be accurate. There was something of a Quo renaissance in 2002 - and for the next few years - so this shambles of a cobbled together so called warts and all report was simply nonsense. I suspect the editing in the end was done to reflect the lack of co-operation from Francis in particular. No matter what anyone says, he is almost never like that on television. So there was something going on that got his back up. Rick just got pi$$ed as usual  I remember the day after it was shown, a girl I worked with in the office had seen it and thought it was all very sad; this well known band on their knees playing leisure centres. I explained at some length that this is what the band did; and had always done. They played venues large and small. These winter tours sometimes took in 40 venues around the UK from the much concentrated on Brentwood to the completely ignored Wembley and NEC. I'm defending the band to the hilt on this one because I remember it all very clearly and the programme did not reflect reality. It wasn't even close. Selective documentary making at it's worst. Because those who made didn't get their own way |
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Post by backwater67 on May 3, 2021 10:45:37 GMT
Always remember this as been a lower point in Quo’s career. There had been very little airplay for 6 or 7 year's, not much new material & Quo were playing lots of smaller venues in the uk. (2 - 4K halls & theatres) over 40 dates & nearly killing themselves. Things changed with the release of Heavy Traffic. Quo specials on tv to promote it, back with regular airplay on radio 2 (8 million listeners) & back into the bigger venues without ever forgetting the smaller bread & butter gigs. Quo were back on the up from 2002.
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Post by tramper on May 7, 2021 18:05:22 GMT
Haven't seen this before.
And after the first 2 or 3 minutes, I turned it off.
Heard enough shite in those first few minutes from a patronising presenter who had probably never heard of Status Quo.
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