Tsunami Bomb – Live At The Glass House (The Show Must Go Off) [DVD]

What happened Kung Fu?

Tsunami Bomb‘s Live At The Glass House is your seventeenth episode of your famed DVD series The Show Must Go Off!!, and even after having all those practice rounds, which you did successfully, you seemed to have messed up here. Tsunami Bomb is easily one of the most popular female fronted pop-punk bands around these days, and have a rabid fan base to prove that. Their live show is exciting and interactive and their CDs always do well. But this DVD will surely disappoint those loyal fans. not because of a weak live show or crappy volume, but because of the horrible image quality.

Agent M and the rest of the quartet put on an energizing show on their final day of The Definitive Act tour, and the crowd eats it up, but sadly, it’s incredibly hard for the viewer to eat it up as the image is very dark. I don’t know if its to do with the lighting at the venue or what, but you can’t see anything other then the members, the rest is bathed in a sheet of darkness. Even their new banner is covered in black and difficult to decipher. The drummer is constantly covered in an eerie green glow glistening of his sweaty body, while everything around his drum set is pitch black. The three front runners all face the same problem. While they are covered in a slight light, as soon as it leaves their body, everything in the back is pitch black. It makes the DVD really lack the visually appealing aspect of the live show.

Musically, Tsunami Bomb sound great. Like all other Show Must Go Off!! DVDs, Kung Fu has captured the sound quality perfectly. Just like I remember from seeing them live over a year ago, Agent M’s vocals are strong and confident, even when the mic is far away from her mouth. They put on a great performance and get the crowd to come in and sing along with them lots, even on the brand new Safety Songfrom The Definitive Act which hadn’t been released yet. The eighteen song set list features mostly older songs, including classics like El Diablo, Say It If You Mean It, Headlights On A Hand Grenade, 20 Going On… and Take The Reins. They also played a few new songs off their new album like Safety Song, Dawn On A Funeral Day and My Machete. And like most of the DVDs in the series, this one has some good bonus features too, including the music video for Dawn On A Funeral Day, band commentary, some cool tour footage (including some extra live performances), subtitles, and some movie previews.

Live At The Glass House by Tsunami Bomb isn’t close to being one of Kung Fu‘s better DVDs. The sound quality is great like always, but the image quality takes a painful blow here. Unless you were at the concert or a huge fan of the band, then the DVD won’t be worth it. It is just not visually appealing enough.