Here, then, is their first DVD release, which features a live show in its entirety, an interview-documentary and a behind-the-scenes of the gig featurette. Which is all as you’d expect, really, though one genuine bonus is having the CD soundtrack of the show as an extra disc – who really sits down more than a couple of times to watch a music DVD any way?

The show itself is rather uninteresting – to listen to, yes, all well and good. But to watch, it’s just the band doing their thing with a few pretty lights and far too many pre-pubescent girls screaming their little hearts out in the crowd. An unexpected cover of Oasis’s ‘Hello’ is an interesting diversion but ultimately they could have picked a much better song and a much better band to cover. Worryingly, most of the guitar solos sound at best bland and at worst off-key. The band seem rather oddly under the impression that they play rock music judging by their vigorous strutting and guitar-thrusting antics; unfortunately they can’t pull off the hard-man act and end up looking like the silly mummy-boy popstars they are.

The interviews don’t give away very much of interest you won’t have read in the press if you’re a Maroon 5 fan, but are illuminating nevertheless. The band seem to be taking their 9 million album sales of Songs About Jane suspiciously in their stride; bring on the ‘difficult’ second album and let’s find out if they really have what it takes to stay at the top of their game.

Of course, the behind-the-scenes bit is just a novelty bullet-point for the back of the box and doesn’t show anything beyond the sweaty palms before the show and the sweaty everything afterwards. So, all in order and just what you’d expect… consequently there’s nothing much to recommend this show unless you’re a hardcore fan (if you can be hardcore and a fan of Maroon 5). Live shows rarely translate well onto DVD, and these guys have nothing special to offer you here you can’t get from the soundtrack disc.

Ah well – guess that’ll have to do. All together now, “And she wiiiiiiill…”

(3/5)

Release Date: 31 October 2005

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