Eagle Rock EntertainmentThe new home video featuring performances from an intimate show Van Morrison played in September 2016 — which originally aired as part of BBC Radio 2’s In Concert series — gets its release today on DVD and Blu-ray.
The concert took place at the BBC Theatre in London around the time of the release of Morrison’s Keep Me Singing album, and included renditions of six tunes from that collection, as well as performances of several Van classics.
Among the well-known Morrison songs featured on the In Concert video: “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Wild Night,” “Here Comes the Night” and “Jackie Wilson Said.”
The DVD and Blu-ray also feature a bonus show, the “Up on Cyprus Avenue” concert that Van played on his 70th birthday — August 31, 2015 — in his hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Among the tunes Morrison sang at that event were his Astral Weeks gem “Cyprus Avenue,” as well as “Days Like This” and covers of the spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” and the pop standard “It’s All in the Game.”
You can check out a few previews of the In Concert video by visiting Morrison’s official VEVO YouTube channel. The site includes full clips of Van performing “Brown Eyed Girl” and Keep Me Singing‘s title track, as well as an extended trailer promoting the video.
Meanwhile, Morrison’s 2018 tour itinerary includes a couple of U.S. concerts scheduled for February 26 and 27 at the Wiltern theater in Los Angeles.
Here are the songs Morrison performed at the In Concert show:
“Too Late”
“Magic Time”
“Wild Night”
Medley: “Baby Please Don’t Go/Don’t Start Crying Now”
“Here Comes the Night”
“Every Time I See a River”
“Cleaning Windows/Be-Bop a Lula”
“Let It Rhyme”
“Whenever God Shines His Light”
“Sometimes We Cry”
“Going Down to Bangor”
“The Pen Is Mightier than the Sword”
“Keep Me Singing”
“Enlightenment”
“Carrying a Torch”
“Brown Eyed Girl”
“Jackie Wilson Said”
“In the Garden”
And here are tunes Van sang at his “Up on Cyprus Avenue” gig:
“Cyprus Avenue”
“Celtic Swing”
“Cleaning Windows/Be-Bop a Lula”
“Days Like This”
“Precious Time”
“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”
“Baby Please Don’t Go/Parchman Farm/Don’t Start Crying Now”
“It’s All in the Game”
“Burning Ground”
“Whenever God Shines His Light”
“And the Healing Has Begun”
“On Hyndford Street”
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