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A good documentary of the Times of Cheesy Pop-Songs, Pretentious Make-Up, Vulgar Clothes and Ridiculously Hairy…yes, Heads I meant :) . IQ are described as “most melodic from all heavy rock bands” in DVD’s commentary, while other bands from the series like TWELFTH NIGHT and PALLAS have “Neo Progressive” term in their description. Besides there are no bonuses or extra materials. Funny enough.

The band plays the whole “The Wake” album except for magnificent “Headlong”, which is my favourite track there so far (recently I’ve known that they always play it pretty rarely), plus “Awake and Nervous”, “Just Changing Hands” and “It all stops here”. It’s fun to see the crowd slamming in 7/8 and 5/4 (or trying to slam at least). There’s also a charismatic beardy guy in audience, who almost steals the show – he’s slamming that much, that if you turn the sound off, you may think he’s at SLAYER or early DEATH show. The band itself is average: they were too young and frightened (especially Tim, who stood the whole show on one and the same place almost without moving). Peter fails to perform the role of charismatic frontman (he drops the mic before “Corners” and looks confused in that moment), and his haircut…OK, forget it :) . Michael had tuning problems through the concert, and it seems that only Widge and Cookie enjoyed the whole thing very much.

Anyway, it’s good and inescapable to get if you’re an IQ fan. Also I like 80s with all cheesy attributes of that time (oh, how I crave for having a light summer coat with shortened sleeves!) and I’ve enjoyed the show despite some flaws.