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David Crowder Band - new DVD premieres tonight
Waco’s David Crowder Band, the acclaimed Christian alt-rock band with a national following, releases its live DVD/CD combo from last year’s REMEDY Club Tour tomorrow, Aug. 19.
Fans in 80 cities, including Dallas and Austin can get a preview tonight, Aug. 18, as digital theaters in those cities will screen the DVD, an 85-minute concert video shot at DCB performances in New York and Atlanta. No 3-D version yet, a la U2, but still impressive in digital video and five-channel sound.
There’s no screening in Waco planned - Starplex Galaxy does have a digital screen, but booking was apparently handled through AEG Network Live and its participating theaters - so the nearest screenings are at Austin’s Highland 10 and Grapevine’s Harkins Southlake Town Center 14. If you’re planning on going - and you’d better move soon - you might head south: Crowder’s MySpace blog says that’s where the band will be.
The Galaxy 16 will get some digital coolness this week, though, when Cirque du Soleil’s digital concert film Delirium gets four nights of screening (7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, but no Friday). It’s more of a pastiche drawn from previous Cirque productions, remixed in 5.1 sound for theaters. I saw Cirque du Soliel live in Dallas some years ago and it blew me away. Will the magic of breath-taking acrobatics performed live transfer to the big screen? For a $20 ticket? We’ll see …
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