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Classic DVD Review: Great Big Sea | Great Big DVD

Newfoundland's Celtic-rock sons don't shortchange the fans with this epic offering.

This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Well, you can’t accuse these Newfie Celtic-rockers of false advertising.

Great Big Sea’s new video is indeed a Great Big DVD — or at least a mighty long DVD, since it contains a full-length 80-minute live show from the boys, along with more than a dozen videos and karaoke tracks, a half-hour documentary, band home movies and a biography. Nice of them not to shortchange the fans, but there’s only one problem — what are they gonna do for a followup?