Return To Eden


Finally after nearly a year on the fifth of April the long awaited live album Return Of Eden was released by Chrysalis. This stunning album, recorded at the Camden Roundhouse on 30 april 2009, is released in two formats. A 13 track CD only version and a 2CD + DVD version with the complete concert and an extra documentary.



The sound is great, clear and well balanced, the setlist, for those who visited the tour last year, well known by now. The atmosphere that evening was very special. It was such a great concert and seeing Ultravox perform, for me, after 25 years again, was so special, that I am very pleased I choose to visted this concert.



As I wrote last year in the concert review, it was mainly based on the first two albums Vienna and Rage In Eden of the Currie, Cross, Cann, Ure line-up, filled up with the singles of Quartet and Lament. A good setlist with just one dissonance, mentioned by several reviewers already last year, the song Your Name Has Slipped My Mind Again. The song was played just after the band started to play the uptempo songs and public favourites. Still the band decided to put the complete setlist on CD and DVD.



But well the guys and those at Chrysalis did a great job, and present us with a great document of one of the leading synthpop bands of the eighties. For sure this album will get you ready for the second leg of the Return To Eden tour, which took of on the sixth of April.

CD only version:

01. Astradyne
02. Passing Strangers
03. Mr X
04. The Thin Wall
05. I Remember (death in the afternoon)
06. Rage In Eden
07. Lament
08. One Small Day
09. Vienna
10. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
11. Hymn
12. Sleepwalk
13. The Voice

2CD + DVD version:

01. Astradyne
02. Passing Strangers
03. We Stand alone
04. Mr X
05. Visions In Blue
06. The Thin Wall
07. I Remember (death in the afternoon)
08. Rage In Eden
09. Lament

01. One Small Day
02. All Stood Still
03. Your Name Has Slipped My Mind Again
04. Vienna
05. Reap The Wild Wind
06. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
07. Hymn
08. Sleepwalk
09. The Voice

01. Astradyne
02. Passing Strangers
03. We Stand alone
04. Mr X
05. Visions In Blue
06. The Thin Wall
07. I Remember (death in the afternoon)
08. Rage In Eden
09. Lament
10. One Small Day
11. All Stood Still
12. Your Name Has Slipped My Mind Again
13. Vienna
14. Reap The Wild Wind
15. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
16. Hymn
17. Sleepwalk
18. The Voice

DVD Extra: Building Eden: The Reformation Documentary

tour dates for 2010:

April 2010 - UK

06 Birmingham - Symphony Hall
07 Liverpool - Philharmonic
08 Manchester - Apollo
10 Oxford - New Theatre
11 Hammersmith - Apollo
12 Bristol - Colston Hall

April 2010 - Europe

14 Modena, Italy - Vox Club
15 Zurich, Switzerland - The Volkshaus
17 Munich, Germany - TonHalle
18 Offenbach, Germany - CAPITOL
19 Cologne, Germany - Musical Dome
21 Hannover, Germany - CAPITOL
23 Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit 36
24 Berlin, Germany - Admiralspalast
26 Amsterdam, Netherlands - The Paradiso
27 Copenhagen, Denmark - Pumpehuset
28 Stockholm, Sweden - Berns
30 Oslo, Norway - Sentrum Scene

May 2010

01 Bergen, Norway - Old Bull Theatre, Bergen Music Festivla
03 Bochum, Germany - Zeche
05 Luxembourg - Den Atelier

* Live pictures were taken by myself last year at the Roundhouse.

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