Robbie Williams - What We Did Last Summer

1st disc contains the so-called 'concert'
which is mixed audio/footage from the
three sold-out nights he played at Knebworth Park
during 1st,2nd and 3rd of August 2003.

Knowing the 1st disc is a compilation of footage, I must 1st point out that the show ends with 'Angels'
, which is quite annoying, since the encore 'Back For Good' was always a total blast. This should have been included on the 1st disc.

During credits on the 1st disc you get
to hear a discrete 5.1 dts or (DD) mix
of 'Something Beautiful' which is a REALLY
good bonus. I noticed this just recently, having usually
skipped the credits at the end. Also
after credits you hear Robbie's goodnight
speech to the crowd, which is also something
you can't SKIP to...you have to go through credits to see it. But still..no 'Back For Good' on disc 1. Shame shame shame.

Audio choices are 5.1 DTS, 5.1 DD and 2.0 Stereo.
I have stuck with the DTS track myself, since it's
a world apart from the 2 channel version in the whole athmosphere it provides in this
case out of many cases too ;-). Robbie's voice comes from the center speaker, rear speakers mainly give audience noise..horns, screams ...singing along...and so forth. The live-feel is so 'there'

Most of the footage is from the friday and sunday shows, there is not too much of the
televised saturday show footage (out of the top of my head I recall 'Let Me Entertain You'
being from the saturday show). To me the saturday show was quite better vocally than the
material featured on the dvd, however 'less' entertaining in certain aspects, such as
Robbie telling before Mr. Bojangles how he is going to sing now his all-time favorite song
and then sings a bit of Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' which surprisingly gets the crowd singing
along (well some of the crowd atleast)

The second disc has the extra's and ROM section that I have not bothered to explore (screensavers etc..stuff). Having noticed that the 1st disc contained
a discrete 5.1 mix of 'Something Beautiful' during credits
I of course had to see if the second disc had any of these REAL bonuses.

During 'Time Lapse' you can have a listen at a 5.1 mix of 'Revolution'
, during 'Picture Gallery' you can listen to 'Sexed Up' in 5.1
and the fan diaries (the disc has two of them) have the 5.1 mixes
of 'One Fine Day' and 'Cursed'.

So that's 5 discrete 5.1 mixed studio tracks on the dvd set. That's what
I call a BONUS. And a hint of things to come...Robbie Williams on DVD-Audio or SACD soon ?

The second disc also contains an interactive game, which is silly and annoying
and so forth. You have to shoot the rogue Robbie's and then you get to see
a clip of bonus footage (backstage clips etc)...but the main
bonus is that you get to see 'Back For Good' from the final Knebworth
show from Sunday, during which former Take That bandmate Mark Owen
came on and joined Robbie on stage and the two dueted. This feature
should have been on the 1st disc.

As a product the two dvd set is a winner in my eyes, even though it is merely
a compilation. Hopefully the cashing in process will one day provide
all three nights on separate dvd's one fine day....

5.1 mixes of studio tracks +++
Both 5.1 dd and dts mixes of the concert material +++
'Back For Good' not on disc 1 -

And here's the point where I mention
that I'm 'half-blind and deaf'