Live at the Seaside is the first concert video release by English synth-pop duo Erasure, recorded at the Brighton Dome on 17 April 1987[1] by the BBC[2] as part of the duo's tour of their second studio album The Circus. The video, originally only available on VHS, features 13 tracks from the concert and, amongst tracks from The Circus, includes performances of songs from Erasure's first album Wonderland plus "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!", the band's first foray into ABBA cover versions.
The opening song "Safety in Numbers" is uniquely credited to this tour, though, in fact, appears uncredited on The Circus and The Two Ring Circus as the latter part of "Spiralling".[3][4] All subsequent performances and recordings of "Spiralling" omit the "Safety In Numbers" part.
European tour and on-the-road footage shot on Video 8 from 1985 to 1986 by Steev Toth[5] is also inter-cut into the songs "Leave Me to Bleed", "If I Could", "Spiralling" and "Oh L'amour".
The video was later re-released[citation needed] on the budget 4 Front Video label.[citation needed] The track listing remained the same, but the cover artwork was slightly modified to suit the generic 'gold border' packaging of the 4 Front Video budget range.[6]
In 2011, the concert was again re-released, this time on DVD, as part of the 2011 expanded and remastered The Circus.[7] No significant changes or additions were made.
Video credits
Taken from the Live at the Seaside closing credits.
Executive producers: Angus Margerison, Daniel Miller
Related releases
The audio recording of the tracks "Don't Dance" and "Leave Me to Bleed" also appear on the CD single of "Victim of Love".[8]
On the same tour, Erasure's performances at Knopf Halle, Hamburg on 27 and 28 April 1987 were also recorded.[9] Many of these tracks are distributed across "The Circus" single releases, on editions of The Two Ring Circus remix album[10] and in the Erasure singles box set EBX 2.[11]
