Under Blackpool Lights

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Under Blackpool Lights is a concert DVD by The White Stripes. It was released on November 23, 2004. It shows The White Stripes performing various songs in two nights in Blackpool, England in January of 2004.

Contents

Tracks

Easter Eggs

  • On the third page of song selections, highlight the third song ("Let's Shake Hands") and press right three times on the navigation controls. It will cut to a short scene. (Remember Jack's obsession with the number three!)
  • Watch the writing on Jack's arm. It changes from "Noxious" to "Obnoxious" over the course of the show. Apparently this was Meg's doing as a way to play a joke on the director. This is possible since the film was shot over the course of two performances.
  • After "Let's Shake Hands", at the 58:05 mark, you can see Jack and Meg applauding themselves.

There may be other secrets or oddities in the DVD. On the band's website Jack left a message saying, "There are so many secret things in it! I cant wait for you all to find the secrets. Sometimes you have to pay attention you know? Like listen really closely, or maybe some things are upside down? Always look at things from more than one angle you know? But after you've done that listen to your gut and shoot from the hip. If you follow your heart you won't be sad with yourself."

Band Quotes

  • Jack White: "That was a lot of work for them. I was wondering how they were gonna do it. They had six different cameras, and the cartridges only lasted for three minutes, they had to keep changing them over and over again. He had no idea who was filming what. He had everyone on walkie-talkies but there's no fade back monitor for the director to sit in, so he can only kind of guess what they're filming. So I think he was kind of barking out orders in general. Like film Jack's face, or, film Meg's face, or, film Meg's hand. But they were just guessing where they were. And I think there was some kind of light thing too. I could see from the balcony whether the Super 8 camera was on or not from the red light on top. (laughs) It was really funny. He had to line them all up on a computer, and work out where it landed in the show. Sometimes there were big spaces, depending on how long it took someone to load a new cartridge. Then they could only use another angle. Really interesting. Not convenient, no. But a really really warm feeling to the whole thing. I went through the whole process with them, the editing, and mixing the movie. I never met this person before, but there's a person that I think has the greatest job on earth. I would just love this guy's job. (To Meg) I don't know if I told you about this... There's a colourist. All he does, he just sits at this space-age desk and he has three red balls in front of him, and he plays with them. He just looks at things and changes colours, and darkens things when he wants to. They have lights underneath them, and they glow. Sometimes they'll turn yellow, the balls. He's just playing with them. There's no numbers, or any chart on there. It's just a table with three red spheres on it. Really cool! Just colours and shades and contrasts. Such a great job! I'd love to do that all day long! And just pick and make the right colour. Really cool. I never knew there was a guy who just did that - a colourist. I forgot the guy's name - I was too busy looking at his table! It would've been great to maybe even have a section of the film where it might be silent. I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm. The way they film it, it has a warm feeling to it. It was an incident rather than an MTV Special. Those were hot shows. Alexandra Palace was hot. I thought the second one, was it, was better. That was the best tour we ever had, for sure. There was not one bad show. I loved every night. Surprisingly, the first night in Blackpool, I thought we didn't click, the first part of it something didn't click. We went into like nine songs in a row without stopping. After that show, it felt like something was wrong, but it was way better than the second night (laughs) It was great! The first nine songs in the movie are straight through from the beginning from that show."
  • Meg White : "I don't mind doing it. I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings. And from the Blackpool shows - urgh! I'm claiming I was sick then. I saw those and I was like, Noo! I think it came across good, and sometimes not. I'm just not used to singing that much. It's hard listening to myself."
  • Dick Carruthers : "They're quite unique, I can safely say. The way that they play, the sounds that they make and the relationship between them, which is both strong and ambiguous at the same time -- it's quite a powerful combination."

Credits/Personnal

  • Jack White : vocals, guitar, piano/keyboards
  • Meg White : drums, vocals, percussion
  • Dick Carruthers : director

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