Please Experience Wolfmother Live

Please Experience Wolfmother Live
Video by Wolfmother
Released	31 August 2007
Recorded	20 July 2006 at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, New South Wales; 29 October 2006 at the Acer Arena, Sydney, New South Wales; and 15 November 2006 at the Brixton Academy, London, England
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal, neo-psychedelia, stoner rock
Length	110:06
Label	Modular
Director	The Malloys
Producer	Rene Shalala

Please Experience Wolfmother Live
EP by Wolfmother
Released	24 August 2007
Recorded	20 July 2006 at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, New South Wales
Length	19:08
Label	Modular
Wolfmother EP chronology
Dimensions (2006) Please Experience Wolfmother Live (2007) iTunes Live from Sydney (2010)

Please Experience Wolfmother Live is the debut video album by Australian hard rock band Wolfmother. Directed by The Malloys, who also directed a number of the band's music videos, the album features footage from three performances on Wolfmother's 2006 world tour in promotion of their 2005 self-titled debut album. It was first released in Australia on 31 August 2007 by Modular Recordings, and later followed in Europe on 10 September and finally in North America on 20 November.

The main feature of Please Experience Wolfmother Live is the band's full 12-song performance at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 20 July 2006,^[1] which is introduced by Jackass stars Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera. In addition to this, the album features "Joker & the Thief" at the ARIA Music Awards on 29 October 2006, "Dimension" and "Love Train" from a show at Brixton Academy in London, England on 15 November 2006, all five of the band's music videos at the time of release, and a short documentary.

One week prior to the video album, an extended play (EP) version of Please Experience Wolfmother Live was released,^[2] featuring three tracks and one video from the Hordern Pavilion show. The video was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association.^[3]

Critical reception

Media response to Please Experience Wolfmother Live was mixed. Writing for The Sunday Times online publication PerthNow, Polly Coufos awarded the album three and a half stars out of five, proposing that "[Wolfmother's] brutal sound invokes the gods of metal past, with just enough tongue-in-cheek humour to keep outsiders interested too", praising "Joker & the Thief" as the highlight.^[4] A reviewer for the Manchester Evening News was more negative, however, claiming that "the performance [Wolfmother] have chosen to immortalise on [Please Experience Wolfmother Live] is not exactly their finest", criticising the "competent but bog-standard" camera work and editing, "uninteresting" stage set, and charisma-lacking performance.^[5]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Andrew Stockdale, Chris Ross and Myles Heskett.

Video album

Live at the Hordern, Sydney, Australia, 2006
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dimension"	7:32
2.	"Pyramid"	4:34
3.	"Apple Tree"	3:47
4.	"White Unicorn"	10:44
5.	"Love Train"	3:13
6.	"Witchcraft"	4:40
7.	"Tales" (full title "Tales from the Forest of Gnomes")	4:19
8.	"Woman"	3:09
9.	"Mind's Eye"	11:47
10.	"Vagabond"	3:35
11.	"Colossal"	7:14
12.	"Joker & the Thief"	6:32
Total length:		71:04

Live at the ARIA Awards Ceremony, Sydney, Australia, 2006
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Joker & the Thief"	5:02
Total length:		5:02

Live at Brixton Academy, London, UK, 2006
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dimension"	6:19
2.	"Love Train"	3:04
Total length:		9:23

Music videos
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Joker & the Thief"	4:15
2.	"White Unicorn"	4:28
3.	"Love Train"	3:05
4.	"Mind's Eye"	4:54
5.	"Woman"	2:31
Total length:		19:13

Meet the Mother
No.	Title	Length
1.	"An Introduction to the Band"	5:24
Total length:		5:24

Extended play

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love Train"	2:57
2.	"Woman"	3:04
3.	"Mind's Eye"	6:00
4.	"Colossal" (video)	7:07
Total length:		19:08

Personnel

Wolfmother Andrew Stockdale – vocals, guitar Chris Ross – bass, organ Myles Heskett – drums Additional musicians Gustav Ejstes – flute ("Witchcraft")

Production personnel The Malloys – direction Rene Shalala – production John Watson – production Steve Pav – production Karen Tinman – production Archie Gormley – production

Additional personnel Jonathan Zawada – design Daniel Boud – photography Martin Philbey – photography John Stanton – photography Gary Wolstenholme – photography

References

1. "Wolfmother Concert Setlist at Hordern Pavilion, Sydney on July 20, 2006". setlist.fm. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
2. "Please Experience Wolfmother (Live) - EP by Wolfmother". iTunes. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
3. "2007 DVD". Accreditations. Australian Recording Industry Association. 31 December 2007. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
4. Coufos, Pelly (1 September 2007). "Reviews of the week". PerthNow. news.com.au. Archived from the original on 17 December 2007. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
5. "DVD review: Wolfmother - Please Experience Wolfmother Live (E)". Manchester Evening News. 13 September 2007. Retrieved 19 April 2014.