The only question on the Neil Young Coastal film was where to see it and I opted for the comfort of Olympic Cinema in Barnes where my comfy seat cost me a reasonable £18.5.
The film was taken on the road during his 2023 solo tour and featured some travel time in his electric bus, some backstage scenes and a decent amount of concert footage. It was all filmed by Neil's wife, Daryl Hannah , and in monochrome. It very much had a home video feel to it and there is nothing wrong with that, in particular the conversations Neil had with his driver were clearly genuine and while they were rarely deep they were also interesting.
The concert footage, which is what I think most people went to see the film for, was interesting for several reasons; there were none of the "greatest hits", a phrase Neil himself used and instead it was mostly new songs, i.e. ones I did not recognise. One song I did recognise was Vampire Blues, from On The Beach (1974), which I had never head Neil play live before.
I am not sure how deliberate it was but over the relatively few songs played Neil used a lot of different instruments and he told us stories about a couple of them, indeed he seemed quite chatty on stage.
Being a documentary of a solo artist playing unknown songs it was all rather low-key. Luckily that artist was Neil Young and he was playing typical Neil Young songs so everything was good. I bought a ticket for his Hyde Park show the next day.
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