"Actor: The Beautiful South"

• The Beautiful South - Live In The Forest | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £18.64   |  Saving you £-10.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Filmed live in front of a sold-out audience at Yorkshire's Dalby Forest during a gorgeous summer's day in June 2005 comes a breathtaking performance from one of Britain's most enduring groups The Beautiful South. Track Listing: 1. We Are Each Other 2. Dumb 3. This Old Skin 4. I'll Sail This Ship Alone 5. Old Red Eyes Is Back 6. Everybody's Talkin' 7. A Little Time 8. Hold on to What? 9. Pretenders to the Throne? 10. Rotterdam 11. Songs For Whoever 12. Don't Marry H

• The Beautiful South : Munch - Our Hits | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Just as their two greatest hits collections have proved what an unsung contribution the Beautiful South have made to British music, so The Very Best of documents a fine video history. Never one to take the obvious path, this collection is light on the black and white, slow motion school of video making, instead stuffed full of clever, witty and ingenious clips. It charts the band's career from first single "Song for Whoever", through their massive chart success and ends with the lesser seen work of recent years. Always able to produce visuals worthy of their music, highlights nevertheless include the wedding of "Let Love Speak Up Itself", the cartoon of "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry" and the memorable "A Little Time". Also included are two live tracks from their Jools Holland special. Off screen, the band's history was to be equally fascinating (as documented in Mike Patttenden's superb Last Orders at the Liar's Bar), but this is a must for anyone with a passing interest in a wonderfully unique band. On the DVD: The Very Best of The Beautiful South on disc has excellent sound and picture quality, but the main selling point of this package is the audio commentary from Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray that accompanies each clip. As might be expected this is refreshingly honest (several of the videos are given a severe critical lashing) and very, very funny. It also provides an added insight into the band's history, particularly their approach to the whole business of being pop stars and the complicated internal politics that have affected them over the years--the constant jibes at ex-vocalist Briana Corrigan do wear a little thin after a while. Uniquely then, a music DVD that is just as entertaining with the music turned off. --Phil Udell

• We Could Be Kings | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Tracklist: 1. The La's - There She Goes 2. Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train 3. Vic Reeves / Wonderstuff - Dizzy 4. Longpigs - She Said 5. Wonderstuff - The Size Of A Cow 6. Beautiful South - You Keep It All In 7. Cast - Free Me 8. Charlatans - Forever 9. Big Country - Fields Of Fire 10. Oui 3 - For What It's Worth 11. Shed 7 - Going For Gold 12. Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens 13. The Jam - That's Entertainment 14. Gene - We Could Be Kings 15. Cast - Flying 16. James - Sit Down

• The Beautiful South - Carry On Up The Charts | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Formed from the remnants of The Housemartins Beautiful South became one of the best radio appeal British pop bands of the 80's and 90's. Tracklisting: 1. Song For Whoever 2. You Keep It All In 3. I'll Sail This Ship Alone 4. A Little Time 5. My Book 6. Let Love Speak Up Itself 7. Old Red Eyes Is Back 8. We Are Each Other 9. Bell Bottomed Tear 10. 36D 11. Good As Gold 12. Everybody's Talkin 13. Prettiest Eyes 14. One Last Love Song 15. Hold On To What 16. Woman In The Wall