Ride Rise Roar is a full-length concert DVD release featuring footage from David Byrne’s 2008-2009 tour collaboration with Brian Eno. The tour was appropriately named the “Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour” and featured large amount of on-stage choreography and dancing, along with the performance of the music itself.

This feature is treated like a film and not just another live concert with multi-camera footage. Intercut throughout the live performances are black and white interviews with the band and dancers, giving you an inside look at the creative process behind the tour itself.

QUALITY:
The picture quality is sharp and clear. The camera work puts you right in the middle of the stage, while the sound quality is top-notch. The one issue I did notice were the contrasting sound levels between the concert and the behind-the-scenes footage that was woven into the film. There seemed to be a pretty steep volume drop-off whenever it cut to the behind-the-scenes stuff. That could be due to my lack of surround sound equipment, but I doubt that it should have been as drastic as it was.

BONUS FEATURES:
No bonus features. Given the attention that was obviously given to developing this concert series, I would have expected something more, but no.

The main feature is definitely worth checking out if you’re a David Byrne/Talking Heads fan, but lack of any extra features is definitely a disappointment.