The Still Growing Up Tour 2004 was as successful as it was praised. We remember that it still is the tour to promote Up. Somewhere between Ischgl and Kaiserslautern, though, Darkness, More Than This, Growing Up and even Signal To Noise vanished from the live set. These songs were not replaced either, so if you looked closely you would find that the last

concerts were virtually Up-free. For a large-scale tour to promote an album, this is a curious situation. But then Peter never really was into minor details like these.
 
The film opens with The Feeling Begins, which was performed just once instead of Here Comes The Flood – by Levon Minassian at the Nîmes Open Air. An interesting performances and not a bad start at all, although one might consider it a bad change because Gabriel’s own gig was, of course, shortened by it.
It is followed by Red Rain and a patchwork of images that can make you quite dizzy. Still Growing Up continues a development that was indicated on the PLAY DVD: The concert film is a collage from several concerts with the audio track of just one show. The fact that Peter speaks mainly French would seem to indicate that the audio track (or major parts of it) is from Nîmes. It is during Secret World that one really notices the sound, albeit in a negative way. It seems rather bumpy and by no means as powerful as on Growing Up Live. The confusion is heigthened by the patchwork of images from Brussels, Lucca, Lyon, Nice, Nîmes and Kaiserslautern. The round stage with the egg gives way to an end stage with a Floydian circle of light on the cealing, which is suddenly replaced by the arc in front of the Kaiserslauten stage, the incredibly large crowds of the Paleo Festival and a botanical garden of sorts in front of the French stage. Very confusing, the more so during White Ashes when Peter circles the stage in Brussels, a thing he could not do for the festivals. Except for The Feeling Begins, White Ashes is the first song of this concert that had not been released on Growing Up Live. The video for Games Without Frontiers Live had of course been released as an appetizer on PLAY, but it had not been included on the previous live DVD. Peter was given additional opportunities to play around in Kaiserslautern where he would assiduously ride across the arc in front of the stage. The images for Burn You Up Burn You Down are most peculiar. The video focuses on the Brussels gig, but you can spot the odd festival stage – which is odd because the song was not played on the festivals the material was taken from. The Tower That Ate People is a highlight of this DVD. It was played in a very strong version on the 2004 tour and proved a big bonus for the live set. It seems, however, that the song was improved even further for the DVD. While a classic Gabrielian jumble of lyrics was not corrected (during Secret World), some distortion was added to The Tower after the recording so that it resembles the album version. The Tower and the song after it, San Jacinto, make their first appearance on DVD (from this tour, anyway). The patchwork of images works particularly well for San Jacinto, and the song gains even more intensity.

News, too, for Digging In The Dirt for which Peter did not wear a head-cam. The DVD for the first time records the “blinding effect” of the spot at the end of the song. Audiences may remember that this effect did not work in Kaiserslautern where the spot remained dark.
Not much new for Solsbury Hill. Peter left his bike in the shed, and near the end of the song some of the musicians run along the stage, or, as in Kaiserslautern, across the arc. Sledgehammer features the famous lamp jacket again. The last two songs of the main film bring new material again: Come Talk To Me did not make it on the Growing Up Live DVD though it was played on one of the two nights that were filmed in Milan. It is, finally, released on this DVD. The sound and images (at least most of it) come from the Brussels show and it sure is another highlight. Then the show comes to a worthy end: Biko features much material from Kaiserslautern. While the band are still playing Biko, we see Peter hurrying away in a bathrobe. In the end, Ged Lynch leaves the stage and (Still) Growing Up is history. All announcements of the show are from France, most probably from the Nîmes show. The only exception is The Tower That Ate People which is from the Paleo Festival. Hopes of (German) fans that one or two German announcements would make it onto the DVD were thus disappointed. The main film lacks Baby Man and In Your Eyes, though these songs were performed on the filmed concerts
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