MusicDVDs

Latest DVD releases reviewed.

EMINEM
The Anger Management Tour 2005 Polydor ***

Just in time for Slane, this, remarkably, is Eminem's first live DVD. Recorded at a homecoming concert in Detroit during the Encore tour, the rap superstar is on damn fine form here as he snarls his way through the poetic beats. There has always been a problem transferring hip-hop to the live stage. Eminem does run up against some problems in this regard - there's none of the sturm und drang of your average rock show - but the quality of the songs shine through. The sound is great; it's one of those 5.1 Surround Sound things and there's plenty of behind-the-scenes footage featuring 50 Cent, G-Unit, D12 and Obie Trice. A reminder of just how powerful a performer Marshall Mathers III is. Brian Boyd

SAINT ETIENNE
Finisterre Plexifilms ****

Saint Etienne have had a career-long fascination with London, so it was perhaps inevitable that this would flourish into a film of one kind or another. Directed by Kieran Evans and Paul Kelly, Finisterre evokes a London as much of the mind as the spaces between the bus stops and housing estates. Observations and tall tales from a rake of band accomplices and folk commentators provide a narrative of sorts around the contours of this London. But it's how Evans and Kelly look at the cityscapes which fall between the tourist postcards and the gritty urban realism so beloved of other London-centric documentarians that really makes Finisterre worth catching. In many ways - and perhaps this was the intention - Saint Etienne's music plays second fiddle to the city, with tracks from their 2002 album being used solely to highlight and accentuate certain scenes. www.saintetienne.com  Jim Carroll