Tubular Bells II, The Performance Live at Edinburgh Castle is a live concert video by Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

 released in 1992.

Background

The video is a full faithful performance from the premiere concert of the Tubular Bells II

Tubular Bells II

Tubular Bells II is the 15th music album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1992. The album - the first for his new record label, Warner Bros. Records, following an acrimonious departure from Virgin Records after twenty years - was conceived as a sequel to Oldfield's 1973 Tubular Bells...

album at Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle is a fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, from its position atop the volcanic Castle Rock. Human habitation of the site is dated back as far as the 9th century BC, although the nature of early settlement is unclear...

. John Gordon Sinclair

John Gordon Sinclair

John Gordon Sinclair is a Scottish actor most famous for playing Gregory in Gregory's Girl. He was born as Gordon John but took the stage name 'John Gordon Sinclair' because Equity already had a Gordon John registered....

 performed the part of the Master of Ceremonies at the concert; on the album Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor and theatre director. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...

 was the Master of Ceremonies. The concert finishes with a reprise of "The Bell". Eight thousand people were at the concert in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

.

Release

It was released on VHS

VHS

The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....

 and Laserdisc

Laserdisc

LaserDisc was a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in North America in 1978, the technology was previously referred to interally as Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Optical...

 in 1992, and later packaged with Tubular Bells III Live

Tubular Bells III Live

Tubular Bells III, The Premiere Performance is a live concert video by Mike Oldfield released in 1998.It was released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1998, and later packaged with Tubular Bells II Live on DVD.- The Concert :...

on DVD.

Track listing

1. "Sentinel
   Sentinel (song)
   "Sentinel" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1992. The single features a restructured, shorter version of "Sentinel", from the album Tubular Bells II.- Charts :...
   
   "
2. "Dark Star"
3. "Clear Light"
4. "Blue Saloon"
5. "Sunjammer"
6. "Red Dawn"
7. "The Bell
   The Bell (song)
   "The Bell" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in April 1993. The single features a restructured, shorter version of "The Bell", from the album Tubular Bells II.- Master of Ceremonies and Instruments:...
   
   "
8. "Weightless"
9. "The Great Plain"
10. "Sunset Door"
11. "Tattoo
    Tattoo (Mike Oldfield song)
    "Tattoo" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1992. It is from the album Tubular Bells II. There were two singles released for "Tattoo", one being called the Live at Edinburgh Castle EP.- CD single :# "Tattoo" – 3:41...
    
    "
12. "Altered State"
13. "Maya Gold"
14. "Moonshine"
15. "Reprise"

Personnel

• Mike Oldfield
• Robyn Smith – Conductor
• David Bedford
  David Bedford
  David Vickerman Bedford , was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music....
  
   – some Orchestration
• Jay Stapley – Guitar
• Hugh Burns – Guitar
• Alan Limbrick – Guitar
• Craig Pruess
  Craig Pruess
  Craig Pruess is an American composer, musician, arranger and gold & platinum record producer who has been living in Britain since 1973...
  
   – Keyboards
• Richard Cottle – Keyboards
• Dave Hartley – Keyboards
• Adrian Thomas – Programmer
• Yitkin Seow – Piano
• Lawrence Cottle – Bass guitar
• Ian Thomas – Drums
• Ben Hoffnung – Percussion
• Alasdair Malloy – Percussion
• Jerry McKenna – Banjo
• Pete Clarke – Fiddle
• John Parricelli – Mandolin & Guitar
• Jackie Quinn – Vocals
• Linda Taylor – Vocals
• Edie Lehmann – Vocals
• Susannah Melvoin – Vocals
• John Gordon Sinclair
  John Gordon Sinclair
  John Gordon Sinclair is a Scottish actor most famous for playing Gregory in Gregory's Girl. He was born as Gordon John but took the stage name 'John Gordon Sinclair' because Equity already had a Gordon John registered....
  
  – MC

External links

• Tubular Bells II - Production Meetings at Orabidoo.de