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Fans who might have missed Björk on her recent American tour, or those who were lucky enough to catch a show but want to give her more of their money, will soon be able to see Iceland's favorite child-woman in concert on their very own televisions. The world's largest consumer of couture swan corpses will placate her fans with the November 19th releases of three discs in that shiniest and silverest of formats, DVD.

n Björk: Live at Shepherd's Bush, a concert previously released on VHS that has now been digitally remastered, documents one of the last shows of the 1997 Post tour, a concert in which, according to the reviewer on Björk.com, "the energy and radiance she emitted was unlike anything I have seen on any other Björk concert." Björk: Live in Cambridge was recorded on December 2nd, 1998 during the Homogenic tour and features the Icelandic string octet and the electronic stylings of LFO's Mark Bell. Björk: Unplugged/Live and Loud includes two shows recorded for MTV, the former a ten-song set consisting entirely of songs from Debut in the acoustic format, and the latter a six-song session recorded in 1998.

n Now the bad news: although these DVDs will be region free, they will not be available in NTSC format, only in the European PAL format. Some newer American DVD players can convert from PAL to NTSC, but others, which in this modern age should serve only as blunt weapons, sadly do not.

n .: Björk: http://www.bjork.com
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