Genesis Live – The Mama Tour is a 1985 home video

Home video

Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or rented/hired for home cinema entertainment. The term originates from the VHS/Betamax era but has carried over into current optical disc formats like DVD and Blu-ray Disc and, to a lesser extent, into methods of digital...

 featuring footage from a Genesis

Genesis (band)

Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins . Past members Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips , also played major roles in the band in its early years...

 concert in February 1984. It was filmed at the National Exhibition Centre

National Exhibition Centre

The National Exhibition Centre is an exhibition centre in Birmingham, England. It is near junction 6 of the M42 motorway, and is adjacent to Birmingham International Airport and Birmingham International railway station. It has 20 interconnected halls, set in grounds of 628 acres making it the...

 in Birmingham, England, and directed by Jim Yukich.

Two thirds of the group's then current eponymous album appears on this video: the singles "Mama", "That's All" and "Illegal Alien", the B-side of "Mama", "It's Gonna Get Better", and the two-piece suite "Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea

Home by the Sea

"Home by the Sea" is a suite of two songs by English progressive rock band Genesis. It first appeared on their eponymous album in 1983. Lyrically, the song is about a burglar who breaks into a house only to find it is a haunted prison...

".

Two singles from the previous album Abacab

Abacab

Abacab, released in 1981, is the 11th studio album by British band Genesis. It reached No.1 in the UK, where it remained in the charts for 27 weeks.-Background and recording:...

are also performed ("Keep It Dark

Keep It Dark

"Keep It Dark" is a song by British band, Genesis, released on October 23, 1981 as a single in Europe only. The track wasn't released as a single in the U.S.-Song information:...

" and the title track

Abacab (song)

"Abacab" is a song by the British rock band Genesis, released on August 14, 1981. It was produced by Genesis and distributed in the United States by Atlantic Records and Warner Music Group. The song, written by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford, was featured on Genesis' album of the...

), and the set is rounded off with a medley of songs from their seventies period and the stage favourite "Turn It On Again

Turn It On Again

"Turn It On Again" is a single from the British progressive rock band Genesis, from their 1980 album Duke.The lyrics deal with a man who does nothing more than watch his television, so much that he becomes obsessed with the people he watches on it, believing them to be his friends.The song is also...

". The latter song diverges into a medley of well-known songs by artists from bygone years, while the "In the Cage" suite includes extracts from "The Cinema Show

The Cinema Show

"The Cinema Show" is an epic rock song by British progressive rock band Genesis from their 1973 album, Selling England by the Pound.Musically, the song is divided into two main sections: The first section is a gentle 12-string guitar-based piece, featuring vocal harmonies between Peter Gabriel and...

" and "In That Quiet Earth".

The only tracks that were not included on the video that were performed at the shows were the show's opening track "Dodo/Lurker", the "Eleventh Earl of Mar"/"The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"/"Firth Of Fifth/"The Musical Box" medley, "The Carpet Crawlers", "Follow You Follow Me", and "Los Endos".

The artwork incorporates aspects of the sleeves from the "Mama" single and the album Genesis, and also gives a nod to the light show for which the band was well-known.

The Mama Tour was released on DVD, with 5.1 DTS and Dolby Digital sound, in November 2009 as part of The Movie Box

Genesis Movie Box 1981–2007

Genesis Movie Box 1981–2007 is a box set by Genesis which includes the following DVDs:*Three Sides Live , released before on VHS only;...

 DVD set.

Track listing

1. "Abacab"
2. "That's All"
3. "Mama"
4. "Illegal Alien"
5. "Home By The Sea"
6. "Second Home By The Sea"
7. "Keep It Dark"
8. "It's Gonna Get Better"
9. "In the Cage/Cinema Show/In That Quiet Earth/The Colony of Slippermen"
10. "Afterglow"
11. "Drum Duet"
12. "Turn It On Again (with medley)"

Personnel

• Phil Collins
  Phil Collins
  Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
  
   – drums, lead vocals
• Tony Banks
  Tony Banks (musician)
  This article is about the musician. For other people named Tony Banks, see Tony BanksAnthony George "Tony" Banks is a British composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...
  
   – keyboards
• Mike Rutherford
  Mike Rutherford
  Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford is an English musician. He is a founding member of Genesis, initially as a bassist and backup vocalist. In later incarnations of Genesis, he assumed the role of lead guitarist. He is one of only two constant members in Genesis . He also fronts Mike + The...
  
   – lead guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals

with

• Daryl Stuermer
  Daryl Stuermer
  Daryl Mark Stuermer is an American musician who plays guitar and bass for Genesis during live shows, and lead guitar for Phil Collins during most of his solo tours and albums.-Biography:...
  
   – bass & lead guitar
• Chester Thompson
  Chester Thompson
  Chester Cortez Thompson is an American drummer and session musician.-Biography:Thompson made his name as a session drummer, going on to play in Frank Zappa's touring band and with Weather Report...
  
  – drums