Bunnymen Release Live Ocean Rain

British band Echo & The Bunnymen performed their 1984 landmark album Ocean Rain in its entirety with an orchestra in Liverpool, England last November. Now the group will release a live album celebrating the concert "on or before" May 1.

Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Rain Live Liverpool Echo Arena 27/11/08 will only be available through the band’s website. The deluxe edition will include a DVD featuring behind-the-scenes footage, voice-over options from singer Ian McCulloch and guitarist Will Sergeant, and an eight-page booklet with photos.

All copies will be autographed by McCulloch and Sergeant, and the first 1,000 ordered will be inscribed with the name of the purchaser's choice. Ocean Rain Live can be pre-ordered here.

Echo & The Bunnymen are slated to release The Fountain, the follow-up to 2005's Siberia, later this year.

The band will be hopping... like Bunnymen with a series of performances at next week’s South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. You can see them here:

March 18 Austin, TX @ Emo's Main Room w/Gallows, H.R. Band, Circle Jerks and Juliette & The New Romantiques (SXSW)
March 20 Austin, TX @ Stubb's w/Monthlies, Burke, Hatcham Social, Crystal Method, N.A.S.A., Hot Leg, Black Lips, Glasvegas, Passion Pit and Cut Off Your Hands (SXSW)
March 21 Austin, TX @ The Bat Bar at Austin Convention Center (SXSW)
March 21 Austin, TX @ Rusty Spurs w/Juliette Commagere, The Tender Box, Wintersleep and The High Dials (SXSW)
April 24 London, England @ Camden Crawl '09
Dec. 19 Liverpool, England @ O2 Academy

Here are the tracks on Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Rain Live Liverpool Echo Arena 27/11/08:

"Silver"
"Nocturnal Me"
"Crystal Days"
"The Yo Yo Man"
"Thorn Of Crowns"
"The Killing Moon"
"Seven Seas"
"My Kingdom"
"Ocean Rain"

(Photo By Peter Allen)