The full‑length concert film, Jonathan Bree – Live in Mexico City, is now streaming in its entirety on YouTube.
Captured during his 18 country, 52 date Pre-Code Hollywood world tour of 2023, this document arrives not as a slick souvenir via expensive rigs or polished crews, but as a séance. Shot on vintage cameras of a pre-internet era, the image breathes with the artifacts of another time — streaked, unstable, alive. Intercut with fragments of phone footage shared by Bree’s fanatics scattered through the dark of the crowd, it gains a visceral, immersive edge.
The result is a strikingly intimate document — equal parts archival artifact and pop–stained cinematic neon nightmare. Bree’s setlist leans heavily on album ‘Pre‑Code Hollywood’, its shadowy glamour bleeding seamlessly into earlier songs from his catalogue, all delivered with the noir‑tinged theatricality and intricate choreography that have made his shows cult events around the globe.
Deep into the night, the band invoke solid favourites “Epicurean,” “Until We’re Done,” “You Are The Man,” “Destiny,” “Pre‑Code Hollywood,” “Politics,” “Say You Love Me Too,” “Roller Disco,” “Blur,” “Valentine,” “City Baby,” “Miss You,” “When We Met,” and “You’re So Cool,” before closing on the elegiac “We’ll All Be Forgotten” — before conjuring a lone encore of “Steel and Glass.”
Through all this - The Danseuse, like a sensual balletic banshee spirit from beyond, floats, slinks, and reels like a midnight marionette, both tempting and taunting – a doll of destruction, and desire.
It isn’t trying to be a perfect record — instead, it captures the atmosphere of that night, captured by fans and committed to memory, like a ritual.
The concert film arrives as Bree continues to blur the lines between performance art and pop music, his masked band members and dancer creating a live experience unlike any other.