Live Concert Experience: Life On Our Planet by Silverback Films

Some major news has dropped from Life on Our Planet series creators Silverback Films about an upcoming audio-visual concert coming this October 2024.

I enjoyed watching the Life on Our Planet series when it released on Netflix on the 25th of October 2023. The series made palaeontology and geological time very accessible to a global audience and was an immense success, with a current rating of 8.1 on IMDB and a 74% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The documentary did a wonderful job of displaying the diversification and evolution of life throughout the Earth’s palaeontological history and comparing this alongside the extant taxa of today.

Since the show dropped on Netflix back in October Palaeocast a palaeontology podcast dropped a number of podcast episodes talking with the directors, researchers, and creatives of the series. Silverback Films researcher Dr Tom Fletcher also published a book on the series and now Life on Our Planet is getting its own unique live concert experience.

Silverback Films posted the following information on their website today about the new concert, which you can read below.

Our ground-breaking 8-part documentary series Life On Our Planet is now a spectacular audio-visual live experience; Life On Our Planet in Concert. Touring across 6 prestigious UK venues during October 2024, the power, drama, and excitement of our series can soon be experienced on the big screen along with the sweeping soundtrack composed by Lorne Balfe, performed by some of the UK’s finest and most highly regarded orchestras.

Life On Our Planet was created by Silverback Films in association with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, and narrated by Academy Award® winner Morgan Freeman. Life On Our Planet in Concert (from esk film, in association with Netflix and Silverback Films) will allow audiences to see the story of life unfold on the big screen through its most pivotal moments – from the first single-celled life form to the first animals to move out from the sea and onto land, to the first creatures to take flight.

“It’s exciting to be able to bring the score for Life On Our Planet to the live audience. It’s a journey through billions of years, a concept of life and breath and music that will connect you to every step of the way” says Lorne Balfe, Scottish composer and producer of the musical score.

TOUR DATES BELOW – TICKET ARE ON SALE NOW:

• Weds 2nd – BRISTOL Beacon – with Welsh National Opera– Buy tickets here!
• Fri 4th – BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall – with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra– Buy tickets here!
• Sun 6th – GATESHEAD The Glasshouse International Centre for Music – with Royal Northern Sinfonia– Buy tickets here!
• Tues 8th – MANCHESTER Bridgewater Hall – with Manchester Camerata– Buy tickets here!
• Thurs 10th – GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall – with Royal Scottish National Orchestra– Buy tickets here!
• Thurs 17th – LONDON Barbican – with London Symphony Orchestra– Buy tickets here!

I hope you have found this article interesting and engaging. This live concert is a unexpected but welcome addition to the Life on Our Planet series. It looks to be a brilliant way of sharing more about the Netflix show with major fans but also new audiences, who may not have come across the series as of yet. Sharing the iconic CGI, wildlife footage and sweeping landscapes that the show is known for alongside the fantastic score by Lorne Balfe.

My Palaeontology Outreach

If you want to find out more about dinosaur palaeobiology you can explore the dinosaur fact file tab on my website, where you can learn more about some of the non-hadrosaurid ornithischian and hadrosaurid specimens analysed in my MSc research. My science communication outreach links can also be accessed at the scicomm links page, featuring palaeontology content you will not want to miss!