Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance WEMBLEY '98 - Planet Ireland (Full) (ULTRA RARE FOOTAGE)

Be the first to see what&coming from the Lord of the Dance archives. Like and subscribe for new video notifications. #FlatleyFiles This might be the most unusual video ever uploaded to this channel: a low-resolution VHS-transfer fan bootleg from the legendary 1998 Wembley run of Lord of the Dance. If you go online, there&practically no fan footage of the original Lord of the Dance journey, for a very simple reason: in-venue photography was strictly prevented back then. Technically it still is today, but we&in the age of the smart phone, where everyone has an HD camcorder in their pocket. Back in the late nineties, smart phones were still almost a decade away from being invented, so it was much easier to enforce. The other thing that was about a decade away from being invented was social media. There simply was no Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or anything else to instantly share information as we do today. The end result is that a certain mystique has built up around the legendary original journey from 1996 to 1998, simply because so little of it has ever been *seen.* Here was this group of kids who went on a mad crusade around the world in the biggest act on the planet, outselling U2 and the Rolling Stones, performing at the Oscars, selling out Wembley for 21 nights in a row (a record which still stands to this day), and unless you saw it live, all you&got to look at are two commercial video releases (and their making-of specials) along with a small handful of various...