Reviewed by Tony Cummings

Keith, as we now know, is a fresh faced young man from the US of A. With the release of his This Side Of Heaven' debut, Star Song Communications worked very hard and spent SERIOUS money to elevate him into the upper echelons of CCM stardom. This is part of their efforts, the company bringing a video crew in to the Flevo festival, made sure it had one of those gizmos which swept back and forth across the audience and did everything they could to pump up the hype. So why does this vid leave the viewer less than convinced that the new Michael W Smith has arrived? Well, for a start the crowd is considerably less than the 12,000 claimed on the sleeve and despite Keith's endless hectoring don't get particularly involved. Secondly, the songs despite all the formulae one normally associates with catchy synth pop simply don't catch too often. All in all a rather flat vid, despite all the effort and expense.

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