Under Blackpool Lights

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Under Blackpool Lights

| type = video

| artist = The White Stripes

| cover = Under Black Pool Lights.jpg

| alt =

| released = December 7, 2004

| recorded = January 27, 2004 and January 28, 2004

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Punk blues, garage rock

| length =

| label = Third Man

| director = Dick Carruthers

| producer =

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title =

| next_year =

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = The A.V. Club

| rev1Score = [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/15842 link]

| rev2 = The Guardian

| rev2Score = [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/nov/05/thewhitestripes link]

| noprose = yes

}}

Under Blackpool Lights is the first official DVD released by The White Stripes. The DVD consists of 26 tracks recorded at The Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens in the English seaside resort of Blackpool on January 27 and 28, 2004,{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/white-stripes-blackpool-lights-review/ |title=The White Stripes: Under The Blackpool Lights Review |work=Empire |access-date=22 June 2022}} and directed by Dick Carruthers using super 8 film. Among these tracks, as with most White Stripes live performances, are several cover songs – such as "Take a Whiff on Me" (Lead Belly), "Outlaw Blues" (Bob Dylan), "Jack the Ripper" (Screaming Lord Sutch), "Jolene" (Dolly Parton), "Death Letter" (Son House), "Goin' Back to Memphis" (Soledad Brothers), and "De Ballit of de Boll Weevil" (Lead Belly).{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/the-white-stripes-under-blackpool-lights |title=The White Stripes - Under Blackpool Lights |work=Time Out |access-date=22 June 2022}}

The DVD's title comes from a moment during the performance in which Jack White addresses the audience:

{{quote|"I heard George Harrison say the Beatles used to go see Blackpool lights – what is that? A different place altogether? I'm in the right place at the wrong time? That's how I feel every day."{{cite web |last1=Welch |first1=Will |title=The White Stripes Want Truth, Romance and Beauty for a Fallen America |url=https://www.thefader.com/2011/02/02/feature-the-white-stripes-want-truth-romance-and-beauty-for-a-fallen-america |website=The FADER |publisher=The FADER, Inc. |access-date=23 January 2022}}|}}