After several albums, several hits and several tours the Barenaked Ladies are doing something they haven't done too often next month in releasing a live DVD entitled Talk to the Hand: Live in Michigan.

The group says it was a perfect time to capture the group's latest road show.

"Every concert we play now we record and have available right afterwards," drummer Tyler Stewart says with bassist Jim Creeggan and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Hearn seated nearby.

"So we said, 'Let's try it with video.' Many other technologies have come along whether it's satellite radio or YouTube, where people can instantaneously hear your music. Nowadays focusing all of your energy on a CD or a hit for the radio doesn't really make sense."

"And also we had just finished a year-long tour for those two records (Barenaked Ladies Are Me and Barenaked Ladies Are Men) so we were in good shape," Hearn adds.

"So we had the whole show together and we wanted to do it before we moved on to the next project."

The concert, recorded last June at DTE Energy Music Theatre north of Detroit, is a 15-song mix of signatures such as One Week and Be My Yoko Ono alongside new material, such as the Bruce Cockburn-like Easy and Bank Job.

Also included on the DVD, airing on Sun TV tonight at 8 p.m., is the rarity Powder Blue.

"That song was recorded for Maroon and it didn't make the record for one reason or another," Jim Creeggan says of the tune.

"It's been a song that's never really had its due. We all really love that song so it's nice to be able to put it into the forefront with all our other songs."

While the DVD also includes almost mandatory behind-the-scenes bonus footage and interviews, perhaps the oddest thing about the release is its packaging.

Unlike the hard plastic cases DVDs often come in, the group opted for something both eco-friendly and edible.

"We wanted something you could eat after you watched it," Stewart deadpans.

"This is all made with potato starch and other products. I think we've been leaning towards this for a long time.

"When we signed our first record deal CDs came in a long box, they were these huge cardboard displays used for marketing. I remember being at a meeting at a record company and they said, 'You're going to have this much of a deduction off your contract for the long box.' One of us said, 'They still use long boxes?' The lawyer who worked for the record company said, 'Just 'til all the forests are gone.' He said it sarcastically but it always stuck with me because it's ridiculously wasteful."

Aside from the green cause, which they've established with their own touring initiative called Barenaked Planet, the group are currently juggling a few projects in preparation for their 20th anniversary next year.

The group recently contributed the theme song to the television series The Big Bang Theory and are compiling a box set featuring "tons of material and rarities."

Hearn also says the group "might" stage a huge (and free) outdoor concert to celebrate the anniversary in 2008. And on top of that the band, who have the song The Other Day I Met a Bear on the children's compilation For The Kids III, are about to enter the studio to record a children's album.

In the meantime, Barenaked Ladies are performing Monday at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall for A Gift of Music, a benefit concert for the St. Michael's Choir Schools (which Hearn is an alumnus of) also featuring Michael Burgess, Matt Dusk and John McDermott.

"The pope won't be appearing," Stewart quips. "So we're not really doing many shows other than the ones induced out of Catholic guilt."