1993-07-31 Crystal Palace Sports Ground, London, England, UK
Notes
Fourteen out of nineteen songs were broadcast on BBC Radio 1, originally on 1993-08-30 (see BBC website here and here). There were two different broadcasts of the concert, with one including Walking In My Shoes.
You can watch a special video about this concert on the official site archives.
Allegedly, Dave said something like "We've got the full moon especially for tonight for you people... Ahhh just joking... It costs too much... [laughs]" upon seeing the full moon; he also said that he needed help with singing Stripped but then when nobody sang along he said "Oh, come on"; then during I Feel You he said "Just takes a while sometimes, you know!" Allegedly, Dave also said "At least its not fucking raining" after World In My Eyes as well as "Let's hear you make some fucking noise" at the beginning of Never Let Me Down Again.
Dreadzone, Dub Syndicate, Marxmen and Sisters Of Mercy were the support acts.
Here is Daryl Bamonte's entry for the famous Devotional Tour Diary, published in Bong magazine in 1994:
Crystal Palace. Finally home after 3 months. 36,000+ people at this show, 1,000 with passes, and I know all of them, so backstage was chaos. My son had a good day. He definitely preferred DUB SYNDICATE to THE SISTERS OF MERCY. I used to think that ANDREW ELDRITCH was really cool. A god-like quasi-Darth Vader figure. He’s actually like RIGSBY.
Set list
- Intro
- Higher Love
- Policy Of Truth
- World In My Eyes
- Walking In My Shoes
- Behind The Wheel
- Halo
- Stripped
- Condemnation
- Judas (*)
- One Caress (*)
- Mercy In You
- I Feel You
- Never Let Me Down Again
- Rush
- In Your Room
- Personal Jesus
- Enjoy The Silence
- Fly On The Windscreen
- Everything Counts
Sources
- Source 1 is a very good sounding FM broadcast recording and is the most complete version available to date.
