1988-03-07 Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, East-Berlin, East-Germany

Notes

According to Sascha Lange and Dennis Burmeister's book Monument, none of the 6481 tickets were sold freely to citizens but were distributed among the higher education schools in East-Berlin (which of course meant that some sold their tickets for ridiculously high prices).

In 2013, German TV channel MDR reported on concerts in East-Germany, featuring this concert as well. Dave Gahan said in this report:

"I still remember that concert very well. I remember travelling to Checkpoint Charlie, trying to get in East-Berlin in the first place, the hotel we stayed in, the curfew after the concert, being locked up in the hotel and told not to leave... All these things, to a young 23/24 year old starting from Essex in England, it was kind of strange to have your freedom taken away from you."

German newspaper Tagesspiegel wrote a long retrospect in 2008 here; someone translated it to English here.

Mixed Pickles was the support act.

Set list

1. Pimpf
2. Behind The Wheel
3. Strangelove
4. Sacred
5. Something To Do
6. Blasphemous Rumours
7. Stripped
8. Pipeline (*)
9. The Things You Said (*)
10. Black Celebration
11. Shake The Disease
12. Nothing
13. Pleasure, Little Treasure
14. People Are People
15. A Question Of Time
16. Never Let Me Down Again
17. A Question Of Lust (*)
18. Master And Servant
19. Everything Counts

Sources

• Source 1 is a good, though fairly noisy audience recording.