Kingdom

Notes

In a long promo interview in September 2007, Dave Gahan was asked about every song off 'Hourglass' including this one:

"That came about from, you know Christian and Andrew, they sort of jammed together, they did this jam together which was kind of ten pieces of Andrew playing bass, Christian on drums and them putting some atmospheric noises or vocoders over it. I think they spent maybe like an afternoon doing this whole jam and from that stuff quite a lot of things developed. Um, there was a real freedom and spontaneity in it, it wasn't like any kind of song structures or any you know, what I heard as being songs when I first heard it in fact when I first heard it kind of a bit you know I don't really get it. But then after a while I separated each piece and started to formulate some ideas to the atmosphere that they'd created together, it felt quite spontaneous. So Kingdom came about very much from one of those jams, and the song is very much about the idea that there is something beyond this existence here that I do firmly believe in, and kind of yearn to feel more of. So I had this idea to sort of um, you know, create a place to go, a sort of fantasy place."

Dates with available recordings of Kingdom

There are currently 10 recordings of Kingdom available.

• 2007-10-2x Interface, Spinner.com, AOL Studios, New York, NY, USA/Source 1
• 2007-10-2x Interface, Spinner.com, AOL Studios, New York, NY, USA/Source 2
• 2015-10-19 The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 1
• 2015-10-19 The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 2
• 2015-10-21 WFUV Session, MSR Studios, New York City, NY, USA/Source 1
• 2015-10-22 Town Hall, New York, NY, USA/Source 1
• 2015-10-30 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany/Source 1
• 2015-10-30 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany/Source 2
• 2015-10-30 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany/Source 3
• 2015-11-02 La Cigale, Paris, France/Source 1

Dates where Kingdom was performed

Kingdom has been performed 108 times.

• 2007-10-23 Apple Store, SoHo, NYC, NY, USA
• 2007-10-25 Avatar Studios, NYC, NY, USA
• 2007-10-2x Interface, Spinner.com, AOL Studios, New York, NY, USA
• 2007-10-2x Interface, Spinner.com, AOL Studios, New York, NY, USA/Source 1
• 2007-10-2x Interface, Spinner.com, AOL Studios, New York, NY, USA/Source 2
• 2007-10-2x Offsite, Ethel, XM Satellite Radio, Sirius XM, NYC, NY, USA
• 2007-12-13 World Cafe, NPR, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• 2008-01-28 Ethel, XM Satellite Radio, NYC, NY, USA
• 2015-10-17 Angels & Ghosts Tour Rehearsals, S.I.R. Studios, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• 2015-10-19 The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• 2015-10-19 The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 1
• 2015-10-19 The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 2
• 2015-10-21 WFUV Session, MSR Studios, New York City, NY, USA
• 2015-10-21 WFUV Session, MSR Studios, New York City, NY, USA/Source 1
• 2015-10-22 Town Hall, New York, NY, USA
• 2015-10-22 Town Hall, New York, NY, USA/Source 1
• 2015-10-26 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, England, UK
• 2015-10-30 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
• 2015-10-30 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany/Source 1
• 2015-10-30 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany/Source 2
• 2015-10-30 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany/Source 3
• 2015-11-02 La Cigale, Paris, France
• 2015-11-02 La Cigale, Paris, France/Source 1
• 2015-11-04 Fabrique, Milan, Italy
• A Little Piece
• A Pain That I'm Used To
• A Question Of Lust
• A Question Of Time
• Aftermaths
• All Of This And Nothing
• Allelujah
• Barrel Of A Gun
• Behind The Wheel
• Blasphemous Rumours
• Bottle Living
• But Not Tonight
• Compulsion
• Condemnation
• Cover Me
• Deeper And Deeper
• Dirty Sticky Floors
• Dream On
• Dreaming Of Me
• Drifting
• Enjoy The Silence
• Everything Counts
• Faith Healer
• Fragile Tension
• Freelove
• Get The Balance Right
• Ghosts Again
• Going Backwards
• Goodnight Lovers
• Heaven
• Hold On
• Hole To Feed
• Home
• I Feel Loved
• I Feel You
• I Need You
• In Your Room
• It's Called A Heart
• It's No Good
• Jezebel (Recoil song)
• John The Revelator
• Just Can't Get Enough
• Leave In Silence
• Lilian
• Little 15
• Longest Day
• Love In Itself
• Loverman
• Martyr
• Master And Servant
• Missing Piece
• Never Let Me Down Again
• New Life
• Only When I Lose Myself
• Peace
• People Are People
• Personal Jesus
• Policy Of Truth
• Precious
• Prey
• Route 66
• Saw Something
• See You
• Shake The Disease
• Shine (Dave Gahan & Soulsavers song)
• Should Be Higher
• Single Blip
• Template:Singles
• Somebody
• Soothe My Soul
• Spock
• Stalker
• Stardust
• Strange Hours
• Strangelove
• Stripped
• Suffer Well
• Take Me Back Home
• The Meaning Of Love
• Useless
• Walking In My Shoes
• Where's The Revolution
• World In My Eyes
• Wrong