1982-11-28 Zeche, Bochum, Germany
Notes
Alan Wilder stated in Fachblatt magazine (translated):
"Yesterday at the concert in Bochum, something incredibly embarrassing happened to us. We had always hoped that we would once meet Kraftwerk; they could be described as our grandfathers of music. And now they were at the Bochum concert there as well, and we had the worst concert ever. Both my and Martin's synth played totally awfully and were permanently out of tune, and the evening went down really totally miserably. And so as a result we ruined any chance of getting sympathy from Kraftwerk..."
A quote from Martin, found in Mojo magazine in 2012:
"There was one time around 1982 when we were using a prototype PPG [earlier digital synthesizer] live and it was very unreliable. Kraftwerk turned up to see us play somewhere in Germany and the PPG went down during the first song and never came back. It was one of the worst concerts we’ve ever played."
For DM's concerts in Germany in fall 1982, X-Agenten were the support act.
Set list
- Oberkorn (It's A Small Town)
- My Secret Garden
- See You
- Satellite
- New Life
- Boys Say Go!
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Nothing To Fear
- Leave In Silence
- Shouldn't Have Done That
- Monument
- The Meaning Of Love
- Just Can't Get Enough
- A Photograph Of You
- The Sun & The Rainfall
- Shout
- Photographic
- Dreaming Of Me
Sources
- Source 1 is a very good audience recording sourced from the silver CD bootleg First Time Around.
