1986-07-23 NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Notes

Dave Gahan later said in the August 27 '86 issue of Smash Hits magazine:

“I got really drunk at the last gig we did and didn’t get back to the hotel until four in the morning,” he explains. “There I was lying on the bed and suddenly I wanted to go pee. I went into the bathroom and fell asleep on the loo. After about an hour I tried to stand up but I slipped on a towel and went flying through the shower – flat out on my backside, I was. I cried out for Jo [his wife] who got me back to the bed. I sneaked a look down at my ankle and nearly died when I saw the size of it. It was like an elephant’s foot. Huge. It still hurts me now...”

The Blah Brothers was the support act.

Set list

1. Christmas Island
2. Black Celebration
3. A Question Of Time
4. Fly On The Windscreen
5. Shake The Disease
6. Leave In Silence
7. It's Called A Heart
8. Everything Counts
9. It Doesn't Matter Two (*)
10. A Question Of Lust (*)
11. Blasphemous Rumours
12. New Dress
13. Stripped
14. Something To Do
15. Master And Servant
16. Photographic
17. People Are People
18. Boys Say Go!
19. Just Can't Get Enough
20. More Than A Party

Sources

• Source 1 is a decent audience recording. Pretty muffled and a little hissy, but otherwise listenable. Quiet crowd around the taper. I've seen this recording referred to as an FM broadcast before, but it is definitely not one. Rather incomplete; find further details on the recording's page.