1985-07-30 Torwar Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Notes
Blah Brothers were the support act. You can watch a poor recording of their performance on their MySpace site, as well as listen to some songs of their performance.
Andy Fletcher said on the Saturday Picture Show later in 1985 that this gig was "a total culture shock. [...] Oh, [we were definitely glad that we went there]. You're not allowed to take any money out, so it actually cost us money going there, but it was well worth it, the experience."
He said in 2016: "Of course [I remember this gig]. I have to admit, it was a strange experience, beautiful, but surreal. During the soundcheck there were about two thousand soldiers and policemen in the venue. Usually we do not allow anyone to be at the soundcheck, the venue must be empty then, but it is difficult to say that to the army and police, "Hey, you there, get out!" [laughs]. Therefore, we remember that concert thoroughly. The audience was wonderful and we were excited, because only a few British bands had played behind the Iron Curtain. Back then, we had spent a lot of time in East Berlin, so we knew how many fans we had in Eastern Europe. I also remember that we did not get dollars in Poland, but only local currency, useless for us. So we played for free."
A Polish article published in 2016 detailing the organisation of this concert can be read here.
Setlist
- Intro (Master And Servant Voxless)
- Something To Do
- Two Minute Warning
- Puppets
- If You Want
- People Are People
- Leave In Silence
- New Life
- Shame
- Somebody (*)
- Shake The Disease
- Lie To Me
- Blasphemous Rumours
- Told You So
- Master And Servant
- Photographic
- Everything Counts
- See You
- Shout
- Just Can't Get Enough
Sources
- Source 1 is a good audience recording, sourced from the DVD found at Source 2.
- Source 2 is a good audience-shot DVD sourced from a 4th or 5th generation VHS.
- Source 3 is a mediocre audience recording sourced from an unknown generation cassette.
- Source 4 is a decent audience recording sourced from unknown generation cassette. Incomplete, first 10 tracks only.
