1985-07-26 Panathinaiko Stadium, Athens, Greece

Notes

There was a riot in Athens which terrorised the festival, but DM played the gig nonetheless. The whole festival was broadcast and most bands agreed to having their concert being broadcast, but DM were one of the very few bands who disallowed this, reportedly because the management and/or band worried that (possibly bootleg copies of) it would inhibit sales of 'The World We Live In And Live In Hamburg' which was released 3 months prior.

Alan Wilder said in his Q&A on Shunt:

[...] I do remember the festival we played there. Culture Club got bottled off stage and there was a full scale riot out on the streets - I don't know why. I have it all on video though. Luckily, we went down really well but it was a strange day. If I remember rightly, Dave also got punched in the face the next day while out shopping. Aggressive bastards, aren't they?.

Andy Franks and Daryl Bamonte mentioned this in the documentary for the Black Celebration remaster DVD:

Andy Franks: But we did that [festival] in Greece.

Daryl Bamonte: Athens, with the riot. It was 80.000 people and 120.000 turned up, the locals were communist ne'er-do-wells, and came down to stir things up and being agitated and were throwing bricks at the police, so the police were throwing them back, effectively rearming them.

Footage of Dave Gahan in 1985: "[singing] There's gonna be a revolu-u-tion." Pretty crazy, eh? Anarchy in Greece.

Daryl Bamonte: The Cure had come down to see our show, so Alan Wilder has got some brilliant footage of both bands in the back of a truck, with just silhouettes of them.

Andy Franks: Just hiding in there as the molotov cocktails were coming down.

Daryl Bamonte: Oh, yeah.

Andy Franks: One of the trucks caught fire.

Daryl Bamonte: That was the last festival we did, I think?

Andy Franks: That was really, enough, I think.

Daryl Bamonte: Yeah that was enough!

Setlist

1. Intro (Master And Servant Voxless)
2. Something To Do
3. If You Want
4. People Are People
5. Leave In Silence
6. Shake The Disease
7. Blasphemous Rumours
8. Told You So
9. Master And Servant
10. Everything Counts
11. Photographic
12. Just Can't Get Enough

Sources

• Source 1 is an okay audience recording - it's pretty muffled and suffers from wow & flutter.