1986-03-31 New Conference Centre, Brighton, England, UK
Notes
The second concert of the 1986 Black Celebration Tour. This concert has the only recording with the album version of Here Is The House performed. Presumably, the first concert of the tour at 1986-03-29 Apollo, Oxford, England, UK also had the song played, but it has not been confirmed to date. The song was dropped by the next concert of the tour at 1986-04-02 RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland. Here Is The House would next be played during the 1990 World Violation Tour as an acoustic guitar version with vocals sung by Martin.
Listen to Here Is The House from this concert: Play
A very short snippet of a rehearsal of Here Is The House, as well as several other tracks, can be heard at 1986-03-00 Black Celebration Tour Rehearsals.
Hula was the support act. Pete Marchetto, Hula's manager, remembers for Simon Spence how Depeche Mode and Hula used an empty bottle before a concert in Brighton for a spontaneous "us vs. them" football match in the venue, while the crew was setting up the stage. "That was a strange sight, the way that Martin was playing in skintight trousers and with handcuffs, he was surprisingly good. It was mostly thanks to him that Hula very much lost.
Hula member Mark Albrow: "During one gig, I think it was at the Brighton Conference Centre, some jealous bastard managed to throw a beer bottle at Dave's head, and afterwards Dave was annoyed and just couldn't let it go - that came across as something really vulnerable to me."
Allegedly, Dave walked into the stage setup after bowing to the audience. (Perhaps he was still mad about the beer bottle?)
Set list
- Christmas Island
- Black Celebration
- A Question Of Time
- Fly On The Windscreen
- Shake The Disease
- Leave In Silence
- It's Called A Heart
- Everything Counts
- It Doesn't Matter Two (*)
- A Question Of Lust (*)
- Play Here Is The House
- Blasphemous Rumours
- New Dress
- Stripped
- Something To Do
- Master And Servant
- Photographic
- People Are People
- Boys Say Go!
- Just Can't Get Enough
- More Than A Party
Sources
- Source 1 is a good audience recording, unfortunately missing several tracks.
