1990-09-04 Shimin Kaikan, Fukuoka, Japan

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Notes

Production director Andy Franks told the Halo biography:

"[...] I remember, when we were going to Japan, where we were only doing three or four shows, it didn't make sense to ship it out. So, we took loads of photos - I mean hundreds and hundreds of photos of the stage set. The Japanese promoter sent a guy over to measure everything up, so when we went to Japan and walked into the first gig, there was an identical stage set. Except, they hadn't quite got it. [...] [I]t wasn't quite as high as our usual one, so to get all the cables and monitors, this poor guy had to crawl underneath it. I don't know how he got through it - he had to be just eight inches high to crawl through all the stuff there, but they gave us the stage that they made out of steel, and they transported it around for us. It was absolutely incredible! And the band thought it was the same stage - painted and everything. It was done exactly the same, except that it was made out of steel and ours was made out of aluminium."

"In Japan, they don't allow smoke machines - they were something that was bannned, and we weren't sure what was going to happen. But suddenly, we saw 200 guys outside with black bin liners they were filling up to use as a smoke machine. So they were shaking the bags to let the smoke out into the stage - it was absolutely brilliant!"

There was no support act.

Set list

  1. Kaleid
  2. World In My Eyes
  3. Halo
  4. Shake The Disease
  5. Everything Counts
  6. Master And Servant
  7. Never Let Me Down Again
  8. Waiting For The Night
  9. I Want You Now (*)
  10. World Full Of Nothing (*)
  11. Clean
  12. Stripped
  13. Policy Of Truth
  14. Enjoy The Silence
  15. Strangelove
  16. Personal Jesus
  17. Black Celebration
  18. A Question Of Time
  19. Behind The Wheel
  20. Route 66