1994-04-10 Complejo Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile

Notes

Most of this concert was broadcast over FM as a boom-mic recording from the sound tent. An audience recording is also available.

Here is Daryl Bamonte's entry for the famous Devotional Tour Diary, published in Bong magazine in 1994:

I had visions of Argentina and Chile being full of fascist juntas and military coups and dissidents with false looking moustaches having electrodes attached to their testicles. Well, they’re not. People don’t go missing in the middle of the night and they don’t hate us Angleterras. Anyway, I’ve done four shows now and I think I’ve got a bit of a routine going.

Dave Gahan did an interview in Chile the day after here.

Dave said to NME in January 1997: "It wasn't really apparent to me at the time, but I had become a complete cliche of myself. I remember in Chile, when I got the news that Kurt [Cobain] had blown his head off, my first reaction was that I was angry. I was pissed off. I felt like he'd stolen my idea, like he'd beat me to it. That's how f---ed up I was. I really was that gone."

Dave Gahan also said in 1997:

"Like Martin once said to me, like one night. I think in fact it was in Chile... where the Kurt Cobain thing happened, not where it happened, but same night, and we were in my room. It was very late and we'd been drinking a lot. Whether he was drunk, I don't know if he can even remember it, but it stuck in my mind anyway. He said to me that he feels like he gets his songs like... gets something from God and he thought that he was losing it because he was drinking and stuff. For some reason he thought that he had to channel that work through me, and I was his voice kind of thing, which I thought was the most beautiful thing he had ever said to me. I mean we were both in kind of the "I love you" mode but it really stuck in my mind like maybe I really am supposed to deliver some kind of message you know. For whatever... whether people get something out of it or not maybe it's supposed to do something for me, you know?"

Set list

1. Rush
2. Halo
3. Behind The Wheel
4. Everything Counts
5. World In My Eyes
6. Walking In My Shoes
7. Stripped
8. Condemnation (*)
9. A Question Of Lust (*)
10. I Want You Now (*)
11. In Your Room
12. Never Let Me Down Again
13. I Feel You
14. Personal Jesus
15. Somebody (*)
16. Enjoy The Silence
17. Policy Of Truth
18. A Question Of Time

Sources

• Source 1 is a very good boom-microphone audience recording broadcast over FM. There is distorted bass at times.
• Source 2 is an okay audience recording sourced from a fourth-generation cassette; it's pretty muffled overall.