1986-06-10 Blossom Music Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
Notes
Book Of Love was the support act.
Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) was asked by Tony Hawk to submit a guest post on Depeche Mode's Facebook page, and this is what he wrote:
It was the summer of ’86. I’d dropped out of college and was living in Cleveland trying to find my way in the local music scene. I knew where I wanted to go with my life but I didn’t know how to get there. A group of friends and I drove down to Blossom Music Center amphitheater to see the Black Celebration tour. DM was one of our favorite bands and the Black Celebration record took my love for them to a new level.
I’ve thought about that night a lot over the years. It was a perfect summer night and I was in exactly the right place I was supposed to be. The music, the energy, the audience, the connection… it was spiritual and truly magic. I left that show grateful, humbled, energized, focused, and in awe of how powerful and transformative music can be… and I started writing what would eventually become Pretty Hate Machine.
Many times, particularly when we’re playing an amphitheater, I’ll think of that show while I’m onstage and hope someone in the audience is in the midst of a perfect summer night feeling how DM made me feel so many years ago.
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 (*)
- 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
