1998-11-14 Orlando Arena, Orlando, FL, USA
Notes
Here is the diary entry by Jody:
A few hours in the morning by the pool to start work on the suntans (Mr. Franks looking nice and brown) and then all aboard the Skylark for a quick sojourn into the skies and on to Orlando. As I sit next to Christian on the plane and ask him about the Orlando show he says- "I don't remember much except I we all rocked like animals!!!!!!! HA HA HA!!!!" After the show back to the giant hotel which was a cross between a train station and a shopping center. Not a particularly wild night..........
As we left Miami, we found that we had inherited a new member on the tour, who introduced himself as Evil Bendy. This introduction happened over the tannoy of the aeroplane, and as you can see from the pictures, he was at the controls.
On arriving at the gig, he possessed Dave in the corridor and continued with the rest of the band and crew and then insisted on his own picture gallery on the website - this wish of course was granted. He also then took his place on the bar football league, challenging Fletch and Mart and of course beating them all (he must be female).
Evil Bendy comes from Seattle and has decided to join the remaining few weeks of the Depeche Mode Tour, he has his own dressing room, after show guests and even his own personal hotel room (under the name Mr E. Bendy).
He embarked on a reign of total chaos, influencing the crowd for 'Never Let Me Down' during the arm waving, teaching Dave how to 'Reach Out and Touch Faith' and generally causing havoc - finally he finished the gig by standing on Christian's bass drum just to prove a point.
Stabbing Westward was the support act.
Set list
- Painkiller
- A Question Of Time
- World In My Eyes
- Policy Of Truth
- It's No Good
- Never Let Me Down Again
- Walking In My Shoes
- Only When I Lose Myself
- A Question Of Lust (*)
- Home (*)
- Condemnation
- In Your Room
- Useless
- Enjoy The Silence
- Personal Jesus
- Barrel Of A Gun
- Somebody (*)
- Stripped
- I Feel You
- Just Can't Get Enough
Sources
- Source 1 is a recording that starts out decent and then turns horrible, then back to decent. This recording has constant crackles / diginoise throughout the first disc, starting after two-thirds of the way through "Policy Of Truth". The second disc is mostly unaffected. If the noise wasn't present, it might be a decent audience recording.
