Location: Les Bains Douches, 7 rue du Bourg-l'Abbe 75003 Paris /
France
Audience: nominal ??? / actual: ???
Rec of gig: Bootleg Audio (Radio Brodcast)
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Comment: The Bains Douches is at 7 rue du Bourg-l'Abbe 75003
Paris, and as the name of the venue sugests was a genuine old public Parisian bathouse. Walking down the stairs into the basement of the club was the dance floor, in front was the stage and to the right of the dance floor, the original communal bath full of water.
The gig that night featured the standard set from that period, opening with the instrumental -
Any Second Now. Their performance this night was as tight as it gets. The French audience where clearly into punk and indie music and suprisingly quite aggressive in their dancing compared to the UK. One member of the audience was shouting quite aggressively (who knows, it might have been complementary) causing
Dave Gahan to angrily dedicate
Just Can't Get Enough [our new single]
'to the heckler down there'.
The gig was being recorded for French radio station F3R.
After the gig, the band enjoyed a meal at the restaurant upstairs at the 'Bain Douches'. Organised by
Daniel Miller, it was a chance for the band to celebrate with 'Rod Buckle' (the head of their publishing company 'Sonet' and his collegue 'Ronny') and for the band to meet the head of 'Vogue',
depeche MODE's French distribution company.
That night, Daryl Bamonte and Tim Williams slept in the tour van (parked outside the bands' hotel). They were looking after a briefcase containing a contract for
depeche MODE from 'SIRE' USA. Daniel Miller woke them up at about 6.00 am to collect the briefcase and take it back to
London.
In the morning Martin did an interiew to tape for the radio station in the hotel breakfast room. Then news came that a French national TV station was deciding whether to chose
depeche MODE (Just Can't Get Enough) or
Kim Wilde (Kids from America) to do a live TV recording. The hours went by and eventually the news came that
Kim Wilde had been chosen. So depeche MODE without
Vince (staying for a short break in Paris) were homeward bound. With
Daniel Miller having flown back to the UK in the early morning, the tour mini-bus was driven back to the UK by 'Ronny'
of depeche MODE's music publishing company 'Sonet'.
Arriving back in Basildon at about midnight and parking up by Basildon Market, a fight was breaking out 50 yards away spilling out from the front door of Raquels nightclub.
depeche MODE were home.
Komentarz: To chyba pierwsza rejestracja i emisja
Koncertu (w prawie pełnej postaci) w radio. Koncert rejestrowany przez
francuskie radio. Rejestracja Koncertu, jaką można posłuchać na bootlegach jest
na prawdę świetnej jakości, choć na zlocie bym go nie puścił. Jakość, jak na te
czasy wyśmienita. Szczególnie znany jest zapis Koncertu w trakcie którego
francuski dj opowiada o zespole, jak i samym koncercie. Bootleg ten zawiera
skróconą setlistę o
Dreaming
Of Me i The Price Of
Love.
Koncert bez komentarzy w skróconej wersji ukazał się jako bonus
do Koncertu z
Mediolanu z 1990.11.11
Koncert ten kończy również "europejską trasę" depeche
MODE. Te 4 Koncerty poprzedzały właściwą, pierwszą w historii trasę
promującą płytę. Miesiąc przerwy pozwolił zająć się promocją w gazetach i TV, a
powyższe Koncerty pozwoliły doszlifować set.