Several books written about Depeche Mode talk about this tour as one of the biggest drug fuelled tours in history (hardened drug users were shocked at what they saw).
No other Depeche Mode show matched the production value of the Devotional tour (Except for maybe the Music for the Masses tour when the lead singer was much healthier. This whole concert was made with the fan in mind. On the 1:st of mars 2006 they playing at the Globe in Stockholm. And now (2005) they starting a new world tour beginning in America. I think that many fans believed that this was the end for Depeche Mode but they came back. Internal fights ended up that Alan left the band, Daves drug-addiction nearly killed him and Andy Fletcher landed in a depression. Personally for the band members this tour was nearly a disaster. Though Martin Gore is the writer and composer in the group Alan was the man who created and experimented much in the studio to make the great sound that made Depeche so big. This is the last tour that Alan Wilder was a member in the group. He is and have always been a great showman. Some people complains at David Gahans performance but i think his great. The sound is great and powerful already from the intro of "Higher Love". The show is brilliant with the big TV-screens in the background. A lot of credits to the director Anton Corbijn. This DVD from Depeche:s 93-94 tour shows a band at there highest performance.
It captures a band in top form, an audience in almost trance-like devotion, and, thanks to Anton Corbijn, the film is dripping with color and, at times, in hazy focus.much the way you'd remember the show if you had been there. At any rate, without bias, this video is truly one of the best live performance documentaries that are out there. The extras on the DVD set include two previously unseen excerpts from the performance ("Policy Of Truth" and "Halo"), the tracks that were (irritatingly) only released on the European versions of the film ("Behind The Wheel," "Mercy In You," "Fly On The Windscreen" and "Everything Counts"), the music videos from SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION, the original concert projections used on the tour, and two relevant documentaries. Accordingly, after this film's VHS release, it was nominated for "Best Longform Music Video" at the 1994 Grammy Awards. Musically, the song selection is on-target, the arrangements are tight & rockin', and frontman Dave Gahan is at his over-the-top best and surrounded by Anton Corbijn's opulent stage set and surreal visuals. Filmed by Anton Corbijn over several nights of their 1993-94 DEVOTIONAL TOUR (listed by Q Magazine as "the most debauched rock tour ever"), the final product is an almost dreamlike chronicle of Depeche Mode at the absolute peak of their influential creative talents.
This is Depeche Mode the way they should be seen.
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