Exotic Tour/Summer Tour '94

The **Exotic Tour/Summer Tour '94** was a 1994 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act's eighth studio album, *Songs of Faith and Devotion*, which was released in March 1993. The tour is an extension of the Devotional Tour in 1993, which reached Europe and North America. The tour visited territories which the band had never performed in or had not toured in for some time, reaching Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. The tour commenced in Johannesburg, South Africa in early February. As of 2016, this was the last tour the group visited Australia, Southeast Asia or South Africa. In May 1994, the group visited North America on the "Summer Tour, '94". This was the second leg of North American dates promoting *Songs of Faith and Devotion* and took place mostly in outdoor venues and amphitheaters.

The tour marked a tumultuous time for the group, with keyboardist Andrew Fletcher taking leave from touring duties after two months due to "mental instability" and lead singer Dave Gahan's continuing issues with drug addiction. Fletcher was replaced by Daryl Bamonte on all dates from April to July. This is the last tour with Alan Wilder as a member of Depeche Mode.

## Support acts

* The Outsiders
* April's Motel Room
* Caligula
* The Rizal Underground
* Babasónicos
* Juana La Loca
* Igni Ferroque
* Primal Scream
* Stabbing Westward
* Turning Keys

## Setlist

1. "Rush" (Alan Wilder on drums)
2. "Halo" (Alan Wilder on drums)
3. "Behind the Wheel"
4. "Everything Counts"
5. "World in My Eyes"
6. "Walking in My Shoes"
7. "Stripped" (Alan Wilder on drums)
8. Song performed by Martin Gore
	* "Condemnation" (excluding Johannesburg dates)
9. Song performed by Martin Gore
	* "Judas"
	* "A Question of Lust"
	* "Waiting for the Night"
	* "One Caress"
10. Song performed by Martin Gore
	* "I Want You Now"
	* "One Caress"
	* "Somebody"
11. "In Your Room" (Alan Wilder on drums)
12. "Never Let Me Down Again" (Alan Wilder on drums)
13. "I Feel You" (Alan Wilder on drums, Martin Gore on guitar)
14. "Personal Jesus" (Alan Wilder on drums, Martin Gore on guitar)
Encore 1
15. Song performed by Martin Gore
	* "Somebody"
16. "Fly on the Windscreen"
17. "Enjoy the Silence" (Martin Gore on guitar)
Encore 2
18. "Policy of Truth" (Alan Wilder on drums)
19. "Clean" (Alan Wilder on drums)
20. "A Question of Time" (Alan Wilder on drums, Martin Gore on guitar)

**Note:** Setlists differed between dates, with rotated songs (denoted above) and song omissions.

## Musicians

Depeche Mode

* Dave Gahan – lead vocals
* Martin Gore – guitar, synthesizers, samplers, lead and backing vocals
* Alan Wilder – synthesizers, samplers, piano, drums, percussion pads, backing vocals
* Andrew Fletcher – synthesizers, samplers (February and March dates only)

Backup musicians

* Daryl Bamonte – synthesizers, samplers (substituting for Andrew Fletcher in April – July dates)
* Hildia Campbell – backing vocals
* Samantha Smith – backing vocals

## Trivia

* The 1994 Exotic Tour was the final Depeche Mode tour to feature Alan Wilder as a member of the group.
* Andrew Fletcher was present for twenty-one of the sixty shows played on the Exotic tour. Daryl Bamonte took on his role for the remaining thirty-nine concerts.
* It is currently the last Depeche Mode tour to play to South African and Australian audiences.
* Three concerts on the 1994 Exotic Tour did not feature a support act. These included the two back-to-back nights at Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, and 1994-04-16 in Monterrey, Mexico.

* On-stage decorations were greatly simplified comparing to Devotional ones - removed pedestal with projection screens, leaving open stage with just one big screen behind, multiple projections were combined as one big mosaic projection.
* Exotic tour was with with drastically changed setlist (comparing to Devotional one), becoming more rockier and eventually shorter (from 20 songs on Devotional to 18 at the beginning of Exotic and to 16 at the end of the tour).
* "Rush" was played with frenetic intro (some similarities with intro of Rush's Amylnitrate mix) instead of Higher Love.
* Alan further extended his drum live parts in the performances and now "Halo", "Stripped", "Policy of Truth", "Clean" and "A Question of Time" are also parts of Exotic Tour.
* In Your Room, despite being released as a single (Zephyr Mix) on January 10, 1994, was played as the album version (it was Alan's preference due his dislike of single version of it).
* "Condemnation" was sung by Dave for the first shows until March 1994, since then Martin took duties until the end of the tour.

Debuted songs:

* "I Want You Now" debuted on this tour in trip-hop like version.
* "Clean" was played 3 times on this tour, usually where band performed several dates in a row (usually second night).
* "A Question of Time" sounded much rockier than on previous (and eventually than furthers too) tours.

## Bibliography

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic\_Tour/Summer\_Tour\_%2794
* https://dmlive.wiki/wiki/Category:1994\_Exotic\_Tour