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October 28 - Beacon Theatre, New York
City
October 28 - Beacon Theatre, New York
City
October 28 - Beacon Theatre, New York
City
Phantasmagorical Tour souvenir program book
Phantasmagorical Tour coffee mug,
Phantasmagorical Tour bingo card
Phantasmagorical black tee shirt
Phantasmagorical tan tee shirt (front)
Phantasmagorical tan tee shirt (back)
Phantasmagorical tour ticket
Phantasmagorical newspaper ad |
1992 - PHANTASMAGORICAL TOUR August 30 - The Circus. Stockholm SWEDEN September 2 - Ice Hall, Helsinki FINLAND September 4 - Falkoner Theatre, Copenhagen DENMARK September 5 - Stadion Sportshall, Hannover GERMANY September 6 - Stadion Sportshall, Hannover GERMANY September 8 - Stadthalle, Magdeburg GERMANY September 9 - Phillipshalle, Dusseldorf GERMANY September 10 - Phillipshalle, Dusseldorf GERMANY September 12 - Sportshalle, Hamburg GERMANY September 13 - Sportshalle, Hamburg GERMANY September 14 - ICC, Berlin GERMANY September 16 - Vitkovice, Ostrava CZECHOSLOVAKIA September 17 - CSTV Sportshalle, Prague CZECHOSLOVAKIA September 18 - Sportshalle, Budapest HUNGARY September 20 - Unterfrankenhalle, Aschaffenburg GERMANY September 21 - Spodek Hall, Katowice POLAND September 26 - Mustermesse, Basel SWITZERLAND October 27 - Beacon Theatre, New York
City USA November 6 - Beacon Theatre, New York City USA November 7 - Beacon Theatre, New York City USA November 13 - Orpheum Theatre, San
Francisco California USA November 17 - Wiltern Theatre, Los
Angeles California USA November - (additional shows at the
Wiltern Theatre) December 7 - Will Rogers Auditorium, Fort Worth, Texas, USA December 8 - Will Rogers Auditorium, Fort Worth, Texas, USA December 9 - Will Rogers Auditorium, Fort Worth, Texas, USA December 12 - George Mason University Center for the Arts, Fairfax, Virginia, USA ------------------------- FAN MEMORY: June 7 - Manchester Apollo, Manchester UK "This was the first gig on the Phantasmagorical tour, an extra date added only weeks before the tour started. (Also the date of Erasure's first and only UK number one single: Abba-esque.) Vince's CV and gate box blew up 5 minutes before the gig was supposed to start! Luckily the bloke who made it was in the audience, and was dragged backstage with soldering iron in hand!! The gig started about an hour late." -Darren Wood ------------------------- Setlists for 1992 include: Siren Song - Ship Of Fools - Chorus - Breath Of Life - Chains Of Love - Love To Hate You - Joan / Voulez-Vous - Take A Chance On Me - S.O.S - Lay All Your Love On Me - Am I Right? - Oh L'Amour - Waiting For The Day - Heart Of Stone - Stop! - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly - Who Needs Love (Like That) - Stand By Your Man - Soldier's Return - Turns The Love To Anger - Star - Blue Savannah - Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Love Is A Loser - A Little Respect - Home - Perfect Stranger - Sometimes Backing singers for Phantasmagorical tour were: Annick Clarisse & Veronique Clarisse Merchandise sold on tour included: program books, tee shirts, metal logo pins, posters, baseball caps, watches, coffee mugs There were no support acts for the Phantasmagorical tour, but audience Bingo games were featured at intermission in the UK, plus select dates in the USA & Europe.
--------------------------------------------- NEWSDAY'S REVIEW OF THE OCTOBER 28 1992 PHANTASMAGORICAL GIG AT THE BEACON THEATER IN NEW YORK CITY: When a concert begins with a man in a white ostrich feather jacket and high-heeled pumps being wheeled out in a giant swan coach, and, during two acts and nearly 3 hours, grows exponentially more flamboyant how do you do the spectacle justice with mere words? Well, we'll try. Erasure's "Phantasmagorical Entertainment", the British synth-pop band's deliciously overblown new show, is a cross between "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas". and one of those mini-musicals that used to light up the last half-hour of "The Carol Burnett Show". It is a party in a surrealistic fetish bar, a splashy night in the the kind of Technicolor dive where H.R. Puffenstuff might cruise the Bugaloos. It is the gay-proudest pop music extravaganza since Elton John put on Minnie Mouse drag. It is Axl Rose's worst nightmare. At the Beacon Theater, where the band is in the middle of an eight-night stand, excess & effervescence are set to an electro-pop score. Wild West scenes whirl into outer space scapes, and dockside dinginess switches to 70s disco, as singer Andy Bell and keyboardist Vince Clarke lead their adoring fans from song to danceable song. The early Erasure hits "Oh L'Amour" and "Who Needs Love Like That" are served up alongside the anthemic favorites "A Little Respect", "Sometimes", and "Chains Of Love". The spiteful "Love To Hate You" soars, while the group's Abba-dabba-delicious remakes of "Lay All Your Love On Me", "Voulez Vous", "S.O.S.", and "Take A Chance On Me" boom into disco heaven. Behind them, an appealing troupe of back-up dancers and singers shake their well-toned (and very visible) groove thangs. Their choreography -would you believe muscle men in bobbed wigs and girdles doing the tango?- is surprisingly good. Wearing a wardrobe that ranges from butt-bearing beaded chaps to Y-front undies and ruby platforms, Bell may be the hardest-working "woman" in show business. (He's never out of heels!) Surely, he would graciously accept the title. Whether singing "Stand By Your Man", dishing up an accapella version of Abba's "Dancing Queen", or asking an imaginary Toto if there is a place "Over the Rainbow" where there are no "misogynistic, racist, homophobic" people, the singer is all camp splendor. As a performer, Bell has gotten progressively more queen-y over the years. But make no mistake. His mincing is a form of militance; his outrageousness, an expression of outrage. He comes up a brave hero in a feather boa, one bold enough to kiss a male groupie smack on the lips as a thank-you for gifties offered. Keyboardist Clarke -who always seemed so quiet during his days with Depeche Mode and Yaz(oo)- shows more abandon than his fans have ever seen. Whether dolled up in Mae West's hand-me-downs or doing the Bus Stop in Abba-esque patchwork bellbottoms, Clarke turns up his juice - a cutely nerdy, straight-boy computer whiz taking his first sip of silliness. Surely, he knows the group had a good thing going with all the camp. "Abba-esque", their most recent EP, entered the British pop charts at number 1, several months ago. So, why not wear falsies, I guess. No one at the Beacon even batted an eyelash. -Frank DeCaro |
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