The array of electronic equipment used by Tangerine Dream on that tour was formidable indeed.
Tangerine Dream, 1975 UK tour poster, October 14 For its time this was a non-trivial feat given the amount, complexity and early stage of the equipment involved. And what they heard was unique to that moment, not to be repeated again, for the band played a complete improvised set. In short, the audience sat in the dark and listened. Back then the band did not yet implement a light show, and almost no movement happened on stage, which consisted of three large consoles of keyboards and electronics, one for each band member.
Reversing the lighting scheme in music concerts, the stage was lighted until the band took the stage, at which point the lights were dimmed and the show was performed at near-darkness.
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As band founder Edgar Froese stated at the time: “We prefer doing special memorable events rather than just a series of concerts”. The British tour took place in October of 1975 with twelve shows, including performances at the Coventry, Liverpool and York cathedrals. But it is equally true that some 6,000 young people, remaining sat upon the floor for three hours in the dark, had enjoyed the music and could have caused much more serious damage, with far less decorum.” The event, enhanced by an opener set from Nico, who sang solemnly and played her Harmonium, proved so successful that three cathedrals were added to their UK tour a year later. Father Bernard Goureau, as cool a clergy man as you can find, remembers: “It is true that the youth smoked marijuana in order to better enter into communication with Tangerine Dream’s sound and the spectacle at large it is also true that others, to satisfy a natural obligation, urinated against the columns of the cathedral and finally, it is again true that to combat the cold, couples were seen in kissing embraces. The crowd that descended on the religious monument that day was not the typical Sunday morning flock. The idea of adding performances in cathedrals to their tour schedule came about after the band was invited to perform at the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral, located at the heart of the wine making Champagne region in France in December of 1974. Tangerine Dream live at Coventry Cathedral This is the story of Tangerine Dream’s Ricochet. It is then a poetic twist of history that 35 years after the bombing, a German band performed at the cathedral during a tour that yielded a milestone album in electronic music. The ruins were left to serve as the most visible modern-day reminder of the Blitz. The day after the bombing a decision was made to build a new cathedral next to the ruins, and on the 25th of May 1962 the new cathedral was consecrated as a symbol of reconciliation, deservingly hosting the premiere of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, written for the occasion. All that was left from the magnificent structure was the tower and outer wall.
Their mission was to destroy the city’s factories and industrial infrastructure, but nothing was sacred in the brutal carnage of World War II, including sacred places. St Michael’s Cathedral, built in the 11th century and at one point the largest church in England, was reduced to ashes that night. On the night of November 14th 1940, 515 German bombers descended on the industrial city of Coventry in the west midlands of England.
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