Jean Michel Jarre - Destination Docklands (Full Concert)

The Docklands concerts (there were two), were held at the London Docks after long negotiations and a great deal of to-ing and fro-ing on the part of the local community authorities. The Docks were to create the setting for a presentation of Jarre's album, Revolutions, an album clearly inspired by the history of the Docklands. The concerts scheduled for September finally took place in October and the weather turned out to be typically British -- rain and strong winds. Despite the weather, the concert tickets sold in record time of a few hours, for a total of 400,000 in total over the two dates.
The stage was built on a 1,000 ton floating barge which lay in the Thames, on which Jarre and his musicians, a choir and an orchestra performed. It was as though this bleak area had been transformed for two evenings into an industrial, futuristic, multimedia theatre, which united Jarre's electronic music and vision, and the drab landscape of the Docklands in perfect, psychedelic harmony.

Track list:

Part 1:Industrial Revolution
1. Industrial Revolution, Overture
2. Industrial Revolution (part 1 - 3)
3. Equinoxe 5
4. Ethnicolor

Part 2: Swinging 60's
5. Computer Weekend
6. Magnetic Fields 2
7. Oxygene 4
8. Equinoxe 7
9. London Kid (with Hank Marvin)

Part 3: The 90's
10. Rendez-Vous 3
11. Tokyo Kid
12. Revolutions
13. Souvenir of China
14. Rendez-Vous 2
15. Rendez-Vous 4

Part 4: The Finale
16. September
17. Revolutions
18. The Emigrant

Musicians:
Jean Michel Jarre
Guy Delacroix
Sylvain Durand
Christine Durand
Kudsi Erguner
Michel Geiss
Joe Hammer
Dino Lumbroso
Hank Marvin
Dominique Perrier
Francis Rimbert
Mireille Pombo
Sori Bomba (conductor September)
Bruno Rossignol (Choir conductor)
Setsuko Yamada (Dance performer)
Xavier Bellenger (Ethnical music advisor)

Date and Place:

8.-9. October 1988 - Docklands, London, England

Estimated Audience:

1.000.000, 200.000 paying visitors