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The spectacular fireworks at the concert

Destination Docklands was a concert held by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the Royal Victoria Docks, Docklands, London on Saturday, October 8 and Sunday, October 9, 1988, to coincide with the release of Jarre's new album Revolutions.[1] The concerts were attended by 100,000 people and the October 8 show was broadcast on BBC Radio One.

Accompanied by heavy wind, rain and fireworks, the concert also featured The Shadows guitarist Hank Marvin who joined Jarre on the tracks "London Kid" and "Fourth Rendez-Vous". A live album and a VHS were released afterwards, in 1989.

The stage area, viewed from the audience

The grandstands for the audience (surrounding a standing-room area) lined the north side of the dock. The Millennium Mills on the south side of the dock, by then mostly empty, were painted white to provide enormous backdrops for projected images,[2] along with a number of large scaffolding installations in between, matching the height of the warehouses. The stage floated in the middle of the dock and the concert was accompanied by the musician's trademark breathtaking firework and searchlight show. The original concept was to have the floating stage traverse up and down the docks, providing a view of the stage to the audience on the North Bank - however, strong winds and prevailing rain prevented this from occurring and the stage stayed anchored for the duration of the concerts, despite poor weather which almost wrecked the planned event. Towards the end of the concert, Simon Bates noted that the waters were so rough (from the winds), that the stage began to cause the huge, 70,000 tons of scaffolding to sway, and caused one of the hung scaffolding backdrops to be almost torn from its mountings after the October 8 show, with repairs having to be undertaken before the following night's performance.

More fireworks

Track listing for concert

Part 1: Industrial Revolution

- Industrial Revolution: Overture - Industrial Revolution: Part 1* - Industrial Revolution: Part 2* - Industrial Revolution: Part 3* - Équinoxe 5^ - Ethnicolor^

Part 2: Swinging Sixties

- Computer Weekend^ - Les Chants Magnétiques II / Magnetic Fields II - Oxygène 4 - Équinoxe 7^ - London Kid (with Hank Marvin)

Part 3: The Nineties

- Third Rendez-Vous / Laser Harp^ - Tokyo Kid^ - Revolutions* - Souvenir de Chine / Souvenir of China^ - Second Rendez-Vous - Fourth Rendez-Vous

Part 4: The Finale

- September - The Emigrant

(* Indicates that the songs were on the official VHS release, but in trimmed formats, whereas ^ indicates the songs had been omitted from the official VHS, released in 1989)

Musicians

  • Jean-Michel Jarre: Synthesizers
  • Michel Geiss: Synthesizers
  • Dominique Perrier: Synthesizers
  • Francis Rimbert: Synthesizers
  • Guy Delacroix: Bass
  • Jo Hammer: Drums
  • Dino Lumbroso: Percussions
  • Sylvain Durand: Synthesizers
  • Christine Durand: Soprano
  • Hank Marvin: Guitar on London Kid and Fourth Rendez-Vous
  • Mireille Pombo: Vocals on September
  • Sori Bamba: Conductor of Mali Choir on September
  • Kudsi Erguner: Turkish Flute on Revolutions
  • Bruno Rossignol: Choir Conductor
  • Xavier Bellenger: Ethnical Music Advisor
  • Setsuko Yamada: Solo Dance Performance

Instruments used

References

  1. ^ Jarre to light up Acropolis BBC, 6 June 2001
  2. ^ Millennium Mills posting at urbexforums.co.uk, Urban Exploration Forums. August 2009. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
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