Dire Straits - When It Comes To You (Live in Nîmes, France / 1992 / Visualiser)

[ds1984]

Enjoy 

[K-alberto]

Magnifique!!! 

[Marnix]

I would have prefered a pro shot footage video than this visualizer clip

[quizzaciously]

I would have prefered a pro shot footage video than this visualizer clip

And I would prefer the audience clapping on 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3

[Chris W]

Pretty good quality sound.
I would have liked to play WICTY more often.

[Elin N]

This song was one of those which made me fall deep in love with DS. This "video"...Just no. One still photo or nothing at all would be better.

[Brunno Nunes]

Pretty good quality sound.
I would have liked to play WICTY more often.

This song is a gem from the OES tour, I've never been able to understand why it wasn't played more often, in fact, it was probably played less than Fade to Black and the wonderful You and Your Friend.

Chris, by the way, can you believe this song was filmed, like the others in the On The Night video? It would be so nice to be able to watch the band perform on video.

[Chris W]

Was it filmed?
We played Nimes twice, several months apart.

[Pottel]

Was it filmed?
We played Nimes twice, several months apart.

may and september, i believe the september shows were the "better" ones.

[Viervalen]

dear Chris, how many shows would you remember that were recorded on video from OES tour?

[Chris W]

The September shows in Nimes and Rotterdam. Not the first Nimes run.

[Brunno Nunes]

The September shows in Nimes and Rotterdam. Not the first Nimes run.

Dear Chris, as we know, the OTN is made up of shows in Nimes and Rotterdam, both in May 1992, with a difference of 10 days between one city and the other. In the OTN video, we can see scenes from both places. See below the tracks contained in the On the Night show and which shows were chosen for the release on video, VHS and DVD.

1-Calling Elvis
2-Walk of life
3-Heavy fuel
4-Romeo and Juliet
5-The bug
6-Private investigations
7-Your latest trick
8-On every street
9-You and your friend
10-Money for nothing
11-Brothers in arms
12-Solid rock
13-Wild theme

Les Arenes, Nimes FRA 20. 05.92 [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Les Arenes, Nimes FRA 21. 05.92 [1]
Feyenoord, Rotterdam HOL 30.05.92 [,2,13]
Feyenoord, Rotterdam HOL 31.05.92 [9, 10, 11,12]

As you can see, most of the songs were taken from the show in Les Arenes, Nimes FRA 20. 05. 92*, seven songs (which increases the possibility that this show was filmed in full), followed by the show in Feyenoord, Rotterdam HOL 31. 05. 92 with six songs.

For this reason, I wonder, if there were cameras filming both shows, did they film the full shows and then choose which ones they would use for the release at the time? Or did they only film what they were going to use, so that this had already been decided before the shows took place? I think the second option is unlikely, I believe that all the shows chosen for an official release were recorded in audio and filmed in full, only more than two decades later were the songs that were left out released in audio, such as WICTY, Fade to Black, ITILTM, SOS... But, until then, no one wanted to invest time and money in publishing the videos. Just a hypothesis.

[ds1984]

The 29th september gig in Nîmes was aired live on french Canal+ channel.

I wonder if the band did record that show on multitrack or not as it was not used at all for OTN.

As often with Mark, this leg was featuring shorter setlist.

[Chris W]

Oh yeah, May 1992. I got confused when writing my post.
I can't remember the actual details, but when you have a remote studio set up and have hired film crew etc, you are not going to just film and record certain songs or certain shows.
The idea is to film and record all the shows in one venue, then you can go through and pick out the best performances for each song.
The venues chosen were Nimes and Rotterdam.

[Brunno Nunes]

Oh yeah, May 1992. I got confused when writing my post.
I can't remember the actual details, but when you have a remote studio set up and have hired film crew etc, you are not going to just film and record certain songs or certain shows.
The idea is to film and record all the shows in one venue, then you can go through and pick out the best performances for each song.
The venues chosen were Nimes and Rotterdam.

Exactly, that's what I thought, all these shows were filmed in full too, a selection was made of what would be used for the official VHS release in 1993.

We always come back to the question of a few thousand euros... Where are the tapes (these videos)? The Live 78/92 box set was a precious gift, at least we have these wonderful new tracks to contemplate in audio, it's really incredible, a new experience to listen to OTN, as well as Alchemy and the completely unreleased Live at The Rainbow 79, ironically, both shows were filmed, but unfortunately we are not so lucky to have these recordings in full on video, that luck only for fans of other bands and artists. But, I am grateful for the aforementioned box set, better late than never.