"Then there are incidentals such as the time you'll be going on stage. For example, with the European and 1st leg of the American tour, in spring and autumn respectively, we knew it would be twilight when the show kicked off so it seemed a good idea to capitalise on this. I think the resulting opening sequence of thunder and lightening preceding 'Higher Love' and accompanied by the huge curtains, appropriate light show and the magic hour itself, was one of the most dramatic moments of the whole tour. Of course, the ROW and 2nd US leg coincided with lighter months so this kind of introduction wouldn't have been as effective." "Unfortunately, putting the 'Devotional' live show together proved to be more of a handful than either myself or Steve had bargined for. We knew when we started that we didn't have a lot of time on our hands and it didn't help that the Roland sequencer was giving us continual problems. However, we persevered and had nearly completed the work when disaster struck. The machine couldn't handle the sheer volume of traffic we were demanding from it and one day the whole system just crashed - we lost everything. Three and a half months of work. Luckily we had had the foresight to back up all the music onto multitrack but the edits had gone." "With the new single 'Walking In My Shoes' due for release and rehearsals beckoning, we found ourselves with the mammoth task of re-editing everything in about 2 weeks. We worked night and day and then sued Roland. Actually that experience taught me a very valuable lesson about cutting edge technology - don't touch it with a barge pole. It's not fun being the guinea pig for a piece of gear that hasn't been tested in the field by professionals, only to find it's full of design flaws."