1989 “Headless Cross” Tour Dates

Touring Band

• Tony Martin – Vocals
• Tony Iommi – Guitar
• Neil Murray – Bass
• Cozy Powell – Drums
• Geoff Nicholls – Keyboards

Openers

• In USA – Kingdom Come, Silent Rage
• In Europe – Axxis
• In Rusia – Girlschool

Typical Set List

• Headless Cross
• Die Young
• Black Sabbath
• Devil & Daughter
• Iron Man
• Children of the Grave
• Heaven & Hell
• Neon Knights
• Children of the Sea
• Call of the Wild
• The Mob Rules
• When Death Calls
• War Pigs
• The Shining
• Guitar Solo
• Paranoid

Alternate Set List

The set list varied during the tour, here is one from another gig.  The show was September 11, 1989:

• Intro – The Omen (tape)
• The Gates of Hell
• Headless Cross
• Neon Knights
• Children of the Sea
• Die Young
• War Pigs
• When Death Calls
• Mob Rules
• Black Sabbath
• Devil and Daughter
• The Shining
• Smoke on the Water (feat. Ian Gillan)
• Iron Man
• Children of the Grave
• Heaven and Hell
• Paranoid

List of Dates

Black Sabbath

Moscow Attendance

I got sent a question by a fan asking about the attendance at the Moscow gigs.  Here’s the question:

Moscow ’89 has always intrigued me. I know the story behind it and I’ve seen the concert…does anyone have an idea how many people actually saw the band in that 10 day run? I’d imagine attendance was huge being the new freedom that Russia was experiencing at the time.

I went and asked Neil Murray about it, since he keeps meticulous logs of shows and information about them.  Neil was kind enough to send me back the information.  Here’s his notes on attendance from these shows..

Neil: Note that at Moscow Olympic Stadium (a sports arena, not a stadium, really), apart from a few dozen VIPs at the front in armchairs, there was no-one on the arena floor, only in the seats in the ‘bleachers’ – the numbers would have been higher for the Moscow shows if they’d been allowed to fill the entire hall.

Neil also wanted to pass along these are his estimates, not any kind of official attendance.

Moscow Olympic Stadium, known locally as the Olimpiyskiy or Olimpiski

November

Sun 19            3.15pm           1hr                  12,000

8.15pm           1hr 10             20,000

Mon 20           8.15pm           1hr 45             12,000

Tues 21          8.15pm           1hr 45             10,000

Wed 22           8.15pm           1hr 45             10,000

Fri 24              8.15pm           1hr 45             12,000

Sat 25             2.15pm           1hr 45            8,000  Video recording (played Apache during reel change)

8.15pm           1hr 45             10,000 Video recording

Sun 26            2.15pm           1hr 10             8,000

8.15pm           1hr 45             25,000

Leningrad (St Petersburg) SKK Hall

Thurs 30         9.15pm           1hr 45             12,000

December

Fri 1                9.15pm           1hr 45             10,000

Sat 2                5.00pm           1hr 10             7,000

9.15pm           1hr 45             15,000

Sun 3              5.00pm           1hr 10             8,000

9.00pm           1hr 45             15,000

Tues 5             9.15pm           1hr 45             10,000

Wed 6              9.15pm           1 hr 45            8,000

Thurs 7           9.30pm           1hr 45             6,000

Fri 8                9.00pm           1hr 45             12,000

Total 230,000 (estimated)

Best wishes,
Neil