Did you know? But Not Tonight had a video made for club services
The label is a clue to how a music video was meant to travel — not a description of where it was filmed.
The official archive preserves a Pool Version of But Not Tonight, directed by Tamra Davis. Its notes explain that this version was intended for video pool services supplying promotional compilations to clubs, but was never broadcast or used for promotion. It had been stored in the Warner Brothers video vault since 1986. [1]
A familiar song with an unfamiliar destination
We often picture a promo’s destination as television: a scheduled slot, a presenter and a viewer at home. The pool label points towards another intended setting. It asks us to imagine a song arriving on screens in a club, as one selection among videos supplied by a specialist service.
The version label matters
The archive’s note concerns this particular cut. It should not be stretched into a claim that every But Not Tonight video was unseen, or that the song itself was withheld. Keeping the version attached to the story is what makes an interesting fact stay accurate.
Watch with the destination in mind
Play the Pool Version below. As you watch, ask how a film might catch your attention in a room where people are talking or moving rather than sitting down to study it. That is our viewing prompt, not a claim about Davis’s brief. Afterwards, explore the single’s separate UK and US histories: the changing role of the record makes an intriguing companion to the video’s intended route.
Watch But Not Tonight — Pool Version
Read how the B-side became the US single →
Source: Depeche Mode official video archive, curated by Daniel Barassi. Archive facts and our viewing suggestions are distinguished above.
MODE UNKNOWN · 14 September 2026 · AI-assisted research and writing using the credited primary source.