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This wiki offers downloads for the best soundboard, FM, and audience recordings of Depeche Mode's extensive live career. Tour information is also provided. We include as much detailed information as possible about each recording's background.

This site is not intended to serve as a download archive of every recording under the sun at the moment, although we are making slow progress toward that status. We do provide info for each tour date, however. If you are a hardcore collector and want every possible recording, even ones which sound like they have been recorded from outside the venue, DIME or trading with other collectors would currently be better options for you.

None of these recordings contain officially or commercially released tracks. Only recordings of independent origin or recordings which had analog or digital broadcasts are available for download here. This site does not host any recordings directly, and hosts only metadata files for the recordings.

We also have an extensive interview section featuring full transcripts and audio files where available, as well as background information regarding each interview.

Setlists for most tour dates are provided as well, though we are lacking info for many early tour dates. Other media such as ticket scans, setlist sheet photos, and pro-shot news snippets are also provided if available. We have a list of dates with unconfirmed setlists, so if you can confirm the setlist of a concert, please help us out by filling it in!

Interested in contributing to the wiki? See Contributing.

Please note that registration is disabled currently due to spambots registering (but not spamming any pages, yet). This will not affect your enjoyment of the wiki - you are still free to browse, stream, and download whatever you wish and as much as you want. You only need to register if you wish to edit pages on the wiki. I apologize for any inconvenience and will try to rectify the issue soon and re-enable registration.

Today in Depeche Mode history

• 1984-11-22 Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany . . Categories: 1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour
• 1990-11-22 N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK . . Categories: 1990 World Violation Tour | Download available | Ticket scan
• 1993-11-22 E! Entertainment Television, Los Angeles, CA, USA . . Categories: Articles needing improvement | Articles needing transcription | Interviews | Interviews featuring Andrew Fletcher | Recording-related stubs | Stubs
• 1998-11-22 U.N.O. Lakefront Arena, University Of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA . . Categories: 1998 The Singles Tour | Download available
• 2003-11-22 Böblingen Sporthalle, Stuttgart, Germany . . Categories: 2003 Paper Monsters Tour
• 2005-11-22 Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA . . Categories: 2005-2006 Touring The Angel | Download available | Setlist sheet picture
• 2012-11-22 Indiegente, Antena 3, RTP, Lisbon, Portugal . . Categories: Articles needing improvement | Articles needing transcription | Interviews | Interviews featuring Alan Wilder | Interviews relating to A Strange Hour In Budapest | Recording-related stubs | Stubs
• 2012-11-22 Plus De Bruit, Radio Sud 105FM, Beau Canton, Belgium . . Categories: Articles needing improvement | Articles needing transcription | Articles needing translation | Interviews | Interviews featuring Dave Gahan | Interviews relating to Delta Machine | Recording-related stubs | Stubs
• 2017-11-22 O2 Arena, London, England, UK . . Categories: 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour | Concert pages missing ticket stubs | Setlist sheet picture

Dates with streamable recordings:

• 1990-11-22 N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | Cassette sourced recordings | Source | Streamable
• 1998-11-22 U.N.O. Lakefront Arena, University Of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | MiniDisc sourced recordings | Source | Streamable
• 2005-11-22 Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | DAT sourced recordings | Master recordings | Source | Streamable
• 2005-11-22 Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 2 . . Categories: DAT sourced recordings | In-ear monitor recordings | Master recordings | Matrix recordings | Source | Streamable

Latest news

June 5, 2015

Added a fresh retransfer of Brent Graham's good audience master recording from 1994-03-08 Tennis Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia here: Source 1

May 23, 2015

New additions:

• 1982-03-26 Metropol, Berlin, Germany/Source 1: upgrade; good audience recording, clearer and less hissy sounding version than the one previously available
• 1983-10-01 Apollo, Oxford, England, UK/Source 1: uncirculated partial audience recording, but pretty bad sounding; this one's pretty much only for the collectors

May 19, 2015

Stream & download a good sounding incomplete audience recording, previously uncirculated, from 1990-06-26 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA here: Source 1

May 9, 2015

Sorry about the slow progress! Some new recordings:

• 1981-09-26 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands/Source 3: incomplete audience recording of the concert, still video-sourced but without the horrendous buzzing / ringing noise throughout. More muffled and hissy, but I still prefer that over the headache-inducing buzzing and ringing of the video soundtrack.
• 1984-03-06 Orfeo Music Hall, Milan, Italy/Source 1: reworked version of 38f's audience master, now speed-corrected with improved channel balance & dynamics
• 1987-10-22 Pabellon De Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain/Source 1: very good and properly speed-corrected, channel balanced second-generation audience recording from the first gig of the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour
• 1988-04-29 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, CA, USA/Source 1: very good audience recording, including Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth

I am still working on having all recordings from the 1986 Black Celebration Tour available as well.

April 11, 2015

Stream & download a fresh retransfer & remaster of the incomplete soundboard recording from 1986-05-16 Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany at Source 2.

March 19, 2015

All recordings from the 1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour are now streamable and downloadable.

March 15, 2015

All recordings from the 1997 Ultra Parties and 2003 "A Night With Martin L. Gore" Tour are now streamable and downloadable. The 1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour will be streamable & downloadable by this weekend.

News archive

Guides

• How to download torrents
• Converting FLAC to MP3
• Sample rate conversion
• Burning audio CDs
• Burning M4A recordings to a CD

Recordings by type

• Soundboard recordings
• FM broadcasts
• Audience recordings
• Television broadcasts
• Videos
• Interviews
• Streamable recordings
• Per song
  • Early live-only songs
• Notable concerts
• Compilations
• Soundchecks
• Tour rehearsals
• Tour backing tapes (excerpts and info)
• Demos & Studio Pre-Mixes (samples and excerpts)
  • Summer 1980 Demo Tape
  • Alan Wilder's 1984 "Some Great Reward" Demo Tape
• Master recordings
• First generation recordings

Recordings and information by tour date

• 1980 Tour
• 1981 Tour
• 1982 See You Tour
• 1982-1983 A Broken Frame Tour
• 1983-1984 Construction Time Again Tour
• 1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour
• 1986 Black Celebration Tour
• 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour
• 1990 World Violation Tour
• 1993 Devotional Tour
• 1994 Exotic Tour
• 1997 Ultra Parties
• 1998 The Singles Tour
• 2001 Exciter Tour
• 2003 Paper Monsters Tour (Dave Gahan solo)
• 2003 "A Night With Martin L. Gore" (Martin L. Gore solo)
• 2005-2006 Touring The Angel
• 2009-2010 Touring The Universe
• 2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour
• Cancelled concerts

Other media

• Ticket stub scans
• Setlist sheet pictures