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This wiki offers streams and downloads for all circulating recordings of Depeche Mode's extensive live career. Tour and concert information is also provided.

All circulating recordings are slowly being added, usually in batches of an entire tour. All circulating recordings from the 1980 Tour up to and including the 1990 World Violation Tour are currently streamable and downloadable via torrent. In addition, all circulating recordings from the 1997 Ultra Parties and 2003 "A Night With Martin L. Gore" tours are available.

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 streaming and download here. This site does not host downloads of any recordings directly, and hosts only torrent metadata files for the recordings.

There is also an extensive interview section featuring full transcripts and audio streams where available, as well as background information regarding each interview. There are over 400 interviews currently available.

Set lists for most tour dates are provided as well, though information is lacking for many extremely early tour dates. Other media such as ticket scans, set list sheet photos, and pro-shot news snippets are also provided, where available. There is a list of dates with unconfirmed set lists, so if you can confirm the set list of a concert, please help out by filling it in!

Do you have some old audio cassette tapes, 8mm/Hi8, or VHS tapes containing live recordings? Please contact us - see Contributing.

Today in Depeche Mode history

• 1984-11-21 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany . . Categories: 1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour | Download available
• 1993-11-21 The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, USA . . Categories: 1993 Devotional Tour | Concert pages missing ticket stubs | Download available
• 2005-11-21 Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA . . Categories: 2005-2006 Touring The Angel | Download available
• 2009-11-21 Palau St Jordi, Barcelona, Spain . . Categories: 2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe | Download available | Officially released | Setlist sheet picture
• 2012-11-21 The things THEY said, EDMFK, Tallinn, Estonia . . Categories: Articles needing improvement | Interviews | Interviews featuring Alan Wilder | Interviews featuring Daniel Miller | Recording-related stubs | Stubs
• 2013-11-21 Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany . . Categories: 2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour | Ticket scan
• 2023-11-21 Rogers Place, Edmonton, AB, Canada . . Categories: 2023-2024 Memento Mori Tour | Concert pages missing ticket stubs

Dates with streamable recordings:

• 1984-11-21 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | Cassette sourced recordings | First generation recordings | Recordings by Elly Apfel | Source | Streamable
• 1993-11-21 The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | Source | Streamable
• 2005-11-21 Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | DAT sourced recordings | Master recordings | Source | Streamable
• 2005-11-21 Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 2 . . Categories: Audience recordings | DAT sourced recordings | Master recordings | Source | Streamable
• 2009-11-21 Palau St Jordi, Barcelona, Spain/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | Master recordings | Source | Streamable

Latest news

May 14, 2016

Upgrades of two audience recordings:

• 1984-11-15 Falkoner Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark/Source 1: new transfer of low-generation tape, slightly better sound the than previous version; thanks to willer on DIME
• 1984-12-11 Sporthalle, Böblingen, Germany/Source 1: new transfer of low-generation tape which sounds much better overall than the previous version; thanks to darkdevoted

April 16, 2016

Some additions:

• 1984-11-21 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany/Source 1: first generation copy of Elly Apfel's very good audience recording, thanks to darkdevoted
• 1998-11-13 Miami Arena, Miami, FL, USA: addition of three recordings:
  • Source 1 is a good sounding DAT-sourced audience recording.
  • Source 2 is a previously uncirculating 8mm master audience right shot.
  • Source 3 is the audio by itself from that video recording.

Also check out the 1980/1981 background info page, which chronologically describes a significant amount of background info from Depeche Mode's first two tours.

February 27, 2016

Added Elly Apfel's very good sounding audience recording from 1986-05-13 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany sourced from a first-generation cassette tape. Stream & download it here.

February 13, 2016

Added a fresh retransfer of 1986-03-31 New Conference Centre, Brighton, England, UK/Source 1 with improved quality to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the album "Black Celebration".

December 19, 2015

All circulating audio recordings from the 1990 World Violation Tour are now available to stream and download.

November 21, 2015

Some additions:

• 1986-05-22 Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany/Source 1‎‎: mint vinyl rip from the 3xLP "A Question Of Time" bootleg
• 1986-05-25 Walter-Köbel-Halle, Rüsselsheim, Germany/Source 1‎: fresh transfer of Elly Apfel's good sounding audience recording sourced from a first-generation cassette tape
• 1986-08-16 Valbyparken, Copenhagen, Denmark/Source 2: fresh transfer of Elly Apfel's good sounding audience recording sourced from a first-generation cassette tape; previously uncirculated

News archive

Guides

• How to download torrents
  • Guía en Español
• 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
  • External videos
• Interviews
• Streamable recordings
• Per song
  • Early live-only songs
• Compilations
  • 2013 Delta Machine Live - a compilation which includes most of the tracks performed on the Delta Machine tour, sourced from several webstreams.
  • Something Went Wrong - a compilation of Depeche Mode's live mistakes, glitches, technical problems and the like, spanning from 1980 to 2010.
• Tour backing tapes: audio excerpts and information
  • 1987 - 1988 Music For The Masses Tour Backing Tapes
  • 1990 World Violation Tour Backing Tapes
  • 1993 Devotional Tour Backing Tapes
• Demos & Studio Pre-Mixes: full streams of demos, excerpts of pre-mixes, and as much information as is known about them
  • Summer 1980 Demo Tape
  • Alan Wilder's 1984 "Some Great Reward" Demo Tape
  • Fake and misattributed tracks
• Notable concerts
• Soundchecks
• Tour rehearsals
• 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
• 2015 "Angels & Ghosts" Tour (Dave Gahan & Soulsavers)
• Cancelled concerts
• Miscellaneous performances (one-off performances such as Dave's couple of 2007 "Hourglass" promo spots, etc)
• Support acts

Other media

• 1980/1981 background info
• Tour diaries
• Ticket stub scans
• Setlist sheet pictures
• Tribute acts