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This wiki offers downloads for the best soundboard, FM, and audience recordings of Depeche Mode's extensive live career. 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, 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.

Latest news

June 22, 2014

Added all circulating recordings from the 1982 See You Tour. Particularly good new additions include:

• Better source for 1982-03-22 Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, Sweden soundboard audio from a TV broadcast; although it is lossy, it has excellent sound.
• 1982-03-24 Trinity Hall, Hamburg, Germany/Source 1 is one of the best audience recordings from the tour.

Also added a nearly-complete audience recording of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's opening set for Depeche Mode on 1988-06-18 Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, USA. You may download it here: OMD Source 1.

June 8, 2014

Added all circulating recordings from the 1980 Tour and 1981 Tour. Please report dead links, download difficulty, and any other trouble you may encounter to admin [at] depechemode-live [dot] com. Thank you for your patience! I know I'm slow at uploading these recordings.

April 27, 2014

Added a complete Swiss Radio DRS3 FM broadcast from 1984-11-30 St. Jacobs Sporthalle, Basel, Switzerland. Download it here: 1984-11-30 Basel - Source 4.

March 30, 2014

Added a demos and studio pre-mixes section containing samples of all of the currently circulating demos and studio pre-mixes which have not been commercially released. The Summer 1980 Demo Tape is also available.

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
• Per song
• Notable concerts
• Compilations
• Soundchecks
• Demos & Studio Pre-Mixes (samples and excerpts)
  • Summer 1980 Demo Tape

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