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September 3, 2016

Added a better sounding VHS sourced soundboard recording from the 1981-10-23 Something Else television performance; stream and download it here.

August 27, 2016

Added:

• 1990-07-03 World Music Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA/Source 1: JB's very good master audience recording
• 1994-07-07 Marcus Amphitheatre, Milwaukee, WI, USA/Source 1: good to very good audience recording sourced from a fresh transfer of a low-generation tape, thanks to Brad

August 23, 2016

Added a very good sounding low-generation audience recording from 1993-10-19 Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Stream and download it here.

August 21, 2016

Added JB's very good audience recording from 1990-06-30 Marcus Ampitheatre, Milwaukee, WI, USA, sourced from a fresh transfer of the master tapes. You can stream & download it at 1990-06-30 Marcus Ampitheatre, Milwaukee, WI, USA/Source 2.

August 20, 2016

Added an upgrade for 1984-03-05 Teatro Tenda, Bologna, Italy/Source 1 sourced from a fresh transfer of a low-generation tape.

August 13, 2016

Added a fresh tape transfer of 1982-04-02 Théâtre Le Palace, Paris, France/Source 1, which doesn't have destructive noise reduction applied to it like the previously available version did.

June 21, 2016

Added several recordings over the past few days:

• 1981-07-25 Zuiderpark, The Hague, The Netherlands/Source 1: upgrade of a good audience recording sourced from a low-generation cassette
• 1984-12-05 Münsterlandhalle, Münster, Germany/Source 1‎‎: Nakamichi Dragon retransfer of Elly Apfel's first-generation audience recording; a very small upgrade over the previously available transfer
• 1986-04-10 N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK/Source 2‎: a very good sounding first-generation FM broadcast recording, including Shake The Disease
• 2015-10-30 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany/Source 3: Ronny's very good audience recording
• Forced To Mode: two very good audience recordings of the German Depeche Mode cover band Forced To Mode from 2016-06-04 Black Beach Festival, Hecklingen, Germany

June 2, 2016

Added:

• Fresh transfer of a first-generation cassette of Elly A's recording from 1987-10-23 Barcelona: 1987-10-23 Blaugrana Sports Palas, Barcelona, Spain/Source 1

May 28, 2016

Added:

• A low-generation speed-corrected tape transfer of 1983-12-02 Saga, Copenhagen, Denmark/Source 1, thanks to willer on DIME.
• Fresh transfer of a first-generation cassette of Elly A's recording from 1987-10-22 Madrid: 1987-10-22 Pabellon De Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain/Source 1

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

November 14, 2015

Several additions:

• 1993-06-30 Palais Omnisport De Paris Bercy, Paris, France/Source 1: excellent sounding audience recording; retransfer using a better cassette deck and lineage correction; retransferred & posted today in observance of the tragic attack on Paris that occurred yesterday, hopefully to brighten everyone's spirit a bit
• 1997-04-10 Adrenalin Village, London, England, UK/Source 1: lossless copy of average cassette-sourced audience recording
• 1997-05-16 Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 4: very good sounding audience recording, previously uncirculated
• 2015-11-02 La Cigale, Paris, France/Source 1: good audience recording considering the iPhone 6S Plus used as the recording device; bass is somewhat boomy and distorted at times, but still a listenable recording

November 7, 2015

Added Elly Apfel's very good sounding audience recording from 1986-05-22 Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany sourced from a first-generation cassette tape. Stream & download it here.

November 2, 2015

Added a second-generation cassette transfer of the incomplete soundboard recording from 1984-11-03 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK. Stream & download it here.

November 1, 2015

Added Elly Apfel's very good sounding audience recording from 1986-05-20 Münsterlandhalle, Münster, Germany sourced from a second-generation cassette tape. Stream & download it here.

October 31, 2015

Caught up with Dave Gahan & Soulsavers' 2015 "Angels & Ghosts" Tour. New additions include:

• 2015-10-21 WFUV Session, MSR Studios, New York City, NY, USA - audio of the 6-track session for WFUV, plus videos of 3 of the tracks
• 2015-10-26 BBC Radio 6, London, England, UK/Source 1 - digital satellite broadcast capture of performances of two tracks plus an interview with Mary Anne Hobbs - this is better quality than the BBC's internet stream
• 2015-10-30 Later... with Jools Holland, Maidstone Studios, BBC Television Centre, BBC2 HD, England, UK/Source 1 - 1080p HD television capture of the full segment from last night's broadcast
• 2015-10-30 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany - 720p webstream capture, plus demuxed audio split into tracks available to stream & download. Dave's voice is unfortunately distorted due to an oversight at the venue's mixing desk. An audience recording will also be available early next week from this concert.

October 27, 2015

A Depeche Mode Live Wiki exclusive: added RyanJ's very good audience recording from Dave Gahan & Soulsavers' concert at 2015-10-22 Town Hall, New York, NY, USA. Stream & download it here.

A higher quality transfer of Alan Wilder's 1984 "Some Great Reward" Demo Tape has also been made available for streaming & downloading.

October 20, 2015

The proshot webstream from Dave Gahan & Soulsaver's first gig at 2015-10-19 The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA has been made available to stream & download, both the full video and the audio by itself.

September 10, 2015

New discussion forum launched! Check it out here.

August 22, 2015

Some upgrades and additions for the 1983-1984 Construction Time Again Tour:

• 1983-09-12 Colston Hall, Bristol, England, UK/Source 1: 4th generation audience recording, much better sounding source compared to the previous version
• 1983-12-20 Stadthalle, Bremen, Germany/Source 1‎‎: speed-corrected and mostly de-clicked lossless source; still a decent audience recording at best
• 1983-12-23 Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany/Source 2: alternate source without destructive noise reduction causing annoying artifacts, but much more muffled

A 24-bit / 48khz version of 1982-02-21 Tiffany's, Glasgow, Scotland, UK/Source 1 has also been made available for download.

August 15, 2015

All circulating recordings from the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour are now available to stream & download. Please note that the torrent filesets are still being uploaded to my seedbox and all torrents will be seeded in about four days, but feel free to enjoy the streams and queue up the torrents in your torrent client in the meantime! Also, please report any broken streams or torrent download links to admin [at] depechemode-live [dot] com or on Twitter @DMLiveWiki. Update August 19: All torrents are now being seeded. Please report any download difficulty to the email or Twitter handle mentioned earlier.

August 13, 2015

Added a speed-corrected fresh retransfer of twoshed's master FM broadcast recording from 1984-11-03 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK. Stream & download it here.

July 25, 2015

Some minor additions and an upgrade:

• 1981-06-01 Bridge House, London, England, UK/Source 2: FLAC version, but sounds worse than the MP3 224kbps version (at Source 1), ironically. Made available primarily for collectors.
• 1983-12-10 Musenaal, Mannheim, Germany/Source 1‎: Upgrade of the already very good audience recording involving speed correction, 260 pops and clicks manually eliminated from the last 17 minutes of the recording, and use of a slightly better sounding original source.
• 1984-06-02 Suedwest Stadium, Ludwigshafen, Germany/Source 2‎: 7-track French FM broadcast. DJ talks too much. Had to make it mono (right channel unusable), and quality doesn't beat the complete copy at Source 1, but it's still certainly listenable. Another recording made available primarily for collectors.

More to come soon - about halfway done with preparing the MFTM tour for the wiki.

June 20, 2015

All circulating recordings from the 1986 Black Celebration Tour are now available to stream and download. Please note that it will be about 4 days before all torrents will be seeded, so load them up in your torrent client in the meantime and enjoy the streams. User registration has also been re-enabled. Update June 25: all torrents are now seeding.

June 13, 2015

Added a fresh transfer of Elly A's 1st generation audience recording from 1984-12-05 Münsterlandhalle, Münster, Germany. Stream and download it here.

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.

March 8, 2015

All recordings from the 1983-1984 Construction Time Again Tour are streamable and downloadable. Not all torrents are being seeded as many are still uploading to the torrent server, but you can add any torrents you want to your torrent client and the download will proceed once the upload to my server is finished.

March 5, 2015

All recordings through the 1982-1983 A Broken Frame Tour are now streamable in their entirety (including DVDs) as well as by each individual track. Torrents should download much quicker now. If you were in the process of downloading a torrent, please re-download the torrent from the recording's page and start again. Sorry for any inconvenience. Please email me if you are still having trouble downloading torrents. I'm working on getting the CTA, SGR, and "A Night With Martin L. Gore" tours up - they will be streamable & downloadable within the next couple weeks.

December 25, 2014

Added a soundboard recording DAT Master Clone for 2001-10-11 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany. Stream & download it here: 2001-10-11 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany/Source 1 Merry Christmas!

December 13, 2014

In celebration of a couple gigs' anniversaries:

• Added a rework of 1982-12-14 Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands creating the most complete, best sounding version possible. Stream and download the rework here: 1982-12-14 Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands/Source 1
• Also added a remastered audience recording of 1984-12-14 Alsterdorf Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany. Stream and download it here: 1984-12-14 Alsterdorf Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany/Source 1
• In addition, quite a few more recordings are now streamable. See the list of all streamable recordings on this page.

November 17, 2014

Added a rework of 1980-11-14 Technical College, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England, UK, which eliminates the overpowering bass and makes the entire recording clearer overall. Stream and download it here.

November 9, 2014

Added a rework of 1986-04-10 N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK from three FM broadcast sources, creating the most complete and best sounding version available. Stream and download the recording here.

November 2, 2014

Added streams & downloads of three recordings from 1984-11-03 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK to celebrate the concert's 30th anniversary:

• BBC pre-FM promotional vinyl - 12 tracks, stellar sound
• 18-track soundboard tape - good sound
• BBC Radio 1 FM broadcast master tape - 11 tracks, very good sound, includes Blasphemous Rumours not found on pre-FM vinyl

October 30, 2014

Added the most complete version of 1980-10-30 Bridgehouse, London, England, UK to celebrate its 34th anniversary. This source includes Tora! Tora! Tora! which is not available on the common "Bridgehouse" vinyl bootleg. Stream and download it here.

October 28, 2014

Added a very good audience recording from 1987-10-27 Paleur, Rome, Italy. It is an upgrade over the commonly circulating lossless version sourced from the "Italiantour 11/87" CD bootleg. You can stream and download it here. Sorry, lossy only.

October 21, 2014

Added audience recordings from the three nights in Paris during the 1990 World Violation Tour to celebrate their 24th anniversary. The third night has the best recording and the most interesting & rarely performed Martin acoustic tracks (Little 15 and Blue Dress). You can stream and download them at the following links:

• 1990-10-21 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France/Source 1
• 1990-10-22 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France/Source 1
• 1990-10-23 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France/Source 1

October 13, 2014

Added a superb audience recording of 1993-06-30 Palais Omnisport De Paris Bercy, Paris, France sourced from a first-generation cassette tape. Listen to the entire recording and download it here. Also added a stream of the webcast audio from 2013-10-11 Austin City Limits Festival, Austin, TX, USA.

September 16, 2014

Torrents are being seeded again, but I have a paltry 1Mbps connection (around 120KBps). I will explore seedbox options and possibly direct-download links; if you know of a seedbox or file host who offers 750GB+ of storage for a reasonable price, please email me! Until then, I do apologize for the slow download speeds.

September 10, 2014

You may experience difficulty downloading torrents at the moment. All recordings are currently hosted from the webmaster's home connection. He is in the middle of moving and there is no internet at his apartment yet. Please be patient, hopefully the recordings will be seeded again by this weekend. In a month or two, we will switch to a seedbox in order to allow very high availability of the recordings as well as greatly increased download speeds.

August 26, 2014

To celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the concert at 1981-08-26 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, UK, an uncirculated lossless first-generation FM broadcast recording of three tracks is now available. Download it here.

August 15, 2014

Added a recording of Peter Gordeno's in-ear monitor feed from 2006-01-21 LTU Arena, Dusseldorf, Germany. It is only available as MP3 320kbps. Download it here: 2006-01-21 LTU Arena, Dusseldorf, Germany/Source 2

August 13, 2014

Added an FM broadcast DAT master of Dave's performance at 2003-06-12 Hultsfred Festival, Hultsfred, Sweden.

August 2, 2014

Added an interview of Dave speaking about his second solo album "Hourglass": 2007-09-13 EMI, London, UK. Also added some samples / excerpts of soundboards from the following dates, mostly obtained from SoundCloud:

• Several samples from the 1987 - 1988 Music For The Masses Tour Backing Tapes.
• Snippets of Leave In Silence and Here Is The House from 1986-03-00 Black Celebration Tour Rehearsals.
• A sample of Enjoy The Silence, seemingly encoded from a lossless source, from 1990-07-21 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA. Compare it to the other Enjoy The Silence sample on the same page which is encoded from the commonly circulating lossy source.
• Several excerpts from 2001-07-23 E Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

July 27, 2014

Added an FM broadcast master of the original broadcast from 1982-03-28 De Lantaren, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (found at Source 2) and a rework of sources 1 & 2, yielding the most complete version available of the two FM broadcasts (found at Source 3).

June 29, 2014

Added all circulating recordings from the 1982-1983 A Broken Frame Tour. The Something Went Wrong compilation of 11 CDs worth of mistakes and technical difficulties is also now available to download; sorry about the delay.

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.

March 25, 2014

Added a good audience recording of the 2001-03-24 CD:UK, ITV, The London Studios, London, England, UK television performance. A total of five takes were performed and recorded.

March 21, 2014

Added an FM radio broadcast from 1984-12-09 Alsterdorf Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany, including the track Ice Machine which has not yet appeared on any release of "The World We Live In And Live In Hamburg".

February 21, 2014

Added a very good audience recording from 1986-05-10 Forest National, Brussels, Belgium and a decent audience recording of 2013-09-15 BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, USA (shameless plug - it's the webmaster's recording :) ). We do apologize about the lack of updates and will change that very soon!

February 12, 2014

Added a nearly-complete audience audio recording of 2013-04-26 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, USA from master video clips. This concert had the first live performance of But Not Tonight.

January 28, 2014

Added:

• 1980-11-14 Technical College, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England, UK audience recording
• 1988-02-13 Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden audience recording
• 2006-03-21 Papp Laszlo Arena, Budapest, Hungary soundboard (first three tracks only)
• 2003-05-07 Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA has a soundboard recording of Sweetest Perfection available for listening and download. Unfortunately, it is MP3 192kbps 32khz, but it is still definitely worth a listen. This was not noted anywhere obvious until now, our apologies.

January 27, 2014

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