Category:2005-2006 Touring The Angel

Touring The Angel
Tour name	Touring The Angel
By	Depeche Mode
Personnel	Dave Gahan Martin Gore Andrew Fletcher
Stage musicians	Christian Eigner (drums) Peter Gordeno (keyboards, backing vocals)
Support acts	The Bravery The Raveonettes She Wants Revenge Scissor Sisters Goldfrapp Mohair Pati Yang Timo Maas DJ Hirek Wrona & DJ Mario Sisters Of Mercy Sunshine Yonderboi Placebo DJ Veztax Nova Generacia Sistem Suie Paparude DJ Vania Booka Shade Muse Sugarplum Fairy DJ Gogo Scarling Franz Ferdinand Natural Project Second Chantage Pamela Schiller
Length	2005-10-28 - 2006-08-01
Number of shows	125

Touring The Angel was a 2005-2006 international tour undertaken by Depeche Mode in support of their eleventh studio album Playing The Angel.

A list of the songs which were part of the pre-show DJ set can be found here: Pre-show DJ sets

Line up and songwriting credits

• Dave Gahan - lead vocals, backing vocals (on 'Macro')
• Martin L. Gore - keyboards, guitar, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals (denoted by (*) in track listings)
• Andrew Fletcher - keyboards
• Peter Gordeno - keyboards, bass guitar (on 'It Doesn't Matter Two'), backing vocals
• Christian Eigner - drums, backing vocals (on 'Goodnight Lovers')
• Kerry Hopwood - live computers and musical director (off stage)

All songs performed were written by Martin Gore except for 'Just Can't Get Enough' and 'Photographic', which were written by Vince Clarke. 'Suffer Well', 'I Want It All', and 'Nothing's Impossible' were written by Dave Gahan, Christian Eigner, and Andrew Phillpott.

Live Here Now recordings

A number of concerts were recorded by Live Here Now (a division of Mute Records). These recordings were sold officially on the now defunct depechemodelive.com website. With some exceptions, concerts which enjoyed an official release through Live Here Now do not have available audience recordings at this time. The following concerts released through the Live Here Now service have independently-sourced recordings available:

• 2006-04-27 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA
• 2006-04-29 Coachella, Indio, CA, USA
• 2006-05-14 PNC BankArts Center, Holmdel, NJ, USA
• 2006-06-04 Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, Germany
• 2006-06-11 Inter-Bratislava Stadium, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2006-06-25 London Wireless Festival, London, England, UK
• 2006-07-01 Eurockeennes Festival, Belfort, France
• 2006-07-12 Waldbuhne, Berlin, Germany

8 out of 43 LHN-released concerts have alternative recordings available.

Dates with downloads available

Dates without available downloads

Recommended recordings

These recordings are highly recommended as they are generally regarded as some of the best recordings from this tour. This is not an exhaustive list of very good sounding recordings.

• 2005-11-18 HP Pavilion, San Jose, CA, USA (In-ear monitor matrix)
• 2005-12-07 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA (In-ear monitor matrix)
• 2005-12-11 KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, CA, USA (pre-FM broadcast)
• 2006-06-04 Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, Germany (Soundboard)
• 2006-06-11 Inter-Bratislava Stadium, Bratislava, Slovakia (Audience)