Category:1981 Tour

Depeche Mode's 1981 tour, promoting their first album Speak & Spell.

For a list of all support acts on this tour, go here.

Line up and songwriting credits

• Dave Gahan - lead vocals
• Martin L. Gore - keyboards, backing vocals
• Andrew Fletcher - keyboards
• Vince Clarke - keyboards, backing vocals, whistle (during Boys Say Go!)

All songs performed were written by Vince Clarke, except for Big Muff and Tora! Tora! Tora! which were written by Martin L. Gore, Television Set which was written by Jason Knott, and The Price Of Love which was written by The Everly Brothers.

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.

Early 1981

• 1981-04-06 Bridge House, London, England, UK (Audience)
• 1981-06-11 Richard Skinner Session, BBC Radio 1, London, England, UK (Soundboard)
• 1981-06-27 Crocs, Rayleigh, Essex, England, UK (Soundboard)

Late 1981

• 1981-08-05 Rafters, Manchester, England, UK (Audience)
• 1981-09-29 Les Bains Douches, Paris, France (pre-FM broadcast)
• 1981-11-11 Top Rank, Brighton, England, UK (Audience)