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This wiki offers downloads for the best soundboard, FM, and audience recordings of Depeche Mode's extensive live career. Tour information is also provided. 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 where available, 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.
Today in Depeche Mode history
- 1984-11-22 Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany . . Categories: 1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour
- 1990-11-22 N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK . . Categories: 1990 World Violation Tour | Download available | Ticket scan
- 1993-11-22 E! Entertainment Television, Los Angeles, CA, USA . . Categories: Articles needing improvement | Articles needing transcription | Interviews | Interviews featuring Andrew Fletcher | Recording-related stubs | Stubs
- 1998-11-22 U.N.O. Lakefront Arena, University Of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA . . Categories: 1998 The Singles Tour | Download available
- 2003-11-22 Böblingen Sporthalle, Stuttgart, Germany . . Categories: 2003 Paper Monsters Tour
- 2005-11-22 Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA . . Categories: 2005-2006 Touring The Angel | Download available | Setlist sheet picture
- 2012-11-22 Indiegente, Antena 3, RTP, Lisbon, Portugal . . Categories: Articles needing improvement | Articles needing transcription | Interviews | Interviews featuring Alan Wilder | Interviews relating to A Strange Hour In Budapest | Recording-related stubs | Stubs
- 2012-11-22 Plus De Bruit, Radio Sud 105FM, Beau Canton, Belgium . . Categories: Articles needing improvement | Articles needing transcription | Articles needing translation | Interviews | Interviews featuring Dave Gahan | Interviews relating to Delta Machine | Recording-related stubs | Stubs
- 2017-11-22 O2 Arena, London, England, UK . . Categories: 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour | Concert pages missing ticket stubs | Setlist sheet picture
Dates with streamable recordings:
- 1990-11-22 N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | Cassette sourced recordings | Source | Streamable
- 1998-11-22 U.N.O. Lakefront Arena, University Of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | MiniDisc sourced recordings | Source | Streamable
- 2005-11-22 Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | DAT sourced recordings | Master recordings | Source | Streamable
- 2005-11-22 Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA/Source 2 . . Categories: DAT sourced recordings | In-ear monitor recordings | Master recordings | Matrix recordings | Source | Streamable
Latest news
- 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
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
- Streamable recordings
- Per song
- Notable concerts
- Compilations
- Soundchecks
- Tour rehearsals
- Tour backing tapes (excerpts and info)
- Demos & Studio Pre-Mixes (samples and excerpts)
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