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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
- 1984-11-01 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK . . Categories: 1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour
- 1990-11-01 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany . . Categories: 1990 World Violation Tour | Download available | Pages with broken file links | Ticket scan
- 1998-11-01 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA . . Categories: 1998 The Singles Tour | Download available | External videos
- 2003-11-01 Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany . . Categories: 2003 Paper Monsters Tour
- 2009-11-01 AWD Dome, Bremen, Germany . . Categories: 2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe | Ticket scan
Dates with streamable recordings:
- 1990-11-01 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | Cassette sourced recordings | DMLiveWiki transfers | First generation recordings | Source | Streamable
- 1998-11-01 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA/Source 1 . . Categories: Audience recordings | Cassette sourced recordings | Source | Streamable
- 1998-11-01 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA/Source 2 . . Categories: Audience recordings | Master recordings | MiniDisc sourced recordings | Recordings by ISWIWDead | Source | Streamable
Latest news
- 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.
- 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.
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)
- Master recordings
- First generation recordings
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