Category:1993 Devotional Tour

1993 Devotional Tour
Tour name	1993 Devotional Tour
By	Depeche Mode
Personnel	Dave Gahan Alan Wilder Martin Gore Andrew Fletcher
Backing vocalists	Hildia Campbell Samantha Smith
Support acts	Spiritualized (1993-05-19 - 1993-05-28) Cane N Able (1993-05-29) Miranda Sex Garden (1993-05-31 - 1993-06-16) Toyen (1993-06-18) Think About Mutation (1993-06-19) Sonic Smell (1993-07-27) Parallax (1993-07-29) Sisters Of Mercy (1993-07-31) Dreadzone (1993-07-31) Dub Syndicate (1993-07-31) The The (1993-09-07 - 1993-11-26) An Emotional Fish (1993-12-12) Marxman (1993-06-21 - 1993-12-20) 1994 Exotic Tour (leg): The Outsiders (1994-02-09 - 1994-02-26) April's Motel Room (1994-02-14) Caligula (1994-03-05 - 1994-03-12) Babasónicos (1994-04-08) Juana La Loca (1994-04-08) Igni Ferroque (1994-04-14) Primal Scream (1994-05-12 - 1994-07-08) Stabbing Westward (1994-05-12 - 1994-07-08) Turning Keys (1994-05-21)
Length	1993-05-19 - 1993-12-20 (7 months; 12 months including Exotic Tour leg)
Number of shows	97 (157 including Exotic Tour leg)

The 1993 Devotional Tour was a multi-leg tour undertaken by Depeche Mode in support of their eighth studio album Songs Of Faith And Devotion. The tour was extended by a second leg in which the group played to countries and territories they had never previously visited, including South Africa, Australia, East Asia, South America, and Mexico, as well as additional shows in the United States and Canada.

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

To read the tour diary for this tour, go here.

Line up and songwriting credits

• Dave Gahan - lead vocals
• Martin L. Gore - keyboards, guitar, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals (denoted by (*) in track listings)
• Andrew Fletcher - keyboards
• Alan Wilder - keyboards, drums, backing vocals
• Hildia Campbell - backing vocals
• Samantha Smith - backing vocals

All songs performed were written by Martin L. Gore.

Quotes

Wilder recalled the versatile system used to determine setlists on the fly in a Q&A on the official Recoil site:

When I was in the group, it was standard practice to change the set if we were playing one venue over 2 or more nights or if we were revisiting an area already played on the tour. We had 8 separate tapes - basically 4 different set-lists (red, green, blue and yellow I think) which were each split into two halves and broken up by an acoustic song somewhere in the middle - which allowed for the tape change. Effectively therefore, we could mix and match any combination of 1st and 2nd half tapes. Along with a few different alternatives for Martin's acoustic songs, this gave us the opportunity to perform many different running orders although all of them had the same overall shape and structure. So, for example, a quick chat beforehand might result in "let's play the blue / red set tonight with 'Somebody' instead of 'I Want You Now' in the middle." We could also change tapes for the encores, if necessary.

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  Green setlist
  Source: Depeche Mode Fan Club Singapore.

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  Yellow setlist
  Source: Instagram user 'recordkeepers'.

Trivia

• Two concerts on the 1993 Devotional Tour did not feature a support act. These concerts were the two back-to-back nights at Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico.
• The Devotional Tour is the first Depeche Mode tour to feature live female backing vocalists in Hildia Campbell and Samantha Smith, and is the only tour to feature backing vocalists who have also performed vocal duties on studio albums by Depeche Mode and Recoil.
  • Later tours would also feature live female backing vocalists whilst expanding their performative responsibilities, such as the 1998 The Singles Tour, which featured Janet Cooke and Jordan Bailey performing synchronised dances onstage in addition to singing back-up. Bailey would reprise her "lead" backing vocalist role for the Exciter Tour in 2001, where she was joined by Georgia Lewis.

Dates with downloads available