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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

August 13, 2014

Added an FM broadcast DAT master of Dave's performance at 2003-06-12 Hultsfred Festival, Hultsfred, Sweden.

August 2, 2014

Added an interview of Dave speaking about his second solo album "Hourglass": 2007-09-13 EMI, London, UK. Also added some samples / excerpts of soundboards from the following dates, mostly obtained from SoundCloud:

• Several samples from the 1987 - 1988 Music For The Masses Tour Backing Tapes.
• Snippets of Leave In Silence and Here Is The House from 1986-03-00 Black Celebration Tour Rehearsals.
• A sample of Enjoy The Silence, seemingly encoded from a lossless source, from 1990-07-21 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA. Compare it to the other Enjoy The Silence sample on the same page which is encoded from the commonly circulating lossy source.
• Several excerpts from 2001-07-23 E Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

July 27, 2014

Added an FM broadcast master of the original broadcast from 1982-03-28 De Lantaren, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (found at Source 2) and a rework of sources 1 & 2, yielding the most complete version available of the two FM broadcasts (found at Source 3).

June 29, 2014

Added all circulating recordings from the 1982-1983 A Broken Frame Tour. The Something Went Wrong compilation of 11 CDs worth of mistakes and technical difficulties is also now available to download; sorry about the delay.

June 22, 2014

Added all circulating recordings from the 1982 See You Tour. Particularly good new additions include:

• Better source for 1982-03-22 Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, Sweden soundboard audio from a TV broadcast; although it is lossy, it has excellent sound.
• 1982-03-24 Trinity Hall, Hamburg, Germany/Source 1 is one of the best audience recordings from the tour.

Also added a nearly-complete audience recording of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's opening set for Depeche Mode on 1988-06-18 Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, USA. You may download it here: OMD Source 1.

June 8, 2014

Added all circulating recordings from the 1980 Tour and 1981 Tour. Please report dead links, download difficulty, and any other trouble you may encounter to admin [at] depechemode-live [dot] com. Thank you for your patience! I know I'm slow at uploading these recordings.

April 27, 2014

Added a complete Swiss Radio DRS3 FM broadcast from 1984-11-30 St. Jacobs Sporthalle, Basel, Switzerland. Download it here: 1984-11-30 Basel - Source 4.

March 30, 2014

Added a demos and studio pre-mixes section containing samples of all of the currently circulating demos and studio pre-mixes which have not been commercially released. The Summer 1980 Demo Tape is also available.

March 25, 2014

Added a good audience recording of the 2001-03-24 CD:UK, ITV, The London Studios, London, England, UK television performance. A total of five takes were performed and recorded.

March 21, 2014

Added an FM radio broadcast from 1984-12-09 Alsterdorf Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany, including the track Ice Machine which has not yet appeared on any release of "The World We Live In And Live In Hamburg".

February 21, 2014

Added a very good audience recording from 1986-05-10 Forest National, Brussels, Belgium and a decent audience recording of 2013-09-15 BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, USA (shameless plug - it's the webmaster's recording :) ). We do apologize about the lack of updates and will change that very soon!

February 12, 2014

Added a nearly-complete audience audio recording of 2013-04-26 The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, USA from master video clips. This concert had the first live performance of But Not Tonight.

January 28, 2014

Added:

• 1980-11-14 Technical College, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England, UK audience recording
• 1988-02-13 Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden audience recording
• 2006-03-21 Papp Laszlo Arena, Budapest, Hungary soundboard (first three tracks only)
• 2003-05-07 Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA has a soundboard recording of Sweetest Perfection available for listening and download. Unfortunately, it is MP3 192kbps 32khz, but it is still definitely worth a listen. This was not noted anywhere obvious until now, our apologies.

January 27, 2014

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