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==Gallery==
==Gallery==
[[File:1980-06-14 Nicholas School, Basildon, England, UK.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Poster, designed by Vince Clarke's brother, Rodney.]]  
[[File:1980-06-14 Nicholas School, Basildon, England, UK.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Poster, designed by Vince Clarke's brother, Rodney.]]  
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Revision as of 16:57, 13 January 2016

Notes

"Composition Of Sound" played at this concert. This was the first concert with Dave Gahan on vocals. This concert did not take place on May 31st, 1980, as many other sources cite (including the official depechemode.com archives site); the concert took place on June 14, 1980, in a large hall upstairs, with an admission price of 50p[1]. The first performance of "Composition Of Sound" was at 1980-05-30 Paddocks Community Center, Laindon, Essex, England, UK.

Note that any recording you may find from this date (which will typically be labeled as 1980-05-31) is a fake recording comprised of tracks from other various early live recordings.

Michael Rose from Facebook group Depeche Mode Classic Photos And Videos found out that the poster made for this concert was designed by Vince Clarke's brother, Rodney Martin. Steve Burton also admitted his participation for this concert in the same Facebook group:

"I was on the committee of the Nicholas Old Pupils Association (NOPA) who were looking to arrange an event to promote the organisation. I said that some friends of mine had recently formed a band & were looking for opportunities to perform live. I assured the committee that the band were good & that people would come along to support a gig. So it was agreed to clear the large locker room out in Nicholas School to make a stage & set big enough for 'Composition of Sound'. I did the DJing too playing a selection from my record collection in between the live music. Yes, folk did turn up. And the rest, they say, is history..."

Martin and Andy gave the following details in 2009 when asked about DM's first gig as Depeche Mode:

Question: So you became Depeche Mode, what, about summer 1980?

Gore: "I think it was around May 1980."

Fletcher: "I dispute that."

Gore: "You’re just wrong! There’s a friend of ours Daryl [Bamonte] who used to be a roadie for us back in the old days and he’s kept a diary which contains an official date – I think it’s some time in May when we first played as Depeche Mode. It was a school gig. I suppose in theory we would have got together at least a few weeks before that because we would have started rehearsing. But I reckon you could call the date of that first school gig the 30th anniversary."

Question: What was that first gig like?

Fletcher: "That’s when you were in both bands! There was another band playing on the bill called The French Look and Martin was in both of them so between sets he had to change his image. [both Martin and Dave laugh] That was the first time that Dave sang and he was really nervous. So nervous. It was at our old school St Nicholas."

Dave Gahan said in 1987 about the first real gig that he had done that it took 10 cans of lager to persuade him to perform:

"All I can remember, is saying over and over to myself, ‘I don’t want to do it, I don’t want to do it.’ I really felt I couldn’t go on."

Gallery

Poster, designed by Vince Clarke's brother, Rodney.

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