1980-11-14 Technical College, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England, UK

Notes

The second earliest genuine recording of Depeche Mode currently circulating. I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead sounds radically different from later live versions and the studio version; you can listen to the entire track below.

This is the second of two recordings currently circulating (and available to download) from the 1980 Tour. The other one is 1980-10-30 Bridgehouse, London, England, UK.

Set list

1. [3:25] Television Set
2. [3:28] Addiction
3. [3:37] Dreaming Of Me
4. [3:34] Just Can't Get Enough
5. [4:08] Big Muff
6. [2:01] I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
7. [3:03] Tora! Tora! Tora!
8. [3:27] Photographic
9. [3:18] New Life
10. [4:25] Ice Machine

• Total time: 34:26

Sample

• I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead (entire track):

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Lineage

• unknown taper and equipment -> unknown generation -> Sony HF90 cassette -> Sony TC-WE805S (no Dolby setting) -> RCA -> ASUS Xonar DX -> Adobe Audition CS6 -> normalized to -1.0dB -> FLAC (24/48) -> FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v1.2.9, FLAC 1.3.0, and Resampler (SoX), best quality

Generation: unknown

• Transfer: ligushka
• Cassette tape photos and Audiochecker log included

Download

• Download via torrent - FLAC 16-bit 44.1khz - 205MB
  • DIME link