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1981-07-23 The Venue, London, England, UK/Source 1

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Notes

A good sounding audience recording. It was Depeche Mode's first London concert following the huge success of 'New Life' and was a compete sell-out. It also happened to be Martin Gore's 20th birthday.

The concert was notable for a number of reasons. It was the first time the band wore their new stage costumes put together by Vince Clarke's Mum. Prior to this the band had basically worn whatever they fancied with leather jackets and leather jeans being the most common. Only Dave had regularly made a point of dressing up in a stylish way. Vince had decided that the band should look more professional with smart fashionable outfits.

This concert also saw the unveiling of the first new songs to the bands set since the beginning of the year. Dave announced the 2 new songs as 'Operator' and "Pretty Boy". By the Autumn and the release of the debut album Speak & Spell these titles had been changed to Puppets and What's Your Name?

The night also had the first ever real example of fanaticism in the ranks of Depeche Mode fans. One young woman managed to climb onto the stage and grab and hug Dave before being bundled away by a member of the stage crew.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

  1. [3:30] Play Television Set
  2. [2:43] Play Boys Say Go!
  3. [4:58] Play New Life
  4. [3:37] Play Puppets
  5. [3:53] Play Ice Machine
  6. [4:27] Play Big Muff
  7. [3:49] Play Just Can't Get Enough
  8. [2:59] Play What's Your Name?
  9. [3:10] Play Tora! Tora! Tora!
  10. [4:01] Play Photographic
  11. [4:41] Play The Price Of Love
  12. [3:46] Play Dreaming Of Me
  • Total time: 45:34

Lineage

AUD(x) - cassette -> Sony MDS-JE 700 -> Home CD-R Philips CD-R 560 -> CD-R -> EAC .WAV -> FLAC level 8 -> slowed down 3%, channels independently normalized to -1.0dB, any DC offset centered using Audacity 2.0.1 -> FLAC level 8

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