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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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