Show 219 - Depeche Mode - Live At Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles - 12 Dec 1998

 

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The Show
It's been almost 3 years since I last did a DM show. I've done many others but this is the latest I've done in their long history, and dates from their first tour after Alan Wilder left. They were headlining KROQ's 9th annual "Almost" Acoustic Christmas Show in Los Angeles, towards the end of their tour. The text file with this described it as a very good soundboard recording. And so it was, although rather dull and muffled sounding with very little in the way of dynamics.

What Was Done
Azimuth adjusted, a tape dropout fixed but then it was straight to EQ and the usual studio toys to bring some clarity and space back to the sound mix, and then mastered to make it clearer and more powerful overall. The performance was already good - the sound now is far more impressive and powerful and does the band justice. Turn the sound up, you are in for a treat! And watch out for the encore, which features Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins.

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Setlist
Barrel Of A Gun
Policy Of Truth
It's No Good
Walking In My Shoes
Sister Of Night
A Question Of Lust
Enjoy The Silence
In Your Room
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Never Let Me Down Again 

Be sure to check out the many other gigs from Depeche Mode I've restored HERE - all similarly available for free.

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Show 179 - Depeche Mode - Live At Valbyparken Copenhagen Denmark - 16 Aug 1986

 

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This is a restoration of one of two different audience recordings from this last night of the 1986 "Black Celebration" tour. The other one is a bit clearer but parts of what I heard are clipped in places (you hear it as distortion) and clipping is impossible to get rid of. So I gave myself a harder task and set about attempting the worse of the 2! The original was muddy sounding (as you'd expect from an audience recording outdoors), volume was up and down (sometimes in the same song) and the sound often floated over to the right hand side a lot.

As a "last night of the tour" treat, they performed "Somebody" in place of "It Doesn't Matter Two" for the only time on this tour, so it's nice to be able to work on this one.

I had a go at this twice - wasn't so happy with the first attempt so started again pretty much from scratch. It's now far clearer than it was, and at a far more even volume. There is still some drifting of the sound to the right but unless you're listening on headphones you may not even notice now. In any case, this sounds far far better than when I started and I hope you will agree, a much better record of the last night of the tour. You can certainly listen to, and enjoy the gig all the way through. This restoration is dedicated to the memory of Andy Fletcher, original member of DM, who passed away suddenly this year.

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Setlist
Christmas Island
Black Celebration
A Question Of Time
Fly On The Windscreen
Shake The Disease
Leave In Silence
It's Called A Heart
Everything Counts
Somebody
A Question Of Lust
Blasphemous Rumours
New Dress
Stripped
Something To Do
Master And Servant
Photographic
People Are People
Boys Say Go!
Just Can't Get Enough
More Than A Party

If you want to hear the original source and compare against my restoration, please visit the excellent www.depechemode-live.com where these files apparently originally came from. The direct link for the source of this restoration is HERE.

Show 148 - Depeche Mode - Live At The Suedwest Stadium Ludwigshafen - 2 June 1984

An overdue return this time for Depeche Mode - this time featuring an FM broadcast of a one off live performance some months before the release of Some Great Reward when they played an open air festival headlined by Elton John. The set is mainly selected tracks from their Construction Time Again tour (go here for a link to a show from that tour) but does feature their current single at the time, People Are People for the very first time live on stage.

I've heard a few versions of this recording and I chose the best sounding complete source to work with - even so it needed several hours work just to fix tape drop outs and FM interference/distortion. After that, several more hours working on EQ to even out the sound as much as possible and then make it sound clearer and sharper.

I hope you enjoy this much improved recording.

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Either way - enjoy the show!

Setlist
Everything Counts
Now, This Is Fun
Two Minute Warning
Shame
Get The Balance Right
People Are People
And Then...
Photographic
Told You So
New Life
More Than A Party

Show 100 - Depeche Mode - Paris Theatre London - 10 Feb 1982

Live and Loud! started in 2012 with a show by Depeche Mode, so it seems fitting that the 100th live show remaster is also by Depeche Mode! This time, a show recorded for the BBC back in early 1982 and the 3rd show I've done lately that was originally recorded for the Live In Concert series at the Paris Theatre (Dramatis and Fatal Charm being the others).

Like those, this is about half an hour long and comes from a point when Alan Wilder had just joined the band after Vince Clarke left. Featuring a mix of tracks from Speak and Spell, b-sides and 2 new tracks, See You and The Meaning of Love, this recording has had some noise removed, a couple of defects fixed and then EQ applied to make it sound nice and clear and bring out the bottom end a bit so the kick drum actually kicks a bit.

The show is available to download here as 1 MP3 file.

Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
Shout
I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
Puppets
New Life
See You
Now, This Is Fun
Boys Say Go
The Meaning Of Love
What's Your Name?

Radio Prog 3: Depeche Mode: BBC Studio Session 11 June 1981

Live and Loud! Radio is an occasional series of free downloads, starting January 2017. Radio sessions that never got an official release, sympathetically repaired and remastered and then released onto the internet, all for free.

No theme tune, no intro from me - just the original session, repaired and remastered and available in a downloadable zip file containing each separate track. 


Live and Loud! Radio Prog 3:  Depeche Mode: BBC Studio Session 11 June 1981 

Tracklisting
01. Boys Say Go! (not included - see below*)
02. Big Muff
03. Photographic
04. Tora! Tora! Tora!

The session is available as a zip file, containing each track. You can get it by clicking HERE.

Original files had 30 band EQ to remove mid range muddiness and enhance bass and upper frequencies, creating more "space" in the tracks between the instruments.Other than that, I just edited the end of each track to fade out better than the copies I had.


* Boys Say Go is not included as it was released officially on the "1 And Only - 25 Years Of Radio 1" album in 1992.

Show 65: Depeche Mode - Rafters, Manchester - 5 August 1981

Its been a while since I did a Depeche Mode show and this is the last really early show I have from them. This appeared as a bootleg called A Second Now, I believe and is somewhat famous for being the gig where they were reviewed and slagged off by someone who went on to be in a band called The Smiths (!) as you can see below.

Anyway, a gig placed somewhere between New Life being released and Just Can't Get Enough, so still the original quartet of Andy, Vince, Dave and Martin...Vince left just a few months later. I've broken my "no audience recordings" rule for this season of Live and Loud! but some EQ, rebalancing of the sound and mastering has improved the recording a treat. Compare this with the other early shows I did from DM here. This is the last one I have, I think, from when Vince was with them, so I hope you enjoy it.

UPDATE 2019
While preparing this old show as separate files for a donator to the site, I found I could now improve the sound quality further, over what I’d originally done to the recording back in 2015. You can now download this new version (as of 2019) HERE as 1 new 320kbps MP3 file.

Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
Television Set
Boys Say Go!
New Life
Puppets
Ice Machine
Big Muff
Just Can't Get Enough
What's Your Name?
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Photographic
Encore 1: The Price Of Love
Encore 2: Dreaming Of Me

Show 55: Depeche Mode - Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan - 8 April 1985

Depeche Mode are one of the few bands of the early 1980s still to be together and releasing material today.

This show features the classic line up of Dave, Martin and Andy with Alan Wilder, with Depeche Mode on their world tour in support of their 4th album Some Great Reward. The tour started in September 1984 in the UK around the time of the album's release date, and ended some 10 months (and 83 shows) later in Poland after taking in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Japan and North America.

In April 1985, Depeche Mode were in Japan and that’s where we catch up with them tonight, on the second of 4 dates. Depeche Mode, live from the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo, from 8 April 1985...live and loud!

UPDATE 2019
While preparing this older show as separate files for a donator to the site, I found I could now improve the sound quality further, over what I’d originally done to the recording several years ago. You can now download this new version (as of 2019) HERE as 1 new 320kbps MP3 file. 

Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
Something to Do
Two Minute Warning
Puppets
If You Want
People Are People
Leave in Silence
New Life
Shame
Somebody
Ice Machine
Lie to Me
Blasphemous Rumours
Told You So
Master and Servant
Photographic
Everything Counts
Encore:
See You
Encore 2:
Shout
Just Can't Get Enough

Show 45: Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon, London - 3 November 1984

From early on in their world tour following the release of their 4th album, Some Great Reward, this was originally an FM radio broadcast and so only contains part of the tour set, rather than the whole gig. It responded well to EQ and mastering and sounds excellent.

The show is available for download HERE as 1 MP3 file. 

Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
Something to Do
Puppets
If You Want
People Are People
Leave in Silence
Somebody
Ice Machine
Lie to Me
Master and Servant
Photographic
Everything Counts
See You

Show 21: Depeche Mode - 1981 and 1980

2 for the price of 1 this time - I found these gigs and couldn't resist trying to restore them. Depeche Mode just before they hit the big time. The 1981 gig is a real gem - a gig 2 weeks after New Life, their first single to breach the charts, was released. I think this was a soundboard recording, its polished up really well - an exciting, raw performance with nothing but a reel to reel tape recorder and analogue synths.

And if you ever wondered how Just Can't Get Enough would sound starting with a bossa nova rhythm...well, you came to the right place...

The Croc's gig is quite short so back in 2013 I broadcast it along with an even earlier gig I found - one of their earliest gigs that exists on tape - from the Bridgehouse in London from October 1980. This was several months before the release of their first single, "Dreaming of Me".  The version I had then was an audience recording and had been "restored" by someone already to remove tape hiss - not too well. So while I was able to make it pretty listenable, it still wasn't great, hence it being a bonus here and not the main show. Even so, its fascinating and still entertaining to hear DM play several unreleased tracks and early versions of other songs which would become well known later.

2019 UPDATE
While preparing this old show as separate files for a donator to the site, I found I could now improve the sound quality of the Croc's gig further, over what I’d originally done to the recording back in 2013. I also found a different recording of the Bridgehouse recording! Which revealed the copy I had in 2013 was missing a song, and was in the wrong order! So I set to work on this other recording, starting from scratch. It had been "mastered" by someone in the past but had distorted bass through much of it and sounded quite murky. I've been able to remove most of that bass distortion and also widen the sound a bit, so it seems quite a bit clearer! It's a vast improvement on the earlier version I had from 6 years ago.

You can now download these new versions of the 2 shows HERE as 1 new 320kbps MP3 file. 

Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.
 
Setlists

Croc's, Rayleigh, Essex, 27 June 1981
Television Set
Dreaming of Me
Big Muff
New Life
Boys Say Go!
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Price of Love
Just Can't Get Enough
Photographic

Bridgehouse, London, 30 October 1980
New Life
Television Set
Tomorrow's Dance
Reason Man
Photographic
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Big Muff
Ice Machine
The Price Of Love
Dreaming Of Me

Show 11: Depeche Mode - Tiffany's Glasgow - 21 February 1982

Another pivotal gig this one - this captures Depeche Mode on the See You tour, shortly after Vince Clarke left in November 1981 and after recruiting Alan Wilder to the lineup as his replacement. "See You", the first single written by Martin Gore, was released 1 month before this gig and the setlist features what would become their next single, "The Meaning of Love". An interesting snapshot of a band at the early stages of transition and featuring a bizarre choice of a Gerry and The Pacemakers song as an encore!

UPDATE. While preparing this old show as separate files for a donator to the site, I found I could now improve the sound quality further, over what I’d originally done to the recording back in 2012. You can now download this new version (as of 2019) HERE as 1 new 320kbps MP3 file.

Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
Shout
I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
Boys Say Go!
Puppets
See You
Big Muff
Now, This Is Fun
Ice Machine
New Life
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Meaning of Love
Just Can't Get Enough
What's Your Name?
Photographic
Dreaming of Me
I Like It

Show 1: Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon, London UK, October 1983

This was just under 1 hour of Depeche Mode taken from their Construction Time Again tour, originally broadcast on FM radio and recorded on cassette by me at the time of original broadcast. Not sure which night the recording was taken from - they played there 6 - 8 October 1983.

This one just had some gentle hiss reduction and some EQ to bring out the power a little I think. Sounds good!

2018 update: While preparing this old show as separate files for a donator to the site, I found I could now improve the sound quality further, over what I’d originally done to the recording several years ago. You can now download this new version (as of 2018) HERE as 1 new 320kbps MP3 file.

If you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format of the new version, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs. 

Setlist
Everything Counts
Now, This Is Fun
Two Minute Warning
Shame
See You
Get the Balance Right
Love, in Itself
Pipeline
Photographic
New Life
More Than a Party
The Meaning of Love
Just Can't Get Enough