Depeche Mode’s Violator tour on excellent soundboard recordings
Two excellent soundboard recordings made during the 1990 ‘World Violation Tour’ by the English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act’s seventh studio album, “Violator”, have made their way to the grand public after being available before in a rather small circle.
The shows that are on the street now were recorded in San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1990 and thus most probably originate from tapes that were recorded by the band to see “how the show was sounding generally, or how well or badly it was being mixed out front”.
The 1990 ‘World Violation Tour’ has been on of the most sought after live recordings especially because the band and its label, Mute Records, never released a single live recording from it. We asked Wilder why no release from this tour ever saw the light of day: “Remember we had not long released ‘101’ so no-one in the band camp would have been keen on doing another live album at that time. They are much more commonplace these days with the obligatory ‘live’ DVD post every tour etc. In those days, people didn’t do them so nearly so readily.”
The following songs were included in an acoustic set performed by Martin Gore during the said tour:
- “I Want You Now”
- “Here Is the House”
- “Little 15”
- “World Full of Nothing”
- “Blue Dress”
- “Sweetest Perfection”
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