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Sources & links of interest
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Sources & links of interest
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DM : official website
http://www.depech...
DM : official live CDs
http://www.depech...
DM : past tour dates
http://www.depech...
DM : past setlists
http://www.playin...
DM : tickets history
http://www.dmtick...
DM comprehensive Discography
http://www.depmod...
DM & early days : biography
essential Stripped book by Jonathan Miller
Early days : essential articles
http://www.tuug.u...
http://www.tuug.u...
http://en.wikiped...
http://www.fashio...
Early days : Darryl Bamonte
http://www.myspac...
http://www2.depec...
interview in Bong 24
Early days : Robert Marlow
http://www.energy...
The Peter Pan Effect CD (booklet)
Early days : songs
http://www.yazoo....
Early days : famous bands
http://www.maiden...
http://www.u2tour...
http://www.cure-c...
http://homepage.m...
Crocs
http://www.myspac...
http://www.essexu...
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If you liked that recording, you have the choice to SUPPORT DIME
and make a donation, but you also can buy the recent LHN gigs ^_^
If you can try to keep that version clean WITHOUT POSTING MP3s
on rapidshare, it would be great.
This is a short gig, so you dont need to compress it.
This is a REALLY bad pratice taken by the DM community.
Liberate the boots !
I hope that some other fans will surface uncirculated recordings...
You know who you are ! ^_^
It would be great if we finally have a good trading community,
and not only "hoarding guys" vs. "mp3's guys"...
It seemed that dozen of people tried to buy copies from the seller
after the end of the sale of the 1st gen tape.
I informed some of those people of that useless
(bad) idea of paying extra easy money. But you know the fans
As this new surfacing will be maybe released by
unscrupulous fellows / bootleg companies,
I just hope they will choose a good artwork for it ^_^
Thanks to DM for the last tour.
Now as DM/EMI/Mute are proposing official live audio releases
(hum we need the video too !),
it would be GREAT if we may have the permission to audio/video
tape the gigs for private use, without being tracked like foxes
(support PETA ^_^)
The Raleigh recording is a good example that without fans,
many live tapes will NOT exist.
99% of the tapers are not recording the band for making ugly profits,
and most of them are buying LHN CDs and will continue to do so.
They are recording DM because THEY LOVE THEM. Stupid, isnt it ?
Hope friends and foes will like it.
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Other songs 1980- 1981
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Other songs 1980- 1981
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Here are some of the other songs played between May 1980 and July 1981.
[All songs by Vince Clarke, unless noted]
Ice Machine :
played for example in London one month before the gig in Raleigh.
This is not a dancing song like Photographic for example,
it may explain that it was not played in a Saturday night evening of a local club.
B-side of Dreaming Of Me single.
Played the last time during the Some Great Reward Tour in 1984-1985.
As for some other Yazoo songs, Tuesday has some similarity with that one.
Reason Man :
played in the early days. Available on live recording.
Tomorrows Dance (Dance) :
played in the early days. Available on live recording.
Addiction (Ghost Of Modern Times / Closer) :
played in the early days. Available on live recording.
Moldy Old Dough [Lieutenant Pigeon] :
Appear in early setlists, no recording surfaced yet.
Secret :
Appear in early setlists, no recording surfaced yet.
Then He Kissed Me [The Crystals] :
Appear in early setlists, no recording surfaced yet.
The Beach Boys covered that song in 1965
(two years after the original release by The Crystals),
changing the name into Then I Kissed Her.
Virginia Plain [Roxy Music] :
Appear in early setlists, no recording surfaced yet.
Radio News :
Appear in early setlists, no recording surfaced yet.
Sunday Morning :
Appear in early setlists, no recording surfaced yet.
Mirror Is Standing :
Appear in early setlists, no recording surfaced yet
I Like It [Gerry & The Pacemakers] :
Appear in early setlists, played again during the See You Tour as extra encore.
Mama Mia [Abba] :
Appear in early setlists, no recording surfaced yet.
Lyrics of the song sung on the Photographic backing tape.
I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead (Sometimes I Wish Im Dead) :
played since the end of 1980, then returned on the Speak & Spell UK tour
(and will be available on the album).
This is not known why it was not more played in the existing early 1981 live tapes.
Puppets (Operator) :
Probably demoed in July 1981, as it will be premiered in the few July gigs.
Whats Your Name ? (Pretty Boy) :
Probably demoed in July 1981, as it will be premiered in the few July gigs.
Some other songs may have been performed in the early days,
but we are lacking infos on that period.
Some may be infact working titles for known songs.
It no possible (for now) to present a current timeline
of the creation/playing of each song in the first year of the band.
Studio or live demos of 1980-1981 seemed to be still unsurfaced.
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Before that first real UK tour, most of the gigs took place
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Before that first real UK tour, most of the gigs took place
in the local area of the band, in the East of London, the famous East End,
in Southend and in Raleigh.
No more than 1 and an half hour trip to each venue
(Laurence Stewart usually helped the band with his van for the London gigs).
Vince Clarke was responsible for the booking of most of the gigs.
East London was known to be a poor, working and popular area.
The interview of Steve taylor for Smash Hits, July 9, 1981 is interesting :
When Simon Bates introduces us on Top Of The Pops,
Depeche Mode's singer Dave Gahan is saying on the afternoon
before their television debut, "he makes a special point about us coming
from Basildon : why ?.
Because nothing good ever comes out of here ?
suggests one of Gahan's three synthesiser playing colleagues, Martin Gore.
We all ponder for a minute or two,
perched up here in a tacky plastic-lined pub above the concrete shopping mall.
Silence. Next question.
Basildon deserves special mention as one of those sprawling new-ish towns
built to house London's overspill population in the post-war period. Like
Basingstoke, it stands in some people's eyes as a cliche for soul-less
suburban development around a boring the word is alienating centre where
the entertainment is hard to find.
The very stuff of Plays For Today. The very stuff,
you might be forgiven for thinking, of classic Urban Synthesiser Gloom.
The first of two main clubs the band used to play in was the Bridge House,
one of the -House clubs in the suburbs of London
(Round House, Town House, Bridge House, Power Haus),
each near of a local train station
Some rock bands started here, and Iron Maiden
(another east London band, third gig ever in the Bridge House !)
had a residency in the summer of 1977 3 years later, it will be Depeche Mode.
Terry Murphy, manager of the venue gave the band the chance to perform here,
for around the same number of gigs than in the Crocs (same capacity by the way)..
Most of the future big names of the 80s did not play there.
We can some exceptions with The Buzzcocks, Generation X, U2, The Cure and
Iron Maiden that played in Southend, Basildon or at the Bridge House.
Depeche Mode played there 1 to 3 times during the last 4 months of 1980
and in January 1981, usually on Wednesday or Thursday nights.
Then in early 1981 the new releases (Some Bizzare Album, Dreaming Of Me)
increased the number of gigs in London famous clubs, around 2 each week in
February and April. Moonlight Club, Hope N Anchor, The Venue, The Lyceum,
big names usually massively played in a short period
(for example see U2, Iron Maiden, The Clash, The Cure)
to optimize the work of promotion and the paper reviews.
Depeche Mode will only return for 2 Monday gigs in February and June.
We can notice that only 3 gigs were played in March
(and only one in the last week of January, but at The Lyceum !),
the band probably worked on the recording, production, distribution
and promotion of their first single Dreaming Of Me.
The second club was the Crocs Glamour Club of Raleigh.
The band had a residency 1 to 2 gigs each month,
on the always wanted Saturday night, called there The Futurist Night.
Steve Brown of the club was a friend of Dave, and it probably helped.
They were probably opening the evening, and the setlist at least needed
to be short but effective, to keep the attention of the audience
for the rest of the night.
With the 1981 releases, the band played less and less in Raleigh,
trying to work their name in the London clubs,
as part of the "New Romantic" movement.
The last gig of the year at the Crocs presented there will be two weeks
after their first Radio 1 session for Richard Skinner, on the June 11, 1981.
The band will start the recording sessions of Speak & Spell on the June 14, 1981,
according to Deb Danahay (ex-girlfriend of Vince Clarke).
Depeche Mode will play a last one here on January 20, 1982,
probably as rehearsal of their first US gigs 2 days later at the Ritz in New York.
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Depeche Mode,
Crocs, Raleigh
June 27, 1981
The Crocs Glamour Club is now ...
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Depeche Mode,
Crocs, Raleigh
June 27, 1981
The Crocs Glamour Club is now usually called
the longest running alternative nightclub in UK.
Some punk/cold/electro/gothic bands played there,
you may find sometimes its name in tour dates.
Soft Cell played there, as did Culture Club for their first gig.
The club is located near the train station, in the center of Raleigh,
less than 8 miles on the north east of Basildon.
This is a relative small club, with a maximum attendance of 300-400 people.
The current name of the club is now The Pink Toothbrush
(changed in the middle of the 80s), and the music seems to be still good !
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Live gigs in the East London
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Depeche Mode played about not less than 60 gigs in 1 year,
between May 1980 and June 1981.
Not bad for a band without any album and only two singles
in February 20 and June 13
(Dreaming Of Me / Ice Machine; New Life / Shout !)
and one song on the Some Bizzare Album (Photographic) in January 31, 1981.
The third hit of the band, Just Cant Get Enough,
will be released in September 1981,
before a short tour of the rocking places in continental Europe
and 2 dozen of dates in UK supporting the first album Speak & Spell.
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