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Category : 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour

The Music For The Masses Tour was a 1987-1988 international tour undertaken by Depeche Mode in support of their sixth studio album Music For The Masses .

  • 1 Line up and songwriting credits
  • 2 Dates with downloads available
  • 3 Dates without available downloads
  • 4 Recommended recordings
  • 5 References

Line up and songwriting credits

  • Dave Gahan - lead vocals
  • Martin L. Gore - keyboards, guitar, backing vocals, percussion pads, melodica (during Everything Counts ) [1] , occasional lead vocals (denoted by (*) in track listings)
  • Andrew Fletcher - keyboards, percussion pads
  • Alan Wilder - keyboards, backing vocals, percussion pads

All songs performed were written by Martin L. Gore, except for Just Can't Get Enough which was written by Vince Clarke and Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth which was written by Ron Mael.

Dates with downloads available

  • 1987-10-22 Pabellon De Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • 1987-10-23 Blaugrana Sports Palas, Barcelona, Spain
  • 1987-10-25 Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany
  • 1987-10-26 Palasport, Bologna, Italy
  • 1987-10-27 Paleur, Rome, Italy
  • 1987-10-29 Palasport, Turin, Italy
  • 1987-10-30 Palatrussardi, Milan, Italy
  • 1987-11-02 Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 1987-11-03 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 1987-11-04 Grugahalle, Essen, Germany
  • 1987-11-06 Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany
  • 1987-11-07 Messehalle, Hannover, Germany
  • 1987-11-09 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany
  • 1987-11-11 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany
  • 1987-11-12 Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1987-11-13 Halle des Fêtes, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 1987-11-16 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France
  • 1987-11-17 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France
  • 1987-11-18 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France
  • 1987-12-04 The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA
  • 1987-12-12 UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 1987-12-15 The Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada
  • 1987-12-18 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA
  • 1988-01-09 Newport Centre, Newport, Wales, UK
  • 1988-01-11 Wembley Arena, London, England, UK
  • 1988-01-12 Wembley Arena, London, England, UK
  • 1988-01-15 N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK
  • 1988-01-16 Icerink, Whitley Bay, England, UK
  • 1988-01-17 Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • 1988-01-19 G-MEX Centre, Manchester, England, UK
  • 1988-01-20 Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield, England, UK
  • 1988-01-21 St. George's Hall, Bradford, England, UK
  • 1988-01-23 B.I.C., Bournemouth, England, UK
  • 1988-01-24 Centre, Brighton, England, UK
  • 1988-02-06 Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany
  • 1988-02-07 Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany
  • 1988-02-09 Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany
  • 1988-02-10 Weser-Ems-Halle, Oldenburg, Germany
  • 1988-02-12 Johanneshov Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 1988-02-13 Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 1988-02-15 Drammenshallen, Drammen, Norway
  • 1988-02-17 Valbyhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1988-02-18 Valbyhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1988-02-19 Ostseehalle, Kiel, Germany
  • 1988-02-21 Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1988-02-23 Espace Foire, Lille, France
  • 1988-02-26 La Beaujoire, Nantes, France
  • 1988-02-27 Patinoire, Bordeaux, France
  • 1988-02-29 Palais des Sports, Toulouse, France
  • 1988-03-01 Le Zenith, Montpellier, France
  • 1988-03-02 Palais des Sports, Lyon, France
  • 1988-03-05 Hall Rhenus, Strasbourg, France
  • 1988-03-07 Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, East-Berlin, East-Germany
  • 1988-03-09 Sportcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
  • 1988-03-10 Sportcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
  • 1988-03-11 Sportovni Hala, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 1988-03-13 Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria
  • 1988-04-18 Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan
  • 1988-04-19 Koseinenkin Hall, Nagoya, Japan
  • 1988-04-21 NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1988-04-22 NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1988-04-29 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, CA, USA
  • 1988-04-30 Cal Expo Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA, USA
  • 1988-05-04 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • 1988-05-08 Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
  • 1988-05-09 McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO, USA
  • 1988-05-18 Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • 1988-05-20 Poplar Creek Music Fest, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 1988-06-01 Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, USA

Additionally, a nearly-complete good sounding audience recording of support act Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark from the '101' Rose Bowl concert is available to stream and download here.

Dates without available downloads

  • 1987-12-01 Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 1987-12-05 The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA
  • 1987-12-07 Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, USA
  • 1987-12-08 Compton Terrace, Phoenix, AZ, USA
  • 1987-12-10 Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX, USA
  • 1987-12-14 Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • 1987-12-17 Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA, USA
  • 1988-02-25 Parc De Penfeld, Brest, France
  • 1988-03-04 Palais Des Sports, Besancon, France
  • 1988-05-02 Coliseum, Seattle, WA, USA
  • 1988-05-05 Civic Auditorium, Portland, OR, USA
  • 1988-05-06 Civic Auditorium, Portland, OR, USA
  • 1988-05-11 Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX, USA
  • 1988-05-13 Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington, TX, USA
  • 1988-05-14 Southern Star Amphitheater, Houston, TX, USA
  • 1988-05-15 Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA, USA
  • 1988-05-17 Five Seasons Center, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
  • 1988-05-21 Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI, USA
  • 1988-05-22 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • 1988-05-24 Starwood Amphitheatre, Nashville, TN, USA
  • 1988-05-25 Southern Star Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • 1988-05-27 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • 1988-05-28 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, USA
  • 1988-05-30 Blossom Music Festival, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • 1988-06-03 Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY, USA
  • 1988-06-04 Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY, USA
  • 1988-06-07 Great Woods Amphitheater, Mansfield, MA, USA
  • 1988-06-08 The Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada
  • 1988-06-09 CNE Grandstand, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • 1988-06-11 AJ Palumbo Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • 1988-06-15 Compton Terrace, Phoenix, AZ, USA
  • 1988-06-18 Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, USA

Recommended recordings

These recordings are highly recommended as they are generally regarded as some of the best recordings from this tour. This is not an exhaustive list of very good sounding recordings.

  • 1987-10-23 Blaugrana Sports Palas, Barcelona, Spain (Audience)
  • 1987-11-06 Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany (Audience)
  • 1988-01-11 Wembley Arena, London, England, UK (Audience)
  • 1988-04-29 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, CA, USA (Audience)
  • 1988-05-18 Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN, USA (Audience)
  • ↑ Source: Shunt Q&A, LIVE - live albums / versions / performance, second page ; about 1/3rd down the page, Alan Wilder confirms it was a melodica

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101 ticket

Ticket of concert 101 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena

The concert 101 was the 101st and final concert of Depeche Mode during their Music for the Masses Tour . It took place on June 18, 1988 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

  • 1 Background and development
  • 5.1 2003 audio reissue
  • 5.2 2003 DVD reissue
  • 5.3 2021 Blu-ray reissue
  • 6.1.1 Disc one
  • 6.1.2 Disc two
  • 6.2.1 Disc one
  • 6.2.2 Disc two
  • 7 Personnel
  • 9 Bibliography

Background and development [ ]

The band's original concept for the film was going to be about how Depeche Mode "fit into" the 1980s. After discussions with an "experienced director", they came to the conclusion that the (unnamed) choice was going to do something "too glossy" and that they wanted to present something more nuanced and interesting. At this point, they reached out to renowned documentary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker. He accepted, but discarded their initial concept, feeling that it was "impossible to examine in an entertainingly cinematic fashion".

Ultimately, the film focused on what Depeche Mode considered to be their strongest selling point—their live performance—as well as capturing the spirit of their fan base. Notably, the film prominently features a group of young fans travelling across America as winners of a "be-in-a-Depeche Mode-movie-contest", which culminates at the band's landmark concert at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena.

Much to the chagrin of fans, the film does not depict the full Rose Bowl concert, but instead shows interspersed snippets of the band, the "bus kids" and live performances recorded throughout the tour. The 2003 DVD reissue included more concert footage, but as Pennebaker was "shooting a documentary, not a concert film", a complete record of the Rose Bowl concert does not exist.

Pennebaker used his direct cinema approach, which he described as "letting the camera run as unobtrusively as possible, thereby encouraging events to unfold on their own. [...] You edit more and the film changes every three days, but [the band] were very nice and patient about it."

Pennebaker admitted there was a similarity between Depeche Mode and some of the other artists he'd filmed before (Bob Dylan and David Bowie): "I found the audience very rapt; they were there for that band. Not any band would do. I got the feeling that maybe there was no other band they'd ever go out for again in that assemblage, and it made me take that audience fairly seriously."

Due to the prominence of the "bus kids" in the film, it is widely considered to be the impetus for the "reality" craze that swept MTV in the following years, including The Real World and Road Rules .

In various interviews, DVD commentaries and on their own website, both Pennebaker and collaborator Chris Hegedus have cited 101 as "their favorite" and "the one that was the most fun to make" out of all their films to date.

The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium located in Pasadena, California. Opened in October 1922, the stadium is recognized as a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Civil Engineering landmark. At a modern capacity of an all-seated configuration at 92,542, the Rose Bowl is the 16th-largest stadium in the world, the 11th-largest stadium in the United States, and the 10th-largest NCAA stadium. The stadium is 10 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

One of the most famous venues in sporting history, the Rose Bowl is best known as a college football venue, specifically as the host of the annual Rose Bowl Game for which it is named. Since 1982, it has served as the home stadium of the UCLA Bruins football team. Five Super Bowl games, third most of any venue, have been played in the stadium. The Rose Bowl is a noted soccer venue, having hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final, 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, and the 1984 Olympic Soccer Gold Medal Match, as well as numerous CONCACAF and United States Soccer Federation matches.

The stadium and adjacent Brookside Golf and Country Club are owned by the city of Pasadena and managed by the Rose Bowl Operating Company, a non-profit organization whose board is selected by council members of the city of Pasadena. UCLA and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses also have one member on the company board.

Concert [ ]

Depeche Mode's famous 101st and final concert of the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. A documentary and double live album, 101, was released of the concert. In the documentary, Jonathan Kessler can be heard saying that with this concert they sold 66,233 tickets and the paid attendance was 60,452 people, and they grossed $1,360,192.50.

The official "101" release had a fair amount of vocals re-recorded, which is somewhat obvious when comparing the official release to the audience recording mentioned previously. Alan Wilder was asked whether vocals were touched up for the release and answered on Shunt Q&A:

Q: Is it true that on the '101' album, some of Dave's vocals were re-recorded in the studio?
A: Put it this way, I doubt there's ever been a live album in the history of pop music that hasn't been touched up here and there.

BONG magazine issue #2 from April/May 1988 reported that a concert at this venue was also planned for June 17th. However, according to the official tour itinerary, June 17th is marked as a day off, and no concert occurred on the 17th.

When Depeche Mode were asked in interviews who came up with the title '101' for the documentary and double live album, they would credit it to Alan Wilder for having come up with the title. Ex-KROQ host Richard Blade says in an interview with Stuck In The '80s in 2017 that when he was interviewing Andy Fletcher before the concert about their "101st gig of the tour", Richard subsequently continued to call it "1 0 1" for convenience's sake, to which - so Richard claims - Alan Wilder responded "1 0 1! I love it!" Until it was decided that Alan's suggestion to call it "101" was best, BONG magazine issue #3 reported that the working title was "A Brief Period Of Rejoicing", which references a Winston Churchill sample of the same phrase in the beginning of DM's song Black Celebration.

The Orange County Register reported the day before the concert: "The idea for the Rose Bowl concert was first kicked around in 1986 when the brass at Avalon Attractions and KROQ came up with the idea for a "new music" stadium show. In addition to Depeche Mode, they wanted the Cure, another British post-punk band very popular in Southern California, but plans fell through. The LA-based band Oingo Boingo was mentioned as a possible headliner, but the group planned to headline its own shows at the Greek Theater."

Depeche Mode have mentioned this concert in many interviews over the years, such as here ten years later:

"[The album name 'Music For The Masses'] comes from an album Martin bought, called 'Music For The Millions'. We thought it was quite funny, so 'Music For the Masses'... But then again, it did become in the end 'Music For The Masses', because we did this, like, big gig at the Rosebowl, which was the real highlight of our career. And, incidentally, we had only ever played at a few stadiums, and it's like, you do, with stadiums, lose touch with the audience. But that particular gig, the audience was just with us the whole way and it was absolutely amazing. And, again, it was not just big for us, it was big for alternative music in America."
  • Dave Gahan:
"It was like 70,000 people or something, and this was something that we were pretty nervous about doing, playing this big gig. When we actually did the show, it didn't matter. We didn't play particularly good, my voice went, everything went wrong during the gig, like, from what we thought we were doing and what we thought was important about it, but it wasn't. It was, like, the event, it was what was really happening there. It's hard to describe unless you're standing there, watching it or being a part of it. But I think everybody who was in that concert and was part of it felt that moment. And, you know, I just kind of started, like, blubbing on stage, and trying to cover it up, and still look very macho and do my thing. But I just stood there for a minute, stood on this big kind of riser, and I looked, and at that moment, everybody's arms were, like, waving in the air. And I looked down, and it sounds cheesy, but it just looked like this big field of corn or whatever swaying, and I just stopped. It didn't matter that I was singing or anything, it was just happening. And I remember afterwards, walking off, and the deflation of, like, "It's over", bang, and then I was like, "ughhh". I wonder if that's ever gonna happen again. And I sat backstage, and my wife was there, Joanne, and I sat in this room, and I remember I just started crying, I don't really know why crying, I was happy, sad, everything at the same moment. I remember that, it was a nice moment. We sat together, my son was there as well, he was probably about, like, three months old, just a little baby, he's actually in the movie. It looks like a big alien, he's got his big head in the camera. That whole event was just one of those special things, and fortunately we caught it on film. You can't see it on there, really, I watch it, I get these little goosebumps when I watch it, because only because I remember the recall of the experience, it's that euphoric recall that kicks in. A combination of everything: nerves, anxiety, happiness, sadness, the end of it. That was the last show of our tour as well. So, I would say that was one of the most special moments of, I guess, nearly twenty years that we've been together, one [of which] we did not know what was going to happen, but it was a beautiful moment."

Setlist [ ]

  • Behind The Wheel
  • Strangelove
  • Something To Do
  • Blasphemous Rumours
  • The Things You Said
  • Black Celebration
  • Shake The Disease
  • Pleasure, Little Treasure
  • People Are People
  • A Question Of Time
  • Never Let Me Down Again
  • A Question Of Lust
  • Master And Servant
  • Just Can't Get Enough
  • Everything Counts

Reissues [ ]

2003 audio reissue [ ].

In 2003, Mute Records reissued 101 as a hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD). In essence, the two-disc set contained 101 in three formats—multi-channel SACD, stereo SACD and PCM stereo (CD audio). The multi-channel audio was presented in 5.1 and gave a better representation of the live experience. The SACD was not released in North America.

Due to pressing errors, however, the first run of the set was marred by a mis-encoded multi-channel SACD layer that skipped and was unlistenable on the first disc. The stereo SACD and CD audio layers were unaffected.

As a bonus hidden track, the multi-channel layer also included the full version of "Pimpf".

2003 DVD reissue [ ]

In 2003, the film was released as a two-disc DVD with the feature film on the first disc, including a new commentary track with Pennebaker, Hegedus and the band. The second disc contained all-new interviews with Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher, with each interviewed about the solo projects they were working on at the time: Paper Monsters (Gahan), Counterfeit² (Gore) and Client (Fletcher). All three interviews were conducted separately by Pennebaker and Hegedus. Interviews with Daniel Miller, band manager Jonathan Kessler, and three of the "bus kids" were also included. Special bonus features included isolated video footage of the Rose Bowl concert, including previously unreleased footage.

Alan Wilder left the band in 1995, and declined to be involved with the re-release.

2021 Blu-ray reissue [ ]

In 2021, the film was released on Blu-ray with upgraded image quality based on 4K scans of the original film, along with previously unreleased footage. A limited-edition box set was also released that includes a book, poster, and other special content.

Track listing [ ]

All songs are written by Martin Gore, except "Just Can't Get Enough", written by Vince Clarke.

  • "101 – The Movie" – 117:00
  • 101 – The Movie (includes optional audio commentary)

All songs are isolated live video footage, uninterrupted by documentary footage. Songs with a * are exclusive to the DVD and were not in the VHS film. Footage of "Sacred", "Something To Do", "The Things You Said", "Shake The Disease", "Nothing", "People Are People", "A Question of Time" and "A Question of Lust" are lost and were not able to be recovered for the DVD.

Personnel [ ]

Credits adapted from the liner notes of 101 .

  • Depeche Mode – production
  • Anton Corbijn – cover, photography
  • Randy Ezratty – recording
  • John Harris – recording assistance
  • Alan Moulder – engineering
  • Mark Shane – recording assistance
  • Paul West – cover
  • Billy Yodelman – recording assistance

Depeche Mode -101 -1988.

Bibliography [ ]

  • https://dmlive.wiki/wiki/1988-06-18_Rose_Bowl,_Pasadena,_CA,_USA
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_(album)
  • 1 Dave Gahan
  • 2 Martin Gore
  • 3 Alan Wilder
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Depeche Mode: 101

Depeche Mode: 101 (1989)

Depeche Mode prepares for the 101st and final concert of its massive world tour at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California, while a group of fans who won a contest travel to the concert ... Read all Depeche Mode prepares for the 101st and final concert of its massive world tour at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California, while a group of fans who won a contest travel to the concert through the United States on a bus. Depeche Mode prepares for the 101st and final concert of its massive world tour at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California, while a group of fans who won a contest travel to the concert through the United States on a bus.

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  • Trivia The Depeche Mode fan tradition of the audience waving their arms in unison during the song "Never Let Me Down Again" started with the Pasadena performance shown in "101". In 2006, on the "Music For The Masses" documentary DVD, Martin Gore said: "Dave [Gahan] often says that he doesn't know how he came up with the idea, when we were playing at the Rose Bowl. But he just, like, started waving his arms in the air; and, uh, you know, the whole crowd, just...in unison, started doing it back."

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  • Crazy credits After the credits ended, the shot of empty trucks running down the desert road away to the horizon is shown.
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Depeche Mode Announce Reissue of ‘101’ Documentary Concert Film

Depeche Mode will release an expanded, high-definition version of their 1989 documentary concert film  101  on Dec. 3.

The original 1989 movie, a directorial husband-wife collaboration between D.A. Pennebaker ( Don't Look Back) and Chris Hegedus ( The War Room ), centered on Depeche Mode's trek from New York to California in support of their 1987 album Music for the Masses . The run culminating in the band's final performance of the tour at the Pasadena Rose Bowl on June 18, 1988, which was documented on a 1989 live album.

You can watch a trailer for the new deluxe box set  featuring  101: A film by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, David Dawkins , below.

"It's incredible to be able to see D.A. Pennebaker's film and this period of our career presented in this new high-definition light," Depeche Mode said in a press release.

A Blu-ray disc will include three previously unseen bonus performances of "A Question of Lust," "Sacred" and "Something to Do," as well as the promotional video for "Everything Counts." The box set will also include a 48-page photo book, a replica of the original U.S. movie poster, a double CD of the original 20-track  101  live album and more.

"Depeche Mode 101 is definitely one of our all-time favorite films and one of our favorite filmmaking experiences," Hegedus said in a statement. "DM 101 's parallel realities following the historic tour of this pioneering British band as they storm across America bringing an exciting new sound to the masses, along with an intimate view of a busload of ardent young fans on an unforgettable road trip to the Rose Bowl, made this documentary a groundbreaking influence on the reality genre. Making this movie was a grand adventure for both of us. ... By the end of the tour, we became their biggest fans. We are excited to introduce this new release to audiences."

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The Live Nation-presented tour begins March 23 with a limited North American run featuring stops at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Chicago’s United Center, and Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. The band will then embark on their European stadium tour on May 16, with noted stops including the Stade de France in Paris, Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, Milan’s San Siro Stadium, and London’s Twickenham Stadium. 

Following the end of the European summer run, the newly added tour dates bring the band back to North America in the Fall, with the tour stopping in Mexico City at Foro Sol before returning to the US and Canada. Newly announced tour stops include Austin’s Moody Center, Vancouver’s Rogers Arena, additional New York City shows at Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center, Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena and more, and concluding with a multi-night run in Los Angeles at the Kia Forum and Crypto.com Arena.

Pre-sales will kick off with a Fan Pre-sale on Tuesday, February 21, with the general on sale beginning Friday, February 24 at 10am local time. For further information on the tour routing and ticket on-sale dates, please visit  depechemode.com . The full listing of dates, cities and venues is also below. On the Memento Mori Tour, the band will once again be partnering with luxury watchmaker Hublot to support charity endeavors tied to the tour.

Reception to the Memento Mori tour has been overwhelming with shows quickly selling out across Europe and North America, and over 1.5 million tickets already sold for the initial 46 shows. The tour is on track to be one of Depeche Mode’s largest to date and is also well on its way to being one of the largest worldwide tours of 2023. The tour will feature Depeche Mode favorites and rarities, alongside new songs from Memento Mori, including the new single ”Ghosts Again,” which has been heralded as “a melancholic and joyful ode” (Vulture), “hypnotic” (Rolling Stone), and “a gorgeous, haunting song” (Revolver). The beautifully stark and cinematic Anton Corbijn-directed video for “Ghosts Again” released on February 9th can be viewed at  https://depechemode.lnk.to/GhostsAgain . 

Having sold more than 100 million records and played to more than 35 million fans worldwide, Depeche Mode remains an ever-evolving and singularly influential musical force. An indelible inspiration to fans, critics and artists alike, Depeche Mode continues to forge ahead, with the Memento Mori album and tour representing the opening of the newest chapter of a peerless and ongoing legacy. 

Memento Mori World Tour 2023 – Leg One

March 23          Sacramento, CA            Golden 1 Center 

March 25          San Jose, CA                  SAP Center 

March 28          Los Angeles, CA            Kia Forum 

March 30          Las Vegas, NV                T-Mobile Arena 

April 2               San Antonio, TX            AT&T Center 

April 5               Chicago, IL                     United Center 

April 7               Toronto, ON                  Scotiabank Arena 

April 9               Quebec City, QC           Videotron Centre 

April 12             Montreal, QC                Centre Bell 

April 14             New York, NY                Madison Square Garden 

May 16             Amsterdam, NL             Ziggo Dome 

May 18             Amsterdam, NL             Ziggo Dome 

May 20             Antwerp, BE                  Sportpaleis Antwerpen 

May 23             Stockholm, SE               Friends Arena 

May 26             Leipzig, DE                     Leipziger Festwiese 

May 28             Bratislava, SK                 Národný Futbalový Štadión 

May 31             Lyon, FR                            Groupama Stadium

June 2               Barcelona, ES                Primavera Sound Festival 

June 4               Dusseldorf, DE              Merkur Spiel-Arena 

June 6               Dusseldorf, DE              Merkur Spiel-Arena 

June 9               Madrid, ES                     Primavera Sound Festival 

June 11             Bern, CH                        Stadion Wankdorf 

June 14             Dublin, IE                      Malahide Castle 

June 17             London, UK                   Twickenham Stadium 

June 20             Munich, DE                   Olympiastadion

June 22             Lille, FR                          Stade Pierre Mauroy 

June 24             Paris, FR                         Stade de France 

June 27             Copenhagen, DK          Parken 

June 29             Frankfurt, DE                Deutsche Bank Park 

July 1                Frankfurt, DE               Deutsche Bank Park 

July 4                Bordeaux, FR               Matmut Atlantique

July 7                Berlin, DE                     Olympiastadion 

July 9                Berlin, DE                     Olympiastadion 

July 12              Rome, IT                       Stadio Olympico 

July 14              Milan, IT                       San Siro 

July 16              Bologna, IT                   Stadio Renato Dall’Ara 

July 21              Klagenfurt, AT              Wörthersee Stadion 

July 23              Zagreb, HR                    Arena Zagreb 

July 26              Bucharest, RO              Arena Națională 

July 28              Budapest, HU               Puskás Aréna 

July 30              Prague, CZ                     Letňany Airport 

August 2           Warsaw, PL                   PGE Narodowy 

August 4           Krakow, PL                    Tauron Arena

August 6           Tallinn, EE                     Tallinna Lauluväljak 

August 8           Helsinki, FI                    Kaisaniemen Puisto 

August 11         Oslo, NO                       Telenor Arena 

– New dates just added – 

September 21            Mexico City, MX          Foro Sol 

September 29            Austin, TX                      Moody Center 

October 1    Dallas, TX                      American Airlines Center

October 4    Houston, TX                 Toyota Center 

October 7    New Orleans, LA        Smoothie King Center

October 10  Orlando, FL                  Amway Center 

October 12  Miami, FL                      Miami-Dade Arena

October 19  Nashville, TN               Bridgestone Arena 

October 21  Brooklyn, NY               Barclays Center

October 23  Washington, DC         Capital One Arena 

October 25  Philadelphia, PA         Wells Fargo Center 

October 28  New York, NY              Madison Square Garden 

October 31  Boston, MA                  TD Garden

November 3               Montreal, QC              Centre Bell 

November 5               Toronto, ON                Scotiabank Arena

November 8               Detroit, MI                   Little Caesars Arena

November 10             Cleveland, OH             Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 

November 13             Chicago, IL                    United Center

November 16             Denver, CO                  Ball Arena

November 18             Salt Lake City, UT       Vivint Arena

November 21             Edmonton, AB            Rogers Place 

November 24             Vancouver, BC            Rogers Arena 

November 26             Seattle, WA                  Climate Pledge Arena

November 28             Portland, OR                MODA Center

December 1                Las Vegas, NV             T-Mobile Arena 

December 3                San Francisco, CA       Chase Center 

December 6                San Diego, CA             Pechanga Arena

December 10             Los Angeles, CA          Kia Forum 

December 15             Los Angeles, CA          Crypto.com Arena 

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Depeche Mode:

Steve Martin |  [email protected]

Jillian Condran |  [email protected]

Live Nation Concerts:

Monique Sowinski |  [email protected]

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Valeska Thomas |  [email protected]

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I Should Have Been There: Depeche Mode's 101 Revisited Ned Raggett , December 10th, 2021 10:33

As Depeche Mode reissue the film and live album documenting the 101st and final show of their colossal 1988 tour, Ned Raggett reflects with regret on how he turned down the opportunity to see the gig in person, and revisits it on Blu-Ray 33 years on

Here is my story when it comes to Depeche Mode's concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California documented in the film and live album 101 : I should have been there but I wasn't. What was I thinking?

That may seem melodramatic but I had reasons to be annoyed with myself and honestly still have them. It was all due to the fact that in the early part of that year, I got my first CD player. I was a senior in high school then and I was basically starting to explore more back catalogues of artists, or even the sense that such a thing as a back catalogue fully existed. Until then, small exceptions aside, I generally bought new releases. But by then I'd also understood a little more clearly that there were things you didn't hear on the radio – or more accurately top 40 radio, as Depeche had owned alternative radio for years at that point. I'd taken a break from active listening to that; indeed, I was in my brief classic rock phase as a radio listener.

But Depeche were just so sub-culturally big even in my suburb of a California town - Coronado, on an island in San Diego Bay – that I wanted to know more. It turned out the local record store stocked, among many other things, a lot of Depeche Mode, including all their albums on then-recent domestic CD. So with my hard-earned allowance money I would, every week or every couple weeks, go over and, among other things I was buying at full CD price too, pick up steadily, one after the other, the Depeche Mode discography. (I've previously written about Music For The Masses for this site.) Ads I saw posted at the record store talked about some big concert that was happening at the Rose Bowl. However, I hadn't quite put it together yet to see if anybody was going. It wasn't a case where I could just simply hop some hours' drive over myself. At the time I was still working on trying to get my driver's license, an attempt which in the end never actually panned out. I didn't consciously know anyone who was going, even though it's pretty obvious in retrospect that I surely would have done if I had asked.

So I ended up not going. Later that year I start at UCLA, fall of 1988 and on my dorm floor I am surrounded by people who are all wearing these Depeche Mode shirts. They had been to the show, and it seemed like everybody in my dorm period had been too, at least if they were local to start with. I almost didn't know what to think, it was so omnipresent. Later in 1989 our dorm floor T-shirt, done to celebrate making it through the year while renovation was happening all around us, had as its main design and slogan a riff on the title and artwork of Music For The Masses , itself a nod to many of those concert T-shirt designs. It was hilarious and it was appropriate. But yeah: I was surrounded by the knowledge of this show and by now I am really heavily into the band and I hadn't gone. What was I thinking?

As it turned out, I more than made up for it. I saw them when they played Dodger Stadium on tour the following year for Violator , when they had become one of the biggest things in the universe, and rightly so. But before then it was first the album and then the video release of 101 where I really got a sense of what I had missed. Before getting into the film – now given a fancy new bonus-laden reissue on Blu-ray along with the album – I'll just say this is a wonderful, wonderful watch; it was then and it is now. It's my favourite D. A. Pennebaker film easily; the opening credits rightly name him, longtime partner/collaborator Chris Hegedus and David Dawkins as the three directors and camera operators. It's a very illuminating film about how a young English electronic band on the road in America works, for lack of a better term. Sometimes the stereotypes are all true with a few Spinal Tap moments, at other times there are unique moments or unusual ones as when Alan Wilder explains how a modern sampler keyboard works.

But the real wild card element is the fact that Dawkins was specifically embedded with winners of a fan contest. They were young fans, high schoolers or maybe just starting at university, in New York getting to see this Rose Bowl show on the opposite coast and instead of just flying them out, that meant taking them over there by tour bus, in partial homage to their then-current remake of "Route 66". Pack them in said bus with not much in the way of total supervision – a little, just enough – then see what happens, then you cut that together with band footage from shows and on the road, and you have what turned out to be a remarkable film.

It's worth noting at this point that 101 , album and film, is a situation where not one but two key artists shaped the image overall. Besides the lingering impact of Pennebaker's own past work, Anton Corbijn had begun his regular efforts shooting videos with and photographing the band, and his approach is seen throughout the album art and design. His stage design work would come later, so the somewhat spare but effective enough staging for the show is more of a final bow to their 1980s. Yet even that is telling: it echoes the sense in the film that the band have surprised even themselves with their success and haven't quite settled into it yet, and all without knowing they'll be bigger yet soon.

This was something that was still very much sub-cultural for all that we see the various clips of local TV press and interviewers asking the band what's going on. At the time selling out the Rose Bowl was indeed a very rare event for anything that was not a sports event – they are not yet truly famous, they are still climbing up there there's a bit of that hunger in their eyes. At the same time there is clear exhaustion, most clearly seen in the sequences where David Gahan is pretty much someone at the end of a particular tether. It's nowhere near as bad as he would be in the 1990s and not everything is stormclouds, but it's still unsettling to see.

I preordered my reissue copy almost out of the gate and while I was indulging in some inevitable general nostalgia, this new presentation has also made me think about things that I didn't clock at the time. They weren't per se the responsibility of the bands or the documentarians or anybody else yet the issues raised are clearer now than they were before, one a direct result of 101 existing, the other the unplanned counterpart of the film itself. They don't change or diminish the importance, but they do situate it in a better, more understanding sense.

The first is the most obvious – 101 in essence helped invent the world of reality TV. The question of the documentary form, the access one is or isn't allowed and which may not show up in the final result, especially if something is an official production, these are axiomatic points that need not be elaborated. The film feels rough around the edges, fly on the wall, because Pennebaker had helped codify that approach already. Comparing that to the now highly polished world of reality TV as we know it, from contests to 'real life' drama, may seem a stretch. But the connecting point isn't the style – it's the fans. When in the liner notes to the film's initial appearance on DVD in 2003 Pennebaker wrote "It's been said that this was the first of the MTV style 'real world' stories,” referencing the series that started fairly soon after the film's release, he might have been either knowing or perhaps disingenuous, but he was absolutely right all the same.

The energetic nature of 101 is one of its greatest strengths, the portrait of a Young Band and Slightly Younger Fans basically having a time together even though they don't interact all that much, the band more on the grind and sometimes showing it, the kids out for a party. But it's also the portrait of it being an American fanbase that's key. More than once I have heard from friends in the UK who are of my age that at that time when 101 came out, they literally could not believe that Depeche Mode of all bands had apparently turned into this huge arena-filling monster over in the US. The band had long continued on from their early eighties breakout but the images and the styles that were most associated with from those days had never quite been shaken, at least up until that point.

In Pennebaker's work that he had done beforehand, whether it was Original Cast Recording: Company , Monterey Pop , or of course Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture or Don't Look Back , we had cases where the core people were very conscious that they were known and were being filmed. Here those intense young fans that so surprised so many in the UK had no sense of that, not to the full. The idea of just carrying around cheap video cameras – much less even thinking about smartphones capable of recording 4K – was still fairly rare. Handheld film cameras weren't unusual at least, if again not universal, so 101 is a transitional moment where people are still going out and feeling like they could do whatever without it being fodder for smaller circles or bigger ones the next day. The candid moments feel like a mix of playful posing, silly randomness taking advantage of just having a camera and a cameraperson to interact with and just moments where they unconsciously shoot the shit - it's always shaped by editors then and now, but there's really no sense of intentionally whipping up some controversy. As one of the kids said in a bonus feature originally done for the DVD, that meant his own slam on Guns N'Roses after a casual encounter with some affable Albuquerque metalhead bros caused an issue when Axl himself showed up at the LA premiere of the film.

It's worth separately noting that said metalhead fans are all apparently Latino where the Depeche fans are white – and that leads into the second major issue. When you consider the fans from New York and then also consider the fans who were shot at the Rose Bowl as well as at other shows along the way, they are almost all exclusively white. There are a couple of examples otherwise, but they are only a couple of examples, unnamed. This is a framing of Depeche, however unintentionally, as a band for young white listeners.

It's worth noting that both the official documentaries since made under the band's auspices don't fall into this category. Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode , the 2008 film codirected by Everybody In The Place 's Jeremy Deller, and Corbijn's 2019 Spirits In The Forest both show fans from many different backgrounds worldwide. (I especially recommend this essay by one of the fans in the latter film, Liz Dwyer, about her own deep love of the band and part of the reasons for that connection.) We have these newer representations showing that the Depeche Mode fanbase is not quite what it seems to be if you only consider 101 . Whether or not this is a conscious corrective, I do not know. Is there anyone at fault necessarily? Was it unconscious at worst, not a knowing fault, but still a fault? Should we ask exactly why it was that a particular dance crowd was focused on in New York? Who attended that club, why was that club picked, what were the decisions going into that involving the radio station who sponsored the night? Ultimately, why is it that we have a crew of young white kids going across the country and being able to enjoy themselves while only having to worry about, as one of their mothers says, 'dancing too much'?

Indeed, think about it even more and consider the whole trip as privilege demonstrated, a protection via the camera, money and, ultimately, whiteness. There's various scenes of alcoholic indulgence and mass purchasing, without it being clear what's legal where and who might not be on the right side of the drinking age. There's more than a few scenes where people far from the coast interact with the kids and said people will probably strike most people watching now as simply being Trump voter stereotypes. The kids may look a little funny to them - and the scene where some people are amazed by one hairstyle in particular is priceless. It's fun, however sophomoric at times, it's seemingly carefree. But if these kids weren't white? And if there wasn't a camera, and a different situation entirely. Maybe it would all be exactly the same, but forgive me if I have doubts, both in 1988 America and now.

If this all seems like special pleading, consider: this was not the only notable and now famed documentary from the general time centred ultimately around a group of young New York club denizens obsessed with fashion, dance music, art and wanting to live their best life. Released in 1990, a year after 101 , Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning has had no less monumental an impact over time – consider how so much of what is in it has been filtered through the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise worldwide. But the similarities between the two films have a hard dividing line in the end, with the black and brown drag house members, sex workers and kids on the street, sexualities and genders a range of life, still unable to travel too far, dreams of life free of threats not always answered, opportunities still too limited no matter how hard everyone works. Some died soon after filming, others later but still too soon, with the continuing death grip of AIDS running without containment all a world away from asking for some water to be poured down a crotch on a hot day in the desert. Whatever the angst-filled moments that can surface in 101 , nothing is as hauntingly sad and horrifying as the last images of Venus Xtravaganza as the details of her murder are recounted.

Some perspective, of course - it's not like one should blame the kids of 101 for existing or for the opportunity that they got for happening. The world is often a horror show with possibilities of alleviation, as anyone who lived through that last full decade of the Cold War can tell you, with the roots of future conflicts already well in place. Why not a carefree snapshot in time, however conditional? And a snapshot it is – all the kids in it are now well into their late forties at the youngest, Alan Wilder hasn't been in the band for a quarter of a century, and Pennebaker has only fairly recently passed on. Nostalgia's appeal only gets stronger as the distance grows.

Yet even for all the intensity in the songs, the fraught moments where Gahan in particular is reaching a limit on stage, the more mundane concerns about blown equipment and who will pay for ground replacement, 101 bespeaks joy. Every time I watch I wonder once more: what was I thinking by not going? It all builds up to that wonderful performance, excerpted throughout the film (and for the first time via this new reissue, film of every number featured on the album, if not all from the show itself, is included with the bonuses). 101 is a product of its times and whatever it does and doesn't say and the contexts that can't be ignored, it is not meant to be nor is pretending to be a full accounting of life and the world. No film can do that no matter how hard some try.

It's a capturing of a moment thanks to the wonderful inspiration to get Pennebaker involved. I'd say it's his most successful film about music, period. Of course his earlier films are monumental with iconography and images that last to this day, still being referenced, but instead of cheering audience members always secondary or in the distance 101 captures at least some of them as people, in the same way that we also see various key band staff and band members themselves doing what they need to do to keep their heads about them. Or just doing their jobs – the construction crew building up the massive stage, the security people going over the colour coding of the access badges, the T-shirt sellers and money collectors, the tour bus driver for the kids with his various travails and laughter. Everyone's in it together, down to the older woman at the Nashville record store selling Martin Gore a Johnny Cash tape and their future manager Jonathan Kessler marvelling at all the money they made while 'Everything Counts' gets a dramatic set-closing performance.

101 is self-contained in that you could walk into it not knowing anything about the band, learn a little bit about them and their intense fans, get a sense of what they were like at the time. Something that will never come back has been fixed in this form in a way that is still bubbly, still filmed just so. For all the things that could be done differently or should have been done differently, for all the songs that can be a little on-the-nose lyrically or maybe pseudo-deep rather than truly deep, Depeche still consistently shows throughout via their songs at their best a combination of thoughtful angst, deep emotional worries and pure desire all wrapped up in one place, with killer music.

If there's a real 'if only I was there' moment, I only have to think about when Gahan is singing 'Never Let Me Down Again', the lights come up on the audience and we see a sea of people imitating his back-and-forth arm waving as the music hits full symphonic heights. In the DVD commentary from 2003 Gahan likens it to Wagner and he's not wrong. If there was anybody who took up the banner from Queen after Freddie Mercury's passing, the evidence is here. It's a (black) celebration, it's bizarre, it's unexpected and it's wonderful. What was I thinking? What I think now – I should have been there. But at least I'll always have this.

A deluxe reissue of Depeche Mode's 101 is out now across a number of physical formats. A digital edition is released on December 14

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I had a great time at the Depeche Mode Concert. I enjoyed the whole concert experience. I loved every song, and the videos played in the background. The band has high energy. The concert was packed from the very young to the very old. What amazed me is how the very young knew all the lyrics to every song the band played. Any wild antics was from the fans. Some of the fans wore some very outlandish outfits. I think the band members like the style of their fans. There is lots of fan participation. You have to attend one concert to experience their talent and the excitement. You won't be sorry. I am so looking forward to the next concert. The concert goes by too fast and you wonder where the time went. The only bad thing was the concert wasn't long enough and had to end. I wanted the concert to go on forever.

I say please just try one concert. Once you attend one of their concerts, you will become a fan for life.

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Absolute fantastic, we were FOS and close enough to see them Face to Face - i love that they arrange every Song a little different and so i discover more and more favorite Songs. Sound was brilliant and not to loud , stunning dance performance of Dave and we all love Martin taking the lead vocal sometimes. All over all they really support the feeling that they are bythemself full of Joy and Happiness - made us sing all the time - play my favorite Song 'A Pain i used to know' andd all what i want to hear - if i could wish one Song for the next concert it would be'The things you said' or 'Waiting for the Night' - anyhow 'never let me down (again) - is one of the heights of the Concert - you know this waving thing - with the arms ...will see them again.

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Depeche Mode - Manchester Arena fri 17/11/17

First time I've seen Depeche Mode live. It won't be the last I hope. I remember them from way back when, early 80's I think, yes I'm old!! The band are amazing, sound great & look great. Dave never stops moving around the stage, wish I had half of his energy!! They performed a mix of songs but mostly new ones from SPIRIT the new album. If you haven't got it yet, why not? Go out and get it!! But then towards the end of the show out came the crowds old favourites, but still sounding fresh to this day, and there was a good old sing a long!

Yes I will definitely go to see them again in the future. Highly recommended.

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It's a moment that will forever stand as the one of the greatest dates in Depeche Mode's storied career: June 18, 1988, Pasadena, California. Depeche Mode performed the 101st show on the band's Music For The Masses world tour at the Rose Bowl. The show was captured for the group's 1989 live release, 101 .

Depeche Mode 101 is being reissued in a deluxe limited edition box set that arrived on December 3, 2021.The concert film has been has been meticulously upgraded using 4k scans of the original film reels to create an all-new viewing experience. The release will come with three previously unseen bonus performances of "A Question of Lust," "Sacred," and "Something to Do." The official promotional video for "Everything Counts" is also included in the expanded edition.

A groundbreaking collaborative documentary, 101 was co-directed by acclaimed husband-and-wife filmmaking team D.A. Pennebaker ( Dont Look Back ) and Chris Hegedus ( The War Room ) with active creative input from Depeche Mode, who'd held an exclusive contest for fans offering an appearance in a Depeche Mode movie as the prize. 101 's narrative through-line of contest winners traveling across America to attend Depeche Mode's landmark Rose Bowl concert is a cinematic precursor to the youth culture trend in "reality tv" programming. Depeche Mode's 101 captures the electrifying synergy between the band and their fans.

"It's incredible to be able to see D.A. Pennebaker's film and this period of our career presented in this new high-definition light," said Depeche Mode.

Additional contents in the new Depeche Mode 101 box set include:

48-page behind-the-scenes story of the day photo book.

20" x 30" replica of the original US theatrical release movie poster 16-page Anton Corbijn Photo Mode book as featured in the original album release.

Double CD of the original 20 track 101 concert release a download card providing access to 4K downloads of the film, concert and bonus performances plus 24-bit audio files of the 101 concert release.

The two DVDs in the set contain the original extras from the 2003 DVD release of Depeche Mode - 101 ; the DVD extras are not available on the Blu-ray.

"Depeche Mode 101 is definitely one of our all-time favorite films and one of our favorite filmmaking experiences," said 101 co-director Chris Hegedus. " DM 101 's parallel realities following the historic tour of this pioneering British band as they storm across America bringing an exciting new sound to the masses, along with an intimate view of a busload of ardent young fans on an unforgettable road trip to the Rose Bowl made this documentary a groundbreaking influence on the reality genre. Making this movie was a grand adventure for both of us (Pennebaker and Hegedus).... By the end of the tour, we became their biggest fans. We are excited to introduce this new release to audiences."

Watch the trailer for the release below. Purchase a copy of Depeche Mode 101 Deluxe Edition Box Set here .

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New dates: 29 shows in Europe 2024 announced

July 10th, 2023 by editorial

With over two million tickets sold to date on the Memento Mori Tour, and following sold-out stadium and arena shows across Europe, Mexico, Canada, and the US this summer and fall, Depeche Mode today announced 29 new European dates which will extend the tour into 2024. Even more fans will now have a chance to experience the raw, emotive power of the Memento Mori Tour, hailed by Rolling Stone as “a stunning celebration of life and music.”

These new European tour dates begin January 22, 2024 at London’s O2 Arena and finish April 5 after multiple nights at Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany. Along the way on the 22-city tour the band will also play multiple nights at Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena, Paris’ Accor Arena, Madrid’s Wizink Center, Milan’s Mediolanum Forum, and more. The 110-date Memento Mori Tour is on track to be one of Depeche Mode’s largest to date.

Memento Mori Tour – Europe 2024

JAN 22 London, The O2 24 Birmingham, Utilita Arena 29 Manchester, AO Arena 31 Glasgow, OVO Hydro

FEB 3 Dublin, 3Arena 6 Antwerp, Sportpaleis 8 Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome 10 Copenhagen, Royal Arena 13 & 15 Berlin, Mercedes-Benz Arena 17 Hamburg, Barclays Arena 22 & 24 Prague, O2 Arena 27 & 29 Lodz, Atlas Arena

MAR 3 & 5 Paris, Accor Arena 7 Munich, Olympiahalle 12 & 14 Madrid, WiZink Center 16 Barcelona, Palau Sant Jordi 19 Lisbon, Altice Arena 21 Bilbao, BEC 23 Torino, Pala Alpitour 26 Budapest, MVM Dome 28 & 30 Milan, Mediolanum Forum

APR 3 & 5 Cologne, Lanxess Arena

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Depeche Mode: 101 chronicles the final leg of Depeche Mode's 'Music for the Masses' live tour and the final show on 18 June 1988 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

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