World Violation Tour
Tour by Depeche Mode | |
Associated album | Violator |
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Start date | 28 May 1990 (1990-05-28) |
End date | 27 November 1990 (1990-11-27) |
Legs | 3 |
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Depeche Mode concert chronology | |
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The World Violation Tour was a 1990 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act's seventh studio album, Violator. It was estimated that by the end of the tour, Depeche Mode had toured to 1.2 million fans.[1]
Background
Depeche Mode's previous tour, the "Music for the Masses Tour", had run from late 1987 to the middle of 1988, and was supported by the live video and record release of 101 in early 1989.[2] Violator was released in March 1990[3] and had already seen two successful singles to support it, "Personal Jesus"[4] and "Enjoy the Silence" by the time the tour started.[5] In April, the band attended a record-signing event in LA at a record store, but the event drew so many fans that the band had to be escorted out, and a riot nearly ensued.[6]
Tour details
The band rehearsed for the tour in Pensacola, Florida, the same city where the tour kicked off.[7] It was the first time the band has performed live in the state, and the band received some flak from locals who didn't understand their appearance; Alan Wilder was quoted to Rolling Stone saying "I've been called a faggot about twenty times today, mostly from guys leaning out of trucks. This is sort of a backward place, isn't it?"[7]
The tour kicked off with a North American leg in late May, finishing up in early August in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium. The North American dates were met with high demand with sellouts in Dallas, Chicago, Orlando, Tampa and Miami;[7] 42,000 tickets for the concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey had reportedly been sold within four hours of going on sale, while the Dodger Stadium shows had sold out on the first day of sale.[8] Later in the month, the group played a sole date in Australia, in Sydney, prior to a six-date tour of Japan in September. Following the Japanese dates, the band commenced a European tour, beginning in Brussels in late September. The leg included three dates at the Palais Omnisports Bercy in Paris, where the group performed to approximately 50,000 people.[9] The leg lasted two months and concluded with the final show of the tour in Birmingham, England, in late November.
Tour projections were made by Anton Corbijn, presented on large video screens behind the band. The tour required approximately 100 stage crew and 11 trucks to transport the set and equipment.[8]
Rolling Stone called out the tour as one of the highlights of the 1990 summer music scene, saying "These British synth poppers offer post-industrial melancholy you can dance to. And their misery certainly loves company – on their last tour, they sold out the Rose Bowl."[10]
Industrial band Nitzer Ebb opened for the band in North America[10] and Europe.[11]
Recordings
Depeche Mode never released any official content from the World Violation Tour for commercial purposes, the reason for which Alan Wilder stated was that there was too little time lapsed from Music for the Masses Tour to release a new live EP from this tour, as 101 had been released the previous year.[12]
Two concerts of the American leg of the tour, one in San Francisco and one in LA, were recorded by the staff of the stadium; the band issued 90-second snippets of each song from the LA show on their website in 2012.[13]
Musicians
- Dave Gahan – lead vocals
- Martin Gore – guitar, samplers, percussion pads, lead and backing vocals
- Alan Wilder – samplers, percussion pads, backing vocals
- Andy Fletcher – samplers, percussion pads, backing vocals
Set list
- "Kaleid" (intro)
- "World in My Eyes"
- "Halo"
- "Shake the Disease"
- "Everything Counts" (Tim Simenon/Mark Saunders remix)
- "Master and Servant"
- "Never Let Me Down Again" (Split and Aggro mixes)
- "Waiting for the Night"
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- "I Want You Now" (*) (acoustic)
- "Here Is the House" (*) (acoustic)
- "Little 15" (*) (acoustic)
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- "World Full of Nothing" (*) (acoustic)
- "Blue Dress" (*) (acoustic, only performed at San Diego and Paris)
- "Sweetest Perfection" (*) (acoustic)
- "Clean"
- "Stripped"
- "Policy of Truth"
- "Enjoy the Silence" (with bits from the 'Bass Line' remix)
- "Strangelove"
- "Personal Jesus"
- Encore 1
- "Black Celebration"
- "A Question of Time"
- Encore 2
- "Behind the Wheel"
- "Route 66" (Bobby Troup cover)
Notes:
- Set lists differed between dates, with rotated songs (denoted above) and song omissions.
- "(*)" denotes song sung by Martin Gore.
Tour dates
References
- ^ Weidenbaum, Marc (May 1993), "Fashion Victims", Pulse! Magazine (114): 48–53
- ^ Raggett, Ned. "101 – Depeche Mode". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ Smith, Robin (17 February 1990). "This Week - The Next Seven Days in View: Releases". Record Mirror. p. 28. ISSN 0144-5804.
- ^ "Personal Jesus". archives.depechemode.com. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
- ^ "New Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 3 February 1990. p. 38. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ^ Giles, Jeff (12–26 July 1990). "Depeche Mode Want Your Respect". Rolling Stone. No. 582/583. New York. pp. 60–65. ISSN 0035-791X. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ^ a b c Giles, Jeff (12–26 July 1990), "Depeche Mode Interview", Rolling Stone, no. 582/583, pp. 60–65
- ^ a b Miller, p. 299
- ^ Miller, p. 301
- ^ a b "Rolling Stone Summer Music Guide 1990", Rolling Stone magazine insert, 1990, page 4
- ^ Paoletti, Ariana (24 September 2013). "The Ebb and Flow of Nitzer Ebb". Thump.vice.com. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ^ "1990-07-21 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA/Source 1 - Depeche Mode Live Wiki". dmlive.wiki.
- ^ Barassi, Daniel. "Depeche Mode: The Archives". Depeche Mode: The Archives.
- Miller, Jonathan. Stripped: The True Story of Depeche Mode. Omnibus Press, 2004. ISBN 1-84449-415-2
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