DEPECHE MODE
The Paradiso
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
September 26th 1981.

Recorded and broadcasted by VPRO Radio.


A great sounding FM broadcast of an early gig. It's incomplete. The right channel seems to have been recorded at a higher level than the left, but other than that it sounds excellent. Dave refers to "What's Your Name?" as "Pretty Boy". 


Setlist: 

01. [3:26] Photographic 
02. [4:15] New Life 
03. [3:59] Ice Machine 
04. [4:03] Big Muff 
05. [2:08] I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead 
06. [3:42] Just Can't Get Enough 
07. [2:45] (Pretty Boy) What's Your Name? 
Total time: 24:19 

Line up: 
Dave Gahan - lead vocals 
Martin Gore - keyboards, backing vocals 
Andrew Fletcher - keyboards, backing vocals 
Vince Clarke - keyboards, backing vocals 

All songs written by Vince Clarke, except for "Big Muff" which was written by Martin L. Gore. 

(Infos taken from delle101.de)

Depeche Mode - Paradiso Amsterdam 1981 - 01 Photographic

Depeche Mode - Paradiso Amsterdam 1981 - 02 New Life

Depeche Mode - Paradiso Amsterdam 1981 - 03 Ice Machine

Depeche Mode - Paradiso Amsterdam 1981 - 04 Big Muff

Depeche Mode - Paradiso Amsterdam 1981 - 05 I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead

Depeche Mode - Paradiso Amsterdam 1981 - 06 Just Can't Get Enough

Depeche Mode - Paradiso Amsterdam 1981 - 07 What's Your Name

DEPECHE MODE - Construction Time Again Tour
BBC Transcription Services Vol 345
London, England
Hammersmith Odeon
1984-11-03

Pre-FM 
!! VINYL SOURCED !!
Sound Quality: A
Lineage: vinyl record --> Hitachi HT40S Turntable --> E-Mu 1616 sound card --> recorded Sony Sound Forge 7.0 @ 16-bit 44,100 Khz --> tracked, edited & normalized @ +/- -1.00 db --> FLAC 8 via Traders Little Helper

This is a recording made from the BBC Transcription Services vinyl record that was at one time distributed to radio stations for airplay.  The record is in mint- condition, and was recorded to digital format by me.  I "mastered" it to some degree (fade ins/outs, normalized), but that is all, so you get the vinyl experience and it's limitations.  Being a vinyl junkie, I don't believe them to be "limitations" as such, but it's all subjective.  There is a slight dip in volume between Somebody and Ice Machine, due to record flip.

It seems this recording is circulated under many titles so this upload is partially a re-seed/upgrade/different source in theory, though many of the other recordings likely originated from this record one way or another.  This version is directly from a pre-FM vinyl source, and has not been burned to any source other than my hard drive.

Sadly, this is NOT the whole show (7 songs missing!!), and assuming the set list was the same as the gigs before and after this night, the missing songs are noted below.  According to trademode.de, there is a BBC Transcription Services disc Volume 2, which looks to be more complete than my version, so if anyone has that, please share - though it doesn't appear to have See You, which my version does.

Set list:
- V/O Introduction (labeled as track 00)
- Something To Do
- **Two Minute Warning** MISSING
- Puppets
- If You Want
- People Are People
- Leave In Silence
- **New Life** MISSING
- **Shame** MISSING
- Somebody
- Ice Machine
- Lie To Me
- **Blasphemous Rumours** MISSING
- **Told You So** MISSING
- Master And Servant
- Photographic
- Everything Counts
- See You
- **Shout** MISSING
- **Just Can't Get Enough** MISSING

Total Time 57:02

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 00 Richard Skinner Intro

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 01 Something To Do

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 02 Puppets

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 03 If You Want

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 05 Leave In Silence

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 06 Somebody

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 07 Ice Machine

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 08 Lie To Me

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 09 Master And Servant

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 10 Photographic

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 11 Everything Counts

Depeche Mode - Hammersmith Odeon 1984 BBC - 12 See You

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