World Violation Tour

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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

Set list

  1. "Kaleid" (intro)
  2. "World in My Eyes"
  3. "Halo"
  4. "Shake the Disease"
  5. "Everything Counts" (Tim Simenon/Mark Saunders remix)
  6. "Master and Servant"
  7. "Never Let Me Down Again" (Split and Aggro mixes)
  8. "Waiting for the Night"
  11. "Clean"
  12. "Stripped"
  13. "Policy of Truth"
  14. "Enjoy the Silence" (with bits from the 'Bass Line' remix)
  15. "Strangelove"
  16. "Personal Jesus"
    Encore 1
  17. "Black Celebration"
  18. "A Question of Time"
    Encore 2
  19. "Behind the Wheel"
  20. "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

Date City Country Venue/Event
North America
Template:Dts Pensacola United States Pensacola Civic Center
Template:Dts Orlando Orlando Arena
Template:Dts Miami Miami Arena
Template:Dts Tampa USF Sun Dome
Template:Dts Atlanta Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre
Template:Dts Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion
Template:Dts Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Template:Dts Mansfield Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts
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Template:Dts Philadelphia The Spectrum
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Template:Dts East Rutherford Giants Stadium
Template:Dts New York City Radio City Music Hall
Template:Dts Montreal Canada Montreal Forum
Template:Dts Toronto CNE Grandstand
Template:Dts Burgettstown United States Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheater
Template:Dts Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center
Template:Dts Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
Template:Dts Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theatre
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Template:Dts Milwaukee Marcus Amphitheater
Template:Dts Tinley Park World Music Theatre
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Template:Dts The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
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Template:Dts Dallas Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre
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Template:Dts Morrison Red Rocks Amphitheatre
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Template:Dts Calgary Canada Olympic Saddledome
Template:Dts Vancouver Pacific Coliseum
Template:Dts Portland United States Memorial Coliseum
Template:Dts Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre
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Template:Dts Sacramento Cal Expo Amphitheatre
Template:Dts Salt Lake City Salt Palace
Template:Dts Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Template:Dts San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
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Template:Dts Universal City Universal Amphitheatre
Template:Dts Los Angeles Dodger Stadium
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Oceania
Template:Dts Sydney Australia Hordern Pavilion
Asia
Template:Dts Fukuoka Japan Shimin Kaikan Dai Hall
Template:Dts Kobe World Memorial Hall
Template:Dts Kanazawa Ishikawa Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan
Template:Dts Nagoya Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall
Template:Dts Tokyo Nippon Budokan
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Europe
Template:Dts Brussels Belgium Forest National
Template:Dts Dortmund West Germany Westfalenhallen
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Template:Dts Copenhagen Denmark Valby-Hallen
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Template:Dts Gothenburg Sweden Scandinavium
Template:Dts Stockholm Stockholm Globe Arena
Template:Dts Frankfurt Germany Festhalle Frankfurt
Template:Dts Hanover Messehalle Hanover
Template:Dts Lyon France Halle Tony Garnier
Template:Dts Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion
Template:Dts Frankfurt Germany Frankfurt Festhalle
Template:Dts Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
Template:Dts Munich Olympiahalle
Template:Dts Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
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Template:Dts Liévin Stade Couvert Régional
Template:Dts Rotterdam Netherlands Rotterdam Ahoy
Template:Dts Hamburg Germany Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
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Template:Dts Berlin Deutschlandhalle
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Template:Dts Strasbourg France Rhénus Sport
Template:Dts Barcelona Spain Palau Sant Jordi
Template:Dts Madrid Palacio de Deportes
Template:Dts Marseille France Palais des sports de Marseille
Template:Dts Milan Italy Palatrussardi
Template:Dts Rome PalaEur
Template:Dts Bordeaux France Patinoire de Mériadeck
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Template:Dts Brest Parc des expositions de la Penfeld
Template:Dts London England Wembley Arena
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Template:Dts Birmingham NEC Arena
Template:Dts London Wembley Arena
Template:Dts Birmingham NEC Arena
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References

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  • Miller, Jonathan. Stripped: The True Story of Depeche Mode. Omnibus Press, 2004. Template:ISBN

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