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World Violation Tour
Tour by Depeche Mode
Associated albumViolator
Start date28 May 1990 (1990-05-28)
End date27 November 1990 (1990-11-27)
Legs3
No. of shows
  • 43 in North America
  • 38 in Europe
  • 6 in Asia
  • 1 in Oceania
  • 88 in total
Depeche Mode concert chronology
  • Music for the Masses Tour
    (1987–1988)
  • World Violation Tour
    (1990)
  • Devotional Tour
    (1993)

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

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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

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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

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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

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Set list

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  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

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Date City Country Venue/Event
North America
28 May 1990 Pensacola United States Pensacola Civic Center
30 May 1990 Orlando Orlando Arena
31 May 1990 Miami Miami Arena
2 June 1990 Tampa USF Sun Dome
4 June 1990 Atlanta Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre
6 June 1990 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion
8 June 1990 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center
9 June 1990 Mansfield Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts
10 June 1990
13 June 1990 Philadelphia The Spectrum
14 June 1990
16 June 1990 East Rutherford Giants Stadium
18 June 1990 New York City Radio City Music Hall
21 June 1990 Montreal Canada Montreal Forum
22 June 1990 Toronto CNE Grandstand
24 June 1990 Burgettstown United States Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheater
25 June 1990 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center
26 June 1990 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
28 June 1990 Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theatre
29 June 1990
30 June 1990 Milwaukee Marcus Amphitheater
2 July 1990 Tinley Park World Music Theatre
3 July 1990
5 July 1990 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
6 July 1990
8 July 1990 Dallas Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre
9 July 1990
11 July 1990 Morrison Red Rocks Amphitheatre
12 July 1990
14 July 1990 Calgary Canada Olympic Saddledome
16 July 1990 Vancouver Pacific Coliseum
18 July 1990 Portland United States Memorial Coliseum
20 July 1990 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre
21 July 1990
22 July 1990 Sacramento Cal Expo Amphitheatre
25 July 1990 Salt Lake City Salt Palace
27 July 1990 Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
28 July 1990 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
29 July 1990
31 July 1990
1 August 1990 Universal City Universal Amphitheatre
4 August 1990 Los Angeles Dodger Stadium
5 August 1990
Oceania
31 August 1990 Sydney Australia Hordern Pavilion
Asia
4 September 1990 Fukuoka Japan Shimin Kaikan Dai Hall
6 September 1990 Kobe World Memorial Hall
8 September 1990 Kanazawa Ishikawa Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan
9 September 1990 Nagoya Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall
11 September 1990 Tokyo Nippon Budokan
12 September 1990
Europe
28 September 1990 Brussels Belgium Forest National
29 September 1990 Dortmund West Germany Westfalenhallen
30 September 1990
2 October 1990 Copenhagen Denmark Valby-Hallen
3 October 1990
5 October 1990 Gothenburg Sweden Scandinavium
6 October 1990 Stockholm Stockholm Globe Arena
8 October 1990 Frankfurt Germany Festhalle Frankfurt
9 October 1990 Hanover Messehalle Hanover
11 October 1990 Lyon France Halle Tony Garnier
12 October 1990 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion
14 October 1990 Frankfurt Germany Frankfurt Festhalle
15 October 1990 Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
17 October 1990 Munich Olympiahalle
21 October 1990 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
22 October 1990
23 October 1990
25 October 1990 Liévin Stade Couvert Régional
26 October 1990 Rotterdam Netherlands Rotterdam Ahoy
28 October 1990 Hamburg Germany Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
29 October 1990
31 October 1990 Berlin Deutschlandhalle
1 November 1990
3 November 1990 Strasbourg France Rhénus Sport
5 November 1990 Barcelona Spain Palau Sant Jordi
7 November 1990 Madrid Palacio de Deportes
9 November 1990 Marseille France Palais des sports de Marseille
11 November 1990 Milan Italy Palatrussardi
12 November 1990 Rome PalaEur
14 November 1990 Bordeaux France Patinoire de Mériadeck
15 November 1990
17 November 1990 Brest Parc des expositions de la Penfeld
19 November 1990 London England Wembley Arena
20 November 1990
22 November 1990 Birmingham NEC Arena
23 November 1990 London Wembley Arena
26 November 1990 Birmingham NEC Arena
27 November 1990

References

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  1. ^ Weidenbaum, Marc (May 1993), "Fashion Victims", Pulse! Magazine (114): 48–53
  2. ^ Raggett, Ned. "101 – Depeche Mode". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  3. ^ Smith, Robin (17 February 1990). "This Week - The Next Seven Days in View: Releases". Record Mirror. p. 28. ISSN 0144-5804.
  4. ^ "Personal Jesus". archives.depechemode.com. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  5. ^ "New Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 3 February 1990. p. 38. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ a b c Giles, Jeff (12–26 July 1990), "Depeche Mode Interview", Rolling Stone, no. 582/583, pp. 60–65
  8. ^ a b Miller, p. 299
  9. ^ Miller, p. 301
  10. ^ a b "Rolling Stone Summer Music Guide 1990", Rolling Stone magazine insert, 1990, page 4
  11. ^ Paoletti, Ariana (24 September 2013). "The Ebb and Flow of Nitzer Ebb". Thump.vice.com. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  12. ^ "1990-07-21 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA/Source 1 - Depeche Mode Live Wiki". dmlive.wiki.
  13. ^ 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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