Depeche Mode Live at the Bridge House, London 6 April 1981

[@xanshark]

0:00 - New Life 3:20 - I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead 5:31 - Dreaming Of Me 9:07 - Big Muff 13:22 - Boys Say Go! 15:52 - The Price Of Love 19:25 - Just Can't Get Enough 22:58 - Photographic 26:41 - Television Set 30:05 - Tora! Tora! Tora! 33:03 - ABBA - Mamma Mia

[@jacksonchancey6911]

🙂❤👍

[@spektrum8740]

I thought the last one was a joke 🤣 cuz the beat is the same as photographic. Anyway thnx so much 💖

[@nelsonvieira5098]

@@spektrum8740 Yes, they used to play Mamma Mia during the 1980 tour!! But it never was confirmed!! Now, is confirmed!!

[@e.villanueva7741]

vince clarke un genio!

[@pttheuk]

@@e.villanueva7741 true

[@RetroMuseumTV]

From the Bridgehouse, Canning Town in 1980 to the Rose Bowl Pasadena, California in 1988. Some journey!

[@albertoramone2]

When I finish my time machine, this is the first place I will go.

[@russelledwards001]

Your feet will stick to the carpet in that pub lol!

[@DX5]

Interesting document. I think the backtape was running at a faster speed than usual on "Television Set", as the initial single note sequence is sounding a couple of semitones higher than the synths key.

[@rosssmith8481]

I saw Depeche Mode in Vancouver in 82. There was about 50 people there

[@Bleckman666]

1980. I bought my first Depeche 12" single (Leave in silence) in 1982. And now in 2022 I bought my ticket to their upcoming concert in Stockholm on May 23rd 2023. R.I.P. Fletch.

[@oswaldtehseal471]

42 years ....god, i feel old.

[@berndsieveking212]

Zu dieser Zeit sah ich Sie im Landgasthof ZUR GRILLE in Minden Unglaublich!!! Wenn ich das heute jemanden erzähle glaubt das einem kein Mensch!!!! Werde den Abend nie vergessen. Gruß aus Deutschland

[@juergenzbikowski9297]

In welchem Jahr und Monat war das.

[@etc834]

Thanks for giving credit in the description!

[@depechemodelive4336]

Done👍🏼, thank you for finding this gem

[@etc834]

@@depechemodelive4336 Thanks!

[@Esperluet]

Where did you find the tape?

[@steffenmaier3294]

Great 👍👍🍀👍👍

[@etc834]

@@EsperluetIt was a very limited print bootleg CD sold in London markets in the early 2000s.

[@kurtluger]

Hearing Photographic from the origin gives me chills!

[@johotrod66]

On the Some Bizarre Album release, but I can't find a copy of it nowadays for the life of me.

[@traciepearce1888]

They sounded so young.Cant beleave how time has flown.🌹

[@bicyclist2]

In the early 80's I was standing in my suburban Pennsylvania driveway when I heard music coming from the second story window of the house next door. I was maybe 8 or 9 years old at the time. The song was People are People. From that moment on I became a fan for life. This is so very cool. I really wish I could have been there. I was born in the wrong country. Thank you.

[@deegee2friar]

Photographic sound astonishingly mature

[@daleywhaley]

Amazing quality and a window in to the past, sounds like a youth club atmosphere, they sound really together and organised as a band, if only the audience could really appreciate what they were witnessing.

[@musician1000]

I've played at the Bridge House with 21 Guns. Happy days.

[@bigtone1348]

I worked on their 1982 tour. The star of the show was the Revox machine!

[@tedmelikian8033]

A year before this they were knows as Composition of Sound with Vince Clarke singing before Dave. You can listen to it on KZbin.

[@stevedriver1376]

I saw Warm Jets at this pub. Great live venue back in the day.

[@marquideclub]

That's the year when Imet Vince in place in Notting Hill through a mutual friend Too bad he left not too long after even though they still became extra popular Vince too got few groups and few hits Beautiful moments

[@telantas]

A priceless document. DM covering Abba!!!

[@Ori0n1975]

There’s the synths on beer crates that they mentioned in that BBC documentary Synth Britannia.

[@marcmander]

owner of this pub, his son had a band wasted youth, i used to dj as dj marc manders thunderbird disco ...here as a warm up in-between to bands, i was paid 20 pounds, think the bands got paid 50 pounds

[@jamesjennings3726]

I was too young to get to see them in the first few years. Have made up for it after seeing them over 20 times from 1986 to today ( got tickets for the new tour).

[@lincbond442]

I first heard of Depeche Mode in 1984 when People Are People was on the radio and I hated it. By the next year I was a massive fan thanks to songs like Everything Counts and Shake the Disease. Been a fan ever since and have seen them live three times. It's a blast hearing their very early live performances. Thanks for the upload!!!

[@nicholasvoyage5535]

I remember People Are People inn1984, it was a great song then and still is as are all the other early songs.

[@bicyclist2]

People are People is my favorite song.

[@1i2cVision]

Everything Counts was released before People Are People in 1983 from the previous album. This was the first single I heard by them and subsequently bought Construction Time Again. A week later I bought Speak and Spell and a week after this A Broken Frame. When Some Great Reward came out, I bought it on date of release and continued to do the same with Black Celebration and when it came to Music for the Masses, I bought it on tape, LP and CD. BC & MFTM bought from Virgin Megastore Oxford Street because I worked close by. When Black Celebration was released, the front window at Virgin Megastore had 3D images of the album created to advertise the album. When I went to the Black Celebration concert at Wembley, I was invited to attend a party with Martin Gore the night after and never went. I put this down to my age. I was in my late teens and getting home was difficult. However I still think it was a big mistake. I still support the band, but will not attend the big venues. Recently saw Dave Gahan at the London Colleseum last December and shook hands and briefly chatted with Peter Gordeno. That was a unique experience and seeing groups or artists in intimate venues far better than huge stadiums. I was not impressed with people walking in and out through the last show I saw DM at the Millenium Stadium and just taking selfies to say they were at a DM event. Lots of people didn't recognise the songs and some that did were spoiling the show trying to sing. Looking forward to the new album. I've adapted and understood the reason the music has changed over the years.

[@trancepower1205]

So do you like People Are People then?

[@1i2cVision]

@@trancepower1205 It's okay, it was good in its day. I preferred Master and Servant and Blasphemous Rumours as singles from the album, but the album itself, superb all round.

[@fredw4711]

I remember when I first bought Speak & Spell: I went back to the shop to try to give it back and seller denied.. Now 40yrs later I still have 1 meter of theirs LPs & maxis...

[@bosonbreeder]

Wow! That early Mamma Mia cover was a worthy forerunner to Vince's/Erasure's ABBA-Esque EP. Never heard it before.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

HAHAHA yeah :D Erasure's "Take a chance on me" cover including crossdressing musicvideo ^_^

[@joezava8257]

Vince Clarke (al igual que la mayoría de Ingleses Punk Convertidos de finales del 70s) tiene influencia de la electro de Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus (Lay All Your Love On Me, Take Chance On Me, Gimme Gimme etc)...sobre todo de la EDM (NRG & Synthpop) 1977 de Giorgio⚡Moroder y la Electro Móderna (post concreta) del conjunto de productores de los 70s: Moroder, Jarre, Lacksman, Tangerine Dreams, YMO, Faltermeyer, Schulze, Vangelis, Tonet, Gizzi, Pinhas, Martín W. & Ian C... Vince Clarke (D.M, Yazzo, Erasure) hacen el Krautrock & Electro Experimental Düsseldorf de Kraftwerk? 🤔...no lo creo ya que el mismo Kraftwerk se influye de la EDM y la electrica concreta de los artistas mencionados.

[@bosonbreeder]

@@joezava8257 Yeah. Moroder influenced them all with his ground breaking Italodisco and eventually Donna Summers all synth driven "I Feel Love". Even giants like Kraftwerk and Bowie.

[@toms9651]

The start of "I sometimes wish i was dead" was start of a more modern Acid House song", great!

[@patrickryan5570]

The Bridge House was the seminal rock venue in Canning Town East London E16 and the first pub in the world with its own record label. Throughout the seventies and eighties it was a regular home to such bands as Iron Maiden, Depeche Mode, The Blues Band and Secret Affair as well as the Bridge House generated Wasted Youth. The Bridge House shut its doors to live music in 1982 and was bulldozed into the ground a couple of years later...

[@bradarmstrong3952]

Thanks for sharing this very early recording! This is two years before I even heard DM on vinyl. It's a real thrill to hear early versions of some of the songs that became later hits. Wonderful early photos too --- for some reason it never occurred to me that DM had to have done time playing in pubs, competing with earnest patron conversations, on makeshift setups ... really fun to see! Great perspective ... So glad you all put in the hard days so you could make it and share your talent with such a wide audience. Again, thanks so much for sharing!

[@garyseymour6319]

Coming from 'Up North' Redcar to be precise DM were not part of the music scene until I was in seniors (1980). Listening to this you can clearly hear the different directions Vince Clark and Martin Gore wanted to go.

[@Loneranger670]

Incredible how far they have come. Respect 👊🏻

[@railgap]

for those unaware, Vince Clarke helped to define the sound of three significant synthpop bands: Depeche Mode, Yaz (Yazoo), and Erasure.

[@joezava8257]

Vince Clarke (al igual que la mayoría de Ingleses Punk Convertidos de finales del 70s) tiene influencia de la electro de Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus (Lay All Your Love On Me, Take Chance On Me, Gimme Gimme etc)...sobre todo de la EDM (NRG & Synthpop) 1977 de Giorgio⚡Moroder y la Electro Móderna (post concreta) del conjunto de productores de los 70s: Moroder, Jarre, Lacksman, Tangerine Dreams, YMO, Faltermeyer, Schulze, Vangelis, Tonet, Gizzi, Pinhas, Martín W. & Ian C... Vince Clarke (D.M, Yazzo, Erasure) hacen el Krautrock & Electro Experimental Düsseldorf de Kraftwerk? 🤔...no lo creo, ya que el mismo Kraftwerk se influye de la EDM y la electronica concreta de los artistas mencionados.

[@jzen1455]

I keep forgetting Vince Clarke was in Yaz and Erasure for some reason. Perhaps it has something to do with how those bands sound so far removed from Depeche Mode.

[@Незнайка2000-д7ч]

And the assembly

[@atheistleopard2484]

early-depeche-yes----when--wilder--shoed-up---they-had-a-GREAT-layer-of-CO|\\POSITION-of-sound-lol-

[@sparfarkel1266]

One of my all favorite bands!! Loved them from beginning!!

[@Esperluet]

Drums of Photographic on Mamma Mia. Maybe inspired thanks to the intro on minor chords.

[@bertrandhatay6810]

Fan since the beginning of DM I llove this concert so much. Absolutly awesome. Thanks for the post. 👌😀

[@ritasch1007]

Great performance by Fletch , doin' all the bass-lines! :0) R.I.P. my dear ! Daddydarko

[@mark-yj5sg]

Thank you so much for this

[@LAZ-org]

Grinding it out in small clubs aka "Paying your dues". Thanks for listing the synths used!

[@patthewoodboy]

Crocs in Rayleigh 🙂

[@billmarsh1971]

This is just incredible. 42 years ago now... What was bubbling up 42 years before 1980?...

[@snivylink2119]

world war 2

[@peterlarkin762]

Young Robert Moog was bubbling up around 34'

[@junebaby166]

What a gem! Live at the legendary Bridge House pub! This is the first time I have heard The Price of Love and Television Set... Oh, and the Mama mia instrumental I didn't even know it existed! Thank you so much for this. 😘

[@markleach3172]

The Price of Love is a cover version: Previously Everly Brothers 1965, Bryan Ferry/Roxy music 1976, etc.

[@bigboyoz]

Thanks for sharing! I love D.M early 2 albums,it was a great era in music,there is very little footage of this period and they don’t play it live now except *i just can’t get enough*

[@tracyyy99]

Seen them live in 1983...Mclellan Galleries Sauchiehall Street Glasgow.

[@depechemodelive4336]

Listen it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nobOi5xnh9t0oJo

[@DrakonAndPage]

✊❤️🇷🇺

[@MrMidiman33]

I heard from this concert at the Bridge House. But never heard any recording! Cool stuff!

[@enricestevemir7965]

Los sintetizadores sobre cajas de cervezas, genial !

[@victormorales4105]

Increible sonido para ser año1980, y aún siguen, RIP Fletcher, y estaba Vince Clark, que capo !!!

[@starshipgraffiti]

Saw them in 84?on 2 hits of purple windowpane. Woohoo!!

[@beatatomaszewska5009]

Thanx so much .This incredible pictures and this fresh music .Very very good! Long long way before DM when they will be in this moment of their career

[@satka2mau487]

I was there!!!

[@patthewoodboy]

fack I was there , the pub got destroyed when they built the new A13. Fad gadget was amazing when he played there.

[@craigb1232]

Depeche Mode was supporting Fad Gadget on this night as i best friends with Fletch and helped them load the gear

[@stevestheboy1]

the bridge house amazing venue froggy done some gigs there with his amazing sound system,,,,i can still feel the base,great days

[@N.D.J.S.]

im born in 28.12.1980😬🤨😮and now i see that...

[@grauoliv]

Interesting to hear the Korg KR 55 rhythm machine hear, instead of the Boss DR-55. And Mamma Mia played with the same rhythm as the bizzare version of Photographic. Great upload, thanx mate!

[@mattwasmyname]

Moog Prodigy 😍😍

[@JS-gb2xt]

Thanks for the upload !! The Depeche Mode Grandmother’s Jewels Really ....a jewel.....,

[@kanpachimaguro5291]

Tora Tora Tora is already Great

[@brfts2001]

listening to them live nowadays and they've morphed into a rock/pop act. prefer this older era of them before Violator.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Me too. I prefer their more electronic sound. They kinda devolved into a more common rock band sound especially after Alan Wilder left....

[@jeshkam]

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 They're still weird, unique and one of a kind though.

[@virtualZ161]

Nice! Thanks for posting this. Was in the UK this past month for vacation. Played 80’s DM while driving from London to Lake District..

[@mylittledetour]

Just can't get enough is such a good song !!!

[@exsoulagent]

Lovely piece of history

[@misakiyoshida]

saw them violator tour 1990 absolutely pissed off me head! had to work the next day on roofing joints bahaha young man...

[@reresimone4300]

amazing, i believe i was working in a benetton shop near harrods at the time and they were often on the radio. biggest hit was JCGE, which is a fantastic track. vince was just from another world...

[@herseem]

I'll be honest, I preferred them after vince clark left. I don't like his production sounds

[@FlickanIDetKroktaRummet]

the gig at The Bridgehouse was when Daniel Miller saw them the first time. Dave and Dreaming of Me was what he became obsessed with:)

[@mickadatwist1620]

obsessed with Dave? oh I see:_))

[@Death_By_Media]

Dreaming of Me sounds like a hard nod to Gary Numan / Tubeway Army to my ears . I wasn’t exposed to DM until many years later so it’s interesting to hear their early work .

[@clivejones5880]

@@Death_By_Media I think a number of their songs here have a Numan influence, 'Television Set' could have almost be taken from the Replicas album.

[@Death_By_Media]

@@clivejones5880 could be still not versed in old DM before Violator . Numan was / is a GOAT

[@bazino]

Never heard Mamamia cover before. Thank you 😊

[@andy_omusic3217]

I thought that he will sing it)))

[@mslaerik66]

Dreaming of me is one of their best songs

[@thierryrault3951]

This is collector. Nice sound, nice pictures. Thank you.

[@jacksonchancey6911]

This is truly great! I love it! Thanks much for uploading this here. 🙂❤👍

[@Ian_Paq]

I am a young DM fan compare to you lot! I connected with them at the time of Black Celebration! 🤣🤣🤣

[@lappkalap]

Televison Set is a quite experimental stuff, a really masterpiece, never heard it before..

[@runoneman]

Awesome! Thanks for.posting.

[@craigfryatt4445]

Up to track 9 this is a recording from the 28th December 1980 with a band called Industrial Music supporting a friend of mine, Terrry burton was in Industrial Music. I saw them a few time at the Bridge House it was our stomping ground back in the day.

[@depechemodelive4336]

Are you positive about the date?

[@drakedaigo]

Tell us, how are you sure that's the exact date?

[@masterandservant8021]

limited by the technology of those days, they tried to sound out of this world.

[@waynemagyar6001]

They were a electric band because It was easier to hall their equipment around on public transit.

[@turquoisecapricorn]

Nice to hear that cover of Bryan Ferry "The Price Of Love"! I would have signed them also when I would have been there in that pub! You hear the big talent through their music!

[@PaulWilliams66]

Love Bryan Ferry’s version but originally written and performed by the Everly Brothers (in ‘65 I think).

[@IvanTereshok]

Very rare, oh my God! Thank you very-very much!

[@johotrod66]

This is brilliant. I first saw them at the London ICA in 1981 as part of Capital Radio rock week (I think) after hearing Dreaming Of Me played by Peely. Tiny room, 15 year old me had no idea what he was witnessing!

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

You saw history being made. Lucky you. :)

[@safetroubles8216]

What a joy to hear this recording! Merci!!

[@niclashaglund8225]

Awesome!! got this recording on a vinyl... promotion only... poor recording. This is way better, sounds gr8!!! Thx

[@anjaDMMix]

Ach hey je wie süß 🙏👍♥️ danke

[@petrsiriste9384]

I will turn back zhe TIME! 😬🤓❤️🌹

[@markusdaxamouli5196]

Big Muff should still be in a set list

[@davidmacdonald7679]

I saw them a couple of months after this. I have this memory that the drum parts were on cassette that Dave would turn on and off. Can anyone confirm?

[@craigb1232]

This is true ...Vince Clark has an interview on You Tube showing a Dr Box Drum Machine that Gahan had to turn on and off ...For each song

[@davids736]

This is mental! Thanks 👍👍🙂🙂❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@andresguzmanheim9204]

Excelente👍🏻!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻gracias por compartir.

[@timinthesun]

What a rare find. Thanks

[@Depraver]

Любимый Depeche Mode!!! Из России с любовью!!! 🤘

[@AquaManiac23]

FY ruZZian nazis!

[@alefantozzi2774]

With love and nukes

[@alefantozzi2774]

Stop killing children in Ukraine

[@nicoc6387]

Help! I have been sucked into a parallel universe where Depeche Mode is playing Mamma Mia! Great archive, though. Thanks!

[@Jedi_Knight_1970]

WOW... Nice relict. DM is the Band of my young life. But I only like the early Songs 1980 - 1988 Alss after that... Not my World. Best of all: Everything counts (1984)...I must have Heard it at least 15.000 times since then... One per Day in minimum.

[@guevaraz101]

First song I heard when I was a kid. New Life....

[@Senna-xi1gr]

Newcastle live 1984 . Fantastic 👍🏆🇬🇧

[@keijojsalmela]

Yes. I love it. the are Great are the. Thank you.

[@thatsjarrod1965]

That's incredible!

[@tuddilu]

Wow, the ABBA in the end :D

[@doron986]

Amazing ♥️🎹♥️🎹♥️

[@marguskiis7711]

They played "Enough" differently every time.

[@russelledwards001]

You ever tried tuning an old Skool synth?

[@E4RLIES]

Tora! Tora! Tora! Is such a monster I would’ve loved to have been there ❤ Great find 😎 Edit: might have struggled getting in as I was 8yrs old at the time 😬🤣

[@IozziEric]

Thanks for the upload! This is precious!

[@martin-mi3cg]

What a great upload. I like that very cool rendition of Big Muff, and never heard their instrumental Mama Mia before! Strange, as back in the day I noticed 'A Photograph of You' had an element of Mama Mia in it.

[@delivrance3961]

priceless!!!

[@docshrek74]

Amazing! Thanks a lot!!!

[@Mooli]

This is so cool! Thanks for sharing

[@juliehealingleaf6211]

Loved the b sides

[@slthlrdz]

wow, thank you for posting this