Depeche Mode live in Liverpool University 06.11.1981

[@kippiten6949]

I love Speak And Spell. What a music. Puppets and Photographic are the masterpieces.

[@jeshkam]

Dave's vocal is still to this day so criminally underappreciated in my opinion. Everyone praises Clarke's or Gore's songwriting, Wilder's technnical skills, Fletch's dancing 😁, but so rarely people mention David's otherworldly singing skills, let alone him being one of the greatest entertainers in music's history along with Mick, Freddie and Elvis.

[@privatevasquez731]

He is the one, who is named "Dancing with the microphone" -

[@MFiles-ze5lb]

Underappreciated? Are you kidding? His voice and singing are COPIED by dozens and dozens of wanna-be Dave since mid 80s till now!

[@jeshkam]

@@MFiles-ze5lb Underappreciated by the general public.

[@ATXviIIIe]

Dave is King Martin is God Alan is a Wizard Andy is a Prince Vince is a Founding Genius?

[@Lofote]

@@jeshkam Especially the general public doesn't know any detail about the detail (especially about Wilder or Clarke) and always only sees the singer ;)

[@marilynhughes-bs1hh]

Absolutely love this ...early depeche mode at their very best...I'd love to have been there ..I have seen them 25 times but this ! Wished they played all these old songs again ❤

[@jonusiak5123]

I've been a fan of DM for 40 years and never heard television set before! Omg how did I miss this song!

[@steveninverse9579]

That's funny man, I've done that with a few groups I like before. Most recently ACDC, been into them for damn near 20 years and completely skipped over the whole Powerage album. Was fun to find it finally.

[@jonusiak5123]

@@steveninverse9579 I hear ya. I actually do like when I find songs like this that I never heard. Brings me back to my youth! I looked this song up and one of the reason's I haven't heard it was because it never went to a recorded studio, (at least that is what I think I read).

[@gabrieledersch6003]

Perfect. Great. Fantastic. Thank you DM. Bless you. 💗➕💗😇

[@beitos44]

I think Vince was fantastic. He wrote great and extremely catchy songs, he played the keyboard superbly, and he even sang backing vocals on several tracks here.

[@rbrtck]

Well, Vince did start Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure, so undoubtedly there is something to this guy and his music.

[@Lofote]

Actually I never liked his tracks for Depeche except maybe Photographic and Ice Machine. His songs dont work well with Dave, they however then did with Alison and Andy Bell. His keyboard play is good, but not outstanding compared to many others.

[@markg3293]

I like the DM 80's sound, just give us a world tour with 80's songs

[@marilynhughes-bs1hh]

I too would love DM to play all their old songs it's what made me a huge fan in the first place ...but they seem to play the same songs on their tours ...give us ..leave in silence ..puppetts..tora and more early 80s stuff pls ! Devoted forever❤

[@rmgwheelsspokeslab.7767]

WOW. What a real LIVE performance. Not only because it seems to be all played live but because songs are played different from the album, giving some room to a little "improvisation"?. It´s a gem of video.

[@chrisharden2035]

Tora! Tora! Tora! is brilliant at 20 minutes!

[@DepecheGamer]

Wonderful rare recording! Thank you for uploading! Depeche Mode FOREVER!

[@andymcminn942]

This is a TV show called "Something Else" filmed on October 23rd 1981 , Broadcast on November 6th 1981 the same night Depeche played in LIverpool , this is where the confusion comes in about this footage , there are people i know in the audience .

[@bucksatanII]

Wow. I was a day old when they shot this

[@gregmartinez6387]

Tora Tora Tora they need that track back on this new tour!

[@Red_Ford]

Yeap. This perfromance was brilliant. But right now they can kill this song with their massive rock sound...

[@Smith19722011]

Вот это крутой концерт!!! Совсем дети еще :!!! КЛАСС!!!!!!

[@simonespanu7768]

October 05, 1981: 40 years of Speak & Spell. I still can't get enough.

[@hubert12125]

Its amazing how modern it sounds in 2024

[@nelsonmoura5662]

Nossa isso é uma raridade, Depeche Mode

[@A5PEN-W0LF]

Setlist! 0:00 Television Set 3:11 Photographic 6:40 New Life 10:44 Puppets 14:15 Just Can't Get Enough 18:17 Tora! Tora! Tora! 21:23 No Disco

[@madelcarmenloera5230]

Thanks!!

[@marilynhughes-bs1hh]

Omg ..I absolutely lovvvvve all these old depeche mode songs ..80s my favourite DM era ..however il be a devotee for life ❤

[@psiconauta21]

This was another way to live your life with distinction and pride. Individuality and passion were trademark of this era

[@yamilkaaraya9823]

Es un encanto escucharlos y verlos tan jóvenes ..GRACIAS ..

[@Universe021]

Si amor 😻

[@MrAlexhollins]

I was there!

[@Streamer20four7]

Alex Hollins Do you r ember who the support act was?

[@MrAlexhollins]

Blancmange.

[@Streamer20four7]

Cheers Alex, so I was there almost thirty four years ago with my two sisters, we even got back stage got some autograph's! Oh I feel old now. Wow!

[@andymcminn942]

This is from October 23rd 1981 at BBC Studios in London , this TV show was Broadcast November 6th 1981 the same night DM played in Liverpool , the TV show was called "Something Else" .

[@benjaminschmidt6363]

So cool, awesome, i need a time machine

[@johnladoe6860]

What an awesome live version of No Disco. That synthesizer. Day dreaming of the 80's.

[@Universe021]

No Disco the best dm song's at the time

[@bklyn40]

best version of tora tora tora Ive heard so far. Watching Martin and Vince jam side by side is the best in these old concerts.

[@Universe021]

Yeah

[@elintrepidomoncho2779]

Primera vez que veo a vince Clark cantando 😳. Que joya de registro!!!! Saludos desde Chile.

[@dpiedra1520]

It's too bad DM have given up on most of the songs from their first few albums in their current shows. Speak and Spell was magic!! Vince was still with them on this tour.

[@stockholm7130]

Agree

[@afflicta]

Sadly now they seem more like a rock band than an electro synth band.

[@NOWtheband]

While looking through setlist.com I was really surprised to see that they played "Photographic" as recently as 2010! Yes, they definitely should be playing stuff from 1981 & 1982. Some tracks from A Broken Frame would sound sooooo good live now.

[@NOWtheband]

​@@afflicta - I totally agree! It's also GREAT to hear them without David shouting "Come on!" or "Yeah" during every song! It was kind-of ok when there was a little bit of guitar or when Alan played live-drums on a song or two but now they have guitar & live-drums on almost every track throughout their concerts. Guitars & live-drums have "normalised" them. The same happened when Cocteau Twins replaced their drum machine with a live drummer.

[@danpiedra3910]

Great comments - for whatever reason they have spotted a rock band look and feel now which to me detracts from who they were from 1981-2000. The reality is rust most of their audience at their shoes wants to hear music from that period. Today's sites for DM should be 80% content from 1981-90's and 20% for their newer stuff which to be honest is filler.

[@jannethtalamantes6408]

This is amazing!! And Gahan adorable as always!! 😍💝

[@frantomo]

Very funny to watch after all those years... They were so new and fresh and I still love this Vince's era of their career.. Hilarious that the crowd is so still and quiet like they didn't new how to react :))

[@jestx101]

Start: Television Set 3:11 Photographic 6:40 New Life 10:44 Puppets 14:15 Just Can't Get Enough 18:17 Tora! Tora! Tora! 21:23 No Disco

[@Universe021]

"No Disco" the best song

[@achilleasza]

@@Universe021 i prefer photographic

[@1BSDjunkie]

Tora, Tora, Tora 25:13 repeats at the end

[@spliffyfishy9541]

What a brilliant version of Tora Tora Tora 👍

[@jacquelineiona1996]

Wow, this is a nice share so thank you for sharing this. I’m amazed Depeche Mode only formed their band the year before this performance. I love the early stuff but really I just like them a lot I always have for years I was young when this came out! I don’t think I first heard them until around 1983. I was 19 then ❤ Great band ✨ RIP Andy

[@AtollK1950]

Oh yes and it has the best version of Tora Tora Tora. Epic.

[@trancer4e4life]

This is precious. This is treasure. THANK YOU!

[@tyreemixer]

For this timeframe the band were in , their live shows were about as tight as could be in that they had just finished recording Speak & Spell around Oct. of '81 so the studio time they had shows in this recording . At the end of this " tour " sometime in Dec. of '81 Vince Clark would be gone and shows in jan. of '82 and onwards started to include tracks from A Broken Frame & their synths were sounding like something you'd hear at a carnival . Still an awesome set . Great wardrobe . My 2 cents

[@1BSDjunkie]

This is my favorite video/recording Tora, Tora, Tora! Love the slightly quicker tempo and Dave really inflects his voice while singing. I can imagine the bombs going down and falling from the sky as the Japanese bomb Perl Harbor. Blown AWAY!!! 🤯

[@sanalvaro68]

Guauuuuu. Historia Viva, los mejores antes y ahora. Vaya material. Gracias por compartir!!!!

[@pouchklepper]

great! vince on synth and singing!! what a cool document!

[@Алексей-ш4в8л]

Редчайшая запись. Телевизор - слышу первый раз в жизни 😯😲

[@evgeny0503]

Такая же ерунда, первый раз в жизни. Прифигел помелочи...

[@frantomo]

You lucky Man :) I wish I was too... but I was 14. back then and lived behind the Iron Courtain.. but I managed to see them in 1985 in Warsaw during their tour for Some Great Reward - the best show ever... Today I'm almost fifty and still think so :)

[@NumanFanlfc]

Was there with my bird at the time , god i feel old lol great gig , brings back memories :-) thanx for putting up .

[@jeanmarcruchat9117]

Le talent déjà présent, la voix de David déjà posée.

[@ElenGlare]

Gosh, such a gem! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing!!!

[@rovostror1]

maybe poor quality but true pearl amongst first recorded appearances! ;)

[@NYyazoofan]

Digging deep into the archives...fantastic! Thanks!

[@Jauly]

WOW dave's voice sounded fantastic to the instable analog synths, and that without any classical training

[@jeshkam]

Indeed.

[@ФотоРедактор-у6и]

Нормально так в Ливерпульсоком университете, Две профессиональные камеры для съёмок проходных групп на дискотеке. И главное архив сохранился

[@luiscarvajal5982]

Yan ang paborito ko TORA,TORA MY SECRET GARDE, sobrang dami pa grabe ang DEPECHE MODE

[@Spendarellaa]

Went to the gig at Hammersmith Odeon around this time with Vince still present. Remember the tape player and the playlist. The sound track of my teens. It was a brilliant gig and we danced, oh we danced.

[@АлександрНагайцев-т1я]

Светлая память Флетчеру.

[@Tommi6810]

They were years ahead of their time, at a time when you still needed instruments to make music.

[@stormygrayblue]

Martin looks so sweet, even with this look covering up his blond curls. Reminds me of young Jared Leto here. Idk, but he looks adorable.

[@АлександрНагайцев-т1я]

Депеши -это эпоха 👍👍👍

[@Mortizul]

Love the dissonant thing they did on Photographic.

[@shelleypulcini3689]

This is AMAZING!! ❤ 😍

[@47thdarkdimension]

They were all so young!

[@franker69]

GREAT!!! Thanks for upload, that is so epic :')

[@olgafrau238]

Большое спасибо за ролик

[@ionia23]

They were NEVER this young :) I love it.

[@JaffaGaffa]

I was gonna send this link to a friend that never herd of DM. Keep this one for my self. Love it

[@Elena-gd5qu]

Thank you so much for the rare video!

[@MrHotrod75]

Wow! Thats nice! Well done!

[@elenastef]

i sometimes feel like i'm the only one who got into Depeche Mode because of Dave's voice. I don't even remember what was the first DM song i heard but i was 'his voice!!! his accent!!!. ' I couldn't care less who wrote what or who played the keyboards. DM is a band, not an individual but Dave always was the human part of DM and the reason their live performances became legendary.

[@scottsanders1414]

That first song was superb.Why did they not release it?......God I used to love the mode but since ultra its been downhill.

[@NOWtheband]

Probably because it wasn't written by any band member therefore no publishing dosh would come the bands' way. It was written by Vince's mate Jason Knott.

[@michvair]

I don't agree with you, there are still masterpiece songs after ultra, like wrong and many more, cheers, michel

[@ВалерийГаныкин]

I dont agree. In 2020 they've sounded very good! It's amaizing!

[@TrainmasterCurt]

@@michvair Precious

[@depechemodelive4336]

@@michvair Where’s The Revolution, Heaven, Should Be Higher, Suffer Well, Dream On, Precious, Wrong, Fragile Tension, Corrupt and many more..

[@barbarasarkozi3025]

Love Depeche mode

[@tonimarti5103]

Ma quanto erano bravi! Ragazzi di 19 anni

[@davemagro5804]

speak and spell live!!! Great

[@V3CZ]

I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead & Puppets are my favorite tracks on S&S and at least they presented the second one.

[@diggledoggle4192]

V3CZ They do play ISWIWD on occasion.

[@mrsxierox9]

Baby Dave....so cute

[@mikewhite9296]

Thank god for you tube

[@philphilly4777]

Reminds me of a DM concert.I went to in the early 80's.There was only like 30 people at the concert.

[@SRDhain]

Television set was never recorded as a studio track to my knowledge, which is a shame as it would have made a great album track or even a really good b side, if produced in the same vein as speak and spell. Nowadays, it could be redux'd by a younger outfit using a DAW and even softsynths, providing Vince would be happy to let them do it and put it out.

[@joeajbeaumont]

Hi Armalyte. The reason Television Set was never recorded (and thus not on the album) is because Vince didn't write it! It was written by an old friend of Vince's. Depeche continued to perform it live for a while after Vince left, and Alan Wilder even performed it with them a few times in his early gigs. But soon enough DM dropped it. I'm actually in a Depeche Mode Tribute band called Speak & Spell (depechemodetribute.co.uk) and we sometimes perform this song - it always goes down well with the diehard fans :)

[@SRDhain]

cool! Thanks for the explaination.

[@benjaminschmidt3519]

Joe A. J. Beaumont DM Tribut band? Sounds great, wäre are you playing?

[@AtollK1950]

Such a brilliant version of Tora! Tora! Tora! So much better than the one they subsequently adopted (a la hammersmith 1982). Really wish there was a good quality version of this particular arrangement.

[@TheJamie6666]

AtollK1950 I prefer the albums simplified version has a better rhythm.

[@iliapopovich]

from boy i always liked more their first 3-4 albums,actually it's valid for most of my favourite groups.

[@PacoCCepas]

¡Excitante arqueología!

[@alfonsopalacioskingkee7088]

Tora! Tora! Tora! is so underrated...I don´t understand

[@SRDhain]

Great quality on this. The timecode on the bottom margin suggests this is from the actual VT in the vaults or a copy of it which is transcribed up to mpeg

[@vilhjalmrwt]

Holy shit...I haven't heard the first song!!! Oh my

[@Funckle73]

Amazing!!

[@benjaminschmidt3519]

Super Video. DM noch mit Vince, cool

[@NumanFanlfc]

Me too i was there too ;-) Thanks for posting .

[@luiscarvajal5982]

Ang galing talaga yung mga nanonood ay tahimik lang paano nga bago lang sa kanilang pandinig eh, pero ngayon naku po naghihiyawan at ng kakagulo sa pasasayaw DEPECHE MO EH , pinaka matinding banda ng newave yan, the smith,the cure,echo and the bunny man

[@pcpanikMusik]

Thank you for sharing. I think No Disco sounds like a precursor to Don't go.

[@peppone68]

Vaya joya👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@kiedru]

Television set was great song, i don't understand why this song wasn't been in Speak & Spell album

[@chiller1sn]

ich glaub es nicht meine Idole aus der DDR Jugend sind hier Danke!!

[@jeffwilson2982]

I was there. Oh the great memories.

[@dietermanusteinmann8988]

great old stuff...

[@SteveRes]

Mind blowing, thanks :)

[@RicardoDiLago]

Wauw! thanks for another nice video.

[@omgsolikevalleygirl]

just a blurry old video yet so perfect perfect perfect

[@BaronBorisovich]

Wow First time isaw this concert full time

[@defelix7]

soooo fun to watch!

[@chaidirbasman5562]

pure & simple

[@tobiasforsner]

it would be so cool if DM + Vince would record Television set this year! 40 years later!

[@s.t.8898]

Auf gehts.,, world tour.,, Depeche Mode.thank you.

[@luiscarvajal5982]

FROM,BAGONG ILOG PASIG M,FLORES STREET🎉

[@luiscarvajal5982]

Yung mga tao sobrang lapit sa kanila pero wala pang nagtatang kang lumapit sa kanila paano hinde pa sila sikat nuon pero ngayon iba na pahirapan kang makalapit sa kanila,

[@DANTESUKER10]

Tsss... No disco ❤️❤️❤️❤️♥️♥️♥️

[@Ikasaswarrior]

Photographic super 😎

[@nicprice6271]

Loving this

[@gagarinforeva9523]

Опупеть!😯😯😯 Real Time Mashine!🤗

[@АлександрИванович-ш4м]

Мне в тот момент было 4 года 😂

[@Вадим0003]

Television Set Modern Life Это песни Composition of Sound Как-то посчесливилось торрент скачать там правда Vince Clark пел)