Depeche Mode - World Violation Live in Los Angeles 04 August 1990

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, which was released in March 1990. It was estimated that by the end of the tour, Depeche Mode had toured to 1.2 million fans.

Set list:

Kaleid
World In My Eyes
Halo 
Shake The Disease
Everything Counts
Master And Servant
Never Let Me Down Again
Waiting For The Night
I Want You Now
World Full Of Nothing
Clean
Stripped
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Black Celebration
A Question Of Time
Behind The Wheel
Route 66

The projections were made by Anton Corbijn, whose work was projected on large video screens. The tour required approximately 100 stage crew and 11 articulated lorries to transport the stage set.

The performance of the group's cover of "Route 66", which was originally recorded with lead vocals by Martin Gore, was sung live by lead singer Dave Gahan on this tour

Industrial band Nitzer Ebb opened for the band in North America. Rolling Stone magazine 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".

Even though the tour is one of the most popular among fans, Depeche Mode never released any official content from the World Violation Tour for commercial purposes.

For a fan question, then-member Alan Wilder stated that the reason behind that was the fact that there was too little time lapsed from Music for the Masses Tour to release a new live EP from the tour, as the previous one was filmed and was released on the famous 101.

The lack of commercial release doesn't mean that there is no professional recording from the tour. 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 second one was even released on a small series promotional CD in Latvia, with as many as 250 printed copies.

The band thought for more than a decade that there were only short scenes filmed from the tour by TV channels. But the previously mentioned LA tour has a whole length video recording as well, which still waits to be fully released, as the band only issued 90 seconds long parts of each song on their website in 2012. They recalled the discovery that way.

In 1990 Depeche Mode were:
Alan Wilder
David Gahan
Martin Gore
Andrew Fletcher

04-08-1990

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