Black Celebration Tour

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Black Celebration Tour
Tour by Depeche Mode
Associated album Black Celebration
Start date29 March 1986 (1986-03-29)
End date16 August 1986 (1986-08-16)
Legs4
No. of shows
  • 45 in Europe
  • 28 in North America
  • 3 in Asia
  • 76 in total
Depeche Mode concert chronology
  • Some Great Reward Tour
    (1984–1985)
  • Black Celebration Tour
    (1986)
  • Music for the Masses Tour
    (1987–1988)

The Black Celebration Tour was a 1986 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act's fifth studio album, Black Celebration , which was released in March 1986. [1]

Contents

The tour began with a European leg, starting in Oxford, England in late March and finishing in Rüsselsheim, West Germany in late May. A North American jaunt followed in early June, commencing in Boston and culminating mid-July in Irvine, California. Shortly after the North American leg, the group headed to Japan to play three dates.

In early August, the group began a second run of European shows, starting in Fréjus, France. The group performed four additional dates in France, as well as two shows in Italy, before wrapping up the tour in Copenhagen.

Book of Love joined the tour as the opening act on 29 April in Hanover, West Germany, and continuing for the rest of the first European leg and throughout all tour dates of the North American leg (ending on 15 July). [2]

Set list

  1. "Christmas Island" (intro)
  2. "Black Celebration"
  3. "A Question of Time"
  4. "Fly on the Windscreen"
  5. "Shake the Disease"
  6. "Leave in Silence"
  7. "It's Called a Heart"
  8. "Everything Counts"
  9. "A Question of Lust" (*)
  10. "Here Is the House" (only known performances: 29 and 31 March 1986)
  11. "Blasphemous Rumours"
  12. "New Dress"
  13. "Stripped"
  14. "Something to Do"
  15. "Master and Servant"
  16. "Photographic"
  17. "People Are People"
    Encore 1
  18. "Boys Say Go!"
  19. "Just Can't Get Enough"
    Encore 2
  20. "More Than a Party"

Notes:

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue/Event
Europe
29 March 1986 Oxford England Apollo Theatre
31 March 1986 Brighton Brighton Centre
2 April 1986 Dublin Ireland RDS Simmonscourt
4 April 1986 Belfast Northern Ireland Maysfield Centre
6 April 1986 Glasgow Scotland Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
7 April 1986 Whitley Bay England Whitley Bay Ice Rink
9 April 1986 Birmingham National Exhibition Centre
10 April 1986
12 April 1986 Manchester Manchester Apollo
13 April 1986 Bristol Hippodrome
14 April 1986 Bournemouth Windsor Hall
16 April 1986London Wembley Arena
17 April 1986
24 April 1986 Oslo Norway Skedsmohallen
25 April 1986 Gothenburg Sweden Scandinavium
26 April 1986 Stockholm Johanneshovs Isstadion
28 April 1986 Copenhagen Denmark Valby-Hallen
29 April 1986 Hanover West Germany Eilenriedehalle
30 April 1986 Aachen Eurogress
2 May 1986 Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
3 May 1986 Munich Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle
4 May 1986 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion
6 May 1986Paris France Palais Omnisports Bercy
7 May 1986
8 May 1986 Lyon Palais des Sports de Gerland
10 May 1986 Brussels Belgium Forest National
11 May 1986 Düsseldorf West Germany Philips Halle
13 May 1986 Ludwigshafen Friedrich-Ebert-Halle
14 May 1986 Saarbrücken Saarlandhalle
16 May 1986 Hamburg Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
17 May 1986
18 May 1986 West Berlin Waldbühne
20 May 1986 Münster Münsterlandhalle
21 May 1986 Bremen Stadthalle
22 May 1986 Dortmund Westfalenhallen
24 May 1986 Rotterdam Netherlands Rotterdam Ahoy
25 May 1986 Rüsselsheim West GermanyWalter-Köbel-Halle
North America
1 June 1986 Boston United States Wang Theatre
3 June 1986 Upper Darby Township Tower Theater
4 June 1986
6 June 1986 New York City Radio City Music Hall
7 June 1986
8 June 1986
10 June 1986 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
12 June 1986 Hopewell Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center
13 June 1986 Wantagh Jones Beach Amphitheatre
14 June 1986 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion
17 June 1986 Montreal Canada Verdun Auditorium
18 June 1986 Vaughan Kingswood Music Theatre
20 June 1986
21 June 1986 Clarkston United States Pine Knob Music Theatre
22 June 1986 Hoffman Estates Poplar Creek Music Theater
24 June 1986 Saint Paul St. Paul Civic Center
26 June 1986 Fort Worth Will Rogers Memorial Center
28 June 1986 Austin City Coliseum
29 June 1986 Houston Southern Star Amphitheatre
1 July 1986 Morrison Red Rocks Amphitheatre
3 July 1986 Park City Park West Amphitheatre
5 July 1986 Berkeley Hearst Greek Theatre
6 July 1986 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre
8 July 1986 Vancouver CanadaLabatt's Expo Theatre
11 July 1986 San Diego United States San Diego Sports Arena
13 July 1986 Inglewood The Forum
14 July 1986 Irvine Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
15 July 1986
Asia
21 July 1986 Osaka Japan Festival Hall
22 July 1986 Nagoya Aichi Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan
23 July 1986 Tokyo NHK Hall
Europe
4 August 1986 Fréjus FranceLes Arènes
5 August 1986 Pietra Ligure Italy Stadio Comunale
6 August 1986 Rimini
8 August 1986 Nîmes France Arenes de Nîmes
9 August 1986 Annecy Stade le Vieux
11 August 1986 Royan Esplanade du Stade
12 August 1986 Bayonne Les Arènes
16 August 1986CopenhagenDenmark Valby Idrætspark

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