End date 16 August 1986 | Start date 29 March 1986 Legs 4 | |
No. of shows 7645 in Europe28 in North America3 in Asia | ||
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.
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).
Setlist
- "Christmas Island/Stripped" (Intro tape)
- "Black Celebration"
- "A Question of Time"
- "Fly on the Windscreen"
- "Shake the Disease"
- "Leave in Silence"
- "It's Called a Heart"
- "Everything Counts"
- Song performed by Martin Gore
- "It Doesn't Matter Two"
- "Somebody" (only known performance: 16 August 1986 Copenhagen)
- Song performed by Martin Gore
- "A Question of Lust"
- "Here Is the House"
- "Blasphemous Rumours"
- "New Dress"
- "Stripped"
- "Something to Do"
- "Master and Servant"
- "Photographic"
- "People Are People"
- "Boys Say Go!"
- "Just Can't Get Enough"
- "More Than a Party"