Black Celebration Tour

Black Celebration Tour

Tour by Depeche Mode
Associated album	Black Celebration
Start date	29 March 1986 (1986-03-29)
End date	16 August 1986 (1986-08-16)
Legs	4
No. of shows	45 in Europe 28 in North America 3 in Asia 76 in total
Depeche Mode concert chronology

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.

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).

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. • "It Doesn't Matter Two" (*)
   • "Somebody" (*) (only known performance: 16 August 1986 Copenhagen)
10. "A Question of Lust" (*)
11. "Here Is the House" (only known performances: 29 and 31 March 1986)
12. "Blasphemous Rumours"
13. "New Dress"
14. "Stripped"
15. "Something to Do"
16. "Master and Servant"
17. "Photographic"
18. "People Are People"

    Encore 1

19. "Boys Say Go!"
20. "Just Can't Get Enough"

    Encore 2

21. "More Than a Party"

Notes:

• Set lists differed between dates, with rotated songs (denoted above) and song omissions.
• "(*)" denotes song sung by Martin Gore.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue/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 1986	London		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 1986	Paris	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 Germany	Walter-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	Canada	Labatt'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	France	Les 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 1986	Copenhagen	Denmark	Valby Idrætspark

Musicians

• Dave Gahan – lead vocals
• Martin Gore – synthesisers, keyboards, melodica, metal pipes, lead and backing vocals
• Alan Wilder – synthesisers, keyboards, metal pipes, backing vocals
• Andrew Fletcher – synthesisers, keyboards, samplers, percussion pads, backing vocals

Support acts

• Hula
• The Fountainhead
• Book of Love
• The Blah Brothers
• Eyeless in Gaza
• New Order
• Public Panic
• Talk Talk