Some Great Reward Tour

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Some Great Reward Tour

Some Great Reward Tour

Concert by Depeche Mode
Associated album	Some Great Reward
Start date	27 September 1984
End date	30 July 1985
Legs	4
No. of shows	64 in Europe 15 in North America 4 in Asia 83 Total
Depeche Mode concert chronology
Construction Time Again Tour (1983–1984) Some Great Reward Tour (1984–1985) Black Celebration Tour (1986)

Some Great Reward Tour was a 1984/1985 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act's fourth studio album, Some Great Reward, which was released in September 1984. On this tour Depeche Mode visited Switzerland, Hungary, Greece and Poland for the first time.​​

The tour was the band's longest to date. A concert held at Alsterdorfer Sporthalle in Hamburg, West Germany, was recorded and issued as a video release titled The World We Live In and Live in Hamburg in 1985. The European release featured 16 songs, while the North American version featured 11 songs. The video has not yet seen a DVD release.​​

The American synth pop band, Book of Love was the opening band for all 15 tour dates of the North American leg of the tour.

Setlist

Setlist for headline dates..

1. "Master and Servant" (instrumental intro)
2. "Something to Do"
3. "Two Minute Warning"
4. "Puppets"
5. "If You Want"
6. "People Are People"
7. "Leave in Silence"
8. "New Life"
9. "Shame"
10. Song performed by Martin Gore
    • "Somebody"
    • "It Doesn't Matter" (performed in Tokyo (12 April 1985))
11. Photograpic
    • "Ice Machine" (performed on Europe, Leg #1; North America; Asia)
    • "Shake the Disease" (performed on Europe, Leg #2)
12. "Lie to Me"
13. "Blasphemous Rumours"
14. "Told You So"
15. "Master and Servant"
16. "Photographic"
17. "Everything Counts"

    encore 1

18. "See You"

    encore 2

19. "Shout!"
20. "Just Can't Get Enough"

Setlist for festival appearances (Torhout, Werchter, Brest, and Athens).

1. "Master and Servant" (instrumental intro)
2. "Something to Do"
3. "If You Want"
4. "People Are People"
5. "Leave in Silence"
6. "Shake the Disease"
7. "Blasphemous Rumours"
8. "Told You So"
9. "Master and Servant"
10. "Everything Counts"
11. "Photographic"
12. "Just Can't Get Enough"

Note #1: "Ice Machine" was performed from the start of the tour until the Tokyo concert on April 12, 1985. It was replaced by "Shake the Disease" until the end of the tour.

Note #2: On December 11, 1984 in Böblingen "Shout" and "Just Can't Get Enough" were played. A firing of a tear gas bomb during the performance of "See You", caused the concert to be interrupted.​

Note #3: There was a special repertoire for the Celbrate festivals in Torhout, Werchter, Guéhenno and Athens. The list was "Something to Do", "If You Want", "People Are People", "Leave in Silence", "Shake the Disease", "Blasphemous Rumours", "Told You So", "Master and Servant", "Everything Counts", "Photographic" and "Just Can't Get Enough".

Songs Played From Albums / Previous Tours

• Songs from Some Great Reward (8)
• Songs from Construction Time Again (4)
• Songs from A Broken Frame (2)
• Songs from Speak & Spell (4)
• Tracks not from a studio album: (3)
• Songs played on the previous Construction Time Again Tour: 9
• Total songs performed: 21
• Debut song not from the tour's support album: "Shake the Disease"
• All singles performed from an album, not belonging to the support of the tour: None.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue/Event
Europe
27 September 1984	St Austell	United Kingdom	Cornwall Coliseum
28 September 1984	Hanley		Victoria Hall
29 September 1984	Liverpool		Liverpool Empire Theatre
1 October 1984	Oxford		Apollo Theatre Oxford
2 October 1984	Nottingham		Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
4 October 1984	Dublin	Ireland	SFX Hall
5 October 1984
6 October 1984	Belfast	United Kingdom	Ulster Hall
8 October 1984	Manchester		Manchester Apollo
9 October 1984	Gloucester		Gloucester Leisure Centre
10 October 1984	Cardiff		St David's Hall
12 October 1984	Birmingham		Birmingham Odeon
13 October 1984
14 October 1984	Blackburn		King Georges Hall
16 October 1984	Glasgow		Barrowland Ballroom
17 October 1984	Aberdeen		Capitol Theatre
18 October 1984	Edinburgh		Edinburgh Playhouse
19 October 1984	Sheffield		Sheffield City Hall
20 October 1984	Newcastle		Newcastle City Hall
22 October 1984	Bristol		Colston Hall
23 October 1984	Brighton		Brighton Dome
24 October 1984	Portsmouth		Portsmouth Guildhall
27 October 1984	Ipswich		Gaumont Theatre
29 October 1984	Leicester		De Montfort Hall
30 October 1984	Southampton		Gaumont Empire
1 November 1984	London		Hammersmith Odeon
2 November 1984
3 November 1984
4 November 1984
15 November 1984	Copenhagen	Denmark	Falkoner Teatret
16 November 1984	Stockholm	Sweden	Eriksdalshallen
17 November 1984	Lund		Olympen
18 November 1984	Oslo	Norway	Skedsmohallen
20 November 1984	Essen	West Germany	Grugahalle
21 November 1984	Ludwigshafen		Friedrich-Ebert-Halle
22 November 1984	Siegen		Siegerlandhalle
23 November 1984	Freiburg im Breisgau		Stadthalle Freiburg
26 November 1984	Florence	Italy	Teatro Tenda
27 November 1984	Bologna
28 November 1984	Milan
30 November 1984	Münchenstein	Switzerland	St. Jakobshalle
1 December 1984	Munich	West Germany	Deutsches Museum
3 December 1984	Berlin		Deutschlandhalle
4 December 1984	Hanover		Eilenriedehalle
5 December 1984	Münster		Münsterlandhalle
7 December 1984	Oldenburg		Weser-Ems Halle
8 December 1984	Kiel		Ostseehalle
9 December 1984	Hamburg		Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
11 December 1984	Böblingen		Sporthalle Böblingen
12 December 1984	Offenbach		Stadthalle Offenbach
13 December 1984	Düsseldorf		Philips Halle
14 December 1984	Hamburg		Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
15 December 1984	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Koninklijk Theater Carré
16 December 1984	Rotterdam		De Doelen
17 December 1984	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
18 December 1984	Deinze	Belgium	Zaal Brielpoort
North America
14 March 1985	Washington, D.C.	United States	Warner Theatre
15 March 1985	New York City		Beacon Theatre
16 March 1985	Boston		Orpheum Theatre
18 March 1985	Montreal	Canada	Le Spectrum de Montréal
19 March 1985	Toronto		Massey Hall
20 March 1985	Royal Oak	United States	Royal Oak Music Theatre
22 March 1985	Chicago		Aragon Ballroom
23 March 1985	Rock Island		Centennial Hall
24 March 1985	Carbondale		Shryock Auditorium
26 March 1985	Houston		Cullen Performance Hall
27 March 1985	Dallas		Bronco Bowl
30 March 1985	Los Angeles		Hollywood Palladium
31 March 1985	Irvine		Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
1 April 1985	San Diego		San Diego Sports Arena
3 April 1985	Oakland		Kaiser Convention Center
Asia
7 April 1985	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan
8 April 1985			Nakano Sun Plaza Hall
9 April 1985	Osaka		Osaka Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan
12 April 1985	Tokyo		Nakano Sun Plaza Hall
Europe
6 July 1985	Torhout	Belgium	Torhout-Werchter Festival Grounds
7 July 1985	Werchter
9 July 1985	Nice	France	Théâtre de verdure de Nice
11 July 1985	Lyon		Halle Tony Garnier
13 July 1985	Guéhenno		Paysage du Mont Guéhenno
23 July 1985	Budapest	Hungary	Volán Stadion
26 July 1985	Athens	Greece	Panathenaic Stadium
30 July 1985	Warsaw	Poland	Torwar Hall

Cancelled concerts

Two concerts were included in the tour, although in the end they were not held, however on the official site it acts as though it took place.​​

Date	Country	City
November 18, 1984	Norway	Oslo
December 15, 1984	Netherlands	Amsterdam

Festivals and other miscellaneous performances

^A Torhout-Werchter Festival

^B Brest Gueherma Rockscene Festival

^C Rock in Athens Festival

Personnel

• Dave Gahan – lead vocals
• Martin Gore – Yamaha DX7,E-mu Systems Emulator, melodica, Star Instruments Synare III, metal pipes, lead and backing vocals
• Alan Wilder – Roland Jupiter 8, E-mu Systems Emulator II, Star Instruments Synare III, corrugated iron, backing vocals
• Andrew Fletcher – Oberheim OB-8, Star Instruments Synare III, bikewheel, backing vocals

References

1. ↑ http://archives.depechemode.com/past_tours/somegreatrewardtour/dates.html
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20111110114236/http://www.depechemode.com/past_tours/some_great_reward_tour/index.html
3. ^ The Böblingen concert was interrupted by the firing of a tear gas bomb [1]
4. ^ Oslo Concert was not held. [2]
5. ^ Amsterdam Concert was not held. [3]

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