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World Violation Tour
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. The tour started in May 1990 and ran through the end of that year, and was the first Depeche Mode tour to see the band regularly play stadium-sized venues.
Buoyed by their most successful album (Violator), and on the heels of their Music for the Masses (1987) and 101 (1989) albums, by the end of the tour, Depeche Mode had toured to over one million fans.
Depeche Mode's previous tour, the Music for the Masses Tour, had run from late 1987 to the middle of 1988, and was supported by the live video and record release of 101 in early 1989. These two albums had brought Depeche Mode a level of popularity internationally that was, until that point, unknown to them. Violator was released in March 1990 and had already seen two successful singles to support it by the time the tour started – "Personal Jesus" and "Enjoy the Silence". The day before Violator was released, the band attended a record-signing event in Los Angeles at a record store, but the event drew so many fans that the band had to be escorted out, and LA riot police had to be called in to control the large crowds who had come to see the band.
The tour ran from May to November 1990 over 88 shows. Due to the popularity the band had cultivated over the past few years, and the success of Violator and its singles, the band played mostly stadiums for the first time. The band rehearsed for the tour in Pensacola, Florida, the same city where the tour kicked off. It was the first time the band has performed live in the state, and the band received some flak from locals who didn't understand their appearance; Alan Wilder was quoted to Rolling Stone saying "I've been called a faggot about twenty times today, mostly from guys leaning out of trucks. This is sort of a backward place, isn't it?"
The tour kicked off with a North American leg in late May, finishing up in early August in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium. The North American dates were met with high demand with sellouts in Dallas, Chicago, Orlando, Tampa and Miami; 42,000 tickets for the concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey had reportedly been sold within four hours of going on sale, while the Dodger Stadium shows had sold out on the first day of sale. Later in the month, the group played a sole date in Australia, in Sydney, prior to a six-date tour of Japan in September. Following the Japanese dates, the band commenced a European tour, beginning in Brussels in late September. The leg included three dates at the Palais Omnisports Bercy in Paris, where the group performed to approximately 50,000 people. The leg lasted two months and concluded with the final show of the tour in Birmingham, England, in late November.
The stage and projections for the tour was designed by frequent collaborator Anton Corbijn. The tour required approximately 100 stage crew and 11 trucks to transport the set and equipment.
Industrial band Nitzer Ebb opened for the band in North America and Europe.
The band felt they had successfully crossed over from a synth band to a rock band who happened to use synthesisers. Said Wilder of the scale of the tour, "We've been building to this over the last ten years." By the completion of the tour, Pulse! magazine estimated that over 1.2 million fans had attended the tour.
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World Violation Tour
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. The tour started in May 1990 and ran through the end of that year, and was the first Depeche Mode tour to see the band regularly play stadium-sized venues.
Buoyed by their most successful album (Violator), and on the heels of their Music for the Masses (1987) and 101 (1989) albums, by the end of the tour, Depeche Mode had toured to over one million fans.
Depeche Mode's previous tour, the Music for the Masses Tour, had run from late 1987 to the middle of 1988, and was supported by the live video and record release of 101 in early 1989. These two albums had brought Depeche Mode a level of popularity internationally that was, until that point, unknown to them. Violator was released in March 1990 and had already seen two successful singles to support it by the time the tour started – "Personal Jesus" and "Enjoy the Silence". The day before Violator was released, the band attended a record-signing event in Los Angeles at a record store, but the event drew so many fans that the band had to be escorted out, and LA riot police had to be called in to control the large crowds who had come to see the band.
The tour ran from May to November 1990 over 88 shows. Due to the popularity the band had cultivated over the past few years, and the success of Violator and its singles, the band played mostly stadiums for the first time. The band rehearsed for the tour in Pensacola, Florida, the same city where the tour kicked off. It was the first time the band has performed live in the state, and the band received some flak from locals who didn't understand their appearance; Alan Wilder was quoted to Rolling Stone saying "I've been called a faggot about twenty times today, mostly from guys leaning out of trucks. This is sort of a backward place, isn't it?"
The tour kicked off with a North American leg in late May, finishing up in early August in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium. The North American dates were met with high demand with sellouts in Dallas, Chicago, Orlando, Tampa and Miami; 42,000 tickets for the concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey had reportedly been sold within four hours of going on sale, while the Dodger Stadium shows had sold out on the first day of sale. Later in the month, the group played a sole date in Australia, in Sydney, prior to a six-date tour of Japan in September. Following the Japanese dates, the band commenced a European tour, beginning in Brussels in late September. The leg included three dates at the Palais Omnisports Bercy in Paris, where the group performed to approximately 50,000 people. The leg lasted two months and concluded with the final show of the tour in Birmingham, England, in late November.
The stage and projections for the tour was designed by frequent collaborator Anton Corbijn. The tour required approximately 100 stage crew and 11 trucks to transport the set and equipment.
Industrial band Nitzer Ebb opened for the band in North America and Europe.
The band felt they had successfully crossed over from a synth band to a rock band who happened to use synthesisers. Said Wilder of the scale of the tour, "We've been building to this over the last ten years." By the completion of the tour, Pulse! magazine estimated that over 1.2 million fans had attended the tour.