From Billboard.com: Updating a story first posted yesterday (Oct. 6). Depeche Mode has renewed its long-term deal with Mute/EMI and is planning to release its 12th studio album April 20, 2009. Past Depeche Mode albums were licensed by Mute to Warner Bros. in the United States but will be under EMI’s control moving forward.
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- Date – Venue – City – Country
- 10 May 2009 – Ramat Gan Stadium – Tel Aviv – Israel
- 12 May 2009 – Terra Vibe Park – Athens – Greece
- 14 May 2009 – Venue T.B.A – Istanbul – Turkey
- 16 May 2009 – Parc Izvor – Bucharest – Romania
- 18 May 2009 – Vasil Levski Stadium – Tuborg Greenfest – Sofia – Bulgaria
- 20 May 2009 – USCE Park – Tuborg Greenfest – Belgrade – Serbia
- 21 May 2009 – Arena – Tuborg Greenfest – Zagreb – Croatia
- 23 May 2009 – Gwardia Stadium – Warsaw – Poland
- 25 May 2009 – Skonto Stadium – Riga – Latvia
- 27 May 2009 – Zalgirio Stadionas – Vilnius – Lithuania
- 30 May 2009 – O2 Arena – London – UK
- 02 June 2009 – HSH Nordbank Arena – Hamburg – Germany
- 04 June 2009 – LTU Arena – Dusseldorf – Germany
- 07 June 2009 – Zentralstadion – Leipzig – Germany
- 10 June 2009 – Olympiastadion – Berlin – Germany
- 12 June 2009 – Commerzbank Arena – Frankfurt – Germany
- 13 June 2009 – Olympiastadion – Munich – Germany
- 16 June 2009 – Stadio Olimpico – Rome – Italy
- 18 June 2009 – Stadio San Siro – Milan – Italy
- 20 June 2009 – TW Classic Festival – Werchter – Belgium
- 22 June 2009 – Inter Stadium – Bratislava – Slovakia
- 23 June 2009 – Puskas Ferenc Stadium – Budapest – Hungary
- 25 June 2009 – Slavia Stadium – Czech Republic – Prague
- 27 June 2009 – Stade de France – Paris – France
- 30 June 2009 – Parken Stadium – Copenhagen – Denmark
- 02 July 2009 – Koengen – Bergen – Norway
- 03 July 2009 – Arvika Festival – Arvika – Sweden
- 11 July 2009 – Super Bock Super Rock Festival – Porto – Portugal
Spanish dates to be announced shortly.
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OCTOBER 6th, BERLIN: Depeche Mode (Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher) have today announced the European leg of their Tour of the Universe 2009. The band are currently in New York working on a new album, due April next year.
Depeche Mode’s eagerly-anticipated follow up to Playing The Angel will be the 12th album of a glorious 28 year career in which they have sold over 75 million records. One of the world’s biggest and best live acts, ‘Tour of the Universe 2009’ will undoubtedly be the musical highlight of next year.
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One of the bands that not only dominated the charts for most of the 80s, but they also typified the type of music that will be looked back on as ‘the sound of the 80s’. Their sometimes Germanic electronic pop became softer on this album. They were becoming more of a band, and they were ‘rockin’, just a little. Keyboards still dominated but the melody seemed less regimented. Vocalist Dave Gahan excelled, as his voice grew in power. In a year or two they would become stadium rock stars, and change forever. The reissued CD had a number of excellent bonus tracks including some interesting remixed material.
Recorded at Studio Guilliame Tell, Paris, France and Konk, London, England.
Depeche Mode: David Gahan (vocals); Martin Gore (vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer); Alan Wilder (keyboards, synthesizer, programming); Andrew Fletcher (keyboards, synthesizer).
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Posted by admin on Oct 11, 2008 in
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“I Feel Loved” was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Awards for Best Dance Recording and for Best Remixed Recording.
With all its understated vocals, hushed instrumentals, and lyrical declarations of/investigations into love, EXCITER is undoubtedly the warmest and most “adult” Depeche Mode album to date. “When the Body Speaks” is an effectively poignant ballad complete with graceful string section. “Lovetheme” is a gentle ambient instrumental that wouldn’t sound out of place next to any German electronicat you care to mention. Later another, slightly more melodic, instrumental (“Easy Tiger”) pops up. “Goodnight Lovers” is a bittersweet tune full of open-hearted sentiment and heart-tugging melodicism.
While “Breathe” is underlaid with low-key breakbeats, the group largely sticks with the sonic language they helped create in the ’80s and early-’90s, leaving the trappings of latter-day electronica to the youngsters. With it’s club-worthy beat, “I Feel Loved” is certainly the most danceable track on EXCITER, but its complex lyrical scheme and gnarly synth textures make it unlikely house party fodder. The harsh, bluesy tone of “The Dead of Night” harks back to “Your Own Personal Jesus,” and finds David Gahan reveling in the kind of studied decadence that helped make the group’s reputation, but the song is an anomaly. EXCITER offers a kinder, gentler, seemingly wiser Depeche Mode that’s figured out how to grow up without growing old.
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Having proven his abilities as a pop craftsman on the previous year’s A BROKEN FRAME, DM main songwriter Martin Gore gets down to the business of developing a new sonic language for himself and his bandmates on CONSTRUCTION TIME. Earlier in its career, Depeche Mode tried to make its synthesizer-only arrangements seem warm and fuzzy, but here the band embraces the Kraftwerk-pioneered tradition of exploiting the synthesizer’s inherent inorganic qualities for their intrinsic beauty.
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BLACK CELEBRATION, Depeche Mode’s fifth album not counting compilations, reflects a band coming into its own, exploring new sounds yet staying true to the electronic New Wave that catapulted the foursome to icon status. The production and arrangements move further into the atmospheric, somewhat industrial realm first tentatively explored on the preceding SOME GREAT REWARD, with more impressive results. “Fly On the Windscreen,” a song previewed in a much different arrangement on the singles compilation CATCHING UP WITH DEPECHE MODE, sounds more convincing in this form, and it’s one of the band’s best-ever efforts.
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Music The first album on which Martin Gore stepped forward to fill the departed Vince Clarke’s songwriting shoes, taking his predecessor’s catchy electro-pop approach a step further.
When pop mastermind/main songwriter Vince Clarke departed DM after the group’s first album to form Yaz with Alison Moyet, it seemed like the end for the boys from Basildon, but it was really a new beginning. Martin Gore stepped forward to fill Clarke’s songwriting shoes, surprising the world by taking his predecessor’s catchy electro-pop approach a step further.
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Paper monsters More than two decades after Depeche Mode’s debut, mouthpiece Dave Gahan finally got around to releasing his solo debut in the shape of 2003’s PAPER MONSTERS. Having wrestled with more than his share of personal demons during his ascent to stardom, it’s no surprise that this Gahan fills the album with echoes of his inner struggle. Working with New York City-based multi-instrumentalist Knox Chandler, the dour vocalist injects enough swirling synths, droning guitars, and oddly arranged strings to approximate a murder-ballad ambiance that brings to mind Nick Cave. This is particularly true on songs like the harrowing “Black and Blue Again” and the subtler, more ambient “Stay.”
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