depeche mode tour revenue 2023

By ABC News | November 30, 2023

Coldplay, depeche mode among highest-grossing tours of 2023.

Coldpay and Depeche Mode were among the highest-grossing tours of 2023.

Chris Martin and company earned a total of $342.5 million over 55 shows, which put them at #2 on the year-end Billboard Top Tours chart. The “Enjoy the Silence” band sits at #9 with $175.2 million over 47 shows.

Other artists who made the top 40 include Metallica at #14, Guns N’ Roses at #18, blink-182 at #19, Muse at #20, Red Hot Chili Peppers at #23, Dave Matthews Band at #30 and Imagine Dragons at #33.

At #1 is Beyoncé , who earned $570.5 million over 55 shows. Notably, Taylor Swift is not on the list, as figures for her Eras Tour have not yet been reported to Billboard .

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The latest act for Depeche Mode

By Luke Burbank

August 13, 2023 / 9:39 AM EDT / CBS News

For a band who put out their first big hit, "Just Can't Get Enough," more than 40 years ago, Depeche Mode is surprisingly relevant in 2023, from late-night TV appearances, to selling out stadiums across the U.S. and in Europe. And it isn't just some nostalgia tour where a band plays their greatest hits at a casino near you; no, Depeche Mode's latest album, "Memento Mori," is getting serious radio play. 

Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode's lead singer, said, "Our music, if you allow it, will take you somewhere." 

And yet, Gahan and Martin Gore, the band's lead songwriter, who began the year with a new album, "Memento Mori," and a packed tour schedule, found themselves somewhere they've never been – mourning the loss of their bandmate, Andy Fletcher. 

"I didn't realize maybe before we went into this promo trip how heavy that would be, to be asked about that over and over and over again," said Gore.

Fletch, as they called him, was a founding member of the band, and died suddenly last year just as the album was finished, giving its title (which means "Remember one's mortality") an eerie new meaning.

Gahan said, "Some might say that a lot of these songs were sort of foreboding or something, but, you know, I don't think Martin was probably aware of that."

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Gore said, "When I first started writing songs for this album, I wouldn't have had the idea of calling the album 'Memento Mori' and maybe have some of the songs dealing with death. It just kind of happened like that. Sometimes you do wonder if you tap into something."

"People Are People" (1984) by Depeche Mode:

Growing up in Basildon, a small town in Essex, England, Martin Gore was one of the first kids around to get a synthesizer, which is why Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher wanted to start a band with him. "They immediately saw the potential of the synthesizer that I was using," Gore said. The guitars and bass were ditched. "We became an all-electronic band."

Gahan then joined as singer, and the group started making waves in London's underground club scene. "It was easy to go to gigs on the train," Gore said, noting they'd pack their synthesizers into suitcases.

Soon enough, this English band with a French name and their synthesizers were becoming a hit in Europe. But success in the U.S. would take a bit longer, due to a lack of radio play, and some suspicious music critics. Every interview, they said, would be a battle, as Gahan recalled: "'Why don't you use traditional instruments?' Of course, it's not a great way to start an interview."

The band finally broke through to American audiences in 1988 playing to a capacity crowd at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, as memorably documented by D.A. Pennebaker in his film, "Depeche Mode 101."

Their subsequent album, "Violator," went triple platinum. And as for guitars, well, they began appearing in the sound of Depeche Mode as well.

Burbank asked, "As someone who is not a rock star, why do you need so many different guitars? Is it different tunings?"

Gore replied, "At some point it becomes an addiction."

He described the band's appeal: "I think we somehow managed to build this cult following. And we still feel to this day that, you know, we're kind of like a cult band, even though we sell a lot of records everywhere."

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Gahan added, "I think we probably are, and have been for many years, we're kind of the biggest alternative band in the world, put it that way."

But success for Depeche Mode was a double-edged sword. Gahan developed a heroin addiction so severe that it's said Los Angeles paramedics nicknamed him "The Cat," because he'd overdosed so many times.

"It was the time when I wasn't working that got really dark, because there's no one there to balance it out," Gahan said. "There's no band, there's no music, there's no, you know, it was just the addiction and that's what it is. You can call it whatever you like. But once you go down that road, the hardest thing is to drag yourself back out of it – it was for me anyway. I didn't think it would be as hard as what it was."

Burbank asked, "Was it hard for you, Martin, and the other members of the band to kind of watch what Dave was going through, as his friends?"

"It was difficult at the time," Gore replied. "But then, you know, after that, after Dave got clean, you know, for years I went on drinking. And I think that that must have been really hard for Dave because, you know, I wasn't an occasional drinker, you know? And that was in Dave's face all the time."

"It's kind of Martin to say that," Gahan said.

Today both Gore and Gahan are sober, and credit music with saving their lives. "I know Martin feels the same; it was the one thing that always sort of could lift me, change my spirit, change the way I felt, lead me into a different direction, or also into fantasy, into another world," Gahan said. "And yeah, it saved me many, many times."

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Depeche Mode Expand 2023 North American Tour

By Jazz Monroe

Depeche Mode have added a new haul of shows to the North American tour that begins next month. The extra dates kick off in Mexico in late summer and run through to mid-December, with stops in most major cities on the coasts and a few in between. See their full tour schedule below.

The tour, which includes a spot at Primavera 2023 , promotes new album Memento Mori , out March 24 via Columbia . It is the band’s first album in five years, and the first since the death last year of founding member Andy “Fletch” Fletcher. “Fletch would have loved this album,” Dave Gahan said in press materials. “We’re really looking forward to sharing it with you soon, and we can’t wait to present it to you live at the shows next year.” Memento Mori follows Depeche Mode’s 2017 LP, Spirit . A single from the record, “ Ghosts Again ,” is out now.

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03-23 Sacramento, CA - Golden 1 Center 03-25 San Jose, CA - SAP Center 03-28 Inglewood, CA - Kia Forum 03-30 Las Vegas, NV - T-Mobile Arena 04-02 San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center 04-05 Chicago, IL - United Center 04-07 Toronto, Ontario - Scotiabank Arena 04-09 Quebec City, Quebec - Videotron Centre 04-12 Montreal, Quebec - Centre Bell 04-14 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden 05-16 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome 05-18 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome 05-20 Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpaleis Antwerpen 05-23 Stockholm, Sweden - Friends Arena 05-26 Leipzig, Germany - Leipziger Festwiese 05-28 Bratislava, Slovakia - Národný Futbalový Štadión 05-31 Lyon, France - Groupama Stadium 06-02 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival 06-04 Dusseldorf, Germany - Merkur Spiel-Arena 06-06 Dusseldorf, Germany - Merkur Spiel-Arena 06-09 Madrid, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival 06-11 Bern, Switzerland - Stadion Wankdorf 06-14 Dublin, Ireland - Malahide Castle 06-17 London, England - Twickenham Stadium 06-20 Munich, Germany - Olympiastadion 06-22 Lille, France - Stade Pierre Mauroy 06-24 Paris, France - Stade de France 06-27 Copenhagen, Denmark - Parken 06-29 Frankfurt, Germany - Deutsche Bank Park 07-01 Frankfurt, Germany - Deutsche Bank Park 07-04 Bordeaux, France - Matmut Atlantique 07-07 Berlin, Germany - Olympiastadion 07-09 Berlin, Germany - Olympiastadion 07-12 Rome, Italy - Stadio Olympico 07-14 Milan, Italy - San Siro 07-16 Bologna, Italy - Stadio Renato Dall’Ara 07-21 Klagenfurt, Austria - Wörthersee Stadion 07-23 Zagreb, Croatia - Arena Zagreb 07-26 Bucharest, Romania - Arena Națională 07-28 Budapest, Hungary - Puskás Aréna 07-30 Prague, Czechia - Letňany Airport 08-02 Warsaw, Poland - PGE Narodowy 08-04 Krakow, Poland - Tauron Arena 08-06 Tallinn, Estonia - Tallinna Lauluväljak 08-08 Helsinki, Finland - Kaisaniemen Puisto 08-11 Oslo, Norway - Telenor Arena 09-21 Mexico City, Mexico - Foro Sol 09-29 Austin, TX - Moody Center 10-01 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center 10-04 Houston, TX - Toyota Center 10-07 New Orleans, LA - Smoothie King Center 10-10 Orlando, FL - Amway Center 10-12 Miami, FL - Miami-Dade Arena 10-19 Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena 10-21 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center 10-23 Washington, D.C. - Capital One Arena 10-25 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center 10-28 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden 10-31 Boston, MA - TD Garden 11-03 Montreal, Quebec - Centre Bell 11-05 Toronto, Ontario - Scotiabank Arena 11-08 Detroit, MI - Little Caesars Arena 11-10 Cleveland, OH - Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 11-13 Chicago, IL - United Center 11-16 Denver, CO - Ball Arena 11-18 Salt Lake City, UT - Vivint Arena 11-21 Edmonton, Alberta - Rogers Place 11-24 Vancouver, British Columbia - Rogers Arena 11-26 Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena 11-28 Portland, OR - Moda Center 12-01 Las Vegas, NV - T-Mobile Arena 12-03 San Francisco, CA - Chase Center 12-06 San Diego, CA - Pechanga Arena 12-10 Inglewood, CA - Kia Forum 12-15 Los Angeles, CA - Crypto.com Arena

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Depeche Mode Closes Out 2023 With Moving Return Of ‘Memento Mori Tour’ To L.A. [Photos/Videos]

Depeche Mode is unquestionably one of England’s most iconic acts of the last half-century. But these synth-rock stars wouldn’t likely be where and what they are today—let alone have revolutionized modern music the way they did—without Los Angeles.

It was in the City of Angels, with its thriving LGBTQIA+ community, that Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher , and Vince Clarke broke out as bona fide global superstars. Their concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena back in June 1988, with 60,000 attendees, was a seminal moment in the band’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame career.

Given that unbreakable bond between band and city, it was only fitting that Depeche Mode closed out the North American legs of its Memento Mori Tour —and its 2023 calendar as a whole—in L.A. And not just with one show, but four: two at the Kia Forum and two more at Crypto.com Arena . This, after selling out the Forum back in March, near the start of their latest go-round.

Like that show, Depeche Mode’s latest trip to L.A. on Saturday at the Crypto.com Arena came, unfortunately, without Fletch. The founding member and long-time keyboardist passed away in May 2022, before the band recorded its latest album, Memento Mori . But not before Fletch had a chance to help write the songs that comprised Depeche Mode’s 2023 release. In that way, this tour and this particular performance were a tribute to Fletch.

The set began with a pair of singles off the new release, “My Cosmos is Mine” and “Wagging Tongue”, and went on to loop in more Memento Mori favorites, including “My Favourite Stranger” and “Ghosts Again” mid-set. That quartet of tracks came in second among featured Depeche Mode albums, just behind 1990’s seminal Violator with five. Among that latter group was “World Through My Eyes,” which was dedicated to Fletch and included images of him as a backdrop.

Not surprisingly, “Enjoy the Silence”, “Waiting for the Night”, and “Personal Jesus” all made the cut, either to close the main set or fill the encore. “Policy of Truth” clocked in during the first quarter of the 24-song show.

Depeche Mode brought to bear plenty of other staples of its repertoire, as well. From “Walking in My Shoes” and “Everything Counts” to “John the Revelator” and “Just Can’t Get Enough”, the band made sure to plumb every era for tunes to keep the packed house on its collective feet.

Along the way, Dave danced and twirled across the stage (and between costume changes), Christian Eigner kept the beat on drums and Peter Gordeno , who has toured with the band since 1998, held down the keyboard with aplomb. Martin did a little of everything, as is his wont. He filled in for some of Fletch’s parts on keys, sang his heart out on “But Not Tonight” and, of course, wailed the rest of the night away on guitar.

And together, they treated a fan named Martha to a rendition of “Happy Birthday”—their only cover of the evening. Not that Depeche Mode needs to pay real tribute to its forebears at this point. Their influence spreads far and wide, with Muse , The Killers , Nine Inch Nails , Shakira , No Doubt , Linkin Park , Coldplay , Chvrches , Rammstein , and La Roux among an exceedingly eclectic cast.

That sonic crusade doesn’t figure to end any time soon. Depeche Mode has dates lined up across Europe through the winter and spring of 2024, starting with a handful of U.K. concerts in January. Those first shows of the new year will serve as an official homecoming for one of Great Britain’s greatest bands.

But, in truth, this tour has already been a rousing success for arguably their most ardent base of support in L.A., with five spectacular shows in town to prove it.

Check out a gallery of images from Depeche Mode at the Crypto.com Arena on Sunday courtesy of photographer  Josh Martin .

Depeche Mode | Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA | 12/17/23 | Photos: Josh Martin

Depeche Mode Announce 29 Additional North American Dates on the Memento Mori World Tour

New Fall Shows Added in the US, Canada and Mexico

Depeche mode’s first tour in over five years kicks off march 23, 2023 in sacramento, ca.

Following the rapturous reception to their new single “Ghosts Again,”  Depeche Mode  have added a new Fall leg of North American tour dates to the Memento Mori Tour, which will support Memento Mori, their forthcoming studio album due out March 24. With the addition of these 29 new shows, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2020 inductees will now set out on a colossal 75-date tour — their 19th tour and their first in over five years.

The Live Nation-presented tour begins March 23 with a limited North American run featuring stops at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Chicago’s United Center, and Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. The band will then embark on their European stadium tour on May 16, with noted stops including the Stade de France in Paris, Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, Milan’s San Siro Stadium, and London’s Twickenham Stadium. 

Following the end of the European summer run, the newly added tour dates bring the band back to North America in the Fall, with the tour stopping in Mexico City at Foro Sol before returning to the US and Canada. Newly announced tour stops include Austin’s Moody Center, Vancouver’s Rogers Arena, additional New York City shows at Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center, Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena and more, and concluding with a multi-night run in Los Angeles at the Kia Forum and Crypto.com Arena.

Pre-sales will kick off with a Fan Pre-sale on Tuesday, February 21, with the general on sale beginning Friday, February 24 at 10am local time. For further information on the tour routing and ticket on-sale dates, please visit  depechemode.com . The full listing of dates, cities and venues is also below. On the Memento Mori Tour, the band will once again be partnering with luxury watchmaker Hublot to support charity endeavors tied to the tour.

Reception to the Memento Mori tour has been overwhelming with shows quickly selling out across Europe and North America, and over 1.5 million tickets already sold for the initial 46 shows. The tour is on track to be one of Depeche Mode’s largest to date and is also well on its way to being one of the largest worldwide tours of 2023. The tour will feature Depeche Mode favorites and rarities, alongside new songs from Memento Mori, including the new single ”Ghosts Again,” which has been heralded as “a melancholic and joyful ode” (Vulture), “hypnotic” (Rolling Stone), and “a gorgeous, haunting song” (Revolver). The beautifully stark and cinematic Anton Corbijn-directed video for “Ghosts Again” released on February 9th can be viewed at  https://depechemode.lnk.to/GhostsAgain . 

Having sold more than 100 million records and played to more than 35 million fans worldwide, Depeche Mode remains an ever-evolving and singularly influential musical force. An indelible inspiration to fans, critics and artists alike, Depeche Mode continues to forge ahead, with the Memento Mori album and tour representing the opening of the newest chapter of a peerless and ongoing legacy. 

Memento Mori World Tour 2023 – Leg One

March 23          Sacramento, CA            Golden 1 Center 

March 25          San Jose, CA                  SAP Center 

March 28          Los Angeles, CA            Kia Forum 

March 30          Las Vegas, NV                T-Mobile Arena 

April 2               San Antonio, TX            AT&T Center 

April 5               Chicago, IL                     United Center 

April 7               Toronto, ON                  Scotiabank Arena 

April 9               Quebec City, QC           Videotron Centre 

April 12             Montreal, QC                Centre Bell 

April 14             New York, NY                Madison Square Garden 

May 16             Amsterdam, NL             Ziggo Dome 

May 18             Amsterdam, NL             Ziggo Dome 

May 20             Antwerp, BE                  Sportpaleis Antwerpen 

May 23             Stockholm, SE               Friends Arena 

May 26             Leipzig, DE                     Leipziger Festwiese 

May 28             Bratislava, SK                 Národný Futbalový Štadión 

May 31             Lyon, FR                            Groupama Stadium

June 2               Barcelona, ES                Primavera Sound Festival 

June 4               Dusseldorf, DE              Merkur Spiel-Arena 

June 6               Dusseldorf, DE              Merkur Spiel-Arena 

June 9               Madrid, ES                     Primavera Sound Festival 

June 11             Bern, CH                        Stadion Wankdorf 

June 14             Dublin, IE                      Malahide Castle 

June 17             London, UK                   Twickenham Stadium 

June 20             Munich, DE                   Olympiastadion

June 22             Lille, FR                          Stade Pierre Mauroy 

June 24             Paris, FR                         Stade de France 

June 27             Copenhagen, DK          Parken 

June 29             Frankfurt, DE                Deutsche Bank Park 

July 1                Frankfurt, DE               Deutsche Bank Park 

July 4                Bordeaux, FR               Matmut Atlantique

July 7                Berlin, DE                     Olympiastadion 

July 9                Berlin, DE                     Olympiastadion 

July 12              Rome, IT                       Stadio Olympico 

July 14              Milan, IT                       San Siro 

July 16              Bologna, IT                   Stadio Renato Dall’Ara 

July 21              Klagenfurt, AT              Wörthersee Stadion 

July 23              Zagreb, HR                    Arena Zagreb 

July 26              Bucharest, RO              Arena Națională 

July 28              Budapest, HU               Puskás Aréna 

July 30              Prague, CZ                     Letňany Airport 

August 2           Warsaw, PL                   PGE Narodowy 

August 4           Krakow, PL                    Tauron Arena

August 6           Tallinn, EE                     Tallinna Lauluväljak 

August 8           Helsinki, FI                    Kaisaniemen Puisto 

August 11         Oslo, NO                       Telenor Arena 

– New dates just added – 

September 21            Mexico City, MX          Foro Sol 

September 29            Austin, TX                      Moody Center 

October 1    Dallas, TX                      American Airlines Center

October 4    Houston, TX                 Toyota Center 

October 7    New Orleans, LA        Smoothie King Center

October 10  Orlando, FL                  Amway Center 

October 12  Miami, FL                      Miami-Dade Arena

October 19  Nashville, TN               Bridgestone Arena 

October 21  Brooklyn, NY               Barclays Center

October 23  Washington, DC         Capital One Arena 

October 25  Philadelphia, PA         Wells Fargo Center 

October 28  New York, NY              Madison Square Garden 

October 31  Boston, MA                  TD Garden

November 3               Montreal, QC              Centre Bell 

November 5               Toronto, ON                Scotiabank Arena

November 8               Detroit, MI                   Little Caesars Arena

November 10             Cleveland, OH             Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 

November 13             Chicago, IL                    United Center

November 16             Denver, CO                  Ball Arena

November 18             Salt Lake City, UT       Vivint Arena

November 21             Edmonton, AB            Rogers Place 

November 24             Vancouver, BC            Rogers Arena 

November 26             Seattle, WA                  Climate Pledge Arena

November 28             Portland, OR                MODA Center

December 1                Las Vegas, NV             T-Mobile Arena 

December 3                San Francisco, CA       Chase Center 

December 6                San Diego, CA             Pechanga Arena

December 10             Los Angeles, CA          Kia Forum 

December 15             Los Angeles, CA          Crypto.com Arena 

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Valeska Thomas |  [email protected]

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DEPECHE MODE announce 29 new North American dates on 2023 tour

Depeche Mode have added a new fall leg of North American tour dates to the band's Memento Mori World Tour , which will support Memento Mori , their highly anticipated upcoming studio album due out March 24th. With the addition of the 29 new shows, the revered electronic-rock group — now the duo of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, following the death of keyboardist Andy "Fletch" Fletcher — have a colossal 75-date trek ahead of them, their first tour in over five years.

Pre-sales will kick off with a Fan Pre-sale on Tuesday, February 21st, with the general public on sale beginning Friday, February 24th at 10 a.m. local time. For more info, swing by depechemode.com .

Memento Mori World Tour 2023 - Leg One: March 23 - Sacramento, CA - Golden 1 Center March 25 - San Jose, CA - SAP Center March 28 - Los Angeles, CA - Kia Forum March 30 - Las Vegas, NV - T-Mobile Arena April 2 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center April 5 - Chicago, IL - United Center April 7 - Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Arena April 9 - Quebec City, QC - Videotron Centre April 12 - Montreal, QC - Centre Bell April 14 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden May 16 - Amsterdam, NL - Ziggo Dome May 18 - Amsterdam, NL - Ziggo Dome May 20 - Antwerp, BE - Sportpaleis Antwerpen May 23 - Stockholm, SE - Friends Arena May 26 - Leipzig, DE - Leipziger Festwiese May 28 - Bratislava, SK - Národný Futbalový Štadión May 31 - Bordeaux, FR - Matmut Atlantique June 2 - Barcelona, ES - Primavera Sound Festival June 4 - Dusseldorf, DE - Merkur Spiel-Arena June 6 - Dusseldorf, DE - Merkur Spiel-Arena June 9 - Madrid, ES - Primavera Sound Festival June 11 - Bern, CH - Stadion Wankdorf June 14 - Dublin, IE - Malahide Castle June 17 - London, UK - Twickenham Stadium June 20 - Munich, DE - Olympiastadion June 22 - Lille, FR - Stade Pierre Mauroy June 24 - Paris, FR - Stade de France June 27 - Copenhagen, DK - Parken June 29 - Frankfurt, DE - Deutsche Bank Park July 1 - Frankfurt, DE - Deutsche Bank Park July 4 - Lyon, FR - Groupama Stadium July 7 - Berlin, DE - Olympiastadion July 9 - Berlin, DE - Olympiastadion July 12 - Rome, IT - Stadio Olympico July 14 - Milan, IT - San Siro July 16 - Bologna, IT - Stadio Renato Dall'Ara July 21 - Klagenfurt, AT - Wörthersee Stadion ' July 23 - Zagreb, HR - Arena Zagreb July 26 - Bucharest, RO - Arena Națională July 28 - Budapest, HU - Puskás Aréna July 30 - Prague, CZ - Letňany Airport August 2 - Warsaw, PL - PGE Narodowy August 4 - Krakow, PL - Tauron Arena August 6 - Tallinn, EE - Tallinna Lauluväljak August 8 - Helsinki, FI - Kaisaniemen Puisto August 11 - Oslo, NO - Telenor Arena

New dates just added: September 21 - Mexico City, MX - Foro Sol September 29 - Austin, TX - Moody Center October 1 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center October 4 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center October 7 - New Orleans, LA - Smoothie King Center October 10 - Orlando, FL - Amway Center October 12 - Miami, FL - Miami-Dade Arena October 19 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena October 21 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center October 23 - Washington, DC - Capital One Arena October 25 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center October 28 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden October 31 - Boston, MA - TD Garden November 3 - Montreal, QC - Centre Bell November 5 - Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Arena November 8 - Detroit, MI - Little Caesars Arena November 10 - Cleveland, OH - Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse November 13 - Chicago, IL - United Center November 16 - Denver, CO - Ball Arena November 18 - Salt Lake City, UT - Vivint Arena November 21 - Edmonton, AB - Rogers Place November 24 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena November 26 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena November 28 - Portland, OR - MODA Center December 1 - Las Vegas, NV - T-Mobile Arena December 3 - San Francisco, CA - Chase Center December 6 - San Diego, CA - Pechanga Arena December 10 - Los Angeles, CA - Kia Forum December 15 - Los Angeles, CA - Crypto.com Arena

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Memento Mori World Tour

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Memento Mori Tour is a worldwide concert tour by English electronic music band Depeche Mode in support of the group's fifteenth studio album, Memento Mori . The tour began on March 23, 2023. This is the first concert tour to not feature keyboardist Andy Fletcher.

The tour was first announced on October 4, 2022, along with the Memento Mori album announcement at an event in Berlin. A third leg of the tour for North America was announced on February 16, 2023, with 34 additional shows.

• 3.1 Depeche Mode
• 3.2 Additional musicians
• 4 Support acts

Setlist [ ]

Setlist for North America (Leg #1)

Under construction

Musicians [ ]

Depeche mode [ ].

• Dave Gahan – lead vocals
• Martin Gore – guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals

Additional musicians [ ]

• Christian Eigner – drums, keyboards
• Peter Gordeno – keyboards, bass, backing vocals

Support acts [ ]

• Kelly Lee Owens
• Stella Rose and The Dead Language
• Young Fathers
• Jehnny Beth

Sources [ ]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_Mori_World_Tour
• 1 Music for the Masses Tour
• 2 Dave Gahan
• 3 Alan Wilder

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Forty-two years after the release of their debut album, the members of Depeche Mode — well, the surviving ones — are in on the joke of their somehow having become old guys.

As Dave Gahan, 60, and Martin Gore , 61, played their synth-rock classic “Enjoy the Silence” on Tuesday night at the Kia Forum, images of a bejeweled skull rotated on a wall of video screens behind them; later, Gahan noticed the thousands of glowing smartphones in the crowd and said, “Everybody used to have cigarette lighters, but I guess that’s not a thing anymore.”

That Depeche Mode would still be on the road in 2023 — Tuesday’s concert came just days into a lengthy world tour behind the band’s new studio LP, “Memento Mori” — is no great surprise. Rock nostalgia is a huge business, and right now business is good for Depeche Mode, which three years ago was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and which recently had its late-’80s “Never Let Me Down Again” prominently featured in HBO’s hit “ The Last of Us .” What’s more, echoes of the band’s signature style — sleek but hard-hitting, anxious yet darkly ecstatic — are detectable in music by younger acts like the Weeknd and Halsey, the latter of whom was in the audience at the Forum alongside the many OG types who looked like they’d been at Depeche Mode’s legendary Rose Bowl gig in 1988 .

Yet none of that assured that the group would feel as vital as it did Tuesday in a gutsy two-hour performance that didn’t defy age so much as question what age has to mean. “Memento Mori” follows the unexpected death last year of Depeche Mode’s founding keyboardist, Andy Fletcher, and though the material was written before he died (of an aortic dissection), songs like “Ghosts Again” and “Before We Drown” ponder mortality with the same blend of vulnerability and determination that the group once applied to its thoughts on religion, alienation and sexual obsession. The result, paradoxically, is Depeche Mode’s most alive-sounding album in years.

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Dressed in a suit jacket he slipped off after two songs to reveal a vest with no shirt beneath it, Gahan had a Michael Imperioli-in-“The White Lotus” vibe as he crooned through the moody philosophy of the new LP’s “My Cosmos Is Mine” and “Wagging Tongue.” Gore, who wore an ash-colored jacket printed with more skulls, switched between guitar and keyboards and took over lead vocals for “Soul With Me,” a very pretty ballad from “Memento Mori” about “heading for the ever after.”

Against the throbbing bass and blipping synths of “Ghosts Again,” one of several tracks on the album Gore co-wrote with Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs, Gahan twirled across the stage like a goth(-ier) Stevie Nicks — a heartening sign that he and Gore are finding some solace in performing these songs suffused with grief.

As strong as “Memento Mori” is, nobody came to the Forum just to hear new stuff. Rounded out by Christian Eigner on drums and Peter Gordeno on keyboards, Depeche Mode luxuriated in the sensual gloom of oldies including “Walking in My Shoes,” “Precious” and “World in My Eyes,” during which a vintage photo of a young Fletcher appeared on the video screen. “I Feel You” was grinding and lascivious, “John the Revelator” funky and clanging; “A Pain That I’m Used to” rode a morbid disco groove that wouldn’t quit.

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Gahan and Gore began their encore with a bluesy acoustic rendition of “Condemnation” before revving up the chipper synth-pop of the band’s first big hit, “Just Can’t Get Enough.” Then they closed with “Never Let Me Down Again” and the happily inevitable “Personal Jesus,” both pumping with fresh blood you hope for their sake is still in supply by the time this tour circles back to Southern California in December for another six (!) arena dates.

“L.A., let’s see those hands,” Gahan told the crowd as the show reached its emotional climax. He took a moment to admire the sea of waving arms, then added, “It never gets old.”

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Twickenham Stadium, London Dave Gahan is a mic-spinning, limb-bending, theatrical marvel as the band gallop through decades’ worth of hits. And the presence of Andrew Fletcher, the keyboardist who died last year, is touchingly felt

D epeche Mode have been thrilling stadiums for 35 years now. Immortalised in their classic tour movie 101, their first ever megashow, at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, established rules of engagement which pertain to this day. You shall sing the Thatcher-baiting chorus of Everything Counts over and over while frontman Dave Gahan holds out his microphone. You shall follow Gahan’s cue to sway your arms from side to side during Never Let Me Down Again. Still, much has changed. The four young men from Essex who appeared on the cover of 101 like a synth-pop Beatles became first a trio and then, with the premature death of keyboardist Andrew Fletcher last year, a duo. While drummer Christian Eigner and multi-instrumentalist Peter Gordeno, both in the touring fold since 1998, carry the sonic weight, it is hard not seeing Fletcher waving amiably from behind his synthesiser.

Death has been a driving concern for songwriter Martin Gore since the mid-80s – alongside sex, sin and guilt – but its presence is more deeply felt in material from their sombre new album Memento Mori. The video for Ghosts Again , their best single in many years, shows the duo playing chess in homage to The Seventh Seal, while the show’s key visual motif is a skull. Fletcher’s subtly animated face fills the screens during World in My Eyes, providing a necessary moment of phone-waving communal remembrance in a stadium where diehards in old tour T-shirts mingle with a refreshing number of younger converts.

Most touchingly, Gahan and Gore seem to have rediscovered their appreciation for one another in their sixties. They don’t talk much (their defining hit, after all, is called Enjoy the Silence ) but their body language speaks volumes. Note the way Gahan returns to the stage for the end of Gore’s solo performance of Soul With Me’s blue-eyed R&B to express his enthusiasm, or how tenderly their voices mesh on an intimate encore of Waiting for the Night to greet the darkening sky. Given their candidly documented history of distance, this dramatisation of their rapprochement is enormously touching.

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Depeche Mode are weirdly prone to starting shows in first gear but once the video screens snap from black-and-white to colour for Everything Counts, they gallop through decades’ worth of hits with barely a detour. How they alone of their generation made synth-pop colossal still fascinates. The messianic techno-blues of Personal Jesus and I Feel You has obvious power but the monolithic mass of Never Let Me Down Again (recently heard in The Last of Us) or the Orwellian Stripped is still astounding: stadium rock without the rock. The pulsating glam-house of A Pain That I’m Used To is another sui generis highlight; Just Can’t Get Enough’s peppy teen bop a delightful outlier. Really though, their success on stage comes down to Gahan’s preposterous theatricality: louche, flouncy, Jaggerish. At first resembling a Vegas vampire before stripping down to a series of colourful waistcoats, he is a bum-waggling, mic-spinning, limb-bending, rabble-rousing marvel. In the midst of death, he explodes with life.

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Depeche Mode add extra North American leg to ‘Memento Mori’ world tour

The band will play 29 concerts in the US and Canada this autumn

Depeche Mode have added more North American shows to their 2023 ‘Memento Mori’ world tour – tickets will be available here .

The synth-pop duo – comprising  Dave Gahan  and  Martin Gore – are due to hit the road in the US and Canada next month following the release of their 15th album, ‘Memento Mori’ , which is out on March 17 via Columbia/Mute.

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Today (February 16), Depeche Mode announced a second North American leg that takes in 29 new dates between late September and mid-December, 2023.

Extra gigs will take place in locations such as Mexico City, Austin, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Orlando, Brooklyn, Nashville, Philadelphia and Toronto. The run is set to conclude with a pair of LA gigs at the city’s Kia Forum and Crypto.com Arena.

Tickets for the newly-confirmed concerts go on general sale at 10am local time next Friday (February 24) – you’ll be able to purchase yours here . A fan pre-sale will go live on Tuesday (February 21).

Check out the full list of Depeche Mode’s 2023 North American dates, including their sold-out shows in March and April, on the official poster below.

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Kelly Lee Owens and Gahan’s daughter Stella Rose will appear as the support acts on the first North American leg . It is not yet know who’ll open for the band when they return in the autumn.

Depeche Mode are also scheduled to tour in Europe, the UK and Ireland this year. Find any remaining tickets for the UK dates here .

‘Memento Mori’ follows on from the duo’s 2017 album ‘Spirit’, and is their first record since the death of founding member Andy Fletcher in May 2022 . The group shared a new single called ‘Ghosts Again’ last week, before performing it live onstage for the first time .

During an interview with NME last October , frontman Gahan explained that he was initially hesitant about making a new Depeche Mode album.

“It wasn’t something I dived into, I have got to say,” he said. “At first I put up quite a bit of resistance. I would say, ‘I don’t know if I still want to do this’; all the usual kind of stuff, but there was a bit more of that than usual.”

Elsewhere in the conversation, the singer noted that although work on ‘Memento Mori’ had started prior to Fletcher’s death, the latter did not record any material for the project.

“He never got to hear any of it, which is really sad to me because there are songs on this record where I know he’d be like, ‘This is the best thing we’ve had in years’,” Gahan told  NME . “I can hear his voice. I can also hear him saying, ‘Does every song have to be about death?’”

Despite its emotive themes, ‘Memento Mori’ is ultimately rooted in positivity, serving as an escape for Gahan and Gore. “The one thing I can do is make music with Martin,” the frontman went on, “then we can go do our thing and hopefully that brings people together. It’s just all too much [in the world and the news right now].

“You have to find a place for yourself somehow. This is what it is for us right now: making another record, and we’re going to go out and perform on these stages.”

You can watch Dave Gahan’s full video interview with NME above.

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A set that dealt with the ultimate end and "our friend Andy Fletcher"

Fans came from as far as Scotland and as close as Sacramento’s J Street to the Golden 1 Center Thursday night to see the legendary Depeche Mode onstage for their first full-length concert since 2018’s “Global Spirit Tour” (get tickets here ). The evening’s revelatory ride through 15 albums and four decades boasted many live debuts and several not-in-a-long-time musical arrangements.

When they last left us five years ago, Depeche Mode were a trio — and now a duo, a result of the untimely death of founding member Andy Fletcher in May 2022. The remaining original band members, songwriter/guitarist Martin Gore and vocalist Dave Gahan, continue on through their new album, Memento Mori , out today, and the tour, which will traverse the world through December. The sentiment behind “Memento Mori” (“remember that you have to die”) appeared everywhere during the almost two-hour set.

Gahan and Gore delivered the show their fans hungered for. Depeche Mode, unlike many legacy acts, don’t shy away from new material — evidenced by the first three songs they played, all from Memento Mori . An instrumental riff from the symphonic “Speak to Me” (and later on a live debut of the full track) welcomed the band, its screeching and grinding hyping up the crowd, illuminating a large letter M with every sonic brush stroke. That intro moved into the live debut of “My Cosmos Is Mine” followed by “Wagging Tongue.” Gahan’s unmistakable voice cried out, “You find it hard to swallow when you watch another angel die,” establishing a sense of comfort and familiarity even though the lyrics might be new. From these early indicators, the Northern California crowd knew it would be a night of firsts.

The visuals to complement each track were haunting, vivid and surreal, switching from the letter M to short interpretive video vignettes.

“Well, well, we are here we are again,” Gahan said in his first address to the crowd before transitioning into 1993’s “Walking in My Shoes” from Songs of Faith and Devotion . He sped ahead to 1997’s Ultra with back-to-back “It’s No Good” and “Sister of Night,” letting everyone know, “we’ve never played that song ever… pretty good.” It was the first non-acoustic version of “Sister of Night” since 2009 and the first time with Gahan on vocals.

“Everything Counts” brought its “grabbing hands” lyrics to life with a sign interpreter — clad in all black with white gloves —featured in a background video vignette as Gahan took the front of the stage for the first time.

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Depeche Mode Memento Mori World Tour

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2020 inductees Depeche Mode are bringing a second stop on the Memento Mori World Tour to the United Center on November 13, 2023! With the addition of 29 new shows, the band will now set out on a colossal 75-date tour — their 19th tour and their first in over five years.

Having sold more than  1 00  million records and played to more than  35  million fans worldwide, Depeche Mode  remains an ever evolving and singularly influential musical force. An indelible inspiration to fans, critics and  artists alike, Depeche Mode continues to forge ahead, with the   Memento Mori  album and tour representing  the opening of the newest chapter of a peerless and ongoing leg acy. 

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Following the rapturous reception to their new single “Ghosts Again," Depeche Mode have added a new Fall leg of North American tour dates to the Memento Mori Tour, which will support Memento Mori, their forthcoming studio album due out March 24. With the addition of these 29 new shows, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2020 inductees will now set out on a colossal 75-date tour — their 19th tour and their first in over five years.

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New dates: 29 shows in Europe 2024 announced

July 10th, 2023 by editorial

With over two million tickets sold to date on the Memento Mori Tour, and following sold-out stadium and arena shows across Europe, Mexico, Canada, and the US this summer and fall, Depeche Mode today announced 29 new European dates which will extend the tour into 2024. Even more fans will now have a chance to experience the raw, emotive power of the Memento Mori Tour, hailed by Rolling Stone as “a stunning celebration of life and music.”

These new European tour dates begin January 22, 2024 at London’s O2 Arena and finish April 5 after multiple nights at Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany. Along the way on the 22-city tour the band will also play multiple nights at Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena, Paris’ Accor Arena, Madrid’s Wizink Center, Milan’s Mediolanum Forum, and more. The 110-date Memento Mori Tour is on track to be one of Depeche Mode’s largest to date.

Memento Mori Tour – Europe 2024

JAN 22 London, The O2 24 Birmingham, Utilita Arena 29 Manchester, AO Arena 31 Glasgow, OVO Hydro

FEB 3 Dublin, 3Arena 6 Antwerp, Sportpaleis 8 Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome 10 Copenhagen, Royal Arena 13 & 15 Berlin, Mercedes-Benz Arena 17 Hamburg, Barclays Arena 22 & 24 Prague, O2 Arena 27 & 29 Lodz, Atlas Arena

MAR 3 & 5 Paris, Accor Arena 7 Munich, Olympiahalle 12 & 14 Madrid, WiZink Center 16 Barcelona, Palau Sant Jordi 19 Lisbon, Altice Arena 21 Bilbao, BEC 23 Torino, Pala Alpitour 26 Budapest, MVM Dome 28 & 30 Milan, Mediolanum Forum

APR 3 & 5 Cologne, Lanxess Arena

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