Depeche Mode have added extra North American exhibits to their 2023 ‘Memento Mori’ world tour – tickets will likely be obtainable right here.
The synth-pop duo – comprising Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – are as a consequence of hit the street within the US and Canada subsequent month following the discharge of their fifteenth album, ‘Memento Mori’, which is out on March 17 through Columbia/Mute.
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At this time (February 16), Depeche Mode introduced a second North American leg that takes in 29 new dates between late September and mid-December, 2023.
Additional gigs will happen in places akin to Mexico Metropolis, Austin, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Orlando, Brooklyn, Nashville, Philadelphia and Toronto. The run is about to conclude with a pair of LA gigs on the metropolis’s Kia Discussion board and Crypto.com Enviornment.
Tickets for the newly-confirmed concert events go on basic sale at 10am native time subsequent Friday (February 24) – you’ll be capable of buy yours right here. A fan pre-sale will go reside on Tuesday (February 21).
Take a look at the total record of Depeche Mode’s 2023 North American dates, together with their sold-out exhibits in March and April, on the official poster beneath.
Kelly Lee Owens and Gahan’s daughter Stella Rose will seem because the help acts on the primary North American leg. It isn’t but know who’ll open for the band after they return within the autumn.
Depeche Mode are additionally scheduled to tour in Europe, the UK and Eire this yr. Discover any remaining tickets for the UK dates right here.
‘Memento Mori’ follows on from the duo’s 2017 album ‘Spirit’, and is their first report because the loss of life of founding member Andy Fletcher in Could 2022. The group shared a brand new single referred to as ‘Ghosts Once more’ final week, earlier than performing it reside onstage for the primary time.
Throughout an interview with NME final October, frontman Gahan defined that he was initially hesitant about making a brand new Depeche Mode album.
“It wasn’t one thing I dived into, I’ve acquired to say,” he mentioned. “At first I put up fairly a little bit of resistance. I’d say, ‘I don’t know if I nonetheless need to do that’; all the same old sort of stuff, however there was a bit extra of that than regular.”
Elsewhere within the dialog, the singer famous that though work on ‘Memento Mori’ had began previous to Fletcher’s loss of life, the latter didn’t report any materials for the mission.
“He by no means acquired to listen to any of it, which is basically unhappy to me as a result of there are songs on this report the place I do know he’d be like, ‘That is the perfect factor we’ve had in years’,” Gahan instructed NME. “I can hear his voice. I can even hear him saying, ‘Does each track must be about loss of life?’”
Regardless of its emotive themes, ‘Memento Mori’ is finally rooted in positivity, serving as an escape for Gahan and Gore. “The one factor I can do is make music with Martin,” the frontman went on, “then we will go do our factor and hopefully that brings individuals collectively. It’s simply all an excessive amount of [in the world and the news right now].
“It’s a must to discover a place for your self by some means. That is what it’s for us proper now: making one other report, and we’re going to exit and carry out on these levels.”
You may watch Dave Gahan’s full video interview with NME above.