At a special event in Berlin yesterday, 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Depeche Mode announced that they will be releasing a new album titled Memento Mori and embarking on a world tour in 2023. The Memento Mori Tour will be in support of the band’s 15th studio album, which is due to be released in the spring of 2023. You can watch a replay of the special event here.
Join us tomorrow, Tuesday October 4th, at 1pm CET for a special live broadcast from Berlin, Germany. Live stream will be available on the DM Facebook page, as well as on https://t.co/rJtl0RniZq. pic.twitter.com/0a7E31LNOJ
— Depeche Mode (@depechemode) October 3, 2022
Dave Gahan and Martin Gore broke with precedent today by announcing that the Live Nation-presented tour will start on March 23rd with a unique, limited run of North American arena dates before the group flies to Europe for their summer stadium tour. These few North American dates will include performances in venues like Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, Los Angeles’ Kia Forum, New York’s Madison Square Garden, and Chicago’s United Center, among others.
On May 16th, the band will start their stadium tour of Europe, with notable dates at the Stade de France in Paris, the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the San Siro Stadium in Milan, and the Twickenham Stadium in London. Visit depechemode.com for more details on the tour itinerary and the sale dates for tickets. The complete list of times, locations, and cities is also provided below.
The band recently lost their keyboard player and founding member Andy Fletcher. In a press release for the announcement, Martin Gore talked about the situation: “We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time. After Fletch’s passing, we decided to continue as we’re sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning.” Dave Gahan added, “Fletch would have loved this album. 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”.
Depeche Mode’s Memento Mori Tour will be their 19th outing and their first in more than five years. The band’s most recent tour, the 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour, was their longest to date and one of the most lucrative tours of the year, taking in 130 gigs across Europe and North America, with more than 3 million fans coming to see them.
Memento Mori, Depeche Mode’s 15th studio album, will be the band’s follow-up to 2017’s Spirit, which debuted at #1 in 11 countries and peaked in the Top 5 in more than 20 others., Memento Mori will be made available everywhere in Spring 2023 on Columbia Records.
The press release for the announcement reminds us why Depeche Mode are still a force to be reckoned with: “Having sold more than a 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.”
For British fans, the band will be stopping at London’s Twickenham stadium on June 17th, 2023. Tickets are available here.
17/06/2023 – Twickenham Stadium – London
