Depeche Mode had been the musical friends on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert this week – watch their majestic performances of ‘Ghosts Once more’ and ‘Private Jesus’ beneath.
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The performances come quickly after the synth-pop duo – comprising Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – introduced their large 2023 ‘Memento Mori’ world tour, which begins subsequent month following the discharge of their fifteenth album, ‘Memento Mori’, which is out on March 17 by way of Columbia/Mute.
Earlier this month, the duo carried out new single ‘Ghosts Once more’ stay for the primary time on the SanRemo Music Pageant in Italy, marking the primary time the band had carried out stay since the dying of bandmate Andy Fletcher final 12 months.
On The Late Present, they gave the observe one other outing alongside basic hit ‘Private Jesus’ – try each performances beneath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVou-8d3hjw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-5RYmPwfNE
Final week, Depeche Mode added extra North American reveals to their 2023 world tour, which begins within the US and Canada subsequent month.
Forward of the run, the band introduced a second North American leg that takes in 29 new dates between late September and mid-December, 2023.
Further gigs will happen in areas similar to Mexico Metropolis, Austin, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Orlando, Brooklyn, Nashville, Philadelphia and Toronto. The run is ready to conclude with a pair of LA gigs on the metropolis’s Kia Discussion board and Crypto.com Area.
Kelly Lee Owens and Gahan’s daughter Stella Rose will seem because the assist acts on the primary North American leg. It isn’t but know who’ll open for the band once they return within the autumn. Tickets can be found right here.
Depeche Mode are additionally scheduled to tour in Europe, the UK and Eire this 12 months. 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 since the dying of founding member Andy Fletcher in Might 2022. The group shared a brand new single known as ‘Ghosts Once more’ final week, earlier than performing it stay 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 bought 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 wish to do that’; all the standard sort of stuff, however there was a bit extra of that than regular.”
Depeche Mode’s 2023 UK and European tour dates are as follows:
MAY 2023
16 – Amsterdam, NL Ziggo Dome
20 – Antwerp, BE Sportpaleis Antwerpen
23 – Stockholm, SE Mates Area
26 – Leipzig, DE Leipziger Festwiese
28 – Bratislava, SK Národný Futbalový Štadión
31 – Bordeaux, FR Matmut Atlantique
JUNE 2023
02 – Barcelona, ES Primavera Sound Pageant
04 – Dusseldorf, DE Merkur Spiel-Area
06 – Dusseldorf, DE Merkur Spiel-Area
09 – Madrid, ES Primavera Sound Pageant
11 – Bern, CH Stadion Wankdorf
14 – Dublin, IE Malahide Fort
17 – London, UK Twickenham Stadium
20 – Munich, DE Olympiastadion
22 – Lille, FR Stade Pierre Mauroy
24 – Paris, FR Stade de France
27 – Copenhagen, DK Parken
29 – Frankfurt, DE Deutsche Financial institution Park
JULY 2023
04 – Lyon, FR Groupama Stadium
07 – Berlin, DE Olympiastadion
12 – Rome, IT Stadio Olympico
14 – Milan, IT San Siro
16 – Bologna, IT Stadio Renato Dall’Ara
21 – Klagenfurt, AT Wörthersee Stadion
23 – Zagreb, HR Area Zagreb
26 – Bucharest, RO Area Națională
28 – Budapest, HU Puskás Aréna
30 – Prague, CZ Letňany Airport
AUGUST 2023
02 – Warsaw, PL PGE Narodowy
06 – Tallinn, EE Tallinna Lauluväljak
08 – Helsinki, FI Kaisaniemen Puisto
11 – Oslo, NO Telenor Area
