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Depeche Mode announced today at a special event in Berlin that they will be releasing a new album and embarking on a world tour in 2023. The Memento Mori Tour will support the band's forthcoming 15th studio album, Memento Mori, due out in
Spring 2023.
In a break from tradition,
Dave Gahan and
Martin Gore revealed today that the Live Nation-presented tour will begin with a special, limited series of North American arena dates starting March 23rd, before the band heads to
Europe for their summer stadium tour. These limited North American dates will feature stops at New York's Madison
Square Garden, Chicago's United Center, Los Angeles' Kia Forum and Toronto's Scotiabank Arena, among others. The band will then begin their European stadium tour on May 16th, with noted stops including the Stade de France in Paris, Berlin's Olympic Stadium, Milan's San Siro Stadium, and London's Twickenham Stadium. For further information on the tour routing and ticket on-sale dates, please go to depechemode.com. Tickets go on general sale this Friday 7th October at 10am at https://www.livenation.co.uk/artist-depeche-mode-3848
UK TOUR DATES 2023:
Saturday 17th June - Twickenham Stadium, London
In speaking about Memento Mori,
Martin Gore commented, "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."
The Memento Mori Tour will be Depeche Mode's 19th tour and their first in over five years. The band's most recent outing, the 2017-2018 Global
Spirit Tour was its longest to date and was one of the year's highest-grossing tours, with the band playing to more than 3 million fans over the course of 130 shows across
Europe and North America.
Memento Mori will be Depeche Mode's 15th studio album and the follow-up to 2017's critically acclaimed Spirit, which reached #1 in 11 territories, charting in the Top 5 in more than 20 others. Memento Mori will be released worldwide in
Spring 2023 via Columbia Records.
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.
