Depeche Mode

The synth-pop duo – comprising Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – delivered a 23-track set at the Golden 1 Center arena in Sacramento, California. To open the concert ...

The music world is richer for it.” [Dave Gahan](https://www.nme.com/artists/dave-gahan-and-soulsavers) and [Martin Gore](https://www.nme.com/artists/martin-gore) – delivered a 23-track set at the Golden 1 Center arena in Sacramento, California. See a selection of images and videos from the gig below. [Setlist.FM](https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/depeche-mode/2023/golden-1-center-sacramento-ca-73bbd23d.html)): Black-and-white images of the musician – [Setlist.FM](https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/depeche-mode/2023/golden-1-center-sacramento-ca-73bbd23d.html). [the duo will head out on a second leg of North American shows ](https://www.nme.com/news/music/depeche-mode-add-extra-north-american-leg-to-memento-mori-world-tour-2023-shows-buy-tickets-3399855)between late September and mid-December, 2023 ( [buy tickets here](https://www.ticketmaster.com/depeche-mode-tickets/artist/734907?irgwc=1&clickid=xdw1ZdWHVxyNU3VyfNU4iUJJUkA3tPymiX1Ozs0&camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_2862475&impradid=2862475&REFERRAL_ID=tmfeedbuyat2862475&wt.mc_id=aff_BUYAT_2862475&utm_source=2862475-NME%20Networks%20Media%20Limited&impradname=NME%20Networks%20Media%20Limited&utm_medium=affiliate&ircid=4272)). [Find any remaining tickets for the UK dates here](https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/depeche-mode-tickets/artist/734907?irgwc=1&utm_source=2862475-NME%20Networks%20Media%20Limited&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=2862475&awtrc=&clickId=xdw1ZdWHVxyNU3VyfNU4iUJJUkA3tPVHiX1Ozs0&camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_2862475&ircid=7559). [‘Ghosts Again’](https://www.nme.com/news/music/depeche-mode-ghosts-again-listen-new-album-memento-mori-tracklist-release-date-3395588). [who died last May aged 60](https://www.nme.com/news/music/depeche-modes-andy-fletcher-has-died-at-the-age-of-60-3234836) – appeared on the big screens. To open the concert, they performed [‘My Cosmos Is Mine’](https://www.nme.com/news/music/listen-to-new-depeche-mode-song-my-cosmos-is-mine-3410979) from their new album [‘Memento Mori’](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/depeche-mode-memento-mori-review-3418286) for the first time. [Depeche Mode](https://www.nme.com/artists/depeche-mode) kicked off [their 2023 world tour](https://www.nme.com/news/music/depeche-mode-announce-new-album-memento-mori-world-tour-dates-2023-buy-tickets-3322103) in the US last night (March 23) – check out photos, fan-shot footage and the full setlist below.

Depeche Mode opened its massive tour in support of new album Memento Mori in Sacramento on Thursday night.

Oct. A second, longer North American leg picks up in September and runs through December, ending with four nights in Los Angeles. “Our friend, Andrew Fletcher,” Gahan said at the song’s conclusion. During the encore, Gahan and Gore teamed up to duet Nov.

Welsh electronic musician Kelly Lee Owens opened for the group. Vocalist ...

The album, the group’s 15th, was set to be released Friday. Gahan and Gore started their encore with a duet of “Waiting for the Night” from their 1990 album “Violator.” Before concluding with “Personal Jesus,“ they played “Never Let Me Down Again” — their 1987 song that recently experienced a streaming bump for its world-building appearance in the HBO zombie series “The Last of Us.” Appearing on the concert stage for the first time in five years, and the first time since the death of founding keyboardist Andy Fletcher, the band played songs from its new album “Memento Mori” along with some of its new wave anthems from the 1980s.

Depeche Mode – Memento Mori · Debby Friday – GOOD LUCK · Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily – Love In Exile · Caroline Rose – The Art of Forgetting.

[Bandcamp](https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-for-jazz) [Bandcamp](https://carolinerosemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-art-of-forgetting) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/0nP1MzWoPnLfLglLS0v4CQ) [Bandcamp](https://debbyfriday.bandcamp.com/album/good-luck) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3QWc9HhBWgk9dIEwOkJx4q) The “requiem” in the title is a nod to operas by both Mozart and Verdi, and incorporates motifs and elements from those famed works, guided by a powerful chorus of vocalists and featuring arrangements that intertwine spiritual jazz and classical music in a narrative form that reflects Black joy and struggle. Danny Brown’s been teasing a pair of new releases over the past year, and the first to arrive is his collaborative album with JPEGMAFIA, Scaring the Hoes. Newton said, “these songs possess a rueful, knowing tone, but underneath it all, you hear a strong person who understand the power of moving forward instead of wallowing in misery.” – Jeff Terich [Death Drive](https://deathbombarc.bandcamp.com/album/death-drive), found the Canadian artist balancing elements of techno, industrial, hip-hop, synth-punk and various other shards and fragments of styles and aesthetics into something dark yet immediate. [Andrew Fletcher](https://www.treblezine.com/rip-andy-fletcher-of-depeche-mode/), which makes its release a bittersweet bookend of an era, and there’s a mournful sensibility that permeates much of the record. But it also contains some of the best songs they’ve released since 2005’s [Playing the Angel](https://www.treblezine.com/depeche-mode-playing-the-angel/), the band sounding not necessarily reenergized per se, but tapping into some of the dark immediacy that characterized their greatest records in the ’80s and ’90s. This is one of the most thrilling debut albums of the year so far, and we’ll have more on this very soon.

Depeche Mode kicked off their 2023 tour in support of Memento Mori in Sacramento on March 23rd. Read our review here.

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… “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. 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.

Plus: The Reds Pinks & Purples, Purling Hiss, Connections, Noble Rot, more.

Together for 10 years, Columbus, OH's Connections are the kind of band you don't really get much anymore, with a jangly, but worn around the edges sound that is clearly descended from '80s college radio heroes like The Replacements, R.E.M. As you might expect from these two, mood and atmosphere are richly detailed and loudly delivered and you can dance to some of it. It's all done with such confidence and panache, and good tunes, that it's almost as if the '00s never happened. Also out this week from The Reds, Pinks & Purples is their cover of Depeche Mode's "Ghosts Again." It's a woozy and lushly romantic look at our inevitable end that is sonically unlike anything else on Memento Mori, while fitting right in thematically, staring death in the face. It's a lovely moment, melancholic but hopeful, on the best Depeche Mode single since the '90s. "Ghosts Again," the album's first single and one of a number of tracks Gore co-wrote with Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs, is a great example of this. Whether it was Fletcher's death, Gore's birthday, or just a bout of lockdown inspiration, Memento Mori is the most inspired Depeche Mode have sounded in a long time. "We have to make decisions as the two of us, so we talk things out, we talk a lot more on the phone, even FaceTime sometimes. Over the years many people, including Fletch himself, have joked about what exactly it was he did in Depeche Mode, and while he didn't write the songs or stand in the spotlight, his role as tastemaker, quality control officer and mediator between Gore and Gahan left a massive hole that would require the group to work in ways they never had before. Gore says most of the songs were written during the pandemic, not long after turning 60 in the summer of 2021 but there's no denying that they took on new meaning in the wake of founding member Andy Fletcher's (Songs of Faith and Devotion could've been the title of any of their albums.) But even by Depeche Mode standards, their 15th album is obsessed with mortality, so much so they named it Memento Mori -- an object or image that serves as a reminder of the inevitability of death.

The influential band performs at T-Mobile Arena on March 30.

In addition to the latest edition emailed to every week, you’ll find plenty of great, money-saving offers from some of the most exciting attractions, restaurants, properties and more! It also has a “seize the day” meaning that the creative core of Depeche Mode embraced: We are mortal, therefore we must live life to the fullest. Founding member Fletcher had long been the conduit between Gahan, the heart of Depeche Mode, and Gore, the brains.

Depeche Mode return with its first album since the death of founding member Andy Fletcher. It focuses a lot, unsurprisingly, on the subject of life.

Gahan struggled with the idea of making another Depeche Mode album, and says the song "Speak To Me" was partially an imagined conversation he had with a "larger force" about that question. "Because I felt really torn between jumping into making another Depeche Mode record or, as I had been for the last couple of years for the first time in my life, home with friends and family and my animals. You know, the gauntlet was laid down and it was like, 'Hey, look, I write songs too, and I want as much attention with those songs as you get.' " "A classic: sort of melancholy/joyous moments of Depeche Mode writing, where you kind of hit that nerve of both things. While Fletch didn't live to hear this new music, Gahan says the album's lead single, "Ghosts Again," would have been a favorite. "Mortality, death, you know, and living!

A sombre landmark for Basildon's stadium-rocking techno-pop titans, Memento Mori is the first ever Depeche Mode album without Andrew “Fletch” Fletcher, ...

Lavish production disguises thin songwriting on a few tracks, but overall this voluptuous sonic feast feels like a fitting epitaph to departed friends. The best of Gahan's clutch of co-writing credits is Before We Drown, a slow-building crescendo of aching angst. It is also the first to feature a female co-producer, Marta Salogni, whose previous credits include Björk and M.I.A.

The synth-pop duo – comprising Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – delivered a 23-track set at the Golden 1 Center arena in Sacramento, California. To open the concert ...

The music world is richer for it.” See a selection of images and videos from the gig below. [Setlist.FM](https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/depeche-mode/2023/golden-1-center-sacramento-ca-73bbd23d.html)): Elsewhere, Depeche Mode dedicated a live rendition of their 1990 single ‘World In My Eyes’ to their late bandmate Andy Fletcher. To open the concert, they performed ‘My Cosmos Is Mine’ from their new album ‘Memento Mori’ for the first time. [Setlist.FM](https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/depeche-mode/2023/golden-1-center-sacramento-ca-73bbd23d.html).

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Memento Mori is Depeche Mode's 15th studio album and their first created by the duo of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, ...

Gore added, “It’s not often that we record a song that I just don’t get sick of listening to — I’m excited to be able to share it.” Having sold more than 100 million records and played to more than 35 million fans worldwide, Depeche Mode remain an ever-evolving and singularly influential musical force. Produced by James Ford, with additional work by Marta Salogni, Memento Mori’s gestation took place during the early stages of the Covid pandemic, resulting in themes inspired directly by that period.