Depeche Mode Tour 2009-2010 Setlists and Reviews
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Depeche Mode World Tour 2009
Quintessential British electro-rock band Depeche Mode kicked off an ambitious world, sorry, universal, tour on May 6th. It is scheduled to end in February next year, although more dates are still being added to the one hundred already announced.
This is great news for millions of DP fans. Depeche Mode are already one of the world's biggest ever acts, and this tour promises to reinforce that legendary status. The latest album 'Sounds of the Universe' is available now.
Formed in 1980, they immediately took off, and quickly established themselves as one of the leading bands of the British-led electronic New Wave era, along with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and the Pet Shop Boys. They are still in great shape almost thirty years later and are the only band from that movement which can still fill stadiums all over the world.
The band's line up has changed slightly over the years, but core members Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andrew Fletcher have remained, and are supplemented on stage by various backing musicians.
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Unfortunately on May 12th, lead singer Dave Gahan suffered a severe bout of gastroenteritis, leading to his hospitalization and the cancellation of the Athens concert. While in hospital, further medical tests revealed a low-grade malignant tumour in Dave's bladder, which has since been successfully removed.
At doctors' orders Dave Gahan must take a break until June 8th, to ensure that he makes a full recovery. The Leipzig show on June 8th will be the first concert following Dave's recovery.
This is great news for millions of DP fans. Depeche Mode are already one of the world's biggest ever acts, and this tour promises to reinforce that legendary status. The latest album 'Sounds of the Universe' is available now.
Formed in 1980, they immediately took off, and quickly established themselves as one of the leading bands of the British-led electronic New Wave era, along with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and the Pet Shop Boys. They are still in great shape almost thirty years later and are the only band from that movement which can still fill stadiums all over the world.
The band's line up has changed slightly over the years, but core members Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andrew Fletcher have remained, and are supplemented on stage by various backing musicians.
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Unfortunately on May 12th, lead singer Dave Gahan suffered a severe bout of gastroenteritis, leading to his hospitalization and the cancellation of the Athens concert. While in hospital, further medical tests revealed a low-grade malignant tumour in Dave's bladder, which has since been successfully removed.
At doctors' orders Dave Gahan must take a break until June 8th, to ensure that he makes a full recovery. The Leipzig show on June 8th will be the first concert following Dave's recovery.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Tui Arena Hannover, Germany Nov 3, 2009
Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole to Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question of Time
Precious
Fly on the Windscreen
Dressed In Black
Home
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
A Question Of Lust
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
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Review: Goettinger Tageblatt
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review AWD Dome Bremen, Germany Nov 1, 2009
Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole to Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question of Time
Precious
Fly on the Windscreen
Clean
Home
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Shake The Disease
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
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Review: to follow
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Kopi Arena Oberhausen, Germany Oct 31, 2009
Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole to Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question of Time
Precious
Fly on the Windscreen
Freelove
Home
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
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Review: Der Westen
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Club Ciudad Buenos Aires, Argentina Oct 17, 2009
Setlist:
1.In Chains
2.Wrong
3.Hole to Feed
4.Walking in My Shoes
5.It's No Good
6.A Question of Time
7.Precious
8.Fly on the Windscreen
9.Jezebel
10.Home
11.Miles Away/The Truth Is
12.Policy of Truth
13.In Your Room
14.I Feel You
15.Enjoy the Silence
16.Never Let Me Down Again
17.Somebody
18.Stripped
19.Behind the Wheel
20.Personal Jesus
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Review: Lagaceta
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Club Hípico, Santiago, Chile Oct 15, 2009
Setlist:
1.In Chains
2.Wrong
3.Hole to Feed
4.Walking in My Shoes
5.It's No Good
6.A Question of Time
7.Precious
8.Fly on the Windscreen
9.Jezebel
10.Home
11.Miles Away/The Truth Is
12.Policy of Truth
13.In Your Room
14.I Feel You
15.Enjoy the Silence
16.Never Let Me Down Again
17.Somebody
18.Stripped
19.Behind the Wheel
20.Personal Jesus
21.Waiting for the Night
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Review: EPA
Depeche Mode dazzles 50,000 Chileans with the classic elegance of techno English translation of above webpage
Depeche Mode, the British band as long-lived and turbulent career in techno music like The Rolling Stones rhythm and blues, on Thursday offered the best concert of the year in Chile with a show elegant, sober and unrelenting.
About 50,000 people enjoyed two hours of the second concert in the South American country band born in Essex (England) in 1980, this time in his world tour "Tour of the Universe", full of stops in Latin America (Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil).
The commanding voice of David Gahan opened the show with "In Chains", "Wrong" and "Hide to feel" three tracks from his latest album which later gave way to "Walking in my shoes," the first classic of the night.
The lyrics of their songs were visual counterpoint to the giant screen located on one side of the stage and in which the image of a bearded old white man was being transformed through the "photoshop" on a black child, and vice versa.
The understated beauty and slenderness of David Gahan (vocals and composer) contrasted with the stridency of silver suit Martin Gore (composer, guitarist and occasional vocalist) and Andrew repressed orondez Fletcher (keyboards), the three original members of Depeche Mode supported on this tour by Christian Eigner (drums) and Peter Gordeno (keyboards).
"We are here!" David Gahan screamed and waved his arms 100,000 instantly waving to the air one of the most influential bands of the last thirty years, with over one hundred million albums sold worldwide.
"Dear James!" then let the singer, perhaps to make it clear that he knew he was in Chile and avoid a repeat of the territorial controversy raised two days ago in Lima, where a "thank you very much, children" was mistaken for a misplaced and inappropriate "thank you very much, Chile".
On the giant screen, a lone black crow in the desert looking at the spectators. The comparison with the appearance of David Gahan was inevitable. Second visual metaphor of a concert that has barely begun.
And when they sounded the first notes of "It's no good", David Gahan began to dance like whirling dervishes around the stage and started a cheer that went round the icy Riding Club of Santiago, where the show just hours before a hailstorm brought down the temperature but not the euphoria of the fans.
Then, Martin Gore took over the show to play the most lyrical and less power of the band, until he reached the highlight of the night: "Policy of Truth", I Feel You "," Enjoy the silence ".
Probably nine out of ten visitors were not born when in 1981 Depeche Mode released the dance single "Just Can not Get Enough" from their first album ( "Speak & Spell"), but that does not stop them from reaching the ecstasy when came a strong version of "Never Let Me Down Again" thousands of throats Gahan sang in unison.
For the first encore, the audience was already so given that so overlooked that Gahan would not include the flag thrown at him for the hectic and greet in a gesture that has become classic ritual when an international group operating in Chile.
After "Somebody" and "Stripped" was expected "Personal Jesus", which began with the notes of the Fender Telecaster Martin Gore. Chuck Berry's guitar named "Maybelline" on this occasion recalled version "country" theme that made the unforgettable Johnny Cash.
And the second and final encore Depeche Mode closed it with a version of "Waiting for the Night" sung in duet by Gore and Gahan, who eventually embraced alongside the other three band members and signing off with yet another "thank you very much ".
One hundred and thirty minutes after taking the stage Depeche Mode had once again demonstrated why his mix of rock and techno is the most elegant expression of electronic music imaginable. Neither fashion nor temporary.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Explanada del Estadio Monumental Lima, Peru Oct 13, 2009
Setlist:
1.In Chains
2.Wrong
3.Hole to Feed
4.Walking in My Shoes
5.It's No Good
6.A Question of Time
7.Precious
8.Fly on the Windscreen
9.Jezebel
10.Home
11.Miles Away/The Truth Is
12.Policy of Truth
13.In Your Room
14.I Feel You
15.Enjoy the Silence
16.Never Let Me Down Again
17.Somebody
18.Stripped
19.Behind the Wheel
20.Personal Jesus
21.Waiting for the Night
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Review: RPP
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Parque Simón Bolívar, Bogotá, Colombia Oct 10, 2009
Setlist: *unconfirmed
1.In Chains
2.Wrong
3.Hole to Feed
4.Walking in My Shoes
5.It's No Good
6.A Question of Time
7.Precious
8.Fly on the Windscreen
9.Jezebel
10.Home
11.Miles Away/The Truth Is
12.Policy of Truth
13.In Your Room
14.I Feel You
15.Enjoy the Silence
16.Never Let Me Down Again
17.Somebody
18.Stripped
19.Behind the Wheel
20.Personal Jesus
21.Waiting for the Night
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Arena Monterrey Monterrey, Mexico Oct 6, 2009
Setlist:
1.In Chains
2.Wrong
3.Hole To Feed
4.Walking In My Shoes
5.It's No Good
6.A Question Of Time
7.Precious
8.Fly On The Windscreen
9.Jezebel
10.Home
11.Miles Away/The Truth Is
12.Policy Of Truth
13.In Your Room
14.I Feel You
15.Enjoy The Silence
16.Never Let Me Down Again
17.Somebody
18.Stripped
19.Behind the Wheel
20.Personal Jesus
21.Waiting for the Night
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Review: Milenio
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Foro Sol Mexico City, Mexico Oct 4, 2009
Setlist:
1.In Chains
2.Wrong
3.Hole To Feed
4.Walking In My Shoes
5.It's No Good
6.A Question Of Time
7.Precious
8.Fly On The Windscreen
9.Little Soul
10.A Question Of Lust
11.Come Back
12.Policy Of Truth
13.In Your Room
14.I Feel You
15.Enjoy The Silence
16.Never Let Me Down Again
17.Shake The Disease
18.Stripped
19.Behind The Wheel
20.Personal Jesus
21.Waiting For The Night
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Review: Ansa Latina
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Foro Sol Mexico City, Mexico Oct 3, 2009
Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: El Universal
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Arena V.F.G. Guadalajara, Mexico Oct 1, 2009
Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Bank Atlantic Center Ft. Lauderdale FL Sep 5, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
A Question Of Lust
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Shake The Disease
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
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Review: Miami Herald
by Jordan Levin
Sights, powerful sounds steal show
The moment when Depeche Mode really took hold of the crowd came late in the show Saturday night, on unironically-titled Enjoy the Silence, as singer Dave Gahan went strutting and whirling bare-chested on a platform into the crowd, and some 16,000 people at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise waved and sang along in an ecstasy of romantic loneliness. ``All I ever wanted, all I ever needed, was here in my arms,'' they howled together, on the quintessential outsider's anthem.
The British dance rock group may embody brooding yearning and the agony/ecstasy of diving into dark emotion. But it's their presence on global dance floors for more than 20 years, the way the combination of Gahan's rich, deeply booming voice and guitarist and songwriter Martin Gore's hypnotic, synthesizer-based music sweeps a crowd away, that makes them so continuously powerful. In the late '80s and really early '90s, being into Depeche Mode was a sign of outsider cool. Now they're stadium stalwarts, experts at churning up the power of thousands of dark dance-floor nights into mass bliss.
Not to say that they aren't really good at that. Depeche opened Saturday with several songs from their latest, 2009 release, the ambitiously and aptly named Sounds of the Universe, with several more throughout the show. On Wrong, which topped dance charts this spring, blinding red and orange light throbbed in rhythm with Gahan's bullhorn of a voice and dissonant synthesizer and guitar blasts. But most of the show was devoted to older songs like Silence that have become pop universals: In Your Room, Never Let Me Down Again -- and, for the final encore, Personal Jesus, one of those songs that just about everyone seems to know. (If you think you don't, just hum ``reach out and touch faith'').
The staging was simple, visually stunning and cleverly, conceptually layered: half of a giant globe projected from a stage-spanning screen, which flashed bright colored, distorted pictures of the performing band members, or strange images like the one of a giant crow, its cold eye blinking in the projected ball.
Gore may write all Depeche's songs, but, despite a glitter-encrusted suit, he was a quiet presence, barely moving as he strummed the guitar chords that provide the driving muscle to the band's thundering synthesizer soundscapes. When the composer took over as singer, doing Question of Lust as a quiet piano ballad, the moment didn't come close to the Gahan and the full band's power, despite the plaintive melody and lyrics.
The charismatic center is Gahan, who, despite having battled illness, surgery and injury on this tour (not to mention heroin addiction and attempted suicide in the mid-'90s), was in fine, irrepressible form on Saturday, prancing, waving and whirling like a rapturous club kid, mixing intensity, enthusiasm and just the right touch of flippant irony. He hardly said anything and didn't need to, his arms spread wide open, luxuriating in the audience's enthusiasm. It's a measure of Depeche's mastery that although the opening act, Swedish band Peter, Bjorn and John, an inventive, musically taut group with hipster cachet, which unfortunately sounded as if they were playing muffled under a blanket, didn't even come close to the power necessary to ignite an arena.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Ford Amphitheatre Tampa FL Sep 4, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Tampa Tribune
by Curtis Ross
Depeche Mode shines in Tampa
For a band whose lyrics often stray into the dark and set up camp there, Depeche Mode was positively beaming Friday night at Ford Amphitheatre.
Maybe it was the relief of having only one more date left on the U.S. leg of its current outing, a tour that has been derailed three times due to singer Dave Gahan's various ailments (tumor, leg injury, throat woes).
Gahan, though, looked and sounded healthy, spinning and dancing and even giving it the ol' Freddie Mercury with the mic stand a time or two. He looked positively triumphant at times, holding the microphone out to the crowd, which sang the choruses of "It's No Good" and "Walking in My Shoes."
Gahan had every right to be exultant. Closing in on its 30th year together, Depeche Mode still is releasing new music strong enough to compete with its old favorites. The early part of the set in particular was dominated by songs from this year's excellent "Sounds of the Universe."
The band has continued to grow as well, with Gahan emerging as a songwriter alongside Martin Gore. Hearing Gore's hearty background vocals on Gahan's "Miles Away/The Truth Is" said something about the group's solidarity.
There were hits of course, "Fly on the Windscreen," "A Question of Time" and Gore's wonderful vocal on "Home." But the set never dragged, no matter what period of its catalog the band was drawing from.
Opening act Peter Bjorn & John's set suffered from an overload of reverb, drowning the Swedes' quirky pop in echo. The sound cleared up, somewhat, later, for the gleefully profane "Lay It Down" and "Young Folks," aka the song with the whistling.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Lakewood Amphitheater Atlanta GA Sep 1, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: to follow
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Houston TX Aug 30, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole to Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question of Time
Precious
Fly on the Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Miles Away/The Truth Is
Policy of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy the Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
A Question of Lust
Stripped
Behind the Wheel
Personal Jesus
Waiting for the Night
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Review: Houston Press (Live Shots Blog)
by Chris Gray
Aftermath: Depeche Mode's Black and Blue Celebration at The Woodlands
Far, far away from the group once known for bubbly synth-pop anthems like "Just Can't Get Enough" and "Everything Counts," Depeche Mode circa 2009 has pressed its small army of keyboards and electronics into the service of primal urges and raw sexuality. Not terribly surprising from a band that once sang about playing "Master and Servant," perhaps, but the degree to which the trio (plus another keyboardist and drummer) has infused bleeding-fingernail blues into its once-pristine electro sound really was - Sunday night at the Woodlands, it was like Kraftwerk had suddenly and enthusiastically discovered the collected works of early 20th-century bluesmen Bukka White and Son House.
The set started at a simmer, as Depeche snaked its way through three songs from this year's Sounds of the Universe album: "In Chains," "Wrong" - a post-techno descendant of Dr. John's "Right Place, Wrong Time" - and "Hole to Feed," a mountain of "I Want Candy" drums that was all groove and little else, a signal something big was coming. The crowd stood politely, swaying in place, waiting for something they actually knew. Then Depeche really sank the hooks in with "Walking In My Shoes," a sensual, seductive twister that, stripped of its electronic adornments and Martin Gore's scratchy fuzz guitar, would have made an excellent torch song for Etta James or Ella Fitzgerald.
The blueprint (as it were) of Depeche's seedier sound Sunday was 1993's Songs of Faith and Devotion, which finally welcomed guitars and live drums into the band's aural palette and spun off the grinding, palpably erotic "In Your Room" and "I Feel You" near the end of Sunday's set. But the seeds were sown three albums earlier, on 1986's Black Celebration, which itself contributed an eye-popping four songs. First up was the harrowing jailbait pursuit "A Question of Time," with singer Dave Gahan spinning the mic stand (and himself) around better and faster than Aerosmith's Steven Tyler.
Celebration's "Fly on the Windscreen" came not long after, with Gahan rasping about ubiquitous death while looking impossibly skinny, pale and dead sexy. Vampiric, in other words - considering the degree the undead are currently haunting pop culture thanks to Twilight and True Blood, no wonder this band is still so popular. In the encore came "A Question of Lust," a solo showpiece for Gore and one of the few songs Sunday with one of those stately, neo-classical piano lines that defined Depeche 1.0. - this is a band that once used Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" as a B-side - and "Stripped," a piece as predatory as it is erotic.
Experienced lovers that they are, Depeche kept the audience waiting - and waiting... and waiting... - for the climax, teasing through more of Universe (Elvis Costello-ish Gore solo piece "Little Soul," electro-blues "Miles Away/The Truth Is") before getting down to business with a popping "Policy of Truth" that delivered rock-and-roll swagger via a heavy synth payload. "In Your Room" and "I Feel You" steamed up the windows a little more, then "Enjoy the Silence" hit electro-twang paydirt with Gore channeling the Commodores and Earth, Wind & Fire in a funky guitar coda. An IMAX-size "Never Let Me Down Again" closed the main set in a sea of hands and a jazzy two-finger solo from Depeche Third Man Andrew Fletcher.
After the encore began with the two aforementioned Celebration songs, "Behind the Wheel" burbled in the shadows as the intensity mounted. Release came, utterly and completely, when Gahan sang the cue from "Personal Jesus" - "reach out touch faith" and the Pavilion exploded for five minutes of pure orgasmic gospel-blues stomp. Finally, "Waiting for the Night," an unexpected lost treasure from Violator, wafted over the spent audience like the smoke from a post-coital cigarette.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Superpages.com Center Dallas TX Aug 29, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
Judas
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Dallas Morning News
by Mario Tarradell
Concert review: Depeche Mode draw on slick, seductive beats at Superpages.com Center
In keeping with the darkly danceable sonic personality of their current album, Sounds of the Universe, the members of Depeche Mode made sure to color the older songs accordingly during their 2-hour concert Saturday night at Superpages.com Center.
Mode mainstays Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher employed two extra musicians, a drummer and second keyboardist, for a riveting performance that forcefully emphasized beats and rhythms. The show before 15,000 fans packed bare-knuckle punches - pounding drums, vibrating grooves and Gahan's deep, potent voice.
The lead singer was in his usually slithering, seductive form. This guy's the most sinewy frontman this side of Mick Jagger. It's amazing he had so much energy given that he had surgery to remove a malignant bladder tumor in May.
Opening with three back-to-back tracks from Universe was a bold move. New music never tends to play well at concerts. But "In Chains," "Wrong" and "Hole to Feed" were ferocious. By the time we got "Walking In My Shoes," "It's No Good," "A Question of Time" and "Precious," Gahan was unstoppable.
A couple of cuts from 1986's foreboding Black Celebration, "Fly On the Windscreen" and "Stripped," added even more edge to the proceedings. And of course, the Violator tunes - "Enjoy the Silence," "Policy of Truth" and "Personal Jesus" - caused sheer pandemonium with the audience.
Yet perhaps what's most impressive about Depeche Mode is perseverance and productivity. Here's a band more than two decades strong that never seems to get old artistically. While they started as synthesized pop lads from England, they matured into electronic rockers with the credibility that ensues.
Reinvention is key, but so is reinforcement. The Mode men have mastered both.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Red Rocks Amphitheatre Denver CO Aug 27, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Miles Away / The Truth Is
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: to follow
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review E Center Salt Lake City UT Aug 25, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
A Question Of Lust
Miles Away
Policy of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Shake the Disease
Stripped
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting for the Night
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Review: Salt Lake Tribune
by David Burger
Depeche Mode puts 'rock' in electronic rock
Sound glitches and tasteless videos mar the musical impact
Note to Depeche Mode: If you want audiences to appreciate your musicianship, showing soft-core lesbian porn on a large video screen during your rendition of "Strangelove" will have the opposite effect.
The British electronic rock band's inexplicable miscue, one of several throughout its 20-song, nearly two-hour show at the E Center Tuesday, still didn't deaden the impact of a solid, confident band showing why it has survived, and thrived, since its creation in 1980.
Playing to a full but not sold-out crowd that appreciated the band's string of hits more than its new material, Depeche Mode was led a charismatic, clad-in-all-black Dave Gahan. His sweaty
showmanship, exemplified by treating the microphone stand like a stripper's pole and swiveling his hips like an incarnation of Elvis Presley's sexuality, illustrated that when it comes to frontmen, magnetism can't be taught or even rationally explained.
Gahan, whose baritone showed signs of frailty and weakness at times, still managed to make up for the statuesque presence of the other two core members of the band, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher, The band was joined by another keyboard player and a drummer.
Early sound problems marred the set, especially when Gore put down his guitar and became the third band member playing keyboards. "It's No Good" and "Walking In My Shoes," in particular, suffered from too many layers of
Synths and keyboards that as the songs crested into a crescendo, became a deafening, garbled wall of sound. Luckily, by the time songs such as "I Feel You" and "Never Let Me Down Again," were played near the end, the arrangements were more restrained while never sounding dull or lifeless.
For a band nearing 30 years together, it was fun to hear them tinker with the arrangements of songs that have been concert staples for years. "Policy of Truth" was more whimsical and lightweight than on record, lending it an air of playfulness that was a respite from the band's more serious songs. "Enjoy the Silence" benefited from a tribal rhythm, and the band's warhorse, "Personal Jesus," owed a debt to both rockabilly and garage-rock influences.
Depeche Mode's set was a standard large video screen that often showed gritty images reminiscent of Anton Corbijn's music videos of the band in the early 1990s. Liberal uses of smoke and fog, reflected by strobe and dramatic lighting, added mystery to the stage, and most eye-catching of all was a giant spinning orb near the top of the video screen, transforming from song to song into eyes, a globe, ruby lips, and so on.
All in all, the band performed a satisfying set that was complete with two two-song encores. It's just you wished the band had used nearly 30 years of experience to iron out some of the problems that threatened to derail the power of the show.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review US Airways Center Arena Phoenix AZ Aug 23, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Miles Away
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Waiting for the Night
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Review: The Arizona Republic
by by Megan Finnerty
Health problems don't hamper Depeche Mode
When Depeche Mode eased into their slinky opening track, "In Chains," at US Airways Center in Phoenix Sunday night, the audience wasn't sure what to expect, even though many in the crowd were old enough to have been at the band's first show almost 30 years ago.
It felt almost as though the crowd that mostly filled the arena - 30- and 40-somethings, touches of neon hair among the salt-and-pepper - was holding its collective breath, the tension of lead singer Dave Gahan's recent health troubles almost greater than that of the track from the band's new "Sounds of the Universe."
Since beginning the global Tour of the Universe in May, Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher, Gahan and their touring musicians have canceled a handful of dates because of Gahan's health problems, including a debilitating bout of gastroenteritis, a malignant bladder tumor (since removed) and a torn calf muscle.
But as Gahan and crew rumbled through the latest single, "Wrong," concerns about his health disappeared with every fist pound, hip thrust and microphone stand twirl. In what's become his uniform on this tour and 2005's Touring the Angel - a black leather vest and slim black trousers - Gahan pranced and minced about the front of the stripped-down stage through the first three tracks off the new album.
Gore stood apart from him, far to the left, wearing a three-piece silver sequined suit, eyes lined in black, arms gleaming with pearlescent glitter, visible when he stripped off his suit jacket. Behind them stood two oversized synthesizers, one with Fletcher manning it stoically, and a drum kit that spent the night being punished by the thrashing touring musician Christian Eigner. Behind all that, just a giant screen of lights on which various esoteric images - crows, the band in space suits, bouncing colorful balls -played throughout the show.
Gahan has had voice issues on the tour, canceling some dates to preserve it, but in Phoenix, he just let the crowd pick up the choruses to the band's best-known songs, including "Walking in My Shoes," shouting "Say what?" after each round of the relatively long, complicated stretch of lyrics.
But the crowd had no problem supplying the words here, or clapping along every time Gahan shouted at them to do so, during the hits "It's No Good," and "A Question of Time," making a concert that could have felt gothic and edgy into something closer to a religious revival. The fans certainly screamed and clapped and sang like believers.
But that's the thing about Depeche Mode that's perhaps the most compelling reason to see them live. In a time when many aging touring bands sound better in the studio, because of voices no longer capable of hitting notes or a certain "nostalgia" feeling that sets in, Depeche Mode's music is improved by the live setting, the alienation and misery of the lyrics muted by the communal setting and transformed into something life-affirming in the face of the dark parts of life that the band has made a living recognizing.
Throughout the show, Gore sang with Gahan often, adding vibrato and depth to Gahan's shouting, desperate delivery. Gore is restrained and expresses the balance between pleading and commanding that's at the heart of the tension in Depeche Mode's best songs. The two manage exhortation, threat and come-on, all in one verse.
While the band drew from the new album, most of the songs were from their deep past and recognizable to even casual fans. But they were improved by stripping them down to only the elements that make people pound their heads, sway their bodies and clap to a double-time beat on Gahan's command.
The synthesizers were emphasized less for their cold, technological sounds. Rather, keyboardist Fletcher and supporting keyboardist Peter Gordeno extracted from them a percussive, artificial sexuality missed by so many of the other bands mixing them in these days. And Gore made over the guitar work on many songs to feature a more aggressive, filtered, fuzzed-out sound that, refreshingly, happily balanced the band somewhere between New Age, synth-pop and garage rock.
Other highlights included any of the songs Gore sang alone, including his touchstone, "Somebody," a song so emotionally naked and raw and needing that it never fails to shock, and the new "Little Soul," both of which received only keyboard treatments. His rich voice has a luxurious clarity and he hits every note in a way Bono, Bruce and even Michael Stipe fail to do so live these days.
Two encores wrapped up the two-hour show that included hits from 1984, 1986, 1990 and 1997, and 2009. Notably absent were tracks from 2001's "Exciter."
The show closed with a duet from Gore and Gahan for the quiet, eerie "Waiting for the Night," from 1990's "Violator." It was moody and foreboding, like a lullaby sung in an alley.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review The Pearl Las Vegas NV Aug 22, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
A Question Of Lust
Miles Away
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Shake The Disease
Stripped
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
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Review: The Rebel Yell (UNLV)
by Jordan Healy
Depeche Mode lets loose at Pearl
Depeche Mode's Tour of the Universe made its stop at The Pearl concert theater on Saturday and proved to be one of the best concerts to hit Vegas in 2009.
For a tour that has been dubbed "Tour of the Unicurse" by many fans due to the cancellation of 14 dates on this tour alone due to various health ailments inflicting lead vocalist Dave Gahan, the group showed no signs of sickness or slowing down. In fact, they proved their music has the capability to take on a life of its own live and becoming its own monster.
Prior to the show's start, tension was running high in the venue. It was already blistering hot, and the sound of fans anticipating the night's performance in several different languages was flooding the air. Fans had come from as far as Germany for the intimate performance, as the venue is the smallest the group will perform in on their current tour.
When the lights finally dimmed and the band walked onstage, a deafening roar erupted and the hot venue became an inferno. The group launched into the set with the first three tracks off their newest record, "Sounds of the Universe."
Though almost 50 years old, Gahan hasn't lost any of his charismatic stage presence as he paraded around the stage wildly, never letting his hips stop to catch a break. The same praise can be given to his vocals, which were utterly immaculate.
Martin Gore, the group's primary songwriter and guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist, also delivered a flawless performance, all the while adorned in a sparkly silver suit.
For "A Question Of Lust" and "Shake The Disease," Gore took lead vocals and performed solely with a backing piano courtesy of keyboardist Peter Gordeno. These songs ignited the crowd into two of the loudest sing-alongs of the evening, moving several audience member to tears.
Many aspects of the group's performance made them sound like a metal band at times. Gahan's screams during "I Feel You" were hair-raising and the double-timed drumming at the end of "A Question of Time" sounded powerfully similar to the blistering drumming featured in industrial metal act Ministry's "Just One Fix." It was enough to work the audience into a sweaty frenzy of gyrating bodies and surprisingly, also cause some to headbanging.
After the group closed out their mainset with a performance of "Never Let Me Down Again" that had the entire venue on their feet and waving their arms in the air, the group let the audience stew in the dark for a moment before coming out for an encore.
When they returned, they treated the crowd to four more tracks, including moving performances of "Stripped" and "Personal Jesus." The latter track in particular felt utterly soul-wrenching because the bass was turned up so high that it felt as though the beat was literally the audience's chests, leaving something behind to hold the rabid crowd over until the next time Depeche Mode comes to town.
Peter Bjorn and John, the opening act, didn't seem like the most logical choice to play before Depeche Mode, but they proved to be extremely entertaining and sounded great musically. While they are primarily known for their 2006 single "Young Folks," many other tracks the group played were very enjoyable, although the audience really didn't show much enthusiasm until their hit track was played.
During the track, vocalist Peter Moren came down from the stage and danced on the floor of the venue while singing, prompting a much more lively response from an audience that had previously seemed comatose.
The evening was more than simply a concert - it was more of an experience. In a room filled with thousands of devout fans, all of whom paid an extremely high ticket price to see their favorite band, one can only expect to have some sort of religious experience. Couple that with a heart-stopping performance and one has something akin to bona fide musical salvation.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Santa Barbara Bowl Santa Barbara CA Aug 20, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
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Review: no review found
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Honda Center Anaheim, CA Aug 19, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Come Back
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Somebody
Stripped
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: no review found
* Socal reviewers seemed happy to cover only the Hollywood Bowl shows but if you attended please leave your own comments on the show in reader feedback below.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles CA Aug 16, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole to Feed
Walking in My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question of Time
Precious
Fly on the Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Come Back
Policy of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy the Silence
Never Let Me Down Again Play Video
Encore:
Stripped
Master and Servant
Strangelove Play Video
Encore 2:
Personal Jesus
Waiting for the Night
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Review: L.A. Times
by Mikael Wood
Live review: Depeche Mode at the Bowl
Stripped-down songs and a bundled up frontman still keep it fresh.
You needn't have read about Dave Gahan's recent illness to know that something was up with the Depeche Mode frontman Sunday night at the Hollywood Bowl, where the English electro-pop outfit played the first of two sold-out shows. After all, Gahan kept his shirt (well, actually his black leather vest) on for the entire two-hour concert -- quite possibly an unprecedented event in Depeche Mode's nearly 30-year history.
Since launching its current world tour in May, the band has canceled a number of dates as a result of Gahan's health troubles, which have included a severe bout of gastroenteritis, a malignant tumor in the singer's bladder and a torn calf muscle. Last week Depeche Mode called off shows in Mountain View and Chula Vista after Gahan's doctor advised him to rest his voice.
At press time, concerts scheduled for later this week in Anaheim and Santa Barbara were still set to go ahead.
Given those afflictions, you could understand Gahan's desire Sunday to guard himself against the chilly Los Angeles night. At one point the singer left the stage and returned wearing a sensible scarf. Yet if his wardrobe revealed that even rock stars are susceptible to the frailties of age, Gahan's dancing and especially his microphone twirling -- think of an Elvis Presley unafraid to embrace his inner disco diva -- suggested otherwise.
The frontman's singing was a somewhat different matter. More than once he ceded control of a selection's chorus to guitarist Martin Gore or to the audience, which was happy to take responsibility for its delivery. And a handful of high notes seemed slightly out of Gahan's reach. But for the most part here was a man determined not to allow infirmity to prevent him from selling a song.
Even the new ones: Depeche Mode is on tour in support of "Sounds of the Universe," the studio disc it released earlier this year, and though Sunday's show featured the usual cavalcade of catalog hits, it also pulled surprisingly heavily from the new album, the band's strongest since the early '90s.
Indeed, Gahan and his bandmates opened with three tracks from "Sounds of the Universe," including "Hole to Feed," which reflected their still-sharp ability to build spirited dance music around thoroughly dismal themes. "This world could leave you broken inside, with nowhere to hide," Gahan crooned dramatically over a percolating industrial-rock beat.
Older material sounded fresher than you might have expected, in most cases as a result of the group's stripping down the songs to their essential parts. "Policy of Truth" zipped along atop a lean New Wave groove, while "Enjoy the Silence" had a raw disco-punk throb that demonstrated the enormous influence Depeche Mode has had on younger bands like the Rapture and Interpol.
For "I Feel You" and "Personal Jesus," Gore drew fuzzy garage-rock tones from his guitar, emphasizing the juicy contrast between his instrument's organic intensity and the sleeker surfaces of the group's computer-music rhythms.
After "Personal Jesus," Depeche Mode closed the show -- which by then had stretched to a second encore -- with a hushed reading of "Waiting for the Night," from the band's smash 1990 album, "Violator." It was an odd move, following an up-tempo take on what might be the band's biggest hit with a spacey, low-key ballad, but hauntingly effective.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Key Arena Seattle WA Aug 10, 2009
* Depeche Mode has been forced to cancel their scheduled appearance on Wednesday, August 12th at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California due to doctor's orders that lead singer Dave Gahan be on complete vocal rest for 48 hours. Because of their busy schedule, a new Bay Area date will not be rescheduled this year.
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole to Feed
Walking in My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question of Time
Precious
Fly on the Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Come Back
Policy of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy the Silence
Never Let Me Down Again Play Video
Encore:
Stripped
Master and Servant
Strangelove Play Video
Encore 2:
Personal Jesus
Waiting for the Night
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Review: to follow
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole to Feed
Walking in My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question of Time
Precious
Fly on the Windscreen
Jezebel
Home
Come Back
Policy of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy the Silence
Never Let Me Down Again Play Video
Encore:
Stripped
Master and Servant
Strangelove Play Video
Encore 2:
Personal Jesus
Waiting for the Night
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Review: to follow
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Lollapalooza Chicago, IL Aug 7, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Home
Come Back
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Personal Jesus
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Review: RS.com
by J. Edward Keyes
Depeche Mode and Kings of Leon Captivate Lollapalooza With Dueling Headlining Sets
Depeche Mode's Friday night headlining set at Lollapalooza began with a whimper. First, there was the tiny, steady blip of a pre-recorded drum track. Then came a bed of synthesizers, misty and mysterious. Finally, Dave Gahan's voice - barely a whisper - floating above. When all of those elements finally cohered, it was pure rapture - a kind of revelation in phases.
In a way, that slow build and long sustain is an apt metaphor for Depeche Mode's career. A trio of over-styled foppish young men, they were nobody's top pick for arena giants, let alone a sure bet to be bankable career artists when they started 30-plus years ago. Their quirky techno seemed built for the moment, not for the ages. Even their name means "fast fashion."
Funny thing, though: Depeche Mode have not only endured, they've prospered, and during their startling and frequently riveting set they proved that often the greatest rewards come from patience and restraint. Their songs remain mysterious and doomy, Andy Fletcher's black synth lines walking lockstep around Martin Gore's grizzled, distorted guitar. Live, they feel fantastically ominous: "Hole to Feed" was primal and thumping, its icy electronics contributing to the air of menace. "It's No Good" was all cold industrial grind, Gore's weird, robotic guitar lines coaxing the song to an apocalyptic conclusion. As they did in New York last week, they concentrated on slower, deep cuts, which yielded their greatest dividends for longtime followers (some of the more casual fans at Friday's show were a bit exasperated by this decision).
The key to the group's sustained potency is Gahan. He was a dynamo Friday night, gliding across the stage, spinning on his heel, hefting the microphone stand above his head and punctuating verses with a triumphant, hollered "Oy!" When his low, haunted croon met Gore's pained bleat they seemed to form a single voice - a strange disembodied howl rising up from the center of the machine.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Madison Square Garden New York NY Aug 3, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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by Glenn Gamboa
Depeche Mode @ Madison Square Garden, 8.3.09
Of all the bright-eyed groups from the bushy-tailed class of 1982 British New Wavers, few would have picked Depeche Mode as the one still selling out multiple nights at Madison Square Garden 27 years down the road.
They started out as a gaggle of nerds - charming, fashion-forward ones, but nerds, nonetheless - behind banks of synths, spinning out pure pretty pop faster than singer Dave Gahan could finish one of his onstage twirls.
But in the adapt-or-die world of the music industry, Depeche Mode, especially in chief songwriter Martin Gore's case, found itself uniquely able to adapt, while Gahan, it turns out, is also quite skilled at not dying, despite the odds. Their evolution was proudly on display last night at The Garden, both in songs from the new "Sounds of the Universe" album and in the way they have tweaked their classics to stay contemporary. (They return to The Garden for another show tonight.)
There's a new edgy guitar break in the slinky "It's No Good." There are some Nine Inch Nails-like aggressive synths in "Fly on The Windscreen," still the best seduction song ever to start with the come-on "Death is everywhere." And the way the once aloof and brittle "Enjoy the Silence" now extends into a bit of Talking Heads-ish funk, before regaining its icy demeanor, is masterful.
As far as the new songs, they hold their own. For most veteran bands, using three new songs to open their set would be a dicey situation, but Depeche Mode pulls it off. It helps that the bombastic, stomping single "Wrong" and the grinding "Hole to Feed" are built on sturdy melodies similar to ones that have already stood the test of time.
And then there's Gahan. Though he's been forced to cancel some shows due to a bout with gastroenteritis and tearing a calf muscle onstage in Spain, he sashayed and posed and spun across the stage without a care in the world. His stage performance has been tweaked, just like Depeche Mode's music, all for the better.
Instead of picking up the mic stand and whirling like a dervish, Gahan now spins in moderation and he occasionally tangos with the stand or makes broad ballroom moves like he was training for "Dancing With the Stars." His vocals are different as well, giving a sweeter twist to "Wrong" and a broader snarl to "I Feel You," which opened as a blues number. He even threw some Michael Jackson-esque "hee-hee hees" into "Strangelove."
Yes, you read that right. Who knows what Depeche Mode will think of next?
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Borgata Events Center Atlantic City NJ Aug 1, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Press of Atlantic City
by Dan Good
Everything old is new again as Depeche Mode plays Atlantic City
Smoke poured from the edges of the stage, and Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan clapped his hands. Behind the band, a video screen showed an old man's and young boy's faces set side by side, and everything old was new again.
The U.K. electronic pop-rock band performed at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa's Event Center Saturday, playing a stream of hits and new songs from April's "Sounds of the Universe" album.
The group formed in 1980. Twenty-nine years later, here was Depeche Mode, performing for a Borgata crowd sporting vintage T-shirts, nonregional accents and male-pattern baldness.
"Sounds of the Universe" is Depeche Mode's 12th studio album, and the group's first release since 2005. Prior to "Universe," the group split with longtime label Warner International, so this is the band's first effort with EMI Music.
Gahan was flanked onstage by guitarist Martin Gore and keyboardist Andrew Fletcher. Gahan and "Fletch" are the only remaining original members.
Gore wore a silver, spacey suit. Gahan wore a black vest onstage, with nothing underneath, Right Said Fred style. Makes you remember how cool it was to dress like a fetishist in the 1980s, or on a Saturday night in Atlantic City.
Gahan has faced some health issues lately - a bout with gastroenteritis and a leg injury resulted in recent concert cancellations. He seems to have recovered nicely, spinning across the stage Saturday, holding the microphone stand like a tango partner.
The group opened with "In Chains," the first song on their latest album, before moving into "Wrong," the CD's first single.
You sell 75 million albums, and you can pretty much do anything, but "In Chains" was a clunky, uninspired way to start things, especially given the group's deep catalog of hits.
An early fan favorite was 1993's "Walking in My Shoes," which the band performed in front of a video of a bird in the desert. Gahan dipped the microphone toward the crowd, allowing the audience to sing the chorus.
The song drips with synths, riffs and brashness, addressing self-worth and ego with the lyrics "You'll stumble in my footsteps / Keep the same appointments I kept / If you try walking in my shoes."
Reads like a Kanye West hook, but maybe Depeche Mode has something here. Who else really could walk in their shoes? Besides Duran Duran, there's not much remaining from the British electronic movement of the early 1980s.
But here is Depeche Mode, performing 30-year-old songs in black vests and silver suits, touring to support a new album, and everything old is new again.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Comcast Center Boston MA Jul 31, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Boston Herald
by Jim Sullivan
Depeche Mode delivers evolving, vital sound
Here's a familiar sight for Depeche Mode fans: Dave Gahan, the slick, swaggering, swivel-hipped singer, and his mates rocking out, electro style. They did so for two hours at Comcast Center on Friday.
You would not suspect that less than three months ago Gahan was hospitalized for a tumor.
Perhaps, Gahan's recovery and perseverance is a metaphor for the band. (He also survived a near-fatal drug overdose in 1996; he's clean now.)
Depeche Mode was there in the early '80s, the dawn of England's synth-pop movement, and they've survived and prospered through numerous fads and trends. And though they gave the adoring crowd such hits as "Enjoy the Silence," "Never Let Me Down" and "Personal Jesus," Depeche Mode also played four from their latest CD, their 12th studio effort, "Sounds of the Universe." The point? The band's not relying on nostalgia, it's still evolving and vital.
Guitarist/synthist/main songwriter Martin Gore and synthist Andrew Fletcher are the remaining original band members. Gahan joined early, after Vince Clarke departed. Synthist Peter Gordeno and drummer Christian Eigner flesh out the current touring band.
Depeche Mode mixed celebration and sadness, a hard, churning rhythmic grind with more ethereal touches. A large orb hung over the stage and images, live and prerecorded, danced on a huge LED screen behind the band. Video embellishments were everywhere.
Most impressive was the band's ability to juggle moods and shift emphasis. Gore sang two gorgeous ballads, "Little Soul" and "Home," and played crunching guitar riffs at many points. "I Feel You" was where Depeche Mode crossed over the synth divide to the land of metal.
Thematically, Depeche Mode favors troubling tales. Gahan began "Fly on the Windscreen" by singing "Death is everywhere." In "A Question of Time," he warned of the pressure to conform. But a Depeche Mode show is not doom-and-gloom. The group may cast dark shadows, but it also explodes with light and sound.
The Swedish band Peter, Bjorn and John opened with a melodic, minimalist set that was capped by a frenetic version of the Feelies' "Fa-Ce-La."
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Nissan Pavilion, Bristow, VA Jul 28, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Washington Post
by Mark Jenkins
Depeche Mode: Live Last Night
Roughly rendered, Depeche Mode means "fast fashion,'' a phrase that seemed increasingly inappropriate as the British band lumbered through a two-hour concert Tuesday night at Nissan Pavilion. Rarely has a pop group earned such devotion playing such draggy material.
The band, which began 29 years ago with sprightly synth-pop, now plays mostly ballads, dirges and marches, relieved by the occasional midtempo disco beat. At Nissan, the trio and its two longtime accompanists started slow with "In Chains'' and "Wrong,'' uninspired new songs. But the show's pulse quickened in its second half, which featured more material from the group's late-'80s peak.
The music combined simple keyboard motifs, skeleton-rattling beats and bleak lyrics. The best-known of the latter were often ceded to the audience by singer Dave Gahan, who encouraged the crowd to take the refrains of such glumly catchy tunes as "Stripped.'' Behind Gahan, a video screen illustrated diverse themes: universal brotherhood, space exploration and -- during "Strangelove'' -- foot fetishism.
Principal songwriter Martin Gore played guitar for most of the show, but it was audible chiefly during intros, outros or riffs unnecessarily transcribed from the original versions's keyboard melodies. The only song transformed by guitar was "Personal Jesus,'' which became a twangy blues-rocker. More such alchemy, and a few added uptempo songs, would have been welcome.
Openers Peter, Bjorn and John expanded such blithe ditties as "Young Folks'' with dance-club timbres and arena-rock flourishes. The bigger sound didn't seem entirely fitting, but the Swedish trio's songs proved sturdy enough to withstand the treatment.
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Bell Center Montreal Quebec Jul 25, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Policy Of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Montreal Gazette
by Mark Lepage
Legendary Depeche Mode hasn't lost its groove
Electropopsters electrify 12,500 at Bell Centre
By all rights, a name as fashion-specific as Depeche Mode's should have been lethal. It should have doomed this band to a quick Vogue moment, followed by the Sally Ann bin of pop trend. But no.
Instead, an electropop band thirty years into a career drew a five-figure crowd into a perpetual Standing O at the Bell Centre, performing as though they were hitting their peak before your eyes.
Too many years ago to admit to, I recall the moment in a Depeche Mode concert at the Forum when whatever-thousand pairs of arms rose in unison clapping overhead to Never Let Me Down.
It was a revelation then, of the popularity and pervasive influence of that electropop band your girlfriend liked. Last night would be confirmation of their endurance.
To begin with, 12,500 fans were ready for the new material. As the band powered up the retina-scorching rear video wall and sent out the first synth waves of In Chains, the crowd rose. A lean Dave Gahan projected the moody vocal, Martin Gore leaving the keyboard banks to Andrew Fletcher and the other guy to play guitar. The booming, angular Wrong led to the urban tribalism of Hole to Feed, live drums over the top of the machines as Gahan shimmied and strutted through his clubland Rod Stewart moves. The crowd remained standing throughout.
In an interview in New York last winter, Gore and Fletcher had, in their modest way, insisted that Depeche Mode was a revitlaized band heading into its fourth decade. And the mood here was triumphant, and emphatically live. The themes - temptation, lust, resentment, the important loneliness of Me Me Me - remain as eternal as a mirrorball and an overpriced club drink, but some new voltage was running through this.
Gahan is still the living element, the lens that focuses the kink of the material. Spinning around, shirtless in a vest, he's the disco Elvis. Gore is the kink itself, the lyric voice of deathless post-adolescent angst, and in his Ace Frehley tinfoil suit, playing a series of outlandish guitars, he took a greater stagefront role than ever. After a solo vocal in Little Soul had fans screaming, it seemed his eyeliner might run with gratitude.
So the fans loved the new summer looks. But let's go vintage for late July.
Policy of Truth galvanized the crowd with its chunky rhythms - again, incredible audience recognition factor - before the shuddering beat and grind of I Feel You took the band and the evening to another level.
With Gore leaning over his guitar and a Mars-landing series of lighting effects, this was Depeche Mode as an electropop Zep. The audience took half the vocals in Enjoy the Silence, with Gahan beaming and prancing up the catwalk while the band took the song into an extended funkytown coda. Cue the guitar and the stomp of Never Let Me Down. The place went off, and not in nostalgia for a Forum concert.
This tour has/will visit stadiums, and Depeche Mode has the formula right: the electropop machines remain massive, but the ghost in them is a sweaty, human one.
Peter, Bjorn & John opened with a set climaxing with Young Folks, and if you can't namecheck it, you know it as the whistle song - the blithe and maddeningly catchy melody the Swedish trio pulled out of the ether-bank of tunes and downloaded into the universal human memory rotation. Last night, one of the PB&Js vaulted the crowd barricade during the hit, sealing their own memorable moment.
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Fragile Tension
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
ENCORE
Stripped
Master And Servant
Stangelove
SECOND ENCORE
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Toronto Sun
by Jane Stevenson
Depeche Mode's Gahan thrills fans
Veteran British electro-dance-pop outfit Depeche Mode kicked off the North American leg of their so-called Tour Of The Universe in Toronto on Friday night at the Molson Amphitheatre with frontman Dave Gahan looking no worse the wear.
Gahan, you may recall, had a health scare back in May when he had a low-grade malignant tumor removed from his bladder, leading to the postponment of six European dates that were eventually rescheduled.
And just earlier this month, he also injured his leg on stage at a gig in Spain.
But if Gahan is feeling the effects of his recent health woes, he sure didn't show it on Friday night in front of a sold-out crowd as he gleefully performed his trademark dance moves that included some sexy hip-wiggling, shaking his backside at the audience and twirling around with his mic stand high in the air.
Yes, Gahan looked skinny, but when doesn't he, and his deep voice was clear and strong over the course of a 22-song show that stretched over two hours.
The group, which included founding members Martin Gore on guitar-keyboards and a sunglasses-wearing Andrew Fletcher on keyboards, played on an eye-catching stage dominated by a large LED video screen and matching circular ball screen hanging above the group.
Gore also looked sharp in a shiny silver sequin suit.
Unfortunately, it took a while for Depeche Mode to find their groove as they trotted out the obligatory new material from their latest album, Sounds Of The Universe, including the rather somber In Chains and Wrong, and the slightly more upbeat, Hole To Feed.
The audience, however, seemed thrilled just to have Gahan, in particular, in their presence and were on their feet immediately, cheering whenever he took off an article of clothing or was in exceptionally good dance form.
And when the hits finally kicked in - this is a group who have sold 100 million albums worldwide since their formation in 1980 - with Walking In My Shoes, which featured a backdrop of a crow on the video screen with a large eyeball projected on the ball above - the crowd couldn't be contained as they happily sang, danced and clapped along.
A string of crowdpleasers, It's No Good, A Question Of Time, and Precious - the latter from 2005's Playing The Angel - were interrupted by another buzz kill song, Fly On The Window, followed by Gore taking over on lead vocals for two back-to-back ballads, the new song Little Soul and Home (maybe to give Gahan a break), although Gahan eventually returned for two more unmemorable new song from Songs Of The Universe, Come Back and Fragile Tension.
The thing about Depeche Mode songs when they're good, they're great, but when they're bad, they seem to go on forever.
Thankfully, the second half of the show really kicked into high gear, beginning with the dramatic I Feel You, followed by the dance-happy Policy Of Truth, Enjoy The Silence - featuring Gahan, Gore and Fletcher as stoned-faced astronauts in a video - Never Let Me Down Again and an encore that brimmed with some kinky material like Master And Servant, Strangelove (featuring a video in which a young Asian woman sucked the toe of a young redheaded woman who eventually explosed her breasts), and the mother of all Depeche Mode songs, Personal Jesus.
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Personal Jesus
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Personal Jesus
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review HSH Nordbank Arena Hamburg, Germany Jul 1, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: TFI
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Puskas Ferenc Stadium Budapest Hungary June 23, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Figyelonet
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Knack.be
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Stadio San Siro Milan Italy June 18, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Stadio Olimpico Rome Italy June 16, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Little Soul
Home
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: TGCOM
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Depeche Mode Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Olympiastadion Munich Germany June 13, 2009
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
A Question Of Lust
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Sueddeutsche.de
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
A Question Of Lust
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
A Question Of Lust
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Der Tagesspiegel
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Setlist:
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
A Question Of Lust
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
Policy Of Truth
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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Review: Clash Music
by Robin Murray
Depeche Mode Continue Touring
Dave Gahan thanks fans
Electro rock legends Depeche Mode have resumed their 'Tour Of The Universe' with fit again frontman Dave Gahan.
Depeche Mode formed in Basildon in the early 80s, swiftly finding fame as part of the explosion of synth based groups. Founding member Vince Clarke departed after only one album, with the band continuing as a three piece.
Conquering America, Depeche Mode later introduced elements of industrial rock into their music, notably on the massively successful album 'Violator'.
After a short break the band returned earlier this year with their new album 'Sounds Of The Universe'. Massively successful, Depeche Mode set off on tour to promote the album, but the band's jaunt shuddered to a halt after only a few shows.
Singer Dave Gahan took ill before a show in Athens, forcing Depeche Mode to cancel a number of dates. Fans grew anxious for the frontman, who was said to suffering the affects of a dose of gastric flu.
However Gahan's health problems were much more serious than first thought, with the singer having a tumour removed from his bladder. Struggling back to full health, the list of cancellations continued with an O2 Arena date being pulled.
Now fit again, Depeche Mode took to the stage last night (June 8th) in Leipzig, Germany. Over 50,000 fans packed into the Zentral Stadium to witness a ferocious performance by the group, who were clearly relishing getting back on the road.
In a statement Dave Gaham said:
"I'm grateful to the fans for showing their support and thankful to my family, friends and all of the doctors who looked after me so well, " Dave Gahan said.
"Being back onstage is an incredible feeling and I'm looking forward to each and every show."
The band are set to announce re-organised dates later in the year. Amongst the cancelled dates were appearances in Croatia, Germany and of course London's O2 Arena. One of the biggest shows on the tour, it would mark Depeche Mode's first show in Britain in some time.
The group were rumoured to be in line for a headline slot at Glastonbury, but allegedly turned it down claiming that the line up did not reflect who they were musically.
Depeche Mode are set to play Berlin tomorrow (June 10th).
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*note Depeche Mode have cancelled the concert scheduled for Athens May 12th and Istanbul May 14th due to illness of singer David Gahan, Dave has been transferred to hospital with gastroenteritis. The following four dates:
Izvor Park, Bucharest, Romania - 16 May
Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria - 18 May
USCE Park, Belgrade, Serbia - 20 May
Zagreb Arena, Crotia - 21 May
have also been cancelled, fans are to hold tickets until a decision is made on rescheduling concerts affected
Setlist
Esque
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
I'ts No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
A Question Of Lust
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
In Sympathy
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Happy Birthday Dave
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
Izvor Park, Bucharest, Romania - 16 May
Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria - 18 May
USCE Park, Belgrade, Serbia - 20 May
Zagreb Arena, Crotia - 21 May
have also been cancelled, fans are to hold tickets until a decision is made on rescheduling concerts affected
Setlist
Esque
In Chains
Wrong
Hole To Feed
Walking In My Shoes
I'ts No Good
A Question Of Time
Precious
Fly On The Windscreen
Jezebel
A Question Of Lust
Come Back
Peace
In Your Room
I Feel You
In Sympathy
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again
Happy Birthday Dave
Stripped
Master And Servant
Strangelove
Personal Jesus
Waiting For The Night
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