The cult band Depeche Mode will perform in Prague at the end of July next year
Update: 4/10/2022 2:14 p.m
Issued by: 4/10/2022, 2:14 p.m
Prague – The cult band Depeche Mode will go on a world tour after five years, on Sunday, July 30 next year, they will perform at Letňany Airport in Prague. The tour will support Memento Mori’s upcoming fifteenth studio album, due out in spring 2023. Dave Gahan and Martin Gore said the tour will kick off on March 23 with a special limited run of shows at North American bands before heading to Europe for a summer stadium tour. ČTK was informed about this by Ondřej Pojzl from the organizing agency Live Nation.
Advance ticket sales for the Prague concert will begin on October 10, ticket prices start at 1,690 CZK.
Depeche Mode fans will no longer see keyboardist Andrew Fletcher. One of the founding members of the group died this May at the age of 60 due to aortic dissection. “We started working on the Memento Mori project at the beginning of the pandemic and its themes were directly inspired by that time. After Fletch’s death, we decided to continue because we’re sure he would have wanted it, and that really added meaning to the project,” said the guitarist and the Gore key.
Singer Gahan added that Fletch would have liked the album. “We’re really looking forward to sharing it with you soon and can’t wait to bring it to you in concert next year,” he said.
The Memento Mori Tour will be Depeche Mode’s nineteenth tour. The final 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour was the longest to date and was the highest grossing tour of the year, playing to over three million fans across 130 shows in Europe and North America. Memento Mori will be Depeche Mode’s fifteenth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed Spirit.
In the Czech Republic, Depeche Mode last performed at the beginning of 2018 in the sold-out O2 arena in Prague. For the very first time, the cult “Dešáci” performed in the Czech Republic during the communist regime, in the sports hall in Prague’s Holešovice in 1988. The black clothing of most of the visitors to the last concert in Prague showed that the number of orthodox fans dressing like their idol Gahan lives in the Czech Republic to this day.
To date, Depeche Mode has sold more than 100 million records and performed for more than 30 million fans worldwide. The group got together in 1980 in Basildon, England, and a year later broke into the music world with the single Just Can’t Get Enough from the album Speak & Spell. It eventually became one of the pioneering groups to use new methods of sampling natural sounds. The band also liked to release their songs in several remixes.