Depeche Mode ads BBK Live Festival in Bilbao on Thursday July 9th to the schedule. Additional Spanish dates are expected to be announced shortly. We'll update this story as more details come in. Tickets for the BBK Festival go on sale November 12th.
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Music news site, Pollstar, has taken a look at how well tickets are selling against the backdrop of a collapsing world economy. We've run the article through a slight re-write, to weed out all the non-Mode related fluff. Enjoy!
Depeche Mode concert promoter, Live Nation, chief Michael Rapino said history proves a recession doesn’t stop people from going to shows. As the financial pages were all but edged in black, fans of Depeche Mode were busy reinforcing his point.
“I think it was the worst week in financial history to have put shows on sale,” said Andrew Zweck from LN’s Sensible...
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Depeche Mode have added a second show in Düsseldorf on June 5th, 2009. Ticket sales have been going strong with more than 200.000 tickets sold for the German tickets alone. Tickets for the added show, as well as the previously announced six German shows can be bought at Eventim.de.
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In a story about the quick sell out of the London O2 arena show, Uncut magazine brings a quote stating that the first single from the upcoming Mode album will hit radios in February. Make the jump for the full thing!
From UNCUT:
Depeche Mode's Tour of the Universe European leg announced last week has seen record number of tickets sold since going on sale last Friday (October 10).
A spokesman for the 02 Arena where DM will play their only UK date on May 30, 2009 says that tickets: "Sold out in literally minutes blocking phone lines and crashing websites as fans scrambled for tickets, all European...
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In a very wordy press release put out today, EMI officially restates what the band officially revealed at the press conference yesterday: Mode is back in the fold at Mute/EMI. The press release (copied in full after the jump) is fleshed out with comments from EMI staffers, Mode-man Andy Fletcher, as well as everybody's fave label boss: Daniel Miller!
EMI PRESS RELEASE (with the release date bit in bold):
Depeche Mode sign worldwide exclusive deal with EMI Music - to include the US for the first time
Agreement expands EMI label Mute's decades-long relationship with multi-platinum electronic...
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