From Billboard.com: Updating a story first posted yesterday (Oct. 6). Depeche Mode has renewed its long-term deal with Mute/EMI and is planning to release its 12th studio album April 20, 2009. Past Depeche Mode albums were licensed by Mute to Warner Bros. in the United States but will be under EMI's control moving forward.
At a press event yesterday (Oct. 6) in Berlin, the band also unveiled its 2009 Tour of the Universe, which will play 28 stadium dates worldwide beginning May 10 in Tel Aviv, Israel. As-yet-unannounced dates in North and South America will follow; Live Nation is promoting.
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The band announced the dates for the first European leg of their upcoming Tour Of The Universe. The band were in Berlin, and in high spirits, to make the announcement. The tour will start on May 10 in Israel, and will bring the band to North America and South America later in the year. Dates and pictures after the jump:
May
10 - Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan Stadium
12 - Athens, Terra Vibe Park
14 - Istanbul, Santral Istanbul
16 - Bucharest, Park Izvor
18 - Sofia, Vasil Levski Stadium
20 - Belgrade, USCE Park
21 - Zagreb, Arena (Tuborg Greenfest)
23 - Warsaw, Gwardia Stadium
25 - Riga, Skonto...
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Finally, we are proud to announce that the new Recoil website has gone on-line. By popular demand, Shunt has decided to revert back to a mainly Html site while still retaining some Flash elements. This allows viewers more flexibility. Thanks almost entirely to Oliver Thiede, this new version is virtually complete and will be regularly updated with many new features.
We hope you'll agree that the design is much more comprehensive and allows more interactivity as well as access to archive material from Shunt (version 1.0). Recoil also has a thriving interactive Myspace and Facebook presence....
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The German tour dates are slowly being revealed to us, and we've just been notified that from tonight at 20:00 CET, all the people who've registered for the Eventim Ticket-Alarm, will be able to reserve tickets. The dates so far are:
04.06. Düssekdorf LTU Arena
10.06 Berlin Olympic stadium
12.06. Frankfurt Commerzbank Arena
13.06 Munich Olympic stadium
Shows in Hamburg and Leipzig are also planned, but no dates announced yet!
(Thanks to band14 for translation and additional info)
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The official website just announced that the October 6th press conference will be streamed live at 13:30 CET (see below for international times). The band will be announcing their upcoming 2009 world tour. Watch the press conference live on depeche mode dot com.
The webcast is scheduled to kick off at 13:30 CET (Central European Time), which translates into:
Los Angeles: 04:30 am
Houston: 06:30 am
New York: 07:30 am
London: 12:30
Berlin: 13:30 (CET)
Moscow: 15:30
Hong Kong: 19:30
Tokyo: 20:30
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