As Touring The Angel is winding it's way through Europe, the band have started confirming dates for the third leg of the tour, scheduled to take them through North American and Mexico in April and May. More details for Depeche Mode's upcoming Summer Tour in support of their current album, Playing The Angel, have been announced. This leg of the tour will see them return to Mexico for two dates as well as more dates in the US. Depeche Mode last played Mexico in 1994, so this is really exciting news for all the Devotees there in Mexico. The much rumored NY and Chicago shows have now been confirmed...
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Depeche Mode had their recent two-night stop in Milan, Italy filmed for an upcoming live DVD tentatively set for release in September 2006. The shoot was helmed by Blue Leach, and not as rumoured Anton Corbijn.Depeche Mode's two shows the weekend of February 18 at Milan's Filaforum were recorded for a live DVD that is expected to be released in September."We're quite excited, because the audience went absolutely bananas," drummer Andrew Fletcher told Billboard.com. "We did Paris (for the last DVD), and we thought we'd do Milan since we work there a lot, and it worked out really well."The DVD was directed...
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As Depeche Mode continues to tour the world in support of their new album, "Playing The Angel", the third single from the album "Suffer Well" will see it's release in March. The single will feature a lot of formats again, CD, DVD, as well as 12" and 7" vinyl. The CDs and DVD will be out on March 6th while the vinyl formats will be released on March 20th.The "Suffer Well" Club Mix Promo CD (PCDBong37) is out and Empty World 3 has it. Like all their singles, an eclectic group has been picked to remix. The single features remixes from Tiga, Alter Ego, Narcotic Thrust, Metope and Mute label mates M83....
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Details are beginning to pop up on the forthcoming 3rd leg of Touring The Angel, which sees the band return to North American in late April.Details about the upcoming Summer tour in the US are finally beginning to come through. In additition to the three, already announced shows DM.tv reports that the band will add gigs in New York and Chicago to their US visit this spring. No word yet on which venue they'll visit in the Windy City but you can look for the band to return to Jones Beach when they return to New York. The band are also expected to make a return to Mexico, for the first time in 12 years.For...
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Empty World 3's Pete recently got hold of Dave McCracken, programmer on Playing The Angel, for a chat on the album, being a fan, and much much more. Read on for the full thing.What were your opinions on Depeche Mode before you worked with them?I thought they were fucking genius, I am a massive fan.Considering Richard Morris has done a lot of the programming work with Ben Hillier on his other projects, was there a specific reason you were brought in?It was just because I come from more of a songwriting background. Depeche Mode are very heavily programmed they are also really melodic, and also I knew...
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