DEPECHE MODE in SEVILLA

DEPECHE MODE live
At
CARTUJA STADIUM in SEVILLE
On
12th of July 2009

On Sunday the 12th of July 2009 DEPECHE MODE will play live at the Cartuja Stadium (Estadio de la Cartuja) in Seville. This concert is part of their latest world tour which will take off on the 10th of May in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

The organisation, Riff Productions (from Cazorla, Jaén, Andalusia), was also able to book the all time German electro band KRAFTWERK, the electro grand dads, as support. Kraftwerk are the pioneers and crucial for electro music and probably there won’t be any Depeche Mode if the world would have been without Kraftwerk.
The Spanish duo OBK will be the second support of the Depeche Mode concert. OBK also plays some kind of techno pop which could be classified at the same division of Depeche Mode.


BIOGRAPHY Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode has been active since 1980 and was formed in Basildon, Essex, location close to London. Their first album Speak & Spell was released in 1981 by Mute Records. The original line-up was Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar and vocals and main songwriter), Andrew Fletcher (keyboards) and Vince Clarke (keyboards and songwriter).

Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode


Vince Clarke left the band in after the release of their first album, Speak & Spell, and was replaced by Alan Wilder, who left the band on his turn in 1995, when Depeche Mode continued with Gahan, Gore and Fletcher, as a trio.

Depeche Mode is one of the longest-lived, influential and most successful band who survived the New Wave era, which started at the end of the 70’s. Till today, Depeche Mode, have had 45 songs in the UK singles charts and sold more than 75 million albums worldwide

While playing a live gig the band was approached by Daniel Miller. He was an electro musician and founder of Mute Records, who was interested in them recording a single for his burgeoning label. The result of this verbal contract was the single “Dreaming of me”, which was released in February 1981, reaching number 57 in the UK charts.

Encouraged by this, the band recorded its second single “New Life”, which reached number 11 in the UK charts. Three months later, the band released “Just can’t get enough”which till today still is their biggest hit. This record was in many ways a breakthrough for the band, and its success paved the way for its debut album “Speak & Spell”, released in November 1981, and eventually reaching number ten on the UK album charts.

Depeche Mode began to work on their second album in July 1982, A Broken Frame and in their early years, Depeche Mode had only really attained success in the UK, Europe, and Australia - however, this changed in March 1984, when they released the single “People are people”, and in September 1984, “Some Great Reward” was released, again a step forward in their career.

The music video for “A question of Time” was the first to be directed by Anton Corbijn, the beginning of a working relationship that continues to the present day. Anton has directed 19 more of the band's videos (the latest being 2006's “SufferWell”) and live performances, and has been responsible for some of the band's albums and singles covers.

Anton Corbijn



In the following years Depeche Mode would go to some transformation and more and more they would be the most important electro band and unique in its sort.
On the heels of Music for the Masses, the group played a follow-up world tour in 1987–88. The tour culminated on 18 June 1988 in a concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl with paid attendance of 60,453 (the highest in eight years for the venue). The tour meant an unprecedented breakthrough and massive success in the United States and was documented in ”101” a concert film by D.A. Pennebaker and its accompanying soundtrack album.

In February 1990, “Enjoy the Silence”, became one of Depeche Mode's most successful singles to date, reaching number six in the UK; a few months later in the U.S., it became Depeche Mode's biggest hit, reaching number eight, and earning the band a second gold single. It won 'Best British single' at the 1991 Brit Awards. To promote their new album “Violater”, they held an in-store autograph signing at the Warehouse Entertainment store location in West Los Angeles, which attracted approximately 20,000 fans, some of which were injured by being pressed against the store's glass by the crowd, and nearly caused a riot.



In 1993 “Songs of Faith and Devotion” saw them experimenting with more organic arrangements, based as much on heavily distorted electric guitars, keyboards and live drums. Live strings, Uillean Pipes and female gospel vocals were other new additions to the band's sound.

In 2001, Depeche Mode released “Exciter”, which was produced by Mark Bell (of the pioneering techno group LFO.). Bell introduced a minimalist, digital sound too much of the album, influenced by IDM and Glitch.

On 17 October 2005, the band released their 11th studio album “Playing the Angel”. featured the hit single “Precious”. The album was backed by the band's first in-store signing since 1990, on the day of release in New York City. This is the first Depeche Mode album to feature lyrics written by Gahan and, consequently, the first album since 1984's Some Great Reward featuring songs not written by Gore.

On 25 September 2006 Depeche Mode released their live DVD-CD set “Touring the Angel: Live in Milan”, directed by “Blue Leach”.
At a press conference in October 2008 the band announced plans for its “Tour of the Universe”, the group’s first-ever stadium tour in which they will perform in 28 cities across 21 countries throughout Europe and will commence on May 10, 2009 in Tel Aviv, Israel. On the 12th of July it will bring Depeche Mode to Seville.

On the 15th of January 2009 the official Depeche Mode website announced that the new album would be called “Sounds of the Universe”. The album will be released internationally on the 20th of April 2009. “Wrong” is the first single from the album.