Depeche Mode összes

Depeche Mode összes

A Depeche Mode felkészül a rekordbevételre a Hollywood Bowl-koncerteken (ocregister.com)

2017. október 12. - Szigi.
After wrapping up its lengthy Delta Machine Tour in support of its 13th studio album, “Delta Machine,” in 2014, English electronic band Depeche Mode decided to take a bit of a break.

The trio – including vocalist Dave Gahan, vocalist, guitarist and keys player Martin Gore and bassist and keys player Andrew “Fletch” Fletcher – didn’t stay dormant for long and reemerged in February with their brand new and politically timely single, “Where’s the Revolution.” The group also dropped its 14th studio album, “Spirit,” on March 17.

“You have to remember that Martin wrote these songs two years ago,” Fletcher said during a promotional press day in Los Angeles back in April before the Global Spirit Tour kicked off in Sweden on May 5. “That’s how his mind was thinking back then – things were bad with Brexit and then Trump is president – so Martin was already thinking back then that things were going to be bad.”

Of course the band, which has been an area favorite since the mid-’80s, even selling out the Rose Bowl in Pasadena with a crowd of 65,000 in 1988, wasn’t going to skimp on its shows in the Los Angeles area. At first, Depeche Mode announced two nights at the Hollywood Bowl, Thursday, Oct. 12 and Saturday, Oct. 14. As tickets began to sell out quickly, the band added Monday, Oct. 16 and a few days later, announced a venue record-setting fourth show on Wednesday, Oct. 18. Depeche Mode is the first band to play that many consecutive concerts at the iconic 18,000-capacity Los Angeles venue.

“We’ve always kind of held a special positioning here in Los Angeles,” Fletcher said. “Even from our early gigs in clubs to the Rose Bowl and it was a big deal for us when we played the Hollywood Bowl the very first time. It’s amazing now to be able to do that four times. It’s also fun to play these places with history. I mean, the Beatles played the Hollywood Bowl. That’s enough.”

Depeche Mode chose Los Angeles indie rock band Warpaint to open on the tour through North America and into Canada. Fletcher said he actually first met Warpaint anchor Stella Mozgawa a couple of years ago at his local pub in London.

“We sat down and actually had a meal with her and her friends,” he recalled. “They were just starting out then, they had maybe been around three years. We listened to their music and we just liked it.”

According to Fletcher, the Global Spirit Tour has sold more quickly around the globe than the band’s last two tours.

“We’re not like this high profile band and we haven’t done anything since the last tour and suddenly this tour is more popular than the last two,” he said. “It sort of makes you feel like we’re doing something right? It must be.”

Knowing that the diehard fans have purchased tickets to two, three or possibly all four of the shows at the Hollywood Bowl, Fletcher said that they’d make sure to change the set around a bit.

“We definitely have that in mind,” he said. “We will do something a little different each night, something special just for those fans.”

Back in August, hundreds of Depeche Mode fans got together at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to watch a screening of the documentary “Depeche Mode 101,” which chronicled the final leg of the tour in support of its album “Music for the Masses” and the band’s sold-out performance at the Rose Bowl on June 18, 1988.

“That was a special time for Depeche Mode,” Fletcher said. “It was a special time for alternative music, it all kind of started around that period of time when all of these wonderful bands started coming out. When we announced it, there was a lot of skeptics that thought we wouldn’t sell many tickets. It was a risk all around and also for KROQ, since they were promoting it. It turned out to be a stand-alone moment that really kicked off some big music in America.”

For the new album, Depeche Mode stepped a bit outside of its comfort zone and tapped the talents of producer James Ford, who had previously worked with artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Peaches and Florence and the Machine. The process, Fletcher said, was incredibly fast for “a notoriously slow band in the studio.”

“We finished the album in three sessions of four or five weeks,” he said. “That’s one of the reasons we’re in quite the good mood at the moment because it gave us literally two months off when normally we’d be slaving away until the end. James is a multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist, a great producer who knows how to get a great sound. We were quite confident because obviously the bands he produced before – Arctic Monkeys and Florence and the Machine – those are good sounding records and in his second guise he’s in a synth pop duo, Simian Mobile Disco, so we knew he was one of us.”

Fletcher said that the band is grateful that the fans have latched on to the new material including the singles “Where’s the Revolution” and “Going Backwards,” despite their clear political tone.

“I was surprised because we did make a similar album, our third album, ‘Construction Time Again,’ which was similar in theme,” he said. “Martin didn’t really like the reaction, the journalists talking about how it was just about politics and things like that. Martin is a brilliant songwriter and Dave is a great songwriter as well. He’s always written songs that make people think. In fact, a lot of those songs are about politics, but he’s done it with a twist with like ‘Personal Jesus.’ He uses analogies like sex and Jesus to get those thoughts across.”

“You have to give Martin credit because we’re releasing this album now and it’s the right time. All of this will lead to loads of other groups trying to scramble to get something together, but as you know those won’t come out for a year or two, but the moment is here. It’s incredible how hip politics is at the moment and that has to be a good thing because most of the time people aren’t interested in politics. Maybe it won’t turn out as doomy as everyone thinks, but who knows?”

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