Dave Gahan: "Nós nunca sabemos se vamos fazer outro disco"

Dave Gahan has admitted that he and his bandmates "never know" if they they will make more records in the future. 

The band are set to release their 13th studio album 'Delta Machine' later this month (March 26), but speaking to Billboard, frontman Gahan insisted that he and the rest of the band never discuss the possibility of releasing another album.

"We never know if we're going to do another record together - we don't really talk about it," he said. "We're planning a big tour that is going to go on towards the end of the summer of 2014. When I actually think about that now, it sounds daunting, but I want to enjoy it. You never know if there is going to be another one."

The singer also said that the atmosphere in the band was currently positive. "We went through a lot together on the last tour, and probably the one before that and the one before that," he said. "When you're together with people for more than 30 years, there are bound to be ups and downs, things that bother you and things that you celebrate together. 

"This one feels kind of like that. Martin [Gore]'s in a really great place; really in great shape, great health; excited about this record. He and I, we're both in that place where we're in awe of life at the moment, and what it is and what it still offers us."

To watch the official video for the album's first single, 'Heaven', scroll down to the bottom of the page and click. The video was directed by Tim Saccenti and shot in New Orleans. Gahan has said that the video was inspired by Terrence Malick's 2011 film The Tree Of Life with "beautiful yet twisted, dark imagery". 

Depeche Mode play two shows at London's O2 Arena on May 28 and 29. 

These are currently the only UK dates the band have announced as part of 34-date European tour which will include appearances at Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium (July 7), BBK Festival in Spain (July 11) and Optimus Alive Festival in Portugal (July 13). A North American tour will follow later in the year.

Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/depeche-mode/69114#ZKuA8fBbWTCLG5Uq.99 

Fonte: NME

Crédito: Silvia Maria Santos

Exclusive: Depeche Mode To Play SXSW Showcase Presented By Yahoo!

Earlier this week, venerable synthpop gods Depeche Mode announced their plan to make their first-ever appearance at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, the music portion of which kicks off next Tuesday. This was cause for black celebration indeed, but there was just one issue: The legendary group's Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher were only scheduled to take part in a public Q&A, with no official concert on the SXSW calendar. Rumors immediately began swirling that the Mode would play a "secret" show at SXSW, but now it's not a secret anymore: Yahoo! Music is thrilled to exclusively reveal that Depeche will indeed be playing at SXSW--and their showcase will be presented by Yahoo!
Yes, Depeche Mode will perform an exclusive Yahoo! show at Austin's shiny new venue Brazos Hall on Friday, March 15, taking the stage at 10pm. Doors will open at 7pm, with the other acts on the bill including psychedelic dream-pop combo Feathers, L.A. indie buzz band the Neighbourhood, and Swedish DJ Eric Prydz.
Due to incredible (and understandable) demand, South By Southwest will hold a ticket lottery, open to SXSW Platinum and Music badge-holders, beginning today, March 8, at 12pm central time. For full ticket details and show info, go to http://www.sxsw.com/ticket-drawings.
However, don't fret if you're unable to score tickets or simply aren't in Austin next week: Depeche Mode's SXSW performance will be available right here on Yahoo! Music on March 26--the same day that the band's hotly anticipated 13th studio album, Delta Machine, comes out on Columbia Records.
And if you are in Austin next week and just can’t get enough of Depeche Mode, be sure to check out the band's career-spanning panel discussion--moderated by Jason Bentley, music director of Los Angeles tastemaker radio station KCRW--on Wednesday, March 13 at the Austin Convention Center. The discussion will open to anyone with a Music or Platinum badge or Artist Wristband.

Depeche Mode Q&A: Dave Gahan Talks 'Delta Machine,' Massive Tour Plans

BY JASON LIPSHUTZ
MARCH 8, 2013 | 3:25PM EST





The release of a new studio album is business as usual for Depeche Mode, which has, like clockwork, issued a new full-length and embarked on a coinciding tour every four years since 1993. Yet their 13th studio set, "Delta Machine," due Mar. 26 on its new label home Columbia Records, was created under unusual circumstances for the veteran alt-rock group. After years of well-documented infighting, the members, including frontman Dave Gahan and chief songwriter Martin Gore, were downright giddy working with each other.

Speaking to Billboard while sitting in a New York caf, Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan admits that his health struggles during the band's last tour supporting 2009's "Sounds of the Universe," which included a severe bout of gastroenteritis and the removal of a malignant tumor from his bladder, helped him appreciate working with Gore and multi-instrumentalist Andy Fletcher more than ever before. "I didn't really take in that I had felt pretty sick and managed to get through that," says Gahan, whose band grossed more than $72 million from 59 shows from the Tour of the Universe trek, according to Billboard Boxscore. "So when the tour was over, I spent a little time reflecting on that."

DEPECHE MODE TO SIT FOR FIRST SXSW INTERVIEW
Before Depeche Mode releases "Delta Machine" later this month and kicks off a 34-date European stadium tour on May 7 in Tel Aviv, Gahan spoke with Billboard about promoting an album in 2013, his ambitious touring plans and why the new album marks the end of a trilogy.  


Billboard: Your last tour, the "Tour of the Universe," was incredibly ambitious and highly successful. When you're getting this new stage show together, is it daunting to have to follow that up?

Gahan: You know, I don't really feel like that anymore. There was definitely a time in my life where I was like, "You've got to be bigger, faster, stronger, better." Over the years, this being our 13th studio album working on this record somehow felt like a new thing. Martin and I were really on the same page what we were doing writing-wise, and we just really came together, so it was a really enjoyable experience to do. As far as the tour goes, on the last tour there were lots of ups and downs personally. Physically, I had some problems -- I got sick for a bit and I got through that. Then I had some other problems with my voice, which I think all has to do with the fact that I was struggling to try and get my body back together after being diagnosed with cancer, unfortunately, at the beginning of that tour. Every time we took a break, I went back to the hospital for some more treatment, so it was a bit of an uphill battle. But the tour itself and the shows themselves were absolutely extraordinary. Talk about a mixture that lifts your spirits!

This tour, we've got some ambitious plans. We're starting out pretty large in Europe, going to some big stadiums for a bunch of shows, and then we come back to the States and go into more reasonable sized venues, lots of arenas, and that brings us close to Christmas. We're already now planning another European leg and then definitely South America and possibly Asia. Then I think we're planning to come back to America, and some more festivals in Europe in the summer of 2014.

How long ago were you and Martin conceptualizing the songs for "Delta Machine"?

At the end of the last tour, we just kind of go our separate ways. We give each other a big hug and go, really; We never really make any plans after that. It was shortly after that, a few months after, Martin caught me up in an email, and I told him I was writing and I was doing a Soulsavers thing. And Martin ended up going doing the [VCMG] thing with Vince Clarke, so it worked well, and I think that of inspired him, too. I would say toward the end of the year after the "Sounds of the Universe" tour, it took about a year or 9 months. I started writing in my studio in New York, gathering with my friend Kurt Uenala, who actually co-wrote all the songs on Delta Machine with me. I was going in, singing, and working out stuff with the the Soulsavers and he came up with ideas and we started writing stuff on the side, Depeche stuff.

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The first single, "Heaven," is a curveball. Why did you want a song with a slower tempo to lead off the album? 

To be honest, we were all gung-ho on the track "Angel," which is a little more aggressive and a little more typical of what you'd expect from a first record. Then we tracked stuff ahead of it, and I personally feel like ["Heaven"] is one of the best songs Martin's written in many, many years, for many reasons. It's just one of those songs that makes me want to continue making music, long story short. As soon as I heard it, I was excited to sing it. When I actually got into singing it and we started recording it, I felt like it was a piece of work that set a standard for the record. 

DAVE GAHAN TALKS SOULSAVERS, 'PUNCHIER' DEPECHE MODE SONGS
During the first couple of sessions, at least I felt pressure from some other people to what should be the first single. Like I said, at first we thought Angel really, but I thought, "I just think this is the best song." It was agreed upon that it was the best song, and that was really the reason. We weren't really thinking it won't get played on the radio; it won't be this or that. It represented a shift in where we are, who we are as people -- I don't know, just a change. It's just pretty much a straight-ahead sort of blues-y, gospel-y track and I think that's where the comparisons are drawn to "Songs of Faith and Devotion" and certainly "Violator." 

Depeche Mode has been releasing music consistently for 30 years, but even since "Sounds of the Universe" was released in 2009, social media and the way an album is promoted has drastically changed. How aware are you of these types of shifts?

I'm very aware of it. I think Martin is very aware of it too. Martin is very into technology, and he's amazed by the Internet and the fact that the world is really at your fingertips. He definitely had embraced that -- I, not so much. I'm a little skeptical. I don't spend a lot of time on my computer and stuff I don't really buy into it. I don't buy into the fact we have to be contained by it in terms of what we do artistically. Sadly, I think one bad side of it is [the loss of] a lot of that mystery, and some of that specialness. When I was growing up in the early 70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special. Waiting for the album, waiting for the artwork to maybe find out what the band looked like -- that, these days, sadly is gone, because we find out everything we want to know about a person in a second. 

It was good on this record to kind of have Flood back on board and have Flood mixing the record -- that technology was good there, because Martin and I would get on Skype with him and he'd be in London mixing while we were in New York still recording. That's the only way we'd communicated with him! We did not spend any time in the studio with him. I think this record as well is the end of a trilogy of records that we're doing with Ben Hillier. He produced the last three records, including this one [and 2005's "Playing The Angel" and 2009's "Sounds of the Universe"], and this one, for me, got to where we were trying to go with the first one. "Sounds of the Universe" was certainly more landscape-y, more filmic, and I think this was more of a combination of the two elements there. It's very driven, it's very out front, and it still has some of those kinds of dreamy qualities to it as well.

It sounds like the recording of this album was an incredibly enjoyable experience.

Look, we went through a lot together on the last tour, and probably the one before that and the one before that. When you're together with people for more than 30 years, there are bound to be ups and downs, things that bother you and things that you celebrate together. This one feels kind of like that. Martin's in a really great place; really in great shape, great health; excited about this record. He and I, we're both in that place where we're in awe of life at the moment, and what it is and what it still offers us. We never know if we're going to do another record together -- we don't really talk about it. We're planning a big tour that is going to go on towards the end of the summer of 2014. When I actually think about that now, it sounds daunting, but I want to enjoy it. You never know if there is going to be another one.

Billboard:

http://m.billboard.com/articles/news/1551189/depeche-mode-qa-dave-gahan-talks-delta-machine-massive-tour-plans

Homenagem a todas devotees do universo!

Depeche Mode: grandioso no es lo mismo que grande

Valorar un álbum a partir de una única escucha es como comprar un piso después de verlo de noche. Arriesgado. Más si, como es el caso de Delta Machine, da la impresión de que la ecualización elegida por Sony para escucharlo esta mañana en su sede exageraba los graves. El decimotercer trabajo de estudio de Depeche Mode sonaba tan duro que tenía un aire marcial.

Hechos incuestionables: es un disco largo. Trece canciones, alrededor de 60 minutos. Es muy electrónico, muy épico, muy grandioso, muy de estadio. Hasta ahí. Afirmaciones osadas: no hay ni un solo estribillo memorable, ni una sola canción digna de entrar en el panteón de los éxitos del grupo de Basildon. Esos mismos que durante casi 20 años llenaban sus discos de hits con una facilidad asombrosa.

Hijos del sello Mute, la más continental de las indies surgidas en el post-punk británico, su especialidad siempre ha sido limar aristas, convertir en comerciales cosas que en principio parecerían poco accesibles al gran público. El truco era inyectar sentimiento a la oscuridad. Alma a la máquina. Contaban con un compositor con talento, Martin Gore, y con la histriónica personalidad de su vocalista, Dave Gahan. Un sex symbol tan chulesco como decadente y frágil que daba  credibilidad a sus letras atormentadas. Pero de eso hace ya algún tiempo.

Da la impresión de que ya no necesitan más sencillos, que les sobra repertorio para hacer directos de dos o tres horas, que los nuevos temas son material para incluir entre los éxitos del grupo. Relleno muy bien hecho. Y pensado para encajar entre las canciones de Violator o Songs of faith and devotion, etapa favorita de muchos de sus fans.

Delta Machine está lleno de guiños. En Angel parecen reclamar de Nine Inch Nails lo que los estadounidenses les tomaron prestado previamente. Soft Touch / Raw nerve es casi desde el título, un poco disimulado homenaje tecno al White light / White Heat de la Velvet Underground. Son bastante tremendos los autohomenajes: Goodbye recuerda demasiado a I Feel you; Broken es tan parecida a Enjoy The Silence, que sonroja. Tanto que se podría apostar por ella como próximo sencillo. Should be higher, quizás la melodía menos obvia de todo el disco, podría ser otra opción. Slow tiene un comienzo blusero, y es la primera en la que la melodía vocal de Gahan parece imponerse sobre la instrumentación. Es como si Gahan y Gore vivieran en dos universos paralelos y en su conjunción lo más prescindible fuera la voz de Gahan. Parece más música instrumental con voz que canciones.

Pero lo que resulta más difícil de evitar es la sensación de que casi todo suena a conocido, que ha sido fabricado con el ritmo perfecto para que Gahan mueva las caderas y dé palmas en el escenario. Que todo está pensado para que funcione si suena en un estadio, delante de miles de personas.

Resulta casi inevitable encontrar similitudes entre estos Depeche Mode y los Rolling Stones de los últimos 20 años. Es el único grupo de la primera generación del postpunk británico (exceptuando a The Cure), que ha alcanzado la categoría de banda de estadio. Depeche Mode tiene un frontman a lo Jagger, Dave Gahan; un músico a lo Richards, Martin Gore y un tercero en discordia que anda por ahí, Andy Fletcher, para dar la apariencia de grupo..

Pero sobre todo, lo que parece es que más que un grupo es una empresa. Una engrasada maquinaria de generar dinero. Solo hay que mirar los datos que maneja su compañía. "Sus ventas globales superan los cien millones de discos. Los 12 álbumes de estudio publicados hasta ahora han llegado al Top Ten en más de 20 países, entre ellos Estados Unidos y Reino Unido. Su último álbum, sounds of the Universe, debutó en el número Uno en las listas de 14 países".

Y las giras. Tres millones de entradas colocaron entre 2009 y 2010, en 31 países. Y ya está preparada la próxima: 34 conciertos en 25 países. Estadios olímpicos, festivales... a lo grande.

Delta machine, un disco entre trece, carece de importancia real dentro del contexto global. Es solo una parte de algo mucho más grande.  Como los Stones, Depeche Mode han convertido su propia existencia en su mejor obra. No se va a ver a los Stones para escuchar sus nuevas canciones. Se va porque son quienes son. Un poco lo que pasa con Depeche Mode después de 33 años. Es material para los creyentes, no para convertir. Si alguien quiere convencer a otro de la calidad del grupo no es probable que elija este disco.

Publicado por: El País

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/03/07/tentaciones/1362662637_258999.html

Crédito: Juliana Souza

SOOTHE MY SOUL - Segundo single?!

Parece que o segundo single de DELTA MACHINE vai ser a canção SOOTHE MY SOUL. A revelação foi feita por ANDY FLETCHER em entrevista recente... Ficamos à espera!

Crédito: Depeche Mode Fanclub Portugal

Ganhe uma viagem à Áustria para um concerto exclusivo dos Depeche Mode

COMO PARTICIPAR:

"Heaven" é o nome do novo single dos Depeche Mode e a Rádio Comercial, em conjunto com a Sony, quer levá-lo a conhecer este "céu" de uma forma muito especial e intimista. Para ganhar uma viagem à Áustria para um concerto exclusivo dos Depeche Mode, só tem de tentar convencer São Pedro a entrar no "Heaven" dos Depeche Mode. Pode cantar, dançar, fazer malabarismos e até portar-se mal... O importante é ser CRIATIVO. Depois filme tudo e envie para nós! O e-mail para enviar o seu vídeo é desafio@radiocomercial.clix.pt 

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Data limite de participação: 14 de Março às 23h59
Vencedor anunciado no dia 15 de Março. 



Prémio: O Passatempo inclui viagem, estadia, alimentação e bilhete para assistir ao showcase intimista dos Depeche Mode. Prémio para um vencedor, sem acompanhante!

Espectáculo: 24 de Março | Viena - Áustria




Novo álbum de originais "Delta Machine"


Os Depeche Mode preparam-se para editar um novo disco, o 13º da carreira, a 25 de Março pela Sony Music. O álbum foi gravado entre Santa Barbara na California e Nova Iorque, foi produzido por Ben Hillier e mixado por Flood. A banda britânica actua ainda como cabeça de cartaz na edição 2013 do Optimus Alive, no dia 13 de Julho, numa digressão europeia que irá começar em Tel Aviv a 7 de Maio.

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