Depeche Mode kicked off their world tour on Thursday evening on the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, delivering their first U.S. live performance in almost 5 years.
Excitement for the present was palpable inside area, even earlier than Depeche Mode took the stage. The efficiency got here only a day earlier than the discharge of the band’s new album, Memento Mori, the fifteenth studio LP of their spectacular profession. Several tracks from the album have been featured in the evening’s set record, together with opening tune “My Cosmos Is Mine.”
Early set highlights included a pair of tracks from the ’90s, “Walking in My Shoes” (from 1993’s Songs of Faith and Devotion) and “It’s No Good” (from 1997’s Ultra). The band was in advantageous type on the evening, with frontman Dave Gahan displaying primal enthusiasm on prime of his distinctive baritone voice. The singer spent a lot of the evening slinking throughout the stage, twisting, dancing and writhing as he belted out tunes.
Watch Depeche Mode Perform ‘Walking in My Shoes’
The efficiency additionally notably marked Depeche Mode’s first U.S. live performance with out founding member Andy Fletcher. The keyboardist died instantly on May 26 of what was later revealed to be “an aortic dissection.” Though he’s now not alive, the rocker’s presence was definitely felt throughout Depeche Mode’s present.
As the band performed “World in My Eyes” just a little greater than halfway by way of their set, a large black and white image of Fletcher was proven on the screens behind the band. The tune, from 1990’s Violator, was one of many keyboardist’s favourite tracks, and Gahan devoted its efficiency to Fletcher.
Watch Depeche Mode Perform ‘World in My Eyes’
Depeche Mode closed their preliminary set with a triumphant efficiency of “Enjoy the Silence,” earlier than returning for a 4 tune encore. Gahan and guitarist/backing singer Martin Gore dueted on an emotional rendition of “Waiting for Tonight,” earlier than closing the night with three of the band’s greatest hits: “Just Can’t Get Enough,” “Never Let Me Down Again” and “Personal Jesus.”
Videos and the total set record from the band’s Sacramento present might be discovered beneath.
This leg of Depeche Mode’s tour will proceed by way of an April 14 efficiency at New York’s Madison Square Garden. From there the band heads abroad for a run of European dates, lasting by way of the summer time. The group returns Stateside for a fall trek in September.
Watch Depeche Mode Perform ‘Enjoy the Silence’
Watch Depeche Mode Perform ‘Ghosts Again’
Watch Depeche Mode Perform ‘Speak to Me’
Watch Depeche Mode Perform ‘Personal Jesus’
Depeche Mode, 3/24/23, Golden 1 Center, Sacramento
1. “My Cosmos Is Mine”
2. “Wagging Tongue”
3. “Walking in My Shoes”
4. “It’s No Good”
5. “Sister of Night”
6. “In Your Room”
7. “Everything Counts”
8. “Precious”
9. “Speak to Me”
10. “A Question of Lust”
11 “Soul With Me”
12. “Ghosts Again”
13. “I Feel You”
14. “A Pain That I’m Used To”
15. “World in My Eyes”
16. “Wrong”
17. “Stripped”
18. “John the Revelator”
19. “Enjoy the Silence”
20. “Waiting for the Night”
21. “Just Can’t Get Enough”
22. “Never Let Me Down Again”
23. “Personal Jesus”
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