The British group is back on tour after the death of keyboardist Andy Fletcher
AFP – Martin Gore, co-founder and principal composer of Depeche modeprepares to be haunted by memories during the British group’s world tour, the first since the death of his partner, Andy Fletcher, he said in an interview with AFP on Wednesday 5.
The sudden death of keyboardist Fletcher in May after four decades of working together continues to plague the group. During a press conference in Berlin on Tuesday, they announced the release of a new album, followed by a world tour, the first in five years.
“Andy loved hotel bars. When we travel the world, I’ll see him sitting in hotel bars with a beer in front of him. It’s like I can’t do without it,” said Gore, 61.
“I realized that when I walked into the hotel in Berlin, when I saw the bar where I had seen it so many times, it would happen again on our next tour,” explained the musician.
“I realized it was going to be a lot more painful than I imagined,” he acknowledged.
Titled Memento mori, the group’s 15th studio album will be released in March 2023.
Inspired by both the Covid-19 pandemic and the loss of Fletcher, who died at the age of 60 from a ruptured aorta, the album will be followed by a tour, the group’s 19, which kicks off in March in Sacramento. , in California, it will pass through cities such as London, Berlin and Paris.
“Somehow, his death cemented the title of the album,” Gore explained. “We thought it was a good title for the album, but after his death it felt really right.”
Depeche Mode have sold over one hundred million records worldwide. Among his greatest hits are: I can’t get enough, it all counts, never let me down again And walking in my shoes.
Pioneers of electronic pop in the early 1980s, they evolved this genre until it opened up to guitars in the 1990s.
Gore said many songs on the new album were inspired by his 60th birthday and growing sense of his own mortality.
But he finds solace in seeing that younger generations also enjoy the band’s music, both classical and newer.
“If you have parents who really like a band and they listen to their music all the time and it’s average good, the kids will always listen to it too,” Gore said.
“It is one of the best theories to explain why we have so many young people at our shows and even waiting in front of the hotel to see us. Each time, this is a real surprise,” he added.
For him the group continues to consider itself a pioneer of electronic music, a way not to fall into nostalgia.
“We have always tried to keep up with (technological advances) and it has always been important for us to have promising young people to perform our remixes and keep us on the cutting edge,” he said.
“I believe this allows us to continue to be interesting for the younger generation,” he concluded.
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