The demand for tickets for the concerts of Depeche Mode’s indoor tour seems to be so overwhelming that additional concerts have already been scheduled, although the regular ticket sales for the winter shows have not yet started. Now the band announced on Friday evening (July 14th) that they will be doing additional gigs in both Cologne and Berlin.
Depeche Mode live 2024 – all dates:
April 3, 2024 Cologne – LANXESS Arena tickets
04/05/2024 Cologne – LANXESS Arena tickets
04/08/2024 New: Cologne – LANXESS Arena tickets
Tickets from Monday:
February 13, 2024 Berlin – Mercedes-Benz Arena
February 15, 2024 Berlin – Mercedes-Benz Arena
02/17/2024 Hamburg – Barclays Arena
02/20/2024 New: Berlin – Mercedes Benz Arena
07.03.2024 Munich – Olympic Hall
“Cologne 3” can already be tackled. There are tickets, for example here. Tickets for “Berlin 3” are already available from Ticketmaster.
Ticketmaster.com’s pricing policy is once again causing displeasure. The occasion is the current Depeche Mode tour — specifically the so-called platinum tickets, which are offered via Ticketmaster. “Thanks for nothing! It’s just outrageous and crazy what Ticketmaster is doing,” writes the fan page “Depeche Mode Europe” in a Facebook post. “Stop ignoring normal ticket prices, stop ripping off the fans! STOP Platinum Tickets!!! Thanks for nothing!“, the posting continues.
What platinum tickets are all about
“The exclusive Platinum Tickets give you the opportunity to access tickets that are provided directly by the artist and management on an as-needed basis,” according to the Ticketmaster website. “Thanks to market-driven pricing, Ticketmaster Platin provides fair and secure access to tickets that are in high demand.”
About Memento Mori:
Their songs used to be so catchy that Depeche Mode didn’t start with the verse but with the chorus, for example “Strangelove”. Only the Beatles and Abba could do that. But what could meanwhile be more important to them than catchy tunes: the epic story, fed by a life full of deprivation – near death (Gahan), death (Fletcher) and fear of war (Gore) – and presented in long, poetic texts.
Produced by James Ford in the washed-out, unnecessarily noisy “dirty electro” sound of “Playing the Angel” (2005) and more meditative than eventful, the twelve songs nevertheless reveal some insights. “I’m heading for the ever after / leaving my problems / and the world’s disasters” sings Martin Gore in the escapist “Soul with me”, and every song text will surely be checked for weeks to see whether it’s about Fletch – Dave Gahan begs in “Speak To Me: “Give me something, you’d be my drug of choice”. Some of the references to prominent role models are artful, like the watery “Franz Schubert” tones of the Kraftwerk piece of the same name; only when it’s supposed to be blues does Gahan, encouraged by his successful solo career, immerse himself a little too deeply in pathos and stylism (“Don’t Say You Love Me”).
real hits? Haven’t written Depeche Mode for many years. But these songs have a gravitas that didn’t exist before. They are no longer fantasy. But confessions, requests, negotiations. Maybe DM are sealing themselves off. They used to invite, “Welcome To My World”. Now it says, right at the beginning: “My Cosmos Is Mine”.
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