Following a short break after spending much of 2023 on the road, later this month Depeche Mode kick back into action for what’s being touted as Leg 4 of the tour to support their 15th studio album Memento Mori, released last year. But despite the fact the Basildon synth-rock titans have been playing the world’s biggest arenas and stadia since becoming huge in the mid- 80s, it still takes a gruelling amount of preparation for frontman Dave Gahan ahead of each jaunt.
Speaking to this writer back in 2007, Gahan said his central concern during a period when the band are on the road is the show. Everything he does is geared around it. “It used to be a lot of other things,” said Gahan, who’s been sober since the 90s. “But all I care about now is, how can I do my best performance? I’m old now, there’s a lot of things I have to do.”
