Lots of Depeche Mode news has been puring in the last few days, here's a round up. EMI has confirmed us that Depeche Mode is to hold a press conference on June 16th in Dusseldorf, Germany. According to the EMI spokeswoman the band will announce a few selected dates of their Fall tour together with details of their upcoming album which is tentatively planned for release on October 17th in Europe. The band has in the meantime revealed more details on the forthcoming album in an interview with Q Magazine. According to Q the first working titles announced include "Pain", "Suffer Well", "Everything", "Free", "Sinner In Me", "Martyr For Love" and "Macro". Dave Gahan has been quoted saying that the album sounds somewhere between Violator and SOFAD. But knowing that in the past he compared "Exciter" to "Black Celebration" there is not exactly a guarantee that the new material will indeed sound the way Gahan likes describing it. The band will now continue recording in New York at the Stratosphere Studios after their first sessions at Sound Design in Santa Barbara. In total it seems that 12 songs have been written, by Martin Gore and Dave Gahan, to work on. Working with the band in the studio are Ben Hillier (Blur, Clinic, Suede and Elbow) and Dave McCracken (Seal, All Saints, Goldie and James). Layoutwise Anton Corbijn has again been selected to work with the band on the art design of the album while the German film production company Q Film will be involved in a "Making of...". The foottage will be released, either on a DVD single or as a full album DVD. Man behind this DVD project is director Uwe Flade (he directed the "Enjoy The Silence 04" video and Dave Gahan's video for "Bottle Living") who plans to include footage filmed in L.A., New York and London. Interesting to know, Side-Line was contacted by an engineer at one of the few companies that record live tour CD's, saying that Depeche Mode plans to have several dates of their tour recorded as well for online sale afterwards. Earlier this year fellow label mates Erasure succeeded in selling out all of their recent tour CD's. More news as we get it.
(Source: Side-Line / www.depeche-mode.com / EMI)
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