Who is supporting depeche mode

At festivals, it is the organisers who decide who gets to play before Depeche Mode, not Depeche Mode themselves, so acts that perform before Depeche Mode could arguably not be counted as a support act. Nevertheless, it is listed here for completion's sake. Only the acts that performed on the same day and on the same stage as Depeche Mode are mentioned below.

Besides playing at many festivals, he also took several support acts with him on tour. Aleksej Rahov : "On the other hand, I like it that the guy went forwards and did not repeat the past, and has tried to make things different. He's making a kind of rock music, I was even surprised by that. There's a lot of energy, a lot of guitars, very little electronics, there's such an expression.

Dave Gahan was never the closing act for any of these festival dates. It is not sure if Dave Gahan shared the same stage assuming there was more than one stage with the headline acts at all these festivals. Please note that these were all DJs. It might be possible that on the non-mentioned dates Paris , Milan , London there were also DJs, but no evidence is found.

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It's kind of mixture of gospel and electronic music. Matt Tong of Algiers : "Depeche Mode Very impressive. Everyone in their crew is incredibly nice. Their set is pretty good right now too. Angel Molina, DJ. Fad Gadget was supposed to perform on these two dates, but due to some kind of accident, he couldn't. So he got replaced by this DJ from Barcelona. Angele Phase. Peter Salmang : "Angele Phase is the name I gave to a music band project that went on from through to The band toured to promote that album called Magnetophonband and closed their tour with a special gig after Martin Gore chose us to warm up for Depeche Mode - Tour of the Universe show in Colombia.

Anne Clark. With backing provided by the local band A Cruel Memory, she made her spoken-word performance debut at Richard Strange's Cabaret Futura in London on this night. Animotion's Bill Wadhams says : "Playing on the bill with Depeche Mode was very intense because they were at their peak and so were we.

The crowds were fanatic. It was surreal to launch into Obsession in front of that crowd and have our hair blown back with the wild response. Backstage, while watching Depeche Mode, I came upon their big reel to reel decks. While they were on stage banging on corrugated metal and other random things, these decks were playing backing tracks. The sound was cinematic. The crowd enthralled. The only backing we had at that point was a sequenced bass line on Obsession.

April's Motel Room. Bat For Lashes. I think the shows are gonna be wild. Big Deal. BBB Soundsystem. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Daryl uploaded a video fragment of their Warsaw gig here. The same video segment is included on the audience DVD downloadable here. Blancmange was also featured on Stevo Pearce's Some Bizzare album. On [this] tour, we knew Vince was leaving but everybody was keeping it quiet.

Peter Port, Guernsey. Neil Arthur : "We had a swimming competition after the last gig! A very funny thing happened… When we done those two dates in the Channel Islands with sell out audiences, we were at the entrance to the airport and there were a load of teenagers there with autograph books.

Me and Stephen walked past, nobody battered an eyelid. My girlfriend walked past and they mobbed her! So she had to sign all the autographs! There were many funny moments and good times. Bobby And Synthia. Book Of Love. However, Ted Ottaviano refutes this claim : "No! It was really based on the fact that our record had just come out, and… well, first of all, we did two tours with them. The first one was the Some Great Reward tour, and it was the American leg of that.

And because of the fact that our record was making noise and the other fact that we were both Sire artists, we were teamed up. I think it was Seymour [Stein] who introduced us to them, and then Daniel Miller, who was basically their producer and ran Mute Records, which was their main label out of England.

They just liked the record a lot, and they gave us a shot. And in a weird way, we kind of worked well for their crowd, and as a result, we were asked back the next year for the Black Celebration tour, which was almost double the size of venues and amount of dates. I mean, that was a huge tour. Paul Civic Center, St. Susan Ottaviano : "It was so exciting to be 20 years old and travel through Europe, it was amazing. We were in all these crazy places all over Europe, we watched [Depeche Mode's] show every night.

I don't think we even knew that we could leave if we wanted to, we were just so young, and had no place to go. Booka Shade. They also remixed Martyr in Apparently this was only the tenth gig for the band.

Arno : "[Remixing or supporting DM] was… bizarre. Then, when the support slot for Berlin was free, we obviously were proposed by somebody from the label. We were asked if we were free one week before the show, but the actual decision was made one DAY before the show!

Things became a bit hectic when we heard that we would do it… but in the end everything went really smoothly. They arrived shortly before the gig. A lot of questions in the Internet. Bravery, The. I knew like the big hits and I liked that stuff, but I really didn't know them all that well and then going on tour with them I got a whole new level of respect.

They have a huge body of work that is great and they've been consistently great over the years and they're a good live band - they totally kick ass! They kind of go about it the same way we do which is their live show is more organic and rock 'n' roll then their recordings.

There is a lot more interplay between the band live and that's how we go about it as well. The Bravery later said regarding this leg: Anthony Burulcich: "Martin Gore is, like, a semi-professional foosball player and they would always have a foosball table backstage.

We got better over the course of the tour. But I think they respected us for it. Cane N Able. They didn't like us. We went to the hotel disco after the show to think about a new support band. The resident band were playing, a dodgy Swedish ska band. Kessler asked them to support us in Stockholm the next night.

The drummer came round first, and agreed on behalf of his band. Cementerio Inocentes. Peruvian band. They said : "We are very happy and excited to play alongside these icons of modern music. It will be a challenge for us and a great opportunity to show our music to new ears, an opportunity from which we will learn a lot and for which we feel very grateful.

Playing next to your idols is an amazing experience and something that's difficult to describe. In addition to the great musical influence they have had on us, we admire their great ability to reinvent themselves without neglecting their primal essence or betraying themselves, which is something we also try to achieve in every step we take. In fact, we had not been told that we were competing [laughs]. It was a bit of a shock when they told us the news.

I had to process it. We celebrated hard for a weekend. I have a lot of respect for them. We had just received the news, and after the week of celebrating, we established a fixed schedule to be able to rehearse. To be honest, I had not heard much of Depeche Mode until we received the news that we're going to open for them. I started listening to them and I realised that many of the bands that I already like, that contain techno wave and synthesizers, have a lot of influence from Depeche Mode.

It's like going back to the source. Turkish synth-pop band. You can watch a video of their performance of this day here. Choir Of Young Believers. We were actually just taking a break from an entire year of touring, but of course we couldn't say no to such an incredible invitation. The entire experience was unbelievably intense and nice! It is wonderful to see how such a huge band like Depeche Mode is still popular after 30 years and how they still play tremendous shows, night after night.

The band members are about as old as my parents, but on stage they've got more energy than I ever will, haha. Choir Invisible. Martin Doherty of Chvrches later said : "The highlight of the summer [in ] and my career was supporting Depeche Mode at San Siro Stadium in Milan and it blew my mind a little bit.

It was crazy. It was 60,, the biggest audience we've played to by a mile. It was 60, for Depeche Mode and it wasn't full when we finished, but it was getting there. The fans were lovely to us. I had heard these horror stories about Depeche Mode fans that if they don't like the support band they throw eggs, but they were really kind to us.

That was the second show we've done with them, we've got a couple more next week. They've been really nice to us and that's all we can ask for. A Cruel Memory. This small band, who were from the same town as Anne Clark, back up her spoken-word performance debut by providing some instrumentation. Crystal Castles. Cuba Dares. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. Depeche Mode attended some of D.

Daniele Tognacca, DJ. He DJed some songs before the "real" support act, Algiers. Danse Society, The. Darren Murphy, DJ. Noto later used Martin Gore's sample on a track called Uni Rec for his solo work. And Martin used one of Byetone's tracks in a remix podcast. With other bands, you offer yourself to play as their support act. Depeche Mode don't operate like that. They don't give it away for free. They only do what they like. We have called it our tour of humbleness. Such a crowd would never come to us.

So at the same time, it's a huge opportunity. The way Martin Gore puts himself on the middle of the stage, when Dave is off stage for a while, without any lights or anything, and sings his ballads, barely accompanied by music, is amazing. That has impressed me the most, that he has kept his sensibility after 30 years of being on stage. He gets completely vulnerable. Diamond Version talk some more about opening for Depeche Mode in German here.

Dizzy and the Romilars. Douglas McCarthy. Dub Syndicate. Electribe As stated on their Discogs page , "When Electribe got to support Depeche Mode on their World Violation tour success was supposed to follow automatically.

But everything went wrong. Watkins gave the band a hard time when they didn't follow his orders to the letter. On the tour they were occasionally booed off by Mode fans throwing bottles. Reportedly , DM first asked Jesus And Mary Chain to be the support act but the LA authorities didn't want that due to their band name, so they invited Electronic instead.

Sumner says that while recording their album, DM asked them to play Shea Stadium in New York [which didn't happen]: "We only had two songs finished. We thought it would be totally mad to do it, so we said we'd do it. There was a shower in the dressing room and I just filled it with puke.

It was the worst fucking moment of my life. If that is true, then I would really like to know which songs of mine he likes most. How can this happen to me, of all people? If Depeche Mode were looking for somebody that fits them perfectly, they would choose someone else!

I loved her last album, The Future's Void, and I've been really getting into this one. It's a bit harder to get into but I do like it. There's an 'I don't care' attitude to her that I really like. An Emotional Fish.

Vocalist Elvis has said : "We expressed our interest in doing it since the beginning. From the moment it became known that Depeche Mode was coming to Colombia, we got in touch with the company that brought them here and we told them that we wanted to open for them. This means a lot to us because it is clear that we had met their standard.

They are one of the great bands that we follow, and it is also important because we realise all the support and efforts of the fans. It's very beautiful news all around.

Event Group, The. This was a performing arts collective who were a regular at Cabaret Futura. They would do extreme things, like having 8 electric bass players or 22 cricketers on stage, or shaving a bandmember's head.

For this particular gig , they poured fake urine from the balcony on top of DM and the crowd. Eric Random. One of the members of Jell, which were on the Some Bizzare compilation. Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire was the mixer for this concert. Eyeless In Gaza. Fad Gadget. Frank said : "It feels really good being with Depeche Mode.

They're great guys, and I'm looking forward to having a beer with them afterwards. Like last night , we had a little drink together. They beat us at table football, unfortunately, but we'll beat them tonight. It's not a tight relationship with Depeche Mode. I see them every two or three years, normally at a Mute party or something, and we only have a few beers together, and that's it. And then I don't see them for another three years. We are huge fans of theirs, but we were mostly excited because it meant we were actually able to see them.

It was a really intimate setting — just over people around a really small stage. So, we were just inches away from them when they played.

That was amazing. Her reaction? A Peruvian audiovisual performance band. Film Noir. This was their first and only? Robert Marlow remembered in Jonathan Miller's 'Stripped': "It was quite funny, because Vince said to just ring up this promoter, who was a real cowboy of a fellow, and he said, 'They've already got Blancmange supporting them.

But that wasn't important; he'd asked us to play, so we went on before Blancmange, and then it was Depeche Mode. It was nice for me. I really enjoyed supporting them. I played guitar and we had a synthesizer player; Perry [Bamonte] was playing bass, and we had a tiny [Boss DR] 'Dr Rhythm' drum machine - one of the programmable ones. It was good; we went down well. Blancmange were excellent - I'd never seen them before; they were really, really good, and they were nice guys as well.

The Modes were themselves, but Vince was quite withdrawn and not very happy. It was quite funny. Vince had a dose of diarrhoea! They'd been on tour up and down the country for a while, and so I think he was happy to be home. But I remember going around his flat during the day for a chat and he said, 'It's alright; I've been dosing myself up with syrup of figs.

Silly arse. Fixx, The. Fountainhead, The. At that time the band was formed since only six weeks, But in any case I wanted to reach out to him to find out what he thought about us. I did not really dare to expect to get an answer, but he responded and wrote that he likes what we do. A friendship started.

He has continued to support us and develop opportunities for us, for which we are unspeakably grateful. They were also a support act in Mitzi Fox said in : "Before the Delta Machine tour, we had never played before so many people.

We were thrilled that we could share our music with such a huge audience. But then we read what a support act can expect on a Depeche Mode tour. Like throwing bottles or something worse or screams and so on All of a sudden we felt the huge responsibility of doing an opening gig for a band that has incredibly passionate fan base.

Before we first went on stage, they told us: "It is possible that you will get booed, but don't worry about that. Once, however, we went on stage, the reception of the audience was really great. We got new fans in different places. Franz Ferdinand. Robert Marlow: "Vince was extremely angry [with Martin], because Martin would perform in both bands. But that's what Martin is like: He wants to do good for everyone. Nevertheless, Vince was expecting a clear commitment.

But we played our set, Martin went offstage, changed his shirt and is about to go back on again. Suddenly, Vince is going completely mad: he screams all around him, and actually claims that we have changed the settings on the synthesizers! Not surprisingly they broke up after that.

Front In , Front got signed by Epic Records. They then said to Melody Maker : "We've had Americans come up to us, saying, 'We love Depeche Mode, but we love you too, because you are the strong edge of electronic music that Depeche Mode draw on'.

I think America is just ready for electronic music. And Epic Records might have guessed that through watching the rise of Depeche Mode. But apart from that there's no point of comparison between Front and Depeche.

Gogo, DJ. Gui Boratto. A band member of Israeli band Hadag Nahash. Hard Corps. Regine from Hard Corps regularly went topless at the gigs. For Centre, Brighton, England, UK , she was forced to sign a contract that said that she could not perform topless, which she did sign, but she went topless anyway.

It is said that there was talk of taking Hard Corps on DM's next leg in Europe, but Regine's undressing prevented this. Apparently this band called themselves 'Fear of the Dark' afterwards but no further info can be found.

Henry Lee Summer. Attendee Chris Young reports : "Because Depeche Mode weren't enough of a draw back then, the venue made the night a 'Dance festival'. Hirek Wrona talks about DM prior to doing the show here. Horrors, The. A band from Southend, Essex.

Ben Hillier had been the producer for The Horrors in , so perhaps that's how they got the slot. The Horrors supported Depeche Mode in I am proud to be an Essex boy! I really felt that when I watched them performing Enjoy the Silence last night - what an amazing achievement for them as a band and a proud moment for us to have the pleasure to play with them.

It brought a big smile to my face. Their evolution is inspiring. From the early days at Mute right up to now, a perfect balance of pop, darkness and experimentation.

I love hearing the influence of our favourites like Kraftwerk and Bowie in their music, too. It feels like we have a musical connection as well as a geographical one.

How To Dress Well. Igni Ferroque. Images In Vogue. This was the second time that they opened for DM. Apparently , Images In Vogue also got signed by a record label backstage after this support gig.

Jason Bentley, DJ. As he says in that interview, he was friends with Tim Simenon and got to meet Dave Gahan via him in Jesus And The Mary Chain. Jim Reid : "The shows with Depeche Mode came about because they seemed to be fans of the band and they asked us to play with them. The giant stadium show I thought was pretty good. Thought it might be a bit of an experience.

We were meant to do 3 shows with them. We did another one and Toronto, and we were supposed to do Dodgers Stadium in LA, but the people from the stadium refused to let us play because they were offended by the band name. Only in America. Jezabels, The.

Nik Kaloper : "Well, we basically took the opportunity [to open for DM]. We wanted to tour with them and when the opportunity came up we wanted to see what would happen.

They said they liked us as a band so we were able to do forces for about seven shows and they were the biggest shows we have ever played in our lives. It was really, really exciting.

John Cooper Clarke. Juana La Loca. Juana Molina. Juana said : "I like them now more than before; they have improved a lot. Previously they were more, I don't know, "cold and distant", although they had great songs, but ultimately I did not like them. Slovakian artist. Christian Eigner had worked with her the year before, so he gave her the slot. But he said that Martin quietly went to the sound engineer's spot and watched us.

Kensho Onuki, DJ. Kris Needs, DJ. Slovakian band. They also got the support slot four years ago. And it is also a responsibility for us, so we play at our best. Personally, the day before the concert, as the last time, we won't fall asleep. We have barely more songs than in I think it will sound a bit better and fresher. Loved One, The. Manchester band. Linder was the frontwoman of Ludus. Mad Shadows.

Martin Besserman. Matt Fretton. Austell, England, UK. You can read an interview with Matt Fretton about supporting DM here. He seems to say that he had to fill in for Blancmange when they were supporting DM in London, and then for the next tour he was asked to be their main support act. Matt says, "In the UK they were great and really made me feel I was special, but the last tour I did with DM was a month long European tour, where my use of backing tapes was incomprehensible to the audience and I was booed and had things thrown at me every night.

I hated it and thought seriously about quitting, but realized that would have been inexcusable, so I went to a studio in Germany Hansa in fact halfway through the tour, and edited the backing tapes down to a set of about 15 minutes.

That helped, but the tour manager was really not pleased that it was such a short set. Matthew Dear. We ended up sitting pretty close to the stage, and right before they started playing they had their soundtrack music come on. The first track was from Audion, one of my other projects, and we just started looking at each other. We knew then that Martin was kind of a fan.

It was always hovering, this idea that one day something could happen, and then the remix kicked it off. I think it was one of the largest crowds we ever played for. We played in Kiev a few days ago and that was 42, tickets sold and that was amazing. It was an open stadium so it felt more festive, and the crowd was looser. I think the people in Germany are a bit more hardcore about Depeche Mode, whereas there I think they were just excited in general.

The Germans were definitely more judgmental toward us, but in a good way. We had to earn their applause, and we fed off that.

Maya Jane Coles, DJ. Maya Jane Coles said beforehand : "Truly honored and excited to support such an iconic band that has influenced so many artists across different genres. The band [Depeche Mode] were super sweet to me so it made the whole thing a really nice experience.

They are titans of electronic music, as their tour shows. It was quite surreal being asked to join them. I was very flattered indeed!

Michal : "It was really an honour to open for Depeche Mode as I am a big longtime fan. Everything came all of a sudden and clicked easily. I received an email with an offer to support DM in Vienna and then the things just happened.

Martin and Peter Gordeno came to watch my performance from the backstage and they laughed when the fans were singing to harp. I am really glad I got such opportunity and my dream came true.

A band from Cork. They performed on this night as a two-piece. Al Jourgensen : "When we were playing in New York with Depeche Mode I literally dumpster dove behind a theather to grab popcorn to eat. A big five-pound bag would feed the whole band. We were all living in a van scrunched up with our equipment. There was us, our driver, a road, a bunch of equipment, and popcorn.

That's all I remember - eight people living in a van living on popcorn. Not good. Miranda Sex Garden. Hepzibah Sessa : "Opening for Depeche Mode in Europe was a privilege and a pleasure that would be hard to surpass.

I can think of nothing more fulfilling for a musician than to play in front of 30, frenzied Mode fans screaming "De-peche-Mode" throughout the entire set. It filled one with a real sense of achievement trying to play the keyboard whilst dodging a variety of missiles, including, on one occasion, a bag of shit - which begs the question, do you bring it with you already prepared, or do it on site, spontaneously, as it were?

It was all worthwhile though because I always had the last laugh. For a start, I amassed a great collection of lighters which the angry mob would hurl at us with alarming regularity. Of course, the joke was always on them because you knew that they'd be even more pissed off later when they realised they didn't have one to wave while Martin sang one of his weepy numbers! And of course, there was that small point about being on intimate terms with a particular Mode member [Alan Wilder] - need I say more?

I first talked to Alan on the second night of our support leg which was also his birthday - I had no idea who he was or what he did - we used to wind each other up a lot after the show and he'd ask me to go out to clubs etc.. It was about 3 days into the tour that I realised he was the bloke to played the drums.

We became pretty inseparable from that point. Missing Link. Mixed Pickles. East-Berlin band. The band was picked by Freie Deutsche Jugend. Martin Gore said in this interview that DM only found out about Mixed Pickles a day before the concert.

Modern Man. Motel Connection. Italian band. Samuel Romano said after the first gig : "You quickly realise that this type of event, music being played in the outdoors, is born in England. They have a very British attitude towards live music. Personally, we were very good, their technicians treated us like they treat Depeche Mode, with the same degree of professionalism. As for the public event, we can say that this was for us an opportunity to test ourselves.

We dealt with an audience that was not ours. But I must say that, after the first seconds, we found ourselves in a very warm audience which understood that we came from the same world of electronic pop that Depeche Mode more or less created. We crossed paths with DM just before they came on stage. They are very polite and friendly. There was a smile, a gesture of greetings but nothing more, also because they are armoured It is impossible to have a chat with them, even if you are in the same dressing room.

And so it must be said that British productions are very strict: the artists are always isolated, left alone, to keep them quiet. The concert was really interesting. Unlike most productions, they are bringing a circus in the middle of the stadium, they arrived with a sober and elegant production, small, but they have conquered the excitement and attention of the people there.

I think it's a lesson for those who want to fill the stadium with giant objects but not really focus on the music, that is the most important thing. Yesterday we went up on stage trying to understand what could happen.

Tomorrow will be a more contextualized event. We will know better how to use our 40 minutes. The setlist will be practically the same, we will change a few things but that will be it. We will be a little less defensive and attack a little more. When I found out that Depeche Mode were recording their latest album in my hometown Los Angeles, I just called him one day. He immediately invited me to dinner with the entire band - all three of them being awfully nice guys with whom I can go along perfectly.

The idea that we could support them, came on its own. There was no masterplan. No one knew when he would return, so we flew to Berlin and found ourselves in a hotel room waiting on word from the DM camp. We decided to mess around on some new songs, set up a vocal booth in the toilet and soon had ourselves an impromptu studio setup.

As an experiment, we started producing more melodic Techno Rock ideas — maybe as a reaction to seeing 60, people losing their minds to DM overnight. Martin Gore was the first vocalist on the LP. We gave him a CD of the track and a few days later he looked into our dressing room and said, 'Yes, I'd love to do it'. Matthew Bellamy : "I can understand the association [between Muse and DM], because they're a band that never really fitted in exactly with the music of their time.

They had their own thing, their own style, own sound. I respect them very much. Nadine Shah. Her debut album was produced by Ben Hillier in , so that's probably how she got to support DM. Nadine : "Me and the band toured with Depeche Mode around Germany; that was slightly surreal but a lot of fun.

Playing on stage to thousands of people, then watching Depeche perform a power set every night, usually followed by a game of table football backstage with Martin Gore.

Naked Lunch. Natural Project. Speaking to Martin Doherty this weekend at Latitude festival, he also added that he was pleased by Depeche Mode fans' response to Chvrches, especially after hearing horror stories about experiences from other support bands. It was 60,, the biggest audience we've played to by a mile. It was 60, for Depeche Mode and it wasn't full when we finished, but it was getting there.

That was the second show we've done with them, we've got a couple more next week. They've been really nice to us and that's all we can ask for. Chvrches performed on the wooded I Arena stage at Latitude festival, tucked away in the hillside forest.

The incline didn't make for great viewing, but the tent and surrounding area was jam-packed as fans struggled to catch a glimpse of the UK's hottest new pop band. Chvrches performed a number of new tracks from debut album The Bones Of What You Believe - and boy, is that going to be a good album.