DEPECHE MODE Global Spirit Tour 2017
16:09 / 07.04.2017
May 12, 2017 at 19:45 in Nice
The GLOBAL SPIRIT TOUR concert of the legendary British electronic-rock band DEPECHE MODE formed in 1980 in Basildon. The group created its own style in the genres of electronic and rock music and is one of the most successful bands in the world.
The Global Spirit Tour will support the band's forthcoming studio album Spirit, due to be released in Spring 2017. Spirit is being produced by James Ford and will be released worldwide on Columbia Records.
In a webcast in 25 January 2016 where Rob Bell interviews Martin Gore, Gore announced a projected return to the recording studio in April, with both Gore and Gahan having already written and demoed new songs. In September, the official Depeche Mode Facebook page made posts hinting at a new release, which was later confirmed by the band to be a music video compilation, Video Singles Collection, scheduled to be released in November by Sony. In October 2016, the band announced that their fourteenth album, titled Spirit and produced by James Ford, would be released in spring 2017.Four days later, the band announced the European stadium leg of the Global Spirit Tour, which will start at Stockholm's Friends Arena on 5 May 2017. A week later, the group got a nomination for the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In December 2016 interview, Dave Gahan confirmed the album would be released in March 2017. "Where's the Revolution", the lead single from Spirit, was released on 3 February 2017, along with its lyric video. The official video was published a week later, on 9 February.
