Memento Mori World Tour

Memento Mori World Tour
Tour by Depeche Mode
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
Associated albumMemento Mori
Start date23 March 2023 (2023-03-23)
End date8 April 2024 (2024-04-08)
Legs4
No. of shows
  • 45 in North America
  • 67 in Europe
  • 112 in total
Depeche Mode concert chronology

The Memento Mori World Tour[1] was a worldwide concert tour by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode in support of the group's fifteenth studio album, Memento Mori. The tour began on 23 March 2023 and concluded on 8 April 2024. This marked the first concert tour to not feature keyboardist Andy Fletcher, who died in 2022.

The tour was first announced on 4 October 2022, along with the Memento Mori album announcement at an event in Berlin.[2] A third leg of the tour for North America was announced on 16 February 2023, with 34 additional shows.[3] On 10 July 2023, a second European leg of the tour has been announced with 29 new dates in indoor arenas.[4]

Background

On 29 September 2022, Depeche Mode took to their social media channels to post a teaser of an upcoming announcement, reading "Berlin 4.10.22".[5] On 4 October 2022, a special event was held at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin hosted by Barbara Charone,[6] and was streamed live on YouTube.[7] Dave Gahan and Martin Gore were present to discuss details regarding their upcoming world tour to support the new album.[2]

Two shows on the tour were part of the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona and Madrid, which Depeche Mode headlined on Fridays 2 June and 9 June 2023.[8]

"Black Celebration" and "Policy of Truth" made their tour debuts at New York City's Barclays Center on 21 October 2023.[9]

The band have performed the song "World in My Eyes" on every show in memory of Fletcher, due to this being his favourite song.[10]

Setlist

Depeche Mode at Scotiabank Arena, April 2023

Setlist for North America (legs #1 and #3) and Europe (legs #2 and #4)[a]

  1. "My Cosmos Is Mine"
  2. "Wagging Tongue"
  4. "Walking in My Shoes"
  6. "It's No Good"
  8. "Sister of Night"
  10. "In Your Room" (Zephyr mix)
  11. "Everything Counts"
  12. "Precious"
  14. "Speak to Me"
  16. "A Question of Lust" (*)
  18. "Soul with Me" (acoustic) (*)
  19. "Ghosts Again"
  20. "I Feel You"
  21. "A Pain That I'm Used To" (Jacques Lu Cont remix)
  23. "World in My Eyes"
  25. "Wrong"
  27. "Stripped"
  28. "John the Revelator"
  29. "Enjoy the Silence"
    Encore
  31. "Waiting for the Night" (acoustic)
  32. "Just Can't Get Enough"
  33. "Never Let Me Down Again"
  34. "Personal Jesus"

Setlist for European festival concerts (leg #2)

Depeche Mode performed at the Primavera Sound festival in Spain and omitted some songs from their setlist.[12]

  1. "My Cosmos Is Mine"
  2. "Wagging Tongue"
  3. "Walking in My Shoes"
  4. "It's No Good"
  5. "In Your Room" (Zephyr mix)
  6. "Everything Counts"
  7. "Precious"
  8. "Home" (*)
  9. "Ghosts Again"
  10. "I Feel You"
  11. "A Pain That I'm Used To" (Jacques Lu Cont remix)
  12. "World in My Eyes"
  13. "Stripped"
  14. "John the Revelator"
  15. "Enjoy the Silence"
    Encore
  16. "Just Can't Get Enough"
  17. "Never Let Me Down Again"
  18. "Personal Jesus"

Note: "(*)" denotes song sung by Martin Gore.

Tour dates

List of 2023 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue[13]
Date City Country Venue Opening act(s) Attendance / Capacity Revenue
23 March 2023 Sacramento United States Golden 1 Center Kelly Lee Owens 13,228 / 13,228 $3,027,464
25 March 2023 San Jose SAP Center 13,306 / 13,306 $3,058,803
28 March 2023 Inglewood Kia Forum 14,669 / 14,669 $3,447,447
30 March 2023 Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena 15,224 / 15,224 $3,303,929
2 April 2023 San Antonio AT&T Center 15,308 / 15,308 $3,011,214
5 April 2023 Chicago United Center 15,144 / 15,144 $3,209,101
7 April 2023 Toronto Canada Scotiabank Arena 15,341 / 15,341 $2,124,793
9 April 2023 Quebec City Videotron Centre 12,455 / 12,455 $1,116,191
12 April 2023 Montreal Bell Centre 15,580 / 15,580 $1,655,868
14 April 2023 New York City United States Madison Square Garden Stella Rose & the Dead Language 14,926 / 14,926 $3,302,047
16 May 2023 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome Cold Cave 32,259 / 32,259 $3,258,467
18 May 2023
20 May 2023 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis 16,668 / 16,668 $1,668,464
23 May 2023 Stockholm Sweden Friends Arena 43,876 / 46,816 $3,656,147
26 May 2023 Leipzig Germany Festwiese 73,726 / 73,726 $5,431,590
28 May 2023 Bratislava Slovakia Tehelné pole 29,644 / 29,644 $1,784,676
31 May 2023 Lyon France Groupama Stadium Young Fathers 47,864 / 47,864 $4,187,631
2 June 2023 Barcelona Spain Parc del Fòrum — –– ––
4 June 2023 Düsseldorf Germany Merkur Spiel-Arena Young Fathers 86,208 / 88,500 $8,796,287
6 June 2023
9 June 2023 Madrid Spain Arganda del Rey — –– ––
11 June 2023 Bern Switzerland Stadion Wankdorf Young Fathers 36,378 / 36,378 $4,460,831
14 June 2023 Malahide Ireland Malahide Castle Young Fathers, Just Mustard[14] 24,475 / 24,475 $2,982,689
17 June 2023 London England Twickenham Stadium Young Fathers 53,981 / 53,981 $6,018,433
20 June 2023 Munich Germany Olympiastadion 66,564 / 66,564 $6,839,023
22 June 2023 Lille France Stade Pierre-Mauroy Jehnny Beth 34,642 / 34,642 $2,890,643
24 June 2023 Saint-Denis Stade de France 70,720 / 70,720 $5,725,938
27 June 2023 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium 36,426 / 38,566 $3,802,540
29 June 2023 Frankfurt Germany Deutsche Bank Park 92,106 / 94,438 $9,385,081
1 July 2023
4 July 2023 Bordeaux France Matmut Atlantique 37,226 / 37,226 $3,536,746
7 July 2023 Berlin Germany Olympiastadion 141,839 / 141,839 $14,535,661
9 July 2023 Hælos
12 July 2023 Rome Italy Stadio Olimpico 58,648 / 58,648 $5,196,865
14 July 2023 Milan San Siro 54,948 / 54,948 $4,768,224
16 July 2023 Bologna Stadio Renato Dall'Ara 35,578 / 35,578 $2,869,175
21 July 2023 Klagenfurt Austria Wörthersee Stadion 36,681 / 36,681 $3,387,525
23 July 2023 Zagreb Croatia Arena Zagreb 16,236 / 16,236 $1,438,662
26 July 2023 Bucharest Romania Arena Națională 46,634 / 46,634 $3,248,130
28 July 2023 Budapest Hungary Puskás Aréna Hope 47,613 / 47,613 $3,487,255
30 July 2023 Prague Czech Republic Letňany 58,230 / 58,230 $4,297,450
2 August 2023 Warsaw Poland PGE Narodowy 50,107 / 52,396 $4,679,040
4 August 2023 Kraków Tauron Arena 15,390 / 15,640 $1,583,567
6 August 2023 Tallinn Estonia Tallinn Song Festival Grounds 52,163 / 52,163 $4,284,969
11 August 2023 Oslo Norway Telenor Arena 19,687 / 19,687 $2,190,885
21 September 2023 Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol Kelly Lee Owens 193,912 / 193,912 $15,401,768
23 September 2023
25 September 2023
29 September 2023 Austin United States Moody Center DIIV 12,297 / 12,297 $2,170,257
1 October 2023 Dallas American Airlines Center 14,142 / 14,142 $2,331,628
4 October 2023 Houston Toyota Center 12,422 / 12,422 $1,990,834
7 October 2023 New Orleans Smoothie King Center 13,639 / 13,639 $2,228,532
10 October 2023 Orlando Amway Center 13,252 / 13,607 $1,822,502
12 October 2023 Miami Kaseya Center 13,649 / 13,649 $2,182,397
15 October 2023 Atlanta State Farm Arena 12,232 / 12,232 $1,903,326
19 October 2023 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 13,978 / 13,978 $1,846,005
21 October 2023 New York City Barclays Center 14,752 / 14,752 $2,449,228
23 October 2023 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena 14,396 / 14,396 $2,084,100
25 October 2023 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 12,336 / 13,395 $1,881,500
28 October 2023 New York City Madison Square Garden 14,867 / 14,867 $2,571,362
31 October 2023 Boston TD Garden 12,655 / 13,007 $1,958,455
3 November 2023 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 15,642 / 15,642 $1,303,587
5 November 2023 Toronto Scotiabank Arena 14,812 / 14,812 $1,644,639
8 November 2023 Detroit United States Little Caesars Arena 15,019 / 15,019 $1,919,395
10 November 2023 Cleveland Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 14,432 / 14,432 $2,428,993
13 November 2023 Chicago United Center 14,637 / 14,637 $2,892,736
16 November 2023 Denver Ball Arena Young Fathers 13,685 / 13,685 $2,355,116
18 November 2023 Salt Lake City Delta Center 11,568 / 11,568 $2,221,524
21 November 2023 Edmonton Canada Rogers Place 12,679 / 12,679 $976,968
24 November 2023 Vancouver Rogers Arena 13,997 / 13,997 $2,260,251
26 November 2023 Seattle United States Climate Pledge Arena 14,544 / 14,544 $2,367,512
28 November 2023 Portland Moda Center 12,985 / 12,985 $1,476,347
1 December 2023 Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena 15,142 / 15,142 $2,547,369
3 December 2023 San Francisco Chase Center 13,550 / 13,550 $2,470,116
6 December 2023 San Diego Pechanga Arena 22,703 / 22,703 $4,008,534
8 December 2023
10 December 2023 Inglewood Kia Forum 28,136 / 28,136 $4,541,440
12 December 2023
15 December 2023 Los Angeles Crypto.com Arena 28,749 / 28,749 $4,989,928
17 December 2023
List of 2024 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue[13]
Date City Country Venue Opening act(s) Attendance / Capacity Revenue
22 January 2024 London England The O2 Arena Nadine Shah 34,843 / 34,843[b] $3,872,896
24 January 2024 Birmingham Utilita Arena Birmingham 14,691 / 14,691 $1,621,722
27 January 2024 London The O2 Arena
29 January 2024 Manchester AO Arena 15,416 / 15,416 $1,645,165
31 January 2024 Glasgow Scotland OVO Hydro 13,444 / 13,444 $1,525,564
3 February 2024 Dublin Ireland 3Arena 13,829 / 13,829 $2,139,543
6 February 2024 Antwerpen Belgium Sportpaleis 19,230 / 19,230 $2,286,789
8 February 2024 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome 15,596 / 15,596 $1,882,374
10 February 2024 Copenhagen Denmark Royal Arena 14,327 / 14,327 $2,263,426
13 February 2024 Berlin Germany Merecedes-Benz Arena Humanist 40,422 / 40,422[c] $6,841,697
15 February 2024
17 February 2024 Hamburg Barclays Arena 11,368 / 11,368 $1,854,187
20 February 2024 Berlin Mercedes-Benz Arena
22 February 2024 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena 32,368 / 32,368 $3,677,560
24 February 2024
27 February 2024 Łódź Poland Atlas Arena 32,185 / 32,185 $3,489,241
29 February 2024
3 March 2024 Paris France Accor Arena Suzie Stapleton 30,257 / 30,257 $3,388,563
5 March 2024
7 March 2024 Munich Germany Olympiahalle 11,456 / 11,456 $1,550,441
12 March 2024 Madrid Spain WiZink Center 31,227 / 31,227 $3,850,771
14 March 2024
16 March 2024 Barcelona Palau Sant Jordi 17,190 / 17,190 $1,893,613
19 March 2024 Lisbon Portugal Altice Arena 18,531 / 18,531 $1,731,413
21 March 2024 Bilbao Spain Bizkaia Arena 16,180 / 16,180 $1,421,872
23 March 2024 Turin Italy Pala Alpitour Deeper 12,620 / 12,620 $1,228,222
26 March 2024 Budapest Hungary MVM Dome 16,986 / 16,986 $1,643,679
28 March 2024 Assago Italy Mediolanum Forum 23,663 / 23,663 $2,196,466
30 March 2024
3 April 2024 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena 50,185 / 50,185 $7,135,332
5 April 2024
8 April 2024
Total 2,678,521 $300,016,336

Cancelled shows

List of dates, city, country, venue and reason of cancellation
Date City Country Venue Reason
8 August 2023 Helsinki Finland Kaisaniemi park Forecasted severe weather conditions[15]

Musicians

Depeche Mode

Additional musicians

  • Christian Eigner – drums, keyboards
  • Peter Gordeno – keyboards, bass, backing vocals

Notes

  1. ^ At the show in Edmonton, Canada, "A Question of Lust" was on the printed setlist but was not performed due to Martin Gore's vocal problems.[11]
  2. ^ Boxscores combined from 22 and 27 January
  3. ^ Boxscores combined from 13, 15 and 20 February

References

  1. ^ "Memento Mori Tour 2023". depechemode.com. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b Enis, Eli (4 October 2022). "Depeche Mode Announce New Album and 2023 World Tour". Revolver. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  3. ^ Skinner, Tom (16 February 2023). "Depeche Mode add extra North American leg to 'Memento Mori' world tour". NME. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  4. ^ Skinner, Tom (10 July 2023). "Depeche Mode announce new 2024 tour dates in UK, Ireland and Europe". NME. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Berlin 4.10.22". Facebook. Depeche Mode. 29 September 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Depeche Mode announce new album and tour". depeche-mode.com. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Depeche Mode - Special Event - Berlin 04/10/22". YouTube. Depeche Mode. 7 October 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  8. ^ Torres, Eric; Sodomsky, Sam (5 June 2023). "The Best of Primavera Sound 2023: Blur, Kendrick, Rosalía, and More". Pitchfork. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  9. ^ Pearis, Bill (23 October 2023). "Depeche Mode gave tour debuts to "Policy of Truth" & "Black Celebration" @ Barclays Center (pics, video, setlist)". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  10. ^ Schneider, Michael (29 March 2023). "Depeche Mode Plays Emotional, Energetic Set in First L.A. Show Since Andrew Fletcher's Death: Concert Review". Variety. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  11. ^ "2023-11-21 Rogers Place, Edmonton, AB, Canada". dmlive.wiki. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  12. ^ "Depeche Mode, first headliner of Primavera Sound Barcelona and Madrid 2023". primaverasound.com. 4 October 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  13. ^ a b "Current Boxscore – Billboard Pro Boards". Billboard. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  14. ^ Campbell, Lee (15 June 2023). "Depeche Mode live in Dublin: a stunning celebration of life and music". Rolling Stone UK. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  15. ^ Depeche Mode [@depechemode] (7 August 2023). "Due to forecasted severe weather conditions, we are being forced to cancel tomorrow's show in Helsinki. Safety is our number one priority and we have been advised by the relevant authorities that it could be unsafe to proceed. Refunds will be available from the point of purchase" (Tweet). Retrieved 22 December 2023 – via Twitter.