Dave Gahan revealed to NME in a new chat that Depeche Mode won’t be working on a new album.
“Martin and I have talked. We actually saw each other recently, and it was really nice,” the singer responded when asked if it would take a few more years before Depeche Mode started working again.
Gahan added, “We spent some time in Italy where [photographer and visual collaborator] Anton Cobijn and his wife were renewing their wedding vows in a really nice spot just outside of Rome.”
“We had a really nice time without any work or show pressure. I actually did ask Martin if he’d been writing and he was like, ‘Nah!’ That’s normal – especially when you’ve worked intensely for a couple of years,” the rocker continued his words.
He then explained, “It takes a while. Wait and see. I wouldn’t rule out as getting together at some point, but it’s not on the cards at this point.”
Depeche Mode’s latest album, ‘Memento Mori’ dropped on March 24, 2023. The band also announced a supporting tour that began on March 23, 2023. “I think we’re doing a short little North American tour that kicks off the record, first shows coming up. Then in September, October, and November, I think they just announced another sort of 40 shows,” Dave said of the tour last year.
The vocalist also shared, “I’m terrified. I don’t like opening the whole sheets up. I say, ‘What’s that one underneath there?’ They show me the first sheet, and I’m like, ‘What’s that [underneath]?’ ‘No, no, you don’t want to look at it; you don’t need to look at that right now.'”
“When we see the two blank dates, that’s important because one of those blank dates is flying somewhere, and the next that blank date hopefully is a day off,” Gahan then noted.
Depeche Mode ended the European leg of their ‘Memento Mori’ tour on April 8 in Cologne, Germany.
