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• In Chains Play Video
• Wrong Play Video
• Hole to Feed Play Video
• Walking in My Shoes Play Video
• It's No Good Play Video
• A Question of Time Play Video
• Precious Play Video
• World in My Eyes Play Video
• Fly on the Windscreen Play Video
• Home Play Video
• Come Back Play Video
• Miles Away/The Truth Is Play Video
• Policy of Truth Play Video
• In Your Room Play Video
• I Feel You Play Video
• Enjoy the Silence Play Video
• Never Let Me Down Again Play Video
• Stripped Play Video
• Behind the Wheel Play Video
• Personal Jesus Play Video
• Waiting for the Night Play Video

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Tour of the Universe was a 2009 – 2010 worldwide concert tour by English electronic band Depeche Mode in support of the group's twelfth studio album, Sounds of the Universe , which was released in April 2009.

The Live Nation-produced tour, which was announced in October 2008 in Berlin, kicked off with a warm-up show in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg in May 2009. By the end of the year, the tour had reached Europe, Asia, North America and South America.

The concerts in Barcelona, Spain were filmed for the video release Tour of the Universe: Barcelona 20/21.11.09 , which was released on November 8, 2010 in Europe and November 9, 2010 in North America on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

• 2 Support acts
• 4 Tour dates
• 5.1 Depeche Mode
• 5.2 Backup musicians

Overview [ ]

The tour commenced in May 2009 with a warm-up show in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, followed by the first full-fledged date in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. The tour was disrupted as lead singer Dave Gahan was struck by a severe bout of gastroenteritis, which occurred before the band were to take to the stage in Athens. Following subsequent cancellations of eight further shows, the tour was eventually confirmed to recommence in June while Gahan reportedly flew to the United States for treatment; a low-grade malignant tumour in his bladder was found and successfully removed. Although a portion of the cancelled dates were rescheduled, the band's appearance at the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands was pulled, while all remaining dates and one of two dates in Leipzig, Germany were cancelled indefinitely due to "scheduling conflicts".

In June 2009, the band played their first show following Gahan's illness in Leipzig, resuming a European leg which eventually wrapped up in Bilbao, Spain. The tour was cut short after Gahan tore a calf muscle, forcing the cancellation of two dates in Porto, Portugal and Seville, Spain respectively.

In July 2009, the group began a tour of the U.S. and Canada. The leg, which featured a headline slot at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago, started in Toronto and culminated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in early September. In August, two dates in California were cancelled after Gahan received doctor's orders to serve a period of complete vocal rest.

In October 2009, the band returned to North America to play four dates in Mexico. The leg continued on to Costa Rica and South America, their first shows in these territories since the Exotic Tour in 1994. The group received attention in the media following the group's performance in Peru after it was reported that Gahan thanked the wrong country. According to reports, Gahan said: "Thank you very much, Chile" towards the end of the concert held in Lima. However, this claim was later disputed by a band representative, who quoted Gahan as saying: "Thank you very much, good night" instead. The leg eventually finished up in Buenos Aires. Later in the month, the act began a European leg of indoor venues, which kicked off in Oberhausen, Germany and culminated mid-December in Manchester, United Kingdom.

In January 2010, the group commenced a third European leg in Berlin. The leg included five shows that were rescheduled following Gahan's illness in the summer of 2009. The tour also included a date as part of a series of concerts in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust, which was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. During this concert, the performances of "Home", "One Caress" and "Come Back" were accompanied by a seven-piece string section. Additionally, during the encore, former band member Alan Wilder made a surprise appearance onstage, accompanying Martin Gore's performance of "Somebody" on piano. It was the first time Wilder had performed with the band in more than fifteen years, having exited the group in 1995. Speaking about the event, Wilder said that he was "happy to accept" Gahan's proposal to join the group onstage and stated that "[they] were long overdue some kind of reunion of this sort". The entire tour eventually wrapped up in Düsseldorf, Germany in late February, after ten months and 102 shows in 32 countries. In total, the band performed to more than 2.7 million people. As reported by music industry publication Billboard, the tour was one of the most profitable in 2009, ending 20th in the magazine's "Top Tours" list.

Similar to the group's previous tour, Touring the Angel, recordings of some of the tour's concerts were made available on double CD format or as a digital download under the generic name Recording the Universe . A video release of the live concerts held at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain, titled Tour of the Universe: Barcelona 20/21.11.09 , was released on 8 November 2010 in Europe and 9 November 2010 in North America on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The DVD release was issued in two formats, "Deluxe" and "Super Deluxe", which both include two audio CDs of the live concerts. The "Super Deluxe" edition also includes a second DVD featuring the tour documentary, "Inside the Universe", as well as extra bonus materials.

Support acts [ ]

• Terry Poison
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Polarkreis 18
• Peter Björn and John
• Quiero Club
• The Raveonettes
• Angele Phase
• Feedbackers
• The Horrors

Setlist [ ]

General setlist for

Europe, Leg #2 and #3

• Intro (Excerpt from "In Chains")
• "In Chains"
• "Hole to Feed"
• "Walking in My Shoes"
• "It's No Good"
• "A Question of Time"
• "World In My Eyes"
• "Fly on the Windscreen"
• "Clean" (Bare version)
• "Dressed in Black" (Acoustic)
• "Sister of Night"
• "Insight" (Acoustic)
• "Judas" (Acoustic)
• "One Caress"
• "Home" (Acoustic)
• "Miles Away/The Truth Is"
• "Come Back"
• "Policy of Truth"
• "In Your Room" (Zephyr Mix (With bits from the album version))
• "I Feel You"
• "Enjoy the Silence"
• "Never Let Me Down Again"
• "A Question of Lust" (Acoustic)
• "Behind the Wheel"
• "Photographic"
• "Personal Jesus

Note: Setlists differed between dates, with rotated songs (denoted above), possible minor song order changes and song omissions.

Tour dates [ ]

Musicians [ ], depeche mode [ ].

• David Gahan – lead vocals
• Martin Gore – guitar, synthesizers, lead and backing vocals
• Andrew Fletcher – synthesizers

Backup musicians [ ]

• Peter Gordeno – synthesizers, piano, backing vocals
• Christian Eigner – drums, synthesizers
• 1 Dave Gahan
• 2 Depeche Mode
• 3 Martin Gore

• Consequence

Album Review: Depeche Mode – Tour of the Universe: Barcelona 20/21.11.09

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Depeche Mode ’s tour in support of Sounds of the Universe was a struggle from beginning to end for the band. Dates were canceled on multiple occasions due to Dave Gahan needing surgery for a low-grade malignant tumor, tearing a calf muscle, and straining his voice. On the other hand, the tour had some definite high points, including a surprise appearance from Alan Wilder in London. In a way, Tour of the Universe: Barcelona 20/21.11.09 represents the tour as a whole, containing both the good and the bad.

Sadly, the bad is what will be immediately noticeable. The first two songs of the set, “In Chains” and “Wrong”, suffer from Gahan’s decidedly weak singing. This hurts the opening for two important reasons. First off, “In Chains” isn’t a single or overly familiar song with the audience. Therefore, it relies heavily on performance, and since it doesn’t live up to the group’s standards, it helps to sink the entire opening trilogy. Secondly, his struggling voice ruins an otherwise strong version of “Wrong”, one of the best Depeche Mode songs of the last decade. “Hole to Feed” is better, but it isn’t strong enough to make up for the previous tracks’ errors.

Once “Walking in My Shoes” kicks in, though, the show definitely improves, and Gahan starts to hit his stride. Combining a top-notch performance with the fact that the song is one of the band’s biggest hits helps to turn the concert around. From here, the audience and band are firing on all cylinders. Reinterpretations of fan favorites only add to the set. Highlights include Martin Gore’s absolutely gorgeous vocal performance on a piano-only version of “Home” and an Elvis-style adjustment of “Personal Jesus”, a ballsy move that pays off. The only snag from here on out is Gahan’s insistence on making the audience sing the chorus on “A Question of Time” and “Enjoy the Silence”. If he did this once in a while, it wouldn’t be too bad. But every single time the chorus comes up in those two songs, he passes the mic off to the crowd. It somewhat works on “Enjoy the Silence”, but the audience doesn’t even really know the chorus for “A Question of Time”.

The setlist is a mixed bag. Sounds of the Universe is relegated to only five tracks, the opening trio plus “Jezebel” and a kickass version of the Gahan-penned “Come Back”. All of the hits you’d expect to be on a Depeche Mode DVD are here and performed competently. The grungy “I Feel You” blasts through the speakers intensely. “Stripped” builds up as epically as it does on record. “Never Let Me Down Again” works as the perfect main set closer, extending itself to heights it never reaches on the studio version. The problem is that many of the songs played for the Barcelona shows have already appeared on DVD/CD. During several other tour dates, the set included “Master and Servant” and “Strangelove”, neither of which have been on a filmed release since the late ’80s.

By the time the concert wraps up with a tranquil “Waiting For The Night”, the experience as a whole is ultimately positive. If you’re not a big Depeche Mode fan, I’d give this a listen before purchasing it. If you are, then there’s a lot to enjoy here. Just expect to keep a few of the songs off of your iPod. In some cases, it’s better to stick with the studio.

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Depeche Mode: Tour of the Universe – Barcelona 20/21:11:09

Every genre has its towering titans, and Depeche Mode strikes a better claim than any other group to being electronic music’s equivalent to the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. Not only has the Basildon, England ensemble been responsible for turning out some of the genre’s finest singles and albums during its creative apex, running approximately from the early 1980s on through to the departure of Alan Wilder in 1995, but the core trio of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andrew Fletcher can still fill stadiums these days as well as any rock dinosaurs or triumphant nouveau pop stars. Ever since the 1989 concert film 101 proved beyond all doubt to the wider world that this bunch of skinny synth-playing Brits could deliver an extraordinary live show, Depeche Mode has made sure to make aural and visual documentation of its tours available for commercial consumption.

Depeche Mode’s new live release, Tour of the Universe — Barcelona 20/21:11:09 , is the group’s latest installment in that reliable tradition. Assembled from two shows performed in Barcelona, Spain in support of its 2009 studio album Sounds of the Universe , Tour of the Universe is available in a DVD/2 CD combo set. (For the purposes of this review, only the audio portion will be covered.) The fact that both nights’ setlists could be mixed together without a join being discernible, apart from the abrupt ending of disc one, is a testament to Depeche Mode’s mastery of the craft of live performance.

And Depeche Mode definitely “gives good show” here. Reliably backed by an ebb and flow of traditional and synthesized instrumentation, singer Dave Gahan is always front and center, belting out each tune in his capable brooding baritone, flavored with the occasional crowd-stirring exaltation at the appropriate moments (“Sing it!”). Songwriter Martin Gore gets his customary turn at the mic, having developed an oscillating vibrato (omnipresent on “Jezebel” and always threatening to disrupt the show-stealing rendition of “Enjoy the Silence”) that’s so overdone that one wonders if he’s taking the piss. Naturally, several tunes from the band’s latest long-player are mixed with the fan-favorites and mandatory hits (“Enjoy the Silence”, “Personal Jesus”, “Never Let Me Down Again”) to form the basis of the concerts, although one can’t help but be a little disappointed that no material prior to the 1986 album Black Celebration appears.

The cutoff date for songs performed for Tour of the Universe is justifiable if you consider Black Celebration the proper beginning for the modern, mature Depeche Mode. The band still made killer pop singles packed with hooks after that point (and in fact attained its peak of global popularity afterward), but from that point onwards Depeche Mode became predominantly focused on establishing and maintaining a mood with its carefully concocted soundscapes. Thus Tour of the Universe works almost like an opera: it’s bombastic and upfront, filled with the classic Mode lyrical fixations of guilt and longing, and the songs all function as part of a larger canvas, meaning the weak Sounds of the Universe singles like “Wrong” sound perfectly fine as setup to superior tracks. The set reaches its climax with the forceful execution of the nigh-perfect “you and I against the world” smash “Enjoy the Silence”, wherein the group manages to slip an electro-funk diversion into the song’s outro before returning to the standard arrangement, with the sold-out audience transfixed the entire time. At the opposite end of spectacle, the closing piece “Waiting for the Night” is a surprisingly intimate end to an all-out arena show that nonetheless feels utterly appropriate.

Tour of the Universe is also an illustrative example of the group’s long-harbored rockist tendencies — one would be forgiven if by listening to this set that he wasn’t aware of the fact that Depeche Mode was always at its best as a dance band. This sort of performance environment has always suited rock more naturally than electronica, so Depeche Mode understandably turns up the volume, emphasizes the hooks, and irons out the recording subtleties for grand gestures. What dancey tracks there are — “A Question of Time”, “Fly on the Windscreen” — are few and far between, with “A Question of Time” often relinquishing its body-moving grooves for an intermittent churning rock thrust.

While Depeche Mode only plays up some of its strengths here (and Martin Gore really needs to ease up on the vocal theatrics), Tour of the Universe is a well-executed live recording that’s never dull. Not as mind-blowing as 101 , it is an enjoyable rendering of the band’s material in concert nonetheless.

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Setlist Tour Of The Universe

Während der Tour of the Universe haben Depeche Mode die folgenden Songs gespielt:

Erster bis dritter Abschnitt

01. In Chains 02. Wrong 03. Hole to feed 04. Walking in my Shoes 05. It’s no good 06. A Question of Time 07. Precious 08. Fly on the Windscreen 09. Jezebel / Littel Soul 10. A Question of Lust / Home / Judas 11. Come back / Miles Away/The Truth Is 12. Peace / Policy of Truth / Fragile Tension 13. In your Room 14. I feel you 15. In Sympathy / Policy of Truth 16. Enjoy The Silence 17. Never let me down again 18. Stripped / Somebody / Shake the Disease / A Question of Lust 19. Master and Servant / Stripped 20. Strangelove / Behind the Wheel 21. Personal Jesus 22. Waiting for the Night (Bare)

Vier Abschnitt

01. In Chains 02. Wrong 03. Hole to feed 04. Walking in my Shoes 05. It’s no good 06. A Question of Time 07. Precious 08. World in My Eyes (ab Mannheim) 08. Fly on the Windscreen (bis Bologna) 09. Jezebel / Littel Soul 10. Freelove / Clean / Dressed in Black / Sister of Night / Jezebel / Insight / One Caress 11. Home 12. Come back / Miles Away/The Truth Is 13. Policy of Truth 14. In your Room 15. I feel you 16. Enjoy The Silence 17. Never let me down again 18. Somebody / A Question of Lust / Dressed in Black / One Caress / 19. Stripped 20. Behind the Wheel / Photographic (Abschlusskonzert in Düsseldorf) 21. Personal Jesus 22. Waiting for the Night (Bare)

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