Depeche Mode Return to Northeast Ohio: Set List, Photos, Video

To cite Depeche Mode, all the pieces counts — and so they actually made their Nov. 10 return to Cleveland a memorable one. Images and video from the efficiency are beneath.

It had been greater than 20 years for the reason that British different legends had carried out within the metropolis, making their final go to to the world in 2001 in assist of that 12 months’s Exciter album.

New music lastly introduced them again, with 4 tracks from 2023’s well-received Memento Mori document populating a part of the set listing for the night time.

The majority of the band’s 23-song live performance at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse targeted on the various classics that they’ve racked up throughout their spectacular profession of greater than 40 years. However there have been additionally a superb quantity of deeper cuts spiked in for the diehards.

Watch Depeche Mode Carry out ‘Strangelove’ in Cleveland

The title observe to 1986’s Black Celebration LP was one such nugget, whereas multi-instrumentalist Martin Gore took the lead for an acoustic tackle the fan favourite, “Strangelove.” A equally stripped tackle “Condemnation,” from 1993’s Songs of Religion and Devotion was one other thrilling second in the course of the sold-out night.

Gore and vocalist Dave Gahan took a second to honor their departed mate, Andy Fletcher, projecting his picture on the screens as they delivered a poignant efficiency of “World in My Eyes” in his reminiscence. The keyboardist handed away in Might of 2022 and that was one query, how the band would carry ahead in a lowered type.

The reply, because it seems, was that they had been going to do it with a whole lot of spirit — each for these within the room and those who’re now not current. Gahan proved that he’s eternally a chameleonic presence, each vocally and visually. His dancing all through the night time was infectious, punctuating the band’s collective musical vitality with every animated, swaggering step. Gore additionally obtained in on the motion, displaying off his personal strikes throughout “Benefit from the Silence,” exchanging a high-five with Gahan as he concluded his dance.

Right here’s one thing else that was nice about Depeche Mode’s sold-out efficiency. Much like their friends just like the Treatment and Duran Duran, they’re getting a well-deserved victory lap. The entire naysayers and detractors who mentioned these bands couldn’t play and wouldn’t stick round are having to eat these phrases as those self same teams play among the finest concert events of their profession, time be damned.

Watch Depeche Mode Carry out ‘Private Jesus’ in Cleveland

Watch Depeche Mode Carry out ‘Simply Cannot Get Sufficient’

Watch Depeche Mode Carry out ‘Benefit from the Silence’ in Cleveland

Watch Depeche Mode Carry out ‘Strolling in My Sneakers’ in Cleveland

Watch Depeche Mode Carry out ‘Black Celebration’ in Cleveland

Watch Depeche Mode Carry out ‘The whole lot Counts’ in Cleveland

Depeche Mode, 11/10/23, Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland
1. “My Cosmos is Mine”
2. “Wagging Tongue”
3. “Strolling in My Sneakers”
4. “It is No Good”
5. “Coverage of Reality”
6. “In Your Room”
7. “The whole lot Counts”
8. “Treasured”
9. “My Favourite Stranger”
10. “A Query of Lust”
11. “Strangelove” (acoustic)
12. “Ghosts Once more”
13. “I Really feel You”
14. “A Ache That I am Used To”
15. “World in My Eyes”
16. “Black Celebration”
17. “Stripped”
18. “John the Revelator”
19. “Benefit from the Silence”
20. “Condemnation” (acoustic)
21. “Simply Cannot Get Sufficient”
22. “By no means Let Me Down Once more”
23. “Private Jesus”