Depeche Mode vocalist Dave Gahan will embark on his first solo U.S. tour in support of his debut album Paper Monsters, due June 3 on Mute/Reprise Records. Gahan will launch the summer-long North American tour July 18 in Atlanta, GA after completing his 22-date European tour. Performing songs from Paper Monsters and various Depeche Mode songs, Gahan will be backed on the road by guitarist Knox Chandler, bassist Martyn Lenoble, keyboardist Vincent Jones and drummer Victor Indrizzo. Gahan wrote all of the album’s 10 tracks with multi-instrumentalist Chandler, whose credits include playing on Depeche Mode’s Exciter, as well as albums by R.E.M. and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Lenoble has played with Porno for Pyros and Janes Addiction; Jones has recorded with Sarah McLachlan and Cowboy Junkies; and Indrizzo has worked with Beck, Macy Gray, The Vines and Liz Phair.
Although Gahan has fronted Depeche Mode for 22 years, Paper Monsters marks his debut as a fully-fledged songwriter. Before now, career commitments, distractions and personal confidence barriers kept him from finding his true voice. “Hence the title of my album,” he says, “because I’d created these monsters which have got bigger and bigger over the years. But in the last few years I realized that it’s only myself that has created them.”
Dave Gahan tour itinerary:
June 5 Zurich, SWI Volkshaus
June 7-8 Nurburgring, GER Rock Am Ring
June 10 Berlin, GER Columbiahalle
June 12 Hultsfred, SWE Hultsfred Festival
June 14 Imola, ITA Heineken Jammin Festival
June 15 Seinajoki, FIN Provinssirock
June 17 Saint Petersburg, RUS New Ice Arena
June 18 Moscow, RUS Olympiski
June 20 Kiev, UKR Palace of Sports
June 23 Budapest, HUN Budapest Arena
June 24 Prague, CZE T-Mobile Arena
June 26 Roskilde, DEN Roskilde Festival
June 28 Werchter, BEL Rock Werchter Festival
June 29 Pilton, UK Worthy Farm
July 1 Leipzig, GER Haus Auensee
July 2 Hamburg, GER Stadtpark
July 4-5 Paris, FRA Olympia
July 6 Belfort, FRA Eurockennes Festival
July 9-10 London, UK Shepherd's Bush Empire
July 12 Manchester, UK Move Festival
July 13 Wolverhampton, UK Civic Hall <br.
July18 Atlanta, GA Roxy Theatre
July 20 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
July 21 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
July 23 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
July 26 Boston, MA Avalon Ballroom
July 29 Montreal, QUE Metropolis
July 30 Toronto, ONT Kool Haus
August 1 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
August 2 Detroit, MI State Theatre
August 5 San Antonio, TX Majestic Theatre
August 6 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater
August 7 Grand Prairie, TX Next Stage at Grand Prairie
August 9 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
August 11 Salt Lake City, UT Kingsbury Hall
August 14 Vancouver Queen Elizabeth
August 15 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
August 16 Seattle, WA Paramount Theater
August 18 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre
August 21 San Diego, CA Copley Symphony Hall
August 22 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
August 23 Las Vegas, NV The Joint
August 25 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern
