Depeche Mode to kick off next world tour in Israel
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Two years after disappointing local fans by canceling its concert due to the Second Lebanon War, British pop trio Depeche Mode will kick off next year's world tour with a May date in Israel.
Tomorrow, the group is set to convene a press conference at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin to officially announce its 2009 tour schedule.
Marek Lieberberg, the band's promoter in Germany, told a German fan Web site in August that the trio would kick off their 2009 world tour in Israel, and word soon spread across Israeli fan forums.Likewise, keyboardist Andrew Fletcher said during his solo D.J. performance at Tel Aviv's "Theater Club" last year that the band and its managers were interested in compensating fans for the 2006 cancellation.
Sources in the entertainment industry say that Israeli impresario Shuki Weiss, who was slated to produce the 2006 performance and reportedly lost millions with its cancellation, will be involved in next year's show, which will likely be held at either Ramat Gan National Stadium or Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park.
In 2006, promoters insisted the concert would go ahead as planned until just two days prior, when they announced that members of the technical staff were refusing to make the trip. Some 45,000 tickets had already been sold, a similar turnout to last week's Paul McCartney performance.
In a recent interview with TheMarker, Weiss said that the concert was not covered by insurance and that he was forced to compensate production staff and fans from his own pocket. Tickets for that performance cost about NIS 300.
Depeche Mode, founded in 1977 in Basildon, Essex by Fletcher, vocalist Dave Gahan and keyboardist Martin Gore, was one of the most successful and influential groups to have emerged from the 1980s New Wave era of electronic music. The group has sold over 72 million albums worldwide.
The group's local fan base is one of the widest in Israel, including several thousand admirers who meet regularly for band-related events. Yifal Bistri, 30, is a Depeche Mode fan from Tel Aviv. In his apartment hangs the promotional poster of the show that never was.
"The music itself is simple, but it shows sophistication and development between the albums.
"For almost 30 years, the band was able to renew itself," says Bistri, one of 200 Israeli fans who traveled to Turkey in 2001 to catch a glimpse of the trio.
"As for many other people, the concert that was supposed to be held seemed like a ray of light for me during the war, something to look forward to," he said, describing its later cancellation as a "tragedy."
Bistri is optimistic that this time around things will be different. "Fingers crossed," he said.
Tomorrow, the group is set to convene a press conference at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin to officially announce its 2009 tour schedule.
Marek Lieberberg, the band's promoter in Germany, told a German fan Web site in August that the trio would kick off their 2009 world tour in Israel, and word soon spread across Israeli fan forums.Likewise, keyboardist Andrew Fletcher said during his solo D.J. performance at Tel Aviv's "Theater Club" last year that the band and its managers were interested in compensating fans for the 2006 cancellation.
Sources in the entertainment industry say that Israeli impresario Shuki Weiss, who was slated to produce the 2006 performance and reportedly lost millions with its cancellation, will be involved in next year's show, which will likely be held at either Ramat Gan National Stadium or Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park.
In 2006, promoters insisted the concert would go ahead as planned until just two days prior, when they announced that members of the technical staff were refusing to make the trip. Some 45,000 tickets had already been sold, a similar turnout to last week's Paul McCartney performance.
In a recent interview with TheMarker, Weiss said that the concert was not covered by insurance and that he was forced to compensate production staff and fans from his own pocket. Tickets for that performance cost about NIS 300.
Depeche Mode, founded in 1977 in Basildon, Essex by Fletcher, vocalist Dave Gahan and keyboardist Martin Gore, was one of the most successful and influential groups to have emerged from the 1980s New Wave era of electronic music. The group has sold over 72 million albums worldwide.
The group's local fan base is one of the widest in Israel, including several thousand admirers who meet regularly for band-related events. Yifal Bistri, 30, is a Depeche Mode fan from Tel Aviv. In his apartment hangs the promotional poster of the show that never was.
"The music itself is simple, but it shows sophistication and development between the albums.
"For almost 30 years, the band was able to renew itself," says Bistri, one of 200 Israeli fans who traveled to Turkey in 2001 to catch a glimpse of the trio.
"As for many other people, the concert that was supposed to be held seemed like a ray of light for me during the war, something to look forward to," he said, describing its later cancellation as a "tragedy."
Bistri is optimistic that this time around things will be different. "Fingers crossed," he said.
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