Depeche Mode have announced that the following performances will be cancelled due to a calf muscle tear Dave Gahan suffered during the band’s show in Bilbao on July 9th.

• Saturday, July 11th at Super Bock Super Rock Festival in Porto
• Sunday, July 12th at Olympic Stadium, Sevilla

Dave Gahan has been instructed by doctors to stay off his injured leg in order for it to heal and to prevent any further injury. Dave will be unable to perform during this recovery period.

This packet contains 10 tracks across a 2-CD set and a numbered 7″ single pressed on Marbled White Vinyl including a remix by Jón Þór Birgisson of Sigur Rós. The formats offered in this packet are:

CD1
1. Peace (Single Version)
2. Peace (SixToes Remix)

CD2
1. Peace (Single Version)
2. Peace (Hervé’s ‘Warehouse Frequencies’ Remix)
3. Peace (Sander Van Doorn Remix)
4. Peace (The Japanese Popstars Remix)
5. Peace (Sid LeRock Remix)
6. Peace (Justus Köhncke Extended Disco Club Vocal)

7″
1. Peace (Single Version)
2. Come Back (Jonsi Remix)

The trackist of the iTunes download single is as follows:

1. Peace (Single Version)
2. Peace (Sander Van Doorn Remix)
3. Peace (The Exploding Plastic Inevitable JK Disco Dub)
4. Peace (Pan/Tone Remix)
5. Peace (Ben Klock Remix)

After a long string of canceled shows, Britain’s finest electropop act Depeche Mode returned to the spotlights with an amazing show in Leipzig, Germany last night. Thousands of fans had flocked together early that day in the city of Leipzig.  The show itself was a warm welcome for Dave Gahan who received an almost deafening avalanche of cheers from the 50,000 fans that packed the Zentral Stadium.

It’s official, as Side-Line announced two days ago, more shows are now canceled or postponed including London, Pinkpop, Hamburg, the 2 Dusseldorf shows plus the first Leizpig date. An official announcement has been made today confirming what Side-Line reported yesterday morning. The band will normally resume its activities in Leipzig on Monday, June 8th. Several shows that were canceled will be rescheduled or simply canceled for good, but that info will be made official on due time.  The Side-Line news that Dave had cancer was also confirmed.

Pinkpop boss Jan Smeets has been quoted by the Belga press agency saying that Depeche Mode will most probably not be perfoming at this year’s Pinkpop festival in Holland. Smeets says he’s trying to book Oasis or The Prodigy as a replacement act. As if…

In the end Pinkpop asked Krezip, once again, to act as a replacement… crazy.

As www.side-line.com reported, Dave Gahan has been diagnosed having bladder cancer. We wish him all the best whilst recovering!

Depeche Mode have announced that they are forced to cancel a further three shows on their “Tour of the Universe”. The offical announcement reads that doctors have advised that more time is needed to allow singer, Dave Gahan, to fully recover from his recent illness and ensure that the tour can resume shortly.  The following additional shows have been cancelled:

MAY
Sat 23 - Warsaw, Poland, Gwardia Stadium
Mon 25 - Riga, Latvia, Skonto Stadium
Wed 27 - Vilnius, Lithuania, Zalgiris Stadium

Ticket holders for the above shows are advised to hold onto their tickets, as an announcement will follow soon with regard to either new rescheduled concert dates, or their final cancellation.

No news yet on the illness of Dave Gahan giving room to lots of speculation…

Erasure frontman criticises latest Depeche Mode album in a Q&A with fans. The title says it all.

Depeche Mode have been forced to cancel a further four shows on their “Sounds of the Universe” tour due to further complications from singer Dave Gahan’s severe bout of gastroenteritis. The following shows have been cancelled:

• May 16th Bucharest, Romania, Izvor Park
• May 18th Sofia, Bulgaria, Vasil Levski Stadium
• May 20th Belgrade, Serbia, USCE Park
• May 21st Zagreb, Croatia, Arena

Ticket holders for the above shows are advised to hold on to their tickets as an announcement will be made shortly in regard to rescheduled dates or final cancellation. 

New shows to be announced
In better news, new dates are about to be added as well including on-sale info for Spain, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil.

The Greek Depeche Mode fans that had gathered at the Terra Vibe Park near Athens yesterday evening didn’t really get the show they had expected. Over 30.000 people got the not so pleasant message that the show was canceled due to Gahan being rushed to hospital. The announcement was followed by bottles being thrown on stage by enraged fans though the venue was cleared soon after without further incidents. 

According to the first reports Gahan suffers from stomach and further intestinal problems and is currently being examined in a hospital near the capital of Greece. It’s not sure when the band will continue the tour. They are expected to perform in Istanbul, Turkey on May 14th followed by a gig on May 16th in Bucharest, Romania.

In more not so pleasant news, it seems the father from Andy Flether passed away last weekend.

Side-Line Magazine announces that the pre-sales for the Depeche Mode live CD’s of the new tour have started:

As we announced about a month ago, Depeche Mode are ready to repeat the Live Here Now approach for their upcoming world “Tour of The Universe 2009″. The news has been confirmed by Liveherenow.com who has started the pre-sales for the live recordings right here. This means that every concert will be released as a 2CD set and download. It will be the second time that Depeche Mode chooses this approach. Almost the complete last half of their 2005/2006 “Touring The Angel” tour was also available as ‘legal bootlegs’ via the EMI company Live Here Now. Just like last time, fans will be able to buy vouchers at the shows and online. The 2CD versions are 18 UK Pound (if you buy 3 you get one for free) and the downloads are 10 UK Pound (also here, if you buy 3 you get one for free) . 

Small detail, the first try-out gig in Luxemburg is not featured in the list.

Live Here Now was established in 2004 to produce and sell live concert recordings within minutes of an event finishing. The project is run by a team of industry professionals and the company’s first release was recorded at Camber Sands in December 2004, capturing Throbbing Gristle live. Later on the releases were post-produced and sent off a few days to a few weeks after the gigs took place which increased the quality largely.