Best of 2023: Depeche Mode on tour

IQ speaks to the architects and road warriors who are helping take the band's Memento Mori tour to millions of fans

Feature By Gordon Masson | 28 December 2023

Depeche Mode in Bucharest © Daniel Robert Dinu, Emagic

Ahead of the return of our daily IQ Index newsletter on Tuesday 2 January, we are revisiting some of our most popular interviews from the last 12 months.

Here, we speak to the architects and road warriors who are helping take Depeche Mode’s Memento Mori tour to millions of fans

The sudden death of co-founder Andy Fletcher last year had Depeche Mode contemplating the end of the band. But with new album Memento Mori invigorating both the act and their fans,…

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