Depeche Mode remember Andy Fletcher, on Apple Music 1

Depeche Mode have met with Zane Lowe in the Apple Music 1 studio for an interview about ‘Memento Mori’, available this Friday March 24th. Dave Gahan and Martin Gore talk about continuing to evolve after more than 40 years of career, the simplicity of the new record, their collaboration with Richard Butler and the conspicuous lack of Andy Fletcher.

Admitting that they could “stop putting out music and just play the hits,” Gahan and Gore make it clear that “that’s not what we want.” Depeche Mode’s first album in six years, ‘Memento Mori’, is just around the corner and they want it to stay with us “forever”, through simplicity: “Some of the best songs by people like Bob Marley or John Lennon and their simplicity is what really stays with you forever,” Gahan says of the new album.

The Depeche vocalist has also detailed that both were “very aware that we shouldn’t complicate everything”, from the music to those involved in it: “We made a great team with James Ford and Marty Salogni. In the end, it was just the four of us,” Gahan says of the creative process. ‘Memento Mori’ is also the first Depeche Mode album to feature someone “outside the band”, as is Richard Butler of Psychedelic Furs, who has written six songs on the album with Gore: “I thought it would be a waste to use them as a side project,” said the Depeche leader.

Gahan and Gore have also spoken to Lowe about the loss of Andy Fletcher: “I honestly think he enjoyed Depeche Mode more than Dave or I did,” says Gore. Gahan has detailed that they remembered him throughout the making of the LP “because his presence was there”: “Everything we do without Fletch is new to us,” the vocalist clarified.

Gore has expressed concern about Depeche’s first massive show without Fletcher, as “it’s not going to be easy”. «The first show is going to be a little… too much, I hope not. It might be weird for us to be there with the public for the first time. It’s not going to be easy, it’s going to be something we think about all the time. It’s not here anymore. Physically, he’s not here. It was always on my left side, even now when we were rehearsing I would look there often or when we have been doing things, like when we did our first TV. We did a TV in Italy, Sanremo Pop Festival, recently and that was the first time we went on stage and performed “Ghosts Again”, actually, I felt terribly during that experience. It was all wrong and even though everyone afterwards said, “Oh, it was great, it was great.” All that sort of thing, but I kept thinking how strange it was not to have Fletch there behind me.

The British dismissed the interview by revealing that they recorded 16 songs for ‘Memento Mori’, so there are four other songs “ready to go” that did not make it into the final tracklist: “We don’t usually have anything in the safe,” Martin concluded. Gore. Depeche Mode continued their television tour last night with a visit to Jimmy Kimmel’s show, where they performed ‘Ghosts Again’ once again.

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Depeche Mode remember Andy Fletcher, on Apple Music 1