The band have finished their work with
Ben Hillier and Dave Mc Cracken at Stratosphere
in New York after their previous work
in the beginning of the year in a studio
of Santa Barbara. Some another studio
session seems to be scheduled in London
on the next few weeks. the results of
this works is 12 songs that have been
have been worked on .
As
announced on the official website there
will be on June 16th a press conference
in Düsseldorf, Germany, where some
informations about the tour and the
album will be made by the band.
The only reliable information about
tour is that in November 2005 Depeche
Mode will be at the Madison Square Garden
in New York as this website seems to
inform (auction
for LREI of Dave & his wife Jennifer
of a ticket to the next DM concert in
New York )
As
for release dates it seems a single
is scheduled for September ( as announced
& confirmed by french label for
Mute Records: Labels
) and probably October for the release
date of the new album (still unconfirmed
except it will be in Autumn 2005)
Lately
a German film production company Q Film
has been doing with a “Making of...”
film about the new album. The person
in charge of this project is director
Uwe Flade who also directed the recent
videos of "Enjoy The Silence 04"
and "Bottle Living" ( for
Dave's album).
Depeche
Mode will also be featuring on "The
work of director Anton Corbijn"
DVD, that will be released soon( Release
date is September 17 2005 ).It will
feature the video of "Enjoy The
Silence" with an exclusive commentary
track by Dave Gahan. You will find other
documentaries and videos of Joy Division,
U2, Nirvana and some more on this DVD.
Anton
also seems to be have been working with
the band recently for the new album
sleeve, he met them in studio to take
some pictures and seemed quite happy
with what he heard of the new album.
