As some of you may know, a special promotional website has been launched on www.playingtheangel.fr where you can enter some contests to win special prizes like CD's t-shirts and more.

But a special quizz has been launched with a very special prize : a trip to Las Vegas to go to see Depeche Mode on their concert on November 26th 2005
Have a look at the website :

The album Playing the Angel will be released on october 17th with the following tracklisting :

01 - A Pain That I'm Used To
02 - John The Revelator
03 - Suffer Well
04 - The Sinner In Me
05 - Precious
06 - Macrovision
07 - I Want It All
08 - Nothing's Impossible
09 - Introspectre
10 - Damaged People
11 - Lillian
12 - The Darkest Star

the album will also be released on a special limited version including :

-Playing The Angel in 5.1 and Stereo (DTS 5.1 - 24 bit, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - 24 bit, and PCM Stereo - 24 bit)
-"Making The Angel" (8:07) (EPK)
-"Precious" (music video - 4:00)
-"Clean" (Bare - 3:42) - this is a special 'exclusive studio performance'
> Ben Hillier candid studio photo gallery

The new single for Playing the Angel will be the song " A Pain That I'm Used To".

The band were doing their promotion in Paris, France the week of September 12th. they took some time to shoot the video there for their new forthcoming single" A Pain That I'm Used To" .

There are some new articles on french press about Playing the Angel and Precious on magazines Rolling Stone and D-Side.

On the interview realized by D-Side crew we learn that Alan is about to work on remastering some of the albums of DM on 2.1 for Mute and we learn by others that he will start soon to work again also a new project of his own.

Click on the picture below to see a preview of those articles.

here is the list of magazines that will feature interviews and maina rticles about Depeche Mode in France :

Rolling Stone (on sale now)
D-Side (on sale now)
MAX
VSD
Les Inrockuptibles
Get Out
Epok
Femme Actuelle
Courrier Cadres
Le Parisien
Elegy
Rock & Folk
20 minutes (newspaper)
Metro (newspaper)
Le Monde
A Nous Paris
Elle
Le Figaro
Virgin Mag
So Foot

TV:
-Hit Machine (sept. 24th)
-Traffic
-M6 Rock

Radio :
-"Eclectik" on France Inter
-"Ondes de choc" on France Inter

on UK press :

Q - great album review "back to their best" - 1st October
Times feature - 30th September
Mojo - 6 page feature & album review - 1st Oct
Sunday Express feature - 2nd October
Metro 60 second interview - 3rd October

Yahoo made a special section their LAUNCH music section to Depeche Mode: Go and visit it by clicking on the picture below :

Here are various links to articles mentionning the new album release :

itunes presale

CNN article

Review by Howard Jones

We already have some information about the opening bands that will open for Depeche Mode shows : The Bravery and Raveonettes

more informations on :

Yahoo news article

Here are some snippets you can hear from the forthcoming album : Playing the Angel :

Snippets from playing the angel

A new french promotional website for Playing the angel has been released on playingtheangel.fr

there are some new wallpapers, videos and exclusive interviews go visit it by clicking on the banner below :

plus don't miss the launch of a new fantastic website that will surely gather lot of french fans but also international ones ( both in english and french) : PLAYINGTHEANGEL.COM
it will surely have alot of success due to its "collaborative" mode... At least I DO wish them lot of success :)

There are actually 2 Depeche mode parties about to be done on Depeche Mode in Paris the first one that we recommend is on October 14th:

Pump up the Volume speciale DM

Vendredi 14 Octobre

* Pop Rock Party *

APERO : 23H-00H

Open Bar Vodka

Retrouvez un apéro 100% Depeche Mode à l’occasion de la sortie du nouvel album ‘Playing the angel’

Aux platines : Basterra (rédac chef du magazine Magic) & Robert Alves (Pop Not Pop)

PARTY : 00H-06H speciale depeche Mode

Venez passer une soirée sur la musique de vos groupes favoris mixés par les Djs Guillaume, Julien & FranK… ils rendront hommage à l’ensemble de la carrière du groupe en jouant tubes, maxis , remix de DM

We love Depeche Mode - The Killers - Bloc party - Kasabian - The Braves - Chemical Brothers - Mylo - The Bravery - The Strokes - Tiga - Felix Da Housecat - Jacques Lu Cont - The Rapture - Kaiser Chiefs - The Libertines - Soulwax - Muse - Placebo - Blur - Scissors Sisters - Primal Scream - New Order - Lcd Soundsystem - Franz Ferdinand - Noir Désir - Sonic Youth - Nirvana - Elastica …

Retrouvez également dans la 2ème salle du bateau le Pop Not Pop Danceclub avec le collectif Pop Not pop, qui reçoit ce mois ci : djd! (résident Lo*Li*Ta / Razzmatazz / Barcelona) ainsi que The Micronauts (Micronautics)

Bateau Concorde Atlantique

Face au 23 quai Anatole France

75007 Paris / M° Assemblée Nationale

Parking surveillé devant le bateau

Infoline : 01 47 70 01 48 / 06 74 62 00 83

Plus d’infos sur www.pumpupthevolume.org

Entrée 10 € avec conso sur presentation de ce mail/ Open Bar de 23H A 00H

pump up the volume, c’est tous les 2 ème vendredis de chaque mois sur le bateau concorde atlantique

and the other one is done by the french magazine Elegy in association with association Celtic Circle on october 15th :

More informations on :

Elegy
Celtic Circle

There is a new Biography that is being released about Depeche Mode that is on a DVD and called RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

If you want more informations visit

Amazon - Random Access Memory info

back in 2001 the Magazine called MAGIC! released a special issue about Depeche Mode if you want to order it click on the picture of the cover