Global Spirit Tour

The Global Spirit Tour^[3] was a 2017–18 worldwide concert tour by English electronic music band Depeche Mode in support of the group's 14th studio album, Spirit. During the summer 2017, the band played to more than 3 million fans in total. This is the last concert tour to feature keyboardist Andy Fletcher before his death in 2022.

Global Spirit Tour

Tour by Depeche Mode
Promotional poster for the tour
Location	Europe North America Latin America
Associated album	Spirit
Start date	5 May 2017 (2017-05-05)
End date	25 July 2018 (2018-07-25)
Legs	6
No. of shows	85 in Europe 40 in North America 5 in Latin America 130 in total
Box office	$202 million[1][2]
Depeche Mode concert chronology

The tour found the band continuing their charity partnership with Swiss watchmaker Hublot, raising money and awareness for Charity: Water toward its mission of providing safe drinking water to everyone in the world.^[4] To promote their worldwide tour, Depeche Mode gave a promotional concert at the Funkhaus Berlin on 17 March in front of 1000 fans and streamed live on the internet.^[5]

With 130 live shows, the Global Spirit Tour is Depeche Mode's longest tour. Previously, the longest one was the Touring the Angel, with 124 live shows.

Setlist

Setlist for European and U.S. promo and rehearsal shows

1. "Scum"
2. "Going Backwards"
3. "So Much Love"
4. "Corrupt"
5. "A Pain That I'm Used To" (Jacques Lu Cont's remix)
6. "World in My Eyes"
7. "Cover Me"
   • "World in My Eyes"
8. Song performed by Martin Gore
   • "Little Soul" (acoustic)
   • "Home"
9. "Where's the Revolution"
10. "Barrel of a Gun"
11. "Enjoy the Silence"
12. "Walking in My Shoes" (with bits from the 'Random Carpet' mix)
    • "Barrel of a Gun"
13. "Personal Jesus"
    • "Enjoy the Silence"

Setlist for Europe (leg #1) and North America (leg #2)

1. "Going Backwards"
2. "So Much Love"
   • "Policy of Truth"
   • "It's No Good"
3. "Barrel of a Gun" (including a verse of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message")
4. "A Pain That I'm Used To" (Jacques Lu Cont's remix)
5. "Corrupt"
   • "Useless"
6. "In Your Room" (album version)
   • "Precious"
7. "World in My Eyes"
8. "Cover Me"
9. Song performed by Martin Gore
   • "A Question of Lust" (acoustic)
   • "Home"
   • "Judas" (acoustic)
   • "Shake the Disease" (acoustic)
   • "Somebody"
   • "Strangelove" (acoustic)
   • "Insight" (acoustic)
   • "Sister of Night (acoustic)
10. Song performed by Martin Gore
    • "A Question of Lust" (acoustic)
    • "Home"
11. "Poison Heart"
    • "In Your Room" (album version)
    • "Policy of Truth"
    • "Precious"
12. "Where's the Revolution"
13. "Wrong"
14. "Everything Counts"
15. "Stripped"
    • "Black Celebration"
16. "Enjoy the Silence"
17. "Never Let Me Down Again"
18. Song performed by Martin Gore
    • "Home"
    • "Judas" (acoustic)
    • "Somebody"
    • "Strangelove" (acoustic)
    • "Shake the Disease" (acoustic)
    • "But Not Tonight" (acoustic, only performed once)
19. "Walking in My Shoes" (with bits from the 'Random Carpet' mix)
20. "Heroes" (David Bowie cover)
    • "Black Celebration"
    • "Policy of Truth"
21. "I Feel You"
22. "Personal Jesus"

Setlist for Europe (leg #3), Latin (leg #4) and North America (leg #5)

1. "Going Backwards"
2. "It's No Good"
   • "So Much Love"
3. "Barrel of a Gun" (including a verse of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message")
4. "A Pain That I'm Used To" (Jacques Lu Cont's remix)
5. "Useless"
6. "Precious"
   • "In Your Room" (album version)
7. "World in My Eyes"
8. "Cover Me"
9. Song performed by Martin Gore
   • "A Question of Lust" (acoustic)
   • "Insight" (acoustic)
   • "Sister of Night" (acoustic)
   • "Judas" (acoustic)
   • "The Things You Said"
10. Song performed by Martin Gore
    • "Home" (acoustic intro)
11. "In Your Room" (album version)
    • "Precious"
12. "Where's the Revolution"
    • "Policy of Truth"
    • "Wrong"
13. "Everything Counts"
14. "Stripped"
    • "Halo"
    • "Policy of Truth"
    • "Black Celebration"
15. "Enjoy the Silence"
16. "Never Let Me Down Again"
17. Song performed by Martin Gore
    • "Judas" (acoustic)
    • "Strangelove" (acoustic)
    • "I Want You Now" (acoustic)
    • "Somebody"
18. "Walking in My Shoes" (with bits from the 'Random Carpet' mix)
    • "Policy of Truth"
19. "A Question of Time"
20. "Heroes" (David Bowie cover) (only performed at final show)
    • "I Feel You"
21. "Personal Jesus"
22. "Just Can't Get Enough" (only performed at final show)

Setlist for European festival concerts (leg #6)

1. "Going Backwards"
2. "It's No Good"
3. "A Pain That I'm Used To" (Jacques Lu Cont's remix)
4. "Precious"
   • "Useless"
5. "Policy of Truth"
   • "Precious"
6. "World in My Eyes"
7. "Cover Me"
8. Song performed by Martin Gore
   • "The Things You Said"
   • "Somebody"
9. "In Your Room" (album version)
10. "Everything Counts"
11. "Stripped"
    • "Enjoy the Silence"
12. "Personal Jesus"
13. "Never Let Me Down Again"
14. Song performed by Martin Gore
    • "Somebody"
15. "Walking in My Shoes" (with bits from the 'Random Carpet' mix)
16. "Enjoy the Silence"
17. "Just Can't Get Enough"

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act(s)	Attendance / Capacity	Revenue
Europe[6][7][8]
5 May 2017	Stockholm	Sweden	Friends Arena	The Raveonettes	36,400 / 36,400	$2,734,164
7 May 2017	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Ziggo Dome		16,431 / 16,431	$1,351,102
9 May 2017	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis		20,195 / 20,195	$1,477,132
12 May 2017	Nice	France	Stade Charles-Ehrmann		18,896 / 18,896	$1,320,285
14 May 2017	Ljubljana	Slovenia	Arena Stožice		10,470 / 10,470	$678,768
17 May 2017	Athens	Greece	Terra Vibe Park		17,600 / 17,600	$579,949
20 May 2017	Bratislava	Slovakia	Štadión Pasienky	F.O.X. The Raveonettes	30,290 / 30,290	$1,710,494
22 May 2017	Budapest	Hungary	Groupama Arena	25,200 / 25,200	$1,497,545
24 May 2017	Prague	Czech Republic	Eden Arena	31,935 / 31,935	$2,062,152
27 May 2017	Leipzig	Germany	Festwiese	70,002 / 70,002	$5,199,680
29 May 2017	Lille	France	Stade Pierre-Mauroy	The Horrors	26,113 / 26,113	$1,856,343
31 May 2017	Copenhagen	Denmark	Telia Parken		42,023 / 42,023	$3,841,913
3 June 2017	London	England	London Stadium		65,191 / 65,191	$5,263,537
5 June 2017	Cologne	Germany	RheinEnergieStadion		42,032 / 42,032	$3,536,347
7 June 2017	Dresden		Ostragehege		27,807 / 27,807	$2,189,092
9 June 2017	Munich		Olympiastadion		60,066 / 60,066	$5,023,935
11 June 2017	Hanover		HDI Arena	Algiers	73,050 / 73,050	$6,216,182
12 June 2017
18 June 2017	Zürich	Switzerland	Letzigrund		29,575 / 29,575	$3,267,648
20 June 2017	Frankfurt	Germany	Commerzbank-Arena		41,483 / 41,483	$3,417,345
22 June 2017	Berlin		Olympiastadion		68,157 / 68,157	$5,646,356
25 June 2017	Rome	Italy	Stadio Olimpico		51,845 / 51,845	$3,498,856
27 June 2017	Milan		San Siro		54,488 / 54,488	$3,440,506
29 June 2017	Bologna		Stadio Renato Dall'Ara		40,198 / 40,198	$2,502,572
1 July 2017	Saint-Denis	France	Stade de France		58,199 / 58,199	$4,664,546
4 July 2017	Gelsenkirchen	Germany	Veltins-Arena		43,064 / 43,064	$3,564,990
6 July 2017[a]	Bilbao	Spain	Monte Cobetas	—	—	—
8 July 2017[b]	Oeiras	Portugal	Passeio Marítimo de Algés
13 July 2017	Saint Petersburg	Russia	Saint Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex	Maya Jane Coles	21,864 / 21,864	$1,667,443
15 July 2017	Moscow		Otkrytiye Arena		36,173 / 36,173	$2,704,614
19 July 2017	Kyiv	Ukraine	NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium		30,803 / 30,803	$1,367,171
21 July 2017	Warsaw	Poland	PGE Narodowy		54,659 / 54,659	$3,298,835
23 July 2017	Cluj-Napoca	Romania	Cluj Arena		31,923 / 31,923	$1,420,917
North America[9][10]
23 August 2017	West Valley City	United States	USANA Amphitheatre	Warpaint	15,546 / 20,000	$810,438
25 August 2017	Denver		Pepsi Center		11,669 / 14,852	$1,191,532
27 August 2017	Clarkston		DTE Energy Music Theatre		13,089 / 14,877	$760,468
30 August 2017	Tinley Park		Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre		17,951 / 28,628	$1,276,697
1 September 2017	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena		6,292 / 6,911	$700,478
3 September 2017	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre		14,863 / 15,000	$1,586,056
5 September 2017	Montreal		Bell Centre		14,378 / 15,151	$1,193,011
7 September 2017	Washington, D.C.	United States	Capital One Arena		11,957 / 12,554	$1,286,642
9 September 2017	New York City		Madison Square Garden		28,713 / 28,713	$3,891,636
11 September 2017
15 September 2017	Miami		American Airlines Arena		12,858 / 13,123	$1,258,102
18 September 2017	Nashville		Ascend Amphitheater		6,552 / 6,821	$474,814
20 September 2017	Austin		Austin360 Amphitheater		12,124 / 12,571	$809,104
22 September 2017	Dallas		Starplex Pavilion		17,010 / 20,042	$1,192,434
24 September 2017	The Woodlands		Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion		15,720 / 16,217	$1,174,677
27 September 2017	Phoenix		Ak-Chin Pavilion		11,521 / 18,961	$631,959
30 September 2017	Paradise		T-Mobile Arena		14,114 / 15,096	$1,578,470
2 October 2017	Santa Barbara		Santa Barbara Bowl		4,744 / 4,744	$566,569
6 October 2017	Chula Vista		Mattress Firm Amphitheatre		18,895 / 20,500	$1,234,035
8 October 2017	San Jose		SAP Center		12,990 / 15,000	$1,421,010
10 October 2017	Oakland		Oracle Arena		12,860 / 12,860	$1,493,298
12 October 2017	Los Angeles		Hollywood Bowl		65,808 / 65,808	$7,446,382
14 October 2017
16 October 2017
18 October 2017
21 October 2017	Seattle		KeyArena		12,675 / 14,000	$1,316,320
23 October 2017	Portland		Moda Center		12,589 / 14,000	$1,135,075
25 October 2017	Vancouver	Canada	Rogers Arena		12,308 / 14,000	$1,040,893
27 October 2017	Edmonton		Rogers Place		12,127 / 13,000	$1,020,953
Europe[11]
15 November 2017	Dublin	Ireland	3Arena	Re-TROS	12,420 / 12,420	$1,306,691
17 November 2017	Manchester	England	Manchester Arena		13,302 / 14,595	$1,189,204
19 November 2017	Birmingham		Arena Birmingham		13,212 / 13,212	$1,163,368
22 November 2017	London		The O2 Arena		17,366 / 19,151	$1,446,430
24 November 2017	Frankfurt	Germany	Festhalle		12,004 / 12,004	$1,133,625
26 November 2017	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis		19,299 / 19,299	$1,544,331
28 November 2017	Stuttgart	Germany	Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle		13,074 / 13,074	$1,110,491
30 November 2017	Mannheim		SAP Arena		11,432 / 11,432	$958,676
3 December 2017	Paris	France	AccorHotels Arena		31,922 / 31,922	$2,423,414
5 December 2017
7 December 2017	Barcelona	Spain	Palau Sant Jordi		16,632 / 16,632	$1,458,459
9 December 2017	Turin	Italy	PalaAlpitour	Pumarosa	22,567 / 22,567	$1,649,451
11 December 2017
13 December 2017	Casalecchio di Reno		Unipol Arena		14,001 / 14,001	$1,025,253
16 December 2017	Madrid	Spain	WiZink Center		15,188 / 15,188	$1,532,894
9 January 2018	Copenhagen	Denmark	Royal Arena		15,461 / 15,461	$1,685,424
11 January 2018	Hamburg	Germany	Barclaycard Arena Hamburg		13,093 / 13,093	$1,269,460
13 January 2018	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Ziggo Dome		16,309 / 16,309	$1,529,315
15 January 2018	Cologne	Germany	Lanxess Arena		16,327 / 16,327	$1,547,700
17 January 2018	Berlin		Mercedes-Benz Arena	EMA	27,958 / 27,958	$2,729,278
19 January 2018
21 January 2018	Nuremberg		Arena Nürnberger Versicherung		8,749 / 8,749	$918,799
24 January 2018	Bordeaux	France	Bordeaux Métropole Arena		10,602 / 10,602	$1,005,765
27 January 2018	Assago	Italy	Mediolanum Forum		21,750 / 21,750	$1,701,295
29 January 2018
31 January 2018	Prague	Czech Republic	O2 Arena		17,431 / 17,431	$1,243,489
2 February 2018	Budapest	Hungary	Budapest Sports Arena		13,799 / 13,799	$1,127,679
4 February 2018	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle		13,166 / 13,166	$1,301,431
7 February 2018	Kraków	Poland	Tauron Arena	Black Line	15,390 / 15,390	$1,273,384
9 February 2018	Łódź		Atlas Arena		14,270 / 14,270	$1,279,492
11 February 2018	Gdańsk		Ergo Arena		13,326 / 13,326	$1,104,971
13 February 2018	Minsk	Belarus	Minsk-Arena		5,565 / 12,000	$571,325
16 February 2018	Saint Petersburg	Russia	Saint Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex		—	—
18 February 2018	Helsinki	Finland	Hartwall Arena		11,062 / 11,062	$1,091,441
20 February 2018	Riga	Latvia	Arena Riga		12,205 / 12,205	$1,230,947
22 February 2018	Vilnius	Lithuania	Siemens Arena		12,006 / 12,006	$1,326,598
25 February 2018	Moscow	Russia	Olimpiyskiy		22,879 / 22,879	$1,870,129
Latin America
11 March 2018	Mexico City	Mexico	Foro Sol	Rey Pila	128,521 / 128,521	$7,598,275
13 March 2018
16 March 2018	Bogotá	Colombia	Simón Bolívar Park	Estados Alterados	13,375 / 13,375	$1,276,390
18 March 2018	Lima	Peru	Estadio Nacional de Lima	Cementerio Inocentes	18,742 / 18,742	$994,138
21 March 2018	Santiago	Chile	Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos	Matías Aguayo & The Desdemonas	47,668 / 47,668[12]	$3,985,257
24 March 2018	La Plata	Argentina	Estadio Ciudad de La Plata	Juana Molina	47,214 / 47,214	$4,095,289
27 March 2018	São Paulo	Brazil	Allianz Parque	Gui Boratto	24,180 / 24,180	$2,115,569
North America[13]
22 May 2018	Anaheim	United States	Honda Center	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	—	—
24 May 2018	Sacramento		Golden 1 Center		12,396 / 12,396	$1,146,455
27 May 2018	San Antonio		AT&T Center		13,221 / 13,221	$1,144,480
29 May 2018	Tulsa		BOK Center		—	—
1 June 2018	Chicago		United Center	EMA	14,244 / 14,244	$1,368,405
3 June 2018	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center		10,988 / 21,000	$905,675
6 June 2018	Brooklyn		Barclays Center		14,483 / 14,483	$1,531,052
9 June 2018	Boston		TD Garden		11,581 / 19,600	$1,011,092
11 June 2018	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre		14,270 / 14,270	$1,310,416
Europe
23 June 2018[c]	Newport	England	Seaclose Park	—	—	—
26 June 2018[d]	Sopron	Hungary	Lővér Camping
28 June 2018[e]	Odense	Denmark	Tusindårsskoven
30 June 2018[f]	St. Gallen	Switzerland	Sittertobel
2 July 2018[g]	Barolo	Italy	Piazza Rossa	Marlene Kuntz
5 July 2018[h]	Gdynia	Poland	Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport	—
7 July 2018[i]	Arras	France	Citadelle d'Arras
9 July 2018[j]	Hérouville-Saint-Clair		Château de Beauregard
12 July 2018[k]	Aix-les-Bains		Lac du Bourget
14 July 2018[l]	Madrid	Spain	Espacio Valdebebas-IFEMA
17 July 2018[m]	Nyon	Switzerland	Plaine de l'Asse
19 July 2018[n]	Carhaix	France	La Prairie de Kerampuilh
21 July 2018[o]	Paris		Longchamp Racecourse
23 July 2018	Berlin	Germany	Waldbühne	DAF	43,783 / 43,783	$3,857,267
25 July 2018
Total					2,470,918 / 2,542,538 (97.18%)	$199,581,441

Musicians

Depeche Mode

• Andy Fletcher – keyboards
• Dave Gahan – lead vocals
• Martin Gore – guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Christian Eigner – drums
• Peter Gordeno – keyboards, piano, bass guitar, backing vocals

Notes

1. The concert on 6 July 2017 in Bilbao was part of the Bilbao BBK Live festival.
2. The concert on 8 July 2017 in Oeiras was part of the NOS Alive festival.
3. The concert on 23 June 2018 in Newport was part of the Isle of Wight Festival.
4. The concert on 26 June 2018 in Sopron was part of the Volt Festival.
5. The concert on 28 June 2018 in Odense was part of the Tinderbox Festival.
6. The concert on 30 June 2018 in St. Gallen was part of the OpenAir St. Gallen festival.
7. The concert on 2 July 2018 in Bartolo was part of the Collisioni Festival.
8. The concert on 5 July 2018 in Gdynia was part of the Open'er Festival.
9. The concert on 7 July 2018 in Arras was part of the Main Square Festival.
10. The concert on 9 July 2018 in Arras was part of the Festival Beauregard.
11. The concert on 12 July 2018 in Aix-les-Bains was part of the Musilac Music Festival.
12. The concert on 14 July 2018 in Madrid was part of the Mad Cool Festival.
13. The concert on 17 July 2018 in Nyon was part of the Paléo Festival.
14. The concert on 19 July 2018 in Carhaix was part of the Vieilles Charrues Festival.
15. The concert on 21 July 2018 in Paris was part of the Lollapalooza Paris festival.

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