by withahip » Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:17 pm
Depeche Mode's current tour has been both "calamitous" and "an amazing spectacle," keyboardist Andy Fletcher tells me.
The calamitous: "I found out on the first day of the tour, my father suddenly died. Completely a shock," Fletcher says.
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"Then we had the problem with Dave."
Singer Dave Gahan went to the hospital for gastrointestinal trouble -- which led to doctors discovering cancer in another part of his body.
"They went scanning him for the gastro, and they found this tumor in his bladder. It turned out it was cancerous. But it was very, very early stages, and they snipped it off. And he's been back on the road."
But wait, there's more.
Gahan then tore a calf muscle during a July concert in Spain.
And last week, Gahan's doctor ordered him on "complete" vocal rest.
All this calamity has led to some canceled shows, although they have honored most of their tour dates.