Depeche Mode have not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, festival booking or one-off show for either country, and nothing is on sale. The band have not released a new studio album since Memento Mori in 2023, and they have not announced a new world tour since the Memento Mori World Tour ended in Cologne on Monday 8 April 2024.
For Australian fans the wait is already a long one. The band's last concerts here took place in March 1994, on the Exotic leg of the Devotional Tour: Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in eight days. Before that, the only Australian show in the archive is a single night at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Friday 31 August 1990, during the World Violation Tour. New Zealand has never had a Depeche Mode concert in the setlist archive.
Dave Gahan and Martin Gore have continued as a duo since Andy Fletcher's death in May 2022. Their most recent world tour played 112 shows in Europe and North America and skipped Asia and Oceania completely. This page sets out what is and is not confirmed for 2027 and looks back at the six Australian nights the band have played.
There is no official information about a Depeche Mode tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No dates, venues, presale or support act have been announced, and online rumours of a late-2027 world tour are not confirmed by the band. Any site already offering tickets or a presale code for Australian shows is not official.
The Memento Mori World Tour, announced on 4 October 2022 together with the album, opened at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on Thursday 23 March 2023 and finished in Cologne on 8 April 2024. Wikipedia counts 112 shows and roughly 2.68 million tickets, all in Europe and North and Central America. Since then the band's releases have been the concert film Depeche Mode: M, built around three nights in Mexico City in September 2023 and released in cinemas on 28 October 2025, and a cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie's 'Universal Soldier' for the War Child album Help(2), released on 6 March 2026.
That leaves Australia in an unusual position. According to Wikipedia, Europe and Australia were the only places where the band had real success in their early years, yet the country has not seen them since 1994. Global Spirit (2017 to 2018), Delta Machine (2013 to 2014), Tour of the Universe (2009 to 2010), Touring the Angel (2005 to 2006) and the Exciter and Singles tours all bypassed Oceania.
If an Australian or New Zealand leg is ever added to a future tour, it will be announced as part of a world tour, with an artist presale and a general sale. Nothing of the kind exists for 2027 so far, and this page will be updated as soon as anything is official.
Depeche Mode's first Australian concert in the archive came on the World Violation Tour, the 88-show run behind Violator that started on 28 May 1990 and ended on 27 November 1990. Between the North American and Japanese legs the band flew to Sydney for one night at the Hordern Pavilion in Moore Park on Friday 31 August 1990. It was the only Oceania date of the tour; according to Wikipedia, a Melbourne show was cancelled after Gahan was told by a doctor to rest his voice ahead of the Japanese dates.
That Sydney set had 17 songs. It opened with 'World in My Eyes' and 'Halo', included 'Shake the Disease', 'Everything Counts', 'Master and Servant' and 'Never Let Me Down Again', and ran through 'Clean', 'Stripped', 'Policy of Truth' and 'Enjoy the Silence' before an encore of 'Strangelove', 'Personal Jesus', 'Behind the Wheel' and the band's cover of 'Route 66'. Four days later they were in Fukuoka for the Japanese leg.
The band came back in March 1994 for a proper Australian tour, on the Exotic leg of the Devotional Tour that had begun in South Africa in February. The Oceania and Asian section started in Singapore on 3 March, then crossed the continent from west to east: the Perth Entertainment Centre on Saturday 5 March, the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on Monday 7 March, the National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park in Melbourne on Tuesday 8 March, Festival Hall in Brisbane on Thursday 10 March and the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Saturday 12 March 1994.
Several of those buildings have changed since. The National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park is the arena now called Rod Laver Arena. The Perth Entertainment Centre closed in 2002 and Brisbane's Festival Hall in 2003, and the Sydney Entertainment Centre closed in 2015 and was demolished. The Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney are still running, which makes them the only Depeche Mode Australian venues you can still visit.
The 1994 shows came at the most difficult moment in the band's history. Wikipedia describes the Devotional Tour as the longest and most geographically varied tour the band ever made, 159 performances over fourteen months, and quotes Q magazine calling it 'the most debauched rock 'n' roll tour ever'. It was also the last tour with Alan Wilder, who left the band in June 1995. Australia saw that line-up at the end of its road.
Since then, the Devotional era has stayed the full extent of the band's Australian history: one show in 1990 and five in 1994, six concerts in all, with Sydney the only city visited twice. No concert in New Zealand appears in the archive or in the Wikipedia tour articles.
The table below lists 6 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Depeche Mode between 1990 and 1994, with the most shows in Sydney (2), Brisbane (1), Melbourne (1), Adelaide (1), Perth (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 March 1994 | Sydney | Sydney Entertainment Centre | Exotic Tour |
| 10 March 1994 | Brisbane | Brisbane Festival Hall | Exotic Tour |
| 8 March 1994 | Melbourne | National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park | Exotic Tour |
| 7 March 1994 | Adelaide | Thebarton Theatre | Exotic Tour |
| 5 March 1994 | Perth | Perth Entertainment Centre | Exotic Tour |
| 31 August 1990 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | World Violation Tour |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 6 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (31 August 1990 to 12 March 1994), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Depeche Mode formed in Basildon, Essex, in 1980 with Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke. Clarke wrote most of the debut album, Speak & Spell (1981), which reached No. 28 in Australia, then left at the end of 1981 to form Yazoo and later Erasure. Gore became chief songwriter from A Broken Frame (1982), and Alan Wilder joined for Construction Time Again (1983) and Some Great Reward (1984).
Black Celebration (1986) and Music for the Masses (1987) made them one of the biggest alternative bands of the decade, and their Rose Bowl concert in Pasadena in June 1988 drew more than 60,000 people. Violator (1990), with 'Personal Jesus', 'Enjoy the Silence' and 'Policy of Truth', reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and No. 42 in Australia, and Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993) climbed to No. 14 in Australia.
Wilder left in 1995 and the band carried on as a trio. Ultra (1997) gave them their highest Australian album peak, No. 7, followed by Exciter (2001, No. 20), Playing the Angel (2005, No. 45), Sounds of the Universe (2009, No. 32), Delta Machine (2013, No. 16) and Spirit (2017, No. 14). They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 7 November 2020.
Andy Fletcher died on 26 May 2022, aged 60. Gahan and Gore finished Memento Mori as a duo with producer James Ford; it was released in 2023, led by the single 'Ghosts Again', and reached No. 36 in Australia. The band have had 54 UK hit singles and sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Speak & Spell | 1981 | AUS 28 |
| A Broken Frame | 1982 | — |
| Construction Time Again | 1983 | — |
| Some Great Reward | 1984 | — |
| Black Celebration | 1986 | AUS 69 |
| Music for the Masses | 1987 | AUS 60 |
| Violator | 1990 | AUS 42 |
| Songs of Faith and Devotion | 1993 | AUS 14 |
| Ultra | 1997 | AUS 7 |
| Exciter | 2001 | AUS 20 |
| Playing the Angel | 2005 | AUS 45 |
| Sounds of the Universe | 2009 | AUS 32 |
| Delta Machine | 2013 | AUS 16 |
| Spirit | 2017 | AUS 14 |
| Memento Mori | 2023 | AUS 36 |
No other band of Depeche Mode's size has left such a long gap in Australia. Since the Sydney Entertainment Centre show on 12 March 1994 they have released nine studio albums and played eight major world tours, several of them in stadiums in Europe, without a single Australian or New Zealand date.
The reasons have never been explained in the Wikipedia history. What the tour records show is a pattern: long European stadium legs, North American arenas, a Latin American swing and, recently, Mexico City as a centrepiece, but no routing towards Asia and Oceania after 1994. As of 9 October 2026 nothing suggests 2027 will be different, but nothing rules it out either.
Sydney is the only Australian city to have seen Depeche Mode twice. The first time was the Hordern Pavilion on 31 August 1990, a hall of a few thousand people in Moore Park, at the height of the Violator period. Fans who were there heard 'Enjoy the Silence' and 'Personal Jesus' only months after they had become worldwide hits.
The second was the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Saturday 12 March 1994, the last date of the Australian leg and the band's last concert in the country to date. Its 17-song set ended with 'Enjoy the Silence', 'Policy of Truth' and 'A Question of Time'.
The 1994 tour was unusual for its time because it reached all five mainland state capitals. Perth opened the run at the Perth Entertainment Centre on 5 March, two days after the Singapore show, and Adelaide followed at the Thebarton Theatre, a much smaller room than the arenas used elsewhere.
Brisbane's Festival Hall on Thursday 10 March was the band's only Queensland concert. All three cities heard 'Condemnation' and 'Judas' in the set, while Melbourne got 'One Caress' instead. For fans in these cities, those nights remain their only Depeche Mode memories on home soil.
Depeche Mode have never played New Zealand according to the setlist archive and the Wikipedia tour articles. Neither the one-off 1990 visit nor the 1994 tour crossed the Tasman, and no later tour came close.
New Zealand fans have usually travelled to Australia, Asia or further for the band. If a future world tour adds Oceania, Auckland would be a first, but nothing has been announced for 2027.
The 1994 Australian shows ran to 17 or 18 songs. Each opened with 'Rush' and 'Halo', moved through 'Behind the Wheel', 'Everything Counts', 'World in My Eyes', 'Walking in My Shoes' and 'Stripped', gave Martin Gore a vocal spot ('Judas', or 'One Caress' in Melbourne), then built to 'I Want You Now', 'In Your Room', 'Never Let Me Down Again', 'I Feel You' and 'Personal Jesus', with 'Somebody', 'Enjoy the Silence', 'Policy of Truth' and 'A Question of Time' to close.
The Memento Mori World Tour shows of 2023 and 2024 mixed new songs such as 'My Cosmos Is Mine' and 'Ghosts Again' with the classics. Songs common to the 1990 and 1994 Australian sets, such as 'Enjoy the Silence', 'Personal Jesus', 'Never Let Me Down Again', 'Everything Counts' and 'Stripped', are still regular parts of the band's live show.
Ten songs were played at all six Australian concerts in the archive: 'World in My Eyes', 'Halo', 'Everything Counts', 'Never Let Me Down Again', 'I Want You Now', 'Stripped', 'Behind the Wheel', 'Policy of Truth', 'Enjoy the Silence' and 'Personal Jesus'. 'Halo' was the second song of every set.
There are no Depeche Mode tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any site selling seats or offering a presale code for such shows is not official.
For the Memento Mori tour, the band used a fan registration and presale before the general on-sale in each country, and a future tour would probably work the same way. Buy only from the official seller named in the announcement, the venue box office or the band's own presale; expect name-locked mobile tickets, and avoid anyone selling 'presale codes'.
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Are Depeche Mode touring Australia in 2027?
No dates have been announced as of 9 October 2026.
When did Depeche Mode last play Australia?
At the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Saturday 12 March 1994, the final show of the Exotic leg of the Devotional Tour in Australia.
How many times have Depeche Mode played Australia?
Six concerts: the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 31 August 1990, then Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in March 1994.
Have Depeche Mode ever played New Zealand?
No concert in New Zealand appears in the setlist archive or in the Wikipedia tour articles.
Did the Memento Mori tour come to Australia?
No. The 2023 to 2024 tour played 112 shows in Europe and North and Central America only.
Where did Depeche Mode play in Melbourne?
At the National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park, now Rod Laver Arena, on Tuesday 8 March 1994.
Who is in Depeche Mode now?
Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, who have continued as a duo since Andy Fletcher died in May 2022.
What is the latest Depeche Mode album?
Memento Mori, released in 2023, which reached No. 36 in Australia.
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