Nouvelle Vague announce ‘A Date With Depeche Mode’ UK tour for March 2027
Nouvelle Vague announce a 13-date UK tour, “A Date With Depeche Mode,” across March 2027, tied to a new covers album. Tickets went on sale 5 June 2026.
Nouvelle Vague
French covers project Nouvelle Vague has announced a 13-date UK tour, “A Date With Depeche Mode,” running across March 2027 to mark a new album of the same name.
Nouvelle Vague was founded in 2003 by Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux, who reworked post-punk and new-wave songs in a bossa nova style. Libaux died in 2021 but the project continues to tour.
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Tour dates for Nouvelle Vague
All confirmed dates take place in the United Kingdom in March 2027. Tickets went on sale on 5 June 2026.
- 4 March 2027 — Stratford-upon-Avon, Rother Street Arts House, United Kingdom
- 5 March 2027 — London, KOKO (Camden), United Kingdom
- 6 March 2027 — Manchester, Band on the Wall, United Kingdom
- 7 March 2027 — Norwich, The Waterfront, United Kingdom
- 10 March 2027 — Hove, The Old Market, United Kingdom
- 11 March 2027 — Cambridge, The Cambridge Junction, United Kingdom
- 12 March 2027 — Canterbury, Gulbenkian Theatre, United Kingdom
- 13 March 2027 — Liverpool, Hangar 34, United Kingdom
- 14 March 2027 — Bristol, The Trinity Centre, United Kingdom
- 17 March 2027 — Nottingham, Metronome, United Kingdom
- 18 March 2027 — Leeds, Howard Assembly Room, United Kingdom
- 19 March 2027 — Glasgow, Saint Luke’s, United Kingdom
- 20 March 2027 — Edinburgh, The Queen’s Hall, United Kingdom
‘A Date With Depeche Mode’ album
The tour celebrates the launch of Nouvelle Vague’s new album “A Date With Depeche Mode.” The set focuses on Depeche Mode material reworked in the band’s bossa nova and lounge idiom.
Depeche Mode and Nouvelle Vague have crossed paths before. The band’s third album, “3” (2009), included a version of “Master and Servant” sung by Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore with Nouvelle Vague vocalist MĂ©lanie Pain. That album also featured Ian McCulloch of Echo & the Bunnymen, Terry Hall of The Specials, and Barry Adamson.
For this new album the band reworked thirteen iconic Depeche Mode songs. The whole was recorded in Rio with Brazilian musicians. The first single from “A Date with Depeche Mode” is a duet of “Enjoy the Silence” performed by Skye Edwards (Morcheeba) and Larry Love (Alabama 3) alongside Nouvelle Vague.
About Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague is a French covers project formed in Paris in 2003 by producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. The name plays on three references at once: the French New Wave cinema of the 1960s, the new-wave music the band covers, and bossa nova. Collin’s idea was to record Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” in a bossa nova arrangement; the duo then recorded versions of Depeche Mode’s “Just Can’t Get Enough” and The Clash’s “The Guns of Brixton” and assembled a debut over roughly eight months.
The self-titled debut album “Nouvelle Vague” was released in 2004 on Peacefrog and reworked songs by acts including XTC, Modern English, Killing Joke, The Clash, Joy Division, Tuxedomoon, The Cure and The Undertones. The second album, “Bande Ă Part”, followed in 2006 and included versions of Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen in Love”, New Order’s “Blue Monday”, Echo & the Bunnymen’s “The Killing Moon” and Blondie’s “Heart of Glass.”
The band’s third album, “3” (2009), brought in guest vocalists linked with the original songs, including Martin Gore, Ian McCulloch, Terry Hall and Barry Adamson. “Couleurs sur Paris” (2010) collected French-language remakes with guests such as Vanessa Paradis and CĹ“ur de pirate.
The project is known for a rotating cast of mostly female vocalists, several of whom went on to solo careers, including Camille, Phoebe Killdeer, MĂ©lanie Pain, NadĂ©ah Miranda and Élodie FrĂ©gĂ©. Marc Collin also released “Hollywood, mon amour” (2008), applying the same method to 1980s film-soundtrack songs. After “3” and “Couleurs sur Paris,” the band reduced its activity before returning with the EP “Athol Brose” and the album “I Could Be Happy” in 2016.
Olivier Libaux died in 2021, and Collin has continued to lead the project live. The 2027 UK tour, “A Date With Depeche Mode,” ties the band’s covers approach to a new album built around Depeche Mode’s catalogue.
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