FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/MARCEE RONDAN/LATHUM NELSON

DAVE GAHAN

TO LAUNCH U.S. TOUR JULY 18 IN SUPPORT

OF DEBUT SOLO ALBUM ‘PAPER MONSTERS,’

OUT JUNE 3 ON MUTE/REPRISE;

FIRST SINGLE AND VIDEO IS ‘DIRTY STICKY FLOORS’

DAVE GAHAN will embark on his first solo U.S. tour in support of his debut album PAPER MONSTERS, due June 3 on Mute/Reprise Records.  DAVE will launch the summer-long North American tour July 18 in Atlanta after completing his 22-date European tour in Zurich which includes four U.K. shows.

Performing songs from PAPER MONSTERS and various Depeche Mode songs, DAVE will be backed on the road by guitarist Knox Chandler, bass player Martyn Lenoble, keyboardist Vincent Jones and drummer Victor Indrizzo.  DAVE wrote all of the album’s 10 tracks with his multi-instrumentalist friend Chandler, whose credits include playing on Depeche Mode’s EXCITER album, as well as discs by R.E.M. and Siouxsie and the Banshees.  Martyn Lenoble has played with Porno for Pyros and Janes Addiction; Vincent Jones has recorded with Sarah McLachlan and Cowboy Junkies; Victor Indrizzo has worked with Beck, Macy Gray, The Vines and Liz Phair.

Although DAVE has fronted Depeche Mode for 22 years, PAPER MONSTERS marks his debut as a fully fledged songwriter. Before now, career commitments, distractions and personal confidence barriers kept him from finding his true voice. “Hence the title of my album,” says DAVE, “because I’d created these monsters which have got bigger and bigger over the years. But in the last few years I realized that it’s only myself that has created them.”

He vividly steps up to the plate with such songs as “Dirty Sticky Floors”—due at radio this week, with an introspective and atmospheric video recently filmed in Malibu—“Black & Blue Again,” “Bottle Living” and “Hidden Houses.” Produced by Ken Thomas of Sigur Ros fame, PAPER MONSTERS marries the freshness of a freshman effort with the seasoned wisdom of an old soul. It was recorded, mostly in New York, in an open-ended, back-to-basics manner which DAVE found both liberating and exhilarating.

Find out more on www.davegahan.com

DAVE GAHAN’s initial U.S. tour dates are as follows, with more to come:

DATE                          CITY                                        VENUE

Fri        7/18                 Atlanta, GA                              Roxy Theatre

Sun      7/20                 Washington, DC                     9:30 Club

Mon     7/21                 Philadelphia, PA                      Electric Factory

Wed    7/23                 New York, NY                          Hammerstein Ballroom

Sat       7/26                 Boston, MA                              Avalon Ballroom

Tue      7/29                 Montreal                                  Metropolis

Wed    7/30                 Toronto                                    Kool Haus

Fri        8/1                   Chicago, IL                              Aragon Ballroom

Sat       8/2                   Detroit, MI                                State Theatre

Tue      8/5                   San Antonio, TX                      Majestic Theatre

Wed    8/6                   Houston, TX                            Verizon Wireless Theater

Thu      8/7                   Grand Prairie, TX                    Next Stage at Grand Prairie

Sat       8/9                   Denver, CO                             Fillmore Auditorium

Mon     8/11                 Salt Lake City, UT                   Kingsbury Hall

Thu      8/14                 Vancouver                               Queen Elizabeth

Fri        8/15                 Portland, OR                           Crystal Ballroom

Sat       8/16                 Seattle, WA                             Paramount Theater

Mon     8/18                 San Francisco, CA                 Warfield Theatre

Thu      8/21                 San Diego, CA                        Copley Symphony Hall

Fri        8/22                 Phoenix, AZ                             Dodge Theatre

Sat       8/23                 Las Vegas, NV                        The Joint

Mon     8/25                 Los Angeles, CA                     Wiltern

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