Depeche Mode have announced that they will not play Glastonbury this year.
Keyboardist Andy Fletcher has told Kerrang! Radio's Emma Scott that the band will not be joining Bruce Springsteen, Franz Ferdinand and The Ting Tings at the Somerset festival, despite recent stories circulating the Internet. He said "That is a rumour and it's not true. Unless our management is going behind our backs, as far as we're concerned that is definitely not on."
However, the synth legend may have slipped up during the interview by revealing that the band's tour 'is planned until February' next year, even though their upcoming 'World Tour of the Universe 2009' is due to end in September.
After being quizzed if the tour had been extended, he told Emma Scott "I've given it away, you're going to get me in trouble now. My manager's going to come down on me heavy!"
There had been uproar that the upcoming World tour had just one UK date, leading to Emma Scott speculating that more UK dates will be released. Andy replied "We're concerned about that; it's likely that we will be doing quite a few more dates – maybe Birmingham. It would be nice to put our feet up after September but the fans are just going crazy, we might have to extend it. There could be riots!"
The already released tour dates will coincide with their 12th studio album, 'Sounds Of the Universe', released April 21. Andy said "We've only got actually a couple of albums left in us I think before we go decrepit. We've been saved by the Rolling Stones, they're still going but it worries me that I could be doing this when I'm 60 odd – it's something to worry about but you can't stop this thing."
He then told Emma "You were sneaky. Do you know the tour dates already?"