Depeche Mode Confirm Sofia Gig in May 2013

Depeche Mode, (L-R) Martin Lee Gore, Dave Gahan and Andrew Fletcher pose during a photocall before a press conference on their 2013 European Tour at the Gaite Lyrique venue in Paris. EPA/BGNES

Depeche Mode will include Sofia in their world tour next year, the English band confirmed Tuesday during a press conference in Paris, which was also webcast live.

The show in Sofia has been scheduled for May 12 and will take place at Georgi Asparuhov stadium.

The iconic new wave band's tour will kick off in Tel Aviv's Haraykon Park on May 7 following the April release of a new album, whose title is yet to be announced. The band will play 34 shows in 25 European countries.

Dates also include shows at London's O2 Arena (May 28), Berlin's Olympic Stadium (June 9), the Stade de France in Paris (June 15), Moscow's Locomotive Stadium (June 22), Rome's Olympic Stadium (July 20).

The trek will be the band's first live shows since their 2009-10 Tour of the Universe, in which the band played 142 shows.

"You put everything you can into a performance. To be able to really feel it is something very raw and very emotional - to the point that sometimes by the end of the show, it's really difficult to say goodbye, because you experienced something together," Gahan said Tuesday.

"Performing is really an emotional thing."

In the summer of 2006, Depeche Mode left over 35,000 Bulgarian fans breathless in a major Sofia gig.

A second concert in the summer of 2009 was axed after the band's efforts to reschedule the gigs, initially canceled due to singer Dave Gahan sickness, failed.

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