In 2007, Dave Gahan announced he was working on a new album via a video greeting for Depeche Mode's official website recorded at the 2007 MusiCares Charity event on 11 May.

Gahan did a collaboration in 2003 with Junkie XL and handled the vocals for a song called 'Reload' for this Dutch DJ's album 'Radio JXL: A Broadcast From The Computer Hell Cabin'.

These ads appeared prominently in international fashion press. The ads featured both him and seemingly random quotes like 'What would happen if we all told the truth', 'You can tell he's lying because his lips are moving', etc. Lindeberg and its S/S 2006 menswear line. A year later, he also appeared as model and spokesperson of the Swedish mid-range fashion retailer J. This success was backed by a world tour and a live DVD titled Live Monsters which was released in 2004. The album itself became a Top 10 hit on the European album chart and a Top 40 hit in the UK. The first single 'Dirty Sticky Floors' hit the Top 20 in the UK. His touring band included Knox Chandler on guitar, Martyn LeNoble (Porno for Pyros, Jane's Addiction, The Cult) on bass, Vincent Jones (Sarah McLachlan, The Grapes of Wrath) on keyboards, and Victor Indrizzo (Beck, Macy Gray) on drums.

In 2003, he released his first solo album, Paper Monsters (which he co-wrote with guitarist and friend Knox Chandler), followed by a world tour (including a performance at 2003's Glastonbury Festival), singing both his new solo tracks and Depeche Mode fan favourites. In 1997, Gahan contributed to the tribute album 'Dream Home Heartaches: Remaking/Remodeling Roxy Music' with the song 'A Song For Europe'. Two of these songs were released as singles, including 'Suffer Well' in 2006 and 'Hole to Feed' in 2009. Despite his bandmate Martin Gore continuing to be the main Depeche Mode songwriter, Gahan has contributed a number of songs to the band's most recent albums, Playing the Angel (2005) and Sounds of the Universe (2009). He is also an accomplished solo artist, releasing albums in 2003 (Paper Monsters) and 2007 (Hourglass). It gets to us all in time.Dave Gahan (born ) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the baritone lead singer for the British electronic music band Depeche Mode since their debut in 1980.

Religious ponderings are numerous, Gahan's brush with death perhaps having brought him to the brink of philosophy. And not a bad one: on the more daring tracks like 'Use You' and 'Deeper and Deeper', the rhythmic growls and gargling synth figures are about as close to abstract musique concrete sounds as pop is likely to get, while the singer's ruminations on sexuality, age – and possibly drugs, if I read ' Use You' correctly – are well meant, if superficial. With the mechanical pulses and fizzing undulations of synthesiser that drive tracks such as 'Saw Something' and the single 'Kingdom', fronted in such loftily mysterious, broodingly romantic manner by Gahan, Hourglass is a Mode LP in all but name. His collaborators here, Christian Eigner and Andrew Philpott, are members of the Mode's touring band, which only blurs the divide further. For his second solo album, Dave Gahan moves away from the guitar-led style of Paper Monsters to an electropop format more in keeping with his day job as front man of Depeche Mode.

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