Comments OffShareBy Doug Elfman Depeche Mode’s current tour has been both “calamitous” and “an amazing spectacle,” keyboardist Andy Fletcher tells me. The calamitous: “I found out on the first day of the tour, my father suddenly died. Completely a shock,” Fletcher says. “Then we had the problem with Dave.” Singer Dave Gahan went to the hospital [...]
Comments OffShareBy A.D. Amorosi Making what was once joyless and hurt seem somewhat joyful is Depeche Mode’s game – at least in its present-day live performances. Since the synthesizer-based act’s 1980 start in Basildon, England, its core of baritone vocalist David Gahan, primary songwriter/instrumentalist Martin Gore, and Andrew Fletcher has seemed a dour lot across its [...]
Comments OffShareDepeche Mode: Cosmic Synth-Pop World Cafe, July 10, 2009 – Judging by the charts alone, Depeche Mode could be rated one of the most successful bands in history. Along with 45 U.K. singles, top-ranked records in countries around the globe and sales well into the millions, the electro-pop outfit from Essex has made 12 influential [...]
Comments OffShareBy Richard Harrington On this very morning a week ago, Dave Gahan slept in. “Which is unusual for me,” the Brit-born, now New York-based singer for Depeche Mode reported from Toronto. “But we just did three shows running consecutively — Chicago, Detroit and, last night, Toronto — and I certainly feel that nowadays!” Gahan’s not [...]
Comments OffShareBy Danny Eccleston For 25 years, Depeche Mode have dragged soul-scouring pop out of synthesizers, battling the ogres of smack and Basildon to emerge vindicated. Now if they could only learn to talk to each other. In 1996 Anton Corbijn, rock photographer to the stars, received a phone call from one of his clients. The [...]
