4 CommentsShare Dave turns 48 today! Born on May 9, 1962 in Epping, Essex, England. Many happy returns Dave from all of us here at modefan dot com! Depeche Mode fans feel free to leave a comment with your birthday wish…
Comments OffShareThere aren’t many bands who released a greatest hits album a quarter of a century ago and are still improving. Depeche Mode were brilliant when they shuffled around behind their synths looking embarrassed on Top of the Pops in 1981 – and at the fag-end of 2009 they are still miles ahead of anyone else. [...]
Comments OffShareText & Photo By James Watkins Basildon’s finest turned back the clock with a virtuoso performance of electro-pop genius at Birmingham’s cavernous LG Arena. Dave Gahan and Co. have somehow survived the vicissitudes of rock’n’roll during three decades of hard living and last night they stunned a capacity crowd during the only West Midlands show [...]
Comments OffShareBy Matthew Magee To the casual observer, Depeche Mode may seem no more than purveyors of chart synth niceties with ideas above their station. But to millions of utterly devoted fans, the band are an altogether more serious proposition. After a 30-year career taking in drug dependencies, bickering and a cancer scare this year for [...]
1 CommentShare Movie | Line excerpt: Apprentice Jay Baruchel shows up unexplained and unprepared for the adventure ahead, which will take him zooming through explode-y avenue canyons, dusty crypts and even the subway, all in appropriately lightning-cut bursts scored to the squawking strains of Depeche Mode’s ‘A Pain That I’m Used To’. Disney! Dave Gahan! Was [...]
