By Rob Virtue IN A NUTSHELL Depeche Mode’s stylish return to The O2 helps ease bus-based pain, writes Geoff Cowart. REVIEW Thirty miles from where they formed in Basildon, and 30 years since they first crashed onto the post-punk electro scene, Depeche reappeared on Saturday night. Not that they ever went away, they would be [...]

There 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. [...]

Text & 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 [...]

By 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 [...]

Depeche Mode presentation at the Personal Fest began a little austere but gained strength with each song up to an intense climax. While everyone wanted to see Depeche -it was the first concert to sell out- , questions about the performance of the band were floating arround: “How would be Gahan after surgery?”; “Did you [...]