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Those incredible Anton Corbijn videos of them being moody black’n’white cowboys in the middle of nowhere in the US.
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Going to the gigs and buying programmes and t-shirts and posters. Hearing Personal Jesus as the Pump Mix first, and then being a bit astonished when I finally heard the single mix and it had a twangy western guitar and some swing to it. Working in a record shop at the time and getting all the promo 12″s a week in advance of release. It’s flawless.Īnd so many memories, of friends, of formative serious girlfriend, of it coming out in 1990 which was my last summer at school. There was a #TimsTwitterListeningParty for Violator last night, and I listened to the album all the way through. And it has to do the job for them too, as well as for fans. I haven’t thought about them since 1993” or whatever. The article is finished, and over the word limit for print, but Alison Moyet has just tweeted, I couldn’t not add that in, could I?īut also you know for a mainstream audience it is kind of like “Someone in Depeche Mode died? Which one? Oh, the one I wouldn’t have recognised on the street.
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You want to do it justice, and you want other fans to recognise that you know what you are talking about, and you want to pick the best pictures, and to pick the best quotes. As a fan it is incredibly hard to write these things. I had no idea that the article was going to be so well read.Īnd then on that evening when the news broke I had kept tinkering with it. Putting the article together even I was “Oh, ok” that every single one of their 14 studio albums had hit the top ten. I do think in a way it reflected how under-the-radar they had always remained in the UK that I was surprised how well it was read. I woke up in the morning and went back to my day job of live blogging the war on Ukraine, and last night’s Fletch article was still the most read. I went to bed and it was the most read article. Next thing you know your article about the death of one of the band you worshipped growing up is the most read article on the Guardian website and is going to go on to do more than a million page views. I saw the post on Depeche Mode’s social media channels, saying he had died, sent an email to work saying “Oh this has happened” and then a couple of minutes later was like “Oh, I can write a quick news snap”. It was so unexpected, and then quite surreal for me personally. Given how he himself was the first to admit that he didn’t contribute much to the band musically, it seems weird, but he was so much the glue of the band between Martin and Dave, that it seems almost impossible to conceive of them carrying on as a duo. So anyway I’d said to myself I wouldn’t go and see them live again.īut now Fletch has died and so I kind of guess it’s not going to be an option. I still went to every tour, saw them in Milan when they were touring Playing The Angel which was an amazing experience, but mostly it had become a weird mix of “Oh my god Martin L Gore is doing an unexpected piano version of But Not Tonight / Insight / Shake The Disease / Leave In Silence this is amazing” and “Oh, here’s the ten minute version of Enjoy The Silence with the drum interlude and guitar solo that nobody asked for.” Post-Ultra in 1997 there have been a couple of stunningly good tracks but mostly, for me, a kind of mid-tempo morass. The clean-cut electronic pop band whose gradual turn to more dark, sexual and gothic themes happened at just the right moment in my life to mirror my own.īut they also became the band where I had to leave all the social media fan groups because I didn’t want to become “that guy” moaning about how it wasn’t as good now as it used to be. I mentioned this in my newsletter the other week, that they were the first band that I ever went and physically bought a single on the day of release without hearing it first because I just knew I would love it.Ī band whose remixes in the 1980s introduced me to how you could turn a pop song into something that sounded like an epic sonic industrial landscape. I feel like I’ve got a complicated relationship with Depeche Mode now.įor years and years they were by far my favourite band, the one I was absolutely fanatical about.