A La Mode Again
[The Observer, 16th October 2005. Words: Kitty Empire. Picture: Uncredited.]
It is not often that a band lives long enough to see their early sound come back into fashion. But after 20 years, Depeche Mode are Eighties synth-pop's leather-veined survivors. The threesome...
The Long And Winding Mode
[The Observer, 21st October 2001. Words: Sam Taylor. Picture: Betrand Guay / AFP.]
Their latest album was four years in the making, so there is nothing particularly depeche about them any more, but the Mode remain seriously fashionable. Less so in Britain, perhaps...
Basildon Boys Show New Life
[The Observer, 8th August 1993. Words: Sam Taylor. Picture: Uncredited.]
“Whoa, we’re home!” hollers Depeche Mode’s singer, Dave Gahan, his accent midway between the band’s home town of Basildon and his adopted city of Los Angeles. Dressed in a silver lame jacket...
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