1990

Fan Club Newsletter - c. January 1990. Very brief news on the release of Enjoy The Silence. The fabulous new Depeche Mode single, 'ENJOY THE SILENCE' will be out a week earlier than expected! It'll now appear in the shops on February 5th!

Depeche Mode: Strange Too, Another Violation [NME, 10th November 1990, Words: Stephen Dalton. Picture: Stefan de Batselier.] Depeche Mode: Strange Too, Another Violation (Mute Video £9.99) Four Basildon boys pull up at a desert drive-in to watch several of their own promos. They are in a...

Faith, Hope And Depravity [Select, December 1990. Words: Andrew Harrison. Pictures: Ed Sirrs / Kevin Westenberg.]

Success All Areas [NME, 3rd November 1990. Words: James Brown. Pictures: Stefan de Batselier.]

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Depeche Mode/Electronic - Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium [Sounds, 18th August 1990, Words: Craig Schmidt.] Depeche Mode planned their tour to cap out of the United States with these pivotal concert appearances in Los Angeles. Why? For Depeche Mode there is no town more important than Los Angeles...

Socket To 'Em! [Melody Maker, 18th August 1990. Words: Ted Mico. Pictures: Kevin Westenberg.]

Depeche Mode Show Is Study In Youth Culture, Marketing [L.A. Life, 6th August 1990. Words: Bruce Britt. Pictures: Uncredited.] Banners bearing images of roses flanked the massive stage erected at Dodger Stadium on Saturday. As it turns out, the flowery graphics were symbolic of Depeche Mode’s...

Staying Mute [The Face, August 1990. Words: John McCready. Pictures: Patrick Harrison.]

This Band Wants Your Respect [Rolling Stone, 12th - 26th July 1990. Words: Jeff Giles. Pictures: John Stoddart.] Depeche Mode may sell millions of albums and play to capacity crowds in huge football stadiums, but these technopop idols still aren’t happy. “I’ve been called a faggot about...

Violator, Alligator [NME, 7th July 1990. Words: Jeff Giles. Pictures: John Stoddart.]

Violator [Rolling Stone, 14th June 1990, Words: Chuck Eddy.] As Edison might have put it, most great disco is one-percent inspiration, ninety-nine-percent perspiration. Its unguarded vulgarity is what puts it over – “I’m not the same / I have no shame,” Madonna sang on her first record. What’s...

Top 100 Rarities [Record Collector, May 1990. Words: John Reed / Graham Needham. Pictures: Anton Corbijn / Uncredited.]

Depeche Mode [Spiral Scratch, April 1990, Words: Uncredited. Pictures: Uncredited.] In this feature we take a look at one of the UK’s most popular “Synthesiser” bands. It was early 1981 when synthesisers were at last being appreciated (and affordable) and synthetic pop was taking the public...

Depeche Mode: Violator (Mute Stumm 64) [The Times, 23rd March 1990. Words: Uncredited.] The most enduring of all those funny Eighties synth-pop groups with singers who looked like Eric Idle, Depeche Mode now has the assured touch of an international touring colossus, yet continues to inhabit...

Depeche Mode Violator [Record Mirror, 17th March 1990, Words: Tim Nicholson. Picture: Anton Corbijn.] After years of struggling, Depeche Mode have finally succeeded in making “The Black Album”. Their career has been a progressive darkening of their art. From the garish red of “Speak And Spell”...

Breaking The Silence [Record Mirror, 17th March 1990. Words: Lisa Tilston. Pictures: Uncredited.]

Violators Are Blue [NME, 17th March 1990. Words: Helen Mead. Picture: Anton Corbijn.] Depeche Mode Violator (Mute LP / Cassette / CD) With the current musical climate settling so far into “electronically produced” music, it’s very hard to think of anything in this genre as being other...

Depeche Mode Hip It Up And Start Again [Melody Maker, 10th March 1990. Words: Jon Wilde. Pictures: Uncredited.]