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Non-Corporate Hospitality [Manchester Evening News, 8th September 2004. Words: Steve Lee.] There’s no middle ground with Client. Their gigs seem to be in enormous arenas or tiny little clubs, but the stylish but engagingly bloody-minded electro-pop due wouldn’t have it any other way...

Dave Gahan @ Manchester Apollo [Manchester Evening News, 28th October 2003. Words: Christopher Osuh.] Lazarus-like, the man who was once pronounced dead has returned to Manchester as a different kind of prophet. Dave Gahan, the sometime Depeche Mode frontman [1], touched down without the...

Depeche Mode John The Revelator / Lilian (Bong) [Manchester Evening News, 2nd June 2006, Words: Sarah Walters.] Fuse Dave Gahan’s obvious cynicism about religion – and Christianity in particular – with a partial reinterpretation of Son House’s gospel classic, John The Revelator, and what do...

Essential Mode Music [Manchester Evening News, 31st March 2006. Words: Sarah Walters. Picture: Uncredited.] Depeche Mode MEN Arena On a dank night in March, it seems oddly fitting to spend the evening with Depeche Mode. The one-time pioneers of palatable synth pop morphed into...

Mode Turn Angelic [Manchester Evening News, 24th March 2006. Words: Kevin Bourke. Picture: Uncredited.] After Depeche Mode’s years of notorious excess, even Dave Gahan can’t quite believe that they are still around to make new albums like their current Playing The Angel, and sell out the...