The Dave Today / Ultra Release Party (Melody Maker, 1997-07)
Ultra review, Melody Maker, April 17th 1997
Ultra release party review, Melody Maker, April 17th 1997
Depeche Mode
[Published by HMV / Melody Maker, 22nd September 1990. Words: Uncredited. Pictures: Various.]
Magazine-format band biography free with an issue of Melody Maker drawing heavily on previous similar publications. The facts become heavily skewed by the author turning it into an...
A Broken Frame
[Melody Maker, 25th September 1982. Words: Steve Sutherland.]
What a difference a year makes. The Depeche Mode of ‘81’s “Speak And Spell” seduced their way into our hearts and into the charts with unblemished innocence; the synthesized soul brothers of cartoon punks, the...
Depeche Mode - Birmingham Odeon
[Melody Maker, 23rd October 1982. Words: Simon Scott.]
Some people reckon that Gary Numan has a lot to answer for. Some even feel it might be worth remobilising the Task Force to prevent his re-entry to this country. Almost single-handedly he made computer...
Just Can’t Get Enough
[Melody Maker, 12th September 1981, Words: Patrick Humphries.]
Depeche Mode
Just Can’t Get Enough
Mute
I can, you will. Catchy, disposable. Percussion and synths and repetition. Modes and Rockers. Product for an all-too-easily satisfied market, and empty reverberation...
The Perfect Fantasy
[Melody Maker, 26th September 1981]
I’m biased… some six months ago I was lucky enough to corner four funny kids, whose collective denomer was little more than a buzz about town, for a chat in the Lyceum changing room.
The results prompted some nirk – one of the...
Fast Fashion In Basildon
[Melody Maker, 9th May 1981. Words: Steve Sutherland.]
God, what a year it’s been. Not half over yet and every week they’re coming – great new bands bragging, bruising, begging for attention. It’s getting so I can’t tell me Scars from me Spandaus, but listen to this...
Depeche Mode, Wembley Arena, London
[Melody Maker, date unknown, 1998. Words: Carl Loben. Picture: Stephen Sweet.]
DEPECHE MODE
Wembley Arena, London
Cited by many electronica artists as an early influence, Depeche Mode began life as chirpy synth-poppers in the early Eighties before...
I'm Hanging On By My Teeth
[Melody Maker, 27th July 1996. Words: Steve Hochman. Picture: Uncredited.]
David Gahan has spoken out against drug abuse from the rehab unit in Los Angeles where he is currently recovering after his well-documented heroin and cocaine overdose on May 28.
The...
Depeche Drug Hell
[Melody Maker, 1st June 1996. Words: Uncredited. Picture: Uncredited.]
Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan faces multiple drugs charges after he overdosed on a lethal mixture of heroin and cocaine – commonly known as a speedball – in a Los Angeles hotel last Tuesday (May 28)...
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