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Downbeat (Q, 1997-05) Ultra review, Q Magazine, May 1997

The Q100 Interview - Dave Gahan [Q, 1994] December 1994.

Depeche Mode Violator (Essential Albums) [Q, 14th January 2005. Words: Toby Manning.] A review of Violator which manages to be glowing and eloquent while keeping its feet on the ground. The author at times almost falls into familiar pitfalls (Martin's black ancestry, Martin writing about Dave)...

In The Studio - Exchanging Creative Juices With: Depeche Mode [Q, July 2005. Words: Uncredited. Picture: Uncredited.] The release of Dave Gahan’s debut solo album, 2003’s Paper Monsters, caused tension in the Depeche Mode camp. The singer griped that his role in the band was that of “an...

Apocalypse Jukebox: Dave Gahan [Q, June 2005. Words: Dave Gahan. Picture: Uncredited.] The end is nigh. What are the final 10 songs you want to hear? Last requests: Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan. 10 - God Only Knows The Beach Boys What amazes me about this is how little technology there...

Never Let Me Down Again [Q, 14th January 2005. Words: Phil Sutcliffe. Pictures: Anton Corbijn / Steve Eicher / Redferns / Cody Smith.] need pages 13 and 16 and continued transcription

The Landscape Is Changing [Q, 14th January 2005. Words: Dave Thompson. Pictures: Eric Watson / Uncredited.] It is 1982 and Depeche Mode are stranded without their hit songwriter. Goodbye, then, to pure pop and hello to the sound of hammering anvils and uncompromising songs about guilt, lust...

A New Life [Q, 14th January 2005. Words: Dave Thompson. Pictures: Joe Bangay / Redferns / Uncredited.] need pages 50 and continued transcription They were pissed on from a great height at one of their first gigs. Yet by the end of 1981, synth-wielding Essexmen Depeche Mode had become pop...

Dave Gahan: Cash For Questions [Q, June 2003. Words: Paul Stokes. James Burns.] Running, if Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan is to be believed, is a great way to fill the void left by heroin. "When I first got my health back I used to go running every day," he says in an accent that blends...

? Q Cover date: August 2002 (UK) Article writer: Steve Lowe Photography: Pat Pope Details: This was a two page feature on a David Bowie concert in New York. On the second page of the article, there is an image of David, with (from left) Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum, Serj Tankian of System Of A...

Q Essential Dance Q Cover date: May 2001 (UK) Article writer: none Photography: n/a Details: The single version of "World In My Eyes" is featured on the CD attached to the cover. There is also a small blurb about the CD inside, with a small picture.

Reconstruction Time Again [Q, June 2001. Words: Gareth Grundy. Picture: Spiros Politis.] They are, of course, indestructible, and not just because singer Dave Gahan survived a hefty heroin habit. Depeche Mode seem bullet-proof because even an album as distinctly below par as their last one...

Many Smack - Free Returns! [Q, June 2001. Words: Dorian Lynskey. Pictures: Spiros Politis.] In summer 1994, the Dave Gahan diet went something like this. After regaining consciousness at some point in the afternoon in a hotel room in America, he would start the day with two glasses of vodka...

Cleaning Up [Q, November 1998. Words: Nick Duerden. Pictures: Chris Taylor.]

Personal? Jesus! [Q, March 1997. Words: Phil Sutcliffe.] SPEAK & SPELL (1981, Number 10) A start which scared the hell out of A Flock Of Seagulls. Mostly written by Vince Clarke who was soon off to Erasure, although Martin Gore's odd Big Muff was a taster for things to come. They all looked...

Tears Of My Tracks [Q, March 1997. Words: Phil Sutcliffe. Pictures: Andy Earl.] It's a late Monday evening at Abbey Road. Dave Gahan pronounces himself worn out. However, the long day has meant a lot to him. He got up at 6am. His 9-year-old son, Jack, had spent the weekend with him in London...

They Just Couldn't Get Enough [Q, March 1997. Words: Phil Sutcliffe. Pictures: Andy Earl.]

Purged [Q, April 1993. Words: Andy Gill. Picture: Anton Corbijn.] Their last album, Violator, was a quantum leap over Depeche Mode's previous output, as if the live double-compilation, 101, had purged their past. Buoyed by Martin Gore's most mature and melodic batch of songs yet, it was their...

Frenzied [Q, April 1989. Words: Robert Sandall. Picture: Uncredited.] It is really not Depeche Mode’s fault, and certainly no reflection on the quality of a note-perfect performance, that by far the most striking contribution to this live double album is not made by the group at all. As side...

The Unlikely Lads [Q, April 1989. Words: Mat Snow. Pictures: Various.] It is a balmy June evening in the well-heeled Los Angeles neighbourhood of Pasadena, and 72,000 fans congregated in the Rose Bowl are baying for a group who have been so long part of pop’s furniture in their native UK that...