Bong 9 (April 1990)
Articles:
Diary of a Daryl by Daryl Bamonte
Phew - Rock'n'Roll! (the Wherehouse 20/03/90 incident) by Jo Bailey
Pictures:
page 1 the band in an interview and at an airport
page 2 Martin and Andy
page 3 Dave at Radio 1, and Alan, Dave and Martin in San Remo
page 4 the Halo video shoot
page 5 live at San Remo
page 6 Alan and Fletch at K-ROQ, and a gold disc presentation
Articles:
Diary of a Daryl by Daryl Bamonte
Phew - Rock'n'Roll! (the Wherehouse 20/03/90 incident) by Jo Bailey
Pictures:
page 1 the band in an interview and at an airport
page 2 Martin and Andy
page 3 Dave at Radio 1, and Alan, Dave and Martin in San Remo
page 4 the Halo video shoot
page 5 live at San Remo
page 6 Alan and Fletch at K-ROQ, and a gold disc presentation
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DIARY OF A DARYL
[From Bong 9, April 1990. Words: Daryl Bamonte.]
One of Daryl’s many jobs is to accompany DM on their promotional tours and I managed to stop him long enough for him to write a diary of one or two of the more recent trips…
PART ONE:
TUESDAY 20TH FEBRUARY
AMSTERDAM:
We were in Amsterdam for a TV Show called “COUNTDOWN”. There was a pretty good fan turnout among the audience, and DM performed “ENJOY THE SILENCE”:
After the show, we all went for an Indonesian meal, when we got a message that Nitzer Ebb were in town and were waiting for us in the hotel bar. By the time we got there they were well away and not the quietest people in the place! Fletch, Alan and Dave went off to bed and Martin and I decided to go to a club with Doug and Bon from Nitzer Ebb – when we got there it had closed!
Being good ambassadors, we then decided to go and look at the ‘seedy’ area of the city. (Martin having got fed up and gone back to the hotel at this time) Doug promptly went for a short walk – across the roof of a police car!
WEDNESDAY 21ST FEBRUARY
AMSTERDAM:
This was supposedly a day off, so it was fairly quiet. We went out to do some shopping and sightseeing. The Band members did some press interviews and then we watched “COUNTDOWN” from the night before. That evening we went out for another Indonesian meal and this time DM were recognised by diners and waiters as having been on the TV Show. We then went on to a really good ‘New Age’ club.
THURSDAY 22ND FEBRUARY
SAN REMO:
Depeche were at San Remo to perform “ENJOY THE SILENCE”. After recording the TV Show we all went out with some of the other bands involved, including Curiosity Killed The Cat, The Alarm and The Mission. There was a good atmosphere between all the bands, and some started jamming up on the club’s stage. Most of the songs were standard ‘bluesy’ numbers which got a bit boring, but The Mission saved the evening by doing some brilliant Gary Glitter covers, only stopping when Wayne Hussey was thrown offstage by the club manageress for ‘misbehaving’ onstage!
FRIDAY 23RD FEBRUARY
SAN REMO:
This was a press day and it started well – Alan ran out of underwear, so I was sent out to buy some! The rest of the day was spent on the beach and (for the band) doing interviews.
That night (in the same club as the night before) Fish (ex-Marillion) got up on stage and ‘did his thing’ after first announcing that he used to be in Genesis (?!) and liberally distributing Tequila in preparation for his set!
SATURDAY 24TH FEBRUARY
SAN REMO:
By this time we were all getting pretty tired. The band members did (yet) more interviews and we all met up with French band ‘Les Negresses Vertes’ for a meal. Depeche performed “ENJOY THE SILENCE” (again) for the TV Show.
Back in the club that night, a group called ‘Vitamin Z’ got up to jam and failed miserably to entertain us. They were given the thumbs down and stormed off! The DJ played the ‘Pump Mix’ of “PERSONAL JESUS” and the evening ended with people dancing on the tables!
SUNDAY 25TH FEBRUARY
TRAVEL HOME:
This day was very quiet. There wasn’t much happening in the way of conversation!!
PART TWO:
WEDNESDAY 28TH FEBRUARY
PARIS:
After Fletch had recorded TVAM in the morning, we all went to Paris for a TV show called ‘Surprise Surprise’ (not the one with Cilla Black!) DM performed “ENJOY THE SILENCE”. We had a Lebanese meal – mixed reactions to that one. I certainly didn’t like it! There was no clubbing that evening – it was an early night for us!
THURSDAY 1ST MARCH
MADRID:
Dave and Alan went to a local Radio Station to be interviewed. When they came out to the car afterwards they were chased by about 500 fans! The driver turned town what he thought was a short cut – only to find the road blocked by a skip lorry! The car was surrounded by fans going mental and Dave said afterwards that it was “pretty scary”. Ingo, the security man, got out of the car and started yelling at people until they ran off.
Depeche did a TV Show called ‘ROCK ‘O’ POP’ that evening and performed “ENJOY THE SILENCE” and “PERSONAL JESUS”. The audience seemed to be entirely made up of DM fans, who sang along and generally went crazy! We finished up in an Italian restaurant and then a club.
FRIDAY 2ND MARCH
MADRID:
Another fairly quiet morning. Before leaving for the airport, Depeche Mode were presented with a gold disc for ‘101’.
[From Bong 9, April 1990. Words: Daryl Bamonte.]
One of Daryl’s many jobs is to accompany DM on their promotional tours and I managed to stop him long enough for him to write a diary of one or two of the more recent trips…
PART ONE:
TUESDAY 20TH FEBRUARY
AMSTERDAM:
We were in Amsterdam for a TV Show called “COUNTDOWN”. There was a pretty good fan turnout among the audience, and DM performed “ENJOY THE SILENCE”:
After the show, we all went for an Indonesian meal, when we got a message that Nitzer Ebb were in town and were waiting for us in the hotel bar. By the time we got there they were well away and not the quietest people in the place! Fletch, Alan and Dave went off to bed and Martin and I decided to go to a club with Doug and Bon from Nitzer Ebb – when we got there it had closed!
Being good ambassadors, we then decided to go and look at the ‘seedy’ area of the city. (Martin having got fed up and gone back to the hotel at this time) Doug promptly went for a short walk – across the roof of a police car!
WEDNESDAY 21ST FEBRUARY
AMSTERDAM:
This was supposedly a day off, so it was fairly quiet. We went out to do some shopping and sightseeing. The Band members did some press interviews and then we watched “COUNTDOWN” from the night before. That evening we went out for another Indonesian meal and this time DM were recognised by diners and waiters as having been on the TV Show. We then went on to a really good ‘New Age’ club.
THURSDAY 22ND FEBRUARY
SAN REMO:
Depeche were at San Remo to perform “ENJOY THE SILENCE”. After recording the TV Show we all went out with some of the other bands involved, including Curiosity Killed The Cat, The Alarm and The Mission. There was a good atmosphere between all the bands, and some started jamming up on the club’s stage. Most of the songs were standard ‘bluesy’ numbers which got a bit boring, but The Mission saved the evening by doing some brilliant Gary Glitter covers, only stopping when Wayne Hussey was thrown offstage by the club manageress for ‘misbehaving’ onstage!
FRIDAY 23RD FEBRUARY
SAN REMO:
This was a press day and it started well – Alan ran out of underwear, so I was sent out to buy some! The rest of the day was spent on the beach and (for the band) doing interviews.
That night (in the same club as the night before) Fish (ex-Marillion) got up on stage and ‘did his thing’ after first announcing that he used to be in Genesis (?!) and liberally distributing Tequila in preparation for his set!
SATURDAY 24TH FEBRUARY
SAN REMO:
By this time we were all getting pretty tired. The band members did (yet) more interviews and we all met up with French band ‘Les Negresses Vertes’ for a meal. Depeche performed “ENJOY THE SILENCE” (again) for the TV Show.
Back in the club that night, a group called ‘Vitamin Z’ got up to jam and failed miserably to entertain us. They were given the thumbs down and stormed off! The DJ played the ‘Pump Mix’ of “PERSONAL JESUS” and the evening ended with people dancing on the tables!
SUNDAY 25TH FEBRUARY
TRAVEL HOME:
This day was very quiet. There wasn’t much happening in the way of conversation!!
PART TWO:
WEDNESDAY 28TH FEBRUARY
PARIS:
After Fletch had recorded TVAM in the morning, we all went to Paris for a TV show called ‘Surprise Surprise’ (not the one with Cilla Black!) DM performed “ENJOY THE SILENCE”. We had a Lebanese meal – mixed reactions to that one. I certainly didn’t like it! There was no clubbing that evening – it was an early night for us!
THURSDAY 1ST MARCH
MADRID:
Dave and Alan went to a local Radio Station to be interviewed. When they came out to the car afterwards they were chased by about 500 fans! The driver turned town what he thought was a short cut – only to find the road blocked by a skip lorry! The car was surrounded by fans going mental and Dave said afterwards that it was “pretty scary”. Ingo, the security man, got out of the car and started yelling at people until they ran off.
Depeche did a TV Show called ‘ROCK ‘O’ POP’ that evening and performed “ENJOY THE SILENCE” and “PERSONAL JESUS”. The audience seemed to be entirely made up of DM fans, who sang along and generally went crazy! We finished up in an Italian restaurant and then a club.
FRIDAY 2ND MARCH
MADRID:
Another fairly quiet morning. Before leaving for the airport, Depeche Mode were presented with a gold disc for ‘101’.
PHEW - ROCK 'N' ROLL!
[From Bong 9, April 1990. Words: Jo Bailey.]
On the 20th March, DM appeared at “Wherehouse Records” in L.A. (reportedly the biggest record shop in the world) to sign copies of “VIOLATOR”. According to press reports, around 5000 fans had camped outside the store for the 4 days before the event and the queue was around 2 miles long! On the day, approximately 20,000 people turned up and the road had to be closed off to traffic! There was a 200-strong police presence and they used helicopters, horses and riot gear to keep the crowd under control!!! The band had hoped to stay for a few hours to chat to fans and sign records but it was impossible! Unfortunately, after 90 minutes, the police had to close the store because it had got to a point where the safety of the fans outside, DM and the record shop staff couldn’t be assured. Depeche Mode were then escorted back to their hotel by the police. A Los Angeles Police Department spokesman was quoted as saying, “This is our biggest police operation since the Presidential visit”. There was obviously plenty of press coverage and Channel 7 news even extended their bulletin by 25 minutes to cover the event! – Birmingham HMV was never like this!!
[From Bong 9, April 1990. Words: Jo Bailey.]
On the 20th March, DM appeared at “Wherehouse Records” in L.A. (reportedly the biggest record shop in the world) to sign copies of “VIOLATOR”. According to press reports, around 5000 fans had camped outside the store for the 4 days before the event and the queue was around 2 miles long! On the day, approximately 20,000 people turned up and the road had to be closed off to traffic! There was a 200-strong police presence and they used helicopters, horses and riot gear to keep the crowd under control!!! The band had hoped to stay for a few hours to chat to fans and sign records but it was impossible! Unfortunately, after 90 minutes, the police had to close the store because it had got to a point where the safety of the fans outside, DM and the record shop staff couldn’t be assured. Depeche Mode were then escorted back to their hotel by the police. A Los Angeles Police Department spokesman was quoted as saying, “This is our biggest police operation since the Presidential visit”. There was obviously plenty of press coverage and Channel 7 news even extended their bulletin by 25 minutes to cover the event! – Birmingham HMV was never like this!!