29 years ago today, February 3rd 1997, British electronic band Depeche Mode released ‘Barrel of a Gun’ as the first single from the studio album ‘Ultra’. Some will never have heard it, some will shrug their shoulders and say ‘and’ but to the devout, this was a major moment in the history of one of…
On this day, the 19th of March 1990 Depeche Mode released Violator, their seventh studio album. Is it a PERFECT album? . . . . Yes! For many this was their way into Depeche Mode as a band to follow. The success of the single Enjoy the Silence and this album cemented them for many…
This is a retrospective After starting this blog I was not going to go back over past gigs just look forward but as Depeche Mode played this week at the O2 and tour roughly every 4 years, plus I went and saw this tour already, I feel its appropriate, especially as I have not missed…
