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28-04-2001

NEWS about the new DM ALBUM :

A new date has been added on the Exciter Tour in France : October 10th 2001 at the Palais Omnisport de Paris Bercy . Tickets on sale soon in mid May ! All the dates in the EXCITER TOUR Section

On May 7th at 3:00 pm Uk time, BBC London Live celebrate Depeche Mode's 10th studio album release with a 2 hour special, hosted by Gary Crowley. With a history spanning over 20 years, the programme brings together for the first time fresh interview footage from all of the past and present band members, as well as journalists, DJ's from across the water and those integral to the band's success. Hear how Mute Records supremo Daniel Miller first decided Depeche Mode were key talent and instigated an infamous 'handshake deal' with the teenagers that has remained concrete for over 2 decades. Vince Clarke candidly admits the reasons behind why he left the band just as they started making it big whilst Andy Fletcher admits the band were not worried by the departure of their main songwriter. Alan Wilder reveals how he eventually became Vince's replacement and details the rocky but enjoyable journey he took with the band until his decision to follow in Vince's footsteps and walk away from Depeche Mode in 1995. Get the inside information on the troubles with Dave Gahan during the 90's with his drug addiction, and hear first hand how Anton Corbijn, the band's visual director, heard from REM frontman Michael Stipe that Gahan was in turmoil. The documentary concludes with all 3 remaining band members reflecting on their careers, and the ups and down of their time with Depeche Mode - from playing in front of 70,000 fans at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, to how the band came through their personal problems and the tension to relaunch themselves and produce their new album, Exciter. In documenting the band's rise from Basildon minnows to stadium-filling giants, Gary Crowley finds out what makes the band, and what moves the band. Hear the story of how an electronic 4-piece group conquered the world, against all odds, to become one of this country's finest and most important products. you can hear the show at this URL : BBC LONDON LIVE

The show at M6 with Dave's interview will be played again on Sunday 29th at 5:30 AM and on Friday 4th May at 4:30 AM

26-04-2001

NEWS about the new DM ALBUM :

New pictures from Dream On and new scans from magazines on official website.

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23-04-2001

NEWS about the new DM ALBUM :

Release of the single Dream On

21-04-2001

A small interview of D.A. Pennebaker taken from The Onion A.V. Club News from Nicolas Muczynski

O: How did you become involved with Depeche Mode? DP: Well, they came to us. O: The band or the record company? DP: A guy who managed the band, who is now with Capitol; he represented the band in the U.S., and he came to us and said, "Would you like to do a film with the band?" We didn't know who they were. We had no idea. We had never listened to them. The first time we listened to them, we thought it was nice, but that all the songs sounded the same--as is always the case with anything, you know, even if it were Brahms or anything else. So then I went off to one of their shows... Were you ever a fan of Depeche Mode? O: No, but my sister was. DP: We were a little uncertain about the whole project, because they really wanted a big film. So I went to one of their concerts in Oregon, and I was really knocked out by their audience. It came over me that their audience only went to Depeche Mode concerts. They didn't go to any other concerts, so it wasn't like a shared audience or anything. So I was kind of intrigued that they had this strange audience that was kind of like a Druid ceremony, you know, all making mystic signs and whatnot. So we got kind of intrigued by [Depeche Mode] and the possibility of making a film with them, and by the end we had gotten to like them a lot. O: Well, the band has kind of a reputation for leading wild, hedonistic lives. DP: Well, actually they don't. There are three guys: Alan [Wilder] was never really part of the original group, and I think he's out of it now, but he was the consummate musician of the group, so they all turned to him to see that they played the right chords and whatnot. But they really were just three working-class kids who came from a little place outside of London, and they had all grown up together and gone to the same school, and they had doped out together. They had no manager, so they really managed themselves. I mean, they had this guy from Mute Records who would advise them on certain things, but he basically just liked them. He didn't try to tell them what to do or anything. But they had figured out this incredible system for making money where all of their stuff was on a pre-recorded tape, so they didn't need drummers or the rest of the band. And there were really only two of them, because one of them, his keyboard wasn't even plugged in, since he was such a terrible musician. So it was really just two of them doing all this. It was kind of wonderful that they had figured out this system, and they could go in and take hundreds of thousands of dollars out of a town, and the people of the town didn't even know who they were, except for the kids. They were like buccaneers who'd go down around the Caribbean looting little islands. We kind of dug that about them.

19-04-2001

NEWS about the new DM ALBUM :

Click here to access DEPECHE MODE section at DOT MUSIC

Download right there one of the Buschwacka Remix of Dream On : Info by Roxanne82 at the Recoil Message Board

In the french TV Show PLUS VITE QUE LA MUSIQUE on TV Channel M6 on Saturday April 27th 2001 at 8:00 pm there will be an interview of Depeche Mode in that show. here is the text of presentation taken from that site: Dépeche Mode Dans la longue série « On achève bien les dinosaures… » voici encore un groupe historique qui refuse de mourir : Depeche Mode c’est LE groupe fondateur de l’électro-pop branchée désespoir-je-m’habille-en-noir des années 80. Mélodies raffinées, boîtes à rythmes martiales, esthétique sado-maso, les Depeche Mode ont sorti la pop de son adolescence, et défriché le terrain qui menait à la techno actuelle, tout en restant grand public. Après 40 millions de disques vendus, un album hommage remarqué (avec notamment The Cure, les Smashing Pumpkins et Placebo), et un best-of automatiquement best-seller, Masters and Servants reprennent le collier pour un nouvel album très techno qui va en scotcher plus d’un (puisqu’on vous le dit !)

In the french radio called France Inter on the show called Play-List, (everyday between 3:00 pm and 4:00pm), Laurent Lavige said that Dave, would be in his show on May 17th and May 18th Listen to the announcement HERE Info by Bart aka Wime on the french Mailing list "Depeche"

The fabulous Uncut magazine features 20 pages only about DM with a pic of DM on the cover by Anton Corbijn. To see more updated mags go to the official website.

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17-04-2001

NEWS about the new DM ALBUM :

A brand new FLASH animation about Depeche Mode and Exciter see it now here:

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