Tour Of The Universe | Design Stage?

Video | DM no "LATER with Jools Holland"

Os DM actuaram ontem no programa “LATER with Jools Holland”. Aqui ficam os vídeos e fotos do momento:

Wrong

Personal Jesus

Fotos

Próximo Single | Peace @ BBC Radio 2

Segundo a BBC Peace será o segundo single de “Sounds Of The Universe”, com edição a 15 de Junho.  Aqui fica o registo, com um intro diferente da versão álbum:

Depeche Mode

Peace @ BBC Radio 2

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[UPDATE] Os DM confirmaram na página oficial a escolha de "Peace" para segundo single de "Sounds Of The Universe". Aqui fica a press release:

New Single Out June 15th On Mute

Depeche Mode release their sublime new single 'Peace' on June 15th, taken from their acclaimed album 'Sounds Of The Universe', which entered the UK charts at No. 2 and went straight to No.1 in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Mexico, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland with more charts to come.

SOTU Release Party no Porto e em Lisboa

O próximo fim-de-semana é de devoção… Festa de apresentação de “Sounds Of The Universe” no Porto e em Lisboa. Para mais informações clica no flyer >

30 de Abril | Pitch Club | Porto

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02 de Maio | Bar do Século | Lisboa

In The Studio - Web Clip #18

Depeche Mode - In The Studio - Web Clip #18

Jimmy Kimmel Live

Os rapazes actuaram ontem em Hollywood. O evento, exibido no programa “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” do canal “ABC”, teve entrada gratuita e estiveram presentes cerca de 15000 pessoas.
A seguir ao alinhamento podes ver os vídeos do concerto.



Alinhamento (23 de Abril, Hollywood Boulevard):
Wrong
Personal Jesus
Walking In My Shoes
Come Back
Peace
Enjoy The Silence
Never Let Me Down Again

[UPDATE] A seguir aos vídeos foram adicionados excelentes registos fotográficos (Photos: Jonathan Alcorn).

Reportagem da ABC sobre o concerto. >>
Wrong

Personal Jesus

Walking In My Shoes
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Come Back



Peace
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Enjoy The Silence
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Never Let Me Down Again
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Fotos

Audio | Light (Bonus Track)

“Light” é sem dúvida um dos grandes temas, a par de “Ghost” e “Oh Well”, que encontramos no CD2 (Bonus Tracks + Remixes) da Box, e que incompreensivelmente ficou de fora do álbum.

Se ainda não ouviram aqui fica a prova:

light (Bonus Track)

Video | Stories Of Old 2009

Para quem ainda não comprou a Box aqui fica o vídeo de Stories Of Old. Fantástico é o mínimo que se pode dizer.

Video | Anúncio para a Saturn

Os rapazes filmaram um divertido anúncio de televisão para a Saturn (loja alemã de electrodomésticos), onde Martin com voz do “Universo” diz em alemão “A espera terminou. Os Depeche Mode estão de regresso com o novo álbum Sounds Of The Universe”.

Que edição de SOTU vais comprar? | resultados

A votação "Que edição de SOTU vais comprar?" que decorreu aqui no DEMO101,  entre 16 de Março e 20 de Abril mostra-nos claramente que "todos" os devotees desejam a BOX. E não é para menos, SOTU Deluxe Box Set é até ao momento a edição do ano. Muito obrigado a todos pela participação.

Para mais informações sobre as edições de "Sounds Of The Universe" clica AQUI ou AQUI.

In The Studio - Web Clip #17

Depeche Mode - In The Studio - Web Clip #17

DN: Nuno Galopim entrevista Fletcher

A convite da EMI Nuno Galopim foi a Londres e entrevistou Fletch.

Tocamos nas emoções das pessoas por todo o mundo.

Uma aventura para três anos a caminho dos 30...

A caminho de celebrar três décadas de actividade na música, o grupo que se formou em Basildon, no Reino Unido, em 1980, edita na próxima segunda-feira um novo álbum de originais. Tem por título 'Sounds Of The Universe' e abre um ano de intensa actividade que os trará novamente a palcos portugueses a 11 de Julho, para um concerto no Porto.

Official online stream de SOTU

O sítio online DH.be tem disponível  para audição o novo álbum dos Depeche Mode, "Sounds Of The Universe". Clica AQUI para ouvir.

Passatempo FNAC | Preço BOX Set

A Fnac está a promover um passatempo que te permite assistir ao primeiro concerto da "Tour Of The Universe". Para participar clica AQUI.

Na página do passatempo também já se encontram os preços dos vários formatos de "Sounds Of The Universe". A BOX tem o valor de 74,95€ (preço de pré-venda).

Além da fnac podes encontrá-la na CDGO a 72,95€ (preço de pré-venda).

Detalhes e novo video promocional de SOTU

"Sounds Of The Universe" estará disponível nas lojas na próxima segunda feira. Um novo vídeo surge com o objectivo de promover a Box e mostra-nos algo de interessante. As três musicas escolhidas para o vídeo são "Wrong", "Peace" e "Perfect".

Serão os três singles do novo álbum?

Será que, ao contrário das últimas edições, apenas vão ser extraidos 3 singles de SOTU?

Lá para o final do ano saberemos.

Box: detalhes

Well, here we have it, Sounds Of The Universe the album is announced, the tour is slowly taking shape and the full details of the deluxe edition that is being put together is available and now you can pre-order it from depechemode.com

During the recording sessions, Mute had in mind to produce to deluxe box set of the album, this was put to the band and they agreed it would be a great thing to do, but, not just a fancy packaged box with a few photos and several different versions of the same music, Martin, Dave and Andy all agreed that this had to be something special and they had to curate it themselves, it had to contain as much as possible from the recording sessions of this album, they wanted to put all the songs they recorded from this session in the box, some of the demos, play a few live, and have a good measure of the most interesting remixes, not the ones that go to the clubs to dance around your hat to, ones that bring something new and interesting to the songs, ones that they themselves would sit at home and listen to if they were remixes of their favourite bands songs. Add to that a couple of 84 page hardback books that are entirely different in style to each other, some "i'm a SOTU box owner" items, 3 in depth films and 14 demos from Martin and Dave's personal archive including some classic tracks personally chosen by Depeche for inclusion in this box set.

This here, is the resulting list of content for the box, the band hope you like it and look forward to seeing you at the live shows.
CD1: Sounds Of The Universe [the new 13 track album]
CD2: 5 new songs from the SOTU sessions and 6 new remixes from the SOTU album tracks
CD3: 14 demos from Martin & Dave, not only demos from the new album but also LITTLE 15, CLEAN, SWEETEST PERFECTION, JUDAS, WALKING IN MY SHOES [did you think this was as unlikely as we did?]
DVD:
Three films
1. Making The Universe / Film.
2. A new Roland Brown documentary "Usual thing, try and get the question in the answer", for which he not only recorded new footage, but has been trawling the archives again.
3. A Short film.
PLUS SOTU in 5.1, and the 5 additional new songs from the SOTU sessions in 5.1 (Dolby & DTS)
PLUS 4 songs filmed live in the studio [including, Stories Of Old]
PLUS the Patrick Daughters directed promotional video for Wrong

These are then put in a fancy custom made and foil blocked box, with the 2 hardback books, one by Anton Corbijn [Words & Images Of The Universe], in large format with all of the lyrics from the SOTU sessions and another by Daniel Miller, Ben Hillier, Luke Smith and Ferg Peterkin, [Making The Universe / Book] taken throughout the recording sessions, candid and personal. There's a poster and 2 enamel badges, (these are your own personal "i'm a deluxe box owner" items to display with pride) and a numbered certificate of authenticity. The final item is a selection of art cards, 5 of 14 designs are included in the box, not everyone will like all 14, so exchange with fellow box owners to collect your favourite 5.

Box: video promocional

Box: imagens da preparação

In The Studio - Web Clip #16

Depeche Mode - In The Studio - Web Clip #16

Martin a trabalhar na canção "Corrupt" com uma guitarra bastante estranha.

The Sunday Tribune: Entrevista com Dave

O Sunday Tribune (Irelanda) publicou uma entrevista com o Dave, onde fala de "Sounds Of The Universe", da fuga das demos na Internet, AntonCorbijn,  U2...

There's a lot of life left in us old geezers yet...

He talks to Una Mullally about the legendary band's latest opus
Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan, drug-free and dapper, is miffed thatearly demos for the new album were leaked online.

Dave Gahan, the frontman of Depeche Mode, walks into a hotel suite in London in a three-piece suit with his hair slicked back. He looks dapper, fit and in good health, a veneer that doesn't sit with the exhausting fact that this is the final day of months of interviews around the world. It doesn't sit either with a hard-rocking career freckled with drug overdoses and a suicide attempt, and endless touring and scraps and serious cocaine and heroin use. In fact, he looks awesome, more Malibu than Priory.

The Sunday Tribune is here for a round-table interview with four journalists from Eastern Europe, posing a language barrier which vexes Gahan increasingly as the time passes. You can't blame his occasionally rising narkiness, as he has to put up with one possibly inebriated hack from the Czech Republic who keeps posing factually inaccurate questions about Anton Corbijn; a softly-spoken female journalist who speaks exclusively in gigantically incomprehensible philosophical terms; and a couple of German-speaking fan boys who insist on making him sign endless CD sleeves before and after the interview.

Anyway, in he strolls humming U2's 'Get On Your Boots'. Does he like the new album, I ask? "I was just listening to it this morning, actually. There are some really good songs on there. I think it's going to grow on me. It's not immediate. When I first heard the single, I was completely baffled, to be honest – it's like lots of different songs all put together. But I get it in the album, I understand it." Better still, he likes the accompanying film, Linear, that Anton Corbijn has made for No Line On The Horizon.

Comparisons with U2 often follow Depeche Mode around, which Gahan isn't really into. "I think that's probably the Anton [Corbijn] connection." Corbijn is a friend of the band and has photographed them extensively, as well as making their 1989 music video 'Personal Jesus'. Gahan pauses, "...and it just so happens that quite often we [U2 and Depeche Mode] put out albums at the same time," he cackles, a little manically, perhaps subconsciously realising the unfortunate PR setting this must pose.

Last time they played the same venue, "Bono sent over a note saying hello and being generally polite, I sent one back saying 'and you are?'" he laughs at the memory. One of U2's security team, Gerry, worked for Gahan years ago. "He took care of me – literally – for the 'Songs of Faith and Devotion' tour. He went through a lot with me. He's a great guy. He looks after Bono now." (he pronounces Bono, 'Bow-No'.) "Us and U2, we're similar in age and number of albums. We've both a big body of work. But there's a lot of life left in us old geezers yet."

As Gahan was working on tracks for Depeche Mode's new album Sounds Of The Universe, some of his demos somehow made it online. It infuriated him. In an era where music is constantly uploaded, duplicated, shared, nicked, and leaked, the reality of private work becoming public makes him very, very prickly. "There's an element of mystery taken out of the process. I find it kind of ridiculous. At the same time, it shows a keenness and an excitement, wanting to hear what's new. But there's nothing more insulting than having something leaked by a journalist before you've even had a chance to finish your own work."

Yikes! Is that what happened in this case? "I've no idea. It could have been another of those things." Oh. "It could have been a CD lying around somewhere that someone picked up. It could have been lost in translation over the internet when we were passing things back and forth to each other. It could have happened when I was laying down guide vocals in New York. When it's a finished piece of work like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs thing [referring to that band being forced to push forward their release date when their full album was leaked online], that's just wrong. I'm sure they're really pissed off about that... It's like someone painting a painting and saying, 'I did the charcoal part, I haven't finished yet, but what do you think?' It's crazy to me that people started making these ridiculous assumptions." Oddly enough, some of these demos will now find their way onto a box set the band is releasing on the back of the new album.

Gahan speaks about music pleasantly, if in lofty terms ("music changes the world for me, it changes my outlook on life.") We get an insight into the importance of Depeche Mode throughout Europe when the Czech journalist asks about seeing him playing in his home country in the Communist era in 1988. "For us, it was always about going somewhere we hadn't been before, and trying to perform in places where we knew that we had fans," says Gahan. "Poland, East Germany – we went to those places in the same way we would go anywhere else, same as Russia. What we didn't like was a lot of people got tickets through the police and through the government.

"When we first went to some of those places, there would be a row of police, then there would be a row of very special people, and then the fans. We tried to change that when we visited again. I remember the first time we played in Warsaw there being thousands of people on the streets when we played the concert, and then when we came out, there was not a soul anywhere. The streets had been cleared within half an hour. It was eerie, weird. We were marched back to the hotel and weren't allowed out. There was a curfew. It was pretty wild to people who hadn't grown up with those kinds of restrictions."

After a while, Gahan starts taking the piss out of questions. When the soft-spoken female journalist asks him what's next after "playing with angels and showing people what the universe tastes like", he jokes and half-sneers, "who knows? Maybe we'll do the first gig on the moon. Get Richard Branson involved or something."

Soon after this, with the PR lady who had been sitting dormant in the corner suddenly becoming animated as our time runs out, Gahan exchanges pleasantries with the Sunday Tribune, having thankfully not having not annoyed him throughout the interview. He rolls his eyes at the prospect of having to sign another bunch of CDs for the rest in the room. Nonetheless, he does it with good grace.

Fonte: tribune.ie

Martin Gore became a "synthaholic"

Pequeno  e interessante artigo onde Dave e Martin essencialmente sobre a bebida.

"We got very excited whenever a new instrument arrived. Martin turned into a synthaholic!"

"Drinking just stopped being fun. When you spend more time feeling terrible than actually enjoying it, it's time to give up."

Depeche Mode get clear direction
Depeche Mode songwriter Martin Gore gave up drinking and instead became a "synthaholic" when writing the group's new album.

Depeche Mode musician Martin Gore became a "synthaholic" when creating the group's new album.

The multi-instrumentalist swapped drinking for obsessively buying keyboards to work on upcoming LP, 'Sounds of the Universe', and admits it had a profound effect on his output as the band's chief songwriter.

Band member Andy Fletcher, 47, said: "We got very excited whenever a new instrument arrived. Martin turned into a synthaholic!"

Gore, 47, added: "It's hard to say if it was subconscious but I started buying all this stuff. All these packages were turning up and they helped to shape the album a lot. The sounds are unique and almost retro space age."

Gore feels like a new man since he quit alcohol and admits it was taking over his life.

He exaplined: "Stopping has made me quite a different person and definitely helped make me more prolific.

"Drinking just stopped being fun. When you spend more time feeling terrible than actually enjoying it, it's time to give up."

Lead singer Dave Gahan - who has been clean of drugs and drink for 13 years - said despite the album's dark sound, the group had a great time making it.

He said: "This album is not an easy listen but it's a complete album and was fun to make. Martin was amazing. He's taken a different path, stopped his partying and was a joy to work with.

"I've never seen him work so hard. I felt like we were on the same page at last."

'Sounds of the Universe' is released on April 20.

Crítica: SOTU

O sitio online Entertainment (Irlanda) publicou uma critica a SOTU.

...having done their best to include as many different sounds and noises as they possibly can, which is strangely both the appeal and part of the problem with Sounds of the Universe.

No one could argue that Depeche Mode don't have presence. From the opening tone that's built upon until it forms a cacophonous mass of sound, DM make sure you know they are there. Many of their tricks could easily get them lumped in the ambient category - the way they layer sound upon sound to form swells and waves, the way they drive the music forward with repeated notes and loops - but ambient music is so often synonymous with background music, and Sounds of The Universe is anything but.

There's a sense of thunderous invasion in the sheer power behind these songs, and even when they do stop for pause in token "slow song" Jezebel, the ballad style of the vocals is eerily at odds with the sinister click-clocking and minor backing. Though primarily synth driven, punctuating guitar stabs, booming bass, thumping beats and entangled secondary rhythms endow this record with depth and peculiarity. There are the usual strong harmonies, but the reverb soaked vocals can sometimes make Sounds of The Universe feel dated. Whether this is purely because Dave Gahan's voice is so recognisable and so hugely associated with DM's early hits is up for debate.

DM have certainly picked an apt title, having done their best to include as many different sounds and noises as they possibly can, which is strangely both the appeal and part of the problem with Sounds of the Universe. Though the curious and intriguing placement of synthetic percussion and random blares of assorted synth sounds are what makes Sounds of the Universe interesting, it can feel cluttered in places, and after a while seems almost as if they've inserted random sounds into any available gap, purely to distract from the fact that the tunes themselves simply aren't strong enough.

Fonte: entertainment.ie

Recording "Sounds Of The Universe"

A Amazon disponibilizou no seu site um vídeo exclusivo da gravação de "Sounds Of The Universe".

Após visualizar o vídeo fica a ideia que a Tour Of The Universe nos trará algumas surpresas, como tivemos com "Photographic" na Touring The Angel. Repararam em "Stories Of Old"?

Fonte: amazon.com

Single: "Wrong"

"Wrong" o novo single dos Depeche Mode, o primeiro de "Sounds Of The Universe" é editado hoje.

A seguir encontra-se toda a informação de cada um dos formatos disponíveis e o vídeo de promoção.

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7" Single - BONG 40
A. Wrong
B. Oh Well

CD1 - CDBONG 40
1. Wrong
2. Oh Well (Black Light Odyssey Remix)

CD2 (Maxi) - LCDBONG 40
1. Wrong
2. Wrong (Trentemøller Club Remix)
3. Wrong (Thin White Duke Remix)
4. Wrong (Magda's Scallop Funk Mix)
5. Wrong (D.I.M. vs Boys Noize Remix)

Digital Download - (no catalog #)
A01. Wrong (3.13)
A02. Wrong (Thin White Duke Remix) (7.41)
A03. Wrong (Thin White Duke Dub) (6.05)
A04. Wrong (D.I.M. Vs Boys Noize Remix) (5.11)
A05. Wrong (Magda's Scallop Funk Remix) (6.32)
A06. Wrong (Trentemøller Club Remix) (6.55)

"Wrong" (video oficial)

Deuses e Monstros

"Dioses y Monstruos" foi publicada a 3 deste mês pelos nossos vizinhos no El País.

A jornalista fala-nos sobre Dave, os DM o novo álbum e sobre os fãs.

Cuando mi hija era más pequeña, me vio durante una actuación y se asustó. Me dijo: Tú no eres mi papi

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Se necesita mucha energía. A veces pienso que esa noche será la última. No quiero llegar al punto en el que no sea capaz de actuar como normalmente hago. Además, pienso en mis hijos, sobre todo en la niña, que sólo tiene nueve años. Quiero estar cerca cuando empiece a salir con chicos y esas cosas…

Los fans rusos organizan una manifestación para celebrar mi cumpleaños. Muchos, con el corte de pelo Dave Gahan. Cuando vi las fotos no me lo creía.

Hay quien usa a Depeche Mode en misa; y países donde su cantante es una deidad. Nos lo cuenta el propio Dave Gahan, a quien apodan El Gato por las veces que ha estado a punto de morir. Presenta un nuevo disco “espiritual”  mientras se plantea dejar los escenarios.

Gahan, que hoy responde trabajosamente con frases lentas, plagadas de silencios e interjecciones, no tiene aspecto de preocuparse por llenar almas. Más bien parece un tipo duro de barrio: mirada de infinito hastío, chupa de cuero, anillo de oro, el pelo engominado y rostro curtido. Sin embargo, el cantante de Depeche Mode tuvo la oportunidad de hacer un curso intensivo sobre el alma humana. En 1996, tras una sobredosis, su corazón se paró durante más de un minuto. Los enfermeros lograron reanimarle y devolverle de entre los muertos: “No era una sensación acogedora. Fue algo aterrador”, recuerda Gahan. “Sabía que no quería estar ahí, nunca he estado más seguro de algo. Me hizo entender que la vida es algo precioso que se debe usar bien. Que debía estar cerca de mi familia y hacer algo creativo”.

Gahan asegura que esta experiencia le ayudó a desintoxicarse de su adicción a la heroína y a labrarse una carrera independiente. Ha lanzado los álbumes en solitario Paper monsters y Hourglass, y firma canciones en Depeche Mode, un rol antes reservado a su compañero Martin Gore. “Martin es mucho más estructurado que yo, pero a mí me gusta ser así. Mis canciones no cobran sentido inmediatamente. Vienen de un sitio emocional y crudo. No sé de dónde. A veces son imágenes, como las de los libros ilustrados que tenía de crío. Todavía me gustan esos cuentos, que ahora leo a mi hija. Con sólo palabras y palabras no consigo mantener la atención, necesito algo visual”.

En sus casi tres décadas de trayectoria, Depeche Mode ha publicado 12 discos, de los que ha vendido unas 100 millones de copias. La banda, formada a principios de los años ochenta, todavía levanta pasiones en los rincones más insospechados del planeta. No hay mejor revancha para unos artistas que no siempre son profetas en su tierra. Depeche Mode no tiene su origen en una concienciada y rabiosa ciudad industrial norteña o en localidades de glamour bohemio del sur de Inglaterra: vienen de Basildon (Essex), una zona al norte de Londres tachada de vulgar, objeto de mofa, a la que el resto del país mira por encima del hombro: “Los ingleses piensan que los demás no son civilizados. Crecí rodeado de ese sistema de clases que te repetía que no eras lo suficientemente bueno”, afirma Gahan, residente en Nueva York desde hace 12 años. “Cuando era joven nunca hubiera pensado en estar en un lugar como éste”, dice señalando la elegante habitación del club privado donde tiene lugar la entrevista. “Mi madre todavía se siente incómoda si viene a este tipo de sitios”.

Durante todos estos años, el aspecto de los integrantes de Depeche Mode ha ido cambiando, un alivio para Gahan: “Las fotos antiguas me dan vergüenza ajena. Intentábamos parecer más duros de lo que realmente éramos. La peor época fue cuando me teñí el pelo de blanco”. Sin embargo, su sonido, menos susceptible al oleaje de las tendencias, no ha envejecido. Algo que puede achacarse al complejo de Peter Pan de la banda: “Nuestra juventud se resiste a dejar nuestros cuerpos. A veces, delante de mis hijos, me siento inadecuado. Sobre todo del que tiene 16 años. Soy como su amigo raro”.

Sounds of the universe aparece después de cuatro años de descanso de la banda. Con él se colocan en un lugar entre el pasado y el futuro, que juega con sonidos retrofuturistas: “Utilizamos equipos analógicos y vintage“, explica Gahan. “Martin [Gore] se pasaba el día en eBay, comprando guitarras viejas, artefactos de los años setenta, cajas de ritmos. Cuando llegaban al estudio, las sacábamos de sus cajas y nos poníamos a trabajar. Unas funcionaban; otras, no; pero en muchas ocasiones daban a las canciones una nueva dirección”. Según Gahan, los cortes siguen hablando de lo que les ha obsesionado desde sus comienzos: “Siempre abordamos los mismos tres temas: sexo o deseo, relaciones humanas y fe”.

El líder de Depeche Mode siguió durante años el catecismo de la vida disoluta de estrella del rock. Las arrugas alrededor de sus ojos son muescas de sus adicciones, un intento de suicidio, un infarto en el escenario y varias escaramuzas con la ley. Sus amigos le apodaban El Gato, por todas las vidas que ha gastado. Hoy parece haber encontrado la calma en la Gran Manzana, donde vive junto a su tercera mujer y sus hijos: “Salgo con mi familia y mis amigos. Voy a cenar, a conciertos, al cine, a galerías de arte, que me dan mucha paz. Nunca me aburro. Voy a ver a mi hijo jugar al baloncesto, llevo a mi hija al colegio. Eso me hace feliz”.

El cantante procura mantener delimitadas sus facetas de padre y de artista: “Quiero mantener a mis hijos alejados de todo esto. Cuando mi hija era más pequeña me vio durante una actuación y se asustó. Dijo: ‘Tú no eres mi papi”. Y es que Gahan, en concierto, es gesticulante, convulso e inquieto. Casi un poseído. El 10 de mayo comenzará en Tel Aviv la gira mundial Tour of the universe, con escenografía de su fiel colaborador Anton Corbijn. Sin embargo, es tanta la intensidad que gasta Gahan en vivo que el cantante no sabe si continuará yendo de gira durante mucho más tiempo. “Se necesita mucha energía. A veces pienso que esa noche será la última. No quiero llegar al punto en el que no sea capaz de actuar como normalmente hago. Además, pienso en mis hijos, sobre todo en la niña, que sólo tiene nueve años. Quiero estar cerca cuando empiece a salir con chicos y esas cosas…”.

Aunque todavía le faltan algunos años antes de que tenga que abrir la puerta a los novios de su hija, el momento en el que Dave Gahan se retire será una jornada trágica para algunos de sus seguidores. El documental The posters came from the walls, firmado por los artistas Jeremy Deller y Nick Abrahams, explora el extraño mundo de los fans de Depeche Mode. En el metraje se demuestra que Gahan es poco menos que una deidad en Rusia. “Llega a ser como un culto raro”, confirma el cantante. “Los fans rusos organizan una manifestación para celebrar mi cumpleaños. Muchos, con el corte de pelo Dave Gahan. Cuando vi las fotos no me lo creía”.

Para los jóvenes de los países comunistas, escuchar a Depeche Mode era un acto de rebeldía y de emancipación cultural. “Cuando viajamos al antiguo bloque del Este, la gente nos decía que no estaba permitido escuchar nuestra música. Conseguían nuestros discos mediante cintas piratas. Supongo que nos prohibían por el contenido sadomasoquista de las canciones o la manera en la que mezclamos sexo y religión. Me parece terrorífico. Es sólo música”, remarca. Sin embargo, hay quien aparta la lujuria y se queda simplemente con el aspecto religioso. El documental también descubre misas góticas celebradas en la ciudad inglesa de Cambridge que acompañan el servicio con temas de Depeche Mode.

Quizá sus “sonidos del universo”, en los que Gahan percibía espiritualidad, respondan a la voluntad de trascendencia que algunos encuentran en la banda. “Alguien puede estar escuchando ahí fuera”, comenta Gahan. “Es un buen disco para meter en una caja y lanzar al espacio”.



Fonte: El País

"Wrong" - ("In The Studio" Music Video)

Audio: SOTU hidden track

Depeche Mode

Sounds Of The Universe - Hidden Track

[audio=http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/1/27/2287164/14%20Depeche%20Mode%20-%20Hidden%20Track%20%28w%29.mp3]

[Update | 1º de Abril | April fool’s] Sim, “Hidden Track” foi uma brincadeira. Obrigado ao DJ WILD, por ter disponibilizado este grande tema.