He went on to form Yazoo with Alison Moyet and later and perhaps more famously, Erasure with Andy Bell. Clarke then left the band he helped found after the release of their debut, “Speak & spell” in 1981. So I decided to do three: one for the early days in the 80s, one for during the height of their popularity in the 90s, and a final one to cover off their latter output of the last two decades.ĭepeche Mode was born when Andy Fletcher, Vince Clarke, and Martin Gore, all of whom were already in a band together, heard OMD and decided to dispense with their guitars and buy synthesizers, and then, Clarke heard Gahan performing a Bowie cover somewhere and asked him to join. Of course, with forty years in existence comes an extensive back catalogue, too great to narrow down to one of these top five tunes things. The thought of it got me thinking about how long I’ve been following them (hint: it’s not quite that long) and I decided I should do something on these pages to observe the anniversary for myself. Wouldn’t a 40th anniversary show be something to see? And it occurred to me that there would likely be some special releases launched to mark the occasion but that a tour would be really cool as well. Then, shortly after all that, I saw somewhere on social media that Depeche Mode were set to celebrate 40 years in existence this very year. We decided in that same conversation that we would both be willing to see Depeche Mode again live if the opportunity arose. We didn’t know it then, but it was actually the first of what turned out to be many concerts we would see together over many years. I later mentioned the show and William’s post to my wife and of course, it brought a smile to her face because it was a pretty special night for both of us.
Upon reading his words and the set list, I thought it sounded very much like the sole time I saw them live with my friend Tim and my future wife Victoria and I told William that I was reasonably sure I saw that same tour on the other side of the world. Vince Clarke (keyboards, lead and backing vocals, guitars) 1980–1981Īlan Wilder (keyboards, piano, drums, backing vocals) 1982–1995Ī couple of months ago, William, a fellow blogger at a1000mistakes, posted about a Depeche Mode show he saw back in 1994. Martin Gore (vocals, keyboards, guitars) 1980-presentĪndy Fletcher (keyboards, backing vocals) 1980-present
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