Le Topic de Depeche Mode

[Super Shogun]

[Monsieur Vilak]

Merci pour le rappel!

[Monsieur Vilak]

Vince Clarke sort son premier album solo, "Songs of silence", le 17 novembre.

[Super Shogun]

Vince Clarke sort son premier album solo, "Songs of silence", le 17 novembre.

Euh..
On n'attend pas Clarke sur ce genre de registre mais, au moins, il y a une colonne vertébrale, pas comme les derniers albums solo de gore qui enregistre ses machines qui sont mises en roue libre pendant qu'il va se soûler la gueule au bistrot en face du studio...

[Monsieur Vilak]

Oui sa femme est très malade, il a voulu exprimer sa souffrance actuelle dans ce disque.
D'où un OVNI...

[Monsieur Vilak]

“I think that Alan was trying to gain control of everything towards the end of the project, and because I wasn’t very well, he was doing that,” Fletch said. “He was able to take control, and I think I deal with things a bit differently. I don’t think the roles have changed at all … we just replaced Alan with a team of people.”

It's amazing how many people they needed to replace one single man ...

“It was important for us to fill his shoes,” Martin remarked. “I think that Tim and his team helped to fulfil that role. The musicians in Tim's team were very important. Because Alan was always the so-called musician in Depeche Mode. The classical trained one. It's a fine line. What's a musician? I can play a guitar and I can play keyboards, but I was never classically trained.”
“He can read music scores as well,” Fletch bitched about Alan. Martin tried to cool it down a bit: “I never had any music theory, I just know what sounds good and what moves me when I write it, when I try out things. So this was a totally different way of working for us.”

Some fans tend to label Alan as a victim. But - as we’ve already seen – there are two sides to every story. Therefore it’s too simple to see him as the unfortunate victim, (or “fluffy bunny-wunny” to say it with his own words.)

Some fans tend to see him as a traitor, as the one who committed the crime of leaving “the sinking ship,” as the one who left his friends in the lurch. I think this view is unfair, because you have realize the amount of work he put into this band.
Where would DM have got without him? Would they have been able to produce albums like Violator? Would they have been able to play in front of 70,000 people at the Rosebowl? I wouldn’t be so sure.
But it would also be wrong to say that the entire success was due to him, (like some other fans do.) It was the success of this special team. Alan alone wouldn’t have gotten far without Martin’s songs and Dave’s distinctive voice and charismatic live performance.

Hanging on your Words - A Depeche Mode biography

[Super Shogun]

“It was important for us to fill his shoes,” Martin remarked. “I think that Tim and his team helped to fulfil that role. The musicians in Tim's team were very important. Because Alan was always the so-called musician in Depeche Mode. The classical trained one. It's a fine line. What's a musician? I can play a guitar and I can play keyboards, but I was never classically trained.”
“He can read music scores as well,” Fletch bitched about Alan. Martin tried to cool it down a bit: “I never had any music theory, I just know what sounds good and what moves me when I write it, when I try out things. So this was a totally different way of working for us.”

Ah les putes...

[Monsieur Vilak]

In the course of time Dave reacted increasingly irritated and thin-skinned.

“I'm not here to be judged by Martin Gore. I'm not his marionette. If Martin can give me what I have given him with his songs within all the years, then we can work together. I have a solo album ...”

But when he was asked about the perfect mode of operation with Martin and Fletch:
“Well, listen: There aren't any plans, okay? Is that enough now? And Andy doesn't do anything in the studio, even the fans know this. He hasn't contributed musically to DM perhaps since A Broken Frame. It was Alan, Martin and me. Alan left the band and now it's Martin and me. I'm not going to carry on with DM just because it's such a big name. A new album must fill me with enthusiasm. It must come from our hearts. But at the moment I find it rather outrageous to ask me all these questions. I'm working with a cool band ...”

And when one dared to ask him about Alan ... “Alan left DM ten years ago. You should get over it. I do something else now and enjoy it!"

Hanging on your Words - A Depeche Mode biography

[Monsieur Vilak]

Depeche Mode est à la 13ème place des meilleures tournées du mois d'août 2023.

Le magazine « Billboard » a publié la liste actuelle « Boxscore » pour août 2023, qui sélectionne les tournées et concerts individuels les plus rentables du mois dernier.

Lors de ses neuf concerts en août 2023, Depeche Mode a réalisé aux États-Unis des recettes au box-office de 12,7 millions de dollars (près de 12 millions d'euros),

Les ventes de billets pour les deux représentations de Depeche Mode au stade olympique de Berlin ont généré 14,5 millions de dollars (environ 13,5 millions d'euros).

[Super Shogun]

Objectif atteint...

[Monsieur Vilak]

The grabbing hands, grab all they can, all for themselves.
Prophétique...

[Monsieur Vilak]

Alan a un deal avec le groupe :
Quand une chanson est jouée en live d'une façon proche de l'arrangement qu'il a fait pour la version studio, il est payé.
S'il prend ne serait-ce que 2 ou 3 % sur les recettes, il ramasse un max de pognon!

[Super Shogun]

Et comme DM ne peut se passer de jouer leurs vieux standards, car tout le monde se fout des nouvelles chansons, il continuera à bien vivre, même si c'est une paille comparée à ce que touchent Gore et Gahan. Mais il n'avait qu'à y penser avant aussi...

[Monsieur Vilak]

Exact!

Maintenant des groupes qui peuvent se passer de leur vieux standards sur scène, j'en connais pas moi!

[Monsieur Vilak]

clique droit etc...