The support act -don't ask me, I never caught their name- fancied themselves quite a bit but failed to ignite the audience; but then, I guess it wasn't their sort of crowd. They were a bit shoegazey I suppose, with all very samey sounding guitar-driven songs, a singer who posed like Jarvis Cocker and had a voice not unlike Ian McCullough, and a guitarist (there were actually two) who sounded quite a bit like The Edge.
I can't say other than that Depeche Mode were fantastic. Their show, their sound, it's just wonderful. They performed exactly the right mix of old and new, i.e. more old than new, material; in all, I think they did about 4 or 5 new songs, and all the rest was just an anthology of their by now enormous back catalogue. Many of my favourites were played, too many to remember them all. I remember Martin's set comprising Insight and Home, and for the encores he did One Caress; and I heard - in no particular order this:- Enjoy The Silence, Walking In My Shoes, Behind The Wheel, Stripped, Never Let Me Down, I Just Can't Get Enough (actually...no, not that one), The Policy Of Truth, A Question Of Time, It's No Good, Precious, Personal Jesus, and many, many more.
Getting back on the tube was a bit of an ordeal. In the press of bodies on the centrebound carriage I heard somebody complain they hadn't done Get The Balance Right. They had got the balance right as far as I was concerned.
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I Just Can't Get Enough? They didn't play that! hurrah!
I thought the Soulsavers was more Chris Rea myself. Still zzz though.
Anyway, good times!
We have snow here, I hope your flight gets off alright.
Chris Rea? No, a couple of those riffs in the first 20 minutes of their performance were textbook Edge - they sounded like they could have been samples from The Joshua Tree. Although I suppose as a band they were a bit like Chris Rea in their soporific effect...
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.depechemode.com/news.html?pageNum=&i=107#news_107
The Albert Hall!
Btw: I looked at the pre-sale tickets, but only the £110 ones were available, I think that might be a bit much for me, even for DM and there won't be any magical tickets from my company this time. However, I will keep looking anyway. Let me know if you want in. I'd still go on my own if necessary.