Reviews
It’s been 32 years since their debut album Speak & Spell, and 50 singles later, the Depeche Mode boys have come a long way from their humble beginnings in Basildon.
Lead singer Dave Gahan’s battles with heroin have been well documented but this performance at a packed, adoring O2 on Saturday was testament to his victory over addictions which proved such a rich vein of inspiration. Songs like ‘Shake the Disease’, ‘Precious’ and ‘Never Let Me Down Again’ are such brilliantly constructed paeans to hard drugs that you’d almost forgive Gahan’s troubled past.
