Review: Depeche Mode deliver wham-bam set at 3Arena

Strutting ridiculousness has been Depeche Mode’s modus all the way back to the 1980s, when they were leather-wrapped runts of the electropop litter. At that time, hefty odds would have been offered on the Essex group not only outlasting peers such as New Order but, in the long run, becoming vastly credible too.

But here they are, more than 30 years into a career that has swung between highs, lows and the occasional heroin overdose (in the throes of addiction in the early '90s singer Dave Gahan suffered clinical death for several minutes).