A return of The Bridge House? Yes! The famous old venue, best known to Depeche fans as one of the bands starting points, is being brought back to life as BH2.
BEST news of the year so far is that one of the most famous names in east London musical history, The Bridge House, Canning Town, is back.Some 25 years after shutting its doors, the famous old venue is being brought back to life as BH2 (Bridge House 2), just 500m behind where the original was, in Bidder Street.
The Bridge House, by the flyover, was the pub that gave U2 their first London gig, boasted Depeche Mode as a resident band...
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UK based photographer Perou did a shoot for Depeche back when they were still promoting "Playing The Angel". Perou recently added select snaps from the shoot to his official website. Since there were many we hadn't seen before, we decided they were worth a post here on HOME.
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Just a couple of snaps from New Years eve! All in the name of science... ehhhh... or something! (Read: I was testing the image upload feature)
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Alan Wilder's Recoil project has been granted the title of Best Electronic Album of 2007 at IGN.com. Now, this comes as somewhat of a surprise... not because the album doesn't warrant every bit of critical acclaim it can get, but because IGN to me is pretty much synonymous with tits and video games. Oh well... read on for the full review...Upon casual inspection the latest offering from Recoil (the nom du musique of former Depeche Moder Alan Wilder) seems to be following in the footsteps of Moby's Play. But whereas Richard Melville Hall sampled and essentially remixed forgotten blues and folk songs...
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In a somewhat amusing, not to mention self contradicting, article that popped onto the interweb on December 29th, Andrew Fletcher is one of the many trendy, famous, rich and powerful people who hits the Swiss alps for New Years.In the article, which was posted on the Swiss tourist board site Swissinfo.ch, a local head of tourism, Daniel Luggen, is quoted as saying "our hotels are very discreet", yet they manage to go on to list a very impressive list of celebrities' vacationing plans.Now that's the kind of discretion that money simply cannot buy!For those interested, and we all know we all are, the...
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