Over the last few months the great Timothy Saccenti has shared some of the films that he created for Depeche Mode's Delta Machine promotional warm up tour on his Vimeo channel. The "Heaven" video director made ten films in all and has shared the films for songs like "Should Be Higher", "Heaven", "The Child Inside", "Soothe My Soul", and most recently "Walking In My Shoes". There's also a outstanding "Promotion Tour Visuals Trailer" that is fun reedit compilation of all the visuals set to the sounds of the Black Asteroid remix of "Soothe My Soul". If you don't follow Tim on Vimeo or on social...
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Live Nation has put together a great promo video to promote the Delta Machine Tour. Besides shots of the band playing live, it has some great clips of fans praising the band. Some fans seeing them again, some expressing how excited they are seeing Depeche for the first time. Fans describing them as everything from "the forefathers of electronica" to "there's only one Dave!". It's a short clip, but well worth your time. See it after the jump!
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The North American leg of the Delta Machine Tour kicks off tonight in Detroit and what better way to get things going then for the band to release the world premiere of the "Should Be Higher" video! A live version of the song with possibly one of the best backing screen videos ever. Just amazing! We'll be doing a live relay of tonight's show in the tour section on our forum, so be sure to join in on the fun.
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As the band gears up to take on North America, we start seeing some of the press starting to come in. While most of these press items get lost in the white noise that is social media, I thought this was a really fun read and wanted to share it here for everyone to check out. Gary Graff from The Oakland Press did a very nice piece on the band with some nice quotes and more. Read on to check it out.
Depeche Mode having fun, feeling more alive on stage
Published: Monday, August 19, 2013
By GARY GRAFF
Of The Oakland Press
Gary Graff on Music; @graffonmusic
Twenty years ago Depeche...
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It's was really nice to get a note from Matt Fretton letting us know that he is returning to making music! www.mattfretton.com is his new site and it's a blog documenting the recording of his new album. Some of you will remember Matt from his days of touring with Depeche Mode back in '82 and '83, but Matt also had support slots in the early 1980s that included tours and one-off dates with bands like Eurythmics, Gang of Four, Boomtown Rats, Thompson Twins, Billy Idol, and King Crimson. We interviewed Matt for the site back in 2007, so if you missed that interview, be sure to check it out by clicking...
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