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== Notes ==
== Notes ==


At the end of 1981, all members of Depeche Mode were asked to fill in a questionnaire for kids' magazine Look-In, and one of its questions was "previous groups?" Andrew Fletcher answered this with "The Blood" (see right).  
At the end of 1981, all members of Depeche Mode were asked to fill in a questionnaire for kids' magazine Look-In, and one of its questions was "previous groups?". Andrew Fletcher answered this with "The Blood" (see right).  


Author Jonathan Miller went on a quest to find out more about this for his Depeche Mode biography [https://books.google.com/books?id=8dlapcBLwu0C 'Stripped'] around 2001, but did not find more evidence. Vince Clarke told Miller: "It's the kind of thing Fletcher would do, but, knowing him, it was more a figment of his imagination! He probably had a concept, but I'm not sure if The Blood ever performed; I'm not sure who was in it — apart from himself!"  
Author Jonathan Miller went on a quest to find out more about this for his Depeche Mode biography [https://books.google.com/books?id=8dlapcBLwu0C 'Stripped'] around 2001, but did not find more evidence. Vince Clarke told Miller: "It's the kind of thing Fletcher would do, but, knowing him, it was more a figment of his imagination! He probably had a concept, but I'm not sure if The Blood ever performed; I'm not sure who was in it — apart from himself!"  

Revision as of 19:13, 28 September 2016

from Look-In magazine, issue 49

Notes

At the end of 1981, all members of Depeche Mode were asked to fill in a questionnaire for kids' magazine Look-In, and one of its questions was "previous groups?". Andrew Fletcher answered this with "The Blood" (see right).

Author Jonathan Miller went on a quest to find out more about this for his Depeche Mode biography 'Stripped' around 2001, but did not find more evidence. Vince Clarke told Miller: "It's the kind of thing Fletcher would do, but, knowing him, it was more a figment of his imagination! He probably had a concept, but I'm not sure if The Blood ever performed; I'm not sure who was in it — apart from himself!"

Miller also interviewed former Nicholas Comprehensive pupil Chris Sheppard, and he remembered seeing Fletcher quite regularly: "We used to travel home on the same late night bus after he had been playing at a Basildon pub. He was always lugging a guitar around with him."

Other than that, there is no other evidence of this band...