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Depeche Mode played a secret gig on this date. They were advertised as "MODEPECHE RETURN: Dreaming: Of a: New Life" in an NME advert. You can read photographer Tim Williams' recollection of this night [https://www.facebook.com/basildon.newtown.newlife/posts/362961857140933:0 here]. | Depeche Mode played a secret gig on this date. They were advertised as "MODEPECHE RETURN: Dreaming: Of a: New Life" in an NME advert. You can read photographer Tim Williams' recollection of this night [https://www.facebook.com/basildon.newtown.newlife/posts/362961857140933:0 here]. | ||
Dave Gahan recounted [http://tiptopwebsite.com/websites/index2.php?username=depechemodefile&page=3 to NME] in early August 1981 a strange conversation happening at a 'home gig', which is most likely to have taken place on this night: | |||
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"There was this bloke come to see us the other day and he said to me after the show – I think it’s really bad the way you have all your friends in the audience talking to you and that, and then we’re all over here and you don’t react to us. I said well what do you mean? He said: I think it’s really bad that you have like all your friends in the changing room. I said well what do you want me to say c’mon all the audience into the changing room. He said – well have you got lots of friends? I said well I’ve got a few. He said – well I haven’t got any. Well pity you mate! Isn’t that a friend, a guy who was with him. He said – yeah he’s a friend, but not a friend like that. It was really weird! I couldn’t be bothered talking to him. He thought that we should be like Gary Numan and have the distant lonely look and image. Because we play synthesisers and we’re supposed to look strange at people, and not smile. The bloke didn’t like the way I smiled at people!!" | |||
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Depeche Mode played a secret gig on this date. They were advertised as "MODEPECHE RETURN: Dreaming: Of a: New Life" in an NME advert. You can read photographer Tim Williams' recollection of this night here.
Dave Gahan recounted to NME in early August 1981 a strange conversation happening at a 'home gig', which is most likely to have taken place on this night:
"There was this bloke come to see us the other day and he said to me after the show – I think it’s really bad the way you have all your friends in the audience talking to you and that, and then we’re all over here and you don’t react to us. I said well what do you mean? He said: I think it’s really bad that you have like all your friends in the changing room. I said well what do you want me to say c’mon all the audience into the changing room. He said – well have you got lots of friends? I said well I’ve got a few. He said – well I haven’t got any. Well pity you mate! Isn’t that a friend, a guy who was with him. He said – yeah he’s a friend, but not a friend like that. It was really weird! I couldn’t be bothered talking to him. He thought that we should be like Gary Numan and have the distant lonely look and image. Because we play synthesisers and we’re supposed to look strange at people, and not smile. The bloke didn’t like the way I smiled at people!!"
