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Depeche Mode review – to the newly minted power of two


On the latest leg of their first tour after the death of founding member Andrew Fletcher, fellow Depeche Mode mainstays Dave Gahan and Martin Gore reward fans with hits from across the decades

The US may not remember them when they were Spandau Ballet with a dungeon in their basement, but SE10 clearly does Better than the heavy symbolism, though, is the song’s unexpected progression tonight from a tune that recalls New Order to house piano rave breakdown, one that could have gone on for far longer. In with the new: the song Ghosts Again may have taken top billing as Memento Mori’s calling card, but tonight the machine hydraulics of set opener My Cosmos Is Mine and the clean lines of My Favourite Stranger stand prouder. Fletcher is remembered – as a giant, subtly morphing black and white image – when the band play World in My Eyes, his favourite Depeche Mode song.

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