Martin Gore & Jonathan Murray, Moogfest, Durham, North Carolina (27/04/2019)
The absolute highlight of #moogfest this year was turning around to see Martin Gore (#depechemode main man) standing in front of me. I immediately hugged him .. there was no other way to react. @reptilianjillian27 was quick but our moment of affection was quicker and she only caught this afterglow. I’m so thankful she got even that … This man has supported me for 12 years and affected the lives of my friends and influencers for even longer.
He brightened one of the darkest days of my life. In June of 2012, I ran out of gas while moving Mark Serletic (aka DJ Frowntown) back from Norfolk through a tornado in Virginia, where I didn’t think they ever happened. Apparently neither did Virginia itself, so all of the gas stations were out of power. While waiting on a shoulder for hours while Mark figured out how to get my car on the road, I got a PayHole notification that Martin L Gore had just sent me two grand. I knew then that it was no longer a bad day, and I never get tired of telling this story.