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Dave Gahan, Manhattan’s Soho area, New York, NY, USA (24/04/2019)

app.tt.se:

Singer Dave Gahan from “Depeche Mode” waits for a car in Manhattan’s Soho area. 

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Jonathan Kessler, Matin Gore & Dave Gahan, Château de la Valouze (14/06/2019) Photo © Jennifer Sklias-Gahan Source: jennifer_sklias_gahan

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Martin Gore, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (07/09/2019)

th1sqtrks:

The best day of my life- perhaps this day 🖤🤗🖤. I seriously choked beyond words. Why is it that when I’m most excited I choke!? Every time! He was beyond amazing, he stopped by to say goodbye on his way out after I’d met him earlier and I’m just so stoked this happened to me 😭😭😭. Meeting an all time idol for the best music of my life....🙌🏼! Something that I honestly thought would never happen to me, something that I saw so far beyond for me. The best summer ever! (Btw, I’ve read recently a story that I wish I could clarify about having new music for DM in the timeframe fans are used to, but I was told something completely different, and I don’t know that either that or what I was told is actually true. I asked him if he was preparing something new for DM and he specifically said that this past tour was so long that they really just want to take their time with that. No news as for that but 🤷🏻‍♀️. That’s what I was told.)

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Martin Gore with a fan at the the Hours Quiet' album release party, Swan Dive, Austin, TX, USA (13/09/2019) Photo © Musidora Vampires Source: muvamps

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Mark Lanegan about Dave Gahan (mxdwn.com Interview 12/08/2019)

mxdwn: Have you ever contemplated working with Soulsavers again?

ML: Well Rich Machin, who is the Soulsavers dude, is one of my best friends now. I didn’t know him at all, of course, when I was first handed the music. He’s pretty much specifically Dave Gahan’s dude now. By the way, Dave Gahan, one of the greatest singers of all time. Incredible. I’m a huge fan plus he’s a super cool guy. The last couple of records they’ve done were with Dave. I guess their 20th anniversary is coming up and one of the things that was pitched to me was that I do one of Dave’s songs and he’s doing one of my mine for a 12″ single or something. If that happened I’d be psyched. To me, he wrote the Soulsavers song. A song called ‘Presence of God.’ I would love to do that. Hopefully that will happen. <...> ...it’s always cool when somebody like Dave Gahan sings one of your songs. I’ve seen him do one of my songs before and it was like, ‘Okay, well I can die now.’

mxdwn: Depeche Mode is so fucking good.

ML: They are so fucking good and have so many great songs. We toured as Soulsavers with those guys, because Martyn LeNoble, the original Porno for Pyros bassist, he’s an amazing musician. He plays on all my records. He had played in Dave’s solo band with some off time from Depeche. Anyway, they’re good friends. That’s how we ended up opening an arena tour with those guys for two months as Soulsavers. I watched their whole show every fucking day. It’s one great song after another. I mean really great songs. I’ve seen them playing an arena, I don’t know, maybe 40 times before. Last year or maybe the year before they came to LA and did a private show for fans at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which is basically a room that’s 100, maybe 150 capacity. Tiny room. They invited me to go and I went. Dude, they’re like the most badass club band, too. I’d never seen them play on a small stage. I wondered how’s that going to be? You’re so used to seeing them play these huge 20,000 seat arenas. Dude, it was so fucking bad ass. It all comes down to Dave, because he’s an amazing front man. It doesn’t matter whether he’s playing an arena or in front of 100 people, he’s fucking the shit.

He’s one of those classic frontmen. When I first saw him I was like, ‘Fuck man.’ When I was young and I couldn’t sing and I started with the Trees, I actually did move around on stage because I didn’t have anything else to do. I couldn’t sing so I just screamed and jumped around like an idiot. But I thought, ‘Fuck, wouldn’t be great to be a real front man like Dave? I said, ‘Fuck Dave, I wish I had turned into a front man like you.’ He goes, ‘Dude, I wish the fuck I had done it like you do it so I don’t have to run around five miles every night.’ He does. It’s physical. He’s the only guy, I mean God bless the rest of those dudes, he’s their focal point. He’s out to the end of the runway and fucking all over the stage. He’s a year older than me. I’m not a fucking spring chicken. He’s in great shape and his voice is getting better with age, that’s also something that doesn’t often happen.

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Martin Gore with fans, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (07/09/2019) Photo © Raymond Ruiz Source: Raymond Ruiz

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Martin Gore, The Carolina Theatre of Durham, Moogfest, Durham, North Carolina (26/04/2019) Photo © chadwadsworth_atx Source: chadwadsworth_atx

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Depeche Mode, Peter Gordeno’s wedding, Château de la Valouze, France (14/06/2019)

Neil Cooling:

This summer I was honoured to have the role of photographing Pete & Layla’s wedding at the beautiful Château de la Valouze. It was a fabulous wedding with lots of entertainment thrown in as you would expect given Pete’s background. We even had Martin Gore singing during the ceremony. I just couldn’t get enough!

Photo © Neil Cooling Source: weddingphotographerswfrance