Depeche Mode: 101

This programme contains very strong language

-You should say start the intro tape.

-Intro tape starting.

CHEERING

Great. Perfect.

Alan, if you'll just turn your head more towards me.

That's great. Martin... Nice.

Andrew, great. David, if you'd...

That's it. Another.

Yeah. That's great.

OK. Now, looking at me. Everyone looking at me.

# Master and servant... #

Yeah!

CHEERING

# There's a new game

# We'd like you to see

# A game with added reality

# Treat me like a dog get me down on my knees

# We call it master and servant

# We call it master and servant

# Owwwww... #

-Hi.

-I'm calling about Philadelphia.

We're a bit worried cos it's holiday.

I believe it's a holiday weekend, the first one where

people disappear, open up their summer houses, that kind of stuff.

Erm, we're just a bit worried that

the place doesn't look too empty.

Is it gonna be possible to move the stage forward in the arena?

HE LAUGHS

Miss Beal?

(Fuck off!)

The band are worried that it doesn't look empty.

10,000 is still a pretty good crowd, I think. Erm, but...

'..by Depeche Mode.

'Also on the bill, OMD and other bands...'

CONVERSATION DROWNS SPEECH

'..over the next few weeks.'

CHEERING

'Right now, we have, riding into the Rose Bowl

'in a beautiful convertible classic car

'Is that a Cadillac?

'Yeah. A beautiful Cadillac.

'Driven by David Gahan himself, we have Depeche Mode...

'I'll just describe that. They are all wearing black leather.

'They're going to come over to the microphone right now.

'Depeche Mode!'

CHEERING

Alan has a specially-prepared speech for us.

I do, yes.

Good morning. We wanted to say good morning

to all our fans listening and watching this morning.

We'd like to announce a special final concert to our world tour

on Saturday June 18th, we'll be playing a concert for the masses

here at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena.

Ni hao. Ni hao.

Ni hao, China. This is Martin Gore from Depeche Mode.

I hope you like listening to our music.

-Is that all right?

-Yeah, that was fine. Maybe one more.

Yeah, that was perfect.

That's fine. Nice and simple.

At the beginning of the concert, the crowd's going wild.

What's going through your mind at that point?

Erm...

There you go! Woah!

How about all together?

ALL TALK AT ONCE

LAUGHTER

Hi. This is Teresa. I work for Depeche Mode.

It's going fantastic.

Sold out Houston.

20,000 people.

We've sold out Dallas as well.

I'm calling you regards to if there's any possibility -

I know it's very late in the game -

of setting up some kind of giveaways or something like that

just to pump up the show a bit.

-We're running late today.

-All right?

-Yeah.

OK. If you want to start the tape, give us a shout

as soon as it's rolling. OK. The tape's started.

Thank you very much.

15 seconds to go...

before the job.

15 seconds to go.

Ten, nine, eight, seven,

six, five... Come on then!

CHEERING

927 WDRE, New York's New Music. Good evening, I'm Malibu Sue

Depeche Mode are making a movie and they'd like some of their fans

to appear with them.

You must be 18 or older and be available to be on location

June 10th - 18th. Just appear at Malibu, this Sunday, 7pm,

dressed for the movies. Good luck.

From New York's New Music, 927 WDRE.

# Well, if you ever plan to motor west

# Travel my way

# Take the highway, that's the best

# Get your kicks on Route 66

# It winds from Chicago to LA

# More than 2,000 miles all the way

# Get your kicks on Route 66

INDISTINCT

Rrrrrr! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Nice legs, darling! Yeah!

Thank you.

We've got some legal things to deal with.

There are lawyers in this business that I have to appease.

Do you have any questions? Please let me know.

INDISTINCT

That's it. I don't know what it means!

Does it have the listing of how old you have to be in different states?

You've got to have ID for 21.

SHE LAUGHS

-23.

-And how old are you?

-19!

-How old are you?

-19.

You change the nine to a five on the licence, it's a lot easier.

Maybe I should do that!

It looks pretty good. In the dark, it's really good.

That's the one I have.

It's very dark.

-How do you guys feel?

-Great.

-Great.

-Great.

-You're excited that you're off for two weeks?

-ALL: Yeah.

-Did you bring lots of underwear?

-ALL: Yeah!

Oh, my God!

-Bye, Ma.

-Bye, honey.

Be careful!

Don't dance too much!

Nashville. What's in Nashville?

We can go to the Atomic Museum in Albuquerque.

Or we could just tail it to Phoenix.

Here we come!

Are you shitting me?! 15-year-olds across the country? Oh no!

# You'll see Amarillo

# Gallup, New Mexico

# Blackstaff, Arizona

# Don't forget Winona

# Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino

# You

# Get hip to this kind of tip

# And you take that California trip

# Get your kicks on Route 66... #

WDRE for the weekend. For the holiday weekend

they're doing the top 200 songs.

By request, I think.

So it's the top 200. Depeche Mode had more songs in the top 200

than any other bands.

What is this weekend about?

It's to remember the people who were killed in the war, isn't it?

-Which war?

-Any war.

People who have...

I hope it's not to celebrate the War of Independence.

-Come on!

-All the wars.

See where that grey car is? Right there.

-While you jump out, I'm gonna turn around.

-OK.

Save a couple of seconds.

These are my friends.

Baby, come on! Say hello to the video camera.

HE LAUGHS

-These are my friends.

-God, I'm gonna kill you!

I'll return all of these, I promise.

Thank you. Bye. Mwah!

-OK. The bus is outside.

-Really?

HORN BLARES

How do I get there from here?

INDISTINCT

HE LAUGHS

Beltway? Beltparkway from here?

INDISTINCT

-Take a right here.

-Take a right here.

The tiniest streets I've ever seen.

Holy shit! You've got to shrink the bus to make the corner.

Yeah! We made that. All right.

It's a war zone around here.

Just look at that car in the corner.

Fix that one!

You've gotta be shitting me!

Hey, Ma. I parked your car round the corner last night.

# Late at night I parked my car

# Stick my face in the singles' bar

# Face to face toe to toe

# Heart to heart as we hit the floor

-SINGING ALONG:

-# Lumber up, limbo down

# The locked embrace the stumble around

# I say go, she say yes

# I dim the lights you can guess the rest... #

CHEERING

I'm lost. They detoured me off the highway.

# ..is here to stay

# Oliver's army are on their way

# And I would rather be anywhere else

# Than here today... #

UPBEAT MUSIC ON TV PLAYS

# Come on, yeah

# Master and servant

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

# Like life

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

# Master and servant

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

-# It's a lot

-It's a lot

-# It's a lot

-Like life

# It's a lot like life

# And that's what's appealing

# If you despise that throwaway feeling

# From disposable fun

# Then this is the one

# Let's play master and servant

# Come on, master and servant

# Let's play master and servant

# Come on

# Master and servant

# Let's play master and servant

# Come on, master and servant

# Masters

# Masters

# Masters

# Masters

# Masters

# Masters

# Masters

# Masters

# Master and servant. #

Thank you!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

Good night, everybody. Thank you!

Who's in here?

We're stopping in a truck stop in five minutes.

-Are we?

-Yeah. We're gonna stop in a truck stop and hang out.

Let's see what we can...

Let's see what people can meet in this godforsaken country of ours!

I saw this in a Twilight Zone movie.

There she is. There's the girl that cooks hamburgers.

And she makes everybody drive backwards. She runs the country.

Come on. Come on.

Smile, motherfucker! Smile!

Sounds good to me.

BOTTLE SHATTERS

Get cans.

HE LAUGHS

-You fucked up!

-Oh, shit!

Washington Street.

OK.

SYNTHESISER MUSIC PLAYS

-You want some history now?

-Yes.

Well, er, it's a long story.

The reason we don't have a drummer

is because in the early days, it was...

Well, they couldn't find a drummer. I wasn't in the band.

They couldn't find a drummer.

The only way that they could rehearse quietly

in somebody's house at a very cheap cost

was to use keyboards with headphones.

We used to use a four-track tape recorder.

We used to sit it in the middle of the stage like a drummer.

We didn't want people thinking we were trying to hide the fact.

For now, the tape machine has moved to the side of the stage.

It's basically the same way we first started.

The keyboard has a total of 36 different banks.

Each song has its own set of sounds.

On Black Celebration I've got several sounds

allocated to specific parts of the keyboard.

The first sound is...

DESCENDING BASS EFFECT PLAYS

The next sound I have to play is further up on the keyboard...

JANGLY ECHO EFFECT PLAYS

..which is just that.

So then I can put the two together

HE PLAYS TWO KEYBOARD EFFECTS

Later on, I have to play a melodic harp.

MELODIC HARP EFFECT PLAYS

And so on. You're only limited by what you can manage with your hands.

-As far as the sound goes...

-You've got to remember where you put them.

That comes after a while. It gets to be automatic.

-Your hands just go there.

-Do you ever forget?

-Of course.

These are linked to this keyboard.

All you have to do is imagine that these two pads here

are extra keys on the keyboard.

When I hit that pad, it's the same process

as if I was playing a key on the keyboard.

CLANGING INDUSTRIAL EFFECT

He said if I let my hair go black, he wouldn't go out with me any more.

-Not true.

-Yes, true!

-If you let it...

-If I let it go back. to a different colour,

he wouldn't go out with me any more.

Now, my hair's falling out cos I bleach it all the time

just to make him happy.

HAIRDRYER WHIRS

Hello? So you're gonna have a bald wife.

He'll love me bald.

Always.

SHE LAUGHS

Are you going to get married?

-I hope not.

-We're gonna have ten kids.

-Whether she likes it or not.

-Very funny!

They're going to grow up totally normal.

Doesn't it look neat? It's short on this side and then it goes whoo!

She looks pretty. That looks nice.

Thank you.

It's... It's there.

Do you want any more?

-Darling, I love you.

-Let's go now. Forget it.

Yes, darling, dearest, love of my life!

I hate him. I really do.

Things You Said first.

Let's do it then.

# Heard it from my friends about the things you said

# I heard it from my friends about the things you said

# They know me better than that

# They know me better than that

# They know my weaknesses

# They know my weaknesses

# I heard it from my friends about the things you said

# I heard it from my friends about the things you said

# How can a view become so twisted

# How can a view become so twisted

# They know my weaknesses

# They know my weaknesses

# I get so carried away

# You brought me down to earth

# I thought we had something precious

# Now I know what it's worth

# I heard it from my friends about the things you said

# I heard it from my friends about the things you said

# Never felt so disappointed

# Never felt so disappointed

# Didn't know my weaknesses

# Didn't know my weaknesses

# They know me better than that

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

No major fuck-ups. Yet.

Come on then, lads.

CHEERING

# Girl of 16

# All life ahead of her

# Slashed her wrist

# Bored with life

# Didn't succeed

# Thank the Lord

# For small mercies... #

CHEERING

# Fighting back the tears

# Mother reads the note again

# 16 candles burn in her mind

# She takes the blame it's always the same

# She goes down on her knees and prays

# I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours

# But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour

# And when I die I expect to find him laughing

# I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours

# But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour

# And when I die I expect to find him laughing... #

SHE SCREAMS

# Girl of 16

# Fell in love with everything

# Found new life in Jesus Christ

# Hit by a car

# Ended up

# On a life support machine... #

SHE SCREAMS

# Summer's day

# As she passed away

# Birds were singing

# In the summer sky

# Then came the rain

# And once again

# A tear fell from mother's eye

# I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours

# But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour

# And when I die I expect to find him laughing

# I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours

# But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour

# And when I die I expect to find him laughing

# I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours

# But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour

# And when I die I expect to find him laughing

# I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours

# But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour

# And when I die I expect to find him laughing... #

Yeah!

CHEERING

So this is the rock'n'roll bus, eh?

Yeah.

-Come on in.

-Bring your own underwear.

It's a heavy metal bus

This is where we hang out.

This looks like fun.

-Two to a bed.

-Double beds? We don't get double beds on our buses.

You got gipped.

OK. This here...

Hey, there's some chick in here.

SHE LAUGHS

-This is a bit intimate, isn't it?

-Er... No!

It seems I've interrupted something here.

I think I better clear the curtain.

What's going on?

This is my 13th beer.

13 and I'm still walking.

13 beers. That's pretty good, don't you think?

The bus is going like this and there's a horrible smell.

There was a smell?

I've never thrown up like that before.

Never!

Don't look at me like that!

Jay was over here. He was over here, too. Oh, Jay was over here, too.

Much exaggeration on this.

Where are we going today, do you know?

-Oh, Graceland, probably, right?

-Oh, that's right.

-What's Graceland?

-What?

-What's Graceland?

-What's Graceland?

-Yeah.

-Graceland is where Elvis lived.

-Oh, really?

-(Boring!)

-Elvis.

-What did you say?

-I said boring.

-Boring?

I said Elvis, I said boring.

Hello there. How's everything?

I'd like to express my great thanks to you for peeing all over the toilet seat.

-Really, thank you.

-You know why I did that?

-Really, though, thank you. Very much.

-We can't explain that on camera either.

-I can explain that.

-He was standing five feet away in order to go to the bathroom.

-Why?

-Challenge.

-It was a challenge. Yeah.

-Did you meet the challenge, Oliver?

-Not really.

-Not really.

-I sort of missed. I bent it and it was like...

-You bend it.

-It didn't bend a lot.

"Billy Bob was here!"

Really, look at this! Billy Bob!

It's in French! You know French! I know how to say I'm bored in French.

Can you read that?

-Wow!

-I arrived on... I arrived from Quebec.

-Non-stop...

..on American Airlines.

On American Airlines, it was a bumpy flight and I'm sorry I came because this place sucks.

-Pretty mean to write in French.

-Terrible!

We're in detention, would I pay 12 bucks to see that house more than I'd pay 12 to see this house?

-I would.

-INAUDIBLE QUESTION

-No, I have no idea.

I know they live in east London, right? That's about it. That's all I know.

-No idea.

-When they die, we'll get to see!

OK, wait a minute. OK, ready?

Figured I'd look it up in the French dictionary

and Depeche Mode means "We play butt naked."

LAUGHTER

-No clothes on.

-What sort of dictionary are you looking at?

That sounds good, though, we'll have that one.

Depeche Mode. No, somebody called the other day and said Depeche Mode means "fast fashion".

-Is that right?

-Yeah. That's us.

-That's us!

Do you mind taking some calls and see what's on everybody's mind here?

-Let's start on our toll-free number here. Hello, go ahead. Hello!

-Yes.

-Go ahead.

-'Do you like to sweat onstage?'

Do you like to sweat onstage? There's a question.

Last night, Dave reckons, was the hottest concert we've ever played.

It was open air.

-But I still didn't get a bead of sweat.

-Didn't you?

I don't move, it's all right for us. We're keyboard players, we don't move!

-He's had implants.

-'Can I ask another question?'

-Yeah, go ahead, real quick.

-'I will sing for tickets.'

-You'll sing what?

-'I will sing People Are People.'

-Get out!

-You've got to sing a harder song than that!

-'Can I sing?'

-Go ahead.

-'I can sing?'

-Yeah, go ahead.

-# People are people so why does it seem... #

-What?

# ..You and I can get along so awfully? #

Not bad, not bad. You got three of the words right!

LAUGHTER

So we're on the right phone? OK. OK, don't go away this time, Mark.

OK, one more time, here's Andy.

Mark? Hi. Very good. I finally can contact you.

What? The Alternative Dance Party From Hell.

Right. I'll have to get this.

Hi, this is Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode

and you're listening to Mark Hill on The Alternative Dance Party From Hell.

Not much, really. I'm just...

My job is to keep everyone together, really.

Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist.

And I bum around.

DJs.

We're not big fans of DJs, generally, like radio DJs and things.

But I shouldn't really say that, you know.

I'm supposed to be doing promotion here!

No, but, it's not...

There's definitely certain areas where we suffer through lack of radio support.

We've just been to places like Nashville, for instance.

Most places in the country, we were playing to 10-15,000 people.

In Nashville, we get about 2,000 people along.

Which we were pleased with in the end because ticket sales weren't very good until the last day.

And in that area, it seems that nobody at all is playing our music.

I mean, because of their background, it doesn't surprise us that much, but...

I think we know there is an audience there.

It seems that wherever we get radio play, we immediately do well.

That's nice sounding, that.

That one's 450, but it's not as nice sounding.

HE PLAYS BLUES RIFF

They're early, though, aren't they?

A couple of Roy Orbison ones.

-Roy Orbison.

-Roy Orbison? Where's Roy Orbison?

-20 Early Classics.

-I do want Roy Orbison.

-20 Early Classics.

You like country music?

A little bit. I'm finally getting into it so I thought I might come and buy some today.

Do you like bluegrass? Which one do you like better?

-Don't know enough about it.

-Don't know much about it?

-I'm just getting into it.

-I'm just going to give you a good old country sticker here.

This is our card.

When you get back home, if you'd like to order through the mail from us, write to us.

All right, thank you.

-Good crowd later.

-Wow. We'll see tonight.

-Yeah.

-I don't think so.

-It'll be a good crowd.

Standby, open one.

..for the evening. Standby.

Spots and open mic.

And go.

# People are people so why should it be

# You and I should get along so awfully... #

Standby, everybody, for blackout.

# People are people so why should it be

# You and I should get along so awfully... #

Out!

# Help me understand

# Help me understand... #

Standby, all spots, and open wide.

Standby. And go.

# Now you're punching and you're kicking and you're shouting at me

# I'm relying on your common decency

# So far it hasn't surfaced but I'm sure it exists

# It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fists

# I can't understand what makes a man... #

Standby to blackout. Out. Standby to come back. And go.

# People are people so why should it be

# You and I should get along so awfully?

# People are people so why should it be

# You and I should get along so awfully... #

Standby to come back and open wide. And go.

# I can't understand what makes a man

# Hate another man, help me understand

# I can't understand what makes a man

# Hate another man, help me understand

-# People are people

-What makes a man

# Why should it be?

# Hate another man, help me understand

-# People are people

-What makes a man

# Why should it be?

# Hate another man, help me understand

-# People are people

-What makes a man

# Why should it be?

# Hate another man, help me understand. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Thank you!

-Standby to blackout. Out!

Would the band have a collective identity where it could be...

-Like Depeche Mode talking as opposed to...

-An individual?

-Yeah.

-Umm...

-Well, you know, we're all very individual, actually.

-Right.

When was the last time you had a fistfight?

Let's say I asked you that.

I haven't actually been... Oh, I don't know.

-Andre will probably tell you that.

-In Austria with that cabbie!

Oh, yeah, cab driver, yeah. Yeah.

-That was a real intense situation as well.

-It was he and you?

-Just the two of you?

-Yeah.

I assume he...

I was actually beating him up in the car when he was driving. Yeah.

Really? You couldn't have won, could you?

No, it was actually... I can't even remember why it happened.

Oh, I know why! Because he was... This guy was just crazy.

He was driving at about 90mph, screeching around every corner.

He peeled out when we sort of first drove away from the club,

he ran through red lights and we were like...

And then I just started saying to him, "Slow down, what's going..." You know.

He was really weird.

He just sort of said things like, "Look, I'm driving the car."

And he was a cabbie! He was supposed to be, like, driving us around.

So I just started, you know, beating him and stuff, yeah.

And I ended up actually hanging on to the door like this

when he was still sitting in the car.

I opened the door and I was kicking him like this.

Hanging on the car and kicking him!

And then afterwards... And then the guy got out of the car.

And he was like this big. At least, right?

And he was like this. And I went, "Oh."

And then he just... His trousers fell down!

He started getting really... He was so big and fat and his trousers fell down,

he didn't have a belt on.

And then he couldn't run or anything, he couldn't do anything.

So Andre just pushed him over he just fell over.

It does get to the point sometimes where you feel you could actually kill someone.

I mean, I don't think you would...

I certainly wouldn't do it, I don't think, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, actually.

But there's certainly been times within the band,

when we've been arguing, that I've felt possibly I could kill someone.

-What, the tech?

-Yeah, possibly. You know.

But then afterwards,

you calm down and you've let all that energy out it's OK.

It's letting off some of that built-up energy and tension that you just...

It's not even enough for you to let out on stage.

Even when you're doing that, that's not enough. You've still got more.

And that's sometimes like a release.

And that was definitely a release, you know.

I'd been looking for a fight for a good few days.

Turn it down, turn it down, please.

Up yours!

HE TURNS VOLUME DOWN

Don't ever talk to a member of the band like that again, Harold, otherwise you're finished.

I thought we'd just get a few things...

If he ever talks to me like that again, he's through.

He may have worked for us for five years, but he's history!

# Bridge O-o-o-o-over...

-# Trou-ou-ou-ou-oubled water.

-#

ALL CROONING

One of Elv's crooning ones when he got to Vegas.

MORE CROONING

-You missed it. Starting the tape.

-This is one of the changes.

-Oh!

-You missed starting the tape.

-Oh, right, we're coming out to do it.

OK, stop the tape.

We'll have to start it all again, the guys weren't ready, OK? Put the lights back on.

-OK, then, let's go. Come on. Here we go.

-I'm nervous now.

-Excuse me.

Excuse me, show time.

We've got another hour for the bus so we thought we'd kill some time.

-In the women's bathroom?

-In the women's bathroom.

-I called Vivian.

-Who's Vivian?

-The tramp. The girl that was in bed.

-On camera.

-On camera.

-The one you said goodbye to who was in bed with your boyfriend.

-Right.

-Right!

-That's her.

-That's her.

-You called her?

-Yeah, we got the guy's name, too.

-Edward.

-Edward.

-But you knew he was Edward.

-No, he didn't.

I'd just met him!

-Oh, you mean just that very moment?

-Hi!

Oh, my God. I knew it would be a crazy trip. I've got terrible karma.

All right, it's time.

-Is it coming out?

-Yeah.

-Right, turn your head, now.

-OK.

-To the side. To the side.

-Wait, I can't see.

That looks cool!

-That looks cool.

-Still dark at the top.

HE SCREAMS

ALL: This means nothing. This will get you nowhere.

This is not a backstage pass.

However, I hope you enjoy wearing it.

An optional comment is, it looks lovely with your outfit tonight.

So, next pass. Pink. Thank you, JD. It's a pink pass, it's triangular.

ALL: This means nothing.

LAUGHTER

No! This means SOMETHING.

-All right, now we're used to it.

-I can't do this.

-Nice, Fletch!

Unusual.

Exactly.

INDISTINCT CHAT

It's from a good shop, this is.

Decent crowd out there.

-OK.

-All that make-up...

# London Bridge is falling down

# Falling down. Falling down. #

-Toilet? Anyone got to go toilet?

-I've just been.

-Wee-wees.

I might have to go after the show. Afterwards.

I think I'll play the pinball. I always do that before a gig.

OK, we've got ten seconds to go.

-Counting down.

-OK, come on, then, boys.

Let's go! Come on, let's go! Fletch.

MUSIC: "Pimpf" by Depeche Mode

-Couldn't hit any high notes at all.

-It sure is loud out on that stage.

It's probably just the two dates.

I had real problems with the sound at first, it was so hard, my vocal was so hard.

I think when it's like that, you tend to, I don't know why,

you sing out more because there's no actual beef.

If it's loud, you can't hear because it's so...

-I didn't realise how loud it was on the stage.

-Yeah.

It was really loud tonight, yeah. Yeah, onstage.

But also we had a couple of days off, you know, I'm feeling really tired at the moment,

so that's probably a lot to do with it as well.

But it's nowhere near as bad as what it was in San Francisco. I couldn't even speak then.

But tonight I have to do my steroids and stuff, puffer,

I'm going to do that tonight again.

The stuff that the doctor gave me in San Francisco. It's like a puffer.

You know like what somebody who has asthma attacks uses? It's steroids.

-So it straight away hits your vocal chords and...

-Peps them up?

-Peps them up, yeah.

CHEERING

MUSIC: "Stripped" by Depeche Mode

# Come with me into the trees

# We'll lay on the grass and let the hours pass

# Take my hand Come back to the land

# Let's get away Just for one day

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone... #

# Metropolis has nothing on this

# You're breathing in fumes I taste when we kiss

# Take my hand Come back to the land

# Where everything's ours for a few hours

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Yeah!

# Let me hear you make decisions

# Without your television

# Let me hear you speaking just for me

# Yeah, yeah

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me hear you speaking just for me

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

# Let me hear you crying just for me

# Let me see you stripped down to the bone

-# Let me hear you crying just for me. #

-Go!

-You miss your family.

-You can get drunk.

Yeah, you get drunk.

You stay away from home, you...lose a lot of friends

because you don't see your friends.

I've got maybe two friends in the world, real friends.

But there is a bonus, though you make a lot of money.

A lot more money than when I used to work in a supermarket.

-That was more fun though.

-It was more fun in the supermarket?

-Yeah.

A lot less pressure as well.

It doesn't make a difference, you make more money,

but the pressure gets big as well.

So at the end of the day they're the same.

At the end of the day, I was stacking shelves, but I was very happy.

He's ready. You get me?

# Do-do-do-do, I'm walking

# See how I'm talking

# Oh, feel the need

# Feel the need in me. #

-Have you ever heard of Grand Central Station?

-Never heard of that.

Has Mr Banger arrived yet?

ON RADIO: 'I've had no indication, but we're all ready here,

'we'll stand by waiting for the little signal.'

HE MIMICS KNOCKING

Pretty good these fingers.

-What the hell is art to you?

-What is art?

-Art is a feeling, it's gut feeling.

-Yeah!

Well, fashion illustration is a gut feeling too.

What you get when you draw a woman's body and you add colour and shape.

-I can understand drawing a woman's body.

-Or a man's body.

Putting trendy clothes on her is not my idea of...

-But you don't necessarily have to do trendy things.

-No?

-No.

I don't consider that art.

You don't consider the human body art?

No, the body, yes, absolutely,

the exaggeration of form is definitely art.

But the fashion end of it is a different story altogether.

-That's the whole point of it.

-What's fashion to what...?

So it's a trend, it's people trying to look like something

they're not, they're just like. I mean...

-No, no!

-It's an art, in a way it is.

-It's an art form.

Let me see you draw an outfit, OK.

Design an outfit, cut it and sew it

and make it look just like the picture you drew.

That's not from within yourself, copying something.

You consider art something

that cannot be copied over and over again.

That's not true, look at Lichtenstein.

The way you're talking it sounds like something that's original.

When you design a jacket you have to make copies of it

so you can sell it.

Fashion design is an art form and a business.

When you like what you do, it's great.

But if you're not making money

how are you going to pay for everything,

-how will you get things in life?

-That's whoring yourself.

But I'm saying going within yourself and taking out something

that is so beautiful, like a rose, like dew on a rose in the morning.

That's something that you've got to capture. Excuse me?

-What if it's not beautiful?

-What's not beautiful?

What's inside yourself!

It doesn't matter, if you're expressing yourself, that's beauty within itself.

But it is within yourself cos you're using your creativity.

You're using it to make money, money's not important.

-What are you going to live on? Love?

-It can't make you happy.

You can live on love, there's no doubt about it.

You're going to be a bum!

No, you're not going to be a bum, you just marry rich!

You just went against everything you just said!

I didn't, that has nothing to do with art, marrying a rich girl.

That's just a pleasant thing, you have to live somehow!

I don't want to become something like really trendy

disgusting, Seventh Avenue, you know, nothing like that.

-I don't wear anything fashionable.

-What you wearing now, then?

What am I wearing? I been wearing cut-off jeans all my life.

-Yohji Yamamoto?

-Yohji Yamamoto.

-Very good.

-Those are fake names first of all.

-What's fake?

They're pseudonyms, they have to hide themselves,

they have to hide their own...

He doesn't know about fashion, you can tell, right?

MUSIC: "Black Celebration" by Depeche Mode

# Let's have a black celebration

# Black celebration

# Tonight

# To celebrate the fact

# That we've seen the black

# Of another black day

# Ohh!

# I look to you

# How you carry on

# When all hope is gone

# Can't you see?

# Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise

# To someone like

# Me

# I want to take you in my arms

# Forgetting all I couldn't do today

# Black celebration. #

Sing it loud!

# Black celebration

# Tonight

# To celebrate the fact

# That we've seen the black

# Of another black day

# Ohh!

# Take me in your arms

# Forgetting all you couldn't do today

# Black celebration. #

Sing out loud!

# Black celebration... #

We've got our Lone Star beer.

We're all set for the next 15 minutes.

# ..Black celebration... #

I'll have an Elvis shot glass.

Could you pass me the Elvis one?

Like a surgical blunder.

Urgh!

-Cheers.

-Mama.

That's looking... Get a shot on the white sneakers.

-Is that like the newest trend here?

-This is New York. And Metallica stars.

Put your shoes together, this is a great picture.

-I like your shorts, dude, they're bad.

-I like your shirt too, man.

I like the hat too.

I like drinking, I like Albuquerque and New Mexico.

-Oh yes.

-Just like Texas.

-Hey, what's that pretty lady's name back there, she's nice.

-I like her.

-She's cute.

-That's Mia.

-Mia?

You look spunky, I like that.

She's nice. I've been noticing her all the time she's been here.

-My name's John.

-I like them boots.

I like them.. Yeah, I like them boots.

-Boots that are made for walking.

-I like them legs too.

-This is Mia, she's a very beautiful woman.

-Yes, she is.

And respect her for that and introduce yourselves.

-My name's Larry.

-Nice to meet you.

-My name's John.

-Nice meeting you.

-Come on, a little snap.

-Can we get her over here too?

Jay, you want to stand around. You, yo!

-Albuquerque is known for heavy metal.

-Oh, what do they know?

They probably only hang out at heavy metal clubs.

They're driving a Chevrolet, what do they know?

I just don't like the music.

The people are sometimes OK, but the music's...really bad.

Guns 'n' Posers!

Even they were laughing and they were going to see them!

Guns 'n' Posers.

He's drunk, what do you want?

He's always drunk, always drunk. That's all they ever are.

-This is the Pasadena Depeche Mode drunk tour.

-Yeah.

Ooh!

Ooh-ooh-ooh, come on!

What is this junk on my face now? What is that?

It's Noxzema, retard, it's good for your skin.

I don't want any Noxzema.

-What happened, where was he?

-Where was who?

-Chris.

-Where was he?

-We didn't find him.

-All right.

We've got to go back to the hotel and check.

He was drinking Tequila.

They chopped up the worm, they split the worm and they ate the worm.

They drank a lot of beer. Him and Andre. A lot of beer.

She doesn't care, she's got Andre,

he'll kick anybody's ass before they get within ten feet of her.

I've got Oliver, I have to protect him!

KNOCKING

-Is this his room?

-Yes.

No, I don't, er... He hasn't been back in here.

He was going down to the town.

Chris!

-What's up, guys?

-You had us all worried.

I didn't mean to worry you, but I'm just going to go hang out,

man, I'm going to go hang out.

-Where? With who?

-I really wouldn't advise it.

This place is so weird and I want to go hang out.

Just get something to eat and you'll absorb the alcohol.

-Just come with us to eat.

-Where did you go to?

CHEERING

MUSIC: "Nothing" by Depeche Mode

# Sitting target

# Sitting waiting

# Anticipating

# Nothing

# Nothing

# Life is full of surprises

# It advertises

# Nothing

# Nothing

# What am I trying to do What am I trying to say?

# I'm not trying to tell you anything you didn't know

# When you woke up today, yeah

# Ohh!

# Ohh!

# Sitting target

# Sitting pretty

# God is saying

# Nothing

# Nothing

# Always

# Knows the prospects

# Learn to expect

# Nothing

# Nothing

# What am I trying to do What am I trying to say?

# I'm not trying to tell you anything you didn't know

# When you woke up today, yeah

# Come on!

# You!

# Yo!

# Hey!

# Whoa!

# Nothing

# Oh no, nothing, oh no

# Nothing, oh no

# Nothing, oh no. #

CHEERING

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

HE CONTINUES SHOUTING

Ah. Oh shit! Ow, ow, ow!

Ah.

-Just do me one favour, please.

-Whee!

You're tired, aren't you? And ratty.

Do you think high heels or flats?

-And should I wear a hat or not?

-A hat or not?

-Yes.

Cos my hair is just like so "dude", you know?

Well?

-Mom! Stop looking at me like that.

-I'm looking at Christopher.

-Too bad I'm not Christopher.

-I mean, I'm sorry, Oliver.

No, the reason I say hat is because it makes the ends break off

the more she does it.

Oh, so you're standing behind my back

telling her what to say, aren't you? Little ...

Don't wear the hat cos you look ridiculous,

it will be too much,

it will be too overpowering for the outfit.

I'd personally do something with your hair, that's fine.

-I don't believe I'm wearing this, I really don't.

-It's really cool.

-Look at the shoes.

-They match the shorts.

They do match but I can't believe I'm wearing it.

-If my mom sees this, I'm in trouble!

-Your mom, what about my mom!

-If my mom sees it, I'll be in trouble, too.

-Why, because I'm wearing the shoes?

No, because she lent them to me!

-Congratulations, you have done it!

-I think we've all done it.

Ready for the concert?

Whoa, check out Tamsin!

-ALL: Whoo!

-Hot mama!

-Maybe you can do it?

-All right.

There.

-All right, thanks.

-Rocking.

-Brilliant!

As you can see, I'm not looking my best at the moment.

Something due to the fact that we've been on tour for nine months.

I'm usually...

You're going to see my routine that I've gone through now 100 times on this tour.

Who was it?

Alan Plankerton.

Bit tense tonight. A lot of problems on stage. All the keyboards... We're working with no back-up.

Usually we have back-up and now there's nothing

because the main ones, the main ones have gone out with the heat.

If anything else fails we can tell the audience to be quiet and get the two acoustics out, right?!

And someone is stuck with nothing to play,

-you've just got to whip one out.

-All right.

Get out of here. Get out of here, move back, right now!

Where are we?

Lost.

THEY LAUGH

We'll get there for the last song.

-We're going to die, we are!

-In Arizona!

-Watch that pedestrian, Dave!

-Ooh, that was close!

'We've solved another one of the problems.'

OK. OK!

Did it work?

-We're going to do it.

-Right-on, Daz.

-Rock and roll!

-OK, start the tape.

SCREAMING AND CHEERING

Whoa!

-Hold on to your...

-Whatevers!

Oh, my God! We're really lost.

Dave is really playing a good joke.

MUSIC: "Shake The Disease" by Depeche Mode

# I'm not going down on my knees

# Begging you to adore me

# Can't you see it's misery

# And torture for me

# When I'm misunderstood

# Try as hard as you can I've tried as hard as I could

# To make you see How important it is for me

-BAND:

-# Here is a plea From my heart to you

# Nobody knows me As well as you do

# You know how hard it is for me To shake the disease

# That takes hold of my tongue In situations like these... #

Let's go!

CHEERING

# Understand me

# Understand me

# Understand me

# Understand me... #

-I don't think we're in Kansas any more!

-Oh, my God, look at that!

Keep off the road!

LAUGHTER

Depeche Mode, the game!

# ..Lovers devoted To each other for ever

# Now I've got things to do

# And I've said before that I know you have too

# When I'm not there

# In spirit I'll be there

# Here is a plea From my heart to you

# Nobody knows me as well as you do

# You know how hard it is for me

# To shake the disease

# That takes hold of my tongue

# In situations like these

# Here is a plea From my heart to you

# Nobody knows me As well as you do

# You know how hard it is for me To shake the disease

# That takes hold of my tongue In situations like these. #

Again!

CHEERING

I'm glad we caught the last half of the show.

-I'm glad we caught the encore!

-I think this is the encore!

MUSIC: "A Question Of Time" by Depeche Mode # It's just a question of time

# And it's running after you

# It won't be long until you'll do

# Exactly what they want you to... #

Yeah! CHEERING

-That's the desert.

-That is. Wow.

There's green stuff, though. Is the... What desert is this?

-Sahara.

-Sahara?

Get rid of the earring, you'll be all right.

Who wants to hear a joke?

LAUGHTER

No, I've seen it!

-What are you eating?

-What is that?

-That's shit on the shingles.

-Was your dad ever in the service?

-My dad was a marine.

Ask your dad about shit on the shingles.

-And your dad let you go like that?

-Oh, my gosh!

-Do you make any money?

-We're making so much money.

-I like his hair. I really do.

-What do y'all sing, punk?

-No, punk is like out.

-Sing something.

-Come on. They won't care here. Come on.

Route 66?

Route 66? All right, I'm down with that.

# Well, if you plan to motor west... #

-Come on!

-He's a keyboard player.

MUSIC: "Route 66" by Depeche Mode

# Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino

# If you get hip to this kind of tip

# Then go take that California trip

# Get your kicks on route 66

# Get your kicks on route 66

# Get your kicks... #

Hello, LA! God!

MUSIC: "Behind The Wheel" by Depeche Mode

# All your girls

# There are times when I feel

# I'd rather not be

# The one behind the wheel

# Come

# Pull my strings

# Watch me move

# I'd do anything

# Please... # ECHOES

Get off the stage and let them play with those two mics.

And then come back, I'm afraid.

Well, that sucks.

It sucks, but let's get to it. And get it right, yeah?

We're supposed to reduce our sound check by an hour.

After everything else, we've had nothing but grief

in this whole place with the roof and everything has been late.

Everything that we've tried to do has been late. We've had problems with everything.

We've had keyboards blowing up, the lot.

And now as the final straw, we've been told we've got to finish everything an hour early.

It's a great problem and we're doing everything that we can.

We will limit our sound check, do everything that's within our grasp to finish it

and keep the noise to a minimum, but that's all I can do at the moment, I'm afraid. Hello.

You're doing fine!

SCREAMING AND CHEERING

-Two black or white?

-I'd like two white shirts.

-These? 23 each, OK?

-How much?

-23.

-OK, 26.

-Thank you.

-Can help you?

-Just two posters.

-Two posters? 20.

Thank you.

OK, who's next?

Ironic, isn't it?

Tell me this, what made you decide to do this?

I mean, when I first heard it, I mean,

a lot of people I'm sure went, "God that is a real risk for this band,

"I mean, can they draw 70,000 people?"

You go through phases of like, being really, really tired and really

fed up and wanting to go home and then you feel good for a month or so.

You're up and down, but we're feeling good at the moment,

even though it's the end and also a bit sad, you know.

Usually with people we like we can work with them closely.

And without being dictated to by a higher, you know, officials. So...

-You've got to have a seat.

-I do have a seat.

You've got to go before the show starts. OK.

-Hello, Pasadena.

-No, I don't think I should say Pasadena.

I've been thinking about this. It's been playing on my mind.

-I think I should say...

-Dave, I wouldn't let it play on your mind!

I think I should say, "Good evening, everybody."

No, that sounds terrible, everybody.

-Hello.

-Try it Newark, New Jersey, see what that.

-Hello, people.

Why not say, good evening, welcome to a concert for the masses.

Who do you think I am, fucking Wordsworth?

I'll write it down for you. What was it again?

Concert, everyone, you evening masses.

Good evening, concert, masses, everybody, people, Pasadena!

-Fucked that right up, didn't I?

-Write it on your shirt. I'll get Darren.

Get Paul down there. Get Paul.

We'll put on the back of Andre's shirt, OK, so he can come on

-and do it like that, you can have it, good evening, everybody.

-Hello!

TALK OVER EACH OTHER

And what shall I say? I'm serious.

-What do you think I should say?

-Pasadena. That's where we are.

-Or Rose Bowl.

-Rose Bowl.

-That's where it is. It's at the Rose Bowl.

-Good evening, Rose Bowl.

He wants to hear the band play!

I haven't even started counting.

I want to tell him the T-shirts sold out. In two seconds!

-This is ridiculous.

-85,000 and 75.

This is hysterical. Ridiculous.

Imagine how much money they raked in tonight. That's the question.

How much money they made. You figure 23 shirts and 28...

-No, 32 sweatshirts, something like that.

-32?

-And how much were the programmes?

-I don't know.

-5, 10 bucks or so?

Phew! I'd love to be their accountant.

1,000 for T-shirts.

Do you have any idea what that is? Does anyone know, besides me looking at the invoice?

-I have no idea.

-No.

I don't know. We should ask Jose. We can ask him what it's for.

-Add it to their wardrobe tonight. I don't know.

-Here it is.

-What is it?

1,000. Jose enterprises!

LAUGHTER

It's for 96 pass t-shirts, silver T-shirts.

-Who's wearing silver T-shirts?

-No idea. I didn't get one.

Let's ask, can we ask Jose Productions?

OK, can we start the tape, please?

SCREAMING AND CHEERING

-Oh, shit.

-I mean, I'm not sure about this at all.

I dunno, what do you think?

-Oh, let's go.

-Let's go back to the hotel.

I mean, they had a good time,

they've been played by Thomas Dolby. They won't mind.

-Here we go.

-Come on!

-Rock'n'roll.

-Darren.

-What?

Hang on, Mark, Mark, Mark.

CHEERING

CHEERING

BANGS

MUSIC: "Behind The Wheel" by Depeche Mode

# My little girl

# Drive anywhere

# Do what you want

# I don't care

# Tonight

# I'm in the hands of fate

# I hand myself

# Over on a plate

# Now

# Oh, little girl

# There are times when I feel

# I'd rather not be

# The one behind the wheel

# Come

# Pull my strings

# Watch me move

# I'd do anything

# Please. #

CHEERING

Oh!

Yeah!

# Sweet little girl

# I'd prefer

# You behind the wheel

# And me the passenger

# Drive

# I'm yours to be

# Do what you want

# I'm going cheap

# Tonight, tonight

# You're behind the wheel, tonight

# You're behind the wheel, tonight

# You're behind the wheel, tonight

# You're behind the wheel, tonight

# You're behind the wheel tonight... #

Yeah!

# You're behind the wheel, tonight. #

Thank you!

CHEERING Yeah.

Thank you very much! APPLAUSE

Good evening, Pasadena!

We have not bitched about one thing!

You know that? We have not bitched on a thing.

Everything we give it costs him money!

-I want to put something in.

-Yeah.

-For field. OK?

I mean, because in the contract,

we're responsible for re-sodding the field if there are any damages to it.

I want to put something in.

-What do you want to put in for damage?

-I'd put in 5,000.

-Let's put half in.

-No, I think we need to have it in.

This is one of the few places where you really get hit with this.

Jonathan, let's remember one thing. This building was not our choice.

This was Wayne's and the band's choice.

-This was the band's choice cos they told Wayne...

-They wanted an event.

..they want to play where nobody's played and I said,

"Wayne, nobody's played the Rose Bowl since 1982

"when Peace Sunday was here for Steve Wonder and Jackson Brown."

You know?

-We have a lot more costs.

-It's the most expensive building in town.

-Buildings that we want to bill, the band said "We want to play there."

-Five grand for damage?!

Look at... Read that contract. We're responsible.

-I read it, I was just looking at it.

-Five grand.

CHEERING

MUSIC: "Strangelove" by Depeche Mode