How can you not love it here? The weather's always beautiful." I've been here to DJ on my own, which I do when I'm not playing with Depeche Mode. We were in Jerusalem, which is very interesting. "We played in Belfast during bombing there," says Fletch. While acts like Aerosmith had just cancelled a date in Myanmar over tensions there, Depeche had no intention of canceling in Israel again. Not even tension up on the northern border could cast a cloud over the thousands who flocked to the open-air field to take in Depeche's two-and-a-half hour open-air concert. The email address you have provided is already registered. "He went to rehab." The band reemerged from the maelstrom of the '90s on what Fletch terms "four year cycles of recording, promoting, touring and then family." "Dave wasn't capable of handling that," says Fletch. The band skipped touring their "Ultra" album, which itself took years to complete because of Gahan's drug problems. But in the end, and this is the good part, we've recovered from all that." "It had been building and building for years and it got out of control. "We had our really dark period during 'Songs of Faith and Devotion'," says Fletch. He suffered a small heart attack onstage in 1993, forcing his band mates to continue the show without him. And his hard-partying ways took their toll on his health. He also tried committing suicide, slashing his wrists in 1995. Besides battling cancer, Gahan is in recovery for heroin addiction, which led to a near-overdose in 1996. And even though the tracks on "Delta Machine" are evidence that the band hasn’t stopped penning tormented songs of love, lust, longing and loneliness, there was nothing black about this celebration. "Tonight's show is like part of the wedding party," says Fletch. And we couldn't force 70 people to do something they considered dangerous." So we thought, is this a sensible thing to do? In the end, it was our crew who voted against it. "But Hezbollah was firing all those rockets and we were to play in front of 50,000 people. "We, the band, didn't want to cancel," says Andrew "Fletch" Fletcher, Depeche co-founder and keyboardist. With both rage and poetry, singer John Grant journeys back to his youthĪfter postponing what would have been their first tour in Israel in 2006 due to the Second Lebanon War, the band made a point of kicking off each subsequent tour here.
Israelis to flock to Europe to catch the summer concert sweep Year after cancelled gig, Depeche Mode member makes it to Israel By the time Depeche Mode lead singer David Gahan, stripped down to his waist Tuesday night, sweat pouring down his tattooed torso, and crooned "Never Let Me Down" to 35,000 revelers in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park, the band had pretty much made good on that promise.Ī sharp electric sound for a diverse, loyal audience
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