Today is a pretty special day for the band and for all of us fans.. it’s a day we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Concert For The Masses at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. 25 years ago tonight the band took the stage to perform one of their most memorable shows and the fan excitement of the occasion just goes to show how much it means to all of us. In some ways, I guess it’s like the anniversary of Woodstock or some other legendary show. At least, I’d like to think so. I hope you’ll listen to 101 or pop in the DVD today to relive the moment of the night, the first time you saw the VHS, or just to enjoy an amazing era of Depeche. We want to wish the band and their crew (past & present) a very happy anniversary of this special show.

To commemorate the occasion, Daniel over at www.depechemode.com put together an amazing special for the bands archive that we highly recommend you check out. It was shared yesterday, but I wanted to wait until today to post it here to mark the occasion.

Archives Special – A Concert For The Masses (June 18th, 1988) from Depeche Mode on Vimeo.

Much to my surprise, I just stumbled upon an unexpected upload. The gallery ‘The Modern Institute’, which  is about to exhibit Jeremy Deller (one of the directors)’s work soon, has uploaded the full version of ‘Poster On The Walls’. Being originally intended as an extra feature on the ‘The Best Of Vol. 1′ DVD, Mute didn’t approve the result but nevertheless retained its copyrights. This meant that Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams could only show the documentary at screenings, and never release it digitally or as a hard copy. I’m not sure, but it seems to me that someone working at ‘The Modern Institute’ didn’t realise this and uploaded it on their Vimeo account as a promo for the exhibition. The few fans who have attended past screenings didn’t exactly praise the doc, but since the majority of us fans could never see it, interest has remained high. But now everyone can judge it for themselves! I wouldn’t be surprised if the upload will disappear soon, though, so be quick…

click this link to view it

Update: after less than 24 hours, the Vimeo upload has been taken down again but of course by now reuploads have been taken place on Russian and Hungarian video hosting sites already, and I’m sure more reuploads will follow. Many thanks to ‘The Modern Institute’ for screwing this up!

You might remember that Depeche Mode did an interview at the SXSW festival in front of an audience on March 13th. Well, after many press reports about it and a transcript of their interview with Jason Bentley from KRCW, SXSW have finally uploaded the full audio file of this interview, including audience questions, most notable being the “A lot of people have boned to Depeche Mode” comment. Open the link below.

https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/sxsw-interview-depeche-mode

Normally I will only share charts if Martin has one, but since Steve Angello is such a big name in dance music right now, I thought I would share his as he has charted the remix of Soothe My Soul. It’s nice to see him share the remix he did with Jacques Lu Cont in the first slot on this Beatport chart. Not to point out the obvious, but a great way to expose new Depeche Mode music to his fans etc. The tracks he selected are a blend of Progressive and Electro house with a touch of techno. If you’re interested, give it a listen here

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