![]() ![]() I had never even been to Germany, but I’d made up for this with an obsessional interest in German history. Martin Gore and Dave Gahan in Berlin to announce their Memento Mori album and 2023 tour. ![]() The 2014 Live in Berlin DVD was superb, and The Spirit tour ended in Berlin in July 2018. They became one of that tiny number of Western bands to play East Berlin in 1998. Germany gave the band its first number one. They had recorded part of their third album, Construction Time Again, in its famous Hansa Studios as far back as 1983. Their connection with Berlin is a long one. A proper band, with lots to say and the ability to say it brilliantly. It was the Trump era and the darkness of Where’s The Revolution chimed perfectly with the times. I thought their Spirit album in 2017 was, like so many of their albums, a class work. But when later invited to their New York showcase he replied, “I wouldn’t cross the road to see them. Once asked to go see a band he didn’t like play the Baggot Inn, he declined. I was reminded, as I packed a bag, of the words of my old friend, music journalist George Byrne. ![]()
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