I gathered som great old interviews in this post. All of them are from swedish TV, which has a long history of being smug, annoying and notoriously lousy on researching before interviews..

One of this blogs followers, Steven Eisler, sent me this clip. It's just fantastic, an hillarious interview with John Foxx in swedish TV back in the 70's.  He seems extremely frustrated and annoyed right from the start of the interview. When you watch it you understad that he must have been through hell in the preparations and set up before they kicked things off...

Short interview with John discussing Eno, punk and being a "Human Being". The ending is hillarious, with the hosts of the show picking up instruments and serenading John with "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow"

The blond guy cutting John off is saying: "I think we will need to cut this off and actually listen to some music instead"... LoooooooL :-)

Lets check out swedish television in the 80's as well. This is an interview with Warren Cann from the popular show "Måndagsbörsen". The fact that cities are called different names in different languages can be confusing. Especially if you don't know what a city is called in your mother tounge.

Vienna, Venice, Wien, Wurzburg, Slough. Whats the difference...

This clip is also from "Måndagsbörsen" in 82. David Gahan interview and Depeche Mode performs See You. Hmm, the interviewer talks about synthesizers vs. "real" instruments. Annoying but common at the time I guess...

First you'll see a great interview with David "Dave" Gahan. Then Depeche Mode will perform See You, all @ Måndagsbörsen 1982. This television musicshow was broadcast in Sweden from 1979-1984.

Note: You can clearly see how the cameraman keeps zooming in on Andrew Fletchers hands to REALLY show that he is fake-playing his Moog Source. Not fair! They should have zoomed in on Martin Gore or Alan Wilder instead, and the nice PPG Wave 2.

Thank you Steven Eisler. Check out his band Jetstream Soldier on Myspace

The swiss watch brand Hublot has released 12 unique, ultra-expensive Depeche Mode watches, each with an album cover pictured on it. They look pretty (or damn) good, but sadly the starting bid for each watch is around 17.000 dollars, so even if I sold everything I own (including my Suzuki Swift!!!) I probably couldn't afford one.

The profits go directly to the Teenage Cancer Trust, so if you have the bucks, go spend them.

Check it out here!

I'm going to Royal Albert Hall!!! Or so I hope. Depeche Mode will play there on February 17 for the Teenage Cancer Trust. It's the first time they play at Royal Albert Hall, and Martin Gore said:

“We’re absolutely thrilled to be a part of Teenage Cancer Trust and very proud to be kicking off the 10th year of gigs. We’ve never played the Royal Albert Hall before, so we’re really looking forward to that too.”

Tickets go on sale from 9am this Friday (december 18), so be sure to check out the Gigwise.com Gig Tickets section for details.

Be the Depeche Mode Emperor, Kaiser, Tzar, Shah, King, Queen, 1st Lady, Sultan, Maharadja or whatever.. !

A reminder, dont miss out on this contest where you can win great prizes from Softube.

Check it out here. C'mon!

We finally have a new competition up, this time its really exciting because we have a great sponsor. Softube gives away their cool Effect Bundle ($229) to the winner and place 2-5 gets a Tube Delay ($99) + iLoks. Great stuff!

You find this fantastic Depeche Mode themed competition HERE. Good luck!

In this clip you see a brief demo of the Effect Bundle including Acoustic Feedback, Tube Delay & Spring Reverb starring Niklas Odelholm. The clip is not in the best quality but you get the idea.

Thanks Softube, great prizes indeed! 

Interesting (and creepy) video for Depeche Modes "Hole to feed", directed by Eric Wareheim.

Youtube via ericwareheim

For all of you who have questioned Andrew Fletcher's role in Depeche Mode. He is their ping pong player!

Youtube via sylouss

News to me, maybe not for you, but anyway - I thought I had heard everything by Depeche Mode, but apparently they used to play a song written by a friend of Vince Clarke at live sets in 1981. They never recorded it because of copyright issues though. Too bad, it's way better than....What's your name?