After Googling around a bit, I found some nice photos on John Grabowski's flicker album from the Chicago Lollapalooza show where they keyboards are exposed and you can see that they are using Access Virus TI’s and a Virus TI Polar. See links at bottom for more info on the LED panels used in the show.įrom my vantage point it was really hard to see what keyboards Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher, and Peter Gordeno were playing live as the keyboards were on stands that blocked the view of the back side of the synth. A few of the videos were just a bit odd, were pretty static, and didn’t fit the tone of the rest of the show IMHO. Intercutting between players and moving the images around the screen really added to the energy of the songs.
I loved 95% of the VJ work and visuals, especially when they were mixing in the live feeds. It looked great most of the time although when the background was white you could see some wear-and-tear from being on the road. One the best songs in the whole show was the last song when Dave Gahan and Martin Gore sang “Waiting for the Night to Come” accompanied only by minimal arpeggiated synth.īehind the band was a massive LED wall that filled the whole back of the stage from which they projected supporting visuals. They provided a nice contrast and his vocals were extremely strong. I especially liked some of arrangements that were really stripped down and sung by Martin Gore. They did a great job translating the songs to the stage and the core synth sounds that make the songs great were all in the mix. Of course they played the killer tracks from Violator such as “Enjoy the Silence”, “Personal Jesus”. They didn’t play some iconic old hits like “People are People”, but with only 2 hours and such a massive catalog I can see why. I really was happy that they played “Walking in My Shows” from Songs of Faith and Devotion, “It’s No Good” off of Ultra and “Precious” off of Playing the Angel which are some of my favorite songs. They did a nice job working in old songs as well and played the big hits and a few lesser known songs as well. They played probably half of the songs off the new album. He definitely was a little rough the first few songs but after he got really warmed up he sounded great. I read that Dave Gahan lost his voice and the band cancelled shows a few weeks back. In the lineup were Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher, along with supporting players Peter Gordeno (Keys), Christian Eigner (Drums). This is my report including iPHone pictures and some behind-the-scenes info I’ve dug up.
I went to the Depeche Mode concert at Red Rocks a few nights back.
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