Depeche Mode Interviews

1981-11-09 Six O'Clock Rock, BBC Radio Bristol, Bristol, UK

So as you can see I will share Depeche Mode interviews. You can find full versions of these interviews if you want to read all interview because I'm cutting some parts such as album release dates or tour informations. Hope you like it.

Al Read: All in no more than twelve months, I suppose, they have risen from small club dates to supporting artists to headlining gigs at UK's major dance halls, and that's quick. I mean, success has come quick, hasn't it? Were you prepared for it, Dave?

Dave: Was we prepared for it?

Al Read: The success?

Dave: Yeah, all the way, actually. [laughter] No, not really. We didn't really expect it to happen at all.

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What Does Depeche Mode Mean?

Interviewer: Dave, how do you actually pronounce the name?

Dave: Depech-ay. The real pronunciation is Depeche, but we call it Depech-ay.

Al Read: So I have been getting it wrong for the last... twelve months.

Dave: So does everyone else, I know.

Interviewer: What does it actually mean?

Dave: "Hurried fashion". But it all depends on where the accent is. It can mean a lot of things.

Al Read: How much do you actually feel you control the fashion in music, or does it control you?

Dave: What, clothes-wise, you mean?

Al Read: I mean, the music you play is high fashion, as well as sort of clothes-wise.

Dave: I think it's just 1981 pop music, really. It's not... Fashion doesn't come into it in a big way. I mean, we like to look nice on stage. It doesn't come into it as big as, like, the music is more important than the fashion. So yeah.

Al Read: Fair enough.

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How Did They Meet?

Interviewer: Did you go to the same school and did you enjoy it?

Andy: Two of us went to the same school, me and Martin. I knew Vince from an early age, and Dave went to a rival school on the other side of town.

Al Read: Did you start playing music at school?

Andy: No, not really, not as a band, because me and Martin left school at eighteen, Vince left at sixteen. Martin left... we formed the band after we was eighteen.

Al Read: Because a lot of bands do start off at school, don't they? They'll be starting with a school band. You got together after that.

Andy: Yeah.

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Dave Likes Designing Clothes!

Interviewer: Yeah, who designs all your clothes, and have you ever tried designing them yourselves?

Dave: At the moment, me and Andy, and Martin's bought a few as well, from a guy who works in Kensington Market.

Interviewer: Have you ever tried designing any of your own, though?

Dave: I used to. I used to at college. But I don't do it anymore. I don't have time, really. I'd like to, but I don't have time.

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Poofy Mart

Interviewer: What clothes are you into at the moment?

Dave: '20s sort of clothes, that sort of style.

Interviewer: What colour?

Dave: What colour? Eh, I don't know, really.

Andy: Black.

Dave: I got black, I got another suit, I just bought a creamy coloured suit, and I got a black suit. I don't know, just nice colours. I don't like nothing too loud at the moment.

Martin: Pink.

Andy: Unlike Martin.

Dave: Martin likes loud things.

Andy: He's a big poof ya see.

Interviewer: In his bright white jumper.

Andy: He loves bright poofy clothes.

Dave: Bright white hair.

Andy: The poofier, the better, for Martin.

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Interviewer: What toothpaste do you use?

[laughter]

Dave: Depends, really.

Andy: Crest, I use. Crest has been in the national press.

Dave: Colgate.

Andy: Colgate has been in the national press.

Al Read: It's one of those deep, deep [questions]. Thank you so much.

Interviewer: What soap?

Dave: Valderma, I use Valderma actually.

Andy: I only use water. *what about no*

Dave: I use a non-perfume soap, Valderma actually.

Interviewer: What about you, Martin?

Andy: Pink soap for Martin.

Martin: It varies, usually.

Dave: Things like, pink and yellow colours, he loves.