Depeche Mode in Berlin – Spirit until the end

March 2017, Depeche Mode releases his album "Spirit", the rebellion against Trump, a hope that fans could have hoped for, but have never heard of before, a clear statement against racism and racism. fascism. The election of New Yorker Dave Gahan was in Manhattan at the time, the Donald was sworn in, promo for the record, and pbaded the British protesters marched against the US president, through the streets of Battery Park. People shouted at Trump. Gahan is also revolted against the bully who wanted to seal the immigration country of Americans in the Middle East.

A year and a half later, everything is as urgent as in January, even more urgent. Trump could, after Helsinki, comment on Charlottesville, after every public appearance, lead the world to the abyss.

Gahan did not forget that. "We watch men die in real time", he sings, always convincing, in the opening song "Going Backwards", with which Depeche Mode launched Monday the first of the last two concerts of the tour " Global Spirit "at the Waldbühne in Berlin.

Every day, people take refuge in refugee boats. In front of "Going Backwards," the screen shows comic legs that, like the slamming hammer in Alan Parker's "The Wall" movie, seem to both act and command. Do we walk in the same direction or against the system? Something against death.

Depeche Mode: The Message Happens

Gahn goes down to "Going Backwards", a song about civilizing regression, his thumb – almost his "I don & # 39; t like & # 39 "instead of" I Like ", maybe a little flat, but the message arrives on Facebook and all other social media.

And there are more posts:" Barrel of a Gun "gets kicked through Grandmaster's flash extract of" The Message ":" It's like a jungle sometimes. "Gahan wipes imaginary dandruff blazer – a role play Dirt does not concern me, the POTUS

It's such moments of rage that make the first 45 minutes a show." Corrupted ", though it's not a problem. As of 2009, but also a running protest song, perhaps the biggest knocker of the evening, is like a threat to Trump: "Soon you'll cry / And wishing you've dreamed me. "

It's the time of Depeche's holiday." And how. "Fans and critics have recently lamented the selection of live tracks consistently consistent as if it had been unrolled from the time of the day. a machine In this performance, DM makes some plays, and also noted the bookkeepers setlist. "So Much Love" came as song two, which, even if the song is bad, provoked a jubilation – the fans knew that the first closing night of the "Global Spirit" tour would be , after all, a longer performance the recent and disappointing festival concerts with only 15 songs.

"Wrong" is also back, and "I Feel You" has come forward, almost in the middle of the concert. For the first time "I Feel You" and "A Question Of Time" the same evening! On Wednesday, you may be able to enjoy "The things you said," "Useless," "I want you now," and "Can not get enough."

And then the colorful balloons! Martin Gore celebrated his birthday, his 57th Gahan accepts "Happy Birthday", his old companion Martin Gries, and the public also thought about the day of honor. Several congratulatory posters are organized as part of the Waldbühnen tour. For a MARTIN L. GORE – a group of fans, which extends twelve simple signs correctly – one of them has conscientiously taken the sign, on which only the ".", The point of "L." stands.

Even otherwise, the choreography of fans works like an oil machine. The wheat field in the wind, out tonight, 44,000 arms on "Never Let Me Down Again" goes without saying, and in "World In My Eyes" people form this symbol with both hands, the first diamond Merkel recalls , then to a heart, in the end, after all, a Zorro mask with devil horns.

So remember tonight, but maybe that will help you. A cameraman is filming, and the very long Dutchman, who helps the management live very offensively, while he runs after the cameraman, pulls on the cable, dragging the man with him and thus forcing to change position of recording, Anton Corbijn, who long-time companions of the group. Maybe this concert will be released as a video at home, as always a concert of the last tours.

That would be right. Depeche Mode is a live band in very good shape. He alluded to the warm-up concert at Funkhaus Berlin, continued through the tour of the venue, and now it's clear: "Global Spirit" is their best tour since the "Singles 1986-1998" tour. This goes back 20 years and was, as the title says, only from hits, hits, hits.

The next disc break, which certainly appears in 2021, they won.

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