MEMENTO – TRAVELOGUE ARLES
A day around the former Kingdom of Arles. Taken with an iPhone 15 Plus.
MEMENTO – TRAVELOGUE ESSAOUIRA
I’ve decided to post photographs I took of towns that I passed through, because I´ve got to have a memory.
AN ALMOST PREDICTABLE MEMENTO
David McElroy asked me to collaborate with his concert review project once again. You can read my review of the February 13th 2024 Berlin show on his blog Almost Predictable Almost. Yes, I will make you read it on his …
DECEMBER 2023 (OH, WHAT A NIGHT)
What a year it’s been! We got a new Depeche Mode album (and a helluva a fine album). We also got treated to another great tour, which is still on-going (and of course I have plans to catch up with it in 2024). I obviously saw the band a couple of times…
ANGELS WITH SILVER WINGS
DMK has released their definitive tribute to Depeche Mode and unless you’ve spent more than a decade in a cave, you probably know their cover versions of DM’s songs. From internet viral sensations to being featured on 2019’s “Spirits in the Forest” feature film, everyone fell in love with their quality-time family videos. Using toy instruments and other household objects, they became known as DMK and they finally put those cover versions together in one album celebrating more than a decade of DM-relate fatherhood. Here’s what they have to say about it:
WE CAN’T REALLY UNPLUG BECAUSE WE’RE ELECTRONIC
I was so very honored to have been invited to attend the press conference yesterday here in Berlin. What’s there to say? It’s impossible to look at the stage and not miss that extra chair with Fletch. The event would …
IT WILL BE WORTH IT
“A quick update from David and Kevin on the release of Halo: As Depeche Mode fans will acknowledge, it’s been a sad and unsettling time over the last few months, especially for the family and friends of keyboardist and founding …
NEVER LET ME GO DOWN AGAIN
When Placebo dropped their first single from their upcoming new studio album since 2013’s “Loud Like Love”, I was positively surprised. The title reminded me of the silly “Little James”, Liam Gallagher’s first contribution to Oasis about his then-stepson. It’s …
HALO IN REVERSE
The book is an oral history of the career-defining album and era for electronic pioneers Depeche Mode, stretching from August 1989 upon the release of the first single Personal Jesus to November 1990 and the end of the World Violation …