Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan: “I’m an Overpaid Stripper”
Depeche Mode dropped into SXSW this week for their first major interview ahead of the release of Delta Machine, which is coming out on the 26th. The Hollywood Reporter was there:
The more enlightening chatter came out of a question [KCRW music director Jason] Bentley directed at Gahan, recalling a meeting at the Sunset Marquis in 1995 when Gahan was, in the radio personality’s words, “in a very bad place” and “a mess.”
Now sober, Gahan recalled those times blurrily: “It was quite a whirlwind up until that point. Everything in my life,” he said. “Getting better was an obvious means to an end. … [It came with] a lot of help and friends and people who support you. It’s slow and you’ve got to want to change. I have very little memory, fortunately, of some of those experiences, and the last 15 years in my life has progressively gotten better. I feel like I participate in it in a different way. I love the challenge that goes with working on being a dad and a husband, and the fact that we’re sitting here celebrating our 13th record together in 30-plus years.”
“And you’ve still got your hair,” Gore interjected, with Gahan nodding in agreement.
Read more (including the stripper bit) here.
