Resolutions

Depeche Mode’s Devotional tour in 1993 is quoted as the most debauched in pop history. Martin Gore suffered a heart attack on stage in New Orleans and couldn’t make the encore; whilst on another leg, Dave Gahan officially died and was clinically revived in hospital. Andy ‘Fletch’ Fletcher, who had previously described touring as “so much fun”, was left so clinically depressed he quit music and entered the hospitality business. Roadies recall of “Smack Jack” being the drink du jour – a pint of JD sprinkled with heroin. Primal Scream, the support band led by Bobby Gillespie – themselves no strangers to a sesh – were anecdotally left so agog, they returned home and swore on oaths of sobriety.