"...I connected with Depeche Mode especially with Dave [Gahan]. I connect with people who put everything into what they’re making. Kurt Cobain, Jeff Buckley. That’s the only way I can connect. I can’t connect with superficial people. In 1986 Depeche Mode offered me a video and the only reason I said yes was because it would have to be done in America and I’d never done a video in America. I thought of something but it was so low budget, there was no money for a cameraman. That turned out to be a positive thing, because it became me using the camera myself.
I used the movie camera more like a still camera which was a very good thing. But Dave [Gahan] was great at it. When I make my scripts, I know what he can do..."-Anton Corbijn
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“Precious”
The most successful 16 weeks since then the radio Maximum Top 20 broadcast was started!
16 weeks in a row at #1! (December 24, 2005)

Sensational!
The brand new Depeche Mode single “Precious” entered the Russian radio Maximum Top Twenty straight on the number 1 position! (Sept. 12th 2005)
This happened for the second time since “Only When I Lose Myself” was charted at once as a leader of the Top Twenty in October1998.

"PRECIOUS"
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Dusseldorf press conference transcript

Dusseldorf press conference photos

Backstage with Dave in November 2005

Between Violator and SOFAD

IN THE STUDIO
Exchanging creative juices with: Depeche Mode. The release of Dave Gahan's solo album, 2003’s Paper Monsters caused tension in the Depeche Mode camp. The singer griped that his role in the band was that of "an instrument being used by others", before dropping dark hints that the Essex veterans' future was far from certain.
Two years on, his mood is infinitely brighter. The singer and band mates Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher recently regrouped in California to record their 11th studio album. To Gahan's surprise it's been a happy reunion.
"The strangest thing that's happened is that we're all getting on pretty well," he says. "With the

last album (2001's Exciter), it all felt a bit dead. This time we're all pulling together a lot more" Tellingly, chief songwriter Martin Gore's creative monopoly has been broken. For the first time in the bands 25 year career, Gahan has brought his own songs to the table. "There's a new drive to Depeche mode," he says wryly "It's called competition."
Despite the harmonious intra-band relations, Gahan promises that the still-untitled new album is as dark as anything the band have recorded, pitching it somewhere between the stadium electronic of 1990's Violator and 1993' guitar heavy Songs of faith and devotion.
"With Depeche Mode, there’s always that darkness in there," he says "At the same time, there’s hopefulness .Out of despair comes something good."
As the bands stint in Santa Barbara draws to a close, Gahan is looking forward to a few weeks off before recording resumes in his adopted hometown of New York.
"We're ready to make a move,"says the singer. "There's only so much sun you can take when you're singing songs about pain and suffering."

SLEEVENOTES
Working title: TBC
Due: October 2005
Completed Tracks: Pain, Suffer well, Everything, Free, Sinner in me, Macro
Producer: Ben Hillier
Recorded at :Sound Design Studios, Santa Barbara, California

3 new pix of the band in the studio (by Gareth Jones)

Sensation!

For the first time Anton Corbijn in Russia !

A photo exhibition of Anton's works will be open since the 15th April in State Russian Museum , St-Petersburg!

Celebrated Depeche Mode's photographer and art director Anton Corbijn will make his debut as a film director. A film (with working title ‘Control', Jude Low starring) will document Ian Curtis' life (Joy Division). Anton said: "When I was growing up in Germany, Joy Division were a band that really moved me. The NME was like a bible and Paul Morley's interviews with Joy Division really inspired me. Joy Division are the reason I moved to England in the first place.” The film is due to go into production in July. ( Rolling Stone, Russian edition)

Andy Fletcher with E.Lebedev (band LP),Kaliningrad, Russia