Watch Depeche Mode’s stripped-back performance with BBC Concert Orchestra
nme.comDepeche Mode have shared two stripped-back performances with the BBC Concert Orchestra – check them out below.The duo – Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – took to the Radio 2 Piano Room to share versions of ‘Walking In My Shoes’ and ‘Ghosts Again’.
It aired on the radio during the band’s huge North American arena tour behind comeback album ‘Memento Mori’.Asked by the BBC‘s Gary Davies of their memories of recording ‘Walking In My Shoes’ in the early 1990s, Gahan said: “I don’t have many.
That’s not a good thing, but I really don’t remember recording that song and it was a particular time when we were all having too much fun outside of work and I guess it caught up with us, but it’s one of those songs that never gets old when you perform it.“It always evolves.
And over the years, songs do that if they’re good songs. They take on different meanings, depending on what’s going on in your life at that time and in the world around us and it’s one of those really.
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