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FEW FACTS ON BEING AN AUSSIE DM FAN
[From
Bong 10, July 1990. Words: Gavin Dwyer.]
Summary:
A long-standing Australian
fan reports on the Depeche Mode scene down under. [275 words]
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also: "A Few Lines On Being
A DM Fan..." [Bong 11]
"The Melbourne Story" [Bong 11]
I thought it was about time a little news was spread about the DM happenings in Australia.
Sydney nightclub The Site held another Depeche night, this time to launch the LP ‘Violator’. There were about 150-200 happy party-goers to dance the night away into the early hours. I spent about four hours there and enjoyed myself immensely! There was an English Depeche fan there and I was able to catch up on the latest news. It made the evening even better.
As a matter of interest – our local FM Station (well, not so local anymore, it now broadcasts to 4 major cities in Australia) 2JJJ has been playing a fair bit of DM lately. Maybe there’s a bit of hope! I’m sure that after they’ve toured, DM’s popularity here will soar.
Unfortunately, being an Aussie Depeche Mode fan is like being a Leper. The fad here now is the glut of ‘Glamour Metal’ bands like Bon Jovi, Metallica etc, and the awful House / Acid fad that just won’t go away! Meanwhile we have to put up with a futile radio network / video shows that only seem happy playing teenybopper stuff like Kylie, Jason, New Kids et al. (No fun for ‘oldies’ like me – 24 – having been brought up on such gems as Joy Division, New Order, DM, Ultravox, The Eurhythmics and such stuff.)
So you can see that it’s quite frustrating being an Aussie fan. All you people in the UK, Europe and the USA, while you’re enjoying heaps of DM tours and releases etc, think of us poor Aussies who seem to get the tail end of everything.
Food for thought, eh?