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“The synths only let you play one note at a time, which was great as we couldn’t play chords anyway”: How Depeche Mode launched their career with one of the most important synth-pop records ever released

One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them and its writer to legendary status

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“I understood it as a great pop song, but I wasn't sure on the very first listen as to whether I liked it or not”: How Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke bottled the sound of heartbreak with Only You

Clarke had created Just Can't Get Enough with Depeche Mode, but Only You would be his most important song

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“The synths only let you play one note at a time, which was great as we couldn’t play chords anyway”: How Depeche Mode launched their career with one of the most important synth-pop records ever released

One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them and its writer to legendary status

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'Fiddler on the Moon' documentary explores how Judaism might adapt as humanity reaches out into space

'No matter what your traditions are, someone is going to break them.'

Space

A24's Eternity Is Great, And It Made Me Want To Rewatch Another Great Afterlife Rom-Com

An underrated '90s movie with a quirky setting.

Cinemablend

How far-right ideas in Canada are working their way into mainstream politics

The fortunes of the Conservative Party and its leader Pierre Poilievre in Canada’s April 2025 election seemed to have shifted dramatically after United States President Donald Trump called for Canada to become the 51st state.

The Conversation

‘Wonderfully sentimental’: why Defending Your Life is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their favourite feelgood watches is a tribute to Albert Brooks’s 1991 fantasy

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“Unfriendly immigration officers read ‘musician’ and ask, ‘Anything I should know?’ I say, ‘Oh yeah!’ They remember Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and it’s OK”: Yello’s offbeat synth prog ethic gets Dieter Meier round the world

The “Dada version of Bryan Ferry” – who says he uses bandmate Boris Blank’s audio imagery to find structure then leap off into chaos – admits he was never a tortured artist

Louder

“I blagged my way into this band from the beginning”: Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan on tricking his future bandmates into letting him join

The story goes that the other members heard him singing Bowie’s “Heroes” in the room next door – but was it Gahan on the mic or not?

Louder

Secession Is Back in Style in Texas

Can't Americans all just get along? Maybe we can't—and perhaps we shouldn't have to.

Reason

Georgia school shooting suspect was troubled by a broken family, taunting at school, his father said

The Georgia teenager charged with fatally shooting four people at his high school struggled from his parents' separation and taunting by classmates

The Independent UK

Hate romantic comedies? 32 movies to change your mind

When you've had enough of routine meet-cutes, these change things up a bit

Total Film

Winds of fortune: 'Job for life' in former coal regions

A gusty $20 billion in investment will blow in from a mere three offshore wind projects that one team plans to build to help rewire industrial heartlands.

AAP

Ben Frost on working with Steve Albini: "As a recording engineer, he’s the equivalent of a war photographer – he’s not composing images and dictating proportions, he’s documenting what’s occurring in a space"

On Scope Neglect, Ben Frost extends his guitar obsession by re-engineering our perception of metal music

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The Depeche Mode track and album that saw them conquer US stadiums: "It's about the concept of fleeing from reality and the evil awakening afterwards. Any kind of fleeing - drugs, alcohol, or whatever"

Led Zeppelin samples and happy accidents, with the Gore and Wilder songwriter/soundscaper dynamic in full flow

Louder

“There were riots, police helicopters everywhere!”: Mute boss Daniel Miller on the moment he realised Depeche Mode were blowing up big

The Mute founder says it took selling out stadiums for the US to start taking the synth-rock giants seriously

The Guardian - AU

How New Zealand’s story in a million pictures was almost lost forever

Rescued by an American gallery, a trove of photos depicting pivotal scenes in modern New Zealand is now being auctioned and sold to institutions

The Guardian - UK

Plato, pilates and pubs: has an Irish town found the secret to the good life?

Book claims it is ‘hard to find another currently existing society’ better than that in Skerries, near Dublin

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Texas secessionists feel more emboldened than ever

At a recent conference that featured a sitting state senator, so-called “TEXIT” supporters celebrated their movement’s incremental gains.

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“Martin sang it naked. I turned the piano away as I was playing”: How Depeche Mode recorded their very own ‘Berlin Trilogy’ and became one of the biggest bands in the world

And why it's (almost) as important as David Bowie's hat-trick of Hansa Studio recordings

ABC News

Tasmanian woman survives two freezing nights stuck in blackberry bush after car crash

A firefighter has described the moment he found a woman who had crashed her car in Tasmania's highlands and been stuck outside in temperatures of nearly -5 degrees Celsius. He says she was very lucky to survive.

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Disability swim camps putting athletes like Declan Budd on a path to the Paralympics

Youths living with disability are proving how access to swimming lessons and coaches can change their lives and create new goals and aspirations.

ABC News

Freezing fog, the picturesque but potentially dangerous weather phenomenon

Early morning commuters are accustomed to fog blanketing the roads in winter, but those in the aviation game know of something more insidious: freezing fog.

ABC News

Thousands still without power in Tasmania's north-west after wild winds

Thousands of houses remain without power in Tasmania's north-west after damaging winds whipped through the area over the weekend, toppling trees and blocking roads.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow man fractures spine falling from balcony to escape knifeman

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that the victim was seriously injured and needed surgery after John Gray turned violent during a row over a misplaced mobile phone.

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