more photos of Depeche Mode & Peter Bjorn & John @ MSG
photos by Tim Griffin
“I was suffering from panic attacks, I was always irritable and grumpy, and when I added up all the units of alcohol I’d been consuming, the total was truly horrifying,” [Martin Gore] says. It was even scarier to realize “that I’d never been onstage sober in my life before. So this is the first tour I’ve ever done, alcohol-free, and I prepared for it like a professional boxer.”
Was there a final-straw moment when Gore knew he had a problem? He laughs.
“There were loads of those moments, but they never hit home,” he says. “I mean, I had seizures one day on a boat in a Louisiana swamp, and fell forward, just by chance. And if I’d have fallen backward, I would’ve landed in a swamp full of alligators — no joke. But even that didn’t stop me.” [San Francisco Examiner]
A more sober Depeche Mode and a completely wasted Peter Bjorn & John (kidding) played two shows at Madison Square Garden in NYC this week. We already posted pictures from NIGHT ONE and from NIGHT TWO. Both were taken at the beginning of the show from very closeup. Here’s another set of pictures from the second show, but from far away and for more of the show….
Peter, Bjorn, and John
Depeche Mode
Pictures from NIGHT ONE HERE and more from NIGHT TWO HERE.