« Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq (has worked w/ Bjork, Mike Patton, Kronos Quartet...) touring US (dates), playing NYC | Osso Quartet playing re-arranged Sufjan Stevens album on tour w/ BQE movie & Asthmatic Kitty label-mate DM Stith »
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."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....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]
Comments (8)
Leave a Comment
PLEASE NOTE: If your comment does not appear immediately, it will show up shortly.
Recently
Recent Comments
- Charli XCX -- 2013 Tour Dates (5) Anonymous wrote: gaZONGaz... [more]
- listen to the new Arctic Monkeys single, "Do I Wanna Know?" (7) Anonymous wrote: yet i truly feel sorry for the jaded, misguided and musically-bankr... [more]
- Cro-Mags playing NYC in July; Jon Joseph joining Walter Schreifels & others for 'Barred for Life' NYC release party (8) Anonymous wrote: just smh... [more]
- The Antlers and Dave Harrington celebrated Le Poisson Rouge's fifth anniversary (pics) (6) Jimbone wrote: Jimbone agrees with the Harrington comments. Too long of a set, and... [more]
- El Ten Eleven announces North American tour (dates) (2) Anonymous wrote: ...because 7 ate his children!... [more]
- The Dwarves & The Queers announce tour, playing LPR (dates) (2) Anonymous wrote: Can you imagine the champions who are going to be at this show? Jus... [more]
- stream a track from the new Mammoth Grinder LP (2) Anonymous wrote: <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R_u8eBNM5pc/UbYk33bfnHI/AAAAAAAA... [more]
- When Saints Go Machine released 'Infinity Pool,' playing Pianos after Glasslands show (2) Anonymous wrote: I think I bought a car radio from one of these guys in Brighton Bea... [more]
Recent Galleries
Most Popular
- Black Flag w/ The Men @ Warsaw (night 1 pics, videos, setlist) (31)
- eccentric French cult artist Philippe Katerine playing his first-ever U.S. show in NYC for Bastille Day (11)
- Yo La Tengo played Maxwell's, probably for the last time (pics) (32)
- Cro-Mags playing NYC in July; Jon Joseph joining Walter Schreifels & others for 'Barred for Life' NYC release party (8)
- Speedy Ortiz, Pile, Two Inch Astronaut, Grass Is Green & more played the Exploding In Sound showcase at Big Snow (40)
- Firefly Fest is in Delaware this weekend (schedule, map, BrooklynVegan Soundwave, other side stages & more) (14)
- Action Bronson played Bonnaroo, playing Santos w/ Harry Fraud (who produced his new EP) after Firefly (dates, stream) (9)
- listen to the new Arctic Monkeys single, "Do I Wanna Know?" (8)
Recent Features
-
A Guide to the 2013 Northside Festival (this week in Brooklyn w/ Walkmen, Solange, Torche, Black Flag, Swans & more)
-
Our Katrina and the Waves tribute EP is now on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify & RDIO
-
NYC Memorial Day Weekend Events (DFA Anniversary, Do-Over, Converge, Green-Wood Cemetery, Greg Proops & more)
-
Adam Yauch Park officially open in Brooklyn Heights
-
Coachella webcast livestreaming at YouTube (schedule)
Browse Categories (or Browse Tags)
Blogroll
Blogroll Links
- Todd P
- BV Austin
- Stereogum
- BV Chicago
- Thighs Wide Shut
- music snobbery
- done waiting
- Invisible Oranges
- Blabbermouth
- largehearted boy
- gorilla vs bear
- chromewaves
- my old kentucky blog
- You Ain't No Picasso
- The Bergstrom
- Muzzle of Bees
- La Blogoteque
- Daytrotter
- Fluxblog
- Nah Right
- RCRD LBL
- Arjan Writes
- Free Williamsburg
- Hype Machine
- I Guess I'm Floating
- Hipster Runoff
- An Aquarium Drunkard
- The Daily Swarm
- Boing Boing
- Brownstoner
- Gothamist
- Curbed
- Gawker
- WFMU
- WNYC
Colophon
- Twitter.com/BrooklynVegan
- Twitter.com/AllBVposts
- Twitter.com/BVTicketsOnSale
- Twitter.com/BVNYCShows
- Twitter.com/bvCMJ
- Twitter.com/bvSXSW
- Twitter.com/bvComedy
- Twitter.com/InvisOranges
- Facebook.com/BrooklynVegan
- Facebook.com/BrooklynVeganChicago
- Facebook.com/BVAustin
- Facebook.com/InvisibleOranges
- Instagram.com/BrooklynVegan
- Instagram.com/BVChicago
- Instagram.com/BVAustin
- Instagram.com/InvisibleOranges
- MySpace
- MySpace.com/BrooklynVegan
- NEW.MySpace.com/BrooklynVegan
- Feeds
- RSS
Thanks for the Peter crowd pic :)
Posted by Anonymous | August 6, 2009 10:30 AM
i missed them this tour, but saw them on the last tour at MSG and it was one of the most insane, devoted, awesome crowds i've ever been in
Posted by Anonymous | August 6, 2009 10:48 AM
This was great. Completely wrong venue for PB+J, I felt bad for them. They tried really hard though and the crowd that was there I think dug it.
This was the first time I have ever seen DM. Pretty amazing. "I Feel You," was the show stopper for sure.
Posted by Anonymous | August 6, 2009 10:57 AM
I enjoyed PB+J but the volume was so low for their set. It was hard to hear in the 400's...glad I saw em at Webster. Their set was only 25 minutes but the set featured some of their best songs..
Posted by Anonymous | August 6, 2009 11:08 AM
Depeche Mode dudes look THROWED.
Posted by Regular reader | August 6, 2009 12:52 PM
Not as bad as Jarvis did though...
Posted by Anonymous | August 6, 2009 12:58 PM
There is a beautiful pair of breasts in there
Posted by Anonymous | August 6, 2009 2:28 PM
In their heyday (circa Songs of Faith & Devotion) they made Led Zeppelin and the Stones look like amateurs in the drugs and decadence dept.
Posted by Anonymous | August 24, 2009 9:30 PM