Depeche Mode

I can't claim I've been a huge Depeche Mode fan for a long time. I always knew and liked their big hits, (Enjoy the Silence, Personal Jesus, Just Can't Get Enough etc etc), but I didn't seem to pay particular attention to a lot by them, until working in Crete and being surrounded by their hugest fans. So when the opportunity arose and Depeche Mode announced their Global Spirit tour I jumped at the chance to go.
Earlier this year Depeche Mode released their latest album, Spirit, featuring it's very catchy hit, Where's the Revolution, written by Martin L Gore, the band's guitarist and occasional singer.

Being a Manchester girl and all for supporting Manchester music venues, Birmingham wouldn't be my first choice to watch a band, but tickets weren't easy to get hold of and my friend Jamie, who managed to acquire us the tickets, lived close by so it wasn't so bad.

Finally the moment arrived when I could sing along clutching a warm cup of beer looking down at Dave Gahan doing his best impressions of a worm escaping the soil, I mean if worms were cool and played rock music that is.

Rewind a couple of hours back to this moment and we were panicking having forgotten the tickets and being halfway there (a 40 mile drive), along with Sunday traffic (who has heard of Sunday traffic?!)
Then showing up at the NEC only to discover it was at the Birmingham Arena in the centre of Birmingham. THEN not being able to find a parking space when we eventually did make it (insert rolling eyes emoji right here), and parking on double yellow, apologies again Jamie for screaming "I WILL PAY FOR THE PARKING TICKET" and galloping like a horse into the venue.

I can't comment on Depeche Mode's opening songs as we made it in time to hear the definitive bass of "It's no good" from my favourite album "Ultra" which then follows into another favourite of mine, "Barrel of a gun", with a little snippet of Grandmaster Flash's "The message" for extra effect.

The original trio Dave Gahan, Martin L Gore and Andy Fletcher have become five and the band are in full swing of things when shortly into the set the projector stops working meaning Dave has to overwork his dance moves where the energy could be compared to that of Mick Jagger's.

The band appear to evenly disperse their songs out making sure to cover most of their studio albums. Some surprising ones for me being "Everything Counts" and "Stripped". We hear an extended version of "Enjoy the silence" then "Never let me down again" before the band depart from the stage.

Naturally we all love an encore and after the brummy crowd (not necessarily all brummy people) screaming, they reappear on stage with a surprising twist of Martin singing an acoustic version of "Strange Love". I love it.
They follow this with "walking in my shoes", "A Question of Time" and for the grand finale "Personal Jesus". By this point the varied crowd of all different ages is going wild and the experience is chaotic fun.

To summarise: when can I see them again???