ANDY JONES
Against the odds, Depeche Mode entered the noughties looking lean, mean and ready for action – and they would back it up by becoming a numbersspinning world-class live act
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There’s no doubt that the 2000s represented a period with less musical peaks for Depeche Mode, but the fact that they also moved away from all the other types of high they’d been enjoying (and enduring) meant that, within this decade, there was a lot of output to enjoy from the band (and, okay, some to endure). But perhaps the fact that the band was still in existence was the biggest bonus of them all. The wounds that the previous decade had left would take some healing, it’s true, but by the turn of the century, the band had largely picked itself up, dusted the synthesisers down, and was ready to go into business.