Vince Clarke: In Conversation with Daniel Miller - at Rough Trade East - Sun 21 Nov 2023

This event took place as part of the launch promotion for Vince Clarke’s ’Songs of Silence’ album. Mute Records founder Daniel Miller interviewed Vince at Rough Trade’s East London store at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. **Daniel and Vince in conversation** --- Good evening and Vince and Dave Gahan, and their visit to Rough Trade with the Depeche Mode demo 0:50 All about the new ’Songs of Silence’ album 2:40 What’s going on with Erasure? 13:16 1980 and Daniel and Depeche decide to work together 14:32 The first recording, ’Photographic’ with Stevo for Some Bizzare 16:06 The ARP 2600 and recording drums for Speak & Spell 19:37 ** “And then you decided to leave.“ Moving on from Depeche Yazoo 22:05 ’Upstairs at Erics’, Blackwing, and Eric Radcliffe 26:52 “And then you left.“ Moving from The Assembly 29:15 Flood, Trident Studios, and the need for a permanent Erasure 32:40 -Audience Q&A- --- Would you consider performing a complete album back-to-back in full? 35:55 Will there ever be another Yazoo tour? 36:55 What influences you musically now? 37:30 How important for you was the UMI sequencer on the BBC computer? 40:18 Would you work again with Martin Gore? 42:55 Will you release the Phil Hartnoll collaboration album on vinyl? 44:38 [my question : - ) ] What’s happening with Very Records? 45:30 ** Daniel was almost certainly referring to this video by Alex Ball