BE: So youre doing three dates in the US, and then youre doing some dates in the UK. We met up before the concert, and I think everyones in good spirits and we have a good relationship. You were doing so much sonic experimentation, and those were Martins best songs as well. Following the departure of their original keyboardist Simon Brenner and an excellent interim single My Foolish Friend produced by Rhett Davies of ROXY MUSIC fame, their acclaimed second album Its My Life was released in 1984. Its My Life showed the band were ahead of their time, especially when the title track only became a hit single belatedly in 1990. The music business is of course one of the fastest mutating industries and one has to try to understand why things adapt in the way they do. However, their first album The Partys Over was an impressive synth flavoured collection that indicated they had more in common with artistically thoughtful collectives such as JAPAN and ULTRAVOX. In 1982, when young Alan Wilder answered an advertisement in Melody Maker; "Keyboard player needed for established band - no timewasters"; it would prove to be a life-changing moment. We have stopped listening, we don't have time. He asked me how we might incorporate Lintons voice on the album, so I started thinking about it. BE: How are things now between you and the rest of the band? Gahan recalls Gore showing up for recording sessions "a little drunk," but after the album was completed, Gore sought treatment. 1st June 2012, updated 11th May 2019, Posted in Interviews What are your own favourites on the Spirit Of Talk Talk album? Sites: recoil.co.uk, Facebook, MySpace, instagram.com, Twitter, recoil19.net, allmusic.com Aliases: Alan Wilder Artist [a9542] Edit Artist Marketplace 1,037 For Sale Vinyl and CD 1 - 25 of 29 Prev Next Alan was an integral component of DM's signature sound and ultimately left the band in 1995. And while Dave Gahan and Martin Gore suffered numerous medical setbacks both big and small, bandmate Andy Fletcher's mental health deteriorated. Sign Up. I wish we had done more of that kind of thing. This statement is "We made a pact early on that I'd never use intravenously, but of course, being a junkie and a liar, it didn't take long." Martin Gore stepped in to sing a few numbers, only for Gahan to briefly try once more before the band called it a night. It intrinsically links with a synchronised film and I think it is clear from our set-up that were obviously not playing all the parts, but rather adding live elements and effects (which vary with each venue) to a prepared bedrock. On two disc you can find Alan Wilder interview from Radio Eins (German radio station near Berlin) taken at the 12th April and 19th April 2000. On 1 June 1995, Alan Wilder announced he was departing Depeche Mode after thirteen years as a key member. Subsequent albums Unsound Methods (1996), Liquid (2000) and SubHuman (2007) were each highly acclaimed. The boundaries between what is performed or programmed is much more blurred. http://omegaauctions.co.uk/alanwildercollected.php, Interview by Chi Ming Lai and Steve Gray AW: What you say about pushing [boundaries] and experimentation, thats a lot of the problem with Depeche, you know. Not an easy task with so many to keep happy. Alan Wilder took time out from his schedule preparing the RECOIL Blu-ray to chat about one of his favourite bands.. Can you remember how you first discovered the music of TALK TALK and what your initial impressions were at the time? Alan Charles Wilder (born 1 June 1959) is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer and former member of the electronic band Depeche Mode from 1982 to 1995. Alan is a classically-trained musician and . As the tour continued, it became clear which aspects of the presentation worked better than others, and we have therefore adapted it to be a little more crowd-friendly along the way. Alan Clay Wilder, the son of David Wilder and his wife, Thelma Wilder . (Laughs) It is the first time. "Fletch had a true heart of gold and was always there when you needed support, a lively conversation, a good laugh, or a cold pint.". TALK TALK released one more album Laughing Stock via the jazz label Verve revived by Polydor Records before disbanding. I didn't receive any answer from DM, but Alan Wilder Alan Wilder, Soundtrack: The Hole. You can also hear that since then [Pause] I think theyve lacked really strong production. (His absence on tour dates was explained as his need to attend to the band's business affairs). What? To help me decide which song to work on, I asked Mute to provide stems from several short-listed songs, so that I could listen to component parts and make a more informed decision. Since his departure from the band, the musical project called Recoil became his primary musical enterprise, which initially started as a side project to Depeche Mode in 1986. In the late 80's and in his spare time between DM albums and tours, Alan began to compose his solo material under the name, Recoil. Paul replied that he was in his room thinking. While singing, dancing, and darkly gallivanting about the stage, as he's wont to do, the 47-year-old singer somehow tore a calf muscle. Are there any memories associated with particular ones that you can tell us a few anecdotes about, like for example the Minimoog, the ARP Odyssey or Oberheim OB8? Kind of electronic pop, if you like that sort of thing. A 2019 reprint of the Spirit Of Talk Talk book by James Marsh, Chris Roberts & Toby Benjamin will be available in July featuring a preface by Simon Brenner, additions include new interviews with Paul Webb and Lee Harris; it can be pre-ordered from direct from http://spiritoftalktalk.com/, https://www.facebook.com/SpiritOfTalkTalk, Text and Interview by Chi Ming Lai It also makes you realise what a great singer Mark Hollis was (is) and how difficult it can be to emulate that aspect. My main worry would have been the perception of live versus playback. They asked Daryl [Bamonte], who was working for us at the time. AW: Yeah. For more than two decades, the band had functioned as a trio, but in 2022, the group suffered a profound and immeasurable loss when founding member, utilitarian musician, bassist, and synths player, Andy Fletcher died unexpectedly. Its amazing how many people continue to say that to me after all these years. Bonhams of London will be auctioning Alan Wilder's original Roland. So thats not easy, but the thing that has become a bit easier is the availability of film, cheaper film potential, which I always wanted to do but could never really afford. Talking about the albums, Wilder says: Having not really listened in full to any of the Recoil albums for many years, the requirement to sit down and closely scrutinise the new test pressings meant that I was obliged to focus on everything once again. The cd is highly limited, there was released only 10 copies, each number has an sticker with the number of copy. AW: Pretty good, I think. Tagged with Alan WilderMark HollisRecoilTalk TalkWhite Lies, 2017 ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK | Email: theelectricityclub@googlemail.comPrivacy Policy, on ALAN WILDER Discusses Spirit Of Talk Talk. Six weeks later, he was clean, but before long, he found himself using again "in secret," as Gahan puts it. As both acts were perceived initially as synthpop, did you consider them rivals or comrades-in-arms? But this guy did ultrasound on me," Gahan told Q (via NME). An interview quickly became an open letter from Alan Wilder. I was There will also be a richly illustrated, accompanying book by Chris Roberts, tracing TALK TALKs evolution and reflecting on their unique journey from synthpop to near-silence. But we certainly would have used Floods ARP 2600 in conjunction with other modular synths to create the bass parts and other sequencer parts. Laughing Stock must have confused the few listeners the band would have gained from Its My Life being a hit? I just do the music and then find a singer. As the band's sonic architect during their glory years, Wilder pushed the band into darker, experimental territory, but perhaps his most well-known accomplishment is when he took a gentle ballad of bandmate Martin Gore's called "Enjoy the Silence" and transformed it into a dance track, and subsequently a worldwide smash. -- Melissa Gilbert is used to being in the spotlight. When their first album The Partys Over came out in 1982, you had not long been in DEPECHE MODE. In August, the singer injured his vocal cords, which makes performing big concerts next to impossible. "I've never been in a space that was blacker, and I remember feeling that whatever it was I was doing, it was really wrong." So if weve got a good projection facility, then its really good. [13] Alan is working again with Depeche Mud on their upcoming album.https://twitter.com/depeche_mud/status/1520808353580134400No title has been known yet, but rumor has it will either be called \"Construction time once more\" or \"Here is the house renovation\".Alan lets us in on some interesting insight information about the new album and as icing on the cake he treats us with a snippet of the possible first single !PS: If you listen carefully, you can hear Dave and Andy in the background working on new industrial/construction sounds for the album felt were rather rich in light of his own contribution. NEW The Second Dance - An Interview With Executive Producer Robert Latham Brown; Theatrical Trailer; TV Spot; Additional Scenes From The Broadcast Version; DISCS 2 RUN-TIME 84 min ASPECT RATIO 1.85:1: . Short interview with Alan Wilder Due to the length of the biography I thought the (former) band members should know about. Im not like a Dave [Gahan] character that has to have his audience. But after the second, Wilder accused the Gypsy King of cheating in order to . The intro of The Rainbow sounds like Miles Davis and conventional song form had all but disappeared. On San Francisco / Touring: Annie Lennox festive album A Christmas Cornucopia re-released, Classic Pop Presents George Michael is now on sale. But his departure from Depeche Mode right after it broke out threatened to destroy the band and everything its members had worked so hard to achieve. Since then, there have been some marketing re-thinks for the better a more tactile approach perhaps. RECOIL open the Vintage Festival Electronic Revue at the Royal Festival Hall on Friday 29th July 2011. Find your friends on Facebook. Shockingly, Dave Gahan's bout with cancer (and subsequent emergency tumor removal surgery) wasn't the only bad thing that happened to Depeche Mode during its 2009 tour. StrangeVision 726 subscribers Subscribe 4.5K Share 264K views 4 years ago Alan Wilder - Interview @ 2010 (C) Der Westen Net Broadcast Show. We live in a world of technology - exponentially increasing breakthroughs in all things scientific. Wilder was a key member of the band through their gradual rise to a remarkably global success, playing a central part in the sonic experimentation that set them . 'Elektrobeats' also included all Recoil albums. There is to be a sale of memorabilia and equipment from your career in September through Omega Auctions which focuses mainly on the years between 1982 to 1995. started to go wrong from 1985. In issue n231 of October 1987, French magazine Best not only publised a coverstory with DM, but they also released a "Depeche Mode Story" on cassette, which subscribers could receive. AW: Um, 75% true. It depends how it sounds; these are not conventional songs. The end result will be, I hope, a very exciting event in Manchester, to include workshops, a talk, a documentary film, perhaps even a performance and some other interesting things for the fans. Alan Wilder: Thank you. In the early days, I tried to write songs much more conventionally, in a pop format. Whether self-created or deconstructed by a guest artist, over the course of a 30-year career, the electronic rockers have treated the 12-inch club mix as a valid art form. are going to be times of high tension. A: That is true. By default I was exposed to the bands music from the time of their very first singles and appearances on TV and radio in the early 80s. In August 1995,according to the Los Angeles Times, while on the phone with his mother, he attempted suicide. Thought of as the Holy Grail, these are 4 extremely rare white labels from a DEPECHE MODE boxset that was never released. During his tenure from 1982 to June 1995, Wilder's musical vision and attention to detail were integral to the development and ultimate success of the group. Q: In 1987 you were quoted with "I think Dave has some song Well, being there on stage felt strangely familiar which is maybe not surprising considering how much touring we used to do but it was like Id never been away. All sale items will include a signed letter of authentication from Alan Wilder with details of use and each winning bidder will also receive a free DVD of ALAN WILDER Collected. Alan Wilder's decades in the music industry saw him go from studio assistant to session keyboard player, but it was his 14 years as a member of Depeche Mode where he really honed his skills. "He looked at the screen and said, 'I can see something.'". BE: I love the story about how you transformed Enjoy the Silence from a ballad to a dance track. Alan Charles Wilder ( Anglia, London, Hammersmith, 1959. jnius 1. Its still not that easy, because of all the different singers, they live in different parts of the world, and theyve got other commitments. He is best known to be the ex-member of the band named Depeche Mode. Perhaps this is a more modern way to present music than the traditional 5-piece, guitar-drums-bass-synth-vocalist, which is something I wanted to avoid. I stole a chicken and got caught. Also, sign up for our email list for weekly updates and check us out on Google+ as well. Singer Dave Gahan worked hard to get Primal Scream a spot as his band's opening act on its American tour in 1994, impressed as he was by their then-new album "Give Out But Don't Give Up." So with the benefits of extra finance, they went in pursuit of a more organic sound. Tagged with Alan WilderDepeche ModeMute RecordsRecoil, 2017 ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK | Email: theelectricityclub@googlemail.comPrivacy Policy. a-ha (magne furuholmen) interview [2006] . Frankly, Im jealous that I have never been able to make a record which has the confidence to be so exposed. The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Depeche Mode. It was great to see everyone (band and crew) and to catch up with their news, see how they were all fairing. I loved the fact that I could actually store patches for the first time and it introduced me to the Oberheim sound which has a unique quality. 1. Allan Wilder. And I never thought it was a project that was easy to take out on the road. And then were doing quite a lot of European dates. The personal tensions and being on the road almost nonstop for over a year was too much for Fletcher to bear, as was the death of his sister from stomach cancer (according to Alan Cross's "Depeche Mode: The Secret History"), and he could no longer manage his anxiety issues. Probably the main reason "Speak & Spell" sounds so different from, say, "Enjoy the Silence" or "People are People" is because original member Vince Clarke wrote almost the entire thing. What? He and I didnt always see eye-to-eye and, personally, I would have included less tracks. He only wrote a handful of songs, none of which were released as singles, but one could make a hell of a case for Alan Wilder as the man who made Depeche Mode great. Depeche Mode's seemingly endless touring in 1993 and 1994 took its toll on Dave Gahan, but it also proved difficult and medically upsetting to bandmate Martin Gore. Bullz-Eye caught up with Wilder at his home in Sussex to talk about sampling blues over electronic beats well before that Moby chap, the upcoming World Cup, and how his old mates could use a swift kick in the ass in the studio once in a while. Please note that the performance will start promptly at 6.30pm. The bottom line is the effect on the listener/viewer and the enjoyment and entertainment imparted. never had any ambitions to write songs on his own. Theyre very happy to settle into their own methods, and be comfortable within that. Duration: 00:04 Audio Audio transcript Notes he wished to propose, but he didn't seem to have the confidence Chillingly, Wilder also recalls seeing human remains strewn about the road. A Wikimdia Commons tartalmaz Alan Wilder tmj mdiallomnyokat. AW: Well, we actually already did the London show. 3, 2018. I now work on a MacBook Pro so Im much more portable these days, finally making music on the move (at least sometimes). Viewing will take place between 10.00am to 8.00pm on Friday 2nd September 2011 while the auction will be from 10.00am to 4.00pm on Saturday 3rd September 2011. The 4 test pressings were made and sent to me for approval in 1988. Songs of Faith and Devotion is my favourite album, and the tracks In Your Room, Walking In My Shoes and Never Let Me Down Again amongst others. This was expanded further with the release of the more freeform Spirit Of Eden in 1988 which eventually led to the dissolving of their relationship with EMI. I bought the ARP in the late 70s privately in London and this also featured on quite a few of my pre-Mode recordings with various bands. Martins always been a good songwriter, and that hasnt changed. Interview is in English, translated to German. However, the trip was seemingly cursed for singer Dave Gahan. ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK gives its grateful thanks to Alan Wilder. AW: Not yet. I dont see so much of Martin and Fletch, but we had a very good chat that day. I can remember the first time we recorded Walking in My Shoes. It was the first, and possibly only, time the band has ever jammed together. How did this affect your thinking musically about a keyboard players role in a band? In the end I decided that In Chainscould maybe benefit the most from my treatment, hopefully expanding the dynamics and overall power. For the end choruses, there are some string samples which I think were derived from Elgar. Alan Wilder. My personal favourites are by Feiner / Dangerfield / Wilson, Jack Northover, Joan As Police Woman, Nils Frahm / Peter Broderick and ZERO 7 all of whom thought really carefully about how to re-interpret the originals in a completely fresh and exciting way. Q: There's a source telling that you lived together with your girlfriend Jeri and her son Jason in the 80's. It took a couple of albums, but suddenly then we were forced to actually go into the studio and. I didnt want to be in any band at all. Andy Fletcher, keyboardist for Depeche Mode, passed away on Thursday (May 26) at the age of 60. After that, and at the urging of his bandmates, Gahan enrolled in the Exodus Recovery Center in Marina Del Rey, California, for another grueling stint at rehab. I did contribute a few to Depeche in those days, but I never was really happy with them. What are you talking about? This was the first time they had worked with producer Tim Friese-Greene; he was to become Hollis future creative partner. This is the approach I tried to take with my own submissions too. My inclination was that it would mainly consist of material from the last three RECOIL albums -so while there is a decent cross section of RECOILs overall output, the Selected album is more about my own favourites rather than a cater to all concept. In the early 1990s, Dave Gahan split up with his wife and married concert promoter Theresa Conway. Did The Colour Of Spring have any influence in inspiring you to start RECOIL? I prefer to allow the music to flow completely naturally. How has that one turned out? A few weeks later, Gahan told the Globe (via MTV News) that he hadn't set out to take his own life, that he was just extremely depressed. Is that true? These rumours were further fuelled when Wilder reworked Sounds Of The Universe track In Chainsfor 2011s Remixes 2album. And its these aspects of making music that I really enjoy the most, these trial-and-error experiments where something happens that you didnt expect and lead you to a new direction. It was a surprising and pleasurable adventure to hear the work with fresh ears and I was able, perhaps properly for the first time, to experience all the detail which I had either forgotten about or hadnt fully appreciated at the time.. As the bands sonic architect during their glory years, Wilder pushed the band into darker, experimental territory, but perhaps his most well-known accomplishment is when he took a gentle ballad of bandmate Martin Gores called Enjoy the Silence and transformed it into a dance track, and subsequently a worldwide smash. The DM track Clean utilised classical strings in a similar way. At that point, TT still very much felt like a band, although I was aware of the influence of Tim Friese-Greene and the important partnership which was obviously developing between Tim and Mark. If I had to describe Alan Wilder and his 30+ year career in music in one word, it would be "fearless." Alan Wilder makes no compromises musically, and has bravely ventured into new sonic territories where few others have dared to tread. In fact Toby tried to talk me out of that choice and suggested other songs. He was technically dead for six minutes. You released a RECOIL retrospective Selected last year. Perhaps subconsciously we could see a group growing rapidly in its sophistication while still retaining a great pop sensibility, all of which would have rubbed off and encouraged the feeling that experimentation is okay, and can still produce commercial results at the same time. The Bronze . He was fine with going out partying, leaving Alan behind working in the studio. I thought the song and the existing vocal performance was strong, and even though we ended up with two quite different versions Im happy with the results. Also on the bill are HEAVEN 17, ONETWO, MIRRORS and MOTOR. Mind-blowingly brilliant in its diversity, atmospherics, musicianship and topped off with that voice again which found its true position floating painfully over the top (in the best possible way). So Im quite happy to do it, and its been good fun. Your surprise appearance with your former bandmates at the Teenage Cancer Trust gig in 2010 was a genuinely show-stopping moment. I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking," he told The Guardian. I think they are all aware of it. It wasnt what EMI wanted and it sounds like a completely different band to one from 1984, let alone 1982. I sent some questions according to the biography as well. Its an overview, if you like, of what Recoil is all about, to try and bring it to a few people that may not know about it. There are also contributions from Ian Curnow, David Rhodes, Gaynor Sadler and Martin Ditcham, all of whom worked with TALK TALK. A: It is correct that she was a good deal older than me, Martins in a great place at the moment. Log In. I guess I always had a soft spot for the Minimoog but once you accepted that the ARP was never going to sound as fat and realised that it could be used as a completely different kind of tool, then it came into its own. That combination is really stupid," he said. So there are various reasons why we are now able, or I feel willing, to go on the road with it, as it were. My approach is always both experimental and methodical so I just start throwing different sounds and loops together until I get a spark. I guess a lot of people have a soft spot for that particular period. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Due for release by Fierce Panda in September 2012, Spirit Of Talk Talk features acts as diverse as WHITE LIES, ZERO 7, TURIN BRAKES, JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN and of course, RECOIL. Gahan's terrible, horrible, no good very bad 2009 wasn't over. Over the same period they conquered the States with sell-out stadium tours. This dark and wonderful collective is now one of the longest-lasting bands of all time, with its core trio of Gahan, Gore, and Andy Fletcher making interesting and progressive music together for 40 years and seeing100 million albums sold. Reportedly flying at about 400 miles per hour, the Tornado crashed into a hillside about 600 feet away from Wilder, leaving a large crater near the road. You never know quite where its going to lead to or where its going next. See Photos. Additional Text by Steve Gray Onstage he stood behind a keyboard but could appear as if he'd just happened to wander onto the set. Of course, you still had Alan was willing to provide everything and - when he noticed that he didn't get anything in return - probably seized almost the whole project, leaving no room for the other members of the team. Alan Wilder participated in a call-in interview with Polish radio host Pawe Kostrzewa. Associated with the dance music scene and the equally ecstasy-driven "Madchester" sound of bands like the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, Primal Scream combined rock with grooves, much like Depeche Mode. And the unusual feels that were created on those albums really influenced Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion. "'Walking in My Shoes' was the first, and possibly only, time the band has ever jammed together. For Spirit Of Eden, the jazz influences came to the fore along with a chamber orchestra and Nigel Kennedy. A: Over the course of any 13-year period with a band, there Flood and I were listening to quite a lot of hip hop and rap records at the time those artists were the forerunners when sampling larger sections of rhythms and grooves. I would say that by They never directly asked me. After he left the band, he completely devoted himself to his musical project named Recoil. However, despite all their success, it's remarkable Depeche Mode is still a band. He was 60 years old. from this time problems started to "develop". Alan Wilder, formerly the programming powerhouse of the group, and now striking out on his own, has poured the profits of his years with the Mode into this astonishing home setup. I would appreciate quick replies! Alan Wilders decades in the music industry saw him go from studio assistant to session keyboard player, but it was his 14 years as a member of Depeche Mode where he really honed his skills. It was a heady time for us, running about like headless chickens, rolling into town for endless promotion, live shows, guest appearances etc. I cant pretend I was ever a skilled operator (unlike Daniel Miller for example) but it is certainly a lot of fun to fiddle about with. How did that fabulous sequence on Waiting For The Night come together? Idyllique, see our interview with Paul Kendall) out on 0101 records. BE: That would have been like another version of Electronic, you and Robert Smith in the same band. And the film is an important more than important part of the whole thing. Truly the band is responsible for one of the best team-ups in music history, combining the velvety and dignified voice of Dave Gahan singing romantic and inscrutable lyrics penned by Martin Gore. Again a real challenge. Im trying to think of it in terms of a cohesive album that makes sense when you listen to it. Alan (trying to be diplomatic): "The fact that we took a break away from each other, that people went and did things with their own personal lives - had children and moved to different parts of the world - has given us all a different perspective on what the group was and is, and what it means to us all. "It's so long ago, and we were very different people then. Whilst he wrote only a few songs for the band, including If You Wantfrom Some Great Rewardand frenetic B-side In Your Memory, his flair for interpreting and arranging Martin Gores songs would quickly lead to a winning formula. Q: There is the pertinacious rumour that there had been a What happens is the songs evolve out of experiments in the studio, which is how I like it, because its a discovery process as you make the music. I think its a shame that they dont have more melody, because they obviously have really good rhythmic ideas and good energy, and Doug is potentially a very good singer. 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