Depeche Mode's Black Celebration

In 1986, Depeche Mode released Black Celebration - an album that defined the band during 1986-1998 and celebrates 40 years of enduring impact in 2026. Songs from the album have always held a central place in their concerts: Stripped, A Question of Time, Black Celebration, A Question Of Lust, Fly On The Windscreen, and acoustic versions of It Doesn't Matter Two, Dressed In Black, and But Not Tonight.

The lecture picks up where songwriting ends: how are the songs transformed into an electronic universe? What sounds were used, and how were they assembled? Along the way, you'll sing along to some of the tracks, so you can feel Martin Gore's songwriting in your body - making the lecture also function as a mini concert.

You need no musical or technical background. Everything is explained through sound and images, with concrete examples showing the journey from raw song through electronic arrangement to finished production.