Quotes from Steve Malins

I've inflicted so much pain and suffering on myself over the years. I had a piercing called a guiche. That's the part between your arsehole and your balls. You're on all fours on a gurney. Your ass in the air, your meat and two veg hanging down. Your dignity is out the window. This girl did it, tattoos all over her face. I nearly passed out with the pain.

Oddly enough, Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses was a big Depeche Mode fan and he invited them to join him at a heavy metal nightclub, the Cat House. However, when he went off to a friend's Beverly Hills barbecue and allegedly shot a pig, Depeche Mode were sufficiently shocked to issue a statement: '... as strict vegetarians, the band were appalled by Rose's behaviour and do not wish to associate themselves with anyone who goes around shooting pigs for fun.

GAHAN: 'I don't think I should say "Hello, Pasadena", I think I should say, "Hello, the Rose Bowl" ... I don't know.' FRANKS: 'Why don't you say "Good Evening, Welcome To The Concert For The Masses"?' GAHAN: 'I'm not fucking Wordsworth, you know.

I think I started doing that when I was about seven, grabbing my crotch. It's great fun. You get to grab your dick in front of 20,000 people and they all scream.' At the time Gahan insisted that he had a clear perspective on his role as a tongue-flapping, genitalia-clutching aphrodisiac.