{"id":24294,"date":"2023-10-11T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=24294"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:56:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:56:20","slug":"concert-report-depeche-mode-amway-center-afterparty-barbarella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=24294","title":{"rendered":"Concert Report: Depeche Mode (Amway Center) & Afterparty (Barbarella)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is Amway Center<\/em> in beautiful downtown Orlando. It’s home to the Orlando Magic<\/em> of the National Basketball Association (NBA) <\/em>and is home to the largest music concerts in Central Florida.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A City of Orlando<\/em> official told us there were 13,000 in attendance for last night’s show but it wouldn’t surprise us if it was actually more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A Rock band called DIIV (USA) opened the show at 7:30PM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But then around 8:50PM, there they were! The headliners, Depeche Mode (GB).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Only two of the original 80’s New Wave band remain. Lead Singer Dave Gahan seen in front here wearing black bootcut jeans, white boots and a vest…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And Guitarist\/Keyboardist and part-time singer Martin Gore dressed in all-black.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another keyboardist was stationed stage right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And a drummer stage left. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Amway <\/em>was absolutely packed to the rafters!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They opened with three songs off their new album before finally delivering one of their massive 80’s hits, “It’s No Good<\/a>“.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Other hits played during their nonstop set included “Everything Counts<\/a>“, “Precious<\/a>” and actually making me tear up as I was transported way back to the 80’s, “Enjoy The Silence<\/a>“.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pit view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gahan during one of his spins. When a spotlight shined down from the ceiling and created a bright circle on the stage, Gahan liked to stand in the middle of it and just spin and spin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There was a runway that came out from the main stage but both Gahan and Gore only used it a few times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But it did get them out closer to the floor crowd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Such good music!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Near the end, “World In My Eyes<\/a>“<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The band left the stage for a good five minutes before returning for the requisite encore. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There were four songs in the encore including the concluding song a version of “Personal Jesus<\/a>“. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our only complaint would be they sadly did not play hits “People Are People<\/a>” or “Strangelove<\/a>” but you can’t have it all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So many memories! A great concert and a good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After the party it was the After Party<\/em>, taking place at Orlando’s home of New Wave, Barbarella<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Rob Bates (USA) was playing not only Depeche Mode but also other New Wave and Alternative hits.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We were able to escape downtown concert traffic pretty easily and arrived at Barbarella <\/em>to find the dance floor already busy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fifteen minutes later the place looked like this! Barbarella <\/em>is typically only open for New Wave on Saturday nights but they had this unprecedented Tuesday night opening last night because of the concert. (Barbarella <\/em>is also open on the 2nd Friday of each month for Industrial\/Goth\/Dark Wave.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ’s! We saw DJ’s! Spotted in the corner: DJ Cliff T (USA) from Aero Bar <\/em>and DJ Parry (USA) from The Patio<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted by the door: DJ Smilin’ Dan (USA) from Stardust Lounge<\/em> and DJ Dave Cannalte (USA) from Mannequins Dance Palace<\/em> and AAHZ<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted by the bar: DJ Jerry The Reverend Johnson (USA) from Yacht Rock<\/em>, DJ AK1200 (USA) who played last weekend at Iron Cow<\/em> and former Sunday Night SIN at House of Blues<\/em> resident DJ Sandy (USA). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The bar was also as busy as we’ve seen it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Close to midnight, DJ Smilin’ Dan taking over in the booth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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While we saw a lot of Barbarella <\/em>regulars there last night, most were people we’ve never seen before, experiencing it likely for the first time. So it was a real win for the club that’s located where one does not just stumble upon it. Between great drink prices and great music, Barbarella <\/em>is the place to be and a good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0841.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OlZE-6jQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24294"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24351,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294\/revisions\/24351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}