Never let me down again

Woah! Rarely have I seen anything like this. I caught the last hour of Depeche Mode at the Point Depot in Dublin on Monday night. I walked in with about an hour to go and the power of what was happening was astonishing.

You haven't lived until you walk into a room and 8000 people are chanting "Reach out and touch faith." I'm not a huge fan, but this was an astonishing concert. I felt a bit disconnected, a bit like arriving into the pub hours after everyone else only to fund that they are all really drunk - it's very hard to catch up, if indeed you feel like it.

The crowd were whipped into a scary frenzy and were dancing their asses of even at the very back. To me it seemed a little flat, but you can't argue with the stamping feet. As I get older, I find myself more and more strongly affected by concerts like this - there is a lot of energy in a room like this and it effects me for days later. I get a similar release sometimes from playing thrashing loud guitar, but hey, that's my thing.