The Posters Came from the Walls

There’s an interesting article about Basildon and the origins of Depeche Mode on the Quietus website, written by Sophia Deboick, which refers to ‘The Posters Came from the Walls’.

To read it in full please click here.

Just found this record of the Q and A session the directors did at the amazing Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles, to complement some screenings there in 2010. The audiences in Los Angeles were absolutely lovely and enthusiastic, and if anything, we were taken aback by their high spirits at the time!

From Monopol magazine.

This Dave doll was made by and kindly sent to us by our favourite German family, the Granzows, who you will know if you have seen the film.

They have also recently been featured in a fashion shoot by Niall O’Brien for Dazed and Confused magazine:

See the whole article by clicking here.

Just in case you haven’t seen our documentary, here’s a clip featuring them:

If you have made your own T-shirts, painted your own banners, dressed your pets up, embroidered clothes, kept diaries or done drawings of Depeche related things, we would still love to see them, so do email us. The film was finished some time ago, but we might add another page to this site of things made by devotees that we like.

In the meantime, we’re planning on taking the Dave doll to the seaside to take some snaps more in the style of the promo and post them up here…

We met Yuri in New York recently and he was so  happy that we had told some of the story of being a Russian devotee in the 1990s. We made friends through our Facebook page for the film, and saw his photos of himself as a Dave look-a-like, and asked if we could show them on this site. So there’s a new page here ‘Some Russian Devotion”, please have a look. And thank you Yuri!

Our Los Angeles shows were our best yet, so crowded that people had to stand in the aisles, and everyone laughing so much that we were rather worried… but during one of the Question and Answer sessions, someone explained it was ‘the laughter of recognition’. Phew!


We were happy to catch up with Orlando, who features in the film (he managed to sit through all 3 showings!) and his mother (who only managed a paltry single screening). And we also made many new friends:

The LA Weekly gave us a good review you can read by clicking here, and then put out another article on us you can see by clicking here.

And here’s a great photo from the first Q and A by Sara Wood Lauder, who we met at the screenings:

Los Angeles screenings of the film just announced! 3 showings on January 29th and 30th 2010.

presented by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in association with Art Contemporary Los Angeles and Part Time Punks

at the Silent Movie Theatre at 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90036

To buy tickets directly try following these links

for 8pm friday 29th January click here

for 10.30 pm friday 29th January click here

for 8pm Saturday 30th January click here

or for more details please follow this link – the ‘Posters..’ screenings are right down the bottom of the page

http://www.cinefamily.org/calendar/events.html#theposters

Nice to see one of the curators of the Whitney Museum in New York choosing our film as one of the films of the year in the magazine Artforum :

Alan Wilder kindly took part in a question and answer session with the filmmakers and audience at the Clapham Picturehouse on December 1st, 2009, and our friends Matt Killip and Owen Oppenheimer filmed it for us. After the film we all went to the bar and Alan was the life and soul of the party, signing autographs, chatting with everyone and posing for pictures whilst the lovely Nervous Stephen and the ‘godlike’ (i’m only quoting a review! but he did invent electro and produce New Order and is a fine, fine cook!) Arthur Baker spun some classic tunes for us.

This is a shortened version of the Q&A and we may post more of it at a later date.

There is a nice review of the evening here