Depeche Mode came without Martin to the German IFA (international wireless /TV exhibition). They been guest of the German TV station RTL. There was a little stage and DM should get the "Gold-award" for the good selling of their "Ultra" album. Many fans were arriving in the early morning, like me and my friend around 9AM... and waited untill 5 PM, then Dave and Fletch came finally on stage, there must have been around 200(?) fans, they all were screaming like crazy for joy. A guy from the RTL crew interviewed Depeche, asked question about a possible tour. Then a TV-woman were giving Dave and Fletch the gold-award for Ultra! The man from RTL had about 10 signed ULTRA cd´s to give away, all the devotees went mad, as everybody wanted to get one of them. It´s been a real fight ;-)! Dave and Fletch must have been on stage maybe for about 10 minutes only, then they went backstage to give interviews to other TV stations as well journalists!
 

Berlin
 

IFA´97

TV reports:
RTL Punkt6
 - 1.September 1997
Viva News - 1.September

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