Doublespeak’s Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur And Benge On Their Synthpop Covers Album
The post Doublespeak’s Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur And Benge On Their Synthpop Covers Album appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Doublespeak. credit: Doublespeak The first time that British keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Neil Arthur met was around 1981, when Clarke’s then-band, Depeche Mode, was touring with Arthur’s group, Blancmange, as the support act. “We got to know each other quite well,” Clarke says today. “We all went on vacation together. It was to Tenerife, as I recall, in Spain. And Neil and I have been sort of keeping in touch off and on for all this amount of time.” Adds Arthur, “We [Blancmange] were involved with Steve-O, who put together the Some Bizzare compilation album, which we were lucky enough to be on along with Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Illustration and The The…We went on tour after Depeche Mode signed to Mute. So I got to know Vince kind of around that time.” More than 40 years later, Clarke and Arthur have formed a supergroup called Doublepseak with musician-