Before hearing Nine Inch Nails, I had no idea who Skinny Puppy, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, or The Cure (save for “the hits”) even were. It isn’t that I was close-minded or anything; it’s just a generational thing perhaps. Fact is, I was relatively young upon first hearing “Closer” on MTV’s (was it called “Buzzworthy”?) commercial clips. I’ve since grown up, of course, become a huge fan of said bands and learned that these people were/are not only brilliant (or more brilliant as the case may be) in their own right, but they were/are also massively obvious influences on NIN mastermind Trent Reznor. Okay, that’s a convoluted overshare of an intro to a very simple story…
LA Weekly’s West Coast Sound blog reports that The Posters Came from the Walls, a forthcoming (and apparently great) documentary about über Depeche Mode fans features footage of people hailing from “Bucharest to Berlin to Tehran,” not to mention Muscovites celebrating [frontman] Dave [Gahan] Day on Russia’s national military day. All docs could use a little star power, though, and NIN frontman/”Depeche-ist”/fanman Trent Reznor answered the call.
Reznor provided a “sizeable interview,” saying “a lot about California and Depeche Mode,” according to co-director Nick Abrahams, whereas co-director Jeremy Deller simply added that he has “some compromising pics of [Reznor] so he had to agree.” More compromising than this or this? I kid, I kid.
For more info on The Posters Came from the Walls, go here and here.