Depeche Mode/Peter Bjorn & John @ Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara 8/20/09

This is a special Depeche Mode photo set Andrew Youssef delivered: there are no photos of Dave Gahan with his shirt off! Increyable. The singer's recent illness forced the band to cancel a spate of dates, so chalk it up to health concerns rather than a latter day bout of self-consciousness, but still, that's gotta be a first. (OK, a second.) The setlist was substantially similar to what we got at Lollapalooza, with the notable exception of a pre-Violator song in "Stripped." Like the better pa...

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