“What’s dangerous about someone like Richard Spencer is, first of all, he’s a cunt - and he’s a very educated cunt - and that’s the scariest kind of all. This guy’s got some weight behind him. I don’t like that…”

That was lead singer Dave Gahan, responding through the pages of Rolling Stone to white supremacist think tank leader, Richard Spencer, declaring Depeche Mode ‘the official band of the alt-right’.

“Over the years there’s been a number of times when things of ours have been misinterpreted...” Gahan added. “If anything, there’s a way more sort of socialist - working class, if you like - industrial-sounding aesthetic to what we do. That’s where we come from so I don’t get what he was saying.”