He’s recently worked as a producer with Depeche Mode’s drummer Christian Eigner, who contributed drums for two original projects. A wearer of multiple-hats, Brent has operated in almost every role within the music industry including working as a record label VP, artist, festival organizer, artist management for platinum acts, TV/film/videogame composer, studio owner, arranger/orchestrator, and record producer/engineer (for such artists as Henry Rollins, Bowie/The Cure collaborator Reeves Gabrels, Chic/Bowie/Power Station’s Tony Thompson, and several musicians in the Beck/Sting sphere). Gore onstage, Brent plays an even more pivotal role for the project behind the scenes. When not inhabiting the persona of DM mastermind Martin L. Alongside fronting Strangelove, Leo has been working consistently as a session/studio vocalist, and is also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, producer and remixer with many original music projects in various musical genres released, to international acclaim. While being genetically gifted and seemingly made for this role, it’s his enduring passion for Depeche Mode’s body of work that really shines through. Many note he bears more than a passing resemblance to the charismatic Depeche Mode frontman! Also, being an actor (having appeared in national AT&T campaigns and even portraying a teen Marilyn Manson on a Biography Channel program), he fully inhabits the role of DG live on stage from the Essex accent to the larger-than-life dance moves and smallest hand gestures. He’s truly a vocal “ringer” and delivers a passionate and uncanny emulation of David Gahan’s velvet baritone. Having only recently entered his 30's, he brings a fresh perspective and youthful vitality to Dave Gahan’s legendary stage performances. Since immigrating, he’s worked as a musician, actor and model. Leo has lived in Brooklyn, New York since moving from Volgograd, Russia as a teenager. STRANGELOVE –The Depeche Mode Experience brings a thoroughly enjoyable and staggeringly authentic DM concert to concertgoers, and connects with international audiences, wherever the group performs. Their last stadium/arena tour in 2018 set world box office records. Their enormous fan base encompasses all ages and crosses every demographic. With over 120 million records sold and a rabid international fan base, Depeche Mode’s status as elder statesmen of electronica was recently cemented with their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame last year. Accuracy and authenticity is a hallmark of the project, with the band employing as many authentic vintage synthesizers and samplers as possible in recreating the classic and widely varied sounds of Depeche Mode’s discography. These accomplished musicians have a reverence and devotion to Depeche Mode’s body of work that's driven them to recreate every possible detail and bring the “Music To The Masses” in a concert setting that transcends a mere tribute production and feels more like a shared communal fan-club celebration of halcyon days of new wave/emerging electronica. Custom-produced multimedia projection visuals delight the concertgoer’s senses and enhance the illusion that they’re witnessing an actual Depeche Mode concert. Truly evocative of a Depeche Mode arena/stadium stage show the scale of STRANGELOVE’s theatrical stage production is unparalleled, save for the real article.
The visual presentation with stage set pieces and in-show costume changes reflect different eras of Depeche Mode’s story. No detail of STRANGELOVE’s presentation has been overlooked.
Songs from throughout the Depeche canon are lovingly recreated from favorites on DM’s debut Speak and Spell to the newest fare from ‘Mode’s latest- 2017’s “Spirit”. Los Angeles based STRANGELOVE-The Depeche Mode Experience delivers a career spanning, pitch perfect “best of” concert that transports the listener through time and touches on several key points in Depeche Mode’s 40+ year career. James Evans as “ InTheFletch” - keyboards, percussion, backing vocalsĬHRIS OLIVAS as “CHRIS-TIAN O-GNER" - acoustic and electronic drums Julian Shah-Tayler as “Oscar Wilder” - keyboards, sequencing, percussion, backing vocals, visuals LEO LUGANSKIY as “ULTRA Dave” – lead vocalsīrent Meyer as “Counterfeit Martin” – music director, keyboards, vocals, guitar, melodica, sequencing, percussion