Daryl Bamonte
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Daryl Bamonte is known for working for Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

 and The Cure
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...

. His company Bamonte Artist Management (founded in 2005) represents the bands Das Shadow
Das Shadow
Das Shadow is a band created by Andrew Phillpott, who is known for co-writing with Christian Eigner and Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode. Das Shadow started as a production/remix project, remixing for Dave Gahan, Yazoo and Veto....

 and Compact Space
Compact Space (band)
Compact Space is a band featuring Christian Eigner, Daryl Bamonte and vocalist Florian Kraemmer. They started writing together in 2008 and released their first album in 2011. The first single 'Push Push' was released on iTunes and Amazon in October 2009 through their own label Elsbeere Recordings,...

, as well as artists Producer/Mixer/Engineer/Programmer Paul "P-Dub" Walton, Songwriter/Musician/Producer Andrew Phillpott, and Musician/Songwriter/Producer Christian Eigner
Christian Eigner
Christian Eigner is an Austrian drummer, composer, live and session musician.- Depeche Mode & Christian Eigner :...

. In Berlin in 2009 he launched a new record label We Collect Enemies with Phillpott and Glen Brady to release tracks from Das Shadow
Das Shadow
Das Shadow is a band created by Andrew Phillpott, who is known for co-writing with Christian Eigner and Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode. Das Shadow started as a production/remix project, remixing for Dave Gahan, Yazoo and Veto....

, DJ Wool and new signing Broad Bean Band.

Depeche Mode

He started off, according to the commentary of Depeche Mode 101, setting up and taking down equipment for the band, in their early days. He stayed with them, after they gained success, as the road manager. He is also credited in the film's commentary, as the 5th member of Depeche Mode. He's seen in many parts of the film, including one in which, he sings "I Saw Her Standing There
I Saw Her Standing There
"I Saw Her Standing There" is a song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, and is the opening track on The Beatles' debut album, Please Please Me, released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone on 22 March 1963....

," accompanied by Dave Gahan on harmonica and Martin Gore
Martin Gore
Martin Lee Gore is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist, keyboardist, remixer and DJ. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the vast majority of their songs...

 on guitar.

In 1994, Andrew Fletcher
Andrew Fletcher (musician)
Andy Fletcher , known as "Fletch", is a co-founder and member of the English synth band Depeche Mode.-Depeche Mode:...

 had to leave the tour and Daryl replaced him for the second leg of the US Tour, as well as six shows in South America.

Alan Wilder
Alan Wilder
Alan Charles Wilder is a British musician, formerly of Depeche Mode. His current musical project is called Recoil, started as a side project to Depeche Mode. When he left the latter in 1995, it became Wilder's primary project...

 commented on his website when asked about this:
"While everyone else was sunning themselves on the beach and enjoying a well-earned rest, Daryl and I spent a week cooped up in a hotel room in Hawaii where I taught him the entire set. He subsequently played it perfectly for the rest of the tour - pretty good eh, considering he'd hardly ever played a keyboard before in his life." Shunt Q&A


Having been with them since the beginning of their career, he appears in all of the documentaries for the Depeche Mode remastered albums released so far, apart from Ultra and Exciter, as he stopped working with the band in 1995.

The Cure

In 1995, Daryl began working for The Cure, alongside his older brother, Perry Bamonte
Perry Bamonte
Perry Archangelo Bamonte is an Anglo-Italian musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:...

 who was lead guitarist at the time. Daryl was Executive Producer for the Trilogy DVD and 'The Cure' album alongside Robert Smith. His work with The Cure ended in 2005. He was the tour manager for the Depeche Mode: Devotional video documentary.

Compact Space

Bamonte is also one of three artists in the band Compact Space
Compact Space (band)
Compact Space is a band featuring Christian Eigner, Daryl Bamonte and vocalist Florian Kraemmer. They started writing together in 2008 and released their first album in 2011. The first single 'Push Push' was released on iTunes and Amazon in October 2009 through their own label Elsbeere Recordings,...

, along with Christian Eigner
Christian Eigner
Christian Eigner is an Austrian drummer, composer, live and session musician.- Depeche Mode & Christian Eigner :...

 and Florian Kraemmer. In the band, Bamonte writes the lyrics, Eigner develops the melodies, and Kraemmer puts together the music. Their first album ‘Nameless’ and the 'Push Push' EP was released in June 2011 in physical and digital formats through their own label Elsbeere Recordings in a worldwide licensing deal with Ferryhouse Productions in Hamburg.
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