Enjoy the Sirens

Atop all the other suffering and warfare comes the news that Depeche Mode will be cancelling it's concert in Tel Aviv. Instead of spending a night with everyone's favorite twee keyboard band from the 80s it looks like Israeli fans will get a ticket refund. The culprit here? Nope, not the pale, gothy lads themselves - who, depite what you might think, are apparently a bunch of fearless hardasses.

No, it's the roadies that are apparently to blame. They refuse to perform their technical whizbangery in an environment where they could get Katyusha-ed before the encore.