The Depeche Mode fan tradition of the audience waving their arms in unison during the song "Never Let Me Down Again" started with the Pasadena performance shown in "101". In 2006, on the "Music For The Masses" documentary DVD, Martin Gore said: "Dave [Gahan] often says that he doesn't know how he came up with the idea, when we were playing at the Rose Bowl. But he just, like, started waving his arms in the air; and, uh, you know, the whole crowd, just...in unison, started doing it back."
In the 2006 "Music For The Masses" re-release DVD documentary, Depeche Mode tour manager Andy Franks says the "101" stage was designed by Chip Monck, creator of the stage for the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
At some point in the documentary, a radio DJ suggests "Depeche Mode" is French for "Fast Fashion", which he justifies by having checked into a French dictionary. Actually, this is a misinterpretation of the true meaning of "Depeche" in this specific case, because the DJ has confused it with the imperative of the verb "se dépêcher" ("to hurry", "to rush") "Depeche Mode" happens to be the name of an old French fashion magazine and "Depeche" here ("dépêche" with a proper French spelling) is a noun that refers to some "short/brief piece of latest/fresh/breaking news", whereas "mode" does mean "fashion" or "trend", indeed. As a conclusion, a more accurate English translation for "Depeche Mode" would be "Latest Short Fashion News", for instance, or more concisely, "Fashion Newsflash" or "Fashion Dispatch" (since the word "dispatch" actually originates from the Spanish verb "despachar" or the Italian verb "dispacciare", both deriving from the French verb "dépêcher", which means "to send [somebody] somewhere [with a specific purpose]", the way a newspaper might send a field reporter somewhere to cover a topic.)
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