Daryl Bamonte is an English musician, music publisher, record label head and artist manager, known for working for Depeche Mode and the Cure. He is the owner of Archangelo Music, an Ambassador for Europe in Synch, a consultant for Schubert Music Europe and the keyboardist in Permafrost. Depeche Mode He started off, as documented in an interview with authors Dennis Burmeister & Sascha Lange for the Depeche Mode book 'Monument', 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 commentary of the film Depeche Mode 101, as the fifth member of Depeche Mode. He is seen in many parts of the film, including one in which he sings "I Saw Her Standing There" accompanied by Dave Gahan on harmonica and Martin Gore on guitar. He was the tour manager for the Depeche Mode: Devotional video documentary. Bamonte was an assistant on the Violator album, the Project Manager on the Songs Of Faith And Devotion album and an album co-ordinator for Songs Of Faith And Devotion Live In 1994, Andrew Fletcher had to leave the tour ill and Daryl replaced him for the second leg of the US Tour, as well as six shows in South America. Alan Wilder 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." 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 Exciter and later, as he stopped working with the band in 1995. The Cure After having previously toured with them in the mid-1980's, in 1995 Daryl began working again for the Cure, alongside his older brother, Perry Bamonte who was lead guitarist at the time (and later rejoined the band in 2022). Daryl was Executive Producer for the Trilogy DVD and The Cure album alongside Robert Smith, and a Project Co-ordinator for the Bloodflowers album, the Join The Dots boxset and a number