Both: Yeah, fine
It will be me asking them, but it will be from the listeners. So if you're ready to go, we'll go straight into it. It's the Lakeland Radio Breakfast Show, Simon with you round until around ten o'clock. Erasure are current favourite on our new play list here at Lakeland Radio, we've just been playing "I Could Fall In Love With You". The album is called the "Light At The End Of The World", it's out now in the shops across the South Lakes to buy, and their new single "Sunday Girl" is out very very soon as well.
And I'm so happy to say that on the other end of this line, are the boys from Erasure. Good morning guys!
Both: Good morning!
How are you?
Both: Very well, thank you.
Great! That's of course Andy Bell and Vince Clarke. Can I just differentiate whose who? Which ones Vince?
Vince: I'm Vincent!
You're Vincent!
Andy: And I'm Andy Bell!
And that's Andy Bell ladies and gentleman, and they're on the Lakeland Radio Breakfast Show, good to have you with us. We're loving the new music that you have just bought out guys, here at Lakeland. It's going really well. If the first two singles are anything to go by, I think you're back! You're back with a force and a vengeance which is great. What we've got is that we've asked out listeners to come up with a few questions for you. So I'm just going to charge in there with some of those if that's OK.
Vince: That's great, cool.
Excellent. John in Comiston is our first question asker. Do you still enjoy being together and working together as much as you did at the height of your career?
Vince: Definitely I mean, it's actually better now. We know each other so well. The relationship is so and we eel so at ease with other. Writing songs, it's like going on holiday for me, I really really love it.
Excellent
Andy: Me too!
Good answer! Sally in Selside has asked, if you had to choose one song form todays charts to cover, which one would it be?
Andy: From todays chart?
From what's around now I think she means.
Andy: Well I would choose, well I can't remember the name of the song, but it was by… I think it was by Daniel Bedingfield, I think. Or Justin Timberlake - I can't remember! That one that goes [sings] Can't remember what the tune is now either! but I would know it if I heard it! It's a really lovely song.
Right
Vince: I would cover Mah Nà Mah Nà
Ah right! I like Mah Nà Mah Nà, that's good! Moving on swiftly, Erica in Oxenholme, nice train station! What was the last CD that you purchased?
Andy: The last CD that I purchased was the new Volta by Björk.
Right
Vince: The last CD that I purchased was The Best Of The Wiggles.
Would you like to… The Wiggles?
Vince: Yeah, well I just had a baby, well I say just, he's eighteen months old, so all we listen to is children's music.
Excellent!
Vince: And The Wiggles are incredibly good!
They sounds it! I'll have to try and download some and try and get hold of some - The Wiggles, I'll have to make a note of that! Mike in Kirkbarrow says Which album are you most proud of?
Andy: Apart from the new one, Chorus I think.
Vince: Yeah, my favourite is Chorus as well.
Yeah? Just remind everyone, when was that roughly out?
Andy: That was 1990.
Vince: What was the single from that one?
Andy: Chorus.
Vince: Chorus was the single from Chorus?!
Andy: And Love To Hate You
Brilliant, and we've got one more question and this is from Chris in Windermere - ooh hang on, I can't read his writing here! What's he say? Which song do you wish you have written? Oh right okay, if you could have free pen rights to any song at all, which one would you'd wish you'd written?
Andy: The Winner Takes It All
Vince: Don Mclean's Vincent
Excellent, that's good, that all pretty concise stuff there! You're on tour very soon, this September you're on tour?
Vince: Yeah we're in the UK in September. We're off to America this week actually. We're doing True Colors tour with Cyndi Lauper and Debbie Harry and The Gossip and Rufus Wainwright and lots of other people for fifteen shows, and then we do our own show and then we come again in September to play the whole album and the hits as well.
Brilliant. Well that's good, because I know that you're quite close to us here in the South, as I think you're coming to Preston I think it is, on the 12th September, Preston Guildhall, that's looking good. What made you come back with a new album and new singles, because you've not really been away have you that much?
Vince: No, we've been making records - the last record that we put out was an acoustic record which we toured in Europe and the States, and it was just time that we got together again to write, because we love writing so much. And this was written and recorded in Maine where I live now. And you know, we get to a stage where we have to do something together, the time was right to make this record.
Well I as say, we're really like what you've done there. "I Could Fall In Love With You" has been our single of the week at Lakeland Radio already and it's getting a lot of requests on out most wanted chart, which is good for you guys I think.
Vince: Thank you!
It's a pleasure and we're loving it a lot! So what's next once you've… You go to America first of all don't you?
Vince: Yeah we tour America then back in Europe and then early next year we'll be thinking about maybe about a record of nursery rhymes.
Are you serious?
Vince: Yes, it's gonna be… It will be nursery rhymes, but it will be a gothic record, like a musical soundtrack - like a Tim Burton record.
Right - that sounds quite interesting!
Vince: Scary! Scary and interesting at the same time.
Andy: Scary Mary!
I can see the nursery rhymes coming in now. It's been a pleasure taking to you this morning on the breakfast show, thank you very much for taking the time to join us, and I wish you all the very best with your future projects.
Both: Thanks Simon
Ladies and gentlemen it's Erasure on the Breakfast Show!