The Belfast Waterfront date for 'The Erasure Show' (24th Feb 2005) sold out in 2 hours!

As with the UK releases last year, 'Breathe' will be available on two CD's and a DVD, but with a break in tradition, the 'Breathe' DVD will actually feature the video for 'Breathe'!

The full tracks listings for 'Breathe' on the various formats are as follows:

CD1: (CDMUTE330)

• Breathe
• Gone Crazy

CD2: (LCDMUTE330)

• Breathe (LMC Extended Club Mix)
• Breathe (When Andy Bell Met Manhattan Clique Extended Remix)
• Breathe (Acoustic Version)
• Enhanced Section: Exclusive Digimpro Remix Software (Enables you to remix 'Breathe' on your PC)*

DVD: (DVDMUTE330)

• Breathe (Radio Version)
• Mr Gribber And His Amazing Cat
• Breathe (Video)

* This exclusive new software, Digimpro, allows you to remix 'Breathe' on your own Windows based PC by enabling you to interact and manipulate the different elements of 'Breathe'.

By using the improvisation feature and real time mixing options (and the additional music supplied by the band), you can create a customised version of 'Breathe' and save it as an a MP3.

Erasure's brand new single 'Breathe' will be released in the UK on the 3rd January 2005, and the album 'Nightbird' will be released on the 24th January 2005.

A new date has been added to 'The Erasure Show', at the Belfast Waterfront on the 24th February 2005!

Tickets are on sale from 29th October via Waterfront Boxoffice (028 9033 4455) or via the Ticketmaster Ireland website.

All currently known tour dates are listed here.

The UK release date of the DVD is 22nd November 2004 and the US release date is 30th November 2004.

Full track listing of the DVD is available in the discography section.

Breaking news! Confirmed via a txt message only this morning, Andy will be making his debut DJ performance at the Electrogogo Xmas party on December 16th.

The release date of the forthcoming Tank / Swan DVD has unfortunately been pushed back slightly. The UK release date is now 22nd November - I'm waiting for confirmation of the US release date.

The delay was triggered by the discovery (during the final QA check) of brief colour flashes appearing in several individual frames of the footage.

Although these flashes were really only noticeable if you are specifically looking for them, they have nonetheless been corrected on the master and the DVD has been re-authored.

Writers for Q magazine have compiled a top 50 of what they believe to be the music world's biggest groups, rating the band's performance with a points system that measured sales of their biggest album, the scale of their biggest headlining show and the total number of weeks spent on the UK album chart.

Erasure are in the top 50 at number 47!

See the November edition of Q magazine for the full list or the Independent online write-up about the feature.

In EIS Update #38 I announced that the Copenhagen tickets were on sale from last Friday - well this week I can now tell you that they sold out in four days!

'The Erasure Show' has been extended to Copenhagen!

The date of the show is the 24th March 2005 at the Vega venue, and tickets are on sale from today.

For more info (and tickets) see the Vega website.