Andy will be doing a radio interview on the 1st Dec whilst he is in Madrid.
He will be speaking to Gaydar Radio, and the interview will go out about 4.30pm (UK time).
Gaydar Radio is available via:
- Sky Digital (UK) : Channel 908
- Eurobird 1 28.5'E (Europe) : 11389 V
- Digital Radio (DAB) : Certain areas in the UK
- Internet : gaydarradio.com (Windows Media Player Required)
Andy (with Philip and Chris from Manhattan Clique) will be performing in Madrid on World Aids Day this Thursday 1st December.
They will be playing a 30 minute set (approximately) at around 11.15pm.
The venue is the Sala La Riviera, Paseo De La Virgen Del Puerto S/N Madrid
Tickets are available from Tick Tack Ticket (page only works in Internet Explorer) and further information is available from Actua Música.
At 9pm on the 1st December, the Canadian TV channel Star! The Entertainment Information Station will be showing 'Fashion Cares 2005: Bollywood Cowboy', featuring performances by Jann Arden, Feist, Erasure and many more.
This programme is simulcast with the 'Fashion Television Channel'
For those of you that went to the Erasure Show this year, you may be familiar with 'Live Here Now', they're the team who produced limited edition live recordings of the concerts.
Well with Heaven 17 making a live appearance at The Scala in London on 29th November, Live Here Now are working with Glenn Gregory, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh to produce an official limited edition live recording of this very special event. Order yours now at liveherenow.co.uk.
Erasure's forthcoming acoustic album "Union Street" is to be released in the UK on the 3rd April 2006.
The album features a collection of the bands previously released songs, reinterpreted in an acoustic / country & western style. The full track listing is available here.
International release dates TBC.
An insight into this album was revealed in an interview with the band:
Ever the technical innovator (Clarke), he had crafted himself an artist's studio based round a computer and two speakers in his apartment, and found a hardworking little basement studio two blocks away in Brooklyn. Erasure had road-tested this new set-up in autumn 2003, recording a series of acoustic versions of highlights from their back catalogue.
"We just felt there were songs on our albums that had been missed as songs," says Clarke. "We found this cool guitarist [Steve Walsh] with a cool studio [Union Street] and decided to use both. Steve put the thing together. It was great going back through those songs, some of which I hadn't listened to properly since we made them - suddenly you heard some of the naivety that was in there in the first place."
The idea, says Bell, was "to show the songs in a different light, and show that they could work on whatever instrument, synthesisers or guitars.
It makes such a different singing with acoustic instruments - there's more space, it seems. When you're using electronics they soak up part of the voice. Whereas [with] strings, the voice seems to vibrate off of them." - smellslikemusic.com
Nearly 1,500 photos are now available within the EIS Fan Gallery with the recent addition of further photos.
Andy recently wrote about his weekend in an article for the Guardian newspaper. You may read it here.
Details of live performances and DJ sessions in Moscow and St Petersburg have been added to the Live section.