It's been 6 long years since the last one but Mute Bank are very proud to announce the arrival of a brand new Mute t-shirt.

The new design features the classic Mute walking man logo sporting the latest in mobile audio which comes on a 100% cotton black shirt and is available exclusively from Mute Bank. Available in skinny/girly, medium, large and x-large sizes.

Pre-order before 8th December 2006 and pay only £11.99. The price will revert to the regular price of £12.99 on the 9th December.

In addition, 3 lucky customers will also receive a Depeche Mode Exciter promo box set. A further 50 lucky customers will receive a free Mute goodie bags (containing promo items from Depeche Mode, Moby, Richard Hawley, Blues Explosion and Miss Kittin)

The two forthcoming EIS releases Buried Treasure II and EIS Live may now be pre-ordered via the EIS Online store.

Each CD is priced at £8.00 (which is approx. $15.00 or €11.80).

If you purchase both Buried Treasure II and EIS Live together then the discounted price will be £14.00 for the pair (a saving of £2.00).

The above prices do not include p&p.

The CDs are currently being manufactured - stock is expected to arrive at the end of next week, and they will be dispatched as soon as possible after the stock arrives.

These CDs are limited edition and will not be available for long. As with the previous EIS CDs they will not be re-pressed once they have sold out.

The brand new DVD release The Road To Nashville is out on 29th Jan 2007 (UK / Europe) and 20th Feb 2007 (North America) on Mute.

For 2006's Acoustic Tour Andy Bell and Vince Clarke reworked a selection of the defining songs that embody their two decades together and were joined onstage, for the first time ever, by a full band. Led by guitarist Steve Walsh, Andy Bell's vocals and Vince Clarke's guitar, mandolin and melodica were joined by an array of musicians and instruments that included the pedal steel, autoharp and banjo.

Filmed live on Erasure's Union Street Acoustic Tour in May 2006 in Nashville, Tennesse at the Ryman Auditorium (once home of the infamous Grand Ole Opry with a stage that once hosted a teenage Elvis Presley), the DVD features never before seen versions of hits and live favourites such as Oh L'Amour, Love To Hate You, Stop! Blue Savannah, Victim of Love and Sometimes as well as a short film, The Road to Union Street and a bonus audio CD featuring 18 of the live Nashville tracks.

The artwork for the DVD (shown below) features a re-working of the original Nashville show poster which was designed by Hatch Show Print for the Ryman Auditorium.

Track Listing

The Road to Nashville

1. Boy
2. Blue Savannah
3. Oh L'Amour
4. Alien
5. Breathe
6. Victim of Love
7. How Many Times
8. Spiralling
9. Sometimes
10. Tenderest Moments
11. Ship of Fools
12. Love to Hate You
13. Against My View
14. Piano Song
15. Rock Me Gently
16. Stop!
17. Chains of Love
18. Encore: A Little Respect

Bonus Songs

1. Stay With Me
2. Love Affair
3. Blue Savannah (Fan filmed footage)
4. Sometimes (Fan filmed footage)

Additional

1. The Road to Union Street (A short film)

Audio CD

1. Boy
2. Blue Savannah
3. Oh L'Amour
4. Alien
5. Breathe
6. Victim of Love
7. How Many Times
8. Spiralling
9. Sometimes
10. Tenderest Moments
11. Ship of Fools
12. Love to Hate You
13. Against My View
14. Piano Song
15. Rock Me Gently
16. Stop!
17. Chains of Love
18. Encore: A Little Respect

The second CD that the EIS will shortly be releasing is 'EIS Live', featuring unreleased live tracks from the Manchester "An Evening With Erasure" gig and a selection of songs from the Leicester EIS'04 convention, which featured the Erasure tribute band "Eraser" plus Andy Bell singing on two songs.

1. Just Can't Get Enough ('An Evening With Erasure')
2. Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me ('An Evening With Erasure')
3. Home ('An Evening With Erasure')
4. Rain ('An Evening With Erasure')
5. In My Arms ('An Evening With Erasure')
6. Sometimes ('An Evening With Erasure')
7. Love To Hate You ('An Evening With Erasure')
8. Hideaway ('EIS'04' Eraser performance)
9. Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summers Day) ('EIS'04' Eraser performance)
10. A Little Respect ('EIS'04' Eraser performance with Andy Bell)
11. Blue Savannah ('EIS'04' Eraser performance with Andy Bell)

'Buried Treasure II' and 'EIS Live' will be available for pre-order via the EIS online store next week. You will be able to pre-order the CDs individually or for a discounted price as a pair (i.e both 'Buried Treasure II' & 'EIS Live' together.)

ALL SIGNED COPIES HAVE NOW SOLD OUT

Mute Bank have 50 signed copies of Vince Clarke & Martyn Ware's Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle available priced just £6.99. Each is signed by Vince and Martyn, individually numbered and available while stocks last.

Electronic pioneers Vincent Clarke of Erasure and Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 release 'Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle', the second album from two of the greatest musical innovators and follows the 'Pretentious' release from 1999. The six new instrumental recordings, of over seventy minutes, were originally premiered as part of a two-hour performance at the Roundhouse in London during February 2000. The one-off event was staged in a white clothed lined room, twelve metres in diameter, covered with the colours referred to in the title of each segment. The colours were programmed to cross fade during the event to achieve an almost infinite variation of colour.

Like 'Pretentious', the new album was uniquely recorded using logic audio platinum. The output from this was then spatialized using Animix 3D visualisation software and the Lake Huron 3D audio processor. Recorded in binaural format, for best results 'Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle' should be listened to on headphones.

ALL SIGNED COPIES HAVE NOW SOLD OUT

BBC Radio 2 is pleased to announce that Andy Bell is due to take part in a recording of 'The Lee Mack Show' on 21st November 2006.

In the programme, BAFTA winner Lee Mack is joined by Angela McHale ('The Catherine Tate Show') and Steve Brown ('Jammin', 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'), plus more special guests from the world of comedy and music, for his unique take on the variety show.

If you would like to join the live audience for this recording in London, you can find out more and request your free tickets by calling BBC Studio Audiences on 0870 9011227, or by logging on to the BBC Tickets website.

A major new art exhibition "Think Pink!" bringing together a posse of the UK's leading gay artists opens in Hastings on World Aids Day, December 1st.

The show will be opened at a gala event by Andy Bell, lead singer of pop legends Erasure, a frequent visitor to the eccentric seaside town and probably the world's most famous openly HIV-positive artist.

The show will be running for one week at the south coast's trendy new art spot, The Arts Forum. "Think Pink!" runs from Saturday December 2nd to Friday December 8th.

Location: The Arts Forum Gallery, 36, Marina, St.Leonards, East Sussex TN38 0BU.

Opening Times: 11:00 to 17:00 daily.

Half of all proceeds from sales of work will be donated to Terrence Higgins Trust. The event is sponsored by Trade, Terrence Higgins Trust South and the Hastings & St.Leonards NHS Primary Care Trust.

Andy Bell will be guest DJ at 'Spring Street' - one of Maine's "Hottest Nightspots" on Friday 3rd November.

Spring Street, 117 Spring Street, Portland, Maine 04101