San Francisco radio station Energy 92.7FM are running an Erasure themed competition.
Listen to the station this week through Thursday for Energy 92.7 to play an Erasure song. When you hear one, be caller 7 and you'll win your way into the Erasure E-Room, a private performance with Erasure.
You can also view the clip at YouTube or MySpace.
Thanks to Vince Clarke for the video.
Following on from his widely acclaimed series, the secret life of the manic depressive, Stephen Fry tackles the largely forgotten world of HIV and AIDS.
In the early Eighties, little was known about AIDS or how to treat it. The focus was restricted to certain groups, including gay men, and Stephen watched as friends became infected and died.
On a personal journey, Stephen explores the situation today and finds that, although effective medication is now available, a third of those infected don't know they are positive. He also finds new infections are rising.
To illustrate the changing face of the virus, Stephen meets up with an HIV-positive grandmother, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who has had HIV since birth and HIV-positive couples who have given birth to HIV-negative children.
He also meets celebrities Andy Bell, George Michael and Scissor Sister Ana Matronic to hear their personal stories about HIV.
This documentary will be broadcast Autumn 2007 on BBC Two.
On Thurs 21st June at 8.00pm, the US network Logo TV will air the premier of: Shining Through: Behind the Scenes at True Colors. This programme features behind the scenes footage of the tour - including rehearsals and show day.
Additional air dates include:
- 21 June 8:00pm
- 23 June 4:00pm
- 24 June 11:30am
- 24 June 11:30pm
- 26 June 12:30am
- 28 June 11:00am
- 30 June 1:30am
An additional date has been added to Erasure's 'Light At The End Of The World' Tour: 4th August Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, New Jersey.
Tickets are available via the boxoffice (732 842 9000) or online.
Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth St. Red Bank, NJ 07701
Erasure brings you this exclusive competition where you can download instrument & vocal loops for the Erasure song When A Lover Leaves You (taken from their new album 'Light At The End Of The World') and use this to create your own remix.
The song download is available in Apple's GarageBand multi-track format. GarageBand is a music-making software application that comes with every Mac as part of its iLife suite of digital applications.
The winning remix (as chosen by the band) will be available as part of Erasure's third single release later this year.
The instrument and vocal loops are available for download as a GarageBand project file (approx 164Mb).
Full details of this competition are available here.
There is a two page interview with Vince Clarke (which is part of a 'Mute Audio Documents' feature) in the current edition of the magazine Future Music. There are also interviews with Daniel Miller and I Start Counting / Komputer.
Andy Bell is interviewed by Tessa Williams-Akoto in The Independent, discussing his home in Highgate, North London.
Vibrant colour, dazzling art and beautiful views across London - Erasure's Andy Bell has come a long way from Peterborough's housing estates
The American magazine Billboard (which is targeted towards music professionals within the music industry) will feature an Erasure special in their next edition.
The Erasure special has an issue date of "June 23" and will be on the news stands a week prior to this - on Saturday June 16.
Individual issues of the magazine can be purchased direct from Billboard at orderbillboard.com. (You will need to order the edition with the "June 23" issue date)
On Monday 18th June Erasure are to conduct an in-store signing at the Times Square Virgin Megastore between 6:00pm - 7:00pm.
1540 Broadway
New York
NY 10036
At the recent HMV Birmingham instore performance, Erasure were interviewed by the ITV Central television crew.
The interview will be shown on Friday 15th June at 6pm during the Central Tonight programme on ITV1 (Central region). The extended interview will also be available on the ITV Local website within the "What's On" section.
The Sunday Girl (Riffs & Rays Radio Edit) exclusive digital download mix is now available from iTunes, MSN Music, Virgin Digital and HMV Digital
The new Erasure single Sunday Girl is out now in Germany and released on Monday in the UK. Available on three physical formats: CD, LCD and 7" vinyl picture disc as well as digital downloads.
From Monday an exclusive mix - the Sunday Girl (Riffs & Rays Radio Edit) will be available via iTunes. Erasure songs purchased from iTunes are now available higher quality and "DRM Free" meaning that they will play back on a far wider range of devices than before.
A Sunday Girl e-card is available, where you can listen to one of the mixes.
On 28th June there is to be a party at the Blondie Discotheque in Santiago de Chile to celebrate the release of the new album 'Light At The End Of The World'.
A flyer is available, and further details are available from blondie.cl.
Presented here is an exclusive behind the scenes recording of "Sunday Girl" performed during the recent Capital Gold interview.
You can also view the clip directly at YouTube or MySpace.
Thanks to Robert Marlow for the original video footage.
A new album titled "True Colors" is due for release on the 12th June 2007 by Silver Label, which includes songs from artists who are performing on the "True Colors" tour.
Erasure are represented by the "DJ Manolo's True Colors Mix" of their song "Early Bird", featuring a duet with Cyndi Lauper.
Full tracklisting:
- Cyndi Lauper - True Colors (Morel Mix)
- Erasure - Early Bird (DJ Manolo's True Colors Mix)
- Debbie Harry - What Is Love
- The Dresden Dolls - Shores of California
- The Gossip - (Take Back) The Revolution
- Indigo Girls - Rock & Roll Heaven's Gate
- The Cliks - Oh Yeah
- Rufus Wainwright - Gay Messiah
- Jeffree Star - Plastic Surgery Slumber Party
- Cazwell - Watch My Mouth
The album can be pre-ordered from TommyBoy.com and you can listen to an exclusive clip here:
Here are scans (front and back) of the "Sunday Girl" limited edition 7" vinyl picture disc (MUTE376), the second single from the album "Light At The End Of The World".
Tickets for the Altos de Chavón - The Amphitheater (Dominican Republic) performance (14th July) are available from Ticket Express.