The eagerly anticipated CD release of Erasure's performance at the Royal Albert Hall draws near, so it's time for a little audio taster.
The song for this week is 'I Could Fall In Love With You' - one of the highlights from this years 'Light At The End Of The World' album.
You can listen to the song via one of the following audio streams:
The CD can be ordered directly from Live Here Now. Anyone pre-ordering both the CD and the DVD together will also receive an exclusive limited edition poster.
And speaking of live shows, this brings us nicely onto a message from the delightful Valerie Chalmers, who will be familiar with many of you for providing backing vocals on many Erasure tours ('Light At The End Of The World', 'True Colors', 'Acoustic', 'Erasure Show', 'Other Tour', 'Wild!').
"I just wanted to say A BIG THANK YOU to Vince and Andy.
Every time I work with them, it always gives me such pleasure... It's an honour and privilege to work with the most brilliant musical geniuses on this planet, amazing people!
I always see that their music is not about rules, colour of one's skin, race, creed or sexuality, it's ageless.
It's about freedom of speech, peace and harmony or what you believe in... it doesn't discriminate, it's for the masses.
I have too many favourites, their music has so many textures and dynamics - it's colourful, harmonious, it's multifaceted - I suppose like a diamond!!! It touches every mood... I love it!
And secondly thank you to all Erasure fans I spoke to on the tour, lovely kind people. It was great seeing the fans who have followed and grown with Vince and Andy all these years and who now have families, young children who are also following the music - it's wonderful!
Thanks once again Erasure for giving me many musically glorious years!!
Val xxx
The previously announced series 2 release of 'The Lee Mack Show', which features Andy Bell and Alison Moyet is now available via iTunes.
Andy Bell is featured on the third episode, performing "Sometimes", "A Little Respect" and "One Way Or Another".
Several hundred additional photos have been added to the various categories within the fan galleries.
Updated sections include Light At The End Of The World Tour, The Erasure Show, Red Hot & Dance, EIS'04 and Saturn Markt Signing
'Hits! The Very Best Of Erasure 2 CD & 1 DVD edition is out this week.
This 3 disc set featuring 20 classic Erasure singles, a full-length megamix CD by Mark Towns plus a DVD containing 35 promotional videos.
This release should be available from most large music retailers, including Amazon and Mute Bank.
Track listing:
CD 1 "Hits! The Very Best Of Erasure"
- Oh L'Amour
- Sometimes
- Victim Of Love
- Ship Of Fools
- Chains Of Love
- A Little Respect
- Stop!
- Blue Savannah
- Chorus
- Love To Hate You
- Breath Of Life
- Lay All Your Love On Me
- Take A Chance On Me
- Voulez Vous
- Always
- Stay With Me
- In My Arms
- Freedom
- Solsbury Hill
- Oh L'Amour (August Mix)
CD 2 "Mark Towns Megamix"
- Stay With Me
- You Surround Me
- In My Arms
- Solsbury Hill
- A Little Respect
- Chains Of Love
- Take A Chance On Me
- Love To Hate You
- Stop!
- Victim Of Love
- Blue Savannah
- Always
- Freedom
- Chorus
- Oh L'Amour
- Breath Of Life
- Sometimes
- Ship Of Fools
DVD "Hits! The Videos"
- Who Needs Love (Like That)
- Heavenly Action
- Oh L'Amour
- Sometimes
- It Doesn't Have To Be
- Victim Of Love
- The Circus
- Ship Of Fools
- Chains Of Love
- A Little Respect
- Stop!
- Drama!
- You Surround Me
- Chorus
- Star
- Chorus
- Love To Hate You
- Am I Right?
- Breath Of Life
- Lay All Your Love On Me
- S.O.S.
- Take A Chance On Me
- Voulez Vous
- Always
- Run To The Sun
- I Love Saturday
- Stay With Me
- Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)
- Rock Me Gently
- In My Arms
- Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me
- Rain
- Freedom
- Solsbury Hill
- Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
The highly anticipated second Family Fantastic album Wonderful is available now from digital retailers such as iTunes.
It stars Daphne Diamant, James Gray, Phil Creswick and featuring Vince Clarke and Nick Carter.
Track listing:
- So Sentimental
- Cargo Cult
- Boom Boom
- Falling
- Hold Me
- Shimmy Shimmy
- Southern Hemisphere Girl
- Somewhere
- Wonderful
- Lullaby
"Simple but beautiful melodies and so catchy...Divine!"
(iTunes Review)
To be released in November is the complete second series (six episodes) of the BBC Radio 2 series "The Lee Mack Show".
Taking part in the manic mix of sketches and stand-up are special musical guests former Spice Girl Melanie C, ABC's Martin Fry, Erasure's Andy Bell, Jamelia, Alison Moyet and Level 42's Mark King.
Lee is also joined by comedians Andrew Maxwell, Phil Nichol, Jason Byrne, John Hegley, Mark Watson and Will Smith.
For further details and to order, visit the BBC Shop or Amazon.
Erasure fan Katie Bramall will feature on an upcoming edition of the BBC Two quiz Mastermind, with her specialist subject being Erasure!
"Host John Humphrys invites four contenders to answer questions in the famous black chair. Subjects for this edition are The Naval Career of Nelson and Collingwood, Life and Works of Primo Levi, Erasure and the Life and Career of Sir Richard Attenborough."
This edition of Mastermind is to be broadcast on Monday 5th November at 19:30 on BBC Two.
An additional 100+ photos have recently been added to the Erasure fan gallery.
If you have any photos you would like published, then please e-mail them in. Please include details of the location and to whom the photo(s) should be credited to.
Andy and Vince need to get ready for their live performance on stage - can you choose a costume for them?
Create a costume with all the correct items and you will be presented with a video clip of them wearing the costume on stage.

