The existing online Erasure Shop has been taken offline whilst preparations for a new online Erasure store takes place.
The new store will feature a wider range of Erasure related merchandise, including items that were sold during the recent tours.
Look out for the new store opening at the end of March 2008.
Not long after founding Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke, the group's main composer, threw in the towel to go his own way with the punk veteran Alison Moyet. Drawing deeply from the legacy of Kraftwerk and with Alison's vocals influenced by blues, Yazoo breathed life into the flame of synthpop, accumulating hit after hit, until they both decided to go their separate ways after their second album.
Mute is now releasing their remastered classics on the four-LP compilation "In Your Room", a wonderful opportunity that shows that another encounter with the duo so that they can give us their best moments live is well worth it.
And to celebrate such a long anticipated reunion, Sónar will be the first festival to play host to them.
Yazoo will be performing on Saturday 21st June.
For ticketing information visit the Sónar website.
The Yazoo: Reconnected tour is to be extended to North America, with several live dates in July.
Further information will be announced soon.
UPDATE: For those of you in New York, you may have spotted the full page 'Yaz' teaser advert that was published in 'The Village Voice' - a copy can be seen on the right.
Additional dates have been added to the forthcoming Yazoo Reconnected Tour.
Currently performances are confirmed for the following venues:
- 26 May - Denmark Copenhagen, Falconer Salen
- 27 May - Denmark Copenhagen, Falconer Salen
- 28 May - Germany Hamburg, Stadtpark
- 30 May - Germany Berlin, Columbiahalle
- 02 June - Ireland Dublin, Olympia Theatre
- 04 June - Scotland Glasgow, Clyde Auditorium
- 07 June - England Manchester, Manchester Apollo
- 12 June - England Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
- 15 June - England Brighton, Brighton Centre
- 16 June - England Plymouth, Plymouth Pavilions
- 18 June - England London, Hammersmith Apollo
- 19 June - England London, Hammersmith Apollo
Tickets are available direct from the venues or online via YazooLive, TicketMaster UK, GigsAndTours, LiveNation, Billetlugen, TicketMaster IE & Kartenhaus.
Join the Yazoo mailing list or the official Yazoo MySpace site for further news and updates.
Join the 22nd BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Friday 4th April for the world premiere screening of Erasure's Royal Albert Hall Concert, with a peek behind the scenes with the boys with the showing of the documentary "Behind the Scenes with V&A".
"Erasure (like the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival) have been around for 22 years. This Royal Albert Hall debut is a celebration of the fabulous Vince Clarke and Andy Bell.
Some performers can't quite fill the Albert Hall, but with Andy's extraordinarily powerful and versatile voice added to Vince's magnificent music the place just seems to bubble over with exuberant musical excitement.
Andy throws himself into his performance with a relentless energy that is utterly infectious. They introduce some new songs from their new album and romp through dozens of hits from the Erasure back catalogue.
This is sheer entertainment, a brilliantly filmed record of a concert which has such a buoyant sense of intimacy and excitement that it's impossible not to be carried along."
Brian Robinson
Tickets for the showing (at NFT1, BFI Southbank) cost £8.60 (concession rate for BFI members £5.25)
For further booking information available via the BFI.
To be released on the 7th April is the highly anticipated DVD release of Erasure's stunning live performance recorded at The Royal Albert Hall, London in 2007.
This release features Erasure perform a selection of their all time classic songs, plus material from their most recent critically acclaimed album 'Light At The End Of The World'.
Live Here Now** are selling both the DVD and a double CD album of 'Live At The Royal Albert Hall' (also available as a digital download) via their website at liveherenow.co.uk.
Alternatively the DVD can be ordered from large music retailers such as Zavvi, Tesco, Woolworths and Amazon.com.
DVD Tracklisting:
- Sunday Girl
- Blue Savannah
- Drama!
- I Could Fall In Love With You
- Fly Away
- Breathe
- Storm In A Tea Cup
- Chains Of Love
- Breath Of Life
- Love To Hate You
- Sucker For Love
- Victim Of Love
- When A Lover Leaves You
- Ship Of Fools
- Chorus
- Sometimes
- A Little Respect
- Oh L'Amour
- Glass Angel
- Stop!
Additional DVD Contents:
- Behind The Scenes With V&A (Documentary)
- Easter Egg
Technical Details:
- Cat No: ERASDVD5
- Running Time: Main feature: 90mins, documentary: 29mins
- Video: Anamorphic Widescreen, NTSC (All Regions)
- Audio: Stereo 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
- Subtitles: French, German, Italian & Spanish (For Documentary)
**Pre-orders via Live Here Now will be dispatched during the first week of March.
Available via the Erasure MySpace site is an exclusive video clip of 'A Little Respect', as featured on the forthcoming live DVD.
To coincide with the release of Erasure's "Live At The Royal Albert Hall" DVD in early April, the Erasure Information Service will be auctioning a selection of costumes from the 2007 "Light At The End Of The World" tour, as worn by Andy Bell, Vince Clarke and the three backing singers (Valerie Chalmers, Rachel Montez Collins & Christa Jackson).
All proceeds from the auction (which will be conducted via eBay) will be donated to charity.
Look out for further details shortly.
Here are the European dates for the Yazoo Reconnected Tour.
- 27 May (Denmark) Copenhagen, Falconer Salen
- 28 May (Germany) Hamburg, Stadtpark
- 30 May (Germany) Berlin, Columbiahalle
- 02 June (Ireland) Dublin, Olympia Theatre
For further information (such as dates & times when tickets go on sale) visit yazooinfo.com or see the listings here.
Please note that the tickets do not all go on sale at the same time, nor have the ticket sale dates for every venue been confirmed yet.
The choice of online digital music stores that offer DRM free music* has expanded in recent months.
DRM free music can be played back on almost all portable music devices (iPods & other digital music players), be burned on CDs, played back via Windows, Mac and Linux based computers etc.
Below is a summary of the major online stores that offer DRM free Erasure songs.
- Music Format: MP3 (320 kbps)
- Available: Albums & Recent Singles
- Country: Worldwide
- Music Format: MP3 (320 kbps)
- Available: Albums & Recent Singles
- Country: Worldwide
- Music Format: MP3 (192 kbps)
- Available: Live Concerts
- Country: Worldwide
- Music Format: MP3 (256 kbps)
- Available: Albums, Recent Singles & Other
- Country: United States
- Music Format: MP3 (320 kbps)
- Available: Albums & Recent Singles
- Country: United Kingdom
- Music Format: AAC (256 kbps)
- Available: Albums, Recent Singles & Videos
- Country: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.
* DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a restriction designed to control how a digital song file can be played, copied, downloaded, shared, or accessed.
An additional London date for the Yazoo tour is now available:
Thursday 19th June at the London Hammersmith Apollo.
For booking information visit yazooinfo.com