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ANDY BELL WILL BE HEADLINING AT IRELAND’S ‘FOREVER YOUNG’ FESTIVAL IN JULY

December 25th, 2022|

Andy Bell will be appearing at this year's Forever Young Festival which takes place in Ireland over the weekend of July 14th - 16th. Andy will headline the Saturday night of the festival topping a weekend bill of artists which also features Bananarama, Midge Ure, Tony Hadley, Blancmange, Jason Donovan, ABC and British Electric Foundation among many others. Check out the Forever Young festival website for tickets and more information. VISIT THE FOREVER [...]

ANDY BELL HAS CHOSEN SOME OF HIS FAVOURITE SONGS FOR VIRGIN RADIO’S ‘MY 80S PLAYLIST’ FEATURE

December 2nd, 2022|

A couple of weeks ago Andy chose some of his favourite tracks from the 80s for the Virgin Radio 80 Plus station who have have put the full interview on YouTube and you can access the whole thing using the button below. Expect music from Spandau Ballet, Madonna, Visage, B-52s, Kate Bush, Eurythmics, Teardrop Explodes, Blondie, Mel & Kim and Pet Shop Boys alongside Andy's current favourite single from the Erasure back catalogue. [...]

ANDY BELL TO GUEST ON BBC ONE PRIMETIME TV SHOW ‘I CAN SEE YOUR VOICE’

November 18th, 2022|

Andy Bell will be a special guest on episode six of BBC One's Saturday night flagship show 'I Can See Your Voice' on Saturday 3rd December. You can find out more about 'I Can See Your Voice' on the show's website via the button below and the show is repeated on BBC Three at 7pm on Sunday 4th December, and should also be available to watch via the BBC iPlayer after broadcast as [...]

VINCE CLARKE HAS CONTRIBUTED TO A NEW TRACK RELEASED AS PART OF THE MORTALITY TABLES PROJECT

October 20th, 2022|

Mortality Tables is a project which was recently launched by journalist Mat Smith who writes for Electronic Sound and Clash among others, but whom you might know best for his sleevenotes to accompany the recent Erasure reissues. The second Mortality Tables release was launched today in the shape of a track entitled 'On Mortality, Immortality & Charles Ives' which is now available to hear and purchase via BandCamp using the button below. The [...]

ANDY BELL IN CONVERSATION AT THE ‘LISTENING TO THE MUSIC THE MACHINES MAKE’ BOOK LAUNCH

October 6th, 2022|

Andy Bell will one of the special guests at the launch event for Richard Evans' 'Listening To The Music The Machines Make - Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983' at Queen's Gate House in Kensington on the afternoon of Sunday 6th November. Andy will join Martyn Ware (The Human League, BEF, Heaven 17) to talk about their roles in the history of electronic music. Richard Evans will also be signing copies of 'Listening To The [...]

ERASURE ANNOUNCE AN EXPANDED 2-CD REISSUE OF THEIR 1995 ‘ERASURE’ ALBUM

September 28th, 2022|

Erasure have today announced that the latest release to be added to their ongoing CD reissue series is 1995's 'Erasure' album which will be released on 18th November 2022 in a special 2-CD edition which features the original album on disc one alongside a collection of b-sides, remixes, live tracks, demos and curiosities on disc two. Originally released in October 1995, 'Erasure', includes the singles 'Stay With Me' and 'Fingers & Thumbs (Cold [...]

SEND A BIRTHDAY MESSAGE TO VINCE CLARKE

June 29th, 2022|

It will be Vince Clarke's birthday on Sunday 3rd July and we're collecting your birthday greetings to send him on the big day. If you would like to send Vince your birthday wishes then you can do so using the form below... THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MESSAGES!

ERASURE ANNOUNCE A NEW ALBUM ‘DAY-GLO – BASED ON A TRUE STORY’

June 14th, 2022|

Erasure have today announced that the last part of  their 'The Neon' project will be an album entitled 'Day-Glo - Based On A True Story' which will be released on August 12th. An unexpected bonus record, 'Day-Glo - Based On A True Story' was born out of Vince Clarke's lockdown experimentation when he kept himself occupied by manipulating the sound files that he had produced for 'The Neon' in new directions, leading him [...]

SEND A BIRTHDAY MESSAGE TO ANDY

April 21st, 2022|

It will be Andy Bell's birthday on Monday April 25th and we're collecting birthday greetings to send him on the big day. If you would like to send Andy your birthday wishes then you can do so using the form below...   WE HAVE COLLATED ALL THE MESSAGES AND HAVE SENT THEM OVER TO ANDY. THANK YOU EVERYONE.

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