[21 Dec] Merry Christmas From Andy Bell

Here is a short video message from Andy Bell:

[10 Dec] Erasure "Total Pop! Deluxe" Pre-Order

The 'Total Pop! The First 40 Hits Deluxe' boxset (3CD & 1DVD) will be available for pre-order from The Erasure Shop (Lexer Music) from Friday 12th December.

Customers that pre-order the boxset through The Erasure Shop (Lexer Music) will receive (thanks to the Erasure Information Service) an exclusive bonus - full details next week.

Both 'Total Pop! The First 40 Hits Deluxe' (3CD & 1DVD boxset) and 'Total Pop! The First 40 Hits' (2CD) are released on 23rd February 2009.

[10 Dec] Erasure "Pop! Remixed" - New Andy Bell Mix

9th February 2009 sees the release of Pop! Remixed on CD and digital download, the perfect companion to the forthcoming Total Pop! The First 40 Hits collection.

The full track listing of 'Pop! Remixed' is published below and you can listen to an exclusive preview of A Little Respect (Avantara Remix) via one of the following audio streams:

Pop! Remixed (CD Tracklisting)

1. Always (2009 Mix)
2. Victim Of Love (Komputer Remix)
3. Freedom (Mark Pichiotti - Strumapella Remix)
4. Drama! (Andy Bell & JC Remix)
5. A Little Respect (Avantara Remix)
6. Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day) (Sound Factory Remix)
7. Ship Of Fools (Soil In The Synth Remix)
8. Always (MHC Remix)
9. Chorus (Electronic Periodic Remix)
10. Stop! (Vince Clarke Sync 82 Remix)

Pop! Remixed (Digital Download Tracklisting)

1. Always (2009 Mix)
2. Victim Of Love (Komputer Remix)
3. Freedom (Mark Pichiotti - Strumapella Remix)
4. Drama! (Andy Bell & JC Remix)
5. A Little Respect (Avantara Remix)
6. Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day) (Sound Factory Remix)
7. Ship Of Fools (Soil In The Synth Remix)
8. Always (MHC Remix)
9. Chorus (Electronic Periodic Remix)
10. Stop! (Vince Clarke Sync 82 Remix)
11. Drama! (Dogmatix Dramatical Dub) Digital Bonus Track

An additional four track digital download bundle will also be available, featuring the radio edits:

Pop! Remixed (Digital Download Bundle Tracklisting)

1. Always (2009 Mix)
2. Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day) (Sound Factory Remix Radio Edit)
3. A Little Respect (Avantara Remix Radio Edit)
4. Always (MHC Remix Radio Edit)

[10 Dec] Erasure 'Total Pop! Deluxe' & 'Total Pop!' Tracklisting

The full tracklistings of both 'Total Pop! Deluxe' (3xCD & 1xDVD) and 'Total Pop!' (2xCD) are available below.

Both editions of 'Total Pop' are to be released on 23rd February 2009.

'Total Pop! The First 40 Hits Deluxe' (3xCD & 1xDVD)

Pop! (CD Disc 1)

1. Who Needs Love (Like That)
2. Heavenly Action
3. Oh L'Amour
4. Sometimes
5. It Doesn't Have To Be
6. Victim Of Love
7. The Circus
8. Ship Of Fools
9. Chains Of Love
10. A Little Respect
11. Stop!
12. Drama!
13. You Surround Me
14. Blue Savannah
15. Star
16. Chorus
17. Love To Hate You
18. Am I Right?
19. Breath Of Life
20. Take A Chance On Me
21. Who Needs Love (Like That) (Hamburg Mix)

Pop2! (CD Disc 2)

1. Always
2. Run To The Sun
3. I Love Saturday
4. Stay With Me
5. Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)
6. Rock Me Gently
7. In My Arms
8. Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me
9. Rain (Al Stone Mix)
10. Freedom
11. Moon & the Sky (Jason Creasey's Heaven Scent Radio Re-Work)
12. Solsbury Hill
13. Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)
14. Breathe
15. Don't Say You Love Me
16. Here I Go Impossible Again
17. I Could Fall In Love With You
18. Sunday Girl
19. Storm In A Teacup
20. Always (2009 Mix)

Erasure Live 1987 - 2007 (CD Disc 3)

1. Spiralling (The Circus Tour) 1987
2. The Hardest Part (The Innocents Tour) 1988
3. Drama! (The Wild! Tour) 1989
4. Knocking On Your Door (The Wild! Tour) 1989
5. Push Me Shove Me (Milton Keynes Bowl) 1990
6. Voulez Vous (Phantasmagorical Tour) 1992
7. Am I Right? (Phantasmagorical Tour) 1992
8. Heart Of Stone (Phantasmagorical Tour) 1992
9. Who Needs Love Like That (The Tiny Tour) 1996
10. Rain (Cowboy Tour) 1997
11. Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (Sanctuary The EIS Christmas Concert) 2002
12. Piano Song (The Other Tour) 2003
13. Hideaway (The Erasure Show) 2005
14. Breathe (The Acoustic Tour) 2006
15. Oh L'Amour (Light At The End Of The World Tour) 2007

Erasure At The BBC 1986 - 2005 (DVD Disc 4)

1. Sometimes (Top Of The Pops) 04 Dec 1986
2. It Doesn't Have To Be (The Tom O'Connor Roadshow) 02 Mar 1987
3. Victim of Love (Daytime Live) 22 Oct 1987
4. The Circus (Daytime Live) 22 Oct 1987
5. Ship of Fools (Wogan) 26 Feb 1988
6. Chains of Love (Top Of The Pops) 16 Jun 1988
7. A Little Respect (Going Live!) 15 Oct 1988
8. Stop! (Top Of The Pops) 15 Dec 1988
9. Chorus (Wogan) 28 Jun 1991
10. Love To Hate You (Top Of The Pops) 03 Oct 1991
11. Am I Right? (Top Of The Pops) 05 Dec 1991
12. Breath of Life (Top Of The Pops) 26 Mar 1992
13. Who Needs Love (Like That) (Top Of The Pops) 29 Oct 1992
14. Always (Top Of The Pops) 07 Apr 1994
15. Run To The Sun (Top Of The Pops) 28 Jul 1994
16. I Love Saturday (Smash Hits Poll Winner's Party) 04 Dec 1994
17. Stay With Me (Pebble Mill) 30 Nov 1995
18. Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day) (Pebble Mill) 30 Nov 1995
19. Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me (Top Of The Pops) 07 Mar 1997
20. Solsbury Hill (Top Of The Pops) 17 Jan 2003
21. Breathe (Top Of The Pops) 14 Jan 2005
22. Top Of The Pops 2 Special (Top Of The Pops 2) 09 Apr 2003
    • Breath Of Life
    • Sometimes
    • Love To Hate You
    • You've Lost That Loving Feeling
    • A Little Respect
    • Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)
23. Sometimes (The Tom O'Connor Roadshow) 02 Mar 1987
24. How Many Times? (The Late Show) 18 Oct 1989
25. Miracle (Later... with Jools Holland) 21 May 1994
26. Because You're So Sweet (Later... with Jools Holland) 21 May 1994

'Total Pop! The First 40 Hits' (2xCD)

Pop! (CD Disc 1)

1. Who Needs Love (Like That)
2. Heavenly Action
3. Oh L'Amour
4. Sometimes
5. It Doesn't Have To Be
6. Victim Of Love
7. The Circus
8. Ship Of Fools
9. Chains Of Love
10. A Little Respect
11. Stop!
12. Drama!
13. You Surround Me
14. Blue Savannah
15. Star
16. Chorus
17. Love To Hate You
18. Am I Right?
19. Breath Of Life
20. Take A Chance On Me
21. Who Needs Love (Like That) (Hamburg Mix)

Pop2! (CD Disc 2)

1. Always
2. Run To The Sun
3. I Love Saturday
4. Stay With Me
5. Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)
6. Rock Me Gently
7. In My Arms
8. Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me
9. Rain (Al Stone Mix)
10. Freedom
11. Moon & the Sky (Jason Creasey's Heaven Scent Radio Re-Work)
12. Solsbury Hill
13. Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)
14. Breathe
15. Don't Say You Love Me
16. Here I Go Impossible Again
17. I Could Fall In Love With You
18. Sunday Girl
19. Storm In A Teacup
20. Always (2009 Mix)

Three additional tracks will be available as part of the digital download release of disc 2:

Pop2! (Digital Download Only)

1. Oh L'Amour (August Mix)
2. Boy (Acoustic)
3. All This Time Still Falling Out Of Love

[07 Nov] New Erasure Releases "Total Pop! The First 40 Hits" & "Pop! Remixed"

New Release - Total Pop! The First 40 Hits

To be released on the 23rd February 2009 is "Total Pop! The First 40 Hits" - a collection of Erasure's first 40 hits which features all the hit singles from Erasure's plus a brand new remix of 'Always' by Jeremy Wheatley.

As well as a double CD package and digital download, Total Pop! will also be released as a special four-disc deluxe box set which includes Pop! (remastered since its original release), Pop2!, a live CD and a DVD featuring classic BBC performances from 1986ø2005, which includes television performances ranging from 'Sometimes' on 'Top of the Pops', 'Ship Of Fools' on 'Wogan' to an appearance on 'Later With Jools'.

New Release - Pop! Remixed

And if that wasn't enough, released on the 9th February 2009 is "Pop! Remixed", which features the brand new Jeremy Wheatley remix of 'Always' plus remixes from Vince Clarke, Mark Picchiotti, Manhattan Clique, Komputer and Sweden's Sound Factory.

Sign up to the Erasure Newsletter for all the latest information on these exciting releases in the coming weeks.

[08 Oct] Andy Bell DJ Set - Hiro Ballroom (New York) (9th Oct)

Andy Bell will be DJing at the 'Hiro Ballroom' venue on Thursday 9th October.

• Travel: Accessible via the A, C, E & L lines
• Doors Open: 22:00
• Age Restrictions: 21 & over with ID

Hiro Ballroom, 88 9th Avenue (Between 16th & 17th Streets) New York

Additional details are available at 'GBH' and 'Going NYC'.

[03 Oct] Andy Bell Live Performance At 'Act Art' (7th Nov)

Act Art is an international platform for artists working in all disciplines including performance, live art, film, video, installation, site specific, painting, drawing, and photography. Act Art provides a testing ground for new experimental, radical, confrontational and non-mainstream work made by artists from different cultural backgrounds and genders and united by an interest in the body in the broadest sense. Act Art was launched in 2003 in an attempt to create an art/ club event that celebrates difference and aims to programme work in alternative spaces away from the institutional art world / gallery system.

The 6th annual Act Art event theme Dying For It! address's what's wrong with the world today. For example negative moral or ethical judgments, cruel, unjust and selfish human behaviour, war and diseases like Cancer and Aids. Poverty, famine and global warming caused by human actions, CCTV, censorship, celebrity culture, and the whole media circus that not only provides zero privacy to today's people in the main stream public eye such as Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears, but also play a part in early loss of lives notably Princess Diana, Anna Nicole Smith and so on.

PA + Performances include Andy Bell from Erasure, fresh from the U.S. True Colors Tour who will be performing several of his world wide hits on the night as well as tracks from his debut album Electric Blue.

DJ's include superstar DJ Mark Moore (S-Express/Electrogogo) alongside artist/DJ TATU (KCTV).

Time / Date: Friday 7th November 2008 between 19.30 - 05:00

The Arches, 51-53 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1RU

£8.00 NUS/ £10.00 Others before 10pm / £12.00 after or £10.00 advance q-jump tickets from wegottickets.com

For further information visit actart.co.uk and the-arches.com

[16 June] True Colors Tour 2008

Beginning 21st June, Erasure singer Andy Bell will join the True Colors Tour as a special guest for a handful of solo performances this summer.

Andy Bell, who co-headlined the tour last year with Erasure, will take some time off from recording a new solo album in London for these shows.

He will appear in the following cities:

• 21 June - Houston @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
• 22 June - Dallas @ Superpages.com Center
• 23 June - Oklahoma @ City Zoo Amphitheatre
• 25 June - Phoenix @ Dodge Theater
• 27 June - Alpine @ Viejas Casino - Concerts in the Park
• 28 June - Los Angeles @ Greek Theatre
• 29 June - Berkeley @ Greek Theatre

For further information regarding tickets and venues are available via the True Colors website.

[25 April] Yazoo 'Nobody's Diary EP' Audio Previews

Andy has provided a mix of 'Nobody's Diary' for the forthcoming release of Yazoo's Nobody's Diary EP which is released on the 12th May.

A preview is available here:

Nobody's Diary (Andy Bell & JC Remix):

[07 April] Erasure Charity Costume Auction

Commencing next week (on Tuesday 8th April) will be an Online Erasure Charity Auction.

This will feature the tour costumes from the 2007 "Light At The End Of The World Tour" being auctioned via eBay, with the proceeds being donated to charity.

Full details of the auction, the items that will be available (including the eBay links) will be published on the evening of Monday 7th April on the Erasure website.

The auction will commence at 9.00pm (UK Time) on Tuesday 8th April - again, check the page above (on Monday) for full details.

[04 April] DJing at 'Bar Blah'

Andy Bell will be 'spinning the decks' at 'Bar Blah' (East Sussex) on Saturday 26th April.

Bar Blah Marine Court St Leonards on Sea East Sussex TN38 0DX

[28 March] Live Andy Bell Interview

JoAnne Good will be conducting a live interview with Andy Bell on Tuesday 1st April on BBC Radio London at approximately 8.30am (during the Breakfast Show).

BBC Radio London can be listened to online (both live and archived shows), 94.9FM (London area only), Sky Digital CH 0152 (London area only) and DAB Digital Radio (London area only).

[19 March] Andy Bell To Make Special Guest Appearances On True Colors Tour

Erasure singer Andy Bell will join the True Colors Tour as Special Guest for a handful of solo performances this summer.

Bell, who co-headlined the tour last year with Erasure, will take some time off from recording a new solo album in London for these shows.

He will appear in the following cities:

• 21 June - Houston @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
• 22 June - Dallas @ Superpages.com Center
• 23 June - Oklahoma City @ Zoo Amphitheatre
• 25 June - Phoenix @ Dodge Theater
• 27 June - Alpine @ Viejas Casino - Concerts in the Park
• 28 June - Los Angeles @ Greek Theatre
• 29 June - Berkeley @ Greek Theatre

For further information regarding tickets and venues are available via the True Colors website.

BFI London L&G Film Festival

Join Erasure's Andy Bell on Friday 4th April for the world premiere screening of Erasure's Royal Albert Hall Concert at the 22nd BFI London L&G Film Festival.

Also showing is the documentary "Behind the Scenes with V&A", a peek behind the scenes of the London concert.

Tickets for the showing (at NFT1, BFI Southbank) cost £8.60 (concession rate for BFI members £5.25).

A multibuy offer (five tickets for the price of four) is available via the box office (020 7928 3232).

Further booking information is available via the BFI.