News archive (november 2007)

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Andy Bell At Sirius OutQ

"OutQ in the morning with Larry Flick" presents World AIDS Day special exclusively on Sirius Satellite Radio. Sirius announced that it will honor World AIDS Day - Saturday, December 1, with an exclusive broadcast event on Sirius OutQ 109, the US' first and only 24/7 GLBT Radio channel.

World AIDS Day 2007: A Celebration Of Life And Hope will be hosted by OutQ in the Morning's LarryFlick from Noon - 6 pm ET (local time).

The broadcast will include an interview with Madonna and exclusive performances by Cyndi Lauper, Indigo Girls, Travis, Joss Stone, Erasure's Andy Bell, Jimmy Somerville, Marc Cohn, Leann Rimes, Littlehorse, and others.

Click on www.sirius.com/outq to listen to Sirius OutQ live, or to purchase a Sirius radio and subscription.

Give Tilly A Hand

On Monday 22nd January 2007 Adam and Sarah Lockey were told that their daughter Tilly had little chance of survival after contracting group B meningococcal septicaemia. Four weeks in Newcastle General Hospital and 10 blood transfusions later she miraculously pulled through! 17-month-old Tilly lost both hands and all her toes as a result of the disease and now faces numerous challenges...

Here is a quote from Tilly's website:

"CALLING ALL CELEBS OUT THERE... WE NEED YOU HANDS TO HELP BUY TILLY NEW ONES!

The “Give Tilly a Hand Appeal” is exactly what it says - Tilly needs our help to raise money to buy new hands.

We are focusing on finding celebrities that are willing to give us their hands - by that we mean we want them to do a hand print/draw around their hand, customize their hand however they wish (for example, to let us know what you do, who you are etc) and then sign it."

The artwork/castings will then be auctioned off to raise money for Tilly’s new hands. Little Tilly needs a few sets of prosthetic hands each year as she grows, with each costing £20 000. Photography for Little People have kindly donated their clay casting services as an alternative method for celebs to produce a hand print. Andy and Vince were the ones, who took part with the casting.

Robert Ryan Artworks

Robert Ryan is the artist who created the artwork for 2005 Erasure album "Nightbird" and related singles as well as the artwork for "The Erasure Show - Live In Cologne" DVD. Here are some examples of his works, made in the same style.

And this is Robert Ryan's artwork for Erasure single "Here I Go Impossible Again / All This Time Still Falling Out Of Love":

You can see more of the Robert Ryan's works here.

Erasure.ru Participates In The Enthusiast Internet Award Contest!

The erasure.ru website has become the participant of the Enthusiast Internet Award contest. It's the first in Russia open competition among enthusiasts who have created best web-projects and Internet communities dedicated to their hobbies.

"We gather together not only people with hobbies willing to receive information related to these hobbies, but enthusiasts creating their own media projects telling about these hobbies. Enthusiast Internet Award is not just a chance to tell about your hobby to a wide range of people, but also a great possibility to show your creative, designer and web-developer talents. In short, you do what you like and you like what you do!"

If you want to provide support to erasure.ru in this contest, please evaluate it using the 5-point scale on this page (you can do it daily):

http://www.eaward.ru/listprojs.php?what=work&cat=6&proj=436

Thank you!

"On The Road To Nashville" - Russian Release

Earlier this year, the first ever official Russian Erasure DVD has been released on Gala Records. DVD features acoustic Erasure gig "The Road To Nashville", filmed live at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, USA on 6th May 2006 as well as 4 bonus songs and a short film "The Road To Union Street".

Unlike the other releases (with additional audio CD), this Russian edition contains just 1 DVD therefore it have a unique cover artwork, available only as part of this release. See scans below (click on image to enlarge).

DVD: 2007 RU (Mute / Gala Records; ERAS DVD 4 / 094638770794)

Another "Light At The End Of The World" Tour Visuals

Another three "Light At The End Of The World" tour visuals from stage plasma screens can be seen online. One of them, the video for "How My Eyes Adore You" features the pictures of Erasure fans in various costumes (see news from 06.05.07). Follow the links below:

"How My Eyes Adore You"
"Sometimes"
"Chorus"

"Light At The End Of The World" Tour - Bielefeld

Click here to see the set of great photos from Erasure gig in Bielefeld 1st October.

Who Needs Love Like That

There is a rare Erasure performance of "Who Needs Love Like That" listed recently on Youtube. This is one of the very first Erasure appearances on TV, just after "Who Needs Love Like That" was released. The video dated by September 1985 and features rare footage of dancing Vince Clarke. Click here to watch it.

Added New Pics

Added details of: "Loveboat" brazilian cd, "Ship Of Fools" spain promo vinyl, "Pop! - The First 20 Hits" european cd (thanks to Maksim Pirozhkov), "Cowboy" brazilian cd (thanks to Mike De Paz), Nitzer Ebb's "Ascend" uk cassette (thanks to Mike De Paz).

Hits! - The Very Best Of Erasure

In case if someone experience difficulties with finding "Hits! - The Very Best Of Erasure" reissue, here are some photos that proves its existence (thanks to Sergey).

Outer slipcase

"Hits!.." inside

"Hits!.." inside

"Hits!.." booklet

"Hits!.." booklet

"Hits! - The Very Best Of Erasure" will also be released for the first time in Japan on 5th December 2007 (catalogue number: TOCP-70437).

Vince's Podcast - Last Edition

Vince Clarke produced the last edition of the "Light At The End Of The World" tour podcast. It features facial electric shocks, tour highlights and surprise song from Vince! You may download it from here.

Royal Albert Hall Backstage Photos

Gareth Jones has uploaded some photos from Erasure soundcheck at Royal Albert Hall. Click here to view them.

Down Time With Vince Clarke

British newspaper "The Sunday Times" has published an article titled "Down Time". They choosed 10 best Vince's tracks and created an iMix.

Click here to read the article, and click here to listen to and download an exclusive iMix.

"Light At The End Of The World" Tour Report From Chemnitz

Here you may read the report about Erasure's performance in Chemnitz, Germany (in German). There is also the video version to download. Click here to get it (thanks to Mike for the info).

The Time Frequency "The Ultimate Collection"

Back in 1993 Vince Clarke remixed the song "A Real Love" of the british dance act The Time Frequency. Those mix has been released in 1993 on the now out of print single "A Real Love'93".

On 7th May 2007 The Time Frequency released their 'greatest hits' album, called "The Ultimate Collection". "The Ultimate Collection" is released on 2 CDs and Vince's remix appears on a second cd.

Tracklist:

CD1:
1. Real Love
2. New Emotion
3. Dreamscape
4. U4IA
5. The Ultimate High
6. Such A Phantasy
7. Retribution
8. U Got The Passion
9. More Than A Feeling
10. Popcorn
11. Supernature
12. Higher Than Heaven
13. Jurassic Park
14. The Powerzone
15. Take This Feeling
16. Set You Free
17. The Power Of Love
18. Preview Of New Album "Domintor 2"

CD2 [Remixes, Rare & Unreleased]:
1. Retribution (The Prodigy Remix)
2. Real Love (Vince Clarke's Erasure Remix)
3. The Ultimate High (Breeze & Styles Remix)
4. New Emotion (Scott Brown Remix)
5. Dreamscape (Dougal & Gammer Remix)
6. Real Love (Darren Styles Remix)
7. More Than A Feeling (Motiv8 Remix)
8. Maximum Intensity
9. Futurama
10. Into The Wonderful
11. Schitzoid
12. Real Love (Demo)
13. Higher Than Heaven (Demo)
14. The Ultimate High (Demo)
15. Retribution (Live At The Metro, 1993)
16. U4IA (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands, 2000)
17. Get Ready (Unreleased)
18. More Than A Feeling (Piano Version)

More info: www.timefrequency.co.uk

Greg EIS - "Snappy, Wonderful & Hits!":

Hello

In todays newsletter:

- "Hits! The Very Best Of Erasure" CD/DVD - Out Now
- Family Fantastic "Wonderful" - Out Now
- "The Lee Mack Show Series 2" CD (Featuring Andy Bell)
- BBC Two - Mastermind
- Erasure Website - Gallery Updated
- Erasure Website - Snappy Dresser

"Hits! The Very Best Of Erasure" CD/DVD - Out Now

"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.

Track listing:

CD 1 "Hits! The Very Best Of Erasure"

01 Oh L'Amour
02 Sometimes
03 Victim Of Love
04 Ship Of Fools
05 Chains Of Love
06 A Little Respect
07 Stop!
08 Blue Savannah
09 Chorus
10 Love To Hate You
11 Breath Of Life
12 Lay All Your Love On Me
13 Take A Chance On Me
14 Voulez Vous
15 Always
16 Stay With Me
17 In My Arms
18 Freedom
19 Solsbury Hill
20 Oh L'Amour (August Mix)

CD 2 "Mark Towns Megamix"

01 Stay With Me
02 You Surround Me
03 In My Arms
04 Solsbury Hill
05 A Little Respect
06 Chains Of Love
07 Take A Chance On Me
08 Love To Hate You
09 Stop!
10 Victim Of Love
11 Blue Savannah
12 Always
13 Freedom
14 Chorus
15 Oh L'Amour
16 Breath Of Life
17 Sometimes
18 Ship Of Fools

DVD "Hits! The Videos"

01 Who Needs Love (Like That)
02 Heavenly Action
03 Oh L'Amour
04 Sometimes
05 It Doesn't Have To Be
06 Victim Of Love
07 The Circus
08 Ship Of Fools
09 Chains Of Love
10 A Little Respect
11 Stop!
12 Drama!
13 You Surround Me
14 Chorus
15 Star
16 Chorus
17 Love To Hate You
18 Am I Right?
19 Breath Of Life
20 Lay All Your Love On Me
21 S.O.S.
22 Take A Chance On Me
23 Voulez Vous
24 Always
25 Run To The Sun
26 I Love Saturday
27 Stay With Me
28 Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)
29 Rock Me Gently
30 In My Arms
31 Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me
32 Rain
33 Freedom
34 Solsbury Hill
35 Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)

This release should be available from most large music retailers - two examples are linked to below:

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk...
 
Mute Bank: http://www.recordstore.co.uk/mutebank...

Family Fantastic - "Wonderful" - Out Now

The highly anticipated second Family Fantastic album "Wonderful" is available now as a digital download.

It stars Daphne Diamant, James Gray, Phil Creswick and featuring Vince Clarke and Nick Carter.

Track listing:

01 So Sentimental
02 Cargo Cult
03 Boom Boom
04 Falling
05 Hold Me
06 Shimmy Shimmy
07 Southern Hemisphere Girl
08 Somewhere
09 Wonderful
10 Lullaby

"Simple but beautiful melodies and so catchy...Divine!"
(iTunes Review)

iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com...

"The Lee Mack Show Series 2" CD (Featuring Andy Bell)

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, see:

- BBC Shop: http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/9781405678285
- Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.u...

BBC Two - Mastermind

Erasure fan Katie Bramall will feature on an upcoming edition of the 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."

Date: Monday 5th November
Time: 19:30 - 20:00
Channel: BBC Two

www: http://www.bbc.co.uk/entertainment/mastermind/

Katie interviewed Andy & Vince back in 1999 for the original EIS "Circus" Convention:

www: http://www.erasureinfo.com/features/conventions_02.html

Erasure Website - Gallery Updated

Another 100+ photos have been added to the gallery. I'd like to extend my thanks to everyone who has submitted photos over the past few months (and of course to everyone who has submitted photos since the gallery was introduced!)

There are still quite a few more photos to upload - these will be added in the next week or so.

www: http://www.erasureinfo.com/gallery/fan_tours_index.html

Erasure Website - Snappy Dresser

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.

www: http://www.erasureinfo.com/treasure/

Regards

Greg
Erasure Information Service