Erasure
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Report and Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 14 June 1986
"AAAAAAAABBOTT!" – Lou Costello ...
Erasure: Central Hall, Westminster, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 11 April 1987
THANKS MOSTLY to the glittering Andy Bell, Erasure manage not to be the cold stew of circuits and digital read-outs decried by some. Certainly, much ...
Erasure: Westminster Central Hall, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 25 April 1987
IT WAS A night full of juicy contradictions. Fancy having a pop show in a Methodist hall next to a statue of John Wesley! Fancy ...
Profile and Interview by John McCready, The Face, August 1990
ELECTRONIC. TEUTONIC. Independent. European. Regardless of the reality of its catalogue, Mute Records has a certain image. Like any record label with a desire to ...
Erasure, Was (Not Was), Adamski, Electribe 101: Milton Keynes Bowl
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Smash Hits, 19 September 1990
THE FINAL date of Erasure's world tour, "The Wild Party", takes place on a windswept grassy slope so the atmosphere's not especially "partylike", but everyone ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, November 1991
MORE THAN A SCORE of Top 30 hits under four different names over 10 years and it seems obvious that Chorus will only keep them ...
Erasure: Gdansk for the Memories
Report and Interview by David Quantick, Vox, November 1991
East-West relations continue to thaw, and what better cultural emissaries to Poland than Erasure's sparky popsters Andy Bell and Vince Clarke? On a recent jaunt ...
Report and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 9 July 1992
Sex is back in the charts. But it doesn't seem to be using a condom. Caroline Sullivan reports ...
Erasure: I Say I Say I Say I Say (Mute/All formats)
Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994
DURING THE recent furore over the homosexual age of consent, nobody saw fit to introduce into the debate the on-going 30-year-old love affair between straight ...
Erasure: Town & Country, Leeds
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 6 November 1996
SIZE IS everything in Erasure pop world. For their last tour, they put on one of the biggest shows on earth, a theatrical triumph of ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
Vince Clarke, b. 3 July 1960, Basildon, Essex, England; Andy Bell, b. 25 April 1964, Peterborough, Northants, England ...
Erasure: Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 18 April 2006
WITH BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN dominating the recent Academy Awards, 2006 is shaping up to be a vintage year for camp cowboys. ...
Erasure: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 27 September 2007
THE UK TOUR that ended with this Albert Hall show saw Erasure touch down in Preston and Grimsby – towns at the bottom of most ...
Under a railway arch in Vauxhall, Erasure's Andy Bell talks about lust, loss and sensing stardom
Profile and Interview by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 10 April 2019
Bell was an openly gay pop star "bubbling up from Boy George and Jimmy Somerville", in an era when pop stars weren't openly gay. ...
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