Perez Hilton has put his support behind the release of Erasure’s new version of ‘A Little Respect’.
The influential popular-culture blogger has posted the video and a short story on his website, writing, 'Check out this uplifting and incredible redo of Erasure’s classic A Little Respect (above), put together by Andy Bell and LGBT youth at the Hetrick Martin Institute (and some other friendly faces!).
All proceeds from the download of the track with be will be donated to The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the home of the Harvey Milk High School, in New York, and the True Colors Fund.
Inspired! Truly an amazing idea and an important message:
Everyone deserves a little respect!
Thanks Perez!
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PRESS RELEASE ERASURE - A LITTLE RESPECT (HMI REDUX) 5 December 2010 Erasure have announced the release of a brand new version of their top 5 single, A Little Respect HMI Redux, out on 5 December 2010 (7 December in the USA). A colourful new video for the track, shot in New York City and featuring Erasure lead singer Andy Bell, HMI youth and many other passers-by, will be released as well. Proceeds from the track will be donated to The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the home of the Harvey Milk High School, in New York, and the True Colors Fund. The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ youth service organization, provides a safe and supportive environment to all young people regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity so that they can achieve their full potential. In the wake of all the gay bullying and related suicides that have been reported in the US over the past several months, Erasure wanted to do something special to spread a message of tolerance and to raise money for an organisation that engages in the fight on a daily basis and, because it has become something of a gay rights anthem over the years, it seemed only fitting to release a brand new version of A Little Respect. The HMI Redux features a youth chorus from the Hetrick-Martin Institute who also appear in the music video, directed by filmmaker Jason Stein. The original version of A Little Respect, released in 1998, featured on The Innocents, the first Erasure album to hit the UK #1 spot (first on 30th April 1988 and again in January 1989), a chart-topping position they revisited with each of their next four album releases. In over two decades together, Andy Bell and Vince Clarke (a founding member of Depeche Mode and Yazoo) have sold more than 20 million albums around the globe, proving themselves masters of every kind of song from disco symphonies to unplugged ballads. |
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Andy Bell will be performing some Erasure and solo tracks and playing a special DJ set at Houston's Numbers Nightclub in Texas on January 15th. See the club's website for more details and booking information. |
Andy has hand-painted a canvas for the Willow Foundation's upcoming 'Stars on Canvas' auction. The Willow Foundation are dedicated to providing special days out for seriously ill 16 to 40 year olds. Click the link below for more details or to make a bid...
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When we announced the limited edition 'Non-Stop' box-set a few weeks ago it sold out so quickly that a lot of you who wanted one didn't manage to get a set. The box-set was strictly limited to just 500 copies and no more sets will be produced, however on December 6th at 4pm the Official Erasure Shop at Lexer Music will be putting an extra 300 copies of each of the two remix CDs - featuring the single remixes and all the bonus tracks - onsale. No box, just the CDs, on a first-come first-served basis. CD1 TRACKLISTING CD2 TRACKLISTING |
Courtesy of those lovely people at Gaydar, you can now listen to Andy's recent 'Sink The Pink' interview online...
Andy Bell has been in New York City this week, to appear at the Hetrick-Martin Institute's annual Emery Awards ceremony on Tuesday evening, and to play a special DJ set at The Ritz, where he also performed three songs, on the same night.
See below for a picture of Andy on the Emery Awards red carpet, and three pictures from his appearance at The Ritz.
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Thanks to Brooklyn Sue for the pictures from The Ritz.
Courtesy of Cal NYC we also have camera-phone videos of the three tracks that Andy performed at The Ritz; 'Chains of Love', 'Touch' and 'A Little Respect'...
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Andy Bell has drawn and autographed a special heart doodle which is being auctioned to benefit the Cardiomyopathy Association. The doodle is online now and is open for bids until November 15th. The Cardiomyopathy Association (CMA) is a registered charity that helps people and their families affected by the heart muscle condition cardiomyopathy. |
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SORRY, THE BOXSET IS NOW SOLD OUT Following many requests for CD editions of Andy Bell's singles from the 'Non-Stop' album, Mute Records and the Erasure Information Service is pleased to announce a very special limited-edition 'Non-Stop' boxset. The box will contain 2 CDs featuring the 'Running Out', 'Will You Be There?' and 'Non-Stop' single tracks and remixes previously only available via download, plus a number of previously unreleased tracks and remixes. Limited to just 500 copies the boxset will be shrink-wrapped and will ship containing both CDs, however the box will also contain space for the 'Non-Stop' album CD and the 'Call On Me' single CD (also available from Lexer Music), collecting together all the physical formats available across the 'Non-Stop' project in one special package. Pre-order now - exclusively from Lexer Music - in advance of release on December 6th (please note that the pre-sale will end early should all boxsets sell out before release). CD1 TRACKLISTING CD2 TRACKLISTING |
Andy Bell will guest on Gaydar Radio's 'Sink The Pink' show tomorrow evening (Saturday 23rd) between 6pm and 8pm. You can listen online or on DAB via Sky. Click the link below for more details.
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Spirit Day honors the teenagers who had taken their own lives in recent weeks. But just as importantly, it's also a way to show the hundreds of thousands of LGBT youth who face the same pressures and bullying, that there is a vast community of people who support them. Purple symbolizes 'spirit' on the rainbow flag, a symbol for LGBT Pride that was created by Gilbert Baker in 1978. Click the symbol before for more details.
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Andy Bell will return to the DJ booth at London club The Eagle on on October 29th.
The Eagle, 49 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London SE11 5QY. 9pm-3am. Admission free before 10pm then £5.
A few more 'Non-Stop' interviews have popped up this week. His chat with Manchester's Chimp Magazine isn't online but there's a scan of it for you at the link below, plus there's an online interview with The New Gay, and finally EQ have just put an interesting feature about the making of 'Non-Stop' online which talks to both Andy and his co-producer on the album, Pascal Gabriel.
Andy Bell will be playing a DJ set at Mat Horne's 'Session 17' clubnight in London on August 21st.
'Session 17' will take place at The Queen of Hoxton in Shoreditch and the night will also feature DJ sets from Mat Horne, Sunta Templeton, Midnight Socialite, Push Music, Liam Young and Badloader as well as live performances from Courts, Rubytrax, Kyla La Grange and Television Personalities.
More details from the Sessions website.
Andy Bell recently attended the MOJO Magazine annual awards show where - along with Depeche Mode's Andrew Fletcher - he presented Mute Records founder Daniel Miller with the prestigious MOJO Medal awarded for 'services to music'.
While at the ceremony Andy autographed a scale model of a Ford Transit van for the event sponsor Ford, who are now auctioning the model - and models signed by other celebrities attending the awards - to benefit the War Child charity.
For more details and for the chance to bid on this, or any of the items in the auction, you can visit War Child's official AUCTION page.
While he was in New York last week Andy spent some time at the city's Hetrick Martin Institute - better known as The Harvey Milk High School - where he toured the facility and spent an hour doing a Q&A session with some of the Institute's students, an experience Andy described as 'incredibly moving and inspirational'.
Andy is pictured below (top row) with some of the students after his Q&A session, and (bottom row) with Thomas Krever, Executive Director of The Hetrick Martin Institute.
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More about the Hetrick Martin Institute at their official website.
Andy has been in the USA for the last ten days promoting the release of his 'Non-Stop' album with a number of appearances around the country. Here are a selection of pictures from Andy's half-hour set at San Francisco's Pride. a picture from his CD signing at New York's Barnes & Noble bookstore in Union Square and a flyer advertising his DJ set at NYC's Splash Club.
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Thanks to Lauren Bliss for the SF Pride pictures above, and to Brooklyn Sue for the Barnes & Noble picture above and the F-Word flyer below.
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The excellent music blog Arjan Writes has added a new feature about Hey Champ who provided one of the remixes for the recent Andy Bell single 'Call On Me', and as part of the feature is offering the 'Call On Me (Hey Champ Remix)' as a free download…
On Friday evening Andy Bell presented San Francisco Pride's Lifetime Achievement Award to Ambassador James Hormel at a special ceremony at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco. Here, courtesy of Paul Hickey, is a copy of Andy's speech…
"I am honoured to present the 2010 San Francisco Pride Lifetime Achievement Award to Ambassador James Hormel!
The San Francisco Pride Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an individual who, over time, has given their energy, activism, leadership, and passion to LGBT communities. A noted philanthropist, lawyer, and academic, and an out gay man, Ambassador James Hormel has been a trailblazing leader of the community. He co-founded the human rights campaign and funded the essential Gay & Lesbian Centre at the San Francisco Public Library. In 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated Mr. Hormel to be Ambassador of Luxembourg, a nomination challenged for two years based on Hormel's sexuality. But in 1999 he became the first out, gay United States Ambassador.
We are thrilled to have the opportunity to recognise Ambassador James Hormel!"
Saturday, June 26
San Francisco
Andy will be performing 'A Little Respect' in a PA at midnight at San
Francisco's Club 1015 (1015 Folsom Street)
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Sunday, June 27
San Francisco
As one of this year's Grand Marshalls Andy will be taking part in the
Pride Parade which starts at 10.30am. Andy will also be playing a 30-minute
PA on the Main Stage at 4.45pm.
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Wednesday, June 30th
New York City
At around 11.20am Andy will be Frank DeCaro's live guest on Sirius Radio's
OutQ channel, and while he's at Sirius he will also be recording an interview
with Larry Flick for future transmission. Then at 5pm Andy will be signing
copies of 'Non-Stop' at the Union Square branch of Barnes & Noble.
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Thursday, July 1
New York City
Andy will be touring New York's Harvey Milk High School and will be doing
a Q&A with some of the students there. Sorry, but this event is not open
to the general public.
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Friday July 2
New York City
Andy will be playing a two-hour DJ set from midnight at the F-Word Party
at New York's Splash club (50 W. 17th Street)
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Sunday, July 4
Tampa, Florida
Andy will be playing a 30-minute PA at Tampa's The Honeypot (1507 East
7th Avenue), times tbc.
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Andy Bell will signing copies of his new album 'Non-Stop' at the Union Square branch of Barnes & Noble (33 East 17th Street) in New York City at 5pm on Wednesday June 30th.
Andy Bell will be playing the Main Stage at San Francisco Pride this Sunday at 4.45pm...
Andy's appearance on Loose Women last week is also available on the Loose Women website if you're in the UK… Andy is in great form for the interview which is well worth a watch!
The Entertainment Focus website has put a two-part video interview with Andy online. It's not the best quality sound or video but it's good to see Andy on good form, talking about the 'Non-Stop' project and much more!
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Andy Bell has been guest editor for the past week over at Magnet Magazine's website. You can read Magnet's Q&A with Andy on their website as well as Andy's week of musings on subjects as diverse as nudist beaches, the Virgin Mary, lenticular printing, fish and chips and the Egyptian art of painting cats… fascinating stuff!
The brilliantly named 'Slicing Up Eyeballs' website has put its interview with Andy online, and it's another good one, covering the usual questions about the album as well as touching on the track with B-52s' singer Kate Pierson that didn't make it onto 'Non-Stop', what might happen to the tracks Andy recorded with Stephen Hague for the album but didn't use and the possibility of more remastered and expanded Erasure albums after the success of 'The Innocents' last year...
Andy's recent interview for Digital Spy has gone online and it's a good one, touching on 'Non-Stop' but also covering Erasure, reality TV, Andy's relationship with Vince Clarke, La Roux and Lady GaGa...
Andy has contributed to Female First's 'The 15 Questions We Ask Everyone' series of features and talks about foiling wands, his trademark dance, his celebrity crush and sunday roast...
Andy has been interviewed by Rage Magazine as part of the promotional campaign for 'Non-Stop' and you can read the full interview on the website. The new album is, of course, the focus of the piece but there's lots more besides, including Andy talking about being pigeonholed as an '80s' artist, his dream duets and his renewed focus on the next Erasure album.
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Andy's new solo album 'Non-Stop' is out this week. The ten-track album is also available on CD or as a digital download from all good retailers including AMAZON UK, PLAY.COM UK and AMAZON USA.
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Edge Boston have put their interview with Andy online today, and it's not to be confused with Andy's recent interview with Edge Los Angeles as this is a totally new interview...
AOL's Spinner website is continuing its series of Andy Bell interview items with a new extract online today. This time the subject is politics and it's much more interesting than it sounds!
The charity auction for Andy's BPI silver disc for Erasure's 'Two Ring Circus' album to benefit the Rett Syndrome Research Trust charity ended this week. Thanks to your generosity and support the auction raised a impressive $1,725.00 for RSRT.
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The MumStop website is currently running an online competition with a meet and greet with Andy as the prize!
The Windy City Times website has put an excellent interview with Andy online. It covers the usual topics with a few more interesting questions thrown in too, including Andy's thoughts on working with Perry Farrell, what's on his iPod, the 'homemade' video for 'Call On Me', the new Erasure record and ageism!
Another piece of Andy's recent interview with AOL's Spinner website has gone online and revolves mostly around his collaboration with Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell although it does touch on Cyndi Lauper and Erasure along the way...
AOL's Spinner Music website is previewing the entire 'Non-Stop' album in the run-up to next week's release date...
Another new US interview with Andy is featured on the About magazine website and which covers the new album, Cyndi Lauper and Erasure's 25th anniversary among other topics.
A new interview with Andy has just gone online at Edge Los Angeles which sees Andy talking frankly about 'Non-Stop', the state of music, HIV, homophobia and much more besides…
US blog Queer Sighted has posted a rather tongue-in-cheek 'Non-Stop' review under the heading 'Andy Bell's Solo Album - Six Reasons Not To Hate It'…
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Andy is auctioning the BPI silver disc he received in 1988 for Erasure's 'Two Ring Circus' album to benefit the Rett Syndrome Research Trust charity.
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The award, to mark 200,000 UK sales of the album, has been signed by Andy on the reverse and is available for bids - via eBay - until June 3rd. The auction is open to bids from anywhere in the world, and shipping to the winner is free wherever they are.
Rett Syndrome is the most physically disabling of the autism spectrum disorders. Primarily affecting little girls, Rett often strikes just after they have learned to walk and say a few words, and begins to drag their development backward. This debilitating syndrome includes symptoms seen in many other severe neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders on which Rett research may shed light.
Andy has completed a Q&A for the GaydarNation website, that covers his new single 'Call On Me', his new album 'Non-Stop', how he feels about being a 'gay icon', love, sex and untoward propositions!
Sadly Pure Groove have been having problems with their local Council over noise levels from their instore performances and DJ sets. The shop have been forced to cancel all their planned events, including Anday's DJ set and signing session which was scheduled for June 11th. Sorry for any inconvenience but I'm afraid this decision was out of our hands.
Andy has been interviewed by AOL's Spinner site. In the first of what we expect to be a series of pieces Andy talks about working with Vince Clarke in Erasure versus the sessions with Pascal Gabriel that led to the 'Non-Stop' album...
Andy will be performing at San Francisco Pride on June 27th, on a bill that is also expected to include sets from The Backstreet Boys, Rose Royce and Martha Davis & The Motels. Andy will also be a Grand Marshall at the event.
'Subject/Object', from Andy's forthcoming 'Non-Stop' album, appeared in USA Today's prestigious feature 'The Playlist' alongside picks from Barbra Streisand, Doves and Dido among othes.
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Andrea Cox was the winner of our competition to meet Andy at his 'Our Friends Acoustic' performance at the IndigO2 last week, to have an exclusive preview of the 'Non-Stop' album and to interview Andy for this website.
Here's what happened when Andrea, with her friend Andrew, met Andy Bell backstage before the 'Our Friends Acoustic' show to ask him a few questions...
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Andrea - Listening to your new album, it's
totally different from anything you've done before… where do you find
the inspiration to come up with new ideas like that?
ANDY BELL - I'm not really sure to be honest, sometimes it feels like
I wring myself out dry and then it takes a long, long time before I can
think of anything else, especially when it comes to the lyrics. Because
it's pretty much a dance record then it's actually easier in some ways.
Erasure is very much more melodic with longer notes and things and it's
kind of hard to fit words to them. So I found it quite easy with the lyrics
for this one. When it comes to the tunes, it was quite good having Pascal
there because he'll just say yes or no to any ideas, it's all about what
sounds good.
We've started work on the new Erasure record already and we've got about nineteen ideas for songs, and we do have a few lyrics, we've did quite a lot of rough lyrics while Vince was here, but I have to put them on the back-burner and kind of forget about it for a while to start fermenting all the ideas you know?
Andrew - On your fortieth birthday you made
a promise to your fans that you'd never stop singing, now that you're
forty-plus do you feel the same way?
ANDY BELL - Well I'm really pleased with the way it's going so far but
I have been a bit down in the dumps with radio play and stuff like that,
and sometimes I do wonder what's the point, but I think that's probably
true of any creative person, you have peaks and then you go down very
low… funnily enough Daniel Miller at Mute said that between the ages of
forty and fifty it's really hard in the music business, but once you reach
fifty and get over that threshold then everything seems to be alright
again because you're seen to be a part of the establishment of something
like that! Vince is there already and I've only got another four years
to go!
Andrea - What happens to all your costumes
and things after tours? Do you keep them all?
ANDY BELL - We've got a whole lot of stuff in the basement in Spain, a
whole lot of stuff from the Phantasamagorial Tour, backing singers and
everything… enough for a parade really! But we don't really look after
it very well so there's kind of a lot of piles of junk! A couple of pieces
- the sparkling cowboy outfit and some of the rubber ringmaster outfits
- are in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland but lots of it gets
sold off, we give it away for charities and things. I'm not a very nostalgic
person really…
Andrew - You've done street busking in the
past haven't you? Is that something you still do?
ANDY BELL - I haven't done that for ages, not for ages and ages. I have
to have someone there with a guitar, but if I see someone with a guitar
I might just jump on in!
Andrea - What's your favourite track on the
new album?
ANDY BELL - I like 'Slow Release' because that's the ballad on the album,
and 'Non-Stop' because it's the title track and because it sounds really
good on the radio. I also like 'Say What You Want' and 'Touch'… all of
them really. I've not listened to the album for a while and all the songs
are a bit jumbled up in my head!
Andrea - How do you remember all the songs
when you're onstage?
ANDY BELL - Well I do get stuck sometimes on the lyrics, I do repeat verses
and things, or get them the wrong way round… especially on 'Oh L'Amour'
and songs like that. Sometimes when you do get stuck, or when your mind
goes blank, they just kind of come out on their own without really thinking
about it. It's good to let it just flow like that sometimes and not think
about it.
Andrea - If you could be a superhero then who
would you be and what powers would you have?
ANDY BELL - Well I would definitely be Wonderwoman because I used to love
watching her on the TV and I loved her figure and I liked her lassoo of
truth and her invisible plane.
Andrew - If you weren't with Erasure, or if
Erasure had never happened, what sort of career do you think you might
have chosen?
ANDY BELL - I don't know, hopefully I would have joined a band somewhere
along the line, or maybe gone to acting school or something like that,
something to do with performance. If all that failed then I'd be working
in Debenhams!
Andrea - Do you get nervous before you go onstage?
ANDY BELL - I do get nervous, I'm nervous now and I was really nervous
on the way here. With things like this, that have been planned for so
long, you know it's coming and you're just waiting and waiting for it.
Once it's out of the way I'll be fine until I start panicking about the
next thing…
Andrew - For the 'Electric Blue' album you
did a few gigs didn't you? Are you planning anything like that this time
around?
ANDY BELL - Well there has been talk of doing something… we're doing the
instore in June and I'm quite looking forward to doing some sort of DJ
things, where I play music and do vocals over the top of the records…
it depends what we come up with really.
Andrew - Whatever happened to Janet Gordon?
I bet she can still taste the stamps can't she?
ANDY BELL - Janet's with Shaun at Mute and the kids come round every now
and then - Joe and Jonathan - and we go and have pizza and stuff, and
she's really amazing with computers so she comes round and just sorts
us out!
Andrea - Is there anyone in the charts today
who you really like? Anyone who inspires you?
ANDY BELL - I love Lady GaGa, I think she's fantastic. I like Rihanna,
I think she's got an amazing voice… I'm a bit tired of the whole Britney
thing, Christina Aguilera things like that. I tend to go for the older
artists I suppose, like Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin, people like
that… to be honest I don't really know many current bands!
Andrew - Do you have ideas about an Erasure
tour when that all happens? There's lots of people around the world who
are desperate to see you…
ANDY BELL - Well originally they were going to release 'Non-Stop' in the
Spring time, because it was finished last August, and we were hoping to
have the Erasure record finished, but it's all been put back. We were
hoping to do a gig at the Hollywood Bowl to kick off the whole thing and
hopefully we can still do that next year. Personally I would love to go
back to Argentina and Chile and those places in Latin America because
they are really amazing places to play. But we are definitely going to
go on tour next year and I'm really looking forward to it and Vince is
up for it too… we've just got to get the record finished first!
Andrea - Have you got any interesting plans
for the weekend?
ANDY BELL - This weekend? I'm not doing anything really, I've got a friend
coming down tomorrow who I haven't seen for ages but basically I've got
a free weekend which is really nice!
Andrew - My favourite Erasure gig was Milton
Keynes and I thought you married the audience that night, what did you
think of it?
ANDY BELL - To be honest I didn't really feel like I was there… we had
been to so many places that year and I was in a bit of daze to be honest
and I can't really remember the show at all. To be honest though we couldn't
really believe that we were playing there at all!
Andrea - Do you have any pets at home?
ANDY BELL - I don't have any pets, no, but there's loads of spiders!
Andrea - What's your favourite sort of food?
What do you like to eat?
ANDY BELL - I love garlic. If ever I'm having a potato or something then
I always make my own mayonnaise, you just crush it all up put in a bit
of butter - or Benecol now because I'm watching my cholesterol, pretend
butter! - put it in the microwave for one minute and you have instant
garlic butter! Apart from that I pretty much like anything, I love Italian,
I like steak, I like vegetarian food, spicy Indian, Thai… I don't like
Bombay Duck which is dried fish, this Indian dried fish which really stinks…
it's like eating a mummy!
Andrea - How do you spend your free time?
ANDY BELL - Well really I just go and see friends. I watch a lot of TV,
I'm a bit of a couch-potato really. Or I'm on the internet, on iTunes
making CDs… going to the theatre, but mostly the music is what takes up
my time.
Andrew - How is Vince adapting to fatherhood?
ANDY BELL - I think he really loves it. He loves being a dad. He told
me that he was determined not to let Oscar develop an American accent
but I'm not sure how that is panning out! He's a very proud dad and he
says that Oscar has opened his eyes to the world because he thinks everything
is amazing, a stone, a tree! I always look forward to seeing him.
Thanks to Andrea, Andrew and Andy
Andy headlined last Thursday's 'Our Friends Acoustic' event at London's IndigO2 with a five-song acoustic set ('Sometimes', 'Blue Savannah', 'Victim of Love', 'Ship of Fools' and 'A Little Respect') to round off an excellent evening of music that also featured sets from Jimmy Somerville, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, China Crisis, Steve Strange and Carol Decker.
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Thanks to Barbara Hudson for the pictures.
Gaydar's Phil Marriott interviewed Andy this week and has very kindly sent over the audio for anyone who missed the original show.
It's another great interview, clocking in at around twenty minutes, which covers pretty much everything!
Andy was rehearsing yesterday for his headlining appearance at tonight's 'Our Friends Acoustic' show in London and we have a couple of pictures of the rehearsals for you courtesy of Andy's manager Paul Hickey.
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Another recent interview with Andy will be appearing on air across Sussex on Sunday (May 16th) between 2pm and 6pm as part of Chris Copsey's show on Arrow FM (Hastings), Bright FM (Mid Sussex), Sovereign FM (Eastbourne) and Splash FM (Worthing). You can listen to all the stations online…
Andy's recent interview with Real Radio in Yorkshire aired yesterday and is available to listen to online. It's another good interview in which Andy discusses the 'Non-Stop' album, working with Pascal Gabriel, making a video for 'Call On Me' at home and 'DHDQ', his tribute to Debbie Harry and the new Erasure album among many other things!
On Monday night Andy was one of the guest presenters at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in London where he presented the award for 'Digital Station of the Year' to Planet Rock!
John Marshall, over at Lincs FM, interviewed Andy last week about the 'Non-Stop' project and has very kindly allowed us to stream the interview for you below.
It's a great interview which covers the album, the new single 'Call On Me' and Erasure's new record among other things.
The interview aired on Lincs FM at the weekend and will also run across the other stations in the group, so listen out for it airing on Compass FM, Dearne FM, Lincs FM, Oak 107, Hinkley FM, Ridings FM, KCFM, Rutland FM, Rother FM and Trax FM.
Andy will be playing a DJ set and signing copies of 'Non-Stop' at a special instore appearance at London's PURE GROOVE record shop (6-7 West Smithfield, London, EC1A 9JX) on June 11th at 7pm. See the PURE GROOVE website for location details.
Italian online radio station Radio 35, in conjunction with the unofficial Italian ERASURE CLUB online forum, are planning a special night to celebrate the release of the new Andy Bell album 'Non-Stop'. The show will feature classic Erasure tracks alongside Andy's new singles and tracks from the 'Non-Stop' album and will broadcast at the beginning of June. Radio 35 are also open to suggestions about the tracks they include in the show, more details on the RADIO 35 website.
Andy Bell is today pre-recording a number of radio interviews
to run alongside the upcoming releases of his 'Call On Me' single and
'Non-Stop' album, and which will cover the following regional stations.
More details when we have them.
Compass FM, Dearne FM, Lincs FM, Oak 107, Hinkley FM, Ridings FM,
KCFM, Rutland FM, Rother FM, Trax FM, Norwich Radio, Channel 103, Island
104.7, The Beach, Kestral FM, Dream FM, Win 107.2, North Norfolk Radio,
Town FM, Splash FM, BBC Radio Humberside, Real Radio, BBC Radio Devon,
Wave 105, Clyde 2, Forth 2, Tay AM, Westsound, Northsound 2, BBC Radio
Nottingham, Metro FM, Gaydio, Magic London, Magic North, Q Radio
Andy is currently featured on Bent.com in an interview about his 'Non-Stop' project which also touches on the new Erasure album, his DJ appearances, reality TV and how good a cook Vince Clarke is… you can read the full interview by following the link below.
Absolute 80s' 'Happy Hour' show is hosted by Andy Bell this week and will be repeated every day at midday until Friday. You can listen via DAB or online, more details at the link below.
Andy has been interviewed by the Yorkshire Evening Post and the interview ran in the paper over the weekend and is also available online. It's a great interview in which Andy talks about the 'Non=Stop' project, reveals that he's done a homemade video to accompany the 'Call On Me' single and discusses reality TV and the new Erasure album…
Andy has chosen his ten favourite 80s videos for the Virgin Media website, and you can see his selections - which include Visage, Bow Wow Wow, The Human League, David Bowie and Blondie - by clicking the link below.
Mute Bank have started take PRE-ORDERS for Andy Bell's forthcoming new album 'Non-Stop' which will be released on June 7th. If you pre-order the album from MUTE BANK you will also receive an exclusive Vince Clarke remix of the title track, 'Non-Stop', as a free download!
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'NON-STOP' ALBUM TRACKLISTING
Running Out, Call On Me, Subject / Object, Say What You Want, Will
You Be There?, Slow Release, Touch, Non-Stop, DHDQ, Honey If You Love
Him (featuring Perry Farrell)
Andy's new single 'Call On Me' will now be released on May 31st, with his 'Non-Stop' album following on June 7th.
'Non-Stop' will be released on June 7th on CD and via download and will feature the singles 'Running Out', 'Will You Be There?' and 'Call On Me' alongside a further seven electro anthems including 'Honey If You Love Him' a duet with Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell.
'NON-STOP' ALBUM TRACKLISTING
Running Out
Call On Me
Subject / Object
Say What You Want
Will You Be There?
Slow Release
Touch
Non-Stop
DHDQ
Honey If You Love Him (featuring Perry Farrell)
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Andy Bell's new solo singles 'Running Out' and 'Will You Be There?' - originally released under the name of Mimó in the UK and Europe - are out now as digital downloads from iTunes and all major online retailers. Produced by Andy and pop maestro Pascal Gabriel (Dido, Kylie, Ladyhawke) and capturing the essence of the dance floor classics and unforgettable pop anthems that made his name, Will You Be There? includes remixes by Seamus Haji, Sonic C and French Horn Rebellion, which push the boundaries of club classics. But don't take our word for it, have a listen for yourself...
TRACKLISTING
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'Will You be There?' is actually the second release under the Mimó name, the first - entitled 'Running Out' - was released to clubs and media last year and is also available to download. You can have an advance listen here...
TRACKLISTING
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Andy played a DJ set at London club The Eagle on Saturday and Russell James (pictured below with Andy), who attended the event, sent over these pictures… thanks Russell!
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"Connoisseurs
of deluxe dance-pop, seductive electro anthems and gold-plated disco
grooves - lend me your ears, Andy Bell releases a brand new album, Non-Stop,
on 7th June 2010.
Non-Stop, co-produced and co-written by Andy Bell and Pascal Gabriel (S’Express, Ladyhawke, Debbie Harry, Kylie, Little Boots) is a lavish 10 track collection of exquisite dancefloor confessionals from one of the most acclaimed and beloved singers in British pop.
Non-Stop features forthcoming single Call On Me, out 10th May and Honey If You Love Him, a duet with and written by Perry Farrell (of Jane’s Addiction fame), a huge fan of Andy’s voice who suggested the alliance.
Although Andy’s long-running partnership with Vince Clarke in Erasure (recipients of Best British Group at The Brit Awards) remains very much a going concern - since the release of 1986’s debut, Wonderland the duo have gone on to sell over 20 million albums, 5 of them hitting #1 and had 17 Top 10 UK singles - the singer’s second solo album provides a liberating platform for his more clubby, nocturnal, disco-glam side. He has even purposely changed his vocal register and style for much of Non-Stop, putting clear blue water between his soulfully electronic solo voice and his gleaming, poppy Erasure work."
'NON-STOP' ALBUM TRACKLISTING
Running Out
Call On Me
Subject / Object
Say What You Want
Will You Be There?
Slow Release
Touch
Non-Stop
DHDQ
Honey If You Love Him (featuring Perry Farrell)
Andy Bell will be part of the bill for an upcoming acoustic evening at London's IndigO2 in aid of the charity Mencap. 'Our Friends Acoustic' will feature a number of artists reworking their biggest hits acoustically. Other artists on the bill will include Jimmy Somerville and Nik Kershaw with more names expected to be announced shortly.
Ticket information and more details are available from the IndigO2 website.
To mark broadcast of the first show in the new US series of 'Celebrity Apprentice' (NBC) at the weekend here's a couple of behind the scenes shots - both taken in New York City last year during a break in the first writing session for the new album - of Andy and Vince popping into Burger Heaven to wish Sharon Osbourne and Cyndi Lauper and the rest of Team Tenacity good luck...
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Andy Bell's solo single 'Will You Be There?' will be released as a download in the USA on March 16th...
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Andy attended a reception at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday evening (February 24th). The event - hosted by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown - took place to 'celebrate the contribution of the LGBT community to Britain'.
Erasure are getting together this week to write for the new album... Vince and Andy will be Twittering their progress from Thursday and all the Tweets will also be appearing on the Erasure Facebook page!
Andy Bell will DJ at Tonka's seventh birthday party at The Eagle in London on April 2nd. Andy will be playing a 2 hour set between 11pm and 1am.
The Eagle, 49 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London SE11 5QY. 9pm-3am. Admission free before 10pm then £5.
Andy Bell will DJ at the relaunch of Dublin club The Dragon on February 25th.
The Dragon, 64/65 South Great Georges Street, Dublin 2. Doors 8pm-3am. Admission Û8 before 10pm then Û10.
More DJ dates to be announced shortly!
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Andy will be performing a short set (which will include some new material) as part of the entertainment at this year's European Gay Ski Week which will take place at France's Tignes resort between March 20th and 27th. Andy will play at the prestigious Folie Douce party on the Thursday... a week's skiing and an evening with Andy all in one package!
More details at the European Gay Ski Week website.