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Erasure

February 2024

  • Queer the Music presenter Jake Shears.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Queer the Music; Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative; Elis James and John Robins – review

    Jake Shears’s deep dive into LGBTQ+ anthems hits all the right notes; a documentary-maker turns the spotlight on her own craft; and a lovable radio double act find their internet feet

December 2023

  • Frankly, the Smiths

    ‘I feel more like myself when I’m Morrissey’: the bizarre lives of tribute acts

    With tickets for big-name stars at a premium, it’s a great time to be a tribute act. Artists from ‘Tina Turner’ to the Arctic Numpties take us into their bizarre lives

November 2023

  • Vince Clarke.

    Vince Clarke: Songs of Silence review – Covid anxiety fills synthpop star’s debut solo album

    Stuck in his studio during lockdown, Clarke recorded this portentous album of wordless, minimalist intrumentals – a soundtrack of dread

January 2023

  • ‘There’s a silly sexuality to them’ … (L-R) Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Ricky Wilson, Keith Strickland and Cindy Wilson.

    Famous fans say farewell to the B-52’s: ‘They got me to question my own prejudices’

    After 46 years, the Athens originals are taking off for good later this year. David Byrne, Boy George and more pay tribute to one of the most unusual pop bands ever

August 2022

  • Andy Bell, photographed in Miami.

    The G2 interview
    ‘It’s the songs that count’: Erasure’s Andy Bell on being out in the 80s, living with HIV and falling from fashion

    Alongside Vince Clarke, the electropop pioneer has produced some brilliantly catchy and enduring songs. As the group releases a new album, the singer reflects on what happens when the hits dry up – and why he still loves performing live

October 2021

  • ‘Wonder Woman crossed with Lindsay Wagner Bionic Woman She-Ra slash Powerpuff Girl’ … Erasure’s Andy Bell at the SEC Armadillo, Glasgow.

    Erasure review – a heady cocktail of corsets and classics

    On the opening night of their first post-pandemic tour, the British synth-pop duo proved they haven’t lost their essence

August 2020

  • Sarathy Korwar, FKA twigs and Flying Lotus.

    Sarathy Korwar, Flying Lotus and FKA twigs among 2020 AIM awards winners

  • Andy Bell of Erasure.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Andy Bell's cultural highlights

December 2018

  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome LP session

    Frankie! Eurythmics! Tina Turner! Peter Ashworth's 80s pop mavericks - in pictures

    From Adam Ant to Julian Cope, the pop stars of the 80s were bold, brash and big-haired. Photographer Peter Ashworth realised their wildest visual fantasies

February 2017

  • Clockwise from top left: Marvin Gaye, Siouxsie and the Banshees, George Michael, Electronic, Carly Simon and Rod Stewart.

    My first love song: musicians remember the soundtracks to their teenage crushes

    A shaggy Texan, a firebreathing dancer, Liz Taylor … stars relive their first loves – and the tunes that bring them back

June 2016

  • Paul Hartnoll

    Vince Clarke and Paul Hartnoll: 2Square review – electro-pop for dad-dancing

March 2016

  • Andy Bell

    How I get ready
    Andy Bell, musician: 'I first had my eye bags done when I was 40'

    The Erasure frontman on surgery, skinhead jeans and looking good in his own skin

December 2015

  • pop duo Erasure, circa 1990. They are keyboard player Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell (right).

    Erasure: Always, The Very Best Of box set review – overlooked synth-pop masters

    Two discs of hit-and-miss remixes accompany Erasure’s untouchable greatest hits on this new box set

March 2015

  • Andy Bell

    This much I know
    Andy Bell: this much I know

    The Erasure singer, aged 50, on living with HIV, darts and predicting the future

December 2014

  • Tube platform

    Five surprise sing-alongs on the train, from Erasure to The Lion King

    Fans returning home from a gig have given a spontaneous performance of A Little Respect, to the delight of the internet

November 2014

  • Erasure perform at the Brighton Centre

    Erasure review – every note infused with lovelorn drama

    Andy Bell’s absolute belief in the duo’s music – with its sex-on-the-dancefloor peaks and morning-after valleys – stops this tour from being a nostalgia outing, writes Caroline Sullivan

September 2014

  • Andrew Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Alan Wilder and Martin Gore of Depeche Mode on 12 July, 1987. Photo by Paul Natkin/WireImage

    From Rock's Backpages
    Depeche Mode, Erasure and Inspiral Carpets break the States for Mute

    As New Order join the Mute family, here’s a piece originally published in the Face, in August 1990, charting the label’s American onslaught

August 2014

  • Andy Bell

    Andy Bell: 'My bravado came from drag queens'

    Like the Pet Shop Boys and Marc Almond before him, the Erasure singer is taking to the Edinburgh stage, with a cabaret show that takes him through uncharted territory, writes Mark Fisher

July 2014

  • Andy Bell

    30 minutes with …
    Andy Bell: 'I'd had enough of being bullied'

  • Andy Bell

    Andy Bell: Torsten the Bareback Saint review – brave, bawdy concept album

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