ANDY BELL NEW SOLO SINGLE 'CALL ON ME' AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
The Official Erasure Shop at Lexer Music is now taking pre-orders for the CD version of Andy Bell's forthcoming single 'Call On Me' which will be released on May 10th. The single will also be released as a digital download with a slightly different tracklisting, see Andy's official website for more details.
'CALL ON ME' CD TRACKLISTING - Call On Me (Wideboys Full Length Radio Mix), Had It All, Call On Me (Original Version), Call On Me (Vince Clarke Remix), Call On Me (Hey Champ Remix), Call On Me (Deadboy Remix)

VINCE CLARKE CONFIRMS YAZOO LIVE ALBUM
Vince made a very brief appearance on Howard Stern's Howard 100 News radio show last week talking about his career so far, the current music scene and 2008's Yazoo reunion. During the interview - which you can hear by following this link - he also confirmed that there will be a live Yazoo album released in September??? more news on that when we have it!

ANDY BELL 'NON-STOP' ALBUM ARTWORK REVEALED
Andy has released the artwork for his second solo album, 'Non-Stop', which will be released on May 24th on CD and via download. 'Non-Stop' 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 fantastic duet with Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell. You can see the 'Non-Stop' album cover in the news section at Andy's official website. Pre-order information to be announced very soon!
'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)

VINCE CLARKE MINI-DOCUMENTARY
I've talked before about how Motherboard TV's excellent mini-documentary about Vince and his studio in Maine, 'The Cabin', has been appearing all over the internet, well it's still going and we're particularly pleased to see it popping up on the rather prestigious Sundance Channel this week... check it out here!

HERE AND NOW have announced a special outdoor show at Alton Towers on May 23rd featuring BANANARAMA, RICK ASTLEY, KIM WILDE, MIDGE URE, CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT and THE CHRISTIANS.

WANG CHUNG have announced summer dates across the USA and are working on new material for a new EP for release around the same time. See GIGS for all the dates.

CONCRETE BLONDE are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 'Bloodletting' album with a special US tour which will see the band reunite to perform the 1989 album in its entirety. See GIGS for all the dates announced so far.

LEVEL 42 have been added to the line-up of this year's GuilFest and will play second on the bill to STATUS QUO on the Sunday night (July 12th). The band have also announced shows in Japan, Holland, Belgium, Germany Switzerland and the USA this summer, with more dates expected shortly. See GIGS for all the dates.

ALPHAVILLE, REEPERBAHN and JACOB HELLMAN are to play six Swedish shows in August as part of the 'Forever Young 2010' tour. See NEWS for more details.

TEARS FOR FEARS' CURT SMITH has been signed up to remix tracks for online sci-fi TV series The Cabonauts - alongside previously announced contributions from HEAVEN 17 and THE HUMAN LEAGUE's JO CALLIS - with the remixes to be sold via iTunes and a featured on a soundtrack album featuring the best remixes and all the show's original tracks. See NEWS for more details.

CROWDED HOUSE will release a new album, 'Intriguer', in June and will be undertaking a massive tour to support the album. See GIGS for all the dates.

Special thanks to www.remembertheeighties.com for this week's news!