ERASURE: 'Love You To The Sky''

'Love You To The Sky', the first single to be taken from the forthcoming new Erasure album 'World Be Gone’.
‘Love You To The Sky’ was released as a single-track download Friday 17th March.
The 'World Be Gone’ album followed on 19th May and is available on CD, LP.

ERASURE’S VINCE CLARKE & ORBITAL’S PAUL HARTNOLL ALBUM COLLABORATION

ERASURE's VINCE CLARKE announced that the first release on his brand new micro-label, VeryRecords, will be a single collaboration with former ORBITAL mainman PAUL HARTNOLL.

The single, 'Better Have A Drink To Think' will be released on June 3rd and will be followed by an album, '2Square'.

Top Songs of 2014

Compiled from the number of views received on YouTube as of 12/6/2014, here are the rankings for the best songs released this year. What was your favorite new release this year?

1. U2 - Every Breaking Wave 564,967
2. Billy Idol - Can't Break Me Down 'Kings & Queens of the Underground' 389,041
3. JIMMY SOMERVILLE - Smalltown Boy (Reprise 2014) 295,477
4. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business, debuts at #14! 270,950
5. CHRISSIE HYNDE - Dark Sunglasses ‘STOCKHOLM’ 229,859
6. Brian Eno & Karl Hyde - The Satellites 'Someday World' 175,651
7. Thurston Moore - The Best Day 144,377
8. CULTURE CLUB - More Than Silence 87,205
9. ERASURE - Elevation ‘THE VIOLET FLAME’ 63,887
10. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Lovers On The Run ‘METEORITES’ 59,651



11. U2 - The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) 56,343
12. Holly Johnson - In And Out Of Love 'Europa' 38,262
13. HOLLY JOHNSON - Follow Your Heart 'Europa' 29,166
14. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Market Town ‘METEORITES’ 25,495
15. CULTURE CLUB - Like I Used To 18,610
16. MARC ALMOND - Worship Me Now 'Tasmanian Tiger' 13,413
17. Peter Buck - Drown With Me (w/Corin Tucker) 'I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again' 3,719
18. BLANCMANGE - Living On The Ceiling (Vince Clarke Mix) ‘Happy Families Too’ RE-RECORDED 3,272
19. PET SHOP BOYS - Part 09 [Sorry] ‘A MAN FROM THE FUTURE’ 2,915

ERASURE: NEW ‘THE VIOLET FLAME’ ALBUM AND TOUR

ERASURE have announced details of a brand new album, 'The Violet Flame', to be released on 22 September 2014 with a worldwide tour in autumn.

Recorded in New York and London and produced by Richard X, The Violet Flame is the band's sixteenth studio album release. The first single from the 10-track album will be released in mid July.

ERASURE: New Version A Little Respect

ERASURE have recorded a new version of their classic single 'A Little Respect' to raise funds for the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York and CYNDI LAUPER'S True Colors Foundation, as spreading a positive message of tolerance following the recent gay bullying and related suicides recently reported in the US. The single is available as a download and the band have also made new video to accompany the release.

Bangles, Siouxsie & Love And Rockets, Husker Du, Madness, Erasure: Concert Calendar, SF May-June, 1986