"Fill Us With Fire" And "A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot" Single
    Releases

New Erasure single "Fill Us With Fire" will be released in the UK on 5th March as a download only. Here is the tracklisting:

1. Fill Us With Fire (Single Mix)
2. Fill Us With Fire (JRMX Remix Edit)
3. Fill Us With Fire (Liam Keegan Remix Edit)
4. Shot To The Heart
5. Fill Us With Fire (Gareth Jones 'Fired Up' Extended Remix)
6. A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot (Wayne G Remix)
7. Be With You (DJ Yannis Remix)

At the same time, on 2nd March "A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot" will be released in Germany as a radio single.

Source: Erasure.de

"Fill Us With Fire" Promo On Ebay

First "Fill Us With Fire" promo surfaced on eBay - it is one track promo cd with Radio Version of the song.

Watch The Video For "Be With You (Yiannis Unruly Mix)"

Although the "Be With You" single was released late last year it's still climbing the US dance charts (it's currently at 17) helped in part by some remixes that Mute USA commissioned specifically for use in clubs in the US, including this one, Yiannis' Unruly Mix, which you can listen and watch to here.

Source: EIS

New VCMG Photos And Interviews

VCMG (Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore) recently did several interviews promoting their forthcoming album "Ssss" due to release 12th March. Below are two of them - for Mojo magazine and Italian Vogue. Both interviews illustrated with new VCMG promo photos.

Mojo (click on image to enlarge):

Italian Vogue - click here to read interview.

Wayne G Remixed "A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot"

London based DJ Wayne G who previously remixed Erasure's "Chains Of Love" and "A Little Respect" for 2009 "The Innocents" reissue, posted this message to his Facebook:

"Finishing touches to my remix of the new Erasure single "Whole Lotta Love". Sounding EPIC!"

Lissssten Clips From "Ssss"

You may now listen clips from all tracks from the fortcoming VCMG album "Ssss". They are available on Amazon.de website. Click here to go there. Longer 90 sec. clips are available for preview in German iTunes.

"Be With You" In Billboard Chart

This week current Erasure single "Be With You" is at #17 in Billboard's Hot Dance / Club Play chart (climbs from #22 again with the greatest airplay and sales gains this week). Here is a chart story for "Be With You":

49 - 40 - 33 - 27 - 24 - 22 - 17

"The Circus" And "The Innocents" Reissued Again

Erasure's classic albums "The Circus" and "The Innocents" will be available in one special priced 2CD package - release date 19th March 2012.

"The Circus" was released in 1987 and features the smash hit singles "It Doesn't Have To Be", "Victim Of Love", "Sometimes" and "The Circus". "The Innocents" released a year later in 1988 is absolute classic Erasure and includes the singles "A Little Respect", "Ship Of Fools" and "Chains Of Love".

You may pre-order this reissue right now in Mute Bank for just £4.99.

Tracklisting:

CD1:
1. It Doesn’t Have To Be
2. Hideaway
3. Don't Dance
4. If I Could
5. Sexuality
6. Victim Of Love
7. Leave Me To Bleed
8. Sometimes
9. The Circus
10. Spiralling
11. In The Hall Of The Mountain King
12. Sometimes (12" Mix)
13. It Doesn't Have To Be (Boop Oopa Doo Mix)

CD2:
1. A Little Respect
2. Ship Of Fools
3. Phantom Bride
4. Chains Of Love
5. Hallowed Ground
6. Sixty-Five Thousand
7. Heart Of Stone
8. Yahoo!
9. Imagination
10. Witch In The Ditch
11. Weight Of The World
12. When I Needed You (Melancholic Mix)
13. River Deep, Mountain High (Private Dance Mix)

New Erasure Single - "Fill Us With Fire"

The next single to be taken from Erasure's "Tomorrow's World" album will be "Fill Us With Fire". Click here to listen Radio Version of the song and watch the cover artwork below.

VCMG Reveal "EP2 / Single Blip" Release Details

VCMG - the much anticipated collaboration between Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) - will precede the March 12th release of their debut album "Ssss" with a second EP entitled "EP2 / Single Blip" which will be released on February 27th. Here's the official press release announcing the second EP:

VCMG ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF "EP2 / SINGLE BLIP"

VCMG - "EP2 / SINGLE BLIP" NEW EP RELEASED 27 FEBRUARY 2012

DEBUT ALBUM "SSSS", OUT 12 MARCH 2012

"EP2 / Single Blip" - from Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore's highly anticipated collaboration, VCMG - rears its head on 27 February 2012, with remixes from Byetone and Mathew Jonson.

A pounding motorik beat heralds the start of this minimal electronic tour de force. With primal drums and puckering bleeps, it's an industrial battle cry of the darkest proportions, setting teeth on edge with nails-across-blackboard screeching, ominous synths and spiraling rhythms.

"EP2 / Single Blip" tracklisting:
1. Single Blip
2. Single Blip (Byetone Remix)
3. Single Blip (Mathew Jonson Remix)

"EP2 / Single Blip" remixes come courtesy of sparse electronic artist Byetone, aka Berliner Olaf Bender, co-founder and the man responsible for the iconic design output at Raster-Noton. His 2011 album Symeta featured in Fact and The Quietus' end of year polls, and previous remix credits inc Modeselektor and eLan.

Alongside is a remix from Mathew Jonson, co-founder of Wagon Repair label and one-quarter of electronic improvisers Cobblestone Jazz. Canadian born Jonson has previously remixed the likes of Plastikman, Tiga and Chemical Brothers to great acclaim.

"Ssss" - the debut album by VCMG - is out on 12 March 2012 and boasts ten tracks of the same Teutonic turn-ons. Written and produced by Clarke and Gore, the album was mixed by Timothy 'Q' Wiles and recorded and engineered by Sie Medway Smith and Clarke.

Mastered by Stefan Betke (aka Pole), the album demonstrates Clarke and Gore's shared love of electronic music and marks the arrival proper of this enigmatic duo who have teamed up again after thirty years.

Speaking to MOJO this month, Clarke says the collaborative process was "really about exchanging colours… like two people doing a painting in a different room," and Gore confessed his preference for "anything that's a bit darker… with a driving rhythm."

"Be With You" In Billboard Chart

This week current Erasure single "Be With You" is at #22 in Billboard's Hot Dance / Club Play chart (climbs from #24 with the greatest airplay and sales gains this week). Here is a chart story for "Be With You":

49 - 40 - 33 - 27 - 24 - 22

Dinger Tracks Available For Free Download

Pierre Cope, who was with Andy Bell duo Dinger back in 1982-1985 has made available for free download two Dinger tracks.

The first one, "The End" was Andy Bell's first ever demo recorded in December 1982, a month after they met. They recorded it on a small Fostex 8 track machine in Watford, in some guy's bedroom studio for 30 pounds. Pierre played the music and Andy sung. The original 1/4" master mix was lost back in the late 80's. Later in 2010, Pierre took the only original TDK cassette mix that he had which was very old and hissy and converted it into digital format. The quality is weak so the song was never considered for putting out as a remixed sale.

The second one is "Air Of Mystery". Andy Bell and Pierre Cope released a single called "Air of Mystery" in 1985. It became a highly sought after addition to the collections of Erasure fans. Many years later, in 2011 the track was remixed and released along with four other old demo tracks under the title of "Sunsets Pink". You can buy it in all good online shops as a digital download or order a physical copy in Amazon USA.

Download both tracks for free here. You also listen "The End" at Youtube.

Listen VCMG's "Single Blip"

The new VCMG track "Single Blip" which soon will be released as an EP is featured in a latest Quietus Radio podcast. You may listen it in full here. "Single Blip" is the very first track in this podcast.

Vince Clarke And Martyn Ware To Release "House Of Illustrious"

Vince Clarke and his long time collaborator Martyn Ware (who also produced Erasure's "I Say I Say I Say" album) are compiling a super-luxury 10 CD boxed set, called "House Of Illustrious", to be released on Mute Records in spring 2012. This will be an exhaustive 10-year retrospective of all Illustrious’ soundscape compositions, with over 10 hours of original content, most of which have never been made available on disc before.

Malcolm Garrett from 53K and Tim Milne from Artomatic are currently designing extraordinary packaging for this once-in-a-lifetime release.

More info about Illustrious can be found here.

Vince Clarke To Release Samples Collection

Back in 1993 Vince Clarke released "Lucky Bastard", a huge collection of sequences specially created by Vince using his massive collection of classic analogue synths. That was a comprehensive collection of multisamples, plus all the samples from Erasure's "Phantasmagorical Entertainment" tour are featured.

After 18 years of almost constant endeavor Vince Clarke is almost ready to allow his latest masterpiece out of his studio. The specially produced website will tell you all about it as it happens...

"Love To Hate You" - Another Russian Cover

Three Russian top artists, Dima Bilan (Eurovision song contest winner), Philipp Kirkorov and Nikolay Baskov has recorded a Russian-language version of Erasure's classic hit "Love To Hate You" and performed it on 2012 New Year's night on Russian TV.

Click here to watch it.

Vince Clarke commented this performance in his Twitter:

"Cool! (I wish I owned a white suit..V)"

New "Be With You" Remixes

Maxi Promotion, the promotion company responsible for Erasure promotion in club world in USA have just added three new "Be With You" remixes from Yiannis Elia to their website. You may listen them here.

"Be With You" In Billboard Chart

This week current Erasure single "Be With You" is at #24 in Billboard's Hot Dance / Club Play chart (climbs from #27). Here is a chart story for "Be With You":

49 - 40 - 33 - 27 - 24

"Tomorrow's World" Review

Here is a link to the late "Tomorrow's World" album review from San Diego Reader.

EIS Newsletter:

Oi!

Life has pretty much gone back to what passes for normal round here after the Christmas break, and you may have spotted that I sneaked in an extra week's holiday while everything was quiet! The EIS is now open for business again after the holiday and I hope it's not too late to wish each and every one of you a very Happy New Year from Andy, Vince, me, and everyone who makes up the Erasure team, here's to 2012 and everything it brings!

The purpose of this newsletter is really to bring you those New Year wishes, to update you on Vince Clarke's VCMG project with Depeche Mode's Martin Gore, and to tie up a few loose ends from last year. However I will be back again soon with some 'proper' news - including details of the next single to be taken from 'Tomorrow's World' - very soon…

Here are this week's bits and pieces…

Vince Clarke's VCMG Announces 'Single Blip' EP And 'Ssss'
    Album

VCMG – Vince Clarke’s techno project with his former Depeche Mode bandmate, Martin L. Gore – has announced that its debut album will be entitled 'Ssss' and will be released on March 12th. The duo will also follow the project’s first release – December’s EP1/Spock – with a second EP entitled EP2/Single Blip, again via download and on 12'' vinyl. More details in the news sections of the Vince Clarke and Erasure websites…

Keane Vote Erasure The Best Live Show Of 2011

Well, perhaps this isn't the view of the entire band, but Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley voted Erasure's 'Tomorrow's World' show in Brighton as his best live show of 2011 in his end of year round-up for Keane's official website, saying "Possibly the most underrated band of all time, and it's a crying shame they're not a considered a national treasure in the UK. One massive singalong hit after another". Marvellous. Thanks to Steve for sharing that one.

Doctor Who Wants 'A Little Respect'

Matt Smith, the current (and rather fantastic!) Doctor Who, was a guest on Zane Lowe's breakfast show on BBC Radio 1 last week, and among the favourite tracks he plated was Erasure's 'A Little Respect'. Marvellous, part two! :-)

The Erasure Information Service Festive Countdown

In the last newsletter before Christmas I brought you news of the Erasure Information Service Festive Countdown which counted down the twelve days to Christmas with a different gift of Erasure content each day. Naturally the countdown has now ended but just in case you missed anything I haven't taken the page down just yet… click here if you want to grab free downloads of 'A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot' (taken from the recently released 'Erasure - Tomorrow's World Tour' album) or the previously unreleased Steve Smart & Westfunk Main Room Dub Mix of 'When I Start To (Break It All Down)', or a sample chapter from Paul Hickey's book 'Sometimes - A Life of Love, Loss & Erasure'. There are also live videos from the DVD elements of last years reissues of 'Wonderland' and 'The Circus', Vince Clarke's 'Meet & Greet' video, a poetic tribute to the band and - of course - festive messages from Andy and Vince. You're too late to enter any of the giveaways or the raffle, but congratulations to all the winners, your prizes went in the post this week and should be with you shortly if they're not already there!

Erasure Charity Auction + Raffle

Thank you to everyone who supported the EIS charity auction on eBay and the charity raffle via Lexer Music, we have raised in excess of £2000 to be divided between the two charities we were supporting; the International Rett Syndrome Foundation and Gilda's Club NYC. I should have a more precise figure shortly, once the various fees and expenses have been taken into account, but your generous support is very much appreciated, thank you! The various raffle prizes were all sent earlier this week so should be with the winners any time now (or as quickly as it takes a package to travel from the UK to the four corners of the earth!)…

Lexer Music Andy Bell And Yazoo Sale

Lexer Music (who run the Official Erasure Shop) is running a special sale with all their remaining stock of Yazoo and Andy Bell tour t-shirts available at half price, plus two different Erasure postcard sets (five postcards in each set) for just £1.95 until January 23rd. While stocks last!

I also want to say a huge personal thank you to everyone who was kind enough to email me before Christmas with festive wishes and messages, there were too many messages for me to respond to them all personally, but I was very touched by your kind words… thank you everyone!

The greeting and farewell in this newsletter are in Brazilian Portuguese, as suggested by Ulisses, thank you Ulisses.

Até mais and a Happy New Year!

Richard

Erasure Information Service
www.erasureinfo.com

Interview With Vince Clarke

In a new interview Vince Clarke talked about his project with Martin Gore and also revealed some interesting facts about Yazoo reunion in 2008:

The pair tried to write new songs "but it just didn't jell", says Clarke. "Alison and I are from two different songwriting worlds."

"It [live show] was filmed, but it will never be released." Why? "Because it will never be released," Clarke says.

Read the full interview here.

VCMG To Release "Ssss"?

According to some rumours, VCMG (Vince Clarke and Martin Gore) will release the album entitled "Ssss" on 27th February. The 10-track album will be available on CD, vinyl and as a digital download.

Interview With Andy Bell

Back in October Andy Bell has been interviewed by Simon James from Imagine FM about "Tomorrow's World" album and Erasure tour. You may listen that interview here.

"Be With You" In Billboard Chart

This week current Erasure single "Be With You" is at #27 in Billboard's Hot Dance / Club Play chart (climbs from #33). Here is a chart story for "Be With You":

49 - 40 - 33 - 27

"Tomorrow's World" Is One Of The Best Albums Of 2011

In the second-annual Slicing Up Eyeballs' website readers poll Erasure's "Tomorrow's World" landed at no. 8 in best albums of 2011 list.

Erasure In Bratislava - Photos

There are some gorgeous photos from November Erasure "Tomorrow's World" show in Bratislava. Click here to view them.

"Breathe" - Unreleased Remix

Back in 2005 Erasure single "Breathe" has been remixed by US remix team Swiss American Federation. That was promo only mix not released commercially and available only on promo formats in USA. There is another Swiss American Federatrion remix called "Swiss American Federation Bootleg Remix" that remains unreleased, but you may listen it here.

Erasure To Start Writing New Songs

According to one of latest Vince Clarke's tweets, he and Andy Bell are about to start writing some new songs soon.