Erasure Acoustic Album + Live Dates

Details: Written by: RoD Newsdesk - DV; Published: 27 February 2006

Erasure release a brand new album, Union Street, on 3rd April 2006. The release, their first full-length acoustic album, coincides with an intimate UK tour, starting on 14th April in Edinburgh and includes a date at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on 19th April (full dates below). The new album, Union Street, sees Andy Bell and Vince Clarke reworking classic tracks from throughout their incredible career, which began 20 years ago and has seen the band notch up 32 consecutive Top 40 hits, most recently with Here I Go Impossible Again/All This Time Still Falling Out Of Love from 2005's Nightbird album. The album, recorded in a small studio in Brooklyn, NY, was borne from the idea, says Andy Bell that they "show the songs in a different light, and show that they could work on whatever instrument, synthesisers or guitars". "We just felt there were songs on our albums that had been missed as songs," says Clarke. "We found this cool guitarist [Steve Walsh] with a cool studio [Union Street] and decided to use both."

Union Street Tracklisting
BOY (from the album Cowboy)
PIANO SONG (from the album Wild!)
STAY WITH ME (from the album Erasure)
SPIRALLING (from the album The Circus)
HOME (from the album Chorus)
TENDEREST MOMENTS (Run To The Sun B Side)
ALIEN (from the album Loveboat)
BLUES AWAY (from the album I Say I Say I Say)
LOVE AFFAIR (from the album Cowboy)
ROCK ME GENTLY (from the album Erasure)

Erasure Acoustic Dates
Fri 14 Apr - Edinburgh Usher Hall - £22.50 (0870 400 0688 / http://www.getlive.co.uk/)
Sat 15 Apr - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall - £22.50 (0870 400 0688 / http://www.getlive.co.uk/)
Sun 16 Apr - Manchester Lowry - £22.50 (0870 400 0688 / http://www.getlive.co.uk/)
Mon 17 Apr - Nottingham Royal Concert Hall - £22.50 (0870 400 0688 / http://www.getlive.co.uk/)
Wed 19 Apr - London Shepherds Bush Empire - £25.00 (0870 400 0688 / http://www.getlive.co.uk/)
Fri 21 Apr - Gateshead Sage - £22.00 (0191 443 4661/ http://www.thesagegateshead.org/)
Tue 25 Apr - Aarhus Music House (http://www.billetnet.dk/)
Wed 26 Apr - Hamburg Deutsches Schauspielhaus (0049 (0) 40 413 22 60 [Mo-Fr: 10.00-18.00] http://www.karsten-jahnke.de/ and http://www.karstenhaus.de/)
Thu 27 Apr - Berlin UDK (0049 (0) 40 413 22 60 [Mo-Fr: 10.00-18.00] http://www.karsten-jahnke.de/ and http://www.karstenhaus.de/)
Tickets for the UK shows go on sale on 27th January

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