{"id":22854,"date":"2026-09-28T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=22854"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:22:10","slug":"erasure-vince-clarke-andy-bell-announce-new-album-share-first-song-live-shows-confirmed-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=22854","title":{"rendered":"Erasure (Vince Clarke &amp; Andy Bell) Announce New Album, Share First Song \/ Live Shows Confirmed For 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ERASURE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22855\" style=\"width:557px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ERASURE.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ERASURE-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erasure &#8211; Andy Bell &amp; Vince Clarke &#8211; launch their 20th album release, Radio!! Radio!! today with a new track, \u2018Wings Of Love\u2019, alongside details of an arena tour in April \/ May 2027 across the UK and Europe, with North American dates to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radio!! Radio!! finds one of contemporary pop music\u2019s greatest, most beloved songwriting partnerships creating music that\u2019s hopeful and defiant, effusive and ecstatic. New single \u2018Wings Of Love\u2019, which premiered this morning on BBC Radio 2, is already a classic slice of perfect, glassy synthpop, one that captures the human heart of the new album, with Bell singing about love and loneliness, and his gratitude for all those he\u2019s appreciated in his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"ERASURE - Wings Of Love (Official Audio)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rDEB9OuFhR4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BRIT and Ivor Novello award-winning duo\u2019s first new studio album in six years sees Andy Bell and Vince Clarke continue to refine and deepen the pop edifice they\u2019ve been building over the past 40 years &#8211; 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of their debut album &#8211; with a set of songs about love, loss and injustice that speaks, powerfully, to our empathy-starved times. \u201cSome of the songs are quite reflective of stuff that\u2019s been going on in my life, but not all of them,\u201d says Clarke. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have to think about it or talk about it &#8211; it just happened that way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radio!! Radio!! is a uniquely personal record for Erasure, a quality that speaks to the devastating period of grief that the band faced in the years prior to its creation and the incredible bond they have created over 40 years of unbroken time working together. \u201cWhen you\u2019re a songwriting partnership for so long, it\u2019s very deep, kind of like a soul connection,\u201d says Bell. \u201cYou trust that person with your life, and because of the nature of songwriting, you just lay bare your soul. That becomes a sacred space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Bell and Clarke did come together to write again, it was as much in the spirit of uplifting an old friend as it was work. \u201cWhen something traumatic happens, there\u2019s a profound shift in the way you relate to each other &#8211; the respect you have for each other,\u201d says Bell. Whether consciously or unconsciously, the songs they were writing began to take on the tenor of hope and healing. \u201cVince has helped me through some terrible times, and so I always wanted to be there for him. I think that\u2019s what this album is about,\u201d says Bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The songs on Radio!! Radio!! are rooted in Erasure\u2019s unique synth-pop palette with some key augmentation: When working on the sound of this album, Clarke was unusually drawn to piano, inspired by composers like Erik Satie, as well as acoustic guitar. The use of these instruments adds drama and depth to Erasure\u2019s sound: \u201cI found techniques &#8211; ways to use piano that sounded really organic, and same with guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erasure will take to the road in 2027 for an arena tour beginning in Cardiff Utilita Arena on April 25th, before travelling throughout the UK, finishing with a date at London\u2019s O2 Arena then heading to Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Full dates are below, with more to follow. North American dates are planned for next year &#8211; details forthcoming. Vince Clarke will be Musical Director for the tour, but will not be appearing onstage alongside Andy Bell. He explains, \u201cI recently moved to California from New York, and I travelled from here to London. The travelling took a toll &#8211; it really messed me up. I never seemed to recover from it. I just thought \u2018I don\u2019t want to do this anymore\u2019. I told Andy, and he made me musical director, and I thought, \u2018how fantastic is that?\u2019 I can do all my work and all my direction from here, but I don\u2019t have to leave sunny San Diego.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bell goes on to say, &#8220;I&#8217;m so pleased that we were able to find a way for the tour to work for Vince. He&#8217;s always too modest but he&#8217;s so much more than the Musical Director, Vince is one of the great loves of my life and everything we do as Erasure we decide together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can hear that thread of warmth and mutual care across Radio!! Radio!!, an album that transposes the dazzling hugeness of the duo\u2019s best work onto avowedly more personal, more reflective songwriting material. Bell acknowledges that it would be easier, perhaps, for he and Clarke to go on autopilot, 40 years into their career. But how would that pass as Erasure? \u201cIt\u2019s a two-person brain, and everything that we\u2019ve gone through comes into it,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have a sense of responsibility. We couldn\u2019t ever do something throwaway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radio!! Radio!! will be released by Mute on vinyl, CD and digitally on March 12th, 2027<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2027 Radio!! Radio!! Tour<br>April 25 &#8211; Cardiff (UK), Utilita Arena*<br>April 26 &#8211; Bournemouth (UK), International Centre*<br>April 28 &#8211; Liverpool (UK), M&amp;S Bank Arena*<br>April 30 &#8211; Birmingham (UK), Utilita Arena*<br>May 1 &#8211; Manchester (UK), AO Arena*<br>May 3 &#8211; Dublin (IE), 3Arena*<br>May 5 &#8211; Nottingham (UK), Motorpoint Arena*<br>May 6 &#8211; Hull (UK), Connexin Live*<br>May 8 &#8211; Leeds (UK). First Direct Bank Arena*<br>May 9 &#8211; Glasgow (UK), OVO Hydro*<br>May 11 &#8211; Brighton (UK), Brighton Centre*<br>May 12&nbsp; &#8211; London (UK), The O2*<br>May 15 &#8211; Cologne (DE), Palladium<br>May 16 &#8211; Hamburg ( DE), Inselparkhalle<br>May 18 &#8211; Leipzig (DE), Haus Auensee<br>May 21 &#8211; Frankfurt (DE),&nbsp; Jahrhunderthalle<br>May 22 &#8211; Hannover (DE),&nbsp; Swiss Live Hall<br>May 24 &#8211; Berlin (DE), Uber Eats Music Hall<br>May 26 &#8211; Copenhagen (DK), Royal Arena<br>May 28 &#8211; Stockholm (SE),&nbsp; Avicii Arena<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>*with special guests Ladytron<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>General sale from 10am on Friday October 2nd &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ymlps7.com\/5466fusybjmaaaeqjewagawqwagauqssh\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TICKETS<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Connect with Erasure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ymlps7.com\/47cbbusybjjazaeqjewavawqwafauqssh\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/ymlps7.com\/4ff01usybjbavaeqjewagawqwaoauqssh\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/ymlps7.com\/2ec08usybjhavaeqjewalawqwafauqssh\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/ymlps7.com\/5aa25usybjwakaeqjewaiawqwagauqssh\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ymlps7.com\/8a8b4usybjqanaeqjewakawqwakauqssh\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mute<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erasure &#8211; Andy Bell &amp; Vince Clarke &#8211; launch their 20th album release, Radio!! Radio!! today with a new track, \u2018Wings Of Love\u2019, alongside details of an arena tour in April \/ May 2027 across the UK and Europe, with North American dates to be announced. Radio!! Radio!! finds one of contemporary pop music\u2019s greatest,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=22854\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Erasure (Vince Clarke &amp; Andy Bell) Announce New Album, Share First Song \/ Live Shows Confirmed For 2027<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22856,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854\/revisions\/22856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}