Erasure – Andy Bell & Vince Clarke – launch their 20th album release, Radio!! Radio!! today with a new track, ‘Wings Of Love’ alongside details of an arena tour in April / May 2027
across the UK and Europe.Radio!! Radio!! finds one of contemporary pop music’s greatest, most beloved songwriting partnerships creating music that’s hopeful and defiant, effusive and ecstatic. New single
‘Wings Of Love’, 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’s appreciated in his life.
The BRIT and Ivor Novello award-winning duo’s first new studio album in six years sees Andy Bell and Vince Clarke continue to refine and deepen the pop edifice they’ve been building over the past 40 years – 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of their debut album – with a set of songs about love, loss and injustice that speaks, powerfully, to our empathy-starved times. “Some of the songs are quite reflective of stuff that’s been going on in my life, but not all of them,” says Clarke. “We didn’t have to think about it or talk about it – it just happened that way.”
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. “When you’re a songwriting partnership for so long, it’s very deep, kind of like a soul connection,” says Bell. “You trust that person with your life, and because of the nature of songwriting, you just lay bare your soul. That becomes a sacred space.”
2027 Radio!! Radio!! Tour
25 April – Cardiff (UK), Utilita Arena*
26 April – Bournemouth (UK), International Centre*
28 April – Liverpool (UK), M&S Bank Arena*
30 April – Birmingham (UK), Utilita Arena*
1 May – Manchester (UK), AO Arena*
3 May – Dublin (IE), 3Arena*
5 May – Nottingham (UK), Motorpoint Arena*
6 May – Hull (UK), Connexin Live*8 May – Leeds (UK). First Direct Bank Arena*
9 May – Glasgow (UK), OVO Hydro*
11 May – Brighton (UK), Brighton Centre*
12 May – London (UK), The O2*
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