Erasure Announce Brand New Album ‘World Be Gone’ Ahead Of UK Tour

Erasure (Andy Bell and Vince Clarke) will release their seventeenth studio album, ‘World Be Gone’ on 19 May 2017, through Mute.

World Be Gone is the follow up to 2014’s ‘The Violet Flame’, and follows the band’s recent 30th anniversary celebrations.

Their new album sees the award-winning songwriters in a more reflective mood, giving the world and recent political upheavals a thoughtful examination and, as highlighted on the painted artwork showing a ship’s masthead rising up from being submerged in the stormy waters, looking forward to the future.

Explains Vince Clarke,

“Obviously the current political climate lends itself to lots of ideas”, Andy Bell continues, “I think there’s an underswell of opinion, and people are slowly waking up. I’m hoping that people will take the album in a positive way, that they’ll use it as optimistic rabble-rousing music.”

Watch the trailer for the new album here:

ERASURE - World Be Gone (Official Album Trailer #1)

The enduring BRIT and Ivor Novello winning pop duo have released a staggering number of albums, including 5 UK Number 1’s and 17 top 10 singles (35 singles charted in the UK Top 40) and their recent best of, ‘Always’, saw Erasure entering the Top 10 album charts once again.

Erasure are delighted to have been invited as special guests on Robbie Williams’ 2017 stadium tour taking place in the summer. Ahead of those dates, Erasure perform three headline shows: 27 May in Glasgow, 28 May in Manchester and 29 May at London’s historic Roundhouse. Full details below.

World Be Gone, written, performed and produced by Erasure and mixed by Matty Green, will be available on CD, ltd edition orange vinyl, regular vinyl & cassette and is available to pre-order now. As a special thank you to fans, everyone who pre-orders the album by 7 April (through the dedicated ‘World Be Gone‘ pre-order site) will get their name included in the album artwork.  500 copies of the album will be signed and all pre-orders give access to the exclusive fan ticket pre-sale for the band’s forthcoming headline shows.

Pre-order now here.

ERASURE HEADLINE TOUR DATES:

27 May – Glasgow, 02 Academy

28 May – Manchester Albert Hall

29 May – London Roundhouse

Tickets on sale Friday 3 March here.

ERASURE TOUR DATES WITH ROBBIE WILLIAMS – 2017:

2 June – UK Manchester, Ethiad Stadium

6 June – UK Southampton, St Mary’s Stadium

9 June – UK Edinburgh, Murrayfield Stadium

13 June – UK Coventry, Ricoh Stadium

17 June – IRE Dublin, Aviva Stadium

21 June – UK Cardiff, Ethiad Stadium

23 June – UK London, Stadium (Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park)

28 June – DE Dusseldorf, Espirit Arena

1 July – FR Paris, AccorHotels Arena

4 July – NL Nijmegen, Goffertpark

8 July – BE Werchter, Festivalpark

11 July – DE Hannover, HDI Arena

14 July – IT Verona, Stadio Bentegodi

19 July – DE Frankfurt, Commerzbank Arena

22 July – DE Munich, Olympiastadion

25 July – DE Berlin, Waldbühne

29 July – SE Stockholm, Tele2 Arena

4 Aug – NO Bergen, Bergenhus Fortress

7 Aug – DK Copenhagen, Telia Parken

10 Aug – FI Tampere, Ratina Stadium

13 Aug – PL Warsaw, PGE Narodowy

16 Aug – LT Vilnius, Vingis Park

19 Aug – CZ Prague, Airport Letnany

23 Aug – HU Budapest, Groupama Arena

26 Aug – AT Vienna, Ernst Happel Stadium

29 Aug – AT Klagenfurt, Wörthersee Stadium

2 Sep – CH Zurich, Letzigrund Stadium

7 Sep – RU St Petersburg, Ledovi Dvorets Palace

10 Sep – RU Moscow, Olympiski

Tickets are on sale now from:

RobbieWilliams.com

www.erasureinfo.com

www.mute.com

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