Billboard (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The oomph behind Yaz's music was always Alison Moyet's voice. Her bluesy alto and torch-singer flair is what distinguished the band from the pack back in the day. It's also the reason why the room was filled at this show.
boy culture (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Last night was the Yaz (from the Olde English “Yazoo”) concert Kenneth and some friends and I have planned to attend for months. I was never a true fan of Yaz—I take the word “fan” seriously, so I wouldn’t want...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Yaz always did leave fans wanting more.During the course of their brief but auspicious career in the early 1980s, the onetime Basildon, England-based duo released just two albums and three singles. Songwriter Vince Clarke and singer never toured the United States outside of New York, and one of their best-loved hits in England, where they are known as Yazoo, "Don't Go," fades out around the 2 1/2 -minute...
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
We're taking the day off tomorrow here at Bilerico, so Queer music Friday's coming a day early. Here's Erasure's "Oh L'Amour": iPhone users: Click to watch And singer Andy Bell's advice to young gay artists , after the jump. Continue reading "Queer music Thursday - Erasure"...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
YouTube via Ynnarg "Interesting piece of how Vince was working in the studio at this early Erasure time. Good old synths."
Argie-Bargie (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
I can understand a station dedicated to Elvis. Even Bruce Springsteen. But ABBA? Is there really that big of an audience? On Monday, July 7th, Sirius will debut a channel dedicated to the Swedish pop group ABBA, for two weeks. Set to launch in conjunction with the film adaptation of the musical [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
On Sunday night, I went to the True Colors concert tour stop in Dallas. It was like Gay Pride with better music. You could be as out as you want to be there with no need for worry. Or so I thought.
The Spicy Cauldron (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
There are some amazing new mixes from 80s electro supremos Yazoo available now to buy on iTunes. Check out the Nobody’s Diary remixes by JC & Andy Bell (the vocal half of Erasure) and Koishii and Hush, as well as Black Light Odyssey’s reinterpretation of Goodbye 70s in particular. Yummy!
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
They were pop’s original odd couple and together Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke were Yazoo, an electro duo who enjoyed huge but shortlived success in the 80s.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Alison Moyet, 46, was one half of the 1980s pop duo Yazoo, alongside Vince Clarke. Her subsequent solo career included the top-10 hits "All Cried Out" and "Love Resurrection". She has just reunited with Clarke for a comeback tour. She lives in Basildon, Essex, with her husband and their three children
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
The National Aids Trust has celebrated their 21st anniversary at Home House, the private members club in London.
Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
Erasure is one of the best dance-synth-pop duos there's ever been. The music is in the mold that Vince Clarke helped perfect with this and his other bands (Depeche Mode, Yaz, The Assembly), and Andy Bell is one of the great voices. This is "Breath Of Life" (the video for which, incidentally, goes along with that electro-Alice piece I posted a little over a week ago). If it doesn't make you smile, I...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
THAT Yazoo have been conspicuous by their absence from the gravy train of 80s nostalgia should perhaps come as no great surprise.
Modern Fabulousity (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Erasure, Live at the Royal Albert Hall (site) Sometimes it seems that Erasure releases a live concert DVD after every single album. (Amazon counts at least four in the last five years.) The latest, which includes songs from their stellar CD from last year, Light at the End of the World, is more sumptuously captured than most, with a very immediate sense of the no-frills stage action and a
Blabbeando (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
In the UK they were known as Yazoo , in the US as Yaz , but for a young guy growing up in Syracuse enamored with all things New Romantic, Dave Clarke and Alison Moyet were just about the best out there (Dave Clarke who used to be in Depeche Mode now records as Erasure with Andy Bell and Alison Moyet continues to record as herself). Call it cashing it in or not, but Yazoo is back with a re-mastered...
