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Yazoo - Reconnected - June 2008
Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet to reunite for first UK shows in 25 years
4 disc box set In Your Room - Released in May
Yazoo - Vince Clarke & Alison Moyet - have announced that they will reunite for the first time in over 25 years for Reconnected, a UK tour in June, starting in Glasgow on the 4th and culminating in a headline show at London's Hammersmith Apollo on the 18th. Tickets are available from 1st February direct from the venue or online at www.ticketmaster.co.uk / www.gigsandtours.com / www.livenation.co.uk
The tour is preceded by In Your Room, a 4 disc box set which includes remasters and 5.1 mixes of both Yazoo's classic albums 'Upstairs At Eric's' and 'You And Me Both', b-sides and remixes and a DVD featuring a new short film containing exclusive new interviews with Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet and the promo videos for Don't Go, The Other Side Of Love, Nobody's Diary, Situation (1990) and Only You (1999).
The joyous, unlikely coming together of Vince Clarke, who had just left Depeche Mode, and Alison Moyet lasted for only 2 albums, saw them performing only 24 concerts worldwide, but left an indelible mark on pop. Yazoo released 'Upstairs At Eric's' in July 1982 then parted company just 12 months later on release of the second album 'You And Me Both', which reached Number 1 in the UK.
Vince and Alison have since gone on to have their own successful careers, Vince with Erasure and Alison as a solo performer, both releasing Top 30 critically acclaimed hit albums in 2007 – Erasure with 'Light At The End Of The World’ and Alison Moyet with 'The Turn'. The Reconnected Tour will also see Yazoo perform material from 'You And Me Both' for the very first time as well as pop classics Only You and Don’t Go.
Says Vince Clarke: "It's been really good going back to these songs after such a long while. Many of them have never been played live. I'm looking forward to performing them with Alison for all the fans who've enjoyed our music through the years but never had a chance to see Yazoo in concert"
Says Alison Moyet: ”Playing this material live is not about revision for me, it is about finishing something we started – writing, recording, performing. Three parts of a whole. A salmon cycle. It’s like going home.”
UK TOUR – JUNE 2008
Wed 4 June Glasgow Clyde Auditorium 0870 040 4000
Sat 7 June Manchester Apollo 08444 777 677
Thu 12 June Wolverhampton Civic 0870 320 7000
Sun 15 June Brighton Centre 0844 847 1515
Wed 18 June London Hammersmith Apollo 08448 444 748
or buy online at www.ticketmaster.co.uk / www.gigsandtours.com / www.livenation.co.uk
“Whoever said synthesiser music has no feeling can start eating their hearts out now” – – 5* - Truly Fab - Record Mirror– 28th August 1982
"Created somewhere inside the brain of Vince Clarke and the soul of Alison Moyet in a spaced out time between Georgio Moroder and James Murphy” – Paul Morley 2007
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