Northeast Music Guide

Review: Fabulous Electro Pop,  New and Classic from Erasure At Newcastle City Hall With Bright Bright Light Rod of Bright Light Bright Light We were bathed in red light as we entered Newcastle's iconic music venue. The PA was playing the best-known 80s electronic hits. Since our last visit venue has a new security firm which seems more customer focussed and drinks are now allowed in the venue itself. The bar and toilets have been altered and refurished.  Whilst the ladies appears to be much bigger the queues were still in evidence at the interval. At least it was a step in the right direction. Taking out the dividing walls creates a bigger bar drinking area and it feels more like a modern club rather than a strange basement affair. Bright Light Bright Light were the  support. The lead singer Rod Thomas was clothed in a magnificent fluorescent rainbow suit. He has a strong mellow voice reminiscent of Paul Young. Bright Light Bright Light is a 3-piece mad...

ERASURE ANNOUNCE 2018 TOUR UNVEIL THE VINCE CLARKE REMIX OF ‘LOVE YOU TO THE SKY’ - OUT 2 JUNE ON MAXI CD & DIGITAL EP NEW ALBUM – WORLD BE GONE – OUT NOW  The Album, on Amazon Exciting news: Erasure will return to Newcastle City Hall next year. It’s hard to think of another songwriting partnership as golden as that of Erasure. For 32 years, without a break or break-up, Andy Bell and Vince Clarke have mined a rich seam of creativity that has led to chart-conquering singles, a string of immaculate albums, a BRIT, an Ivor Novello Award and now World Be Gone, their seventeenth studio album. "Love You To The Sky" remix It sees the duo enter their fourth decade with renewed creative charge. Instead of the heady, euphoric dance music of their 2014 album The Violet Flame, on World Be Gone the mood is thoughtful, reflective and reminiscent of 1995’s lush, experimental album Erasure. Erasure’s buoyant grooves have often contained al...