Vince Clarke and Andy Bell will return to their Erasure project with a twentieth studio album Radio!! Radio!! out in March 2027, along with a full arena tour in EU and UK.
The synth-pop pioneers Erasure play 3Arena on May 3rd 2027 in Dublin with Ladytron on support.
Vince Clarke will be Musical Director for the tour, but will not be appearing onstage alongside Andy Bell as per the explanation below.
Erasure are known for their ’80s synth pop classic singles like ‘A Little Respect’, ‘Sometimes’, ‘Always’ and ‘Oh L’Amour’.
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*
15 May – Cologne (DE), Palladium
16 May – Hamburg ( DE), Inselparkhalle
18 May – Leipzig (DE), Haus Auensee
21 May – Frankfurt (DE), Jahrhunderthalle
22 May – Hannover (DE), Swiss Live Hall
24 May – Berlin (DE), Uber Eats Music Hall
26 May – Copenhagen (DK), Royal Arena
28 May – Stockholm (SE), Avicii Arena
*with special guests Ladytron
General sale from 10am on Friday 2 October 2026 – tickets from Erasure.
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New single ‘Wings Of Love’ is out today.
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.”
When Bell and Clarke did come together to write again, it was as much in the spirit of uplifting an old friend as it was work. “When something like this happens, there’s a profound shift in the way you relate to each other – the respect you have for each other,” says Bell. Whether consciously or unconsciously, the songs they were writing began to take on the tenor of hope and healing. “Vince has helped me through some terrible times, and so I always wanted to be there for him. I think that’s what this album is about,” says Bell.
The songs on Radio!! Radio!! are rooted in Erasure’s unique synth-pop palette with some key augmentation: When working on the sound of this album, Clarke was unusually drawn to piano, inspired by composers like Erik Satie, as well as acoustic guitar. The use of these instruments adds drama and depth to Erasure’s sound: “I found techniques – ways to use piano that sounded really organic, and same with guitar.”
Erasure will take to the road in 2027 for an arena tour beginning in Cardiff Utilita Arena on 25 April before travelling throughout the UK & Ireland and finishing with a date at London’s O2 Arena then heading to Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Full dates are below, with more to follow. Vince Clarke will be Musical Director for the tour, but will not be appearing onstage alongside Andy Bell. He explains, “I recently moved to California from New York, and I travelled from here to London. The travelling took a toll – it really messed me up. I never seemed to recover from it. I just thought ‘I don’t want to do this anymore’. I told Andy, and he made me musical director, and I thought, ‘how fantastic is that?’ I can do all my work and all my direction from here, but I don’t have to leave sunny San Diego.”
Bell goes on to say, “I’m so pleased that we were able to find a way for the tour to work for Vince. He’s always too modest but he’s so much more than the Musical Director, Vince is one of the great loves of my life and everything we do as Erasure we decide together.”
You can hear that thread of warmth and mutual care across Radio!! Radio!!, an album that transposes the dazzling hugeness of the duo’s best work onto avowedly more personal, more reflective songwriting material. Bell acknowledges that it would be easier, perhaps, for he and Clarke to go on autopilot, 40 years into their career. But how would that pass as Erasure? “It’s a two-person brain, and everything that we’ve gone through comes into it,” he says. “We have a sense of responsibility. We couldn’t ever do something throwaway.”
Radio!! Radio!! is released by Mute on vinyl, CD and digitally on 12 March 2027
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