Erasure Roll Call

Originally posted by poorlulu:
anyone have any comments about the show?

do you?

My opinion….Very, Very good show.

how long is erasures set? are they done by 11:30ish?

'twas 9.30 start done at around 11.15.

Although I thought they normally played three encore songs, not the two we had last night.

I thought it was a great show. So many of those songs have been stuck in my head for so long.

thanks… the over by 11pm Kraftwerk show really spoiled me, was nice to be able to catch the 11:30 metro without cutting out early..

so was the setlist like the one you posted earlier? a mixture of old singles and new stuff… does the new stuff standup against the classics?

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
so was the setlist like the one you posted earlier? a mixture of old singles and new stuff… does the new stuff standup against the classics?

from what i recall the setlists have been very similar. although last night, victim of love was not played (apparently its being rotated). lots of old stuff, as always. and their new stuff is sounding great. i dont recall any songs off of cowboy, but i could be wrong on that one. also, star wasnt played last night, not sure if thats on rotation or if theyre playing it. used to play it all the time. and i love hearing hideaway live. :)

vince and andy are looking in top shape. glamorous costumes as always. you should def. be able to catch the 11:30 metro.

There is not an awful lot of new stuff. If you have POP! the first 20 singles then you are in for a good time.

By complete surprise, I will be at the concert tonight (someone GAVE me a ticket earlier today)! :)

So if anyone from the board will be there as well, look for me! I am the girl with the purple hair and I'll be dressed all in black (laugh). ;) I'll also have a blue pin on my shirt which reads, "All That Glitters …"

Cheers

DJ Medusa.

sweet medusa,

did you get to the instore signing?

Yes, I went to the signing and that is where someone just GAVE me a ticket! It was so awesome! I got to meet Vince and Andy, and had them sign my "Nightbird" and "The Innocents" CD sleeve. Also got my picture taken with them.

Just got back from the concert, and the after-party (which Vince and Andy were at - very cool!) held in the Back Bar at the 9:30 Club. Got my tour program signed by them both as well. And I told Andy that it was "too darn hot." :)

Cheers

DJ Medusa.

* My favorite songs of the evening.

Erasure sure can put on a show but most importantly they know how to write a great pop song… Hearing "Hideaway" early in the really set the tone of the evening. I might have been bouncing, singing etc along but never once did I play air keyboard. ;) Echoing Medusa's comment, this would be have been a tough show for me to DJ as Vince Clarke is reponsible for a big chunk of my Synthpop collection.

Erasure Rubs 9:30 Crowd Right Way
Wednesday, June 8, 2005; C02

Just after doffing his angel wings Monday night at the 9:30 club, Erasure vocalist Andy Bell apologized for the duo's two-night stand having been rescheduled from last month. "I'm not a diva, honestly," he insisted.

In fact Bell did have plenty of legitimate reasons for postponing the gigs, including recuperation from double hip-replacement surgery last year. But of course he is a diva. That's the whole point of Erasure's campy, pulsing music, which combines synth-pop, disco, cabaret, light opera and a bit of English choirboy sound. This show wasn't the most elaborate Erasure has ever staged in Washington, but it did include an enchanted-forest set, two backup singers in Marilyn Monroe dresses and several costume changes for Bell, who finally returned to the stage as a fan dancer, dressed only in gold-spangled trunks and matching boots.

While Bell pranced, composer Vince Clarke supervised the music, which was mostly programmed, and inaudibly strummed an acoustic guitar.

His big moment came during a cover of Blondie's "Rapture," when he vocodered the rap interlude while Bell was offstage switching outfits. Yet the capacity crowd was cheering Clarke at the sound of every familiar synth pattern, introducing the Erasure standards "Hideaway," "Chains of Love" and "Sometimes," among others. Bell rode these simple and upbeat (if often plaintive) dance-floor anthems with glittery panache, but it was Clarke who provided the locomotion.

– Mark Jenkins


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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:

Originally posted by Bags:
While Bell pranced

NOT work safe!!!

Dude, you need to warn….

warn of the tired joke.

My pictures from Tuesday night's Erasure concert are up here now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/medusa242

Unfortunately, I could not upload them all but at least you get a smattering. ;)

Cheers

DJ Medusa.

and the most ironic t-shirt award goes to the guy wearing the ac/dc at the erasure show…