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 Andy Bell (musician)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Since the break-up, both Bell and Gardener have been able to be more reflective on the reasons why the group disintegrated, with Bell especially admitting his own part in the process.
Bell jumped on the opportunity to join Oasis but was obliged to learn playing bass and the entire Oasis catalogue before his first Oasis gig at the last minute.
Bell is also a member of Oasis' songwriting team, contributing Heathen Chemistry's instrumental "A Quick Peep", Don't Believe the Truth's the snarling "Turn Up The Sun", and the uplifting "Keep the Dream Alive", as well as b-side "Thank You for the Good Times", which appeared on the "Stop Crying Your Heart Out"-single.
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 Andy Bell interview 2002
Andy: Yes, because all the people always talking about Erasure but I think that I have a good voice and I wanted to demonstrate it.
Andy: Yes, with Abba songs it was easier because it was more the fun project and all Abba songs were written by the same people.
Andy: We were thinking about it but I wanted it will be more the music movie with our songs because it will be better to make a tour than make a musical.
erasure.macbay.de /erasure/yegor.htm   (1190 words)

  
 Andy Bell (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bell himself said "Hurricane #1 is not so much influenced by Oasis, it's inspired by Oasis".
Around the same time as Bell was touring with Gay Dad, Oasis were looking for replacements for founding members Bonehead and Guigsy.
On stage, during the Familiar to Millions album, in response to the arguing chants of "Noel" and "Liam", Noel Gallagher appealed for the crowds to "fuck all that "Noel" and "Liam" shit.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andy_Bell_(musician)   (1117 words)

  
 andy argyrakis : roster
Andy's landed six Friday section cover stories, contributed to a pair of front page stories, covered various concerts and film premieres and interviewed several musical acts including Tony Levin (of King Crimson/Peter Gabriel fame) Mavis Staples (the legendary voice of The Staple Singers) and British singer/songwriter Glenn Tilbrook (of Squeeze fame).
Andy's scored several cover stories, including special reports on the history of Aware Records and the Chicago hip-hop scene, plus features on Queen and The Roots.
Andy is also a contributing editor to the concert review section "Standing Room Only" that features his own text and photos in every issue.
andyargyrakis.com /roster.htm   (583 words)

  
 Daily Freeman - Erasure: '80s pop group takes flight with 'Nightbird', U.S. tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bell: That's the thing I've always really enjoyed since I was a kid, putting shows on and going out in the neighborhood.
Bell: No, I did have a part-time job as a teenager working in the meat department, but that was like, five years before.
Bell: We had people doing interviews and asking which type of girls do you like and all these kind of things, and I just hadn't been out with a girl.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14632256&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=81975&rfi=6   (1399 words)

  
 BBC News | Entertainment | Oasis recruit Ride man
Bell is best known for his previous bands, indie icons Ride, who split in 1995, and Hurricane #1, whose biggest hit was Step Into My World.
Andy Bell: Rock veteran at the age of 29
Bell is the second new member to join Oasis in a matter of days - new bassist Gem joined them last week to shoot the video for the band's single, Go Let Them Out.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/517724.stm   (391 words)

  
 Out.com Features | Erasure Returns
Out.com Exclusive: Andy Bell dishes on Erasure’s new album, his faves from their catalog, and his recently announced HIV status.
As he was taking a break from tour rehearsals, I had the chance to speak with Andy Bell from Erasure about the band’s new album, Nightbird, their 20-year legacy, and his courageous decision to come out publicly about his HIV status.
Andy Bell: It was kind of a conscious decision, but not too conscious.
www.out.com /detail.asp?id=9776   (680 words)

  
 Ride Interviews
Andy, I was speaking to Noel [from Oasis] not long ago and he was saying he needs to kick you up the ass to bring your tunes to the fore...
Andy Bell spoke to worldpop this week about his life inside Oasis and why Ride, a hugely influential guitar band in the early '90s, have decided to release a Best Of album.
Andy Bell landed one of the most high profile jobs in music when he joined Oasis as a bass player in 1999.
www.creation-records.com /ride/interviews.html   (4646 words)

  
 Upcoming.org: Andy Bell Of Erasure To Perform In Special Appearance! at Mezzanine (Thursday, November 10, 2005)
The dance floor king Andy Bell is coming to San Francisco?s Mezzanine to support his solo debut album Electric Blue, with DJ sets in selected cities.
Musician Vincent Clarke soon teamed up Andy Bell and the duo formed Erasure.
With lyrics doting on relationships, fear, and (completely uninformed) abstract progressive theory, Postcoitus will be opening for Andy Bell with their Oakland-based dance music project.
upcoming.org /event/39718   (318 words)

  
 Sturm and Twang: Bell and Clarke take a left turn into country to celebrate 20 years of Erasure, and score an ...
Andy Bell has one of the most underappreciated voices in pop music, and Erasure is one of pop's most underappreciated bands.
Bell's big, theatrical, multi-octave voice is sometimes hemmed in and overpowered by Vince Clarke's finely textured but dominating electronic sonics.
So it's not surprising that Bell and Clarke would celebrate 20 years together as a duo by altering their sound in an attempt to gain greater -- or even newfound -- recognition in their craft.
www.metroweekly.com /arts_entertainment/music.php?ak=2070   (1045 words)

  
 Gay Games Entertainment - The Gay Tunes Studio
Bell is just the latest star in the incredible lineup for the Gay Games VII Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
Legendary U.K. synth pop pioneers Erasure, comprised of vocalist Andy Bell and keyboard wizard Vince Clarke, is among the most successful pop duos ever, selling more than 20 million albums and charting some of the most memorable hits of the last twenty years.
Bell recently released his first-ever solo CD, Electric Blue, which was soon followed by the release of Erasure's critically-acclaimed Union Street, its first-ever entirely acoustic album.
www.gaytunes.com /gaygames.html   (218 words)

  
 oasis fanatic - band - andy bell biography
Andy Bell (11th August, 1970) is a British musician formerly of Ride, a 1980s and 90s British shoegazing band, and Hurricane #1.
After the split, Bell formed a new band called Hurricane #1 but this project was permanently dissolved when he was asked to play Bass for Oasis.
Bell had never played the bass before, but Noel Gallagher was confident that he would make a suitable replacement for Paul McGuigan.
oasisfanatic.com /band/bio_andy.php?oasisfanatic=1026364d06a5bfa1ce0...   (872 words)

  
 Floatation Suite
Rather than letting us all drift off completely (in a good way), the band soon moved into possibly the best number of the night which was a much more upbeat version of the your-mum-would-know-it-and-so-would-you-you-little-liar track "Blue Savannah" that once again had people up on their feet and dancing.
The same could be said for Andy who seemingly missed a cue as he danced around the stage but it only added to the atmosphere of enjoyment as even the backing singers (new face Jill Walsh and Erasure veteran Valerie Chalmers) performed their own little dance routine at the side during the instrumental.
Personally I wasn't a fan of the latter track, as the acoustic version strangely seemed to lose a lot of the sorrow and character of the 1987 original but as the band came back on again for principal Erasure classic "Sometimes" all things were forgiven.
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 Washington Blade Online
Gay-straight duo Andy Bell (left) and Vince Clark, better known as Erasure, received a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts as part of this year’s Capital Pride Director’s Awards at D.C.’s 9:30 club this week.
Bell graciously accepted the award and said, “Thank you,” along with something else that was drowned out by the screaming crowd.
During the performance, the duo played all their big hits and Bell, who disclosed his HIV-positive status in December, looked and sounded as good as ever, dancing about the stage in a number of glittering outfits (including just a pair of diamond-studded briefs).
www.washblade.com /2005/6-10/arts/dish/dish.cfm   (582 words)

  
 Erasure flirts with toning down - but just slightly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Specifically singer Andy Bell toning down his act, since the synth-pop band's only other member is keyboardist and occasional guitarist Vince Clarke, who tends to be stock-still, deadpan and taciturn.
Bell had come out at 16, a fairly brave thing to do in the '70s.
Bell was referring to is the double hip replacement he underwent last year to replace hips that had been weakened by drugs while he battled pneumonia in 1998.
www.freenewmexican.com /artsfeatures/13406.html   (2711 words)

  
 Erasure takes flight with 'Nightbird,' U.S. tour North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County ...
After 20 years together, the British pop duo has a new album, "Nightbird" ---- their first original studio offering since Bell learned he was HIV-positive in 1998 ---- and a U.S. tour, which began with 10 sold-out shows at New York's Irving Plaza in April.
Bell: I think it's kind of, um ---- I hate to use the word ---- but more sophisticated, more mature and smooth.
Bell: No, that was a while before I met Vince.
nctimes.com /articles/2005/05/11/entertainment/music/51105141811.txt   (1630 words)

  
 eastbayexpress.com - Music - Erasure Errata   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For the better part of their two decades together, Erasure's Vince Clarke and Andy Bell have been the Abbott and Costello of the electronic-pop world.
Stoic straight-man Clarke feeds his synth lines to flamboyant singer Bell, whose vibrant, multi-octave vocals and campy persona transform his partner's arresting melodies into rapturous dancefloor anthems and cathartic bedroom ballads, coaxing smiles from loyal listeners even with lyrics that lament the aches and pains of the human psyche.
Clarke lives with his wife in Portland, Maine, while Bell splits his time between London and Spain with his boyfriend of twenty years, which means that after their initial songwriting pow-wows, much of their production work occurs by swapping MP3 files.
www.eastbayexpress.com /Issues/2005-05-18/music/music.html   (1125 words)

  
 Today in history - April 25 - Boston.com
Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 61.
Rock musician Michael Brown (The Left Banke) is 57.
Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) is 56.
www.boston.com /news/history/articles/2006/04/24/today_in_history___april_24   (505 words)

  
 Erasure Information Service :: Features :: Interviews
Andy Bell took time out from his busy schedule to discuss with the EIS, Erasure's new album 'Union Street' and his thoughts of the 2006 acoustic tour.
I had met a few of the musicians, but a lot of it has been done before I got there, but they were really cool.
Steve's great and so is his wife, so if the musicians are anything to go by, by them, it should be really good fun.
www.erasureinfo.com /features/interviews.html   (1462 words)

  
 Erasure Back In Flight With 'Nightbird'
Former Depeche Mode and Yaz member Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell, who record as Erasure, have reason to rejoice.
Despite its flaws, Clarke and Bell say their covers album was necessary to make.
Bell also got a fresh perspective from his side solo project with Manhattan Clique, a British production duo.
vnuemedia.com /bb/feature/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000747149   (571 words)

  
 Erasure Information Service :: Features :: Private Ear
He had replied to an advertisement for a singer for a band formed by some members of the defunct Bow Wow Wow, and was due to audition for them.
It was Vince Clarke, formerly of Yazoo and Depeche Mode, and the first famous person Andy had seen since moving to London.
Andy then went on to fail the audition.
www.erasureinfo.com /features/privateear_12.html   (1825 words)

  
 Reviews of John Mellencamp | Rough Harvest, Best of Yaz, Leftover Salmon | Nashville Sessions, and Alison Krauss | ...
The band included Andy York and Mike Wanchic on guitars, Dane Clark on drums, Moe Z. on keyboards, Janas Hoyt on backing vocals, Toby Jeffrey Myers on bass, and Miriam Sturm on violin.
Yaz consisted of musician Vince Clarke, formerly of Depeche Mode (who scored with such hit singles as "Just Can't Get Enough") and singer Allison Moyet, a husky-voiced singer cut from the mold of Annie Lennox.
Vince went on to work with Andy Bell on the successful partnership of Erasure, while Alison forged ahead with a solo career, including the albums Alf and Rain Dancing.
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 Erasure Information Service :: Features :: Interviews
Andy had a great working flow with Jill, who did some vocal production and the results are some very personal vocal performances from Andy.
Andy likes to do his 'warm ups' before singing; especially in the studio.
Andy had a really bad cold when he got here and after a couple weeks he lost his voice and we took a break for a week for him to get well.
www.erasureinfo.com /features/interviews_16.html   (1539 words)

  
 wcbstv.com - Today In History - April 25, 2005
Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 60.
Rock musician Michael Brown (The Left Banke) is 56.
Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 55.
wcbstv.com /topstories/topstories_story_108140357.html   (457 words)

  
 Erasure: Other People's Songs
Why did Vince Clarke and Andy Bell decide to make their tenth full-length album all covers?
Andy Bell was one of over 40 singers that auditioned.
Clarke was so impressed with Bell's vocals that he hired him on the spot.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/pop_music/98020   (402 words)

  
 Andy Bell Ringtones - Andy Bell Ring Tones
Here is a list of Andy Bell ringtones available at Funtonia.
Bell, originally working in a meat packing plant in the UK, responded...
Has everything you want to know about Andy and his friends as well as the Simpsons.
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 BlurtIt: What was Erasure’s debut single?
The British musician duo of keyboardist Vince Clark and singer Andy Bell who make up the popular synthpop band Erasure debuted with the release of their single ‘Who Needs Love’ in 1985.
Vince Clark a former member of the band Depeche Mode and Yazoo teamed up with Andy Bell and the two complemented their skills perfectly especially with regards to songwriting.
While Clark excelled at writing appealing tunes Andy Bell’s forte was as a lyricist and a melodist and the two delivered hits at regular intervals.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Oasis drummer Alan White sacked
Oasis are currently working with dance act Death In Vegas, and said the move would not affect their recording plans.
It is expected that Noel will play drums in the studio and a session musician will be drafted in for any future live dates.
Carroll was the first to leave, followed in 1999 by McGuigan and Arthurs a few years later to be replaced by Andy Bell and Gem Archer.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3407719.stm   (238 words)

  
 eBay - Product Info - eBay - CD: Nightbird (UPC: 724596926024)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Most importantly, Bell and synth master/sound architect Vince Clarke have maintained their keen sense of pop songcraft, as evidenced by the 11 catchy, solidly built tunes that fill the album.
It appears that time has made Clarke and Bell wiser and more reflective, since the songs on NIGHTBIRD actually seem stronger and more resonant than Erasure's earlier work, radiating honesty and authenticity even on first listen.
Andy Bell's voice never sounded so pure and sincere, especially on some the songs that weren't released as singles, like "Here I Go Impossible Again" and "Sweet Surrender." Vince Clarke's computer-generated synth's are perfect.
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