After months of speculation and rumours, it’s now official that Yazoo, consisting of Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet, are re-uniting for a UK headline tour in June!

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”

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

I remember in 1982, hearing "Move Out", I thought, wow, what a cool song! Synth-pop was a pretty radical thing back then, and that song just got into you. I wasn't excited about the song "Don't Go", but there was another lighter song I liked, I forgot the name of it, have to look it up. Interestingly,
Alison Moyet had a pretty big hit with "Love Resurrection", which was a cool "new music" song back around 1985 ("new wave sounded like a dated term back then). But then.......nothing much else was heard from her. She had a great voice, too, which was rather ironic. Glad to hear they're coming back!


By the way, there was a Christian artist by the name of Kim Boyce who did a cover of "Love Resurrection" (with altered lyrics) on her first album in 1986. She was supposed to be some sort of born again beauty queen, and her music was actually pretty good, and so was her cover, but probably not as good as Moyet's. Not sure what happened to her, she had a few good albums and she was great in concert, but like Moyet, she kind of disappeared.... :confused:

^ Alison's had a successful career in Europe even tho her success in America has been very limited in the past 20 years. She's released several albums this decade but I believe the last two only had UK releases.