Andy Bell
Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre
Erasure's Andy Bell will be supporting the release of a new solo album, Ten Crowns, with a run of shows across the UK in May 2025.
The shows will feature songs from the new album and favourites from Andy's solo catalogue alongside plenty of Erasure hits, and will see Andy performing with a live band.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut album in 2026, Erasure - who is currently working on new material - are one the world's most successful, beloved and influential pop acts of all time, and have released 25 hit albums (five of which topped the UK charts) as well as 35 hit singles, including "2A Little Respect", "Sometimes", "Blue Savannah", "Love To Hate You", "Always" and "Breathe".
Hifi Sean & David McAlmont will support Andy Bell
Hifi Sean & David McAlmont
These two artists both have a rich history in the music industry, Sean as a member of The Soup Dragons and more recently as a DJ and electronic artist HiFi Sean, and McAlmont as a renowned solo artist and vocalist on what many consider to be one of the greatest pop songs of all time, !Yes"#by McAlmont & Butler. The two met when Hifi Sean invited David McAlmont to feature on his 2019 album FT, which also featured Alan Vega, Bootsy Collins, Crystal Waters, Little Annie, Paris Grey (formerly of Inner City) and more - the single Testify (ft Crystal Waters) was a US Dance Chart topper and Radio 2 A List record. Their collaboration developed via WhatsApp, email and eventually Dropbox, with Hifi uploading arrangements and McAlmont returning demos. No studios. No engineer. Just McAlmont and Hifi on the eighteenth floor of a London tower block within hearing distance of the Bow bells. The lofty setting with spectacular 270- degree views of the city, complete with sunsets, sunrises and murmurating ravens when storms approached was perfect for McAlmont who detests studios; Hifi, on the other hand, armed with a laptop and progressive plug ins, can make music anywhere. The result is this exciting collection of songs on their debut album HAPPY ENDING , an electronic, psychedelic soul adventure featuring an eighty-piece Bollywood orchestra recorded in a film studio in Bangalore India on some of the tracks. They locate their sound for this album somewhere between steam punk soul and space race blues. Their 2nd album released in 2024 was DAYLIGHT a Summer odyssey depicting euphoria and ecstasy bathed in sunlight glow. The current sister album and 3rd album by the duo is TWILIGHT released on Valentines day 2025 and depicts the darker winter months but with a warm hue that gets you completely sonically bathed in sound.
