{"id":506914,"date":"2026-04-01T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506914\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:30:08","slug":"i-just-dont-want-to-do-it-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506914\/","title":{"rendered":"I just don\u2019t want to do it anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erasure<\/a> have retired from live touring, the band\u2019s Vince Clarke has revealed.<\/p>\n

The synth-pop duo, also featuring lead vocalist and songwriter\u00a0Andy Bell, formed in London in 1985. They played a brief run of UK shows last autumn, marking their first performances together in four years.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Does Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Kill Braincells?! \u2013 Andy Bell, Erasure<\/a><\/p>\n

Their 2025 tour saw them visit Edinburgh, London, Manchester and Bristol to celebrate their 40th anniversary. The gigs were billed as \u201cinformal evenings which combine elements of conversation and chat with some live performance, while taking some other twists and turns along the way\u201d, instead of traditional concerts.<\/p>\n

However, no further touring is on the horizon for Erasure. During a new interview with The New Cue<\/a>, songwriter, producer and keyboardist Clarke was asked to share the \u201cbravest career decision [he\u2019d] ever made\u201d.<\/p>\n

In response, he said: \u201cTo stop touring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clarke continued: \u201cWhat happened was Andy Bell and myself, we did these fan shows before Christmas and they were great but\u2026 it\u2019s difficult to explain\u2026 the simple answer would be is I just don\u2019t want to be really old and going onstage!<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t want to do it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

The musician went on to say that \u201cthe best bit about making music for me is the process of making music as opposed to listening to it afterwards\u201d, adding: \u201cI never listen to records that we\u2019ve made in the past unless I have to because we were performing them live. It\u2019s the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year also saw Bell release his third solo album, \u2018Ten Crowns\u2019, and he is still touring as a solo artist. Clarke, meanwhile, has launched a new band called Doublespeak with Blancmange\u2019s Neil Arthur and producer Benge<\/a>. The trio\u2019s self-titled debut record is set to arrive in May, featuring covers of classic and cult songs.<\/p>\n

Clarke has also been a part of Yazoo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Depeche Mode<\/a>, and\u00a0shared his debut solo album \u2018Songs Of Silence\u2019<\/a>\u00a0at the end of 2023. Before then, he revealed that he discovered his love for synthesisers when working alongside\u00a0OMD<\/a>, who\u00a0shared a remix of the song \u2018Almost\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Andy Bell joined The Killers on stage in London for a collaborative performance of Erasure\u2019s hit \u2018A Little Respect\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erasure have retired from live touring, the band\u2019s Vince Clarke has revealed. The synth-pop duo, also featuring lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,1581,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-506914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}