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Apr 19, 2008Comments Off
Back with his other Alf: Times Online
Twenty minutes after Vince Clarke was due to turn up at this private members’ club, there’s no sign of him. As a result, Alison Moyet – already nervous about seeing her former Yazoo sidekick for the first time since they both attended a friend’s wedding 18 years ago – simply doesn’t know where to put herself. Seeking to reassure her, I suggest she merely picks up where she left off with him. “Um, we don’t want to do that,” she jokes, though quite why, she doesn’t explain.
At the beginning of the synth-pop era that the pair helped to popularise, fans and critics referred to Yazoo – Clarke, the songwriter who left Depeche Mode aged just 20, and Moyet, the ballsy soul voice known to Essex punks as Alf – as the odd couple. And there’s no shortage of oddness about this reunion. There have been no phone calls, no protracted negotiations before this moment. Just three e-mails between Moyet, Clarke and their promoter have taken us to this point.
Apr 12, 2008Comments Off
To be released 5th May on Mute Records is “Nobody’s Diary” EP by Yazoo. The EP will be available on 12” vinyl and as a digital downloads. Full tracklistings:
12” (12 YAZ 7):
1. Nobody’s Diary (Andy Bell / JC Remix)
2. Nobody’s Diary (GRN’s 12” Remix)
3. Nobody’s Diary (Koishii And Hush Remix)
Digital Downloads:
1. Nobody’s Diary (Original Remaster)
2. Nobody’s Diary (Andy Bell / JC Remix)
3. Nobody’s Diary (Koishii And Hush Remix)
4. Nobody’s Diary (GRN’s 12″ Remix)
5. Nobody’s Diary (Soil In The Synth Remix) - Mute Bank Exclusive
Yazoo have supplied a remix of Nobody’s Diary entitled the “Andy Bell & JC” mix that is 8 minutes and 17 seconds in length. There is also a 5.1 vesion of Nobody’s Diary that will be on the album You & Me Both, at their MySpace site.
Apr 12, 2008Comments Off
10.04.2008 SKY News
V.E.R.Y. Uncomfortable.
“25 years ago Yazoo were riding high in the carts, then after just 18 months and only one tour the band split up. Today they’re meeting up for the first time in 15 years to announce a new tour.
Unlike other bands that have got back together, this story isn’t exactly friends re-united. Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke originally met through the small ads but after just a year and half together they split up.
Q. At 15 years today, how did it go meeting up?
Vince: It was very pleasant and easy
Alison: It was.
Vince: We’ve been emailing each other
Alison: Well, not lot, twice…
Q. Are you apprehensive about it?
Alison: Maybe a bit nervous but not excessively because I think that we both know what each place that each of us were in. It felt pretty safe.
Q. Getting back together though - it’s not like you’re rekindling a friendship is it. Is it purely a business deal? How do you approach it?
Alison: I think that it’s been bit misrepresented. It wasn’t that it wasn’t a happy time, it’s just that making the record was brilliant it’s just that the stuff that came after it, the end side of it, wasn’t great. The fame business, but we just never had time to get to know one another.
Vince: We didn’t know each other from before very well so there is no relationship or bond going in and I think we are both a little bit paranoid and both excruciatingly shy so there was a communication breakdown and that’s why the band only lasted for as long as it did.
The band head out for a UK tour in June before more dates in Europe and America.
It might be time that allows these two relative strangers a chance to become good friends”.
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