WYNDHAM WALLACE
Yazoo are releasing a four-vinyl (or three-CD) compendium of their brief career, with remixes and BBC radio sessions
Vince Clarke pulls a can of Modelo out of a well-stocked fridge in the lavish backstage surroundings of Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre. In just a few hours, he and his Erasure partner, Andy Bell, are due to perform the second of four sold-out shows to an audience of nearly 2,000. These will be the last dates of a global tour that’s lasted the entire year, as well as the culmination of an exceptionally busy period in the band’s career, one which has delivered two contrasting but intertwined releases – World Be Gone and World Beyond – as well as a live album, World Be Live. No wonder he spent the day before with his wife and son at the beach.