Alison
Vince since I was 11, I was least close to
him, but he knew me as a singer from
when I was singing live. He had this song
it did because there was no meat on our
bones, it was unpleasant and it was a lone-
ly place to be. Years later, when Vince had
gotten over that thing, bonded with Andy
[Bell in Erasure] and was really happy in
that relationship and I had moved on and
proved myself as an individual, we were
able to look back and say “that was a real-
ly bloody lucky time for both of us.” It was
a springboard without which I could
never have carried on being a singer with
the platform that I did and it was a spring-
board for him because it gave him success
after Depeche [Mode] that he needed for
himself. We were both able to be grateful
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that he wanted to do and just everything
that we did together got such a great reac-
tion. The record company said “you
should put this out and you should make
an album,” so we were in this place where
he was not over this relationship, and for
me, it was shocking to go from being a
black sheep in town to being really famous
within weeks in the country that I live in.
It was a difficult thing for me to navigate
and he wasn’t in a place to be nurturing.
We never had any time to become friends.
We literally started recording within a
matter of weeks and we were a massive
band without any time to reflect on what
we were doing. So when it all fell apart as
about that.
IE: It was a short time together, but
incredibly fruitful and memorable to this
day. What is it about that period that
allowed it to connect with so many people
for so long?
AM: Because I think it had both interest
and heart to it and that it was one of the
first acts in electronic music to be present-
ed with a voice that had angst connected
to it as opposed to the quiet, cold, somber
sound of a lot of electronic acts. Between
the two of us, we happened to have writ-
ten some catchy songs, some songs that
had resonated with people both on the
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