before I met Vince , but it wasn ’ t as honed as it has become .
Vince , we know you started out on the guitar , how did moving to synths affect that ?
Vince : The actual song , the melody , the chord structure , that ’ s all from my growing up with playing guitar , I think . I love kind of eighties electronic music and one of the reasons I like it is because it ’ s so simple . It ’ s very akin to acoustic music in a way , you get this feeling behind the song .
A Little Respect feels like the quintessential Erasure song to us and sort of encapsulates everything people love about your music what memories do you have of actually writing it ?
Andy : I can ' t remember writing it at all . Was that written round your house , Vince , in Notting Hill ?
Vince : That was in my house in Queensway .
Andy : We wrote Ship of Fools there on the guitar too . I don ’ t know . I think sometimes , when things just naturally trip off the tongue , it couldn ’ t be written any other way .
Erasure ’ s new album Neon is out now , and tickets are available to see them in Manchester later this year .
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