Erasure: The Tank, the Swan, and the Balloon Live!

In 1992, synth-pop duo Erasure was staging its "Phantasmagorical Entertainment" tour in support of the album Chorus when they appeared at the Manchester Apollo Theatre with a camera crew in tow to record the proceedings. Erasure: The Tank, the Swan, and the Balloon Live! features Vince Clarke and ...more

Captured at the height of their pop stardom at the Manchester Apollo in 1992, this DVD should live as the definitive Erasure statement, visualizing the group's already fey dance-pop beats with a flamboyant stage show never imagined from the group's usually clinical video performances. Exquisitely choreographed, with a troupe of dancers swooning around an elaborate stage set, the concert opens with the Broadway yearning "Siren Song" which finds singer Andy Bell wrapped in a swan-like boa and ...more