Holy Crap! Yaz To Tour USA July 2008; Two Orpheum Dates On List

By Ryan - Friday February 29th 2008

tinyaz HEADS UP
Yaz @ Orpheum Theatre Thu 7/10
Yaz @ Orpheum Theatre Fri 7/11

(UPDATE: PRESALE PASSWORD & TICKET LINKS AT END OF ARTICLE!)

Fresh from Pollstar this afternoon comes news that should make more than a handful of old bastards and retro throwback wannabes very happy indeed: YAZ (Vince Clarke, Alison Moyet) will tour the USA for the first time (ever!) and grace Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre in July. Believe it! I think I just shat myself. (Can I say that here?) Tickets will go on sale March 8; stay tuned for the details right here at your favorite Spaceland Secret Gig Speculative Web Presence™. Take it away, Pollstar:

Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet have announced that they will reunite for the first time in over 25 years as Yaz for Reconnected, a brief US tour in July.

The duo will also tour the U.K. and Europe, but as Yazoo, the name the band goes by overseas.
The run includes stops in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, half a dozen cities in the U.K. and the Sonar festival in Spain.

The U.S. trek kicks off July 7 at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, Calif., and includes stops at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles (July 10-11), the Chicago Theatre in Chicago (July 14) and New York City’s Terminal 5 (July 16-17).

Tickets go on sale in Chicago on March 7, in New York City and Los Angeles beginning March 8 and in Oakland on March 9 at Ticketmaster.com.

The tour is preceded by In Your Room, a 4 disc box set which includes remasters and 5.1 mixes of both Yaz classic albums Upstairs At Eric’s and You And Me Both, b-sides, remixes and a DVD featuring a new short film containing exclusive new interviews with Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet and the promo videos for “Don’t Go,” “The Other Side Of Love,” “Nobody’s Diary,” “Situation (1990)” and “Only You (1999).”
A limited edition vinyl 12″ with new dance mixes will also be released to promote the set.
The Reconnected tour will see Yaz perform material from You And Me Both for the very first time, as Clarke and Moyet decided to part ways just after the release of the album in 1983.

UPDATE::::
PRESALE PASSWORD: APPLE
FAN CLUB PASSWORD: Look elsewhere, we respect fan clubs.
» Buy Tickets for the July 10 Orpheum Show Now
» Buy Tickets for the July 11 Orpheum Show Now

» Yazoo (official myspace)
» Official Myspace presences are fine and all, but “In My Room” is the greatest song by Yaz, ever, don’t even try to convince me otherwise

What now?

14 Responses to “Holy Crap! Yaz To Tour USA July 2008; Two Orpheum Dates On List”

Posted by Oren 2/29/08 at 5:03 pm #

But deliver us from evil!
Posted by benjamin 2/29/08 at 9:31 pm #

holy shit!
Posted by goldenticket 3/2/08 at 8:18 pm #

anyone know when be your own pet is scheduled to start on tuesday? i have something else i have to go to first.
Posted by oakling 3/2/08 at 9:04 pm #

why would they go by Yaz here and Yazoo somewhere else? that is so confusing!
Posted by Pete 3/3/08 at 3:05 am #

There was another band in the US named Yazoo.

It’s a slightly more elegant solution to the problem than the typical one, which is to add some sort of geographic signifier to your name–e.g. “The London Suede” or “Charlatans U.K.”
Posted by Joe Estevez 3/3/08 at 9:47 am #

Who?
Posted by peanut head 3/3/08 at 2:30 pm #

The band is from England and were named Yazoo. They only changed their name for the US audience at the advice from record executives because they were told that “Yazoo” was too similar to the name “Wazoo,” which is American slang for your posterior.
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Posted by will 3/8/08 at 7:48 am #

““Wazoo,” which is American slang for your posterior.”

peanut head, I’ve lived on the American side of the pond for 38 years and have never heard that one.
Posted by tod almighty 3/8/08 at 1:36 pm #

do you know how one would find a website for the fan club to join?? i want to get tickets for the show out in oakland, ca and the fan club tickets are on sale today.

i can’t find any links to any official fan club where i could join……whether i get in in time for the pre-sale tickets or not i would still like to join.

any help would be appreciated.

thanks.
Posted by Ryan 3/8/08 at 1:48 pm #

Tod, try alisonmoyet.co.uk. Good luck!
Posted by tod almighty 3/8/08 at 6:33 pm #

actually i figured it out.

i just searched and searched until i found what i thought was the password, and when that one didn’t work, i just tried variations of the same word and got right in.

took about 2 hours to figure it out, but i just pre-purchased my tickets for the oakland show!!

they are having an auction for orchestra pit seats starting tomorrow and i plan to bid for those as well……if i win i will have two tickets for sale!!

i am the happiest person on earth right about now!!

thanks for the response, though!!
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