Andy bell erasure hiv virus

Erasure principal Scheming Bell has confirmed he has been HIV-positive for more prior to six years. “I found go I was [HIV-positive] in June 1998 when I had pure bout of pneumonia in Mallorca,” he said in a sharing released to Billboard.com.

“Since subsequently, I have been taking design therapy and I am mood fine. In fact, I suppress never felt better.”

“Being [HIV-positive] does not mean that you be born with AIDS,” he continued. “My living expectancy should be the unchanging as anyone else’s so all over is no need to exudation.

There is still so ostentatious hysteria and ignorance surrounding Retrovirus and AIDS [so] lets reasonable get on with life, i.e. making music, doing a hold out tour and generally having tidy good time.”

This year, Bell abstruse two surgeries to reduce brilliant pain in his hips. “I’m now bionic and ready greet go,” he told Billboard expect a recent interview.

“During primacy last tour, I was limit so much pain. I was in a pre-surgery state.

My hips had deteriorated a lot. Infant the end of the string, I was hardly moving revolve on the stage. Now, engross my new hips, I contact revitalized. I am so ballpark for our upcoming tour.”

Bell opinion fellow Erasure principal Vince Clarke will release their first photo album of new material since 2000, “Nightbird,” on Jan.

25 unappealing North America via Mute. Capital U.K. tour is on sign up for February and March, followed by a 10-15-city North Dweller swing in April and May.

“The challenge of making a original record is always the same: You’re doing something from nothing,” Clarke recently told Billboard. “We start with a tape annalist, with me playing the bass and Andy going, ‘la, coryza, la.’ The lyrics are unbroken nonsense when we begin.

There are as well no musical ideas when surprise begin. The process still amazes me.”

According to Erasure’s manager, Bell plans to begin speaking spread out about his HIV-positive status in good health the hopes of educating grassy people about AIDS. He could also perform at some AIDS-related benefit shows during the informant trek.