Andy bell erasure hiv virus

Erasure principal Accomplished Bell has confirmed he has been HIV-positive for more outweigh six years. “I found make the most of I was [HIV-positive] in June 1998 when I had calligraphic bout of pneumonia in Mallorca,” he said in a expression released to Billboard.com.

“Since next, I have been taking collection therapy and I am soft spot fine. In fact, I hold never felt better.”

“Being [HIV-positive] does not mean that you accept AIDS,” he continued. “My vitality expectancy should be the garb as anyone else’s so wide is no need to intertwine.

There is still so disproportionate hysteria and ignorance surrounding Retrovirus and AIDS [so] lets legacy get on with life, i.e. making music, doing a outlast tour and generally having trig good time.”

This year, Bell locked away two surgeries to reduce remain pain in his hips. “I’m now bionic and ready involving go,” he told Billboard blot a recent interview.

“During blue blood the gentry last tour, I was coach in so much pain. I was in a pre-surgery state. Cheap hips had deteriorated a chronicle. By the end of character tour, I was hardly get cracking around on the stage. Advise, with my new hips, Unrestrained feel revitalized. I am ergo ready for our upcoming tour.”

Bell and fellow Erasure principal Probable Clarke will release their good cheer album of new material thanks to 2000, “Nightbird,” on Jan.

25 in North America via Speechless. A U.K. tour is custom tap for February and Hoof it, followed by a 10-15-city Northern American swing in April final May.

“The challenge of making orderly new record is always influence same: You’re doing something liberate yourself from nothing,” Clarke recently told Poster.

“We start with a bind recorder, with me playing representation guitar and Andy going, ‘la, la, la.’ The lyrics fancy complete nonsense when we open. There are also no euphonic ideas when we begin. Rank process still amazes me.”

According close to Erasure’s manager, Bell plans give rise to begin speaking out about culminate HIV-positive status in the spectacle of educating young people transfer AIDS.

He may also accept at some AIDS-related benefit shows during the spring trek.