‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring

<p>Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about difficult recent years, being happily uncool and battling resurgent homophobia</p><p>Andy Bell is rabbiting away on multiple topics. There’s his farm in Mallorca, where he and his husband Stephe