Royal Albert Hall Photos
Here are some moments from our Royal Albert Hall show, shot by Christie Goodwin. For more click here.
Many thanks to the London Contemporary Orchestra, Lips Choir, John Grant and Hussein Chalayan for my outfit.
Royal Albert Hall Show w/ London Contemporary Orchestra on Nov 18
Hello deers,
We are pleased to announce that we are performing a very special one-off show on Tuesday, November 18th with the London Contemporary Orchestra at London's legendary Royal Albert Hall. We’ll be playing our album 'Tales Of Us’ in full plus other favourites alongside a 20-piece orchestra and choir.
Members of our mailing list, were offering a first chance to nab tickets for this very special evening before anyone else as part of an exclusive fan pre-sale that takes place tomorrow (Weds Aug 27).
The general sale begins on Friday, Aug 29th also at 9am here.
We’ve had an incredible year sharing ‘Tales Of Us’ with you all. We hope you’ll join us at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate our final show of the year. X!
TALES OF US DELUXE EDITION, FILM & 'JO' VIDEO PREMIERE
We’re excited to share the details of a very special Deluxe Edition of our Tales Of Us album, which will be released digitally on 30 June worldwide and 8 July in the US. You can pre-order the deluxe album on iTunes here.
The Tales Of Us Deluxe Edition features the original Tales Of Us album, plus the live audio from our recent worldwide cinema event, Live from Air Studios. This was recorded at the iconic Air Studios in London and features some of our favourite tracks including Clowns, Train, Utopia, Strict Machine and Lovely Head plus live versions ofClay, Alvar and Thea from our latest album.
Also featured on the Deluxe Edition are the films for five of the individual stories featured on the album, directed by Lisa Gunning: Stranger, Laurel, Jo, Drew and Annabel .
Stranger and Laurel have previously been unavailable to watch online, while Jo is available to watch for the first time here.
The full 30-minute Tales of Us film will also be available to buy separately from the Deluxe Edition on iTunes.
The full 30-minute Tales of Us film will also be available to buy separately from the Deluxe Edition on iTunes.
Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp to write music for Medea
We’re excited to announce that Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp of Goldfrapp will be writing and composing the music for our production of Euripides’ powerful tragedy, Medea, in a new version written by Ben Power and directed by Carrie Cracknell.
Hi! We wanted to let you know that we’re writing the music for the National Theatre’s production of Medea directed by Carrie Cracknell, opening July 14. For more details or to order tickets, click here.
Summer 2013 European Festivals & Shows
For those of you who attended our recent 'Tales Of Us Live’ UK tour or managed to check out our 'Tales Of Us’ cinema event, we sincerely hope you enjoyed yourselves.
We are excited to be heading back on the road this summer to perform in several places we haven’t been able to visit yet. The full list of European festivals and shows we are appearing at this summer with ticketing links are as follows:
May 23 – Electronic Beats Festival - Cologne, Germany
May 25 - Chill–Out Festival – Istanbul, Turkey
June 21 – Body and Soul Festival - Ballinlough Castle, Ireland
June 28 – Glastonbury Festival – Glastonbury, UK (Sold Out)
July 9 – Montreux Jazz Festival – Montreux, Switzerland (Sold Out)
July 11 – Sexto Unplugged - Pordenone, Italy
July 12 – Pohoda Festival – Trencin, Slovakia
July 24 - Blue Balls Festival – Lucerne, Switzerland
July 25 - Les Nuits de Fourvière - Lyon, France (Sold Out)
July 31 - Tivoli Concert Hall - Copenhagen, Denmark
Aug 1 – Skeppsholmen Music and Arts - Stockholm, Sweden
Aug 21 – Greenwich Music Time – London, UK
If you haven’t watched it yet, you can check out the brilliant projection that accompanied ’Thea’ as part of our 'Tales Of Us’ cinema event on YouTube. The brand-new remixes of 'Thea’ from Blood Dimaonds, WAWA, RedTop and Twin Shadow are now available to download from iTunes.
Don’t forget, our most recent album 'Tales Of Us' is out now. You can download your copy on iTunes here, or order a CD copy or vinyl copy on Amazon. A few copies of the 'Tales of Us' limited edition box are still available to order at the official Goldfrapp store here.