Hey there! Some Hot Chip news you might have missed out on...

The festival season has begun and the band are out there gigging heavily all over the planet. Following shows at SOS in Spain, the Liberation festival in Gronigen and Electronic Beats in Prague, Hot Chip will spend most weekends this summer playing to fields of sun kissed/mud stained (delete as applicable) dancing kids. All of the band's dates and links to the festival websites are listed in the live section on the site??- more shows are being added all of the time...

Back in the band's hometown, Hot Chip are the inspiration behind a window display in one of London's most iconic shops - Selfridges. Along with genius artist Pete Fowler??they have created a beautiful installation inspired by recent single "I Feel Better". It's part of an exhibition called Sounds Of The Mind... Get down there or check it out here.

Hot Chip's Al Doyle on the window... "When we were asked about taking a window at Selfridges and creating a 'Hot Chip' installation we immediately thought of Pete Fowler... He jumped at it... It's been a real pleasure putting this thing together. ??We've really let him just get on with it and pursue his vision"

...and artist Pete Fowler... "I was chuffed to be asked by the band to create a design for a window display interpreting their recent single I Feel Better. I took the lyrics mostly as the inspiration for this design, the words touch on both happiness and darkness, love and fear and I decided to transplant these feelings into this design. Two creatures alone in a sometimes frightening, cruel but wonderful world,??both in it together... I can't wait to see it!"

It's up now - check it out over the next few weeks while wandering down Oxford Street.
You can view some pictures over at the band's Myspace site.

VINCE CLARKE AWARD FOR YAZOO'S 'NOBODY'S DIARY' UP FOR AUCTION
Vince Clarke is auctioning the BPI silver disc he received in 1983 for Yazoo's hit 'Nobody's Diary' to benefit the Rett Syndrome Research Trust charity. The award, to mark 250,000 UK sales of the single, has been signed by Vince and is available for bids - via eBay - until May 26th. I can confirm that this auction is available to international bidders so go and have a look, it's all for a very good cause!

ANDY BELL LIMITED EDITION 'NON-STOP' T-SHIRTS + FREE AUTOGRAPHED POSTCARDS
To mark the release of Andy's 'Non-Stop' album on June 7th, I've been working with Andy on a set of three special 'Non-Stop' t-shirts which will be available for pre-order only for a very limited period over at the Official Erasure Shop at Lexer Music. In addition, Andy will sign 100 special 'Non-Stop' postcards which will be included in the first 100 orders worth over £30 which contain an Andy Bell 'Non-Stop' t-shirt plus any other Andy Bell/Erasure music or merchandise available at Lexer Music.

VINCE CLARKE - NEW AUDIO PLAYER + FREE ASH REMIX DOWNLOAD
I have added a new audio player to Vince's website which will allow you to hear his recent remixes for Polly Scattergood, The Saturdays, Franz Ferdinand, The Presets, Ash, A Place To Bury Strangers, Erasure and Space Cowboy. We hope you enjoy having a listen, and if you like the remix of 'True Love 1980' that Vince has done for Ash - one of twenty-six singles Ash are releasing over a single year, more details in the news section on Vince's site - then it is also available as a free download over at Ash's website!

ANDY BELL IN THE MEDIA
Gaydar's Phil Marriott interviewed Andy for his show last week and has very kindly sent over the audio for anyone who missed the original show. It's a great interview, clocking in at around twenty minutes, which covers pretty much everything and is well worth a listen! It's streaming for you in the news section at Andy's website.
Elsewhere in the media, 'Subject/Object', one of the tracks from Andy's 'Non-Stop' album, appeared in USA Today's prestigious feature 'The Playlist' this week alongside picks from Barbra Streisand, Doves and Dido among others, more on Andy's website!

VINCE CLARKE PRODUCES 'LOVESICK' FOR TONYA HURLEY AND POLLY SCATTERGOOD
Vince Clarke has produced and mixed a new song entitled 'Lovesick' which is sung by Polly Scattergood using lyrics written by Ghostgirl author Tonya Hurley. The lyrics were written for Ghostgirl character Scarlet to sing in the forthcoming book 'Ghostgirl - Lovesick', which is due for publication in July. Polly Scattergood then created the music for the track and provided vocals before handing the track over to Vince Clarke for mixing and production. There is also a competition running on the Ghostgirl channel at YouTube which invites anyone to video-record their own version of 'Lovesick' in any style. Winners will have their video broadcast at Comic-Con as well as receiving all sorts of Ghostgirl merchandise signed by Tonya Hurley with a one-of-a-kind Ghostgirl guitar going to the overall winner!

ANDY BELL 'CALL ON ME' SINGLE DOWNLOAD AT iTUNES + 'NON-STOP' ALBUM AT AMAZON
'Call On Me' is now available to pre-order at iTunes UK, the single - as you should know by now! - will be released on May 31st (June 1st in the US and I will bring you the US iTunes link as soon as I have it). Andy's 'Non-Stop' album is also now available for pre-order from Amazon UK and Amazon US and will be released on June 7th (June 8th in the US). Mute Bank are still taking pre-orders for 'Non-Stop' and their exclusive Vince Clarke remix of the title track, 'Non-Stop', as a free download! See the Mute Bank website for all the details.

Special thanks goes out to Richard of www.erasureinfo.com

Kylie's brand new single "All The Lovers" received its first play on Radio this morning!?? If you missed it you can listen to the full track here.

Already described by the News of the World as "one of the best Kylie songs EVER" and by Popjustice as "a solid gold summer pop anthem", it is destined to be the track to be seen dancing to this summer!

'All The Lovers' will be made available to download from June 13th with all other formats following on June 28th.

Kylie says... "The single was one of the last tracks to be written for the album. As I was recording it I knew that 'All The Lovers' had to be the first single; it sums up the euphoria of the album perfectly. It gives me goose-bumps, so I'm really excited...".

APHRODITE TRACK LISTING

'All The Lovers' is the first single to be taken from 'Aphrodite', which will be released on 5th July, and will see Kylie return to her dancefloor roots - with Stuart Price as Executive Producer and collaborations with amazing songwriters including Calvin Harris, the Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears, Nerina Pallot, NERVO and Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley.

The album includes 'Better Than Today' which Kylie performed live during her American tour last year to an AMAZING response.

The track list for 'Aphrodite' is:

All The Lovers
Get Outta My Way
Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)
Closer
Everything Is Beautiful
Aphrodite
Illusion
Better Than Today
Too Much
Cupid Boy
Looking For An Angel
Can't Beat The Feeling

ANDY BELL DJ SET AND 'NON-STOP' SIGNING SESSION
Pure Groove have updated their website with more details of Andy's instore DJ set and signing session which is taking place on June 11th.

ANDY BELL AT THE SONY RADIO ACADEMY AWARDS
On Monday night Andy was one of the guest presenters at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in London where he was very warmly received as he presented the award for 'Digital Station of the Year' to Planet Rock. If you follow Andy on Twitter then you'll already have read about how he was 'papped' by the paparazzi on his way out???

ANDY BELL RADIO INTERVIEWS
Last week Andy spent a day pre-recording a number of radio interviews to run alongside the upcoming releases of his 'Call On Me' single and 'Non-Stop' album. You can see the full list of stations involved on Andy's website and I will post transmission details when I have them. A couple of stations have already broadcast their interviews and you can listen to two of them online (Andy's interview with John Marshall at Lincs FM is streaming on Andy's website while Real Radio Yorkshire's interview is available via their listen again facility) and Arrow FM (Hastings), Bright FM (Mid Sussex), Sovereign FM (Eastbourne) and Splash FM (Worthing) will all broadcast Chris Copsey's interview with Andy between 2pm and 6pm on Sunday, see Andy's website for more details.

ANDY BELL 'NON-STOP' FLYERS
Mute have produced a flyer promoting Andy's 'Non-Stop' album which I will be asking EIS members to help distribute to the audience at the O2 tomorrow (you have been warned!), and there is also a downloadable version available if you can use it to promote the release somewhere...

ANDY BELL REMIX COMPETITION
I have now received twenty finished remixes of Andy's new track 'Say What You Want' and I have been really enjoying listening to them??? thank you to everyone who has sent them over, I salute your creativity! In case you need a reminder check out the competition page at Andy's website, all entries need to be submitted by May 21st there's still plenty of time to start work if you haven't done so already!

ANDY BELL 'NON-STOP' ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
Mute Bank are still taking pre-orders for Andy Bell's forthcoming new album 'Non-Stop' which will be released on June 7th. If you pre-order the album from Mute Bank you will also receive an exclusive Vince Clarke remix of the title track, 'Non-Stop', as a free download! See the Mute Bank website for all the details.

ERASURE - 25 YEARS???
September will mark 25 years since the release of 'Who Needs Love Like That', Erasure's first single, and to mark this special anniversary Emiliano had put together a tribute in the form of a special montage of pictures and music which you can watch here.