T Mobile have 5 videos from Ellie's set at the recent show in LA at the Music Box as part of their Live Rising series. You can view the videos over on their Facebook page here. Also, for your viewing pleasure, you can watch Every Time You Go from the set, below.
A while ago Ellie wrote and recorded a song called Who'd Want To Find Love and this song was given to Eurovision winner Lena (who recorded Ellie's song Not Following You on her debut album) for her new album. You can hear it below, along with Ellie's original version.
In response to the growing success of Ellie in the states, she'll be returning in the summer for a nice little tour (along with a single Canada date). Dates are on pre-sale here. You can see the dates below and a little video from Ellie too. Sat 23rd July - Center Stage - Atlanta, GA Mon 25th July - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC Tue 26th July - Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA Wed 27th July- House of Blues - Boston, MA Fri 29th July - Terminal 5 - New York, NY Mon 1st August - Kool Haus - Toronto, ON Tue 2nd August - Royal Oak Music Theatre - Royal Oak, MI Thu 4th August - Fine Line Music Cafe - Minneapolis, MN Mon 8th August - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO Thu 11th August - The Wiltern - Los Angeles, California
Summer Sessions at The Scarborough Open Air Theatre
I can confirm Ellie will be playing a special one off gig at The Scarborough Open Air Theatre as part of their Summer Sessions. Tickets for this gig go on sale tommorow at 9am from TicketLine. The gig will take place on Saturday 11th June. Don't miss out! Other acts performing include Belle Amie and DJ Lebrosk.
To celebrate reaching 1 million fans on Facebook, there's a special competition running on Ellie's Facebook page. The competition gives you a chance to meet Ellie and see her perform the following evening, with accommodation included. This special prize can be won by waiting until there is 1 million fans and then clicking the button to enter the draw. Only the first thousand people will be entered into the draw. Good luck! Check it out here.
Edit: It looks like this has now disappeared, not sure why! If I see anything else about it I'll report back.
Ellie did a brief appearance on The One Show last night. There was a tiny bit of an interview followed by a tiny bit of a performance of Lights. It left quite a bit to be desired in length, but Lights acoustically is pretty brilliant so it's worth a listen watch for that alone. You can see the performance below, or alternatively skip to the end of The One Show on iPlayer here to see the interview as well.
As you may have well heard, Ellie performed at the reception for the Royal Wedding. An amazing achievement for her and I'm sure her mum is the proudest around! Huge congratulations goes out to Ellie. You won't be seeing any clips of her special set, but you can see a bit of the setlist below. Also, big congratulations to the guys in Ellie's band (Joe/Max/Chris) as well, as they performed also. Lights Starry Eyed The Killers - Mr Brightside Elton John - Your Song Stevie Wonder - Superstition The Wannadies - You and Me Song Bryan Adams - Summer Of 69 The Jackson 5 - Blame It On The Boogie
Ellie performs on tonight's edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Anyone in the USA can watch it tonight on ABC. For the rest of us, I'm sure her performance will appear elsewhere soon.
Ellie will play an additional Irish date at the Olympia on June 1st, the night after. She'll also be playing Radio 1's Big Weekend and you can register for tickets here.
Ellie will play at this summer's series of gigs at Somerset House in London. She will play on Friday 15th July. The pre-sale starts tomorrow (Wednesday 30th March) here. These gigs sell out very quick, especially the popular ones (which Ellie's will be), so get on it fast and don't miss out.
Ellie will be doing a three night residency at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas on the 4th, 5th and 6th of April. You can win tickets to see her on all three nights here. More info about it on the hotel's website here. Marina (& The Diamonds) does the same thing the three days after Ellie. Lucky Americans.
Please, please, do anything you can to help by donating money to one of the charities that helps in the wake of disasters such as this.
As everyone is probably aware, there was a huge earthquake and tsunami today in Japan, with the aftereffects spreading to other countries and also still devastating Japan. I won't play favourites with which charity you should donate to, so I've taken the list of charities that Google posted earlier that give you plenty to choose from:
Many, many people will be affected by this disaster, and your help will be vital to helping the organisations respond to this, and many other global events such as this. Thank you for taking the time to read this!
In addition to the North American tour dates announced, there will be an additional show on April 20th at The Music Box in LA. Tickets are on sale today from here. The dates below are the complete dates including the additional show. 16th March - SXSW, Austin, TX 17th March - SXSW, Austin, TX 18th March - SXSW, Austin, TX 19th March - SXSW, Austin, TX 22nd March - Rock And Roll Hotel, Washington,DC 23nd March - Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA 24rd March - Webster Hall, New York, NY 25th March - World Cafe Live Downstairs, Philadelphia, PA 27th March - Great Hall, Toronto, CAN 30th March - Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL 31th March - Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis, MN 2nd April - Fox Theater, Boulder, CO 3rd April - Avalon Theatre, Salt Lake City, UT 10th April - Venue, Vancouver, CAN 11th April - Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room, Seattle, WA 13th April - Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR 14th April - Rickshaw Stop (Popscene), San Francisco, CA 16th April - Casbah, San Diego, CA 17th April - Coachella, Indio, CA 20th April - The Music Box, Los Angeles, CA
The dates are finally out, check them below and make sure to go along if you can! As I hinted at in the previous post, she'll be playing at SXSW. 16th March - SXSW, Austin, TX 17th March - SXSW, Austin, TX 18th March - SXSW, Austin, TX 19th March - SXSW, Austin, TX 22nd March - Rock And Roll Hotel, Washington,DC 23nd March - Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA 24rd March - Webster Hall, New York, NY 25th March - World Cafe Live Downstairs, Philadelphia, PA 27th March - Great Hall, Toronto, CAN 30th March - Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL 31th March - Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis, MN 2nd April - Fox Theater, Boulder, CO 3rd April - Avalon Theatre, Salt Lake City, UT 10th April - Venue, Vancouver, CAN 11th April - Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room, Seattle, WA 13th April - Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR 14th April - Rickshaw Stop (Popscene), San Francisco, CA 16th April - Casbah, San Diego, CA 17th April - Coachella, Indio, CA
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Ellie recorded a song for the film Life In A Day - a film comprised completely of YouTube videos. You can hear that song below. The song is called A Day at a Time. Go see the film when it gets a release later this year!
A few North American tour dates have popped up and will go on sale at various days next week through TicketMaster (US) and TicketWeb (CA). The confirmed dates are below. There's probably a lot more, as well as various yet announced festival appearances (SXSW?). I'll post them as I get them. I'm sure an announcement from Ellie's team will appear soon. 23rd March - Brighton Music Hall - Boston, MA 24th March - Webster Hall - New York, NY 27th March - The Great Hall - Toronto, ON 31st March - Fine Line Music Cafe - Minneapolis, MN 10th April - Venue - Vancouver, BC
Ellie has posted a new blog on her Cherrytree Records personal blog. Check it out here. It explains how her recent visit to Pinewood Studios was to record a song for a film called Life In A Day, a film made up completely of YouTube clips. No word on if it's a re-recording of a song, a cover or something new though.
Ellie will be playing at this year's Coachella festival in California. The festival takes place between April 15th - 17th and Ellie will be performing on the 17th.
Check out the live performance of Tinie Tempah's Wonderman featuring Ellie below. Also, check out the interview with Ellie, Tinie and Jessie J below that.
If you missed this little clip floating around of the new video to Tinie Tempah's Wonderman featuring Ellie, check it out below. Not long until the full video will appear on our screens.
The nominations for this years BRIT Awards were revealed this week, if you hadn't heard. Ellie is up for two awards - British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Congratulations Ellie and good luck!
Ellie has confirmed on her blog that Lights will in fact be the next single. No word on dates yet though! Also coming up is the release and video of Tinie Tempah's Wonderman featuring our Ellie. The video will also include Ellie and the release will be coming at you in March. Keep your eyes peeled!
Ellie will be performing once again at this year's BRIT Awards Launch Party 2011 along with Jessie J, Tinie Tempah and The Wanted. The event will be screened on ITV2 at 8pm on January 14th.
BBC Radio 1 recently did a programme with Ellie that runs through some of her favourite tracks. You can check it out here. Spot the mistake they make on the first song!
Lights will finally get a release on the other side of the atlantic on March 8th. The release will include all of the original tracks from Lights as well as Animal, Your Song and Lights.
Ellie was in Radio 1's Live Lounge today and performed a cover of Rihanna's Only Girl (In The World), as well as a performance of Your Song. You can download the cover of the Rihanna song below. Videos below that! Download Only Girl In The World (Rihanna Cover)
Ellie will be doing a DJ set along with a few other lovely bands at Starsmith's gig at the Hoxton Bar & Kitchen in London on the 8th December. Tickets are only 7 quid and available here.
Sorry to anyone that tried to access the website in the past couple of days. Some server issues meant the site was down. Hopefully the issue won't come back this time!
The lyrics for new tracks from Bright Lights have been added. They are Animal, Believe Me, Home, Human and Little Dreams. You can also do me a massive favor by letting me know if any lyrics, new or old, are incorrect in the lyrics section. Drop me an e-mail at rich@elliegoulding.net if you see any that need correcting!
You can now purchase the re-release of Ellie's debut album both physically and digitally. The digital version on iTunes includes a brand new acoustic version of The End. Along with that, iTunes also have included Ellie's set from this year's iTunes festival, as well as all of her official videos so far. Tracklisting is below, along with links to buy it.
1. Guns and Horses 2. Starry Eyed 3. This Love (Will Be Your Downfall) 4. Under The Sheets 5. The Writer 6. Everytime You Go 7. Wish I Stayed 8. Your Biggest Mistake 9. I'll Hold My Breath 10. Salt Skin 11. Lights 12. Human 13. Little Dreams 14. Home 15. Animal [formerly Blood] 16. Believe Me [formerly This Music] 17. Your Song (Elton John cover) 18. The End (acoustic) [iTunes only]
Ellie will be continuing her Ellie Runs campaign again on this tour with a run in Southampton on 16th November. To be in with a chance of running with her, sign up here.
Your Song available to download and advert available to watch
You can now purchase Your Song off of iTunes from the tiny price of 59p. If that sounds like it's up your street then head on over here! Also, if that wasn't enough, prepare to feel a bit christmassy/warm inside/tingly/all of the above, as you can watch the John Lewis advert it was made for below.
The next single has been announced and will be her cover of Elton John's Your Song, which was produced by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons and will be available from 16th November. The single will tie in with an ad campaign for John Lewis this Christmas, with the advert debuting during the break for this Saturday's X Factor show on ITV. Cover art for the single is below. You can pre-order and preview the single on Amazon MP3 here.
Bright Lights is the title of the forthcoming re-release of Lights. The release features 6 new tracks (excluding Lights), all of which are on the tracklisting below. Your Song is an Elton John cover and will be used on the Christmas John Lewis' adverts, so it is in a sense a bonus track to the release. The release date will be 29th November and it seems the first single will be Human (not Lights). The high definition cover is available below.
1. Guns and Horses 2. Starry Eyed 3. This Love (Will Be Your Downfall) 4. Under The Sheets 5. The Writer 6. Everytime You Go 7. Wish I Stayed 8. Your Biggest Mistake 9. I'll Hold My Breath 10. Salt Skin 11. Lights 12. Human 13. Little Dreams 14. Home 15. Animal 16. Believe Me [formerly This Music] 17. Your Song (Elton John cover)
Ellie will be doing a run with fans this Saturday, in Sheffield. To be in with a chance of running with Ellie, enter the competition here. Only enter if you can make it through 10km though!
Ellie's huge headline tour has begun, and with that means a new setlist. The new setlist includes a brand new song called Human, as well as bringing back The End. You can watch the performance of the new song here. If you can't stop listening to it, then you can also download the live version of the song here.
Lockout have been uploading performances from their 2008 event to their YouTube channel, a bit late perhaps, but better late than never! Ellie performed at the event way back when and you can see her performances at the links below. The End (We Were) Friends Wish I Stayed
The complete line-up for Ellie's Little Noise Session is now out, and you'll now find it hard to see a better line-up anywhere else this year. Tickets are however completely sold out. The super brilliant Lissie has been added to the line-up, which now means the line-up is as follows: 20th November - Ellie Goulding, Lissie, Tinashe, Stornoway, and Benjamin Frances-Leftwich
For the whole of this week Track In The Box will be taken over by Ellie. Track In The Box is a brilliant website that sends you a new song every day to listen to. If you haven't already subscribed, visit their website! Each day this week you'll get one of Ellie's favourite tracks sent to your inbox.
This year's Mencap Little Noise Sessions will feature Ellie headlining the final night of the 6 night long event. The prestigious series of gigs feature every band/artist playing acoustically in the beautiful Union Chapel. All proceeds go to Mencap and the curator/ring leader is Radio 1's Jo Whiley. Tickets go on sale this Friday (22nd) and the pre-sale starts on Wednesday (19th) at 9am. The gig takes place on Saturday 20th November 2010 and Ellie will be supported by the brilliant Stornoway and Tinashe. More details about tickets and the rest of the gigs are available at the Little Noise website.
Ellie has been nominated for two Q awards this year. The first is for Breakthrough Artist and the second for Best Female. You can vote for her here! It's easy to do, so get voting.
On November 8th Lights will be re-released with 5 new Ellie tracks and also the iTunes bonus track Lights. The release will come a week after the release of the single Lights. No word on the other track names yet, though it would be easy to speculate that Little Dreams might be one of them and that also the track Blood might also be on there, as Ellie has mentioned about the new track previously in an interview. I'll put pre-order links up as and when they appear. No excuses to not buy the re-release as 5 new tracks is a pretty good deal! Not sure whether they'll be available as separate tracks on iTunes yet.
Ellie recently did another session at the Metropolis Studios, this time for a series of recordings sponsored by SEAT. You can watch the direct to vinyl session here on 4OD. You can download the recording of Under The Sheets from the session over at Club SEAT. The second two tracks will released later on. No word yet and how you'd get hold of a copy of the vinyl (if ever). Songlist is below. Thanks to John for the heads up again. 1) Under the Sheets 2) The Writer 3) Sweet Disposition (Temper Trap cover)
As reported a few times before, Ellie appears on Tinie Tempah's new album for the track Wonderman. It was premiered tonight on the Zane Lowe show. If you like what you hear then why not pre-order the CD? You can hear it by heading over to iPlayer here. Skip to 1:29 to hear the song!
Ellie's proper debut digital EP 'An Introduction To Ellie Goulding' is available to download in the US now digitally. You can buy it from Amazon here for only $3.61. Tracklisting is below. Thanks to John for the heads up. 1. Starry Eyed [2:57] 2. Guns And Horses [3:34] 3. The Writer (Live Acoustic Version) [4:13] 4. Lights [4:04]
Ellie's only gone and been nominated for an EMA - Best New UK & Ireland Artist. The MTV European Music Awards 2010 take place on Madrid on the 7th November where the winners will be announced! You can vote for Ellie as many times as you so wish here!
The next single (and presumably the last off the album) will be the excellent Lights! A brilliant choice if ever there was one. Release date is 1st November! Ellie has said on her Twitter that it will be a part of a new release (EP? Deluxe edition of Lights? Who knows) that will contain new songs - exciting news!
As I reported previously, Ellie will appear on a track called Wonderman on Tinie Tempah's debut album Disc-Overy. It's out on the 4th October but you can check out a preview here!
Ellie is on the line-up to perform at this year's JD Set, Jack Daniels' annual birthday gig. The gig takes place on the 7th October at The Clapham Grand, London. The line-up also includes Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and Duane Eddy. Ellie will perform some of her original material and also some other material as well as possible collaborations. You can't buy tickets for this special gig, but you can win them at the JD Set website!
You can now purchase the new remix CD on iTunes. Tracklisting and cover art below! Purchase it here! The album itself is one 30 minute long track but also comes with the seperate tracks.
This Love (Will be your downfall) - Mille Remix Guns & Horses - Monsieur Adi remix Lights - Fear of Tigers remix Salt Skin - Alex Metric remix Starry Eyed - Russ Chimes remix Under The Sheets - Jakwob remix
Here's a little thing Ellie did with Ben Lovett from Mumford & Sons. It's a couple of covers, the first one is Grizzly Bear & Feist's Service Bell and the second is the excellent Wild Beasts' Two Dancers II. MP3 download is below! Complete credit goes to Brandon and his blog kiidicarus.tumblr.com. Check it out!
For all you lovely visitors who are from the US, there's some good news finally! Ellie's digital EP An Introduction To Ellie Goulding will be released both digitally and physically in the US on Cherry Tree Records (the same label as Lady Gaga), an imprint of Interscope Records. This will be followed up in spring of 2011 by the proper release of Ellie's debut album Lights. It will be a special version of the album, but no word on what will be added yet. Keep an eye out! And finally, the best part. Ellie will be playing two debut US shows this September in support of the release of the EP. They will be in LA and New York - dates are below and tickets go on sale this Friday. Ellie will also return to the US to support the release of Lights in 2011. 28th September - Los Angeles - The Roxy 30th September - New York - Hiro Ballroom
Ellie performed an acoustic cover of Coldplay's Don't Panic for Channel 4's V Festival coverage. Check it out in the YouTube video below or alternatively you can download the MP3 from the link also below. Thanks to everyone who sent it in! Don't Panic (Coldplay cover)
Another interview (kind of) and performance on the 5:19 show this week. Check it out on iPlayer where Ellie performs The Writer and is interviewed Mastermind style. Interview is at 6:20 and performance is at 20:20. Enjoy!
The man and legend that is Starsmith has finally unleashed some tunes to the world. You can check out his first single Give Me A Break on iPlayer here. It's 15:20 into the show. Well worth it! You can check out the b-side Knuckleduster by signing up to the mailing list here. Well worth checking out!
Maxwell Cooke, Ellie's touring synth player, is also running the Great North Run and will be raising money for the Alzheimer's Society. You can sponsor him here. If you still haven't sponsored Ellie you can do that here! If you've got any spare money please do donate as both are great causes. Good luck Max and Ellie!
Ellie is up for the Best Female Artist Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, you can vote for her here! The awards show takes place on the 30th September at the Camden Roundhouse.
The Writer broke into the top 20 at number 19. Lights also bounced back into the top 20 in the album chart at number 18! If you haven't bought either go do it now!
The Writer is currently sittings in the midweeks at 26, this just isn't good enough Ellie fans! If you haven't bought it yet, what are you waiting for? Buy it now! It'll only set you back a ridiculous 59p! Buy it here.
Update: It's now at number 22. Lets at least get it into the top 20!