Ellie has announced another run, this time just in London. It will take place on Monday 9th August. To be in with a chance of going on a run with Ellie and other Ellie fans, go here!
The support acts for Ellie's massive November tour have been confirmed as Sunday Girl and Bright Light Bright Light. Both are electro-pop, so they should go down pretty well. Bright Light Bright Light's first single release is titled Love Part II, which is going to be one of the first releases on the new PopJustice Hi-Fi label! You can also check out his Under The Sheets remix on his MySpace.
For anyone wondering what happened to the song Not Following You that was one of the first tracks we heard from Ellie, well wonder no more. The song was actually re-recorded by the German solo artist Lena, aka the winner of this year's Eurovision. You can hear her version of it on spotify. If you haven't heard the original then check it out in the music player on the right of this page!
If you weren't lucky enough to win tickets, you can watch Ellie's set from 9 or 9.15pm at http://www.myspace.com/myspacelive! UK users only, I believe. Sorry!
Thanks to BestBuy we've got 4 pairs of tickets to give away to 4 lucky visitors to see Ellie perform at an exclusive gig on the 5th July at the IndigO2 in London. For a chance to win, just enter your details below and click enter.
You can also get tickets (plus exclusive aftershow party tickets) to the gig if you spend over £30 at any of Best Buy's new UK stores. More info here
Entrants must be aged 18 years or older and must be a UK resident. You must be available to attend on the evening of the 5th July. Travel is not provided. One entry per household. Competition closes Tuesday 29th June 9pm BST (GMT+1).
Ellie's main producer, co-writer and generally brilliant bloke Starsmith is set to film the video for his first single tomorrow. The song seems fairly certain to have Ellie as a guest vocalist on the song, not sure how much but it seems likely! Keep an eye out. The single will be taken from Starsmith's upcoming debut EP, so keep an eye out. It's bound to be pretty amazing!
If you want a chance to win tickets to see Ellie at the iTunes festival then click here. The gig takes place on the 8th July at the Roundhouse in London.
To celebrate the launch of Best Buy in the UK, Ellie will be headlining the first of a series of gigs at the IndigO2. To get a chance to win tickets to the gig you'll need to spend 30 or more at Best Buy in the UK at one of their three stores (Thurrock, Hedge End and Merry Hill) and from there you'll receive a special code that you'll need to enter online to get a chance of winning tickets to the July 5th gig. Winners will also get to attend a special aftershow party. This will be the second time Ellie has performed at the IndigO2 this year, the first being in January for the Brit Awards Launch Party. More info about the gig here.
Ellie performed Guns & Horses recently in the Blue Peter studio, you can check it out here as I doubt most of you will still be watching Blue Peter.. I hope.
At the recent Great Escape Festival in Brighton, Ellie performed the song Everywhere I Go with Lissie. Some lovely person has put a high quality version of it up on YouTube. You can check it out here! If you haven't checked Lissie out before then check her out now - she's amazing.
BRMB Walkathon have a special charity auction on EBay for a pair of custom Nike trainers designed by Ellie and also signed by the lady herself. 100% of the proceedings go to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity. Bid here! Thanks to Laura for submitting this.
Guns & Horses entered the charts at 26, which just isn't good enough! I'm sure it'll chart higher in the next few weeks as more people hear it, but make sure you do your bit and buy it if you haven't already! Even if you've got Lights there's some smashing remixes on the release, so its worth the money. Go buy it. Now.
ps. Ellie has two singles in the top 40 and an album in the top 20, so it's definitely not a disappointment by any means! Lights actually moved up 9 places this week.
Ellie has been doing loads of press and acoustic sessions lately to promote Guns & Horses (buy it!). You can see some of the videos below as well as her GMTV performance below. Thanks to Lee for uploading The Sun videos onto YouTube!
Tomorrow marks the release of Guns & Horses. It's pretty much guaranteed to do well thanks to Ellie's success and the fact it's an amazing song, but make sure you buy it anyway! You can buy it today along with the remixes from iTunes. Links to physical copies are below.
Here are all the dates for Ellie's autumn tour. Tickets are on sale Friday but a pre-sale will be available through CrowdSurge from 9am Monday. Tickets will go fast, so get them early! Oct 28 - Newcastle, Academy Oct 29 - Glasgow, Academy Oct 30 - Edinburgh, Picture House Nov 1 - Middlesbrough, Empire Nov 2 - Leeds, Academy Nov 3 - Manchester, Academy Nov 5 - Preston, 53 Degrees Nov 6 - Sheffield, Academy Nov 8 - Lincoln, Engine Shed Nov 9 - Nottingham, Rock City Nov 10 - Liverpool, University Nov 12 - Cardiff, University Nov 13 - Bristol, Academy Nov 15 - Birmingham, Academy Nov 16 - Southampton, Guildhall Nov 17 - Folkestone, Leas Cliff Nov 19 - London, Hammersmith Apollo Nov 22 - Brighton, Dome Nov 23 - Cambridge, Corn Exchange Nov 24 - Norwich, UEA Nov 26 - Reading, Hexagon
Ellie will be doing a big headlining tour this November, the following dates have been announced but more are set to come. Tickets are on sale from Friday of next week (21/05/2010).
01/11/2010 - Empire, Middlesbrough 03/11/2010 - Academy, Manchester 05/11/2010 - 53 Degrees, Preston 06/11/2010 - O2 Academy Sheffield, Sheffield 08/11/2010 - Engine Shed, Lincoln 10/11/2010 - Liverpool University, Liverpool
Company.co.uk will be holding a special online web festival this Friday and will be showing an acoustic set from Ellie! Check back to the website on Friday at 12pm here to watch it.
Ellie has joined the Cherry Tree Records label with which she'll be releasing Lights in the US on. You can see Ellie talking a little bit about it here. Cherry Tree Records roster includes Lady Gaga, La Roux, The Police and others!
If you missed Ellie's appearance on the 5:19 show recently then you can check it out here. The performance of Guns & Horses is near the end! There's also an interview in there 3 minutes in.
Ellie has been globetrotting recently to promote Ellie related goodness, and she recent did a show which was recorded and streamed live by Sputnik.de. You can check out the entire show here. There's also an interview you can listen to here. Get watching/listening.
The tracklisting for the CD & 7" vinyl releases are as below. If you haven't ordered then get ordering, pre-order links are further down the page. CD 1. Guns And Horses (Radio Edit) 2. Guns And Horses (Neo Tokyo Remix) 3. Guns And Horses (Jezebel Remix)
Vinyl Side 1. Guns And Horses (Radio Edit) Side 2. Guns And Horses (Neo Tokyo Remix)
Ellie will be performing and probably interviewed on the radio shows below. If you're in the UK you'll be able to listen to them live on the BBC website. Wednesday 12th May - 10pm - Nick Grimshaw - BBC Radio 1 Saturday 15th May - 3pm - Dermot O'Leary - BBC Radio 2
Ellie will be performing Guns & Horses on next week's episode of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. It will air on BBC1 on Friday at 10.35pm. Don't miss it!
Diana's debut album, Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree, is out and you can listen to it on Spotify here. Ellie co-wrote the three songs below, so make sure to check them out! Remake Me + You Notice Jumping Into Rivers
I don't usually post about remixes just due to the fact Ellie's songs get remixed so often it's hard to keep a proper track! I promise I'll try and get a definitive list going sometime though! Pinky promise. Anyway, following up on Monsiuer Adi's absolutely brilliant Starry Eyed remix, we now have the lovely Guns & Horses remix to please our ears. Check it out here!
The release for Guns & Horses is fast approaching, so I thought I'd do a quick pre-order round up. It will be available on CD, 7 inch vinyl and digitally from May 17th.
In partnership with Three and Sony Ericsson, Ellie has chosen 10 of her favourite tracks to go on a Spotify playlist. You can see the track listing of the playlist below and load it up in Spotify as this link.
The Leisure Society - We Were Wasted Delphic - Doubt Laura Marling - Goodbye England (Covered In Snow) Lissie - Everywhere I go Cat Power - The Greatest Post War Years - Whole World On Its Head Noah And The Whale - I Have Nothing Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Friendly Fires - Paris Wild Beasts - We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues
Ellie recently performed her cover of the Temper Trap's Sweet Disposition for the Australian radio station NovaFM. You can check out a video of the performance here and also listen to an interview with her here.
Ellie has been confirmed for the yearly iTunes festival, not too surprisingly. The iTunes festival is a series of intimate gigs that take place over 31 nights every day in July at the Roundhouse in London and features over 62 acts. Ellie's gig will be on July 8th with support coming from Jamie Woon. The only way to get tickets is to win them, and you can get further info from iTunesLive.co.uk. Good luck!
Ellie has been confirmed for this years Radio 1 Big Weekend along with the rest of the line-up here. You can register for tickets now at this page - make sure to choose Saturday as that's the day Ellie plays! It takes place in Bangor, North Wales on 22nd and 23rd May.
The main support for Ellie's headlining shows in June will be Leah Mason. The dates are now all sold out, but can be seen below: 7 June 2010 - ABC, Glasgow, Scotland 8 June 2010 - Academy 2, Manchester 9 June 2010 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London
The cover for the CD and 7" vinyl release of Guns and Horses is now available for viewing in low-res below. Thanks to Laura again! I'll post the high-res version when it appears.
Ellie is set to support John Mayer on his forthcoming UK arena tour, the dates are below. Some tickets are still available from LiveNation. 23rd May - Cardiff Arena, Cardiff 24th May - LG Arena, Birmingham 26th May - Wembley Arena, London 27th May - Wembley Arena, London
The official video for Guns and Horses is now up for viewing on the net, check it out below. Thanks to Laura for the link! The song gets released as a single on 17th May, so keep your eyes out for pre-order links!
Lights has now sold around 150'000 copies which means Lights has gone 50k past the gold landmark. It's half way to platinum! I can imagine once Guns and Horses comes out that'll be easily done. If you haven't bought it yet, what are you waiting for? Go!
More about Nike Runs! Lights remixed and Ellie design trainers
Ellie's been quite busy with her venture with Nike lately! First up Polydor and Nike will be releasing a remixed version of Lights via iTunes which is for people to listen and get pumped to whilst running! The remixed album is set to drop in May some time. Secondly Ellie has designed her own trainers called 'Thistle', you can check out the vid about it below:
In what is possibly the most random thing I've ever seen, Nike have teamed up with Ellie to give away the chance for 10 people in each of the 7 chosen cities to go on a run with her during her headlining UK tour, which starts tonight. To win the chance to go on a run with Ellie on the day of one of her shows go to EllieRuns.com and sign-up to enter! Check out the widget below to see photos of the recent Manchester run with Ellie and keep checking back to check as it's been updated with more videos & photos! Ellie is a legend. It's official.
Ellie's first ever UK headlining tour kicks off tonight in Bristol at the Thekla! I'd like to build up a bit of media from this tour, so if you take any pictures or videos etc send them or links to them to rich@elliegoulding.net. I hope everyone going has a great night!
Starry Eyed has now spent a month in the top 5! It charted at number 5 yesterday which is a great achievement without even considering where Ellie's come from. Lights stayed in the top 20 but slipped one place to 17. Keep buying it!
The piano, vocal and guitar songbook contains all the sheet music for every track on Lights, including the bonus iTunes title track. You can order it here. You can also buy each individually digitally for £2.25 per song from here.
For those who haven't noticed Lights is up on Spotify. It was up a few days after release but then vanished; however, it's back now! Check it out and don't forget to buy the album.
Ellie recently performed an acoustic version of Guns & Horses for German radio station N-Joy. You can check out the performance here. Thanks to aw.s once again!
Ellie is set to play the FIB Heineken festival this year which takes place in, you guessed it, Benicassim, Spain. The festival takes place between the 15th and the 18th of July. No word on which day she's playing yet. Tickets are available here!
One of Ellie's songs is set to appear on the soundtrack to the forthcoming film Kick-Ass. The teenage superhero film features Nicolas Cage, so it has to be good, right?
Starry Eyed has stayed in the number 4 position for the third week running! For a debut single that isn't half bad and we could see it sticking around as more and more people hear it. Lights slipped all the way down to 16 - if anything that really shows what a fantastic first week Lights had. I'm sure it'll be bouncing around the album charts for a while though. Buy it if you haven't already!
Sorry for anyone who's had troubles getting on the website lately.. There's been some troubles with the hosting, but I'm not really sure what or why. Hopefully it'll be resolved soon, though. If it goes down don't forget to try again later!
4 Music: The Album Chart Show Introduces.. Ellie Goulding
There is a special Album Chart Show airing this Friday night/Saturday featuring Ellie performing tracks off of Lights as well as interviews. The programme will air at 12.50am on Channel 4 after midnight Friday and is 15 minutes long. Thanks to Rowan for the tip-off!
Ellie has been confirmed to play this year's Underage Festival on the 1st August at Victoria Park, London. Tickets are on sale now! Don't forget about the 14-18 age limit though!
A massive massive massive congratulations to Ellie as Lights has debuted in the chart in the number 1 position. It's the stuff of dreams. Well done Ellie! Thanks to everyone who's supported Ellie by buying Lights this week!
Dot to Dot festival have confirmed their line-up for this year and it includes Ellie! Dot to Dot takes place across three cities over three days: Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester. It takes place on the 29th, 30th and 31st of May. But as Ellie is playing at the Evolution festival in Newcastle on the 31st, she'll only be appearing on the Bristol and Nottingham dates which are the 29th and 30th. Buy tickets here!
7digital have Lights up for only a fiver. The more people that buy it, the better the chance there is of Ellie getting her debut album to number 1, which would be absolutely amazing I think! If you've already got it and love it, buy it again. Or buy it for someone else!Buy it here!
Thanks to aw.s for posting this on the forum for all to see! This is Ellie performing the song Lights (the bonus track on the album) live at the recent Passion Pit gig in Leeds. You'll notice there's a new addition to the live set up and that's one Mr. Maxwell Cooke, who is now playing the synth parts!
From the title of this article I think it's safe to say Ellie is playing this year's Dot to Dot festival. Though, the article doesn't actually say anything about it and I can't find a line-up anywhere! Either way, it's probably true!
Don't forget to catch Ellie perform Starry Eyed on Alan Carr: Chatty Man tonight! Tune in at 10pm on Channel 4. If you miss it watch it on +1 or 4od afterwards.
Ellie appeared on the Woman's Hour (yeah I'd never heard of it either) BBC Radio 4 show today. She did an interviewed and performed Guns and Horses acoustically. Check it out on iPlayer from 17:40 in. I'll put the MP3 up soon unless someone does it before me!
It's been reported that Lights is doing very well indeed this week, it's selling 40% more than Lady Gaga's latest album. Check it! That doesn't mean you should stop buying it though. Go buy it!
Ellie has been confirmed for V Festival! Tickets go on sale this Friday. Check out the website for more info on the line-up and ticket info! This year's V Festival takes place on the 21st and 22nd of August.
For those of you that weren't lucky enough to get a vinyl copy of the Metropolis Session, fear not, you can buy it digitally from we7! It'll set you back only £2.24. You can't ask for better than that, can you? 1) Guns and Horses 2) Under The Sheets 3) The Writer 4) Starry Eyed
Lights is now available to buy in the shops as well as being available through all good online digital music retailers. You can purchase the album digitally through iTunes for £6.99 and it comes with the iTunes exclusive bonus track Lights. Buy it here! If you don't mind missing the bonus track then you can get it from 7digital for a mere £3.99 on Amazon! Lights rocketed to the number 1 spot this morning in iTunes, let's keep it there!
Big congratulations to Ellie! Her proper debut single Starry Eyed as entered the charts at number 4. A great, great achievement! Well done and nice one to anyone who bought it!
The reason for Ellie's pulling out of the Bristol gig is so she can perform on Alan Carr's Chatty Man programme this week. You can see Ellie perform Starry Eyed on the show which airs at 10pm this Thursday. Check the Radio Times listing for more info.
Today is the day we find out where Starry Eyed has charted in it's first week. You can listen to the chart countdown between 4pm and 7pm on Radio 1 or over at the BBC website! We'll most likely know around 6pm what position Ellie is.
Ellie will no longer be supporting Passion Pit for the Bristol gig due to TV commitments. She's obviously gutted about this. If she decides to do a special show to make up for it I'll post here! Taken from her Twitter: I'm so sorry and I'm so gutted that I've had to cancel the Bristol date with passion pit to do a tv thing. I'm genuinely so sorry :( :(
Orange have put up two videos of Ellie. The first is a behind the scenes video to the making of Starry Eyed and the second is an interview that was recently recorded at the recent Metropolis session. Enjoy!
I've just added all the lyrics for Lights! That means you can now see the lyrics for Salt Skin, Your Biggest Mistake, This Love (Will Be Your Downfall), I'll Hold My Breath and Every Time You Go as well as the 100% correct lyrics for all the other tracks. Check out the lyrics section! There may be some typo's which I'll fix soon. Enjoy!
If and when you receive your CD copy of Lights, don't forget to download the bonus content! You'll need your CD on hand to get it. The bonus content is the same as the Introduction To Ellie Goulding EP off of iTunes, so don't bother going if you already have that!
Ellie was on Steve Wright's radio show on Thursday and she had a chat with Steve as well as having 'This Love (Will Be Your Downfall)' played for the first time on radio. Go listen! Listen from 2:35!
Rebecca has ripped the interview (not the songs) and put it up for download at http://www.yousendit.com/download/RmNBeFlkNmNwaFN4dnc9PQ. Go listen if you're outside of the UK! Check out Rebecca's blog These Are Sounds!
Ellie has been confirmed for a few more festivals today. They are Oxegen and Lovebox. Tickets for Oxegen go on sale on the 12th March, but Lovebox tickets are on sale now at their website.
Check out the list below for the festivals Ellie is playing at: Oxegen, Dublin Lovebox, London T in the Park, Scotland The Great Escape, Brighton Bestival, Isle of Wight