Sophie interviewed by SoSoGay

"I’m writing a new song with Junior Caldera"

Is Sophie looking for another mainstream floor-stomper? I hope so. Can't Fight This Feeling wasn't like her usual stuff, but it was great while it lasted. And it went down well on her tour. Collaborating with Junior Caldera again is definitely a good idea, and i hope something good comes out of it. Caldera is a talented DJ, and if he wishes to follow up his album with another Sophie single, then, here's wishing him all the success!

Here is a write up from SoSoGay.org. The interviewer (a fellow PJ-er) sent in a couple of questions to her publicist and some of the questions sent in were answered. Here is his write up and interview.


ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://sosogay.org/2011/music-the-best-of-february-2011-and-an-interview-with-sophie-ellis-bextor/

Sophie, what have you been up to today?
I’m writing a new song with Junior Caldera (with whom I did a song called ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’) and so I’ve been getting my lyrics sorted today.

Why do you think you and Sophie Muller (video director for ‘Not Giving Up on Love’ among many others) always end up producing the most brilliant videos together? Which is your favourite that you’ve done with her?
I love Sophie and I think we always have fun together while she shoots such gorgeous footage. She really knows how to get the best out of women on camera, and over the years has become my friend. I think that comes across in the videos – the fact I feel comfortable and we laugh a lot while we work. To be honest it barely feels like working! My favourite with her is tricky to pick… Maybe ‘Music Gets the Best of Me’ because I think that one captures the side of me most like the ‘real’ me – how I am with my friends.

What do you have up your sleeve for album number five?
A new direction. No dance music: time for a change, methinks!

MORE QUESTIONS ANSWERED AT SOSOGAY.ORG. Click on the link above to read through.

Sophie on That Sunday Night Show

Sophie appeared on That Sunday Night Show, ITV1, 27 February 2011
This is a show presented by Adrian Chiles, in which Adrian and his guests chat about news stories of the week.
Adrian's other guests were Clive Anderson and Brian Blessed.

Here you can download the full programme in two parts.

Part One, 194MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AG9MO2F9

Part Two, 99MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7UCP2P77


Also you can download a short video containing just the scenes in which Sophie features or speaks.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RO5XRHVA

These are the scenes in this short video:

1) Introduction.
2) New single out in a week or so.
3) Feelings about the Olympics?
4) Emotional response to events in Libya.
5) Comments about Variety Entertainment.
6) A student was expelled from school because he dangled his testicles in a teacher's tea mug. Sophie asks, "is that called tea bagging?"
7) True Cornish Pasties can only be made in Cornwall by Cornish people.

thanks to Paul for the recording and the links

Sophie on Juice FM

Sophie on Juice FM by SOPHIERAZZI

- They talk about her being around for more than 10 years.
- She says she loves making music even more.
- She is appreciative about the work of her producers because the things she made on her own were really "rubbish".
- They talk about Richard + The Feeling and Sophie + Richard.
- Leave Me Out Of It - 80's cool ballad, she didn't write it, but she "really really" likes it.
- She think it can be quite unnerving about kids singing adult songs.
- Her new album is out in (let's say) May. The interviewer asks Sophie why it was delayed previously and she says it was largely because of Armin's tight schedule.
- The album is mastered, there's no touching it. It's finished.
- She talks about the making of NGUOL & Armin.
- She talks about her work with Calvin, Freemasons and Ed Harcourt.
- She was at home for New Years after several years.

EDIT - apparently this is a broadcast from 20th Jan.

ORIGINAL LINK: http://www.juicefm.com/player?url=http://contentbank.u-loader.com/Juice%20FM%20Interviews/Sophie%20Ellis%20Bextor%20(Final).mp3

Interview, Performance and other stuff

Sophie has been promoting her new single "Not Giving Up On Love" with Armin Van Buuren on Radio and TV. In fact, the single is already out on iTunes. Support Sophie, please buy the single.

Sophie was on LORAINNE where she was asked about the new single, being a mum and the usual. She also performed the new single, which sounded excellent, actually. Thanks to Paul and Renzo for the videos.





Recently, Sophie was also on T4 to talk about the new single and play Celebrity Squares. You can watch the show right here.





Also, Sophie has been picked by Erasue to support them on their tour in June. So maybe we can expect the album out before that. Hopefully this support tour will do some good for her. So if you couldn't catch her on her Straight To The Heart tour, you can go see her live now. Here are the tour dates
Fri 10 June Thetford Forest, Nr Brandon, Suffolk.
Sat 11 June Bedgebury Pinetum & Forest, Nr Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Fri 17 June Sherwood Pines Forest Park, Nr Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire.
Sat 18 June Westonbirt Arboretum, Nr Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
Fri 24 June Cannock Chase Forest, Nr Rugeley, Staffordshire.
Sat 25 June Dalby Forest, Nr Pickering, North Yorks.
Fri 1 July Delamere Forest, Delamere, Cheshire. (Note: Sophie Ellis-Bextor will not be appearing in Delamere Forest)

Here's a video from T4 - Sophie Ellis Bextor Style Masterclass

A lot has been going on, and you should know...

We all know that Fascination was closed down and there were several rumours that AATW picked up Sophie. Someone recently confirmed that AATW actually picked her up. But that isn't actually true. A lot has been going on, and i think you ought to know this.

Recently, AATW posted this.
"No news on the album at this stage i'm afraid we are only working on the single at the moment. If that changes of course we will let you know."

One fan from PopJustice met Sophie and asked her what the situation is with her album. Here are some excerpts from his posts.

• Fascination have now folded. She is no longer with the label... neither is she with AATW, that is the label for the single release only, they are Armin's.
• She said that she is currently in negotiations with several names for the album's label upon release, and hasn't yet decided.
• She looked very confused when I asked her about the rumours of a ten-track download only album. She raised an eyebrow and said "Oh no, the album's still coming out as planned before, nothing like that".
• I finally asked if it wasn't a June release then and that April was still on the cards as before and she said "er well, it's definately still Spring.

It seems to me that Sophie has been going through quite a rough time, but she has kept calm and tried to keep us calm as well. I request all Sophie fans to go out and buy her album (if possible, buy two copies each) and support her. I have even more respect for her now, for trying to release this record. Please support Sophie.

Sophie in The Sunday Times, 13/02/2011

Time and place: Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Blue Peter and the Beatles gave the singer a taste for performance while being
raised by divorced parents in west London

Interview by Sarah Ewing
Published: 13 February 2011

I was four years old and an only child when my mum, the TV presenter Janet Ellis, and dad, the director Robin Bextor, divorced in 1983. We’d been living in Hampton, Middlesex, in a house they’d bought when I was born. Mum soon remarried a lovely man, John. My stepbrother, Jackson, came along in 1987, followed by Martha in 1991.

Mum’s post-divorce home was in Ravenscourt Park, west London. It’s a big old Victorian house, where we each had our own rooms. I plastered the walls of my wardrobe with black-and-white shots of Hollywood hunks like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix.

I was just starting my second year at school when we moved in; Jackson, who’s now 23, has graduated to my big room, the lucky bloke. The house was perfectly situated beside the park, Jackson’s nursery and the local primary. We walked through the park to get to school; adjacent are the arches where I’d hang out as a teenager, and under which I remember opening my A-level results.

Over the years, Mum and John have commissioned some unique pieces of art, which are dotted aroundthe house. Two years ago, Mum appeared on Cash in the Attic, and blanched when she was told what some of them were now worth.

The house was always teeming with people because of Mum’s open-door policy. I loved that it was full of life and laughter, as I hope my new home nearby will be. The kitchen was the hub: I once came home from school and found Mum and Nerys Hughes filming a cookery segment for Blue Peter. I just barged in and said, “Excuse me, Nerys, I’m trying to get to the tuna.” As special time for just the two of us, Mum used to take me to a local cafe for hot chocolate and cake.

I now live 10 minutes away, in a five-bedroom detached house in Chiswick, with my husband, Richard Jones, guitarist in the Feeling, and our two boys, Sonny, 6, and Kit, 18 months. Sonny has just started at the primary school nearby, where Jackson and Martha went, and I take Kit to the park where I played as a child. It’s as if I’d never left home.

Dad moved around a fair bit after the divorce, mostly in west London, but he eventually settled in a beautiful 16th-century thatched cottage in a Sussex village. When I was growing up, he always had music playing in his house, like the Beatles and the Doors, and his love was a great influence on my career choice. His passion was infectious — even though he was tone deaf. We’d get really excited when new albums came out, and listened to them while playing Sorry or Cluedo.

He’s been in his latest cottage for five years with his new wife, the TV producer Polly Mockford, and their children, Dulce, 13, and the twins, Maisie and Bertie, 12. It’s been a fresh start, precipitated by his purchase of a restaurant, Moonrakers, in Alfriston. My best friend is from there, so I felt like I knew it before Dad moved in.

Because I travel so much, doing gigs and DJing, my free time is erratic. I try to visit Dad with the boys once every two months. His cottage is wonderful: you can get there easily from London, but it feels like proper countryside. I love all the green space on our visits, and the sea is nearby in Brighton.

Divorce is never easy on a child, but my parents made me feel loved and welcome no matter where they were.

Sophie supports the baby charity Tommy’s; www.tommys.org. Thanks to an Asda Foundation grant, midwives give free advice on the Pregnancy Line; 0800 014 7800

Have you seen the new Rimmel pictures?

The one with the red streak on her hair looks amazing. The bronzed look makes her look sort of Dannii Minogue-ish, no? I like her pale skin look better than this bronze tan.

Both pictures are gorgeous as ever.