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This website will be having a long overdue re-haul soon. This will be the last news item I'll be posting until then - for updates and upcoming live shows please visit my myspace page.

For my last performances in Sydney I'll be joining Brian Eno, Karl Hyde (Underworld), The Necks and Leo Abrahams for 3 special live improvised shows at the Opera House, this Sunday 14th June. There are shows at 5pm, 7pm and 9pm. More details and tickets can be found here.

I have two official videos up on YouTube - the first is for Light Through The Veins, and is an animation directed by Carl Burgess, curated by Blink Ink. The second is a clip from the live visuals I have been using, featuring the vintage animations of San Franciscan genius Vince Collins set to the song Vessel.

Both can also be found on the myspace page. Any and all other videos you find of my songs on YouTube are unofficial and have nothing to do with me..

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At long last, a mere 5 years since Contact Note, my new album Insides is out. It was recorded at Cafe Music Studios in London, by me, on the piano, and the laptop. It also features the following amazing guest instumentalists: Leo Abrahams on the guitar and hurdy-gurdy, Emma Smith on the violin, Davide Rossi on the electric violin, Vince Sipprell on the viola, Lee Muddy Baker on the drums, King Creosote on the humming, and Lisa Lindley-Jones on the additional vocals. Remixes of Light Through The Veins were provided by David Holmes and Ewan Pearson. Mastering was performed by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering. The record has been released by Double Six / Domino Records and the awesome artwork has been designed by Man Vs Magnet.

The bulk of the recording was done in the first half of 2008, and was finally completed last August. However, some tracks were conceived as early as 2005, with a few more being written in 2006. Then 2007 was too busy and only left me time to write Vessel in the September. Finally I managed to set aside a concentrated bit of time between February and June 2008 and turned it into what it is now.

Small Memory was the last to be completed, taking less than one day. In contrast, Light Through The Veins, from its origin as a simple nine-note idea in late 2006, eventually took over three weeks to finish, and ended up containing about 800 sounds, layered over 128 tracks.

I hope you like it. You can buy the CD or double 12" vinyl now here. You can download it from Bleep.com, iTunes or any other good download site.

Some other news:

Due to a clash with the preparations I need to do for the Sydney shows, I'm afraid I have had to move the 26th of May London Dingwalls show. It will now take place on the 1st of July, at the ICA. Apologies to anyone who bought tickets, you should have received an email explaining that your tickets will be valid at the new show, hope this doesn't cause any inconvenience. Support act is to be confirmed but I'm delighted to announce that David Holmes and TUNNG will be providing the night's DJing.

This will be a very special headline audio-visual show, with new interpretations of songs from Insides, and also some re-workings of some of the songs from the first two albums. Plus I may well be joined by some of the instrumentalists who graced the album with their notes, and possibly even some dancers. You can buy tickets here.

See the news item below for a complete list of live shows...

I am pleased to announce that Insides will have its full UK release on the 4th of May on Double Six, part of Domino Records. You can read about this on the Domino site here. Also for a limited time you can download the track Wire for nothing from the Domino Mart.

The album will also have its American release on the same date on Domino USA. There will be a 12" vinyl and download release of Light Through The Veins on the 27th of April - the sleeve of which you can see above. This will feature epic remixes from Ewan Pearson and David Holmes.

Here is a list of all upcoming shows. More will be added as they are confirmed:

11th Feb - Saitama Super Arena, Tokyo, supporting Coldplay
12th Feb - Saitama Super Arena, Tokyo, supporting Coldplay
14th Feb - Kobe World Kinen Hall, Osaka, supporting Coldplay
15th Feb - Kobe World Kinen Hall, Osaka, supporting Coldplay
13th March - American Museum of Natural History, New York, with Four Tet
14th March - Pianos, Lower East Side, New York
17th March - The Annex, Lower East Side, New York
20th March - Echo, Los Angeles with Four Tet
21st March - Mezzanine, San Francisco, with Four Tet
8th April - Domino Festival, Brussels, with Johan Johannson and Fennesz.
10th April - Palace Akropolis, Prague
11th April - Motel Mosaic Festival, Rotterdam
18th April - Ether Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, supporting Plaid.
1st May - Hinterland Festival, Glasgow
9th May - Faster Than Sound @ Aldeburgh Festival
15th May - Taste of Sonar @ Roundhouse, London
6th June - Luminous Festival @ Sydney Opera House
7th June - Luminous Festival @ Sydney Opera House
14th June - Luminous Festival / Pure Scenius @ Sydney Opera House
18th June - Sonar Festival, Barcelona
27th June - Glastonbury Festival
1st July - SPECIAL LIVE SHOW at ICA, London. Live support from Banjo Or Freakout, and DJ sets from David Holmes and Tunng.

The new EP from Coldplay is out now, featuring 6 new songs and 2 remixes. I co-produced the tracks Life In Technicolor II and the title track Prospekt's March, and contributed electronics and various keyboard instruments to Glass Of Water and Lost +. You can get it anywhere. More info at coldplay.com.

Also you may have noticed that Insides has appeared on UK itunes - it is up for a limited time only, to make it available for these current shows. There is a proper vinyl, cd and download release scheduled for March next year, with a single in February. Sorry this is later than announced.

Finally I have a couple of European shows coming up. The first is a live performance at the Warp Records showcase, as part of the Eurosonic festival in Groningen, Holland, on the 15th of January. Also features Tim Exile, Hudson Mohawke, Jackson And His Computer Band.

The second is a performance at the Club Transmediale festival in Berlin, on the 29th January, alongside Micachu And The Shapes, Tim Exile and Fuck Buttons.

I have some more live shows coming up... firstly three live performances of "Entity" with Random Dance at the Het Muziekthieter in Amsterdam, on the 6th, 8th and 9th of November. Tickets can be bought here.

Then I'm very pleased to be joining Coldplay again as live support, on all the dates of their US and UK tour, from the 11th of November until the 23rd of December. Places, dates, tickets and info at www.coldplay.com.

The image above is a still from the visuals I have been using at recent shows - Nexus Productions introduced me to the work of legendary artist Vince Collins, who made some of the most extraordinary and psychedelic single-cell animations I've ever seen. Vince kindly allowed me to use a selection of his works from the 70s and 80s in my live show, and genius editor Matt Kitchin was responsible for fitting them to the music. I'll be playing with these visuals at all upcoming live shows.

I have a couple of collaborations out this month. First up is the new album by David Holmes The Holy Pictures , which is out now on Mercury. It is his first solo album since 2000's Bow Down To The Exit Sign. I co-wrote the track "The Ballad of Sarah and Jack" with David and contributed some piano and electronics to a few other tracks on the album. You can listen to some previews at his myspace here.

Secondly, James Yorkston's new album When The Haar Rolls In is out now on Domino. The special limited edition boxset of the album comes with a cd of cover versions, from bands including The Archie Bronson Outfit, Viking Moses, Nancy Elizabeth, King Creosote and loads more. I contributed a version of his track "Heron". You can get the boxset direct from Domino here and listen to some previews here.

I will also be doing a one-off headline show at the Luminaire on the 14th of October, with the fantastic Milosh supporting. You can get tickets from We Got Tickets here. More details about the night can be found at the Club AC30 website here.

The new Coldplay album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends is out on 12th June. I worked on the album as one of the co-producers for much of last year, and contributed some sounds and various keyboard instruments. An adapted version of my new track Light Through The Veins also appears as the intro to the first track Life In Technicolour, and as the backing for the track hidden at the end, The Escapist.

I am also supporting them for the first three shows of the Viva La Vida tour:

16th June : Brixton Academy, London
17th June : Espacio Movistar, Barcelona
23rd June : Madison Square Garden, New York

I will be playing stuff from my next album. You can hear a few track previews now at my myspace page here. There will also be some amazing animation accompanying the new show, details of which I will post soon.

Details of how to get tickets to these shows can be found at coldplay.com.

My new EP The Fourth State is out now on CD. It consists of a single 32 minute "true ambient" track that I made in 2002, and is available only from new label Sounds Asleep.

Some stuff about the label: "Sounds Asleep is a micro-independent web label established in october 2007. We release hand-crafted releases in limited runs, focusing on interesting design or unusual packaging and quality home-made recordings dealing in ambient, electronica, drone and noise from a range of undergound acts from the UK and further afield."

You can only get it direct from Sounds Asleep here.

Some festival dates this summer:

The Big Chill (LIVE)
Field Day (DJ)
Bestival (LIVE)

More will be announced soon, plus some European dates with Random Dance.

I will be playing live at London's Sadler's Wells on the 10th, 11th and 12th, as part of Random Dance's new show Entity. I have written new music specifically for the show, some of which will be released on my next album, which I hope to finish one day. You can buy tickets direct from the venue here. Here is some official press stuff:

Multi award-winning Wayne McGregor is renowned for his fierce, physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations. On Thursday 10 April 2008 at Sadler’s Wells, McGregor presents the world premiere of Entity, his first production in two years for his recently re-titled company, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance. A diptych of two contrasting works performed by ten dancers and set to live music, Entity follows the electrifying performances of Chroma, McGregor’s Olivier Award-winning work created for The Royal Ballet in 2006.

For Entity, Wayne McGregor has commissioned music by two of the most exciting new talents on each side of the Atlantic; composers Nico Muhly and Jon Hopkins. For the two contrasting pieces, Philip Glass and Björk collaborator Nico Muhly’s propulsive string quartet, performed live by recent Wigmore Hall debutants The Navarra Quartet, is pitched against the sonic extremes of Jon Hopkins’s schizophrenic electronica. Entity is performed against a multi-screen installation created by Linbury award-winning set designer Patrick Burnier whose theatre credits include, The Brothers Size (Young Vic/ATC), Reverence (London Bridge Station Vaults, Southwark Playhouse) and Gaudeamus and Carver (Arcola). Ravi Deepres’s film/video for the installations is lit by the virtuoso designer Lucy Carter, whose long-standing working relationship with Wayne McGregor | Random Dance reaches its 16th year in 2008.

I have been working on some new productions and collaborations for the last few months. The first of these is out this week in the form of the new King Creosote album, Bombshell, which is released on 679/Names. I produced the tracks Leslie, Admiral, and And The Racket They Made, and co-produced the rest of the album with KC. You can buy it here from Boomkat.

I have also been working with David Holmes on his next solo album, and with Coldplay on their follow-up to X+Y. Both of these are due for release early next year.