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.

My remix of The Memory Band's Green Grows The Laurel is out now, on Peacefrog. It's available on limited edition 7" vinyl, on the b-side of Four Tet's remix of Come Write Me Down. You can get it in stores now, a preview will be up soon on the releases page.

I will be playing at a few festivals this summer..

3rd June: Homefires (DJ set) 5.30pm. Tickets from ticketweb.co.uk
24th June: Glastonbury (with King Creosote) 9pm, Park Stage. (sold out)
4th August: The Big Chill (Live) 11pm Sanctuary stage. Tickets from bigchill.net
17th August: The Green Man (DJ) time tbc. Tickets from thegreenmanfestival.com
7th September: Bestival (Live), time tbc. (sold out)

Also I have another DJ night at the Big Chill Bar on the 14th of June, this time with special guest DJs Psapp and Bam Bam. As always it goes from 7 to 12 and is free.

The new single from James Yorkston is out now on Domino Records. It contains my piano remix of Woozy With Cider, plus mixes from Kode 9, King Biscuit Time and others. It's available on 2x12" vinyl, and each copy comes with a free CD of all the tracks. Buy it from Boomkat here or direct from Domino here. A preview is up on the Releases page.

Upcoming live and DJ dates:

16th March: LIVE, Digital City @ The Epicurean Lounge, with Radioactive Man and others
8th April: LIVE, supporting The Bays at Audio, Brighton.
28th April: LIVE, The Rhythm Factory, London
5th May: LIVE, Five Lamps, Derby. With support from Jon Redfern and Madam.
7th May: LIVE, Spitz, London. With Tunng DJs, and support from Jon Redfern and Madam.

The Bays support on the 1st of April at KOKO has been postponed till some time in September, sorry for any inconvenience.

I am also playing live at Big Chill Goa, a 2 day beach festival held on the 14th and 15th of April. Full details and location here.

NEW: I am hosting another night at the Big Chill Bar on the 8th of February. This time my guest DJs will be Tunng and XFM's Nick Luscombe. The night is free and goes from 7 to 12.

De-Fence Records is the new electronic and experimental offshoot of Fence Records. They are releasing 10 beautifully packaged, strictly limited edition 10" vinyl EPs over the coming year, featuring artists in and associated with the Fence Collective. I have two exclusive new collaborations on the second in the series, 10x10:02, the first with King Creosote, and the second with Barbarossa. You can order them direct from Fence here, or buy from Rough Trade here.

Listen to previews here.

Few gigs coming up. The first is on the 9th of November, at The Strongrooms. The night is called Black Milk - I will be playing a mix of atmospheric, ambient, soundtrack and downtempo material. Also features electronics from Clock (Fence Records), and drones and soundscapes from Moths (Post-core Collective).

The second is another night at the Big Chill Bar, on the 30th of November, featuring 2 hours from me, with guest DJs Ulrich Schnauss and Echaskech.

On the 9th I will be playing live at the Big Chill's Winter Festival, a weekend of live and DJ performances from the likes of Tunng, Digitonal, Nick Luscombe (XFM), Ulrich Schnauss, Norman Jay, Mixmaster Morris, Bugz in the Attic, 4Hero, Coldcut and many more. This takes place at the Big Chill House, and is free before 11, and £5 after. I will be on at 11.

Then on the 18th I will be DJing at the End of the Road Festival's christmas party, at Cargo. Features live performances from Ed Harcourt and Darren Hayman. Tickets are £8 and available here.

The final live show this year is a headline set at The Luminaire, on the 21st of December. This night will also feature Dan Arborise, The Pictish Trail and many more. Tickets are £6 and are available here.

There are no live shows currently planned as I am in the studio working on the next album, which will hopefully be finished in a few months. However I am hosting a DJ night at the Big Chill Bar, on the 28th of September where I will be doing a 2 hour DJ set with some new material, and will be joined by two guest DJs - Stephen Cracknell (The Memory Band) playing folk, soundtracks, weirdness and more, and Xerxes (Tempo Tantrum) playing 2 hours of breaks.

The night starts at 7, and entry is free.

The new album from Dan Arborise is out now. I produced and mixed the album, co-wrote the instrumental tracks and contributed the track Flicker. You can listen to previews here.

NEW: there are some photos of recent festival sets on the Images page..