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Electronica / Indie / Alternative

Bath, England's singer/composer/keyboardist Allison Goldfrapp began exploring music as a part of her studies as a Fine Art Painting major at Middlesex University, mixing sound, visuals, and performances in her installation pieces. While she was still in college, she appeared on her friend Tricky's 1995 debut Maxinquaye, which led to appearances on albums from other cutting-edge electronic artists, including Orbital's Snivilisation and Add N to X's Avant Hard. By the late '90s, Goldfrapp began honing her own compositions; one of her friends passed some of her demos on to composer Will Gregory. Finding much in common in their musical tastes and approaches, the duo took Allison's surname as the name for their collaboration. After signing to Mute in 1999, Goldfrapp delivered their debut album, Felt Mountain, in fall 2000. Felt Mountain went on to nealry universal acclaim and spawned several singles, including the Utopia Genetically Enriched EP, which arrived in early 2001. After spending most of that year touring, Goldfrapp spent most of 2002 recording and returned with Black Cherry in spring 2003. 2005 saw the release of the Ooh La La single and the full-length Supernature, both of which continued the disco and glam-rock influences of the duo's previous album. 2008's The Seventh Tree moved in a calmer, more acoustic-based, but just as sonically lush direction.

June 6

Caravan Girl

NEW SINGLE: CARAVAN GIRL - RELEASED 30 JUNE For those of you who have heard the rumours, we are happy to announce that the next single to be released from Seventh Tree is 'Caravan Girl' on 30 June. And here, revealed exclusively for the first time is the artwork… Hope you all like it. Track listings to be announced very soon. Goldfrapp have just visited the US. We hope that you enjoyed the performances at Coachella and in NY and San Francisco! There's still plenty of chances to see Goldfrapp perform. Here is a live update for you. Hope most of you get to a show. JUNE 05 - Becks'perience, Bucharest, Romania 19 - Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain 21 - De Le Warr Pavilion - Bexhill-On-Sea SOLD OUT 22 - Birmingham Symphony Hall – Birmingham SOLD OUT 23 - Bridgewater Hall – Manchester SOLD OUT 25 - Royal Albert Hall – London SOLD OUT 27 - Hove festival, Arendal, Norway 29 - Glastonbury Festival, UK 30 - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall – Glasgow SOLD OUT JULY 01 - The Sage – Gateshead SOLD OUT 03 - Westerpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands 04 - Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark 06 - Heineken Opener Festival, Gdynia, Poland 11 - Balaton Sound Festival, Ungarn, Hungary 12 - Colours of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic 16 - Newmunster Abbey, Luxembourg 17 - Dour Music Festival, Dour, Belgium 20 - Lovebox Festival, London, UK AUGUST 08 - Sudoeste Festival, Zambujeira do Mar, Portugal 15 - Ola Festival, Almeria, Spain 29 - Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland 31 - Connect Festival, Loch, Scotland Meanwhile, in the UK, Goldfrapp performed at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend.

Happiness

Hello, We’ve got together with Mute Bank and come up with an EXCLUSIVE Goldfrapp CD Collector’s Box and 7" Collector’s Slipcase offer. If you order all 3 formats of Happiness from Mute Bank, you will receive 2 free and strictly limited collector’s items with your order absolutely free*. They are the perfect home to fit all CD and 7 inch single formats to be released from Seventh Tree snuggly in the way nature intended. This is a strictly limited run, so if you want to be sure to get yours, please place your order right away. Don’t worry if you have already pre-ordered the bundle from Mute Bank... the items will automatically be added to your order. Go here for more details: http://www.recordstore.co.uk/mutebank/home.jsp?SearchField=TITLE&Search=happiness SMALL PRINT: The offer is open to everyone, including overseas fans The offer is available as long as stock lasts The cost of postage will be added to your order If you’d like to check out some of the remixes before you order, we’ve set up some snippets from the Eat Yourself - Yeasayer Remix and Monster Love - Goldfrapp vs. Spiritualized. If you’d like to hear them just copy the link below and put it in a new browser window: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=3623432&blogID=371143385 Here’s the Happiness track listings again for anyone who missed them, plus a sneaky look at the Maxi CD artwork. Hope you like it. CD 1. Happiness - Single version 2. Road To Somewhere Acoustic Version Maxi CD 1. Happiness - Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-animation 2. Monster Love - Goldfrapp vs. Spiritualized 3. Eat Yourself - Yeasayer Remix 7" picture disc A. Happiness - Single version B. Happiness - Metronomy Remix Featuring The Teenagers We’ve also got some very exciting TV and radio news. UK We are happy to announce that Goldfrapp will be performing tracks from Seventh Tree on Later with Jools Holland. Not only does the show go out on BBC2 as normal on Friday 11th April, but there’s also a 30 minute show on BBC1 at 10pm on Tuesday 8th April, COMPLETELY LIVE!!!!!! You can go here for more information soon - http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/. Plus C4 on T4 will be showing their specially recorded version of Happiness. We’ll let you know which day nearer the time. And the US Tues April 22: Live Performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC, check your local listings for exact time & station) Weds April 23: Live Performance & interview on KCRW / Los Angeles - Morning Becomes Eclectic - 11am PST (tune in online at www.kcrw.org) Just in case we’ve not spread enough Happiness we’ve got a pair of tickets for the Royal Festival Hall show on Friday 18th April up for grabs. If you’d like to win them simply email enter@goldfrapp.com with HAPPINESS in the title. That’s all you need to do. Winners will be notified on Happiness day... 14th April. Sorry Deers, the competition does not stretch to travel and accommodation.