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Member Since12/14/2005
Band Websitewww.sophieellisbextor.net
Record LabelPolydor
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Hello to all you guys and dolls.

Welcome to my MySpace page. It's lovely to see you here. To my fans, i thank you for your loyalty and patience. To any new visitors, welcome. To everyone, happy new year. Here's to a good one.

So here we are and I am rather excited that all the songs i have been working on for the last long while are finally going to be shared with you all. The first single, Catch You, is out on the 19th of february. May sees the release of the second single, Me and My Imagination, followed by the album Trip the Light Fantastic. Look out for new tracks to be uploaded here on myspace in the near future. All in all it's set to be a busy little old 2007 for me and I hope we enjoy the journey together.

Please keep leaving me your messages. I do take the time to read through them here and on my website.

Thank you once again for your support. My fans are the most fantastic ones around, so there.

Sophie x





Sophie Ellis-Bextor has been in the changing rooms of pop more than most. One of the genre’s great shape shifters, she morphed from sharp suited indie princess in theaudience to Ibiza invigorator with Groovejet before becoming a fully fledged dancefloor divinity on her first solo album ‘Read My Lips’ and, in a nod to her roots in Britpop, the sophisticated songwriterly siren with ‘Shoot From The Hip’.

After the arrival of baby boy, Sonny in 2004, [with husband Richard Jones, bassist with The Feeling] Sophie went back to the recording studio to work on her third solo album, a process with a deliberately long labour, writing at least 70 – 80 songs, and working with a number of top pop collaborators like Hannah Robinson and Fred Schneider of the B 52s. “It’s definitely the longest time I’ve spent preparing any of my music and I realised that everything else I’ve ever done in my career was reacting to circumstance whereas this was an opportunity to take my time and be objective. Luxurious!”

It was certainly circumstance that led to Sophie turning her hand to music. After meeting musician Billy Reeves at a Britpop disco and forming theaudience, discovering herself as a sharp suited female voice in an indie boy dominated arena. After the band split in 1998, she re-emerged as, at the time, the unlikely voice of Ibiza 2000, lending her vocal skills to DJ Spiller’s Groovejet’s (If this Ain't Love?), which went to No.1 across the world.

‘Read My Lips’, Sophie’s solo debut followed in 2001 with its eye firmly fixed on the dancefloor and its songs on the charts as ‘Take Me Home’, ‘Murder On the Dancefloor’ and the album all reached No.2. The album went on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide. 2003’s ‘Shoot From The Hip’ saw a shift away from the glitterball, the word “disco” banned from the recording sessions with Britpop heroes Alex James and Bernard Butler. Sophie marked her public return this year by becoming the face of high street chain Monsoon.

But enough with history! To now, and ‘Trip The Light Fantastic’ which Sophie, 6ft in heels and still fond of a nice frock for the occasion, says picks up where her debut album left off because she was in a similar mindset of not knowing what would happen. “I just did it for myself. I kind of feel that as I’ve got a life outside of my work, now that I’m married and I'm a mother, I am not so dependant on my career to make me happy but at the same time your work takes on a new kind of focus because everything that takes you away from home has to count for more. I am more driven than before but I know who I am more too.”

‘Trip the Light Fantastic’ is, says Sophie, “an invitation to dance”. It’s this year’s best excuse for letting your hair down and kicking off the high heels or slipping into them, should you wish. Lead single ‘Catch You’, penned by Cathy Dennis, combines guitars, zingy keyboards and a hook that burrows into your brain and stays there in a three minute spin that washes out nu wave angular guitars with nagging pop melody.

There’s back references to her Ibiza days in the sun on ‘Me And My Imagination’, a winking disco trot powered by twirling violins and a dizzyingly house groove, which Sophie says is the track most easily reconciled with anything on ‘Read My Lips’. Elsewhere, it’s the sound of the House of Ellis-Bextor but with a series of modern twists. ‘New York City Lights’ sounds like Kraftwerk introduced to guitars, immersed in the other worldliness of Scandanavian pop from Abba to A-Ha. ‘ If You Go’ sees Xenomania push a sunny samba rhythm behind Sophie’s perfectly precise vocals. On this, as elsewhere on ‘Trip the Light Fantastic’, there is lots of chat about catching the sun before it’s gone.

Fans of the camper end of the Ellis-Bextor oeuvre – from ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ to the inspired cover, ‘Yes Sir I Can Boogie’ - need not fear that domestic bliss has done away with coy Broadway theatrics and crisply choreographed dance routines. ‘The Only One’ is the first of two collaborations with The Feeling’s Dan Gillespie Sells on which Sophie promises “to turn those tears into wine” in a honky tonk shakedown with a super sexy saxophone solo. ‘If I Can’t Dance’ is not Sophie’s fight against the Criminal Justice Act but takes the feminist slogan “"If I can't dance, I don't want any part in your revolution" and channels it, tongue lodged firmly in cheek, into a great big slab of futuristic pop rave up that sounds perfectly at home in clubs with no name on Kingsland Road to wine bars in Kingston Upon Thames.

Which brings us back to the shape shifting nature of the Ellis-Bextor. “I never felt like a bona fide indie kid, into the whole festival thing and getting muddy,” says the lady herself. “And I never felt quite cool enough for the whole Ibiza scene. It’s not meant to sound snooty – I loved my time in each camp – it’s more the case that I never quite felt that I belonged anywhere. Then again, show me a pop star who does feel like they fit in.”

‘Trip The Light Fantastic’ sounds like Sophie Ellis-Bextor knows where she really belongs – dragging us unto the dancefloor and running amok in big frocks. “I love the cartoony, bigger than life side of what I do. Pop music should be about extremes and a day glow version of reality. Who wants the mundane? It’s boring. Bring on the sparkly stuff please.”

‘Trip The Light Fantastic' is out now and 'Today the Sun's on Us' is released 13th August.








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martonminx





Jul 12 2009 11:20 PM

Thanks for adding me xxx
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Jul 12 2009 10:48 PM

Hey, check out our tunes on our page! Hope you enjoy! Let us know what you think! We're playing shows all around LA right now!


Purple Melon is about to take over the world!
raïssa





Jul 12 2009 4:11 PM

this is my website about you, I callet it "le temple bextorien-sophie ellis bextor"

this is the adress: HTTP://BETTESONG.SKYBLOG.COM
raïssa





Jul 12 2009 4:06 PM

hi sophie thanks for adding me!! come on my xeb site!! it's just about you and you!!!!have a nice days!!
kiss
Nobbe





Jul 12 2009 3:24 PM

Hiho, thx for adding me. Have a nice time.

Greetz from Berlin/ Germany
Marcello Lavorgna





Jul 12 2009 11:44 AM

Hi Sophie, thanks for the add and welcome to my space!
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Jul 12 2009 9:45 AM

Great music. It's a pleasure to have you on my new page for musicians. Please stop by and say hello!

Best wishes,
Olivia
Purple Melon





Jul 12 2009 1:37 AM

Hey, check out our tunes on our page! Hope you enjoy! Let us know what you think! We're playing shows all around LA right now!


Purple Melon is about to take over the world!
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raïssa





Jul 11 2009 5:21 PM

BON RETOUR sophie sur la scène, en espérant de tout coeur ton nouvel album dans les bacs (et dans mes mains!!)bisous!!

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Julien H Mulder





Jul 11 2009 11:58 AM

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Lenny&Dana





Jul 10 2009 4:08 PM

**LENNY&DANA**- **BRAND NEW SINGLE**-**BELIEVE IN THE LOVE**IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!!
Joy-C





Jul 10 2009 3:04 PM

Hi!
If you want,you can buy my new single here:
http://www.self.it/ita/details.php?nb=8012861402635&tc=c
Thanks and kisses... Joy C!!!

Ciao!
Se ti va puoi comprare il mio nuovo singolo a questo indirizzo:
http://www.self.it/ita/details.php?nb=8012861402635&tc=c
Grazie per l'aiuto! Joy C!!!

Hola!
Si quieres...puedes comprar mi nueva canciòn aquì:
http://www.self.it/ita/details.php?nb=8012861402635&tc=c
Muchas gracias...Un beso...Joy C
Hazy Dreams





Jul 10 2009 1:27 PM

Awesome new music from Hazy Dreams is available now. Everyone check it out...
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Jul 10 2009 11:06 AM

hello sophie .... since a few months ago I prepared a page for you ..... I am a big fan ... I have all your albums...... you're my favorite artist.............just hope you like this page


kisses and hugs
i luv u


your fan #1
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Jul 10 2009 9:14 AM

Thank You So Much Miss Sophie!!!!
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Jul 9 2009 9:36 PM

hey Sophie Ellis-Bextor thanks for being a friend. check out our tunes on our page
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Jul 9 2009 9:04 PM

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MMA 2009
*Slevin*





Jul 9 2009 7:00 PM

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Davidica





Jul 9 2009 2:19 AM

pilamiya for the friendship, sending positive vibes your way.
much respect,
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Elly





Jul 8 2009 6:08 PM

Hi, Sophie!!!
Thanks for the add =)
I realy like your creative work. Please, never stop! ;)
From Russia with love!
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Jul 7 2009 9:28 PM

FrOm CoLomBia ....I lOve U SoPhIe ...u R ThE bEst!!
take that fan club





Jul 7 2009 6:00 PM

hiiya
thank you for acceting
how are you???

luv em
xxx
demelza





Jul 7 2009 1:26 PM

Thanks for the addy
Love Dee xxx
≈CoRinne√*≈





Jul 6 2009 10:19 PM

Bibis from your Friend!
Corinne.
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