Kitchen Disco

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Oh I wasn’t supposed to come, but it happened that the fates, they had their fun,” she sings, following his imagined footsteps down brand new streets. It is, after all, the Kitchen Disco Tour, named after the much-loved Kitchen Disco series she did during the lockdown – and the album it inspired, Songs from the Kitchen Disco. Additional shows were hosted on 17 July (celebrating the end of the term) and on 30 October (for Halloween). Growing up in London (her mother is Janet Ellis, who some readers will remember as one of the presenters of kids’ TV show Blue Peter in the Eighties), Ellis-Bextor remembers feeling like she was at the epicentre of something special amid the Britpop explosion.

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The challenge was announced on Zoe Ball's Radio 2 breakfast show, and the station's head Helen Thomas said the multiplatinum-selling singer had "uplifted everyone and spread so much joy over these past 18 months". But it's honestly the best thing I've ever done - apart from marriage and kids - it's 24 hours of love! It’s not just about what you are drinking at a kitchen disco, though – make sure what you are drinking from is as glam as possible, too. Sophie was sat on a life-sized fake horse, with backing singers and a backing band – of which her husband, Richard Jones of The Feeling, and brother, Jackson Ellis Leach, were a part of.

Jeremy Vine reflected to the pair that it had been a while since the nation had seen ANY live performances so the song had been a particular treat.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor set for Kitchen Disco Danceathon for BBC

You know, when someone’s given you a posh candle, and you’re like: ‘Oh, I don’t want to burn it, because then I’ll have used up a really nice candle? Dance offs are always likely at a kitchen disco, so be prepared, and have a long stick handy (an old broom will do!In all fairness, it’s becoming impossible to see her only once – if there’s a festival, she’s there! The setlist featured disco classics such as, ‘All Night Long’ and ‘Dancing Queen’, as well as Sophie’s own floor-filling hits including ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’, ‘Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)’, ‘Take Me Home (A Girl Like Me)’, and her most recent Radio 2 A-listed single, ‘Hypnotized’ featuring Wuh Oh. Beneath the dark, looming clouds of Everything is Sweet, sawtooth synthesisers grind and squelch; Kitchen Disco this certainly is not.

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Following his death, the family were given a letter John had left behind, recounting his happy memories of drinking expensive wine on ordinary days and wringing out every last drop of life. As well as her own headline tour and a number of upbeat, pop-heavy sets at Pride Cymru and Brockwell Park’s Noughties-fest Mighty Hoopla, she’s also playing the likes of Latitude, Isle of Wight, and Y Not festival. Ellis-Bextor also did a Christmas special and a further series of shows for the early 2021 lockdown. Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today.Elsewhere on the album, Ellis-Bextor recounts a disorientating but beautiful trip to Tokyo in a song of the same name. For 2011’s Make a Scene she amicably parted ways with Universal and began releasing music on her own label EBGB instead; a nod to the New York City punk rock bar CBGB. Sophie, who's currently on tour with Steps added: "The atmosphere at the gigs and shows are just better than ever because everybody's in it together with that YES feeling". Sophie’s cover of the song is the final track on Songs from the Kitchen Disco, so finishing the concert with that song was a nice touch. If your kitchen disco is to mark a birthday, then get a personalised Happy Birthday polaroid frame to really jazz up your photos.

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The album was produced by Ed Harcourt (who also produced her two last studio albums), with additional production by Richard "Biff" Stannard and Ash Howes. Taking to the BBC’s Radio Theatre stage for her biggest ever Kitchen Disco, she’s been joined in person and virtually by a host of celebrities and Radio 2 presenters, supporting her through day and night. With covid restrictions keeping people apart, why not spread the disco love by inviting friends from far and wide to join in the fun? Every Friday, for 10 weeks (from 27 March to 29 May), Ellis-Bextor performed a series of live shows via Instagram on her own house as a way of virtual escapism of the hard time she and her family were facing during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the UK.For those hooking up with other partygoers online, a gold foil fringe curtain will provide an appropriately glam backdrop to your Zoom screen.