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Just back from the Relentless Boardmasters festival in Newquay, Cornwall and had a lot of fun! Boardmasters is held on a stunning cliff top location over looking Watergate Bay where 12,500 people attend the South West’s biggest live music event. Dave and I played on the view stage, which is their new acoustic stage.
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Good old English weather threatened to pour down until an hour before we played but then brightened up a little bit. Not quite the scorching hot day we were hoping for but lots of lovely people still came to see us and support us!
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Being non drinkers and non caffeine intakers we didn’t partake in the drinking of any Relentless drinks or vodka on offer but found a very cute little tent with free red current tea which was put-on by a lady who lives in Spain and self teaches her 3 kids in a house without an electricity generator which she has done for 15 years! She was very cool!
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For the rest of the evening we were loving the sets from Plan B, Xavier Rudd, Seasick Steve and Newton Faulkner.
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The beaches are gorgeous in Newquay so we made the most of it the following day by making sure to do some surfing with the Quiksilver surfing school and walking through the more quiet secluded beaches-avoiding the nuts magazine Bikini contests and the like where on 2 occasions I saw pink liquid coming out of some poor guys mouth! Oh the joys of alcohol- not!
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This weekend we met some really lovely people at this festival. So thanks to Katy for booking us, those on Facebook who came along to support me! Really appreciate it!! Hope you had an amazing time! Thank you to Ady Webb for the brilliant photos of us playing the gig and Jen White for the videoing and Stacey for recommending them to me. Video/audio to follow asap. Bye for now,
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Lots of love,
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Ellie xxx

Hey guys!!!!    Wooweeeeee   very nearly finished my “through the glass” tour of quiksilver women stores across the UK and ireland this summer….  had an amaazing time!!  thanks soo much to all of you who have come out and been involved so far.

So….  there’s just one date left– the grand finalee at Quiksilver Covent Garden store on Saturday 17th July,  and I would love you all to come along, and get into the covent garden vibe for the day with me! There will be a prize draw to win £100 worth of Quiksilver Women clothes on the day!!! Me and my acoustic band (Hils, Tom and Dave on piano, bass, percussion, acoustic guitars) will be performing in the huge windows with the speakers outside!!!

Come and join in the fun!!! Bring the kids, partners and tell your friends!!! Covent garden is a great place to eat, shop and enjoy all the street entertainment in the area! We will be playing a 30 minute set at 1pm and one at 4pm! Grab an Ice cream and enjoy the music and your chance to win some lovely Quiksilver clothes! I will be absolutely delighted to see you there!!! :-)

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Hello! I’m more than half way through my Quiksilver Women ‘Through the glass tour’ and I’m having a blast! My acoustic band and I have been to Loughborough, Belfast, Dublin, Brighton, Falmouth, Newquay and Cardiff! Phew! Still to come Bristol and Covent Garden in London.
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3rd July 2010 : Two Seasons, Bristol
2 Seasons, 89-95 The Horsefair, Bristol BS1 3JR
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17th July 2010 : Quiksilver Store, Covent Garden
7-12 Covent Garden, London WC2E 8HD
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It’s certainly a different way of playing to the crowds! Here’s us in Holiday Hotspot Newquay, Cornwall! It was baking and we had a beautiful sunny weekend on the beach when we werent behind the glass!
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.....Having a blast at the AWESOME Quiksilver Newquay store--- sunshine included as standard.. XX =)

Playing to the local crowds and merrily signing CD’s is great fun especially when people that I’ve never met know all the lyrics to my songs! Very impressive seeing as I have so many lyrics!! The shop owners have been a great laugh and we are really excited about making a short video about our tour which will be finished in August! Thanks to everyone thats coming out to see us and snapping up my CDs!

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Heres us at the Brighton store in the south of England on fashion Rocks weekend. This is where I used to go for my summer hols as a child so loved playing the store here! It was extra hot and the window was pretty small so the store owner got us playing outside in the sun and the people in the restaurant next door loved it!
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...playing at the lovely Brighton exclusively Quiksilver Womens boutique store..

Thanks to Dave as always on guitar and Djembe and for keeping me amused, the talented pianist and singer Hils for taking time out of teaching music and late but great addition to the band Tom on bass. Not forgetting hilarious Kev our cheeky sound engineer and Meena,Yasmin and Emily for faciliatating and helping us put together this crazy tour!! Best of all thanks Quiksilver Women for all the costume changes! Each week I loved planning what to wear and having a shop full of clothes to choose from! Definitely living the dream!

"Mary Mary" at Loughborough

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http://www.youtube.com/user/ELLIEtelly1
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…is the address for my youtube channel- where you can find lots of new live performance videos from the tour. These include Gotta get up from here, Paperchasin, Losing myself, Open up the door, One another, Strong, I know and many more! The short film of our tour will be ready to watch in August! Stay tuned!!  Ellie  xxxx
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Press buzz at "Joli" - Ballyclare, near Belfast...

Hello! Things are going well in independent artist land on my label ‘Create Your Own Reality’ and things are starting to happen! I am very excited about my new single ‘Strong’ (from my album Lost Songs) being played on BBC radio 2 and BBC London 94.9

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click here to see full-size flyer

It will be played this coming Saturday 3rd April on BBC London between 7-8pm on a show called ‘London Calling’ where I am their introducing artist of the week! The station will also be promoting a big gig I have on the 13th April at the gorgeous Bedford Globe Theatre in South London! It’s for ‘Love Music Hate Racism.’I have organized the night and the line up myself and its going to be brilliant!!

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Headlining is my friend Aziz Ibrahim. He’s an astounding Asian/blues guitarist and beautiful singer-songwiter from Manchester. He also used to be in the legendary band The Stone Roses as well as Ian Brown’s band! Then we have Park Bench Poet who I discovered online. They’re a mixture of the band Gomez and The Streets and have recently been played on BBC radio 1.

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I will be playing some new songs with my acoustic band which features the new addition of the lovely Nina on Cello. My friend HKB FINN will be opening with his laidback poetry accompanied by beautiful guitar and djembe which always creates good vibes! He has collaborated with Nitin Sahwney, Roots Manuva, Nojazz and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

13th April at The Bedford, South London: LoveMusicHateRacism featuring Ellie Lawson

You can buy tickets now online by clicking above, at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/77031

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I really hope you can make the show! However, If you are not in the area you can watch it live on the internet so put it in your diaries! It starts 8pm and I will be on at about 8.40pm. Here is the web address to watch live : click here

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For more details and to hear new music, photos, blogs and videos visit me at my new website:
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..the all new: www.ellielawson.com !!

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Ellie’s creative single ‘Apple’ from her Independent album ‘Lost Songs’ with brilliant animation by Nacho Romero. Presented by Quiksilver Women. Lost Songs is available to buy on iTunes and CD Baby.

“This is a young woman plugged directly into the electric source of creativity. This music is so rich, so finely envisioned and realized, that you can fall into these tracks, and live in them for days at a time. In a world where a scarcity of substance prevails, this collection swims against the current of what’s conventional, packing in all the tunefulness, rhythmic and verbal wonder that tracks can hold. This is sensational.” Paul Zollo, Journalist and author of Songwriters on Songwriting.

…had so much fun playing live at the official store opening of Quiksilver in Bath last weekend- many thanks to Carmen and Chris for their hospitality!! Hope you enjoy the footage!

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Ellie wearing the Quiksilver Women Catacomb Tee and the Twisted Fate vest

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Shot a video on Thursday for my song “Apple”.

It was great fun!! Started at 8am with Nicole and Lindsay doing my hair and make-up. Had GMTV on the TV in the backgroup whilst listening to the Kooks and Nicole was pointing to the presenters hair on the TV, which she had styled a few hours before mine!

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The production team get busy

Turned up at the industrial location, which we had scouted a week before and the manager there said that we couldn’t shoot there. Have you heard of a ‘jobs worth’ well he had the T-shirt, cup and book. We had to find a new location on the fly, and my wonderful production team of 10 people walked all around the industrial estate and found some where even better! Hooray!! Big and eternal thanks

Band on a branch..

to the very creative and professional Kaspar, (director) Twan, (producer and editor) Christine (director of photography) and all the hard working crew on this shoot. Thank you to Marta and Julie for the wicked clothes and for helping making it happen. We shot lots of scenes in the industrial location- like inside a big container, walking by the barbed wire and then we moved to the park to shoot the end of the video with my band, Dave, Hils and Giles.

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Giles, my bass player, travelled all the way from France to be in the video, but had forgotten something: His bass! Not a big deal for our creative and down too earth Giles. He went off to the garden centre and came back with a Skiffle bass, made from a metal bucket, a broomstick and some string!! Look closely at the pic! (click to enlarge)

Here’s a video of the making of Apple.

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We have a brilliant animator called Nacho working on the video and he will be drawing all over the film. Very excited!! We are aiming for it to be finished by August 14th.

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Ellie xxx

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..to see more pics of the shoot click here to go to my myspace album.

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...The start of my movie career... (East Village tee and Procession shrug)

Hear the track “apple” and more of my music at www.myspace.com/ellielawson xxx

hey…. check out my new interview with “street voice” online at:

http://blogs.myspace.com/streetvoice

….click on the page/link to read the full interview with pics!! (recognise the hossegor beach architecture anyone??)

xxxxxx ellie xxxxx

Hi there.. so I thought it was about time, that I took some time out to big up my amazing bandmate and backing vocalist HILS GRANGER. Altho she plays keys and B.V.s for me (Ellie), very exquisitely might I add, Hils is also a talented songwriter in her own right, and is launching her own CD/EP this coming week! The CD is called “Dreams Become Things”, which is a fantastic title, and truth I think for us all to remember that we can acheive great things!! It would be great to see some familiar Quiksilver women faces and attire down at the launch in Putney/South London, at the Half Moon, this Wednesday 29 April.. Things kick off just after 9pm.

Hils came out to Hossegor last summer with me and my band, when we played at the Pro-France surf event, and here we are just after our gig at the Regents Street Quiksilver store, which was the London launch of all things QSW!!!

To listen to Hils’ music and find out more about her own cd release, click on any of the pics and you will find yourself magically transported to her myspace page.. =) xx

Hey Quikbloggers.. I’m thrilled to announce the iTunes release of my labour of love 18 track album “LOST SONGS”. You can download it now from the site, directly by clicking on one of the boxes below!!

Also, I’m doubley (is that a word?!) thrilled to unveil a little video promo to accompany this momentus event,

…so feel free to embed it anywhere you want on any parts of the internet that you own, and spread the word (doubley!!).

Thankyouoouuu all so much much for your generous support, love and quik - kudos !! xxxxxx

Ellie =))) xx

…by the way, the shot at the end of the video is a little behind the scenes teaser pic from on set of the amazing BARA PRASILOVA photoshoot last month.. stay tuned for the amazing full set of pictures from the lady herself in a few months.!