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!!! :-)

The new Quiksilver women’s Spring Summer 2010 collection is now available for all of you to enjoy ! Check out our new line in the video below !

Last tuesday, Quiksilver Woman Leddra Chapman was invited on This Morning to perform live her song ” Story” !! This young and talented singer songwriter is definitely one of the most hotly tipped music stars of 2010! Check out this amazing live :

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.

Leddra Chapman’s debut album is now officially out ! Leddra has recorded her album ‘Telling Tales’ with musician and producer Peter-John Vettese (Heather Small, Idina Mendez, Tina Arena, Jethro Tull). The result is a collection of ten folk-pop songs on which Leddra’s pure voice, beautiful instrumentation and the evocative words work together to paint vivid pictures. To get a taste of ” Telling Tales”, check out Quiksilver Woman Leddra Chapman performing live her song ” A little easier” and make sure to order that amazing album at http://leddrachapman.quiksilver-women.com/

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 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.!