The recent Chicane 'Best Of' album has sold over 100,000 copies achieving Gold status. It features such hits as Saltwater, Don't Give Up - featuring Bryan Adams, Stoned in Love - featuring Sir Tom Jones, Bruised Water - Chicane vs Natasha Bedingfield, and of course, last year's No.7 UK chart entry, Poppiholla.

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2010 brings a new studio album, working title 'Giants', and a new single from the album in the guise of "Come Back & Stay" (April 12th release).

The single is already a massive club favourite, with a package of mixes by Shock One, Riley & Durrant and Sidney Samson, all being coupled with the original club mix and radio edit.

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The band, Chicane will be appearing live in London April 9, 2010 at The Gallery, Ministry of Sound.

Nick Bracegirdle is not a DJ. Nick Bracegirdle is Chicane. He is the man behind the name that has worked with acts as diverse as, Bryan Adams, Natasha Bedingfield, Cher, William Orbit, BT, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Sir Tom Jones and many more.

Producer, remixer, writer, he is the artist who's music has played as a backdrop to people's lives over the last fourteen years, even if they are unaware of the fact! Nick's songs seem to glean favour among the TV producers and programmers, often heard as an emotive backdrop on TV and film.

In 1997 Chicane's calling card was the trance anthem "Offshore", which became an Ibiza theme, the album, 'Far From The Maddening Crowd' (Modena) sealed its reputation as the finest collection of Trance tunes from a single artist, and may still remain the case. However, it was never going to stay just in Ibiza.

In 2000 Chicane had an International number one record record with, "Don't Give Up" - featuring Bryan Adams. It has been Nick's desire to place perhaps, incongruous artistes on his records that has made him unique, he seems to hear people singing songs that no one would dare to suggest sometimes. This sometimes overshadows his writing and production talents, but it has led to an eclectic career.

Nick Bracegirdle hails from a small town in Buckinghamshire and apart from snowboarding, driving at excessive - but of course legal speeds, likes to take the music out onto the live stage. For the last ten years Chicane has been a live band too, bringing another dimension to the enjoyment of the music, both for the listeners and the musicians.

Nick: "Chicane has never been just about being in a studio making music, it's about playing live, seeing the reactions, it's a good balance for me".

Indeed, 2009 finished with a flurry of live activity; five festivals in Australia, Jakarta, India, the UK and a show with perhaps future collaborator, Armin van Buuren. Since then Nick has been hard at work in the studio, putting finishing touches to the album. So, what to expect next?

Nick: "The new album has been an interesting process for me, this really does bridge the old and the new, I'm very excited by it and can't wait to finish and play it live. I know it's corny but it really been a journey, and I feel I've learned a few languages, or phrases along the way which I'm confident to employ now.'

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The video for "Hiding All The Stars" has raised a few eyebrows, much like the sleeve for the single.

It features long time Chicane vocalist Tash Andrews in two distinctly different guises that has upset some unaccustomed to seeing girls boxing.

And here's the brand new video.

Watch "Hiding All The Stars":

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The last two Chicane videos including the hit "Poppiholla", have dealt with misconception. Indeed, when the cover of "Hiding All the Stars" was first issued people thought that a woman with a black eye must be the subject of abuse. As always in life jumping to conclusions is a tricky thing.

Chicane's Nick was intrigued by the 2012 Olympic committee's decision to allow boxing to be included in the Games, and coincidently saw feminist Germaine Greer's views on the BBC's One show. We all jump to conclusions, and he thought Germaine would be anti the sport - she initially was, but having spent time with some female boxers, she saw how empowering it was and shocked herself by realizing it could be a good thing.

The One Show's blog showed just how contentious the whole thing is, people were incensed by the idea of the 'last bastion of maleness' being infiltrated. The media is male dominated so it will be interesting to see the reaction there, if any of course.

The video's supporting cast include Jacqui-Lee Pryce, a boxing coach and actress (Mike Nichol's Closer, Doctors), who works with the Olympic team and Mitch Horner, (The Bill, Grange Hill), Ola, who featured in the last Chicane video, "Poppihola".

The fact a glamorous woman likes to box is something the world will have to come to terms with, like women soldiers being in the front line. Like a lot of life we may not agree but we salute the freedom of the individual. Tash enjoyed the training, it is one of the hardest sporting disciplines in the world.

The video was shot in the east end of London.

Misconceptions are everywhere, one that commonly occurs with the band is that Nick or Chicane is a DJ.

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The track is taken from William's new album 'My Oracle Lives Uptown', which met with considerable acclaim earlier in 2009.

Biog: short version

William Orbit has been in high demand as a producer and remixer for well over a decade, most famously working with Madonna on her 1998 album 'Ray Of Light', as well as Blur, Britney Spears, Sugababes, Pink and scores of other artists.

Although 'My Oracle Lives Uptown' is probably William Orbit's most immediate album, it's so subtly layered that it only reveals itself fully after a number of plays. And like his other solo albums, it will surely be resistant to the ageing process. His vision is idiosyncratic and original enough to not to have to try to play catch-up with anyone else, which gives his music a curiously timeless feel.

Remix Notes

Chicane - a legend of dance music, whose most recent foray into the charts was with 'Poppiholla', a reworking of the Sigur Ros hit.

Greenmoney - the self-styled 'pair of jokers from west London' have recently got their grubby mitts on Kanye, Kid Cudi and Amp Fiddler.

Henner & Green - described as 'psychedelic progressive', these guys have also notably remixed 'Home and Dry' by the Pet Shop Boys.

Billy Buttons - Craspedia is a genus of daisies commonly known as billy buttons or woollyheads. They are native to Australia and New Zealand where they grow in a variety of habitats from sea level to the alps.

Watch Optical Illusions video from 'My Oracle Lives Uptown' album:

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- Released Sept 21, 2009 on Just Music

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Here's the new video from Chicane - "Poppiholla"

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The single is now on the A list at Radio One and the band have just announced a new date at the Forum in London on 12th December, 2009.

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