Actualité

31.08.2010 UsMagazine.com

UsMagazine.com a rencontré katie Melua, vous pouvez voir son interview ici.

04.08.2010 YouTube

Découvrez la chaîne de katie-melua.fr sur YouTubeici.
Katie-Melua.fr sur Youtube c'est des vidéos, des interviews...

03.08.2010 NYLON

A l'occasion de la sortie aux USA de son quatrième album, NYLON consacre un article à Katie Melua qui s'intitule 'The most famous singer you've probably never heard' (ndlr La plus célèbre des chanteuses dont vous n'avez problamement jamais entendu parler).

Lien vers l'interview ici

03.08.2010

Le nouvel album de Katie Melua 'The House' sort aujourd'hui aux USA.

Vous pouvez visionner son interprétation de Twisted sur ABC ici et un petit interview qui la précède ici.

01.08.2010

Katie Melua sera en direct sur la tv Américaine dans:

Good Morning America - le Mardi 3 Août

Good Day New York - le Jeudi 5 Août

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - le Vendredi 6 Août

CBS Second Cup Café Saturday - le 4 Septembre

26.07.2010

Katie Melua fait la Une du magazine More.

22.07.2010 Katie Melua Vs. Sparks

Dramatico a annocé la sortie d'un nouveau single " A Happy Place " dont la sortie est prévu le 26 Juillet. Sur ce single figurera la version originale de " A Happy Place " et une version remixée de ce même titre par Sparks.
Vous pouvez la découvrir ici

07.07.2010

Katie Melua a interprété en live 'The Flood' sur la radio Hollandaise Radio FM 3.
Vous pouvez regarder la vidéo de 'The Flood' et son entretien avec Dj Giel Beelen ici

26.06.2010 Katie sur Press2PLay TV

Cliquez ici pour découvrir la vidéo.

05.06.2010

Le nouvel album de Katie Melua :'The House' est entré à la cinquième place des charts Français.
L'album arrive également en tête des charts Européens

# 1 Suisse
# 2 Danemark et Pologne
# 3 Pays Bas, Allemagne, Autriche at Norvège
# 4 Royaume Uni
# 5 France
#14 Portugal

31.05.2010 Katie Melua BBC Radio 2

Katie Melua a été filmée pendant la 'Great British Songbook session' de BBC Radio 2 où elle a interprété 'The Flood' et 'Siggy Stardust'. Vous pouvez regarder ci-dessous son interprétation de 'Siggy Stadust'.

17.05.2010 Blog

A new blog and a new determination to write more often!

Hope you like the new site. It’s based on the album cover art by John Gosler. Nick Coquet, Dramatico’s web designer has done a nice job. Things will gradually change but we wanted to get it posted before the album comes out!

It’s been an exciting time lately. Doesn’t seem like only three months since we finished the album and only six months since we started it! Obviously that was preceded by a long writing period of about a year, but even so,it does seem as if the last stages of the process have shot past. At the time of writing “The Flood” single is out next week, 17th May, and the album the following week. I had fun performing “The Flood” on the Graham Norton show a few days ago. It goes out next Monday, May 17th. He’s such a laugh. Trust him to pick up on my description of recording as “orgasmic”! Maybe that’s a bit of a exaggeration but I’m sure many people will know what I mean by it. Performing can sort of consume you, in bad and good ways, - but this album has been such a pleasure to make. William Orbit is a great person to work with, and both Mike and I got on with him brilliantly.

I’m writing this from the airport, just about to return from promotion work in Denmark; lots of press interviews! I woke up in the hotel this morning and went for my usual morning swim, but it was freezing cold and I didn’t stay in the water for long today!

We’ve been around Europe, including Poland and Switzerland, doing TV shows and promo recently. Norway was our first TV on “The Flood”. I think it’s already on YouTube actually. Great director and lovely people there. I also got to see another “Norwegian Sunset”

The volcanic ash cloud has given us a bit of trouble on this little promo tour. Last week we drove from Geneva to Milan. I’d recorded a performance on “Mr Switzerland”, - really fun, because it’s a beauty parade of guys! But we weren’t able to fly, so we drove to Milan by night. It was interesting to see that things in Europe are all so relatively close together, by driving. We had a close call when we got to Italy because the airport was closed (ash cloud again), but they opened it just at the last minute and we managed to get our flight to the UK.

Looking back over past few months, I have fond memories of the daily routine, turning up at Air Studios in Hampstead, where we had a three month period blocked out from November through February. It was fun because we were in Studio One but they have a bigger studio “The Hall” next door, and all the big movie soundtracks are recorded there, so we would see big orchestras arriving and leaving for a different movie every day. We had one day in that room ourselves, when Mike Batt came in (the only day he did come into the studio, by his own choice) to conduct his orchestral arrangements for the album, using the Royal Philharmonic.

One day William took me to visit the Harry Potter set on a day off. It was incredible to walk through all those locations you’ve seen in all the films.

Michael, Dramatico’s video editor, is cutting a longer piece like the “Preview” that is up on Youtube, but about 28 minutes long, with interviews with William and me, all about the making of the album and the video, with Kevin Godley, who directed it, plus some performance footage from the album launch party. That will probably make it onto TV or YouTube or something, fairly soon.

The video is really clever, - it’s all based on an idea Kevin had, of shooting the action with two cameras, one at the front and one at the back, then splitting the screen so that when I and the dancers move across the split, you see the front or back of us, - or a bit of both - filmed simultaneously. I had a lot of fun making that video, but the weirdest part was trying to stay on that piano stool as the guys spun me round. I had a bit of a “discussion” with the production guys who thought a flimsy dressing gown sort of chord would do as a safety harness! They didn’t even do a proper sailor’s knot! But we went ahead with it, and I just willed myself to stay on. I’m really pleased with the video. I hope you are liking it. Now we are thinking up ideas for the next one.

So that’s a little round-up of what’s been going on. Now it’s fingers crossed for the record release dates. Thanks to you all for your patience, and I hope you enjoy the album when it’s out. Only a week to go now!

Lots of love,
Katie

09.05.2010

Katie Melua était invitée à l'élection de Mister Suisse le 8 Mai dernier où elle a interprété son premier single 'The Flood'.

08.05.2010 'The Flood' Remix

Différent. C'est le mot par lequel on peut désigner ce Remix de 'The Flood' par Jakwob. Vous pouvez le découvrir sur son MySpace.

24.04.2010 "katie Melua...être libre"

Le site d'information helvétiqueswissinfo.chconsacre un article sur Katie Melua,
intitulé "Katie Melua..être libre". Cet article propose un interview de la jeune chanteuse Géorgienne qui répond aux questions du journaliste Bernard Léchot concernant la sortie de son prochain album "The House" (sortie prévue le 24 Mai en France).

Elle aborde notamment sa collaboration avec le producteur William Orbit et le parolier Guy Chambers. Retrouvez l'intégralité de cet article ici.

Making Of 09.04.2010

Découvrez en images le making-of du clip vidéo de "Two Bare Feet". On assiste notamment à la répétition des danseurs et on aperçoit bien entendu Katie Melua.

Nouveau Clip Vidéo 03.04.2010

Vous pouvez découvrir un clip vidéo présentant le nouvel album de Katie Melua "The House" qui sortira le 24 Mai 2010. Dans ce clip de près de 6 minutes, vous pourrez découvrir les 4 premiers titres du nouvel album :
1. I'd Love To Kill You
2. The Flood
3. A Happy Place
4. A Moment Of Madness
5. Red Balloons

Nouvel Album 25.03.2010

Le prochain album de Katie Melua sera intitulé "The House".
Il sortira en France le 24 Mai 2010. Un single sera disponible quelques jours avant cette sortie, le 17 Mai.
En attendant la sortie de l'album, vous pouvez déjà écouter sur les ondes anglaises "The Flood".

The tracklist:

01 I'd Love To Kill You
02 The Flood
03 A Happy Place
04 A Moment Of Madness
05 Red Balloons
06 Tiny Alien
07 No Fear Of Heights
08 The One I Love Is Gone
09 Plague Of Love
10 God On The Drums, Devil On The Bass
11 Twisted
12 The House


- William Orbit (producer)
- Mike Batt (executive producer)
- Songwriters: Katie, Guy Chambers, Mike Batt and Polly Scattergood


Katie Melua, William Orbit et Mike Batt

Nouveau Single 19.2.2010

Le premier single extrait du futur album de Katie Melua a été diffusé sur BBC Radio 2 sur "The Kent Bruce Show".

Ce premier single "The Flood" a été écrit par Katie Melua, Guy Chambers et Lauren Christy.
Pour écouter ce nouveau single, vous pouvez vous rendre sur le site de BBC Radio 2 et lancer le show du 18 Février et écouter Katie à la 38.30 mins. Toutefois, cette écoute ne sera disponible seulement qu'une semaine sur le site. Vous savez ce qu'il vous reste à faire !
Le nouveau single de Katie Melua The Flood est passé sur le Janice Long Show le 22 février, donc vous pouvez encore écouter The Flood ici à 1h32mins.
En plus d'un nouveau single, Katie Melua arbore une nouveau look, à voir sur le tapis rouge des Brit Awards 2010 le 16 Février dernier à Londres.

Dates Supplémentaires 12.2.2010

Katie Melua a annocé cinq nouvelle dates pour Juillet 2010. Quatre dates en Norvège et au Danemark ainsi qu'une date de concert au Forestry Commission Live Music en Angleterre.

Pour ce concert en Angleterre, Katie Melua jouera à: Thetford Forest, Nr Brandon, Suffolk, le samedi 10 Juillet

Forestry Commission Live Music a lieu chaque été dans des forêts Anglaises. Les clairières dans les bois sont temporairement transformées en lieu de concert créant une atmosphère relaxante et sécurisante pour les spectateurs.

Info: www.forestry.gov.uk/music

Tournée 20.1.2010

Katie Melua a annoncé une tournée Européenne pour l'Automne 2010.

Katie Melua a annocé aujourd'hui une tournée Européenne qui suivra la sorti de son quatrième album studio courant Mai 2010. La tournée, qui commencera en France le 16 Octobre, comprendra 13 concerts au Royaume Uni en Décembre et se concluera à Bristol le 21.

OCTOBER 2010

16th Bordeaux La Patinoire
18th Marseille Le Dome
19th Lyon Amphitheatre
21st Lille Zenith
22nd Rouen Zenith
24th Paris Olympia
28th Braunschweig VW Halle
29th Munchen Philharmonie


NOVEMBER 2010

1st Hamburg Color Line Arena
2nd Koln Lanxess Arena
3rd Nurnberg Arena
5th Dresden Messe
6th Berlin O2 Arena
7th Mannheim SAP Arena
9th Strasbourg Zenith
10th Geneva Arena
11th Zurich Hallenstadion


DECEMBER 2010

1st Amsterdam HMH
2nd Brussels Forest National
4th Manchester Apollo
5th Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
6th Gateshead Sage
8th Leicester De Montfort Hall
9th Ipswich Regent
10th Sheffield City Hall
12th Cardiff Arena
13th Birmingham NIA
14th Liverpool Philharmonic
16th Brighton Dome
17th London Hammersmith Apollo
20th Bournemouth BIC
21st Bristol Colston Hall



Ayant passée l'année 2009 à ecrire des chansons pour l'album, en collaborant même avec des auteurs comme Guy Chambers et Rick Nowels, Katie est actuellement en studio pour terminer son album encore sans nom avec le producteur William Orbit.

Blog 03.12.2009

December 3rd, 2009

Hi Everyone,

I'm such a poor 21st century candidate, I haven't done a blog, a tweet or even taken a picture of my pet dog for anyone that might be interested. Please accept my apologies. I know I need to catch up on a few things. First of all thank you for all my birthday cards and wishes back in September. I received and read them all and I was so touched by the effort and time you put into them.

Since September, things have been pretty crazy leading up to the studio time and it's now been two weeks since we started recording. It’s been suggested that I take small snaps of pictures while we're in the studio- (as William does) - as a way of staying in touch. I think I'll try it. Otherwise it's so easy to go underground and stay hidden in the recordings. For some reason the studio we're in and the way the control room and the live room are set out really remind me of the Star Trek Enterprise Star ships. I keep picturing us flying through space and time!

I don't want to talk too much about the album as you'll hear it soon enough but one thing I'm working on at the moment is a song which has so many words but no breathing space and I am totally adamant not to cheat with protools so just now I've been practising getting my lung capacity to be bigger and get through a whole verse with just one breath. I'm not too far, there are ten lines and I can do seven so far. I'll let you know how I manage!

Ironically I had a small incident with air supply last Saturday. Mike (@Mike_Batt) tweeted about me nearly drowning. I told him about my little "episode" the other day in the studio cafe, when he came to visit and see how it was all going. The incident was all my own fault. What kind of nutter goes scuba diving in December in a lake near Heathrow airport? I did! You see, I'm really keen to get my drysuit diving qualification done. For those of you who don’t know about diving - people usually dive with a wet suit, which is just like skin. It keeps you warm but you get wet. With a dry suit you stay totally dry, and they're useful in extreme cold waters. I want to qualify as a drysuit diver so I can fulfil my longtime wish of diving in the Arctic or Circle and see penguins, whales and ice!

So there I was last weekend shlugging my airtank, BCD and the heaviest rubber suit you've ever seen! One thing I forgot to mention is that your neck is where the drysuit ends so it has to be super tight round you neck. My neck was so small they had to add a rubber band round the opening to make it extra tight! Getting to the water was both ecstatic because the gear becomes much lighter, and horrifying cause the water is 7 degrees. We swam out to the middle of the lake and when we first descended I was shocked by the icy water hitting my head; it felt like the North Pole in my brain. We reached the bottom which was luckily only 15 meters down.

Once there, we were practising standard procedure, taking out the regulator from your mouth (your air supply) and replacing it. I don't know what happened, I think I was stressed by the cold, the tight rubber ring round my throat plus the visibility was very poor - the water was pitch black - so I wasn't concentrating. When I tried to replace my regulator I didn't do it properly, so I breathed in and choked on a lungful of water. I tried to stay calm and clear the regulator but I kept choking on water. Because of the pressure, the force and speed at which the water invaded my mouth was such a shock. I did start to panic, especially as you can't go to the surface because of the bends. It was the first time (out of 40 or so dives that I've done) that I had to pull the "out of air" hand signal. Luckily my teacher was right there helping me through my sorry state of horror. She replaced the regulator in my mouth and I managed to summon up the strength to breathe out any tiny bubbles of air to clear the water out of the regulator and when I next inhaled I finally had some air! Looking back at it now I was such an idiot! There's a button on the regulator that clears the water and it's probably what my teacher used to help me, as well as having it properly in my mouth. I really hope this hasn't put anyone off diving, it's still one of my favourite things in the world to do and I’d recommend it to anyone.

Hope you are well, wherever you are. I’ll try to get some pics and more frequent blogs going from now on!

The new album is scheduled for next May, so we have a busy time ahead.

All the best,

Katie

01.12.2009 -Concert à Stuttgart-

Petite séance de rattrapage, vous pouvez retrouver sur le site officiel de Katie Melua l'intégralité de son concert au Stuttgart Jazz Open qui a eu lieu cet été. Pour assister au concert, c'est par ici.

01.12.2009 -Nouvel album en préparation-

Comme vous pouvez le lire dans son dernier blog, Katie Melua est actuellement en train d'enregistrer son 4ème album studio. Elle travaille notamment avec William Orbit. Il faudra encore patienter un peu, la sortie de ce nouvel album est prévue en Mai 2010. Il y aura très certainement une tournée Européenne pour promouvoir l'album.

01.12.2009 -Katie Melua dans Les Sims-

Dans le prochain add-on du célèbre jeu vidéo "Les Sims", il sera possible d'entendre le titre de Katie Melua "If the light go out". Cependant cet add-on "Sims 3 World Adventures" proposera une version un peu différente... en "langue Sims"...

22.10.2009 -Kid Harpoon et Katie Melua-

Katie melua et Kid Harpoon ont enregistré une nouvelle version de "Once"; titre de Kid Harpoon. Pour écouter un extrait, regarder cette page (et lancer le lecteur multimedia sur la droite, side B ). Pour plus d'informations sur Kid Harpoon vous pouvez vous rendre sur son site.

20.09.2009 -Visite au Pays Bas-

Katie Melua s'est rendue au Pays Bas pour assister au Baptême du fils du Prince Pieter Christian et de la Princesse Anita. En effet, Katie Melua est une amie du couple royale. Elle a d'ailleurs interprété "Thank You Stars" durant la cérémonie.

Vous trouverez ici un lien vers une video sur le site rtl.nl où vous pourrez voir les invités de la cérémonie dont Katie Melua...

Katie Melua en Modèle 22.08.2009

A l'occasion de la sortie du catalogue Hiver 2009/2010 des cachemires de la Maison Bompard,
la Maison Française Bompard a dévoilé sa nouvelle égérie Katie Melua, photographiée par le mondialement connu Vincent Peters.

Katie Melua a été choisie pour cette campagne car elle personnifie l'engagement de la marque pour un style raffiné et simple et un design jeune. La séance photos s'est déroulé à King’s Road et Westminster Bridge.

La Maison Eric Bompard a été créée en 1985 et possède 35 magasins dans le monde, dont 10 boutiques à Paris.

La Collection sera lancée dans les boutiques et sur son site internet www.eric-bompard.com le lundi 24 Août.

Retrouvez la video du making of ici
et retrouvez la sélection de Katie Melua sur le site de la Maison Bompard.

Blog 29.07.2009

July 29th, 2009

We finally went to Georgia. I played my first solo shows there - it wasover so quickly I didn't even get a chance to swim in the Black Sea oreat corn on the cob on the beach!

I've spent most my life in England trying to describe Georgia, andreally if I could use one word it would have to be that Georgia isdramatic! The people are very dramatic, aided by the gutteral language,which always makes me sound like I'm having a world war 3 argument withmy mum on the phone, when in fact we might be discussing dinner plans!

I knew this trip was going to be dramatic when our plane was followed bythe most exotic thunder storm which I could see in the distance. Welanded in Tbilisi at 4am, and even at that time of night we wereembraced by the warm air. The band went off to their hotel and I wentto spend the night at my grandparents. The street I grew up on used tobe a quiet, tree lined street, now my grandparents place is the only onestorey house left.

I was delirious and delighted to see them, so after a quick cup of tea Iwas sent to bed by my fussing gran to make sure I got enough rest forthe next day. In the morning the worst thing happened. I've beenwaiting to do this gig for five years and I wake up with a tickle in mythroat, I tell myself it's just a bit of nerves and I'll be fine by the evening.

The day passed in a crazy cocktail of press conference, proud andanxious relatives, other Georgians claiming to be relatives, and a tripto see the Minister of Culture after the soundcheck. When it finally came to show time I couldn't believe I was there, in the grand,beautiful Opera House. During the set I sang a couple of Georgian songswhich went down really well. From the stage I could see my firstsinging teacher from when I was seven. We played a great gig and afterthe show we got on our bus to drive to the seaside town of Batumi.Halfway through the drive I looked around me and saw that most of theband and crew had white faces and big eyes staring at the road. I remember that the rules of driving in Georgia are somewhat different toEurope, there's no fear of overtaking on a one lane road - whether it'sa corner or a cliff - no fear even without street lamps on a pitch blacknight, in fact no fear at all!

As expected we arrived safe and sound after seven hours (my uncle hasdone it in five in the past).

The gig in Batumi went really well too, we had a small issue of live electricity on stage and I was told not to touch anything but no one gotelectrocuted - and despite the electric thunder storm at an outside gig8000 people showed up! If I can talk the band into it I'd love to go back and play there again. Sadly the two gigs in Georgia completely knackered my voice out and thenext morning I woke up with no voice at all. This was why we had tocancel the gig in Mainz, I am so sorry for those of you who boughttickets and were looking forward to the gig, there was just no way thatI could sing. So on doctors orders we decided to pull the show. I hate canceling gigs and I hope to be back in the future.

All the best

Katie x