Someone asked why we post about politics here.
Austerity made life very hard for my mum and contributed to my dad’s death in 2016.
My wife who is not British no longer feels welcome in the UK.
So it’s personal. I hate the Tories. Please help vote them out.
Felix
❤️NHS❤️🇪🇺
My mum hasn’t met her five week old grandson yet because she’s trying follow the rules, meanwhile Cummings is dripping with infection & fannying about and travelling half the length of the country.
One rule for them, one rule for us. Fuck the lot of them.
Felix
If you want empty-headed nonsense check out our Instagram - it’s pleasantly vapid!
Our Facebook page is for self-promotion utterly devoid of the personal touch 😐
Twitter, meanwhile, is for hardcore, four-to-the-floor Tory bashing.
Hot Chip social media master plan 🌍 💥
What is happening in Chile at the moment is extremely serious and disturbing and makes the cancellation of our show here unimportant. Protestors are being brutalised by state violence and human rights are being violated. Read more here:
#fuerzachile
Sometimes a band just meets a real nice guy from Iceland on social media and they end up remixing their Eurovision tune and it all turns out great. Hot Chip “Think About Things” mix out today! Big up
@dadimakesmusic
and the Iceland massive 🇮🇸🥰🇮🇸😍🇮🇸❤️
Our Tiny Desk concert is now live on YouTube 🧡 A real honour & extremely fun.
We enjoyed restraining ourselves to small instruments & singing out into the room, stood behind a desk as tiny as the room we started making records in all those years ago x
Our new album 'A Bath Full of Ecstasy' will be released on Friday 21 June. Watch the video for its first single "Hungry Child," directed by Saman Kesh (
@ghibli303
) and starring
@MartinStarr
and
@MintMilana
, and listen here:
We’re very happy to say that after four years, our new album A Bath Full of Ecstasy is finally out there!! We’re so proud of this album and excited beyond coherent prose that everyone can finally hear it.
Listen 🛀
This is our cover of Beastie Boys' Sabotage.
We began the new record talking about how much we enjoyed playing this song- we wanted to channel some of that energy & distortion into some of our new music. The title track came from this idea of overload & distortion- out next week
It’s so heartening to see the support for this post and to read of similar stories and voting intentions.
It also made my mum really happy! She’s spending today taking elderly ladies from her estate shopping & to vote.
She’s a champion campaigner & all round amazing person 💪🏼
That teaser from The Beatles film almost made me weep from nostalgia. It’s like opening a window into a different world. Musicians messing around, having fun, wearing silly clothes and being amazing.
Can we have that world back soon please instead of this hell we’re in?
Ta
Felix
FREAKOUT/RELEASE - THE NEW ALBUM & TOUR IS COMING IN 2022. STREAM/WATCH DOWN NOW.
We're so excited to announce that Hot Chip will be releasing a new album, and will be going on a UK/EU Tour in Sept/Oct this year!
Horrible, despicable humans, some of them elected officials in the UK, have denigrated elderly people, disabled people and people with chronic health problems by implying they should be locked away or sacrifice themselves to Covid so the rest of us can “go back to normal”.
We are very excited to share that we will be releasing a compilation with Late Night Tales on the 2nd of October. You can stream ‘Candy Says’ right now!
Listen to "Straight To The Morning”:
This is is a disco anthem about going out, for a time when people really can’t, and it features our friend
@reallyjcocker
urging us to go “straight through until the break of dawn.”
#newmusicfriday
#jarviscocker
Hi lovely people of Santiago. We’re devastated that our concert here was cancelled at the very last moment. We don’t have details yet but we were set up & ready to play when we were to told it was not going ahead for safety reasons. We will be back as soon as we can ❤️🇨🇱
The live music industry adds £4.5 billion to the UK economy and supports over 210k jobs. The entire sector is under threat due to Covid-19 and we have signed a letter calling on the government to act now to help save it.
#letthemusicplay
Hey peeps, just wanted to say that we hate the re-sale sites as much as you do and would love it if they didn’t exist… its really difficult to stop them from getting a few tix for each show….there will be more chances to see us later this year xx
Yesterday was four years since Philippe Zdar died. I'm sitting with tears in my eyes listening to the music we made together and thinking of the profound effect he had on me. Will always remember him - an amazing, inspirational man. I miss him. Felix
Ready For The floor, released in Jan 2008 🤖 We’ve dug through the archive & uncovered the original video in much higher res - now available to watch on our YT channel 💥
Watch:
Devastated to hear about the passing of Dave Smith, legendary engineer. My career in music would be nothing without the things he designed. It was an honour to have met him. A true genius and a lovely person who will be greatly missed.
Felix
We’re thrilled to announce a US, UK & European album tour.
Pre-order the album via our store before Monday (including signed and limited edition copies) to gain access to the tour pre-sale before tickets go on general sale next Friday 12 April:
What is your favourite Hot Chip song – and why?
We will be making a playlist live on
@BBC6Music
this Sunday from 6pm. Use
#NP6Music
to suggest tracks, plus share your stories of seeing us live!
Excited to share with you our only performance of 2020… who’s joining?
We’re performing LIVE from the iconic Dreamland in Margate, with all the maximalist production of a full festival set. Join us - live in Streamland 5th September 🌍🎪
UK & Ireland tour has been amazing so far, truly. Thank you! Against the odds given how shambolic things are here right now. It’s very heartening to see so many folks dancing themselves silly! KEEP DANCING. It may save us, like in Flashdance. Next stop beautiful NORWICH 🤸♂️🚀🌟
We have been going to Brixton academy since we were teenagers; to watch favourites like the beastie boys, d’angelo, pavement, bunny wailer, frank ocean, basement jaxx and missy elliott.
And most importantly, big love to
#blacklivesmatter
today and every day, to everyone in the struggle against police and state racist brutality in the USA and the UK and everywhere during these sad, infuriating, outrageous days. AD
Here is the first Glastonbury Festival 2019 line-up poster, which includes our final two Pyramid Stage headliners:
@TheKillers
(Saturday) and
@TheCure
(Sunday). Many more acts and attractions still to be announced.
Good people! Hot Chip will be playing a handful of shows this Spring for which an armful of tickets are available! It’s gonna be a fistful of fun...!
Tix go on sale on Friday at 9am but you can get pre-sale access by signing up here by midnight tonight:
Coming to your TV screens this weekend, we’ll be performing on
@BBCLater
📺
Tune in this Saturday from 9:55pm on
@BBCTwo
/
@BBCiPlayer
to catch us & a host of other great acts live from Alexandra Palace Theatre 💥
And just y'know, look after each other out there. Christ knows how it's all gonna pan out. But good times are coming. There might be a fight to get there. But they will come. Big up yourselves. AD
Have you left space for Hot Chip in this life? Today we share our new single 'Melody of Love' & announce our biggest ever London show at
@Yourallypally
on Oct 26th x
Our dear friend Philippe Zdar died a year ago today. He was a truly inspirational man and a legendary producer. It really was a privilege to have known him and worked with him.
Sending love to his friends, family and anyone who has ever been touched by his incredible work.
❤️
Our new song 'Eleanor' is out today 💙 It’s about the world smashing into you, waves crashing into you, all-encompassing pain, and how you have to walk through it. The track has a sense of euphoria to it, and what better day to release that into the world than today…
Hot Chip & Friends: Supporting
@crisis_uk
We are very proud to announce that on the 18th December Hot Chip & Friends will go “Straight To The Morning” with one long B2B DJ set in support of
@crisis_uk
, the national charity for people who are homeless.