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Título: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 02, 2008, 11:34:25 pm
Se ha filtrado este tema!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9yRyVZpOhg&NR (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9yRyVZpOhg&NR)

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Dido vuelve con nuevo disco, Safe Trip Home se va a llamar, saldrá a la venta el 3 de Noviembre al menos en Inglaterra, supongo que en el resto de paises será dia arriba dí­a abajo  , el primer sencillo del disco será Don't Believe in Love aunque ya se puede escuchar un adelanto del disco en su página web, se puede descargar gratuitamente la canción Look No Further
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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 06, 2008, 11:15:10 pm
Un pequeño video en el estudio!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8NjgvkiD-M&NR (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8NjgvkiD-M&NR)
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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 06, 2008, 11:22:15 pm
La portada!

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Y el tracklist!!

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1. don't believe in love
2. quiet times
3. never want to say it's love
4. grafton street
5. it comes and it goes
6. look no further
7. us 2 little gods
8. the day before the day
9. let's do the things we normally do
10. burnin love
11. northern skies




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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 06, 2008, 11:36:03 pm
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Comeback ... Dido returns fives years on from Life For Rent

SAFE TRIP HOME - TRACKLIST


1. don't believe in love (3.53)

2. quiet times (3.17)

3. never want to say it's love (3.35)

4. grafton street (5.58)

5. it comes and it goes (3.28)

6. look no further (3.14)

7. us 2 little gods (4.49)

8. the day before the day (4.13)

9. let's do the things we normally do (4.10)

10. burnin love (4:12)

11. northern skies (8:57)

 By SIMON COSYNS

Published: 04 Sep 2008

DIDO on Safe Trip Home
“I DON’T want to make a record for the sake of it. I want to make a record when I’ve got something to say.”


On November 3, Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong will prove she has something to say again.


Five years and 35 days on from the release of her second album, Life For Rent, she will unveil Safe Trip Home — eleven songs covering 50 minutes.


It’s a deeply emotional work, reflecting on the death of her beloved Irish father William in 2006, on the overwhelming power of love and on the crushing fear of being alone.

Grafton Street, written with reliably dazzling soundscapist Brian Eno, is one the most touching reflections on the loss of a loved one you’re likely to hear.


“The core of this album is the same as the others,” she says. “When I write and sing songs, I try to put every emotion into them. I hope they move people. That’s only ever been the concept of what I’ve done. For me, feeling alive is feeling some form of emotion.”


In a special SFTW exclusive, we hear not only from the singer, born 36 years ago on Christmas Day, but also her chief collaborators . . . brother Rollo, Jon Brion and Jim Scott.

Dreamy
We also bring you a preview of five key tracks and a full tracklist, from the sultry vocals and rhythmic groove of Don’t Believe In Love (the first single) to the serene nine-minute finale Northern Skies.


Dido says: “One of the things I wanted to do this time is just go with something and trust a lot of my first instincts.”


And, of course, the long gap between records makes Safe Trip Home the year’s most anticipated release.


The musical map has been redrawn in Dido’s absence by a new wave of girl singers such as Duffy, Adele and Kate Nash. Let’s not forget, too, the impact of the queen of retro, Amy Winehouse.


So, can Dido repeat the phenomenal success of No Angel and Life For Rent, both commanding sales of around three million copies in the UK alone? Can her smooth vocals set to dreamy orchestrations and subtle beats return her to the top of the pile?


Are there enough songs to match the memorable hit singles: White Flag, Life For Rent’s title track, Here With Me and Thank You?


The answer is that she has more than a fighting chance. Safe Trip Home is a beautifully crafted song-cycle with enough hooks to keep listeners and radio stations enthralled.


I sense that despite the pressure to deliver a third monster success, Dido has made the record she wanted under her own terms.


“This record has been very much about thinking, ‘Who do I really, really like? Who do I really wanna work with?’ And doing that,” she affirms.


Chief among her allies is Los Angeles-based songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion and it is clear enormous attention to detail was paid to get the album just right.


“The effort that’s gone into some of the sounds on the record would possibly make me look like the biggest nerd in the world,” she says.


“Instead of actually playing a keyboard, Jon might have played 32 components to make up a keyboard sound. We’d use a horn section or a whole orchestra or a wind section.




In the studio ... Dido
“We did some really interesting things. On Northern Skies, we slowed the track down massively and got them (the orchestra) to play some quite crazy stuff which made great keyboard sounds.”


An ever-present in Dido’s musical journey has been elder brother Rollo, the producer and remix maestro best known for his work in dance sensations Faithless. His new production company Ark co-produced the album with Jon and Dido.


Of Safe Trip Home, Rollo says: “The lyrics are so important. I think there’s never any pretention with the lyrics on a Dido record.


“They’re supposed to say what they mean but in a way that’s not clichíéd.


“The key to her records is the idea that it goes from Dido to the listener in the most straightforward, honest, quick way. It’s like emotional A to B with as little interference as possible from me as a producer, with no trickery. I think both of us have the same kind of musical heritage, growing up in the same house etc. Both of us love music that moves us.”


For Jon Brion, who’s also worked with Kanye West, Keane and Fiona Apple, the creation of the album enabled him to watch Dido grow as a musician.

Piano
“She doesn’t have to conscientiously go out to carve her own space. She’s an individual. If she just goes about being herself, she’s fine,” he says.


“She’s taken time out to learn to play drums, to really work on her piano and guitar playing, to learn about engineering, to master every aspect of her job. Her touch on the piano is stunning.”


The recording was split between Jon’s home studio in LA and the famed Abbey Road Studios in London where The Beatles created their sonic masterpieces. Jon says: “At Abbey Road, there’s this beautiful, very delicate, soft-sounding old piano. Dido asked me to teach her the chords and she went down and, in two takes, absolutely murdered the piano.”


And Jim Scott, who previously worked on albums by Johnny Cash, Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers, adds: “Dido is totally unique in my experience.


“I can say without a shadow of a doubt that I’ve never had an artist go out and play the guitar, play the piano, play the drums, sing the vocal, write the songs and do it all so flowingly, effortlessly and beautifully.


“It’s really an interesting treat to watch her float through her day and do her work.”


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So welcome back, Dido. One in five UK households owns one of your records. Safe Trip Home is guaranteed a safe trip into our hearts.


Here we focus on five of the new songs:


DON’T BELIEVE IN LOVE: “I want to go to bed with arms around me but wake up on my own.”


The first line of the first song on the first Dido album for five years.


It ushers in a wistful, mid-tempo performance that bears the old Dido knack of getting under your skin.


The slinky beats and tasteful orchestration set the tone for the album. Already slated for a late October single release, it’s a track that reveals its subtle pleasures bit by bit.


GRAFTON STREET: With its mournful Celtic feel, this could possibly be Dido’s greatest song. Co-written with Brian Eno (U2, Coldplay, etc), it’s a heartfelt lament for her late father, brushed with contemporary atmospherics but rooted in tradition.


It stretches to nearly six minutes and her performance on the recorder as the track ebbs to a close truly summons the spirit of the Emerald Isle.


LOOK NO FURTHER: Already downloaded for free once every 1.2 seconds from didomusic.com/looknofurther during its first three days, this is an ideal taster for listeners counting the days till the full album release.


BURNIN’ LOVE: Wispy acoustic guitar paves the way for a gem of a love song. She’s joined by multi-talented US musician Citizen Cope, who offers exquisite harmonies and a snatch of lead vocals.


NORTHERN SKIES: “For once there was beauty here for me under the wide Northern Skies.” An ambitious, slow-paced nine minutes of pastoral loveliness — confirmation this album retains quality all the way to its end.

Título: Re: Dido vuelve despues de 5 años!!!
Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 09, 2008, 11:31:12 pm
El single!!

Don't believe in love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToBII382OCc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToBII382OCc)
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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 13, 2008, 11:27:10 pm
En el estudio 2 (http://www.didomusic.com/gb/news_and_diary/news/second_part_of_studio_video_added/)
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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 15, 2008, 11:45:32 pm
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We're still looking for more of your questions for Dido. If there's something you'd like to know, please email it to askdido@didomusic.com (don't post it below) - the best, most original ones will be answered by Dido soon.

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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 15, 2008, 11:47:16 pm
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Mon 15th Sep, 2008
We thought you might like to know that the video for Dido's new single, Don't Believe In Love, is set to be filmed in LA this week. It will be directed by AlexandLiane, a duo who have previously made videos for Scissor Sisters, The Ting Tings, Bloc Party, Sam Sparro and Armand Van Helden.

Look out for more news on the video soon.

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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 16, 2008, 11:30:44 pm
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New single on 90210 in US tonight
Tue 16th Sep, 2008
Those of you in the US of A will be able to hear Dido's new single, Don't Believe In Love, on tonight's episode of 90210, which airs on The CW at 8/7C.

Apparently tonight's show concerns a school musical, a mistress, a bad date and a broken marriage. Sounds intriguing.

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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 17, 2008, 11:48:27 pm
En el estudio 3 (http://www.didomusic.com/gb/news_and_diary/news/final_part_of_studio_video_added/)

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We've just added the third and final part of the Safe Trip Home studio film to the player. Check it out to hear Dido talking more about the album and to see footage of the orchestra recording their parts.


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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 24, 2008, 11:20:59 pm
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Wed 24th Sep, 2008
It was announced today that the new Record of the Week on BBC Radio 2 is Dido's new single, Don't Believe In Love. Click here for more info (and, indeed, to listen to the station online).

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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 25, 2008, 11:42:58 pm
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Don't Believe In Love artwork revealed
Thu 25th Sep, 2008
We thought you might like to see the artwork for the first single from Safe Trip Home, which we've literally just received from the record label.

Don't Believe In Love is set to be released as a download on 26 October and on CD format on 27 October.

Have you heard the track on the radio where you live? If so, let us know in the comments below. For starters, we can reveal that one of the team from Dido HQ heard it on Greek radio last night...


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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 26, 2008, 11:23:53 pm
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Number One in Italy!
Fri 26th Sep, 2008
Although it's not out in the UK until October 26th, Dido's new single, Don't Believe In Love, has already been released for download in Spain and Italy. It's currently sitting at Number 2 in the Spanish iTunes chart and Number 1 in the Italian iTunes chart. Amazing!

If you're in either of those countries, click the links below to download the single from iTunes now...


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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 29, 2008, 11:02:39 pm
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A new picture
Mon 29th Sep, 2008
We thought you might like to see this brand new picture of Dido, taken by photographer Kayt Jones.


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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 30, 2008, 11:28:26 pm
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Dido - Safe Trip Home

Safe Trip Home is the warm, moving and wonderfully musical third album from Dido, the London-born singer-songwriter with the cracked-crystal voice. The first, you might remember, was No Angel, a record made when Dido was a part-time backing singer with a tiny budget and no label. When that record's heartfelt snap-shots of life were released in 1999, nobody, least of all Dido, expected the album to eventually become the planet's biggest seller of 2001. The similarly affecting follow-up, 2003's Life For Rent, also burrowed its way into millions of hearts, hitting number one in 26 countries and lighting up the airwaves in many more. By the time Dido had toured that record around the world, she was ready for a bit of a breather.

"It was a whirlwind," she says. "When I got back from touring early in 2005, it took a while just to take in what had happened. I was so unprepared for it. As far as I was concerned I was making this little underground record for me to listen to and then, suddenly, eight years later I was getting off this incredible speeding train. I'd had an amazing time, but I guess I needed to take a step back, reconnect with normal life and bring the focus 100 percent back to music."

Although she disappeared from view, Dido took very little time off from music. However, rather than immediately starting to write new songs, she threw herself into playing, whether it be her music or others people's. "I wanted to take some time to become a better musician," she explains. "For the first two albums, any playing I'd done had been used purely for songwriting, which is very different from just playing for fun, like I had as a child. So I spent a lot of time just picking up instruments for playing's sake again. I loved it."

Dido had inadvertently set the tone for Safe Trip Home, a record whose smouldering, soulful songs were to eventually feature her playing guitar, piano, bells and the trusty old recorder she'd toured Europe with as a prodigious pupil of London's Guildhall School of Music. She's even responsible for some of the album's drums (most notably on the sumptuously melancholy Quiet Times).

When Dido met up with producer, Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Kayne West, Rufus Wainwright, Eels) at London's Abbey Road studios towards the end of 2005, he was blown away by her musicianship. "I realised she had this beautiful feel for playing from the first day I met her," he says. "In fact, if there's anything I'm particularly proud of with this record, it's encouraging Dido to play more instruments. When she plays drums, her groove is magnificent. And her touch on piano is absolutely stunning."

"Jon persuaded me to go out to LA and do some writing," says Dido. "We had this brilliant few weeks working together. It felt like I could try anything I wanted, with whatever instrument I wanted. That was really the start of the album." Songs like the sensuous Never Want To Say It's Love and the string-soaked Let's Do The Things We Normally Do were two of several tracks to emerge from those productive sessions.

Buoyed by that initial progress, Dido decided to relocate to LA for a while to continue working with Brion on the album. It was a city ripe with opportunities, whether that be the potential for long drives into the desert listening to music, the amazing vocal sound in Brion's broom cupboard, the chance to get Citizen Cope in to sing on the gorgeous Burnin Love, or the fact that Dido's favourite drummer Mick Fleetwood was on hand to play on Grafton Street, the plaintive album highlight she'd written with another inspiration, Brian Eno.

"I wasn't actually a big fan of LA before," she admits, "but it turned out to be an amazing place to follow through an idea and keep going without anyone saying you're being completely ridiculous. It's a city built on imagination, story-telling and creativity. Plus, everyone seems to go to bed at 9pm, so I'd get a lot done at night."

Dido's musical experimentation also extended to learning more about the actual mechanics of recording. "I was very impressed by that," says Brion. "It would be a very easy life for her to allow people to make stuff for her to sing on and I think it's more than a little bit admirable that she is so inquisitive about everything. She learned a ton about engineering, about arranging, about mastering, about the construction of music. She even went and took some music courses at UCLA. This is not the thing the average person who's just looking to crank it out does."

Indeed, rather than rushing to get the album done, Dido was happy to take her time. "I didn't really feel any urgency to stop writing," she says. "In fact, when I'd finished all the stuff with Jon in LA, I came back to England and realised I really wanted to start using all the things I'd learned there. So I sat down at my kitchen table with my laptop and a microphone and just started writing and recording, using a new computer programme I'd got. I ended up with a whole load more songs."

One afternoon, Dido's brother Rollo, who co-wrote and co-produced her first two albums, came round for tea, so she played him a bunch of the new songs. "He got really excited about them, so we decided to go into the studio with them. But a lot of the recordings on the album actually came from that time in my kitchen. If you listen closely, you can hear my neighbours drilling or the rain pelting down outside."

"I really think this album has benefitted from its gestation period," says Rollo. "I think Dido has gone on a musical journey with it. She'd ring me from LA and say, "I'm recording vocals in an echo chamber!" or "we're busy reversing 200 strings we just recorded!". She was obviously having so much fun. But, for all that, the songs on this album still channel Dido's amazing ability to move people with melodies and lyrics. There's never any pretension on a Dido record. I think the words supposed to say what they mean but in a way that's not cliched."

"Frankly, I don't believe what most people are singing about when I hear their records," says Brion. "I hear, 'I want attention, I want to be famous, I want you to think I'm smart'. But with Dido, I know she isn't kidding. I hear her in her lyrics. Take away any preconceptions and you'll hear that her words are a hotbed of truth. It's no surprise to me that so many people all over the world have connected with her."

Dido's softly-expressed thoughts, parables, feelings, hopes and concerns flow unfettered from Safe Trip Home. It is a record of love and loss, strength and surrender, highs and lows. And, as with her previous two albums, Dido shows an astonishing knack for extracting life's universals from its little details. "Dido bares her heart in her music in a way that she doesn't in any other public domain," says Rollo. "I think the key with her records is the idea that it all goes from Dido to the listener in the most straightforward, emotionally honest way. It's like an emotional A to B with as little interference from me as a producer."

"I still manage to get into this headspace when I'm writing where I completely forget that anyone's going to hear the songs," admits Dido. I don't really draw any limits for what I put in the songs, emotionally. Some of these songs are about general themes and some are about other people's lives, but some are specific and personal to me. Maybe I leave myself exposed, but I find it hard to do anything that isn't emotional or doesn't move me in some way. by not explaining my lyrics to people , it actually gives me the freedom to express myself without limits in the songs."

That, as much as anything, is what makes Safe Trip Home such a rewarding listen. "This album is full of the joy of making music," says Dido. "The process of making it has been a wonderful experience, something to totally cherish. I've put every emotion into these songs. And now I just really hope they move people."

It's hard to imagine that they won't.
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 01, 2008, 11:26:44 pm
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Pre-order album on iTunes/Amazon
Wed 1st Oct, 2008
You can now pre-order Dido's third album, Safe Trip Home, on CD from Amazon stores worldwide and on download from the US iTunes store (other iTunes stores will follow soon).

To buy the CD from Amazon, click on your country below:

- UK
- US
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Japan

Meanwhile, if you pre-order the album from the US iTunes store, you will instantly receive Dido’s new single, Don’t Believe In Love. Two digital versions are available: a standard version and a deluxe edition which contains three bonus tracks For One Day, Summer and a remixed version of Northern Skies, a video for Don’t Believe In Love, digital liner notes, plus the pre-orders only track The Day Before The Day 5/4. Click below to order now...

- Deluxe version
- Standard version

UPDATE: You can also pre-order both versions of the album from Australian iTunes here.

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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 02, 2008, 11:29:06 pm
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WELCOME TO THE DIDO NEWSLETTER 
 
Hello Noemi and welcome to The Dido Newsletter. Over the coming weeks and months we'll be in touch every once in a while to give you all the latest news and happenings as Dido prepares for the release of her third album, Safe Trip Home. To kick things off, we've got a competition for you...


WIN A SIGNED COPY OF DIDO'S NEW SINGLE
Would you like to win a promo copy of Dido's new single, Don't Believe in Love, personally signed to you? If so, then all you have to do is send us an email to competitions@didomusic.com by Wednesday October 8th, with your name and address. One randomly-selected winner will receive the signed CD.


STUDIO VIDEOS ON DIDOMUSIC.COM

Head over to the official site to check out our exclusive, three-part film showing Dido and various contributors in the studio making Safe Trip Home. As well as hearing Dido talking about the album, you'll be able to hear sneak previews of several of its songs. Also at the website, you can read the official biog interview with Dido about the new album.

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PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM
If the films and the biog leave your appetite suitably whetted for the album, then you might like to know that you can now pre-order your copy of Safe Trip Home from Amazon stores across the world - that way you'll receive it as soon as it's out. Click on the links below for your country's store...

UK / US / Canada / Germany / France / Japan
We'll also have news of an iTunes pre-order soon. 
 


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See you next time.

Dido HQ

ps - The exclusive picture you see in this mailer is from a new press shoot Dido did recently - it was taken by photographer Kayt Jones. Look out for more shots from the session on didomusic.com. 
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 03, 2008, 11:11:58 pm
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Unfortunately, due to manufacturing delays, the release of Safe Trip Home has had to be moved back a couple of weeks. It will now be released on November 17th worldwide (November 18th in the US). We're really sorry about this (it's as frustrating for us as for you).

The release date for Don't Believe In Love remains the same (download on 26 October and CD on 27 October).

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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 04, 2008, 11:02:44 pm
Grafton Street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFyxDvGocBk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFyxDvGocBk)
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Publicado por: OLOROSO en Octubre 05, 2008, 08:46:22 am
bonita voz, canciones relajadas y tranquilas para tener un tiempo de olvidarse de todo y escuchar un poco de musica.
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 06, 2008, 10:47:16 pm
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Another Dido picture
Mon 6th Oct, 2008
Hey folks. We thought you might like to see another of Dido's new press pictures, as taken by photographer Kayt Jones

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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 07, 2008, 11:13:35 pm
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UK iTunes album pre-order opens
Tue 7th Oct, 2008
The iTunes pre-order for Dido's new album, Safe Trip Home, is now open, with two different versions of the album available.

The standard version features The Day Before The Day (5/4) as a pre-order only bonus track as well as the Don't Believe in Love video. The deluxe version contains those bonuses plus three extra tracks; For One Day, Summer and a remixed version of Northern Skies.

Pre-order either version and you'll receive the track Grafton Street now.
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 08, 2008, 11:14:58 pm
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Hello again Noemi. We're pleased to announce that, on October 19th, Dido is hosting an exclusive playback of Safe Trip Home in a top-secret European location. We have tickets to this very special event to give away to you folks. Not only that, our 5 lucky winners (and their guest) will receive travel to and from the playback - no matter where in the world they live - plus accommodation. To be in with a chance of winning, simply click here (http://de.click2music.co.uk/click2music_new/datagen_v2/pages/00026245001.php), fill out the form and then cross your fingers tightly.

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SAFE TRIP HOME RELEASE DATE MOVES TO NOV 17TH
Unfortunately, due to manufacturing delays, the release of Safe Trip Home has had to be moved back a couple of weeks. It will now be released on November 17th worldwide (November 18th in the US). To help keep you going until then, we've added one of the album's absolute highlights - Grafton Street - to the music player on didomusic.com.

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PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM ON ITUNES
The iTunes pre-order for the new album is now open, with two different versions of the album available. The standard version features The Day Before The Day (5/4) as a pre-order only bonus track as well as the Don't Believe in Love video. The deluxe version contains those bonuses plus three extra tracks; For One Day, Summer and a remixed version of Northern Skies.

 Pre-order either version and you'll receive a track now (Grafton Street in Europe, Don't Believe In Love in the US). Click the links below for more info and to pre-order...

- UK Deluxe version
- UK Standard version
- US Deluxe version
- US Standard version
- Germany Deluxe version
- Germany Standard version
- France Deluxe version
- France Standard version 


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DON'T BELIEVE IN LOVE SIGNED PROMO WINNER
The winner of the competition in last week's mailer was Lesley N from Australia, who will receive a signed copy of Dido's new single in the post soon. Thanks to all of you who entered.

See you next time,

Dido HQ
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 09, 2008, 11:14:43 pm
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We're pleased to announce that, on October 19th, Dido is hosting an exclusive playback of Safe Trip Home in a top-secret European location. And we have tickets to this very special event to give away.

Not only that, our 5 lucky winners (and their guest) will receive flights to and from the playback - no matter where in the world they live - plus accommodation. To be in with a chance of winning, simply click here and fill out the form.

UPDATE: Yes, in reference to the comments below - the prize really is a trip from anywhere in the world, including flights and accommodation. Best prize since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we reckon
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 10, 2008, 11:35:04 pm
Letra Grafton Street

no more trips to grafton street, no more going there
to see you lying still while we all come and go
no more watching sunsets that seem like summer’s holding on
no more standing quietly at your window
no more driving down your road, wondering when you’ll be home
and no more peace when they all leave and leave us two alone

and time we always lose is finally found here with you
my love i know we’re losing but i will stand here by you

no more calling friends from the car, saying i don’t know when i’ll be there,
but i’ll do my best to come
no more letting you warm my hands, no more trying to take it in
no more saying goodbye for the last time again
no more saying goodbye for the last time again

and time we always lose is finally found here with you
my love i know you’re leaving but i will stand here by you

no more trips to grafton street, no more going there
no more sitting up all night waiting for any word
nothing’s left that’s safe here now nothing will bring you home
nothing can bring us the peace we had in grafton street
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 10, 2008, 11:38:05 pm
Look No Further

i might have been a singer
who sailed around the world
a gambler who wins millions
and spent it all on girls

i might have been a poet
who walked upon the moon
a scientist who’d tell the world
i’d discovered something new

i might have loved a king
and been the one to end a war
a criminal who drinks champagne
and never could be caught

but among your books, among your clothes
among your noise and fuss, i’ve let it go

i can stop and catch my breath
and look no further for happiness
i will not turn
cos my heart has found its home

everyone i’ll never meet
and the friends i won’t now make
the adventures that there could have been
and the risks i’ll never take

but among your books and among your clothes
among your noise and fuss, i’ve let it go

i can stop and catch my breath
and look no further for happiness
and i will not turn again
cos my heart has found its home
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It's five years since Life for Rent, Dido's nine-million selling follow-up to 2001's 12-million selling debut No Angel, so you might wonder what's been taking so long. The answer, judging by her third studio album Safe Trip Home, is that Dido has been taking some time to mature, both musically and emotionally. Where Life For Rent was a series of snapshots from the life of a newly single girl (one reviewer called it the musical equivalent of Bridget Jones's Diary), Safe Trip Home is overwhelmingly coloured by the death at the end of 2006 of her father.

Dido Safe Trip Home (Sony) £12.99 Not that it's a gloomy album, but these songs are noticeably more reflective, their themes of longing and absence rooted deeper than the caprices of romantic love, and consequently it feels more serious than her previous work. The outstanding song of the album is the piercingly beautiful, Celtic-flavoured 'Grafton Street', a six-minute hymn to loss co-written with Brian Eno and featuring Mick Fleetwood on drums. Listen to it once and it will catch at your heart as a wrenching lament for a lover who will not return. Listen to it again knowing it's an account of visiting her father during his last illness and death ('My love, I know you're leaving, but I will stay here with you') and I guarantee you will be bawling your eyes out uncontrollably long after the album has finished. There's an honesty and depth to this song that you can't fake, even if you tend to the opinion that Dido's distinctive cracked falsetto generally has a limited emotional range.

But that light, husky sweetness lends itself well to intelligent mainstream pop, and this album has benefitted from time spent in LA at the studio of Jon Brion (producer of Fiona Apple, Kanye West and Rufus Wainwright), who co-produced the album alongside Dido and her brother and long-time collaborator Rollo Armstrong. Brion is also responsible for a number of the sumptuous string arrangements that swell the sound to rather grandiose levels on songs such as 'Let's Do the Things We Normally Do' and the first single, 'Don't Believe in Love', but Dido's own musical contribution is formidable: she plays keyboards, drums and/or guitar on most of the tracks. The lilting recorder solo that carries 'Grafton Street' to its haunting conclusion is apparently played on the same instrument she played as a student at the Guildhall School of Music.

The other notable contribution is from Citizen Cope, a Brooklyn-based guitarist, DJ and keyboard player, who duets on the laid-back 'Burnin Love', the grit of his voice providing a welcome contrast with hers. The nine-minute closer, 'Northern Skies', co-written with Rollo, is the nearest Dido has ever come to poetry, experimenting with little Irish vocal quavers and an expansive musical landscape that makes the more traditional pop tracks such as 'Don't Believe in Love' sound unimaginative by comparison. 'Don't say how proud you are,' she pleads in 'Let's Do the Things We Normally Do', another song that addresses an inevitable last goodbye. But this album is a mature and thoughtful collection of songs and a fine memorial to her father, who would have been right to be proud.

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Dido answers your questions
Mon 13th Oct, 2008
A little while ago, we asked you to send your questions in for Dido. Thanks to everyone who did - and thanks to Dido for emailing through her first bunch of answers. More answers coming soon. If you have an original and interesting question you'd like answered, ping it through to askdido@didomusic.com. Thanks.

Hey Dido, I wanted to know what's your favorite song from the new album?
Noel Jones
Dido replies: That changes every day and is the same with the other records. At the moment, though, I still love listening to it as a whole piece. I spent a while choosing the order of the 11 songs I picked (from a big bunch) and meant it to be a bit of a journey and so I'm still just putting it on at the beginning and going with it. Songs change for me as time goes on. That's one of the things I love about writing - how a song can change its meaning for me over the years even though I was being specific at the time.

What was the last concert you went to?
Dan from Massachusetts
Dido replies: The last thing I saw was Laura Marling doing an acoustic show in London recently. Really enjoyed it.

You wish someday see the Earth from the perspective of that astronaut of the album cover? Why you choose it?
Alexandre, Brazil
Dido replies: I would definitely love to see the earth from space if I got the chance one day. To see pictures of the earth from space reminds me how spectacularly beautiful the planet is, especially when it's in contrast to the darkness in space. And how together we all are on the planet. How everything and everyone I know and love is somewhere on the picture. I dream about floating up there and imagining the sounds, silence, sunsets, the speed of the earth spinning, sunrises, the cold, the depth of the stars. Everything! I chose the cover as the picture is one I have loved for a long time. It shows an astronaut (Bruce McCandless) trying out the first manned manoeuvre unit and he is basically the first man to go out there without cords attached as far as I can tell! (Obviously I'm not the expert). What an adventure.

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Yes, this is another of the new press shots which has been taken by photographer Kayt Jones

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Charity auction for album playback invite
Wed 15th Oct, 2008
As we revealed last week, Dido is hosting a very special playback of Safe Trip Home this weekend at a secret location. The competition to win tickets (plus travel and accommodation) has now closed, but you can still be there (and get your accommodation paid for) by bidding in a special charity auction for Oxfam, which is currently underway on eBay.


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Dido crowned songwriter of the year
Thu 16th Oct, 2008
Some news hot off the press...

London October 15, 2008: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) honoured the top writer and publisher members of the PRS - the UK's Performing Right Society - at a ceremony held at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. The top award went to Dido, who was named Songwriter of the Year and was recognised for the songs Thank You and White Flag.

Happy days.

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Deluxe CD version of Safe Trip Home available
Fri 17th Oct, 2008
A deluxe two disc version of Safe Trip Home is now available to pre-order from online retailers. The first disc contains the album, while the second disc features the bonus tracks For One Day, Summer and Northern Skies (Rollo mix), plus a special Making of Safe Trip Home film.

To pre-order it from HMV in the UK click here or to get it from Amazon in the US here.

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Live updates from tomorrow's playback
Sat 18th Oct, 2008
As you know, Dido is hosting a special advance playback for Safe Trip Home tomorrow afternoon at a secret UK location.

We're going along and we're planning to post photos and updates from the event as it happens, direct to the site. We say "planning" because apparently there isn't much of a phone signal (and certainly no wi-fi), so getting online might be a little tricky. But we're confident we'll be able to post something.

Tune in to the site from about 3pm tomorrow afternoon to (hopefully) join in the fun...



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Live from the Safe Trip Home playback
Sun 19th Oct, 2008
7.40pm: And that's it. All the pictures have been taken, all the booklets have been signed and all the fans are climbing onto the coaches for their journey back to London .It's been a great day - with the surprise show definitely the highlight. Our time has now come to leave our position by the disable toilet. Thanks for reading this - hope it's given you a bit of feel for what's been going on here. Sorry about the pictures (or lack thereof) - we'll post some up as soon as we can. G'night!

7.34pm: Turns out there are still quite a few more people left - they've been queueing outside. They look less than warm. But everyone seems very cheery.

7.24pm: We've just been having a look at your comments beneath our updates. Thanks for joining in. It's nice to know our time spent outside the disabled toilet has been worthwhile. News just in - Dido is having a glass of wine while she does the pictures/signings. We won't be too far behind her.

7.15pm: The final few fans are now having their pictures taken with Dido. We've just been chatting to a nice chap from Poland who thought the album sounded great. Apparently Dido is very popular in Poland. He also told us that the architecture in Krakow is lovely and it's definitely worth visiting. Good to know.

.6.50pm: All the fans are now going to get their picture taken with Dido. They'll also get their lyric booklets signed. Another nice touch.

6.42pm: A terrific White Flag and we're done. That was great. We're back by the disabled toilet, so you should definitely be able to read these now. People are starting to ask us why we've been standing by the disabled toilets for several hours. They don't really look like they believe us when we try to explain. Sigh.

6.28pm: We're not sure you're actually getting these updates as we're a long way from our disabled toilet signal hot spot. But hopefully they're getting thru. Dido is currently playing the recorder part at the end of Grafton Street which sounds even more haunting when it's stripped back to an acoustic arrangement.

That was the last song of the set, but after a brief break she's just walked back on for an encore of Look No Further. Hurrah!

6.13pm: Dido is very chatty and relaxed between songs. Her good mood can only have been helped by the fact that she beat us at pooh sticks when we had a wander around the grounds earlier. Life For Rent now, with Dido and Joel both strumming acoustics. Nice.

6.04pm: It's Quiet Times now, perhaps the most gorgeous song on the new album. Even without the drums and strings which drive the album version it sounds absolutely lovely. And from that it's into Thank You... 5.57pm: We've snuck into the gig with our phone. Don't Believe I Love just finished. Dido's voice sounds amazing. Really. And now she's playing the glockenspiel on Let's Do The Things We Normally Do. It's just Dido and Joel the guitar player up there.

5.48pm: All the fans are outside having a drink and some nibbles before Dido's show. It's very cold out there. Very cold indeed. The people in T-shirts clearly haven't been to Britain in October much before. One of Dido's management team just told us that Marilyn Monroe once stayed in this house too. Hope she brought a thick sweater with her.

5.25pm: So the album finished to a big round of applause from the fans - and they've just announced that Dido is going to be playing a surprise live set in about half an hour's time! Apparently she only decided a couple of days ago. Needless to say, people looked pretty pleased by the news.

518pm: The final track is now on - it's called Northern Skies and we can exclusively reveal that those are also the last two words of the album (the line is "under the wide northern skies").

5.07pm: We just spoke to Dido's PA who tells us she slept in this lovely house last night - in a room in which Henry VIII apparently once stayed. This place clearly has some history. Three songs left of the album playback. Sounds great on the big PA they've brought in especially. If the pictures don't post, we'll stick them up when we get home.

4.52pm: We can hear It Comes And It Goes wafting over from the part of the house where the playback is. We looked thru the window and everyone looks like they're listening intently. But then you'd hope so when they've come so far - there are people in there from Brazil, Poland, Italy and lots of other places. We're still working on the pictures thing. Fingers crossed we'll get there.

4.37pm: Well everyone is settled in and the playback has begun. We can't update the site from in there because a) there's no signal and b) phones aren't allowed in there, so we're back at the disabled toilet. Everyone has been given a nice little booklet with all the lyrics so that they can follow them while hearing the songs. Nice touch.

4.24pm: Hmm, not sure that picture worked. We'll try again. The fans have arrived now. They all look quite excited.

4.14pm: if this works (we're doing all this from our phone) then hopefully you'll be able to see a picture of the room where people will get to listen to the album. Comfy.

.57pm: Right, so we'll give you a bit of a description of the secret location. It's in the countryside, at an amazing old house full of battered leather sofas and roaring fires. It looks like the sort of place they have very posh wedding receptions/parties. We've just been for a wander of the grounds with Dido, who's as blown away by the surroundings as we are. It really is very beautiful here. Apparently the prize winners coming to the playback are arriving on a coach from London any minute.

. 3.40pm: We're here and if we stand in one place near the disabled toilet, we can get connection. Happy days. Sorry we've started a bit later than expected

12.47pm: We're just about to set of for the Safe Trip Home playback which Dido is hosting at a secret UK location this afternoon. The live updates will (fingers crossed) appear here.



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Aqui (http://www.didomusic.com/gb/news_and_diary/news/some_pictures_from_the_playback/) hay fotos del lugar donde se realizó la escucha del disco!
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More Ask Dido answers
Wed 22nd Oct, 2008
Here are a couple more answers from Dido to questions which you folks have emailed in to askdido@didomusic.com.

Are you afraid about coming back to your career? Because you were absent for years!!
Mohammed Kaaki, Lebanon
Dido replies: I've certainly never left my career! My life is music and it is part of my every day. I've been really enjoying touring and then making music in the studio these last few years. Learning new instruments, writing more and more, learning about every aspect of music that I can question and doing a lot of home recording! But yes, it is always a challenge for me to then bring the music into the public domain. That has never changed for me. When I write I forget that anything will be heard by anyone. It's such a personal and insular experience between me and the song and the music. So it will take me a bit of adjustment to not feel awkward about the other stuff.


Hi Dido my question is how can you describe your new album to fans who have only heard your singles up to now?
Jamie Daborn
Dido replies: It's not really up to me to describe it. I just pour everything into it and then leave that to other people when they listen. I wlll never know what people hear when they listen to it. I can only go on what I love. But the few things I can tell you are that it is still all about the song. That is what I love about making music. And this time round I decided to reference what I love about electronic music but try and make every sound with non-programmed instruments. For me, that gives it a warmth and dynamic as every keyboard sound, beat, blip, whatever is played by me or my friends. It leaves many surprises in there for the repeat listener.

If I wanted a keyboard sound we would create it with bells, orchestras, old modular synths, marimbas, glass harmonicas, old pianos, playing percussion on guitars, wind instruments, anything! If we wanted a drum loop I would go to the source and managed to work with some of the best drummers in the world (the ones we would have sampled before...). If I wanted reverb on my vocal I would climb into the reverb chamber and sing the whole song again underneath. It obviously took a little time to get the right sound sometimes but it was so much fun and totally worth it in my opinion as it creates a depth and warmth that means I'm still hearing things in the tracks I haven't heard before (and I've heard them a lot...).



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US fan contest opens
Thu 23rd Oct, 2008
Following last week's special playback event in the UK, we can reveal that Dido is hosting another Safe Trip Home listening party, in the US on November 15th.

If you live in the US and you'd like to win a trip to the party (including flights and accommodation) then click here to enter the contest, before October 31st.


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Entrevista (http://www.br-online.de/bayern3/bayern-3-der-vormittag/dido-katja-wunderlich-studiogast-ID1224839029161.xml)

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Don't Believe In Love out today
Mon 27th Oct, 2008
Dido's new single, Don't Believe In Love, is out today.
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SAFE TRIP HOME FILMS 
 
Hello again Noemi. We're pleased to announce that 11 short films are being produced to accompany the release of Dido's third studio album, Safe Trip Home. Based thematically around the concept of home, these shorts feature stories of hope, love, commitment and longing, from around the globe, a dump site in Rio, a Mumbai taxi-cab, the rugged coast of New Zealand's South Island, a Thai boxing ring and a picturesque Portuguese fishing village. You can watch the first four films at www.safetriphome.com now. Choose a location and then begin navigating your way through the films that are housed around the globe.

"I wanted every song to have its own video or film to represent the album as a whole," explains Dido. "I love seeing how someone else might interpret a song that is so specific and personal to me. It's an experiment I've been really enjoying, watching the songs be turned on their heads by these beautiful emotional visual stories that are coming out of it."
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DON'T BELIEVE IN LOVE OUT TODAY
The first single from Dido's new album, Safe Trip Home, finally hits the shops in the UK this week. If you'd like to download it from iTunes, then click here. And if you'd like to buy the CD single, then you can get it from HMV.com here. The track is also available now in iTunes stores across the world. 
 


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DIDOMUSIC.COM UPDATE
Head over to Dido's official website to catch up on all the news from the last few weeks. You can read Dido's answers to fans' questions (and submit your own), or check out our live blog from the special album playback which took place in a lovely house in the UK countryside recently. Plus we've details for US fans of a chance to win a trip to a special Stateside album playback and there are links to radio interviews from Dido's recent European promo jaunt.

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 DELUXE ALBUM
A deluxe two disc version of Safe Trip Home is now available to pre-order from online retailers. The first disc contains the album, while the second disc features the bonus tracks For One Day, Summer and Northern Skies (Rollo mix), plus a special Making of Safe Trip Home film. To pre-order it in the UK click here for HMV and here for Play.com. Or to get it from Amazon in the US here. 

See you next time,
 
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Entrevista!!!


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Life after deathArticle from: Sunday Herald SunFont size: Decrease Increase Email article: Email Print article: Print James Wigney

October 26, 2008 12:00am
IT has been more than five years since the release of Dido's last album, but she simply doesn't understand the hype about her long-awaited return.

Sitting in a rented house in the Hollywood hills, the British singer-songwriter laughs at the notion that years in the music business are like dog years and suggestions that her third album, Safe Trip Home, is something of a comeback.

"I can't see what everyone is fussing about," she says.

"I love this whole 'I'm back' thing. I didn't realise I ever went away."

Since she released Life for Rent in 2003, a new wave of British females with distinctly different sounds has ruled the airwaves, from Amy Winehouse to Duffy to Lily Allen.
The industry has changed radically and is fighting for its existence in an age of digital downloads and file sharing.

But Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (named after a Carthaginian queen) has never been about writing hits or following trends.

Her music will never be slave to a timetable, but the phenomenal success of No Angel, which featured the hits Thank You and Here With Me, and its follow-up Life For Rent, make Safe Trip Home one of this year's most eagerly anticipated releases.

"The way that I live is that I write music and play music and think music and eventually it builds into a record and then I suddenly feel very proud of it and want people to hear it," she says.

"So to me it doesn't feel like a long gap, because as long as I am moving forward and learning something about music and life, time passes very quickly."

When Dido, 36, doesn't have a release to promote or a tour to sell, she is largely invisible. Up close she is undeniably stunning, but in a very natural, girl-next-door kind of way that helps to explain why she can fly under the radar so easily. This is just the way she likes it.

Instead of drug habits, drinking problems, foul-mouthed rants and tell-all blog posts, she still has the same friends she had as a child and would be writing songs and making music regardless of whether anyone was listening. And just for the record, while she would like to at some stage, she didn't disappear to get married or have children.

"Not as far as I remember. Unless I was very drunk at the time," she says laughing.

"I have been very lucky. I have been left alone to make music over the last 10 years and it's great and I love it that way.

"I can't imagine writing songs if I was living in the public eye at the same time. That would be weird."

After touring Life For Rent for more than two years, Dido eventually returned to the studio intent on pushing her creative limits.

Where the first two albums largely were built around the electronic sounds that stemmed partly from her brother and long time collaborator, Rollo, and his dance outfit Faithless, this time Dido was intent on taking everything she loved about that style and reproducing it live in the studio.

For Safe Trip Home, she learned how to play the drums, stepped up her guitar and piano skills and took a much bigger role in producing and engineering alongside Rollo and Jon Brion, who has also worked with Kanye West and Rufus Wainwright. She also roped in Brian Eno, Mick Fleetwood and Questlove from the Roots, as well as a who's who of some of the world's finest session musicians.

RECORDED in Los Angeles and London's Abbey Road studios, the album is a revelation -- from the slinky groove of the opening track, Don't Believe in Love to the heartfelt simplicity of Quiet Times, (on which she also plays every instrument), the alt country of Burnin' Love (with US singer-songwriter Citizen Cope) to the closing eight-minute electronic epic, Northern Skies.

One song, however, stands head and shoulders above the rest -- the emotional, Celtic-influenced track called Grafton St, which was co-written with the revered Eno and is about the death of her Irish father, William, in 2006.

She pauses and shifts a little uncomfortably when the song is raised. This is one of the first times she has spoken about the song and his death and it's still a raw topic.

"It's the song that everyone is going to ask about and it's an emotional piece of music -- there is no getting away from that," she says, quietly.

"He was great. He was around to hear some of (the album), but not all of it. It's gutting for me that I can't play him the record. But I guess he can hear it. Him dying was huge. I was so close to him and it was big. I got to be with him and I was glad about that -- it's a huge event."

After rebellious teenage years and being tossed out of home, Dido was close to her father, a respected book editor and publisher who was always proud of, but rather bemused by, the success of his children.

When he finally succumbed to the auto immune disease lupus she was by his side singing the traditional Irish song Raglan Road believed to have been written about a relative of hers and containing the lyrics, "On Grafton Street in November, We tripped lightly along the ledge, Of a deep ravine where can be seen, The worst of passions pledged".

Dido is evasive about the meaning of the title of her song Grafton St, but says she poured her emotion into it through the most unlikely of pop instruments -- the recorder.

"It's a really nostalgic sound for me and my brother because that's what I played from the age of five," she says.

Dido's increasing control in the studio reflects her happiness, calmness and stability in life.

"When I was a teenager I just figured I knew stuff and never questioned it, then in my 20s I literally plummeted so hard and realised I didn't know anything," she says.

"Then you build it up again and you just sort of feel calm and easy. I am always calm on the outside, but I always have this churny, frustrated thing inside -- that's why I write."

D ESPITE the personal nature of her music, Dido says she is not trying to present a portrait of herself. Rather there are small snapshots of intense moments or feelings in her life.

She is delighted on hearing an inaccurate suggestion of what one song represents and loves the fact that what can be so specific and intimate to her can resonate in so many different ways with her millions of fans around the world.

"It's bizarre," she says with a laugh.

"I wouldn't know how to make something universal if I had a gun to my head. I have learned that if I am really honest with myself and pour everything into the songs and trust my instincts, then I hope people enjoy it. The only thing I can have any control over is what I put in. God knows what people will get out of it."

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Dido: queen of the road
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 29/10/2008Page 1 of 3



Dido is Britain's most successful female artist ever, yet is releasing only her third album since her 1999 breakthrough. She tells Sheryl Garratt about the physical and emotional journeys that have brought her this far. Photographs by Kayt Jones

It's 6.30pm on an autumn evening in Los Angeles, and Dido is driving down Santa Monica Boulevard facing right into the setting sun. The glare is blinding and she cheerfully admits she can barely see, which is worrying because when he said goodbye earlier, her manager, Peter Leak, had made some pointed quips about her eccentric 'jazz driving'

'It's always like this when the sun is going down,' she says, squinting through the windscreen. 'Earlier this year I got a bicycle. What I was thinking, I have no idea. I'd cycle along the road parallel to this, and no one could see me coming. It was like being on a rollercoaster!'

She seems very much at home in LA, so much so that I had assumed that she had moved here. She has lived here, on and off, since coming to do some writing with the producer Jon Brion in 2005, and this is where she has ended up writing and recording most of her long-awaited third album, Safe Trip Home. But it turns out that the Lexus utility vehicle she is driving is a rental, as is her house in West Hollywood, and her roots are still in Islington where she grew up.

'London is still where all my stuff is, where I feel at home,' she explains. 'I'm just really enjoying working here. Los Angeles is a city built on storytelling, on imagination and ideas. And after a while you start soaking that up. It's very easy to get into a headspace that's good for writing. There's a lot to look at, a lot of emotional stuff going on. I've felt so creative and so confident here, but this isn't somewhere I would set up shop permanently. It's a great city, but you need to be able to leave it.'

Earlier that evening, I had watched her rehearse in a cramped but cosy studio space in West Hollywood kept by her guitarist, Joel Shearer. With the album finished, Dido is in that delicate transition period when songs that were private are starting to become public, and when she will soon have to take music created in the closed world of the recording studio out to live audiences.

'Which is always a shocker for me!' she says. 'I still forget that anyone's actually going to hear it while I'm writing songs. It just becomes a relationship between you and the music, you and the emotion. You're not thinking at that point, you're not even filtering yourself - you're not having to, because it's just you sitting on your own in the kitchen. If I did think about the eventual audience, I don't think I could do it.'

Right now she is easing into it all gently, playing with just Shearer and the percussionist Brendan Buckley. She seems relaxed, happy, totally in charge as she swaps from piano to guitar to recorder and confidently runs through four songs from the new album in that pure, clear voice. When she sings the hauntingly beautiful Grafton Street, about the death of her father in 2006, I find myself blinking away tears.

'We had a good day today,' she smiles as they pack up for the weekend, adding that they had even learnt a new song, one she might include on her fourth album. She's on a creative roll at the moment, writing so prolifically that she's reluctant to stop. The album was originally due to come out at the start of 2008, but she ended up delaying it to add some new tracks, and now she is collecting songs for the follow-up before the ideas get lost in the whirlwind of promotion and touring. 'I know that if I break this run, it's not going to happen like this again,' she says. 'I just became oblivious to the outside world and got into writing.'

One of her great strengths, as a songwriter and as a performer, is her ability to make what feels like a direct, emotional connection with the listener. This is perhaps not so hard today, when she's playing to an audience consisting of me and her manager, but she also pulls it off on a far grander scale. Sales of her first two albums now total some 22 million, making her the most successful female artist ever to come out of Britain. Which is surprising, since all she set out to do, in the beginning, was record a low-key chill-out album.

Dido recorded No Angel for her older brother Rollo's independent dance label, Cheeky, signing with him in Britain, and Arista for the rest of the world. But when Rollo decided he wasn't cut out to be a record executive - he is primarily a producer, as well as being a key member of the dance group Faithless - and began negotiations to sell out to Arista, Dido's album was delayed. Released in the States in the summer of 1999, it didn't come out in Britain until early 2001. With little else to do, she went to the States and did the kind of promotion few British acts are willing to do, criss-crossing the country to do radio interviews, meet-and-greets of sales teams, and gigs in tiny venues for 18 exhausting months. There was never any grand plan, she says. 'I sort of set off and just kept going. It was always, "Well, just do this one thing more", and then this one other thing more.'
 





 
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Each week, the album sold a little more than the week before, and when one of the tracks was chosen as the theme music for the cult sci-fi tele­vision series Roswell High, sales finally passed the million mark. Shortly afterwards, Eminem sampled her sweet love song Thank You and twisted it into a tale of warped obsession on his single Stan towards the end of 2000, and Dido became a worldwide phenomenon.

With her sometimes deceptively gentle, beautifully crafted songs, Dido is now one of the few British acts - Coldplay being the other big one - to make a substantial impact on the US charts. Yet when we sit down in a busy health food restaurant to talk after her rehearsal, no one appears to recognise her. Wearing her blond hair scraped back into a ponytail, ripped jeans and an off-the-shoulder white T-shirt, she looks younger than her 36 years, and not at all conspicuous. Only the rather lovely Miu Miu handbag at her feet hints at what must, by now, be a very healthy bank balance. But some time ago Dido worked out what makes her happy, and it isn't buying lots of stuff, or surrounding herself with too much clutter or complication. It is, simply, making and playing music. 'I love what I do, and I feel very confident as a songwriter,' she says. 'In so many other things in life I'm just so awkward and clumsy. I'm lost! I have moments when I can talk clearly, and moments when I just can't.'

Music is her way of expressing herself, of interacting with the world. It calms her. 'If I'm frightened, or I'm really stressed, I'll find myself humming and singing,' she says. 'There was an earthquake here recently, and my house is quite tall and wooden, and I felt like it was going to fall. Then I found myself starting a little song, and I immediately calmed down.'

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When Dido first came to LA, she stayed in a big house up in the Hollywood Hills. She had a bed, a piano and one bag of clothes. After injuring herself on a trip to Mexico - she is notoriously accident-prone - and finding it hard to walk, she bought herself a drum-kit as a way of staying active. 'I was just sitting on the sofa, and I'm not good if I'm not moving,' she says. 'So I thought it might be nice to hit things. And then I got obsessed, and would just play along with my iPod. It became a really good writing tool. If I'm writing on the guitar I'll move to the piano if I get a bit stuck, and now I can take it to the drums as well. Which can sometimes free up a part of your brain. Drumming is great for that, it just lets something go. God knows how it sounds, but I don't care. I just enjoy doing it.'

This spartan existence - just her, the piano, the drums and the bag - continued for more than a year. She loved the simplicity of it, she says. The views were great from her house in the hills, and with no near neighbours she could make as much noise as she liked. 'But it felt weird up there, full of people who don't talk to each other. So now I've moved my bag to a smaller place where I've got neighbours, and it's really nice.'

The new house is tiny, she adds. Which is just as she likes it. 'It's perfect,' she says. 'Everything is within arm's reach, so I can just write a song and I don't have to worry about moving stuff to another room or anything. I like things simple, and I actually get quite tense if I've got too many things around me. You work these things out about yourself as you get older. And what am I going to write songs about if I'm rambling around in a big old mansion?'

Success came late for Dido. She was almost 30 when the big cheques began to come in from No Angel, and as a result she perhaps has a more balanced approach to it all. 'God knows what would have happened if all this had happened to me when I was 19,' she laughs. 'I was an absolute mess! But now, you've established your life, you know what you love doing, and it's very important to me - for songwriting - to not disturb that equilibrium.'

So although her place in Islington is lovely, it is not palatial. One of the great pleasures of success is being able to look after people close to her, and it has also enabled her to quietly put money behind one of her passions: education, especially for girls, funding schools in the developing world via Oxfam. When I ask what her indulgences are, she says buying musical instruments, mainly. And a season ticket to her beloved Arsenal, although she hasn't been able to see many matches recently. 'Someone else has been borrowing it. I last used it in April.'

She enjoys clothes, but she rarely goes out to buy them. 'I'm quite lazy about what I wear. It just feels like life's too short, and there are certain things I just can't be bothered with - like getting dressed up, and going shopping.' The only time she has been into a shop in LA this year was to buy her assistant a birthday present. 'I hate it,' she shrugs. 'I find it a very hostile environment.'
 
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freedom in that, and she feels very lucky. 'But I don't feel the need to do anything wildly different from how I've always done it.'

Fame seems of no interest to her, either. She is rarely seen at awards ceremonies, premieres or industry back-slapping events, and with just a few exceptions - such as the paparazzi trying to get into the hospital when her father was ill - she has sidestepped becoming yet another character in the tabloids' celebrity soap opera. She has been lucky to be left alone, she says, and she hopes to keep it that way. So when I later ask if she is still single, she just smiles and says she has strict boundaries now, and avoids talking about her personal life. 'But - I'm very happy.'

We first met in 2001, just as No Angel was breaking big, and she seems to have changed very little: she's more confident, more self-assured, but then she's also seven years older. 'There's a confidence that comes with that,' she agrees. 'You accept certain things about yourself - like I'm never going to be Christy Turlington, and that's OK! I like being a woman, and I haven't reached a point yet where I feel negative about getting older - my life has only got better. I'm sure there is a point where you start coming down the other side of the mountain, but I can look back now on all sorts of stuff - even interviews - and see that old uncertainty, and realise I don't feel that any more.'

Dido's background is often described, somewhat snottily, as privileged. She grew up in a big, book-filled house in north London, and her early aptitude for music was encouraged with lessons at the Guildhall School of Music. Her father, William Armstrong, headed the publishing house Sidgwick & Jackson for 25 years until illness forced an early retirement in 1995, building up an extraordinarily varied list from serious history tomes to early bonkbusters and memoirs from the likes of Reg and Ron Kray, Bob Geldof and Boy George. Her mother, Clare, is a somewhat eccentric poet who often acted more like a friend than a parent.

Dido and Rollo, now 42, grew up without the kind of consistent boundaries and routines children often need. There were rules, but they tended to be arbitrary. They could come and go as they pleased, and in her teens Dido would disappear for days on end without comment, only to be shouted at for not wearing her slippers in the house. Everything about her family seemed different: they had no TV, no stereo, and no visitors. Clare shared her daughter's aversion to shopping, so the children's clothes were always oddly mismatched, while their packed lunches at school would be dried banana chips or leftover ratatouille rather than the nice white-bread sandwiches and Penguin bars everyone else seemed to have.

And then, of course, there were their names. Dido was named after the Queen of Carthage mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid, which you would think would be burden enough. (When meeting new people, she often tried to pretend she was called Clare or Chloe.) But her birth certificate, famously, lists her glorious full name as Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong. Now, both siblings can see that there were advantages to their unorthodox upbringing, and they wonder if either of them would be as creative without it. But when they were younger and desperate to fit in, it must have been tough. 'We've always striven to be… normal,' Dido told me in 2001.

An intense, self-contained child who often practised on her recorder, piano and violin for six or seven hours a day, she went off the rails as a teenager. She became a Goth, got into fights, and scraped through her A-levels with such a lack of commitment that her parents refused to fund her through university. So she left home and got a job as a waitress, then followed the advice of one of her father's authors, Shirley Conran, and went to secretarial school. Afterwards she worked in publishing, and by the mid-1990s she was studying for a law degree at night but also hanging round the studio while Faithless made their first album, Reverence. Rollo, who had already enjoyed a string of one-off dance hits at this point, discouraged her musical ambitions, feeling luck could not hit the same family twice, but she persisted and was finally allowed to sing on a couple of tracks. She has contributed a guest vocal on every Faithless album since, while Rollo has helped out on hers.

Although just over half of Safe Trip Home was recorded with Jon Brion (a producer and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with left-field artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple and Aimee Mann), her brother came out to LA this summer with his partner and their two young sons, and Dido says it was almost like the old days: Faithless worked on their new album in the studio while she worked on songs in the programming room, then Rollo and Sister Bliss, the main musician in Faithless, pitched in on her tracks.

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Dido rarely talks about her lyrics, saying it stops people interpreting songs for themselves, and also that it would stop her writing freely if she felt she would have to explain it. Some of the lyrics have always been Rollo's, she points out, and not all of her songs are about her life. 'Obviously you're going to use your own emotional experiences, but I'm not trying to diarise my life through music. I've no desire to do that whatsoever.'

She does, however, say that her father's death, at the age of 68, after a long struggle with the auto-immune disease lupus, has influenced some of the new songs, especially Grafton Street, on which Dido plays the first instrument she ever learnt, the recorder.

'I'm proud that Rollo and I managed to do something that is a really lovely tribute to Dad,' she says quietly. 'That song still really moves me. And I'm so glad I put the recorder on it. At the time I thought, "Oh God, I can't believe I'm doing this!" But I didn't care what anyone thought of the song, I just wanted to make it. Dad is so much responsible for the way I am, and for me being creative. His way of telling us bedtime stories was to sing all his Irish songs, and you could hear him coming a mile off in the car with his overly loud Irish music. I loved it, and I know that was instilled into me. He always supported anything creative we've done, and there was never any pressure. He was just immensely, immensely proud.'

Before finishing her second album, Life For Rent, in 2003, Dido separated from her partner of seven years, Bob Page, a music industry lawyer. After touring to promote the record, she travelled alone to places such as Thailand, Canada and Ireland, revelling in her new freedoms. At the time she talked excitedly about having adventures, of trying new things like snowboarding and parachuting, but when her father's health deteriorated she headed back home.

'I've been remarkably rooted in wherever I am for the last years, and part of that was because of Dad. I just wanted to be with him when I was in London. I'd go to see him every morning and every evening, and I had just no desire to go anywhere else. I knew if I did, I just wouldn't enjoy myself anyway. And I really enjoyed that time we had, actually. Loved it.'

I wonder if she went back to the adventures afterwards, but she says she feels less restless, immersed in her work. Her explorations are different now. She has been mastering the technical side of studio work, and can now record her own songs on to her laptop, at home. One song on the album, Quiet Times, was recorded this way, with her playing everything, including the drums. She never did go sky-diving.

'People kept putting me off.Nobody seems to want me to jump out of a plane! Not with my record for clumsiness. A couple of years ago, I decided I wanted to learn to fly. Because you can do it here, and I just thought it would be amazing. And everyone was just like, "No! Not with your driving skills!"'

She's not that bad a driver, she huffs, saying that it's hard to avoid accidents in LA. 'People just come bumping into you. You'll be sitting at a traffic light, and bang! It's extraordinary here, there's a lot of people in their cars multi-tasking - putting lipstick on while talking on the phone.'

When she first came to the city, she would drive around at night, listening to Turin Brakes and Citizen Cope, or the string arrangements on Randy Newman and Nilsson. Later, she would go on longer road trips to Kings Canyon in the Sierra Nevada mountains, to the Yosemite National Park, driving alone across the desert for hours on end playing Brian Eno's pioneering ambient exploration Another Green World.

'Eno definitely works in the desert, at sunset,' she says. 'Music is an emotional thing for me - I'm not someone who has it on in the background. That's why I like listening when I'm driving. Because I want to listen. It transports you.'

She ended up working with Eno and Cope on the new album, which also boasts some gorgeously lush string arrangements. But mainly, on these trips, she's catching up on music she missed, growing up without a stereo. From classic disco to singer-songwriters such as James Taylor and Carole King, there's always something else to discover. 'The thing I love about music is I'm never going to have to stop learning. There's just so much,' she enthuses.

Talk to Dido for long, and you will notice that the word 'learning' comes up a lot. Last year she started taking English classes at UCLA. She never did complete her law course, but she is now thinking about enrolling to do an English degree.

'It was really fun,' she says of the night classes she took at UCLA while making her album. 'I'd leave the studio early evening, go off and do this quite intense class, and I'd come back and I'd just be on fire! I did it purely to enjoy it and learn. We were doing mythology - I even had to read most of the Bible, which was bizarre. But it was fascinating, and I'd like to do more. Do that, do gigs, write songs and record… that's my ideal life, and that's what I'm heading for.'



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Don't Believe in Love

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Dido answers more of your questions
Fri 31st Oct, 2008
Here are Dido's latest answers to questions which you folks have emailed in to askdido@didomusic.com.

Hi, Dido! I must say I was a bit inspired seeing you play the recorder on Grafton Street! And now I want to learn to play it myself :)! What kind of recorder was that? I saw it was wooden, and you were assembling it, it had like 3 parts, right?
Evaldas
Dido replies: It was a treble recorder. The best one to start on is that or a descant (which is smaller). Good luck!

Now we know you are interested in politics, so what do you think of the U.S. election? And who do you think will win?
Michael
Dido replies: I think the result concerns all of us in our daily lives, across the whole world. I wish we all got a chance to vote. I really do. If I could vote I would vote for Barack Obama without any doubt.

Dido will you marry me?
Chris Austin
Dido replies: :-) Not in this life time but thanks for asking.

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More 'Ask Dido' questions answered
Mon 3rd Nov, 2008
Hey folks. Here are some more of Dido's answers to the questions which you've been sending to askdido@didomusic.com.

What one piece of advice would you give to brilliant newcomers like Duffy, Mika, Feist, Adele and many others?
Jorge Pagaza, Mexico.
Dido replies: They don't need any advice from me! They're all brilliant, self-assured, amazing, talented artists who I love listening to.

Your favourite place in the world?
Sam Milgate
Dido replies: The west coast of Ireland. In Conemara. And my bed.

I was wondering if you would consider releasing (and maybe re-recording) the songs from your demo such as Too Bad, Keep Your Faith In Me and especially one of my favorite songs Give Me Strength?
Justin
Dido replies: Probably not! I think these were songs that were early experiments that I then grew out of or wasn't moved enough by them at that time in my life to sing them anymore. I loved the Over The Rhine version of Give Me Strength, though.

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Another film added to SafeTripHome.com
Tue 4th Nov, 2008
Head over to SafeTripHome.com to check out a new film on the site. This one was directed by Tinge Krishnan and is set in Bangkok. It's soundtracked by It Comes And It Goes, a rather lovely track from Dido's new album.

Let us know what you think of the film - and the song!

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Dido on Regis and Kelly on Friday
Wed 5th Nov, 2008
Hey folks. Dido is now over in America, promoting the album's release (not long to go now!).
Following radio appearances today and tomorrow, Dido will be appearing on Live with Regis and Kelly on Friday morning-

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Dido rocks steady in her 'Safe Trip Home'
Friday, October 31st 2008, 8:34 PM
DIDO. "Safe Trip Home" (Arista)

Dido delivers devastating news with a shrug. Whether she's vowing to fight to the death for a lover, or raking herself over the coals for her most ruinous flaws, she sounds no more agitated than if she had just sat down to a quiet afternoon tea.

In every song, Dido keeps her volume measured and her tone even. It's a style that can most topically be described as "Obama-esque." She's pop's most unflappable singer.

You'll find no change in that style on "Safe Trip Home," Dido's third CD. It's yet another poised, understated, tasteful affair.

If such consistency could signal a stasis for many artists - or worse, numb their listeners into a stupor - Dido continues to beguile, and in a striking number of ways.

First, there are her finely spun melodies and carefully chosen lyrics. Then there's the inventive arrangements of her latest producer, Jon Brion (who has done parallel wonders for female singers like Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple). But the cornerstone of Dido's appeal remains the consideration of her vocals.

That wasn't always so obvious. She began in the duo Faithless, as one of many singers who mined a style of wan understatement. Scores of groups, from Everything But the Girl to Portishead to Morcheeba, all provided variations on this sallow approach.

But for her solo albums, starting with 1999's "No Angel," Dido refocused her energies, bridging the roles of singer-songwriter and art-song chanteuse.

In her work since, she has always employed the tools of a good actor: communicating rich emotion in small gestures, thereby making sure to leave room for the audience to feel everything they know she's holding back.

Listeners sense that unstated well of pain on the new album, starting from the opening song, "Don't Believe in Love." Here she sings plainly about her inability to connect to a romantic partner. It's a song, like many on the CD, that involves guilt and regret. But Dido's concentrated tone, and her reluctance to let the full ruin of her realization show, involves the listener all the more intimately in her plight.

The singer has found a great partner in producer Brion. A veteran of soundtracks, he knows how to use just the right instruments to underscore a mood, to create the perfect setting for a character. In "Look No Further," the flinty strings have a subconscious resonance. In "Let's Do the Things We Normally Do," an askew violin creates a dreamlike backdrop, while the one track cut with Eno ("Grafton Street") hinges on a synth that lopes like a ghost.

It's impressive stuff, but the setting would mean nothing without Dido's presence at the fore. Once again, she makes the case for less as so much more.

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Dido iPhone site launches
Thu 6th Nov, 2008
We've tweaked the didomusic.com site so that it runs more smoothly on an iPhone (or, indeed, iPod touch).

You can view all of the same sections as the normal desktop browser version, and you can still login to leave comments.



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SAFE TRIP HOME OUT VERY SOON!

Dido's third album, Safe Trip Home, is released in just over a week - and the glowing reviews are already flowing in from across the globe.
If you'd like to pre-order a copy of the album on CD or download, click here to go to our pre-orders page and order from the retailer nearest to you. 
 


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US TV PERFORMANCES COMING UP
Following her appearance on Live with Regis and Kelly today, Dido has two more big US TV appearances next week. She's on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday Nov 10th and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday Nov 12th, both on NBC. Dido is also playing a special show for KLLC Radio in San Francisco on Nov 12th. If you'd like to win one of 25 pairs of tickets to the show which we have to give away, then click here.

That's about all for this time.

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Aquí­ teneis fotos (http://www.didomusic.com/gb/news_and_diary/news/pictures_from_the_playback/)
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It Comes And It Goes

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Let's Do The Things We Normally Do

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By Ann Donahue

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Dido counts herself lucky. The British pop singer has two homes: one in Los Angeles and one in London. And by "homes," she doesn't necessarily mean houses -- she means places where she feels comfortable and creative.

"London is still home -- but I feel real love for Los Angeles," she says. "It's a city built on people having an imagination."

Sitting at the dining room table at a house in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon, Dido says that in the five years since her last album, "Life for Rent," she spent time reconnecting with family and friends -- and gaining confidence to explore new kinds of music.

That search, with the assistance of producers Jon Brion and Dido's brother, Rollo Armstrong, led to "Safe Trip Home," due November 18 from RCA. While the songwriting is classic Dido, with haunting, personal lyrics about life's bittersweet turns, the musical accompaniments are unusual, featuring everything from Swiss hand bells to strings and woodwinds.

Dido's sound has evolved on lengthy, reverb-laden tracks like "Northern Skies" and "Let's Do the Things We Normally Do," which show a Brian Eno influence. But it won't come across as jarring to a massive fan base that snapped up 4.2 million U.S. copies of 1999's "No Angel," thanks in part to Eminem's use of "Thankyou" for his smash hit "Stan." After its 2003 release, "Life for Rent" went on to sell 2.1 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Dido's U.K. sales numbers are astonishing. "No Angel" is the No. 2 album of the decade so far, behind James Blunt's "Back to Bedlam" (3.2 million vs. 3 million). "Life for Rent" was the top-selling U.K. album of 2003; sales stand at 2.8 million, according to the Official U.K. Charts Co.

"Safe Trip Home" is Dido's first album release since the Internet conquered the music industry. As such, RCA is developing a social networking site based on the creation of user-generated short films inspired by songs on the new album.

The site (http://www.youtube.com/safetriphome) encourages amateur cineastes to showcase their work and for Dido fans to respond to those videos.

"Because she is a global artist, we reached out to different directors in different parts of the world and asked them to create films based on what their concept of 'home' might be," Dido's manager Peter Leak says.

In some cases, there are literal travelogues of a hometown; others are esoteric depictions of what the filmmaker finds comforting.

As for touring of the nonvirtual kind, Dido is planning listening parties in London and L.A. before street date, but she hasn't yet committed to a full schedule of roadwork. "It's been something that has been important to her, that this record is presented to her fans first," says Aaron Borns, RCA Music Group senior VP of marketing and Dido's domestic product manager.

Inevitably she will hit the road, says London-based Nigel Hassler at Helter Skelter, who books the singer globally outside North America.

"On her last tour she played mainly prestigious open-air venues -- amphitheaters, castles and stately homes -- plus a run of arena shows," Hassler says.

Outside the United Kingdom, France is one of her strongest territories in terms of sales and touring, Hassler says, recalling a "truly magical" 2004 show at the ancient Roman amphitheater Nimes Arena in front of a sold-out crowd of 12,000. Hassler also reports "a lot of demand" from markets where Dido has yet to tour extensively, including Australia, China, South Africa and Southeast Asia.

Of course, you can take the girl out of London, but you can't take London out of the girl. "I drank an enormous amount of Guinness during the course of the album," she says. "We had a Guinness tap in the studio inside of a kegerator. It is a food group, in my opinion."

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Album of the Week: Dido - Safe Trip Home
 
 
By Gavin Martin 7/11/2008

4/5

She is a personal diarist with mass appeal, like Bridget Jones with a microphone.

Dido’s previous two albums, No Angel (1999) and Life For Rent (2003), sold an astonishing 21 million copies in total.

Astonishing because Dido’s talent does not reach out and demand attention. Instead of trumpeting their arrival with flashy conceits and octave-scaling showboating, her songs are about everyday experiences and relationships.

On Look No Further, she lays out the credentials that have endeared her to so many – spurning the high life that’s surely within her grasp, she conjures a classically-cushioned, mellow beat-driven vision of hearts and home.

Compare this album to the naughty burlesque come-ons of Madonna’s Hard Candy – and hear why 36-year-old Dido is the genuine English home girl that Madonna, despite marriage and relocation, never could be.

No matter that Dido’s posher than the Queen or that her first album in five years was partly recorded in Los Angeles with an American producer. Her London Guildhall music background and chilled club culture connection (strengthened by her brother Rolo’s part in dance collective Faithless) are steady foundations
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Don't Believe In Love (live)

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Leno and Ellen appearances this week
Mon 10th Nov, 2008
Hey folks. We have two more US TV appearances to tell you about. This evening, Dido will be appearing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC. Then, on Wednesday, she's on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, also on NBC.

In other news, the album is out here in the UK a week today. Woot!

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More of your questions answered
Tue 11th Nov, 2008
Here are some more of Dido's answers to the questions which you've been emailing to askdido@didomusic.com (keep 'em coming!).

Hola Dido!! When I listen for the first time your song, Look No Further, remind me the old films with Humphry Bogart or Audrey Hepburn. Did you do it on purpose?
Miri From Spain
Dido replies: It was a bit of an accident of how the strings came out on the day. A combination of microphones, the brilliant Jon Brion arrangement and the way they were playing. Not intentional but yes, I hear it too! I love that about it.

What is your favorite brand and kind of chocolate?
Lots of Love,
Sarah
Dido replies: Twix, or Green and Blacks mint (but kept in the freezer), or a Cadbury's whole nut.

Why did not you clean your shoes after leaving the beach?
Ruben
Dido replies: Because my mum told me not to.

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Hear the new album now!
Wed 12th Nov, 2008
With the release of Dido's new album, Safe Trip Home, now just days away, you can finally check out what all the fuss is about by listening to the entire thing, for free, online, thanks to a world premiere of the record on iLike.

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Dido/album/Safe+Trip+Home (http://www.ilike.com/artist/Dido/album/Safe+Trip+Home)

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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 14, 2008, 01:25:44 am
En People!!

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Y en la Rolling Stone!

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En Red!

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DBIL @ Jay Leno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBolT56lxU&e (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBolT56lxU&e)

En Ellen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ggO9bDKgs&e (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ggO9bDKgs&e)
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 15, 2008, 01:34:51 am
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Dido
Safe Trip Home
RCA, £12.99

The biggest selling British female artist in the world today, Dido is often dismissed for making unobtrusive dinner-party music, which really does her an injustice.

Her musical palette may embrace the soft sounds of ambient electronics and the flowing melodiousness of folk, but she has a real gift for conveying simple, emotional truth with deceptively artful songs and the touching purity of her gentle, aching vocals.

Only her third album in nine years, Safe Trip Home somehow distils the essence of Dido even further. On first acquaintance, it is almost sombre, such is the understatement of her arrangements. She has reined back on the electronics, with more real instrumentation. Even with a band playing silkily syncopated grooves, often underpinned by lush orchestration, the overall effect is one of quiet stillness.

The focus is all on Dido's voice, her languid pacing, her soft tone. She seems to have an intimate relationship with the microphone, never singing louder than is strictly necessary. Yet she has this little lift in her throat, and when her voice rises a quivering octave for just a moment, almost threatening to break, it is enormously affecting.

It is an album full of need, whether questioning her own emotional detachment (Don't Believe In Love) or craving the human touch (Burnin' Love). At its core is a kind of positive grief, with a range of songs that embrace the complex emotions of loss, as full of delight in the memory of a loved one as sorrow at their departure.

Although not explicitly stated, when you know that much of the album was composed while Dido's father suffered through terminal illness, songs gain added emotional heft. Safe Trip Home is elegiac in the true sense of the word, yet it is not bleak - it is too full of warmth and tenderness for that. Neil McCormick


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Dido: New album helped me cope with death of my father
Nov 14 2008 By Rick Fulton

DIDO opens her heart in her new album, Safe Trip Home, as she tries to get over the death of her father.

The singer has dedicated one of the best tracks, Grafton Street, to her dad William, who died in 2006, aged 68, from chronic autoimmune disease lupus.

But the 36-year old insists her third album isn't all downbeat, and neither is she.

"It wasn't my intention to record a completely sad CD," she said.

"And that's not me. I go out, I dance, I drink and go crazy to Diana Ross or Slave To The Rhythm by Grace Jones."

Safe Trip Home, out on Monday, is Dido's first album since Life For Rent in 2003.

It's undeniably introspective, perfect for those going through relationship break-ups or the pain of losing a loved one.

There are songs such as The Day Before The Day, with lyrics "No flags will fly, the sun will rise, but we will know that you are gone". It has all the gorgeousness of Abba at their saddest.

But the album's most heartbreaking song is Grafton Street, which includes a haunting recorder solo by Dido, the instrument she played at the Guildhall School of Music.

She said: "It wasn't easy for me to write this song. If emotions are too fresh and too new, it's not good to put them into a song.

"But then I was glad that I had the possibility to express it, that I could write this song. My dad was a huge and important part of my life. There wasn't any question his death, which was one of my most far-reaching events of my life, would flow into my music.

"Maybe I leave myself exposed, but I find it hard to do anything that isn't emotional or doesn't move me in some way."

While this album is Dido's most mature and reflective, it also shows off her stunning musicianship. As well as battering out a neat line in indie drums on Quiet Times, she also plays guitar, piano, keyboards, Omnichord, recorder, bells and co-produced the album with Jon Brion, who has helmed Kanye West's Graduation and Keane's song Spiralling.

Dido hopes her excitement at being in the studio has rubbed off on the music and, while the album may be intense, she had a great time making it.

She said: "It is full of the joy of making music. The process has been a wonderful experience, something to cherish. I've put every emotion into these songs. And now I just really hope they move people."

As always with a Dido album, people are moved to buy it. Her debut, No Angel, while ignored on its first release in 1999, sold 12 million copies when rereleased in 2001, after her tune Thank You was sampled by Eminem on his song Stan.

She has now sold 22 million physical copies of her first two albums. She admitted that going from nobody to one of the world's biggest stars was a whirlwind.

"When I got back from touring early in 2005, it took a while just to take in what had happened," she said.

"I was so unprepared.

"As far as I was concerned, I was making this little underground record for me to listen to and then, suddenly, eight years later I was getting off this incredible speeding train.

"I'd had an amazing time, but I guess I needed to take a step back, reconnect with normal life and bring the focus 100 per cent back to music."

After meeting Jon Brion at London's Abbey Road studios, she relocated to Los Angeles.

There she worked on a number of songs, including Grafton Street, which had started in Brian Eno's studio. Mick Fleetwood later played drums on the track.

Dido also took music courses at UCLA and learned about engineering, arranging and mastering.

She said: "I wasn't actually a big fan of LA before, but it turned out to be an amazing place to follow through an idea and keep going without anyone saying you're being completely ridiculous.

"It's a city built on imagination, story-telling and creativity.

"Plus, everyone seems to go to bed at 9pm, so I'd get a lot done at night."

When she came back to London and hooked up again with her brother, Rollo, the Faithless producer who co-wrote and coproduced her first two albums, she decided to use what she'd learned and began recording on her kitchen table using a laptop and a microphone.

"If you listen closely, you can hear my neighbours drilling or the rain pelting down outside," she said.

For Dido, home really is sweet.

Safe Trip Home is out on Monday.

'It wasn't easy for me to write this song. There wasn't any question that my dad's death would flow into my music'

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Tras cinco años alejada de los escenarios regresa Dido. La cantante rompe su silencio con Safe trip home, un disco que ha contado con su armario de la limpiaza como estudio de grabación para algunos temas, ya que "sonaban guay y polvorientas", y que verá la luz el próximo 18 de noviembre.

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ARTIST: DIDO

ALBUM: SAFE TRIP HOME (ARISTA)

Dido's haunted voice is a flat line: Whether she's singing bold dismissals like "I can't look at you this morning," or loving declarations like "My heart has found its home," those gauze-covered pipes never modulate. So the sonic settings into which they're placed are all the more important. Her third studio album employs fewer electronic whooshes and more real instruments than the previous two, making it smaller, finer and a better showcase for her uncluttered melodies and lyrics. There are a lot of perfect little songs here; they run less than four minutes, but are rich and deep. "Quiet Times" is a shuffling, string-laden shanty that recalls great Brit folk-pop band the Sundays. "It Comes and It Goes" has an irresistible sway, while "The Day Before the Day" is quietly devastating. There isn't a standout single, but this is Dido's most fully realized and elegantly rendered collection.

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By ANN POWERS, Pop Music Critic
November 18, 2008
Talking about her new album at a Hollywood rehearsal studio last month, Dido Armstrong used one word more than any other -- 14 times, in fact, over the course of an hour. The word was "emotion." This was a bit surprising, since Dido is pretty much the living picture of musical reserve.

"I pull emotion into these songs," said the English singer-songwriter, whose third studio album, "Safe Trip Home," will be released today in the U.S. "Sometimes it's my emotions, sometimes it's something I've picked up. But then it becomes yours when you take it on."

Dido is contemporary pop's most resolute plain Jane, even more firmly undramatic than her American counterpart, Norah Jones. Her two multi-platinum albums and her sampled vocal on Eminem's 2000 hit "Stan" made her a single-named pop star, but she truly wouldn't cause a stir at the grocery store. She's sensible-ponytail pretty, embodying that pre-feminist term for self-possession, "demureness."

Another word Dido often uses is "insular" -- that one describes not her music but herself.

"I will just say things how they are," she said of her songs, which are considered by admiring fellow songwriters to be models of unfussy introspection. "I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road."

The delicate strength of Dido's music has made her an unexpected critical favorite. She's the kind of artist who's often dismissed by tastemakers as too bland, yet many find themselves drawn into her songs despite themselves. "It has its own kind of integrity," wrote Barry Walters in Rolling Stone, reviewing 2003's "Life for Rent." Similar, somewhat startled praise is now filtering in for "Safe Trip Home."

"She's much maligned as hitting that place on the first album where every 25- to 35-year-old woman owned her record," said Nic Harcourt, the outgoing music director of KCRW, who claims first rights on playing Dido in the U.S. "Then it sort of becomes, 'Oh my God, she's everywhere.' But if you take a listen to the songs, she's just a really good songwriter. At the end of the day, that's what comes through."

Legacy of vocalists

Dido is a careful miniaturist in a field in which bold strokes are more rewarded, especially from women. Emerging from England's down-tempo electronic music scene in collaboration with her brother, Rollo Armstrong of the band Faithless, her style stood out in contrast to more picturesque divas like Portishead's Beth Gibbons or Tricky's partner, Martina Topley-Bird.

But she was also upholding the legacy of reserved feminine voices that extends throughout European pop from Franí§oise Hardy to early Marianne Faithfull to Linda Thompson to Sade, Tracey Thorn and Beth Orton.

"She's one of the most naturally gifted singers I've witnessed," said Jon Brion, who produced much of "Safe Trip Home," in a phone interview. "Her sense of time, her sense of musicality is huge. Partly because she's had success, and partly because the pure electronic quality of her earlier records, and the subtlety of this kind of singing, I don't think people realize how deeply musical and flowing it is -- and how it influences the musicians around her."

Enlisting Brion on "Safe Trip Home" brought the kind of drama Dido welcomes. As a producer, the Los Angeles-based Brion is best known for spinning gold from unruly souls like Kanye West, Rufus Wainwright and Fiona Apple. He and Dido first connected as writing partners, but a studio collaboration soon evolved.

"I was actually a fan of her writing," Brion said. "With a lot of people who are making things, you feel like it's running through a borrowed filter. It's their idea of what it means to be an artist. Whereas, there's a point in which you realize somebody's intelligent and self-aware enough to take the time to run things through their filter. That's the attraction for me."

Brion encouraged Dido to try new things, starting with an unexpected basic: playing the drums. Sitting behind the kit, as well as working with the top-notch drummers Brion recruited, including Mick Fleetwood, Jim Keltner, Questlove and Matt Chamberlain, prompted Dido to delve deeper into the rhythmic core of her sound.

"I come from a dance music background, and I went through all the phases when I was young of loving dub and reggae, and then into hip-hop," she said. "Learning to play the drums as well really opened up my brain. I'll be writing a song on the guitar, and maybe a little stuck on that, and I'll move to the piano, and now it's this really liberating thing that I can go to the drums. Because to me a song is just about the flow of it, it just has to flow and me to never notice in a way, it has to feel whole and real."

Brion marveled at Dido's instinctive feel for percussion. "I found a drum kit I thought would be appropriate for her," he said. "She said, 'What's a basic beat?' I told her and started playing along with her on guitar. She immediately got it. I swear to God, in 30 seconds it was her groove. Playing a lot of instruments, I've discovered that eventually your personality comes out. But I am not kidding, in a minute and a half she was playing this beautiful mid-tempo groove that was the essence of her."

Jumping from guitar to piano to drums and working with live players instead of loops and samples, Dido found herself renewed.

"I gained this huge confidence in my feel," she said. "Before I would pick up a guitar and say, 'I can't play like so and so, why can't I do what Eric Clapton can do?' And I'd just sort of beat [myself] up a bit. And then I'd be playing piano or guitar when I first met Jon, and he gave me so much confidence in what I did, that it just sort of built up into something. And it became the fundamental."

After her sessions with Brion, Dido returned to London, thinking that "Safe Trip Home" was done. But she couldn't stop writing.

"I went home, and I had all my instruments around, and I now knew how to record and work all the computer programs and everything, and how to engineer it, and ended up basically doing a whole album's worth of stuff on my own at home, from what I'd learned," she recalled.

At first she thought she'd keep these new efforts to herself, but soon she shared them with her brother. He encouraged her to complete the songs, and several appear on the new collection.

Taking risks

Her expanded sense of self also helped Dido take new thematic risks. At the album's core is a confrontation with stasis and mortality, spurred by the death of Dido's father from lupus in 2006. Songs such as the album's centerpiece, "Grafton Street," capture the complexity of a family member's lingering departure. Others consider how even the happiest circumstances -- like settling down in a relationship ("Look No Further") or having a child ("Us 2 Little Gods") -- contain their own small deaths, as other possibilities are put aside.

" 'Look No Further' is a prime example of something where I want to express something really simple and pure and beautiful, but I also can't help myself having a little bit of doubt," Dido said. "And a song about something absolutely devastating can be uplifting and hopeful as well. 'Grafton Street' is an example of that. It's definitely a sad song, but there's something in there for me which is talking in such a loving way about something devastating because that's how I felt. There's always a bit of both for me, and that's what I find exciting about the world."

"Grafton Street" is a masterstroke, and it even risks not being subtle -- its climax comes via a near-psychedelic multi-tracked recorder solo. Dido learned the unfashionable instrument as a child and playing it "felt like home," she said. She wrote the song with another inspirational friend -- veteran producer and artist Brian Eno, whose 1975 album "Another Green World" offered solace during her father's last days.

"You know how you get those albums that are so emotional but comforting?" she said. "Almost like a safe place to be, you know? Around the time that Dad was dying, that's what I was listening to. And I thought, God, I'd love to do some writing with Brian Eno."

The sessions with Eno, whom Dido had known casually for years, yielded several songs. She's keeping them, with many others, in a stash for future release. Meanwhile, she's planning to tour small spaces with her band, and even to get behind the drum kit once in a while.

"I'd actually love to be in a band at some point," she said. "The thing that would excite me next, to learn more, would be to play for someone else while they're singing. That would be a whole other step. It would be really interesting."



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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 18, 2008, 11:33:38 pm
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Dido
Safe Trip Home (Arista
ESSENTIAL "Northern Skies"

It's taken nine years and two tries, but Dido has finally given her debut the follow-up it deserves. The singer easily bests 2003's "Life for Rent" by forgoing radio-friendly "Thank You" clones in favor of following her muse where it's been leading since the millennium. In the case of "Safe Trip Home," that means finally indulging the trip-hop jones she hinted at on her never ending "No Angel" tour. For nearly nine minutes, the song "Northern Skies" is pushed along by a subterranean bass and a dry but inexorable beat, and the combination carries the groove to the end, even as electronic flourishes drip over them. "Grafton Street" and "Never Want to Say It's Love" play it lighter, resulting in a chillout vibe similar to Air or Goldfrapp's "Seventh Tree," while "The Day Before the Day" is electronica without the electronics. Whatever the backdrop, Dido's voice retains the warmth at its core, no matter how flat her sleepwalking affect seems to be. Her vocals are subdued not out of indifference but out of sublimation; she seems to measure every word in the rattling, gently orchestral "Look No Further" for fear of what will happen if she drops her guard. "Safe Trip Home" might lack the hooks of Dido's earlier work, but even if it doesn't get under your skin it manages to take you somewhere worth the journey. (Out tomorrow)

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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 18, 2008, 11:35:06 pm
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After achieving notoriety as a down-tempo, easy-listening songstress, British singer-songwriter Dido shakes up her image on Safe Trip Home, her latest album, by taking a darker turn along the way. And not an album too soon, since the world probably couldn’t handle another collection of her ho-hum mellow musings.

The album’s first single, “Don’t Believe In Love,” establishes the tone for the entire album. Set to a kind of sad, kind of groovy beat, the track is laced with strings and humming to accent Dido’s pronounced disenchantment with love. This matching of somberness to a faster tempo recurs throughout; however, Dido’s voice is so soft and smooth it often almost masks the gloomy blues of the album. It’s a refreshing sound, though, and a smart coupling for Dido. Departing from past albums in which she sounded impersonal, almost as if she was merely observing and commenting on her life, Safe Trip Home feels more sung from the soul, replacing apathy with candidness and solemnity.

In fact, the album succeeds the most in the songs that sound least like the Dido we had previously known. This “newness” is largely owed to a variety of instruments and styles — her voice remains unchanged. For example, “Us 2 Little Gods” is built on a fast-tempo of acoustic guitar and clapping but incorporates cowbell, organ and humming as well. Without fail it tempts the foot to start tapping along. Similarly, “Let’s Do the Things We Normally Do” employs strings and organ again, with piano and acoustic guitar chiming in occasionally, to complement Dido as she sings to a simple bongo-drum beat. The broadest influence is the strings that creep into nearly every track, sometimes hauntingly, sometimes soothingly.

Yet it really comes down to tempo and rhythm that distinguishes Safe Trip Home as an overall successful, pleasant album. Essentially Dido has taken the sedative nature out of the easy-listening genre. While still a lighter sound, there is no meditative, sleep-inducing Enya-like quality to be found. Instead, Safe Trip Home delivers Dido’s somber yet funky take on the blues, showcasing an array of instruments from Irish flute to organ. Yet the strong basis of Safe Trip Home is built upon her consistently impressive vocals and the genuine narrative quality to the lyrics that defy the sheen of mass production.

Even the songs that aren’t terribly memorable (of which there are many) aren’t worth skipping over because they still feel infused with a little bit of soul. Such so-so songs comprise a good portion of the album, including “Quiet Times,” “It Comes And It Goes” and “Look No Further,” and tend to feel a bit like fluff between the songs more packed with life or feeling.

Although the word “edgy” is still far from describing Dido, Safe Trip Home offers a new, darker yet livelier feel that might do well to redefine her reputation a little. Hell, people might not be embarrassed to say they like Dido anymore. Maybe that’s too far. Either way, the album does well to make easy-listening a bit easier to listen to.

4 stars out of 5



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Quiet Times on Grey's Anatomy
19/11/08
If you're in the US, check out tomorrow night's episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy to hear one of Dido's new tracks, Quiet Times, soundtracking the show.

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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 19, 2008, 11:32:38 pm
Así­ suena "Quiet Times"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc-p_lq6kxg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc-p_lq6kxg)

Han añadido las letras del album, a la web oficial
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 19, 2008, 11:38:46 pm
La han cagado con el anuncio!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_07LL-O3e4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_07LL-O3e4)
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US playback report...
20/11/08
Last Saturday (15th November) Dido hosted a special US playback event, with around 60 fans who'd won tickets. It took place at a stunning location in Topanga Canyon, called the Mountain Mermaid. The venue was set way up in the hills of the rustic community outside LA. Dido wanted somewhere that was outside of the usual venue feel and which gave her the chance to see her fans up close and personal.

As with the UK playback, Dido played a 45 minute acoustic set with her guitarist Joel Shearer. There were songs from previous albums (Thank You, White Flag and Life For Rent) and many from the new album. While she played them, you could have heard a pin drop.

The fans came from far and wide - Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, UK and from all over America. It was like watching a show in your own living room. Well, assuming your living room had floor to ceiling windows of a spectacular canyon backdrop with panoramic views.

There was some drama on the day, because of concerns for rolling power black outs, due to the fires in California. Dido had heard earlier on the news that we were due to get ours at 4:30pm - exactly the time she was to go on and perform. Fortunately the power stayed up and running. But the fires, which had started the night before, were present all around. By the end of the day, everyone was covered in bits of ash and smelling like they'd spent a weekend around a camp fire. As the sun set in the canyon it was really eerie as the colour of the sky wasn't the usual Los Angeles hues. Thankfully the Mountain Mermaid was absolutely fine, but it was a reminder of how crazy things can get in LA.

The fans were transported up to the venue from Santa Monica and their faces were a real treat when the mini buses pulled up outside. They had no idea where they were. Greeted with drinks and appetizers, they soon let their hair down. One fan from Mexico insisted Dido stopped drinking water on stage and refill her glass with tequila, while an Australian fan who was enjoying his wine more than most was invited by Dido to grab her a glass on his next round. He didn't seem to get the hint.

The event ended with a meet and greet / signing. It was, like the UK playback, an amazing day. We'll post photos from the performance up on the site in the next day or two...

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'Dad's death became my inspiration': Dido pays tribute to her father in third album
By Adrian Thrills
Last updated at 12:44 AM on 21st November 2008
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By her own admission, Dido's upbringing was eccentric. In a house without a TV or stereo, the youngster and her older brother Rollo were left to create their own entertainment.

The girl who would go on to become one of Britain's most successful female singers - and one of the few to crack the U.S. - was a self-contained child who began playing the recorder when she was four and spent weekends studying at the Guildhall School of Music long before she reached her teens.
Dido was also very close to her father, William Armstrong, who ran the publishing house Sidgwick & Jackson for 25 years until poor health led to his early retirement in 1995.

She may have been, in her own words, 'an odd little kid', but many of Dido's most cherished childhood memories are idyllic, revolving around the traditional Irish songs that her father used to sing to his two children every night.
And, when William passed away two years ago, his death at 68 from the auto-immune disease lupus had a profound impact on the multi-million-record-selling singer.

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Already working on what would become her long-awaited third album, Safe Trip Home, Dido found herself writing songs that were inspired by her father.
The poignant Grafton Street forms a cornerstone of the new record while The Day Before The Day contains further references to her strong family bonds. The dedication on the album sleeve reads simply: 'For Dad'.
'My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence on Rollo and I,' says the 36-year-old singer, speaking in the back of a tour bus as she travels to a small, acoustic show. 'As a child, I remember making requests to him - he would sing a different song every night.
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'I used to see the world in terms of the songs that he sang for us. He was a truly kind, gentle and intelligent man, and I was so close to him. I felt awkward putting Grafton Street on the album, but the record had already been mastered by that point. I felt exposed.
'But, then again, I'm a songwriter. That's what I'm supposed to do. I write about the things I feel strongly about.'
Dido dropped all work commitments as her father's health deteriorated, going to see him in hospital every morning and evening, and spending time with Rollo and her mother, Clare.
She says that writing Grafton Street was easy. Talking about it now, she adds, is a lot tougher.
'It is deeply personal, but I'm glad it's on the album. It celebrates his memory and is a testimony to the times we spent together at the end of his life.
'He was a huge influence on me, and the general reaction to the song has been good.'
Dido credits her parents - and her unorthodox background - with fostering the creative instincts that have seen both her and Rollo, a respected producer and founder member of the dance trio Faithless, carve out fruitful careers in music.
Appropriately for the children of a publisher, they were raised in a house in Islington, North London, that was full of books.
From an early age, the pair realised they were different from other children. At school, their packed lunches often consisted of dried banana chips and the previous night's leftovers.
And Dido's full name - she is Florian Cloud De Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong on her birth certificate - made her stand out even more in the playground.
 Family influence: Dido credits her parents - and her unorthodox background - with fostering her creative instincts

'I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did,' she says. 'My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.
'I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.'
Although Dido's new album, a reassuringly strong comeback, was recorded partly in Los Angeles, it was completed in London with the help of Rollo, 42, whom Dido calls her 'biggest inspiration'.

The singer initially followed her father into publishing, but she always harboured a desire to make music her career.
When Rollo formed Faithless in 1996, Dido was lurking in the background. She helped out by adding backing vocals to a track on their first album, Reverence, and then sang two songs on its follow-up, Sunday 8pm.
More than a decade later, her working relationship with her brother is as strong as ever.
'When Rollo and I are working together, I feel as if we are two sides of the same brain,' she says.
When she flew to LA two years ago to start work on Safe Trip Home, Dido, who rented a house in the Hollywood Hills, could have become a fully paid-up member of the Tinseltown set.
 Having toured the States regularly and sung with U.S. rapper Eminem, she would have been a welcome presence on any movie premiere red carpet.
But Dido has always been a reluctant superstar. While contemporaries such as Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen are rarely out of the gossip columns, she keeps a much lower profile.
For her, a stint in LA offered a chance to better herself as a musician and take the somewhat unlikely step of enrolling in night classes in English and music. 'I keep things simple,' she says. 'One of the things that excites me most is learning.'
Living in a small apartment furnished with just a bed, piano and bag of clothes, Dido was surprised at how much she enjoyed LA.
She blended in so unobtrusively with her new surroundings that she managed to complete her college courses without once getting recognised in class.
She was also grateful for an opportunity to live a more routine life while she worked, having spent much of the previous eight years 'living on a tour bus'.
She began to play guitar, piano, drums and recorder again, and her dedication to pure, unadulterated musicianship has had a significant impact on Safe Trip Home.
Soft but heartfelt, the album represents a shift away from the electronic moods of old, towards a folkier sound.
If her two previous albums, 1999's No Angel and 2003's Life For Rent, owed a good deal to her dance music roots, Safe Trip Home is a melancholy gem that has more in common with early Joni Mitchell.
'It was good for me to have a break and settle down with some instruments,' she says. 'For the first time in ages, I was playing for fun.'
Safe Trip Home contains some highly personal lyrics. For a guarded woman, Dido is a remarkably candid songwriter.
The singer - who split up with former fiance Bob Page in 2003 - uses one number, Never Want To Say It's Love, to sing of 'gently drifting' while her peers move on with their lives.
But she insists the track is not autobiographical.
'I'm not putting my life down in a diary. If you try to analyse me by listening to my new record, you'll get in a right old mess. My songs don't work like that.'

Saying that she never talks about her personal life in public, she bats back a question about whether she is still single.

'I enjoy life and all it has to offer,' she says. 'And I get excited every day when I wake up. I don't care whether I'm misunderstood or not. I'd rather not have people knowing everything about me.'
Album highlights                                                                 

QUIET TIMES
A simple, acoustic track which finds Dido collaborating with older brother Rollo. 'We both came from an electronic background, but I wanted everything to be handplayed this time.' 8/10

GRAFTON STREET
A tribute to Dido's father, with cameos from Brian Eno and drummer Mick Fleetwood. 'I'm a Fleetwood Mac fan, so having Mick in the studio was a real Jim'll Fix It moment.' 9/10

LOOK NO FURTHER
Dido plays piano on a haunting, poetic love song. 'It's my attempt at a romantic number,' she says. 'I've never been cynical about relationships. I'm the eternal optimist.' 9/10

Safe Trip Home is out now on RCA Records.



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Acústicos!!!

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Grafton Street

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White Flag

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Thank you

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Here are some more of Dido's responses to the questions you've been emailing to askdido@didomusic.com.

Dear Dido. I remember reading in interview you were sitting in you kitchen recording for your new album, Safe Trip Home, and you said you used a computer program. Did you use one particular one or a bundle of programs to make your music?
Jack
Dido replies: Just one - Logic 8. It's brilliant.

Do you play/listen to classical music and does it have an influence on your music?
Alex, Greece
Dido replies: I do yes. I listen and play on the piano. I'm sure it has an influence on me melodically although hard to tell specifically how. It was so much part of my life it can't have failed to have an influence and those wonderful melodies become embedded in my brain. I love being able to read and write music and really enjoying learning all over again about orchestration. One of my favourite things is to listen to a beautifully playing orchestra play a song I've written. It's a truly great experience.

I have heard that you play drums now, was it not difficult to learn, I mean in the beginning?
Verner, Denmark
Dido replies: Not difficult to get to the hopeless stage I'm at, no! But yes, I imagine hard to become a great drummer. I am practising...

Dido. You can have any pudding/dessert in the world right now. What will you have?
Pete, Newcastle
Dido replies: A lemon tart/lemon bar made my friend Pete.

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Safe Trip Home hits charts around the world!
27/11/08
We've just received a rundown of chart positions for the new album, which is apparently flying off the shelves across the
planet! Here they are...

Australia #6
Austria #11
Canada #9
Finland #24
France #3
Germany #3
Greece #2
Holland #8
Ireland #11
Italy #11
Spain #26
Switzerland #1
UK #2
USA #13

Huge thanks to everyone who's bought it so far.

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Otra actuación!!

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"Home" is where Dido¡s heart is

NEW YORK — As a child, Dido was "obsessed with space travel. I only wanted to be an astronaut. The idea just blew my mind."
So it's fitting that a photo of the Earth taken on a 1984 Challenger mission is on the cover of the British singer/songwriter's first studio album in five years, Safe Trip Home.

The album was inspired by the considerable ground that Dido, 36, has covered on the planet as a touring musician since 1999's No Angel. That multiplatinum debut established her as one of the most prominent artists of the Lilith Fair era. Dido spent much of the following decade accumulating frequent-flier miles, appearing at events such as 2005's Live 8.

"In one way, it's made the world a very small place," Dido says over tea in Midtown. "I'm very conscious of the fact that we're all here together."

But as the album's title suggests, Dido's journey has helped her realize "where home actually is. I'm someone who can feel at home anywhere. But the farther you go away, the more you realize that home is where your family and friends are."

FIND MORE STORIES IN: London | Earth | Thailand | Los Angeles | Anatomy | Grey | Mumbai | Kanye West | Live | Challenger | Midtown | Blender | Fiona Apple | Joe Levy | Dido | Thank You | Jon Brion | Lilith Fair | White Flag | No Angel
For Dido, that means London — though Home took shape in a different setting. In summer 2005, producer Jon Brion, noted for his adventurous but pop-savvy work with artists as diverse as Fiona Apple and Kanye West, suggested that Dido travel to Los Angeles to work on an album.

It wasn't a natural destination. "I was brought up in the inner city," she says. "If I hadn't been working with Jon, I'd have been a bit bored. … (But) Jon is so joyful about it all. We were so productive and having so much fun that I didn't want to stop."

Brion wasn't Dido's only source of inspiration, though. "I'm not that fussed about sunshine, but L.A. in the morning is just stunning. And it's home to the film industry, so it's a city built on storytelling, on people using their imaginations."

In fact, for Home— which was also recorded in London, with Dido's brother and longtime collaborator, Rollo Armstrong, pitching in — Dido commissioned 11 short films, one to accompany each song. "I found local directors in different countries and told them the theme was 'What is home?' " The resulting clips, set in locales from a Thai boxing ring to a Mumbai taxicab, can be viewed at safetriphome.com.

Home hasn't yet yielded a hit on the order of previous Dido singles such as White Flag or Thank You, but "you don't take three years to make a record if that's your concern," says Blender editor in chief Joe Levy. He points out that her music remains "enormously popular with music supervisors for television and movies," and one track, Quiet Times, was recently featured on Grey's Anatomy.

For her part, Dido doesn't mind maintaining a lower profile. "I've always been an introvert, and as you get older, all your characteristics get more pronounced," she says.

Though she allows that the five years since her last album "have had some dramatic highs and lows," she prefers not to discuss them in detail. "It's amazing — I've had 15 kids," jokes the singer, who is single and has no children, when pressed for specifics.

Then, more seriously, and vaguely, Dido says: "I have a relatively normal life, in which there's been an exceptional freedom to travel and to make music. And I feel so lucky for that."

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The person who gets Dido songs on TV...
04/12/08
Tomorrow night at 8pm, Dido's song Quiet Times will feature on the new episode of Ghost Whisperer on CBS in the US. We caught up with Lindsay Wolfington of Lone Wolf Music Supervision, to find out how the song made it onto the show.

Hi Lindsay. We hear you've requested Quiet Times for two TV placements. Of all the songs at your disposal, what is it about that song that lent itself to use on the shows?
It's emotional, quiet enough to stay under dialogue and has movement, which keeps the episode moving along. It worked well for One Tree Hill because we needed a song that could tie together three different scenes and had a little suspense - a sense of "what's going to happen?" We always need songs like that. It also just happened that the lyric "I miss you" played under Peyton and Lucas on the phone with each other, and they almost said "I miss you" to each other along with Dido! As for the Ghost Whisperer use of Quiet Times, I can't say exactly because the episode doesn't air until Dec 5th! Let's just say the mood is right and the lyrics hit perfectly - the song expresses what the characters cannot. Tune in to see what I mean. CBS, Fridays at 8pm. Hey, I'm not afraid of a shameless plug!

When placing music, do you choose a song because its lyrics connect with the storyline or because the music itself is suited for the mood of the scene?
As you can probably tell from my answer above, both lyrics and music are important factors in picking a song for a scene. Sometimes you pick a song more for the mood because you don't want to hit the viewers over the head with a lyric, but sometimes the lyrics say what the characters don't, and that is why the song works. When both of these combine, that's the best possible scenario.

Would you say that Dido's music is "cinematic"?
Dido's music definitely fits pictures nicely. Each album is different, but I think she works well for TV and film because her vocals are soft - they don't get in the way of dialogue, which is important because dialogue is telling the story and is the first priority of a producer or director. She also has that "girl with a heartache" thing going for her. Music Supervisors always need those emotional songs on hand for the next sad or longing moment. Interestingly, I don't think Quiet Times is a typical sad ballad - it works because it has pace and momentum, but still has heart and emotion. It's hard to find a song that moves along but can still make you want to cry.

Did your educational background prepare you for a career as a Music Supervisor?
I took one class called "Soundtracks" in college, but it wasn't really about Music Supervision. It was literally the study of all sounds in film - foley footsteps, sound effects, score. There was nothing about picking songs for scenes and then learning how to license them. I worked in radio for four years and that definitely gave me a good base for working in the music industry. But moving to LA and working for two Music Supervisors was where I really learned how to do the job. Nowadays, there are many more classes about Music Supervision/Licensing/Business, but I still think the best way to learn it and get into this world is by working for a Music Supervisor. I get tons of young people who email me via MySpace wondering what classes they should take in high school and what they should major in college, and I want to say "Enjoy school while you can! Take the classes you like, and if they involve the music business, great. But you have to work in the field to really learn it, make connections and prove yourself."

Finally, what's your favorite Dido song?
I'm going to cheat and name two, because they are so different. I loved Dido's first album, No Angel, during my senior year in college -
before it became a best seller. It was my little secret and I got all my girlfriends to fall in love with it too. And then I remember hearing Thank You on Dawson's Creek and thinking "The world has found Dido!" But I digress... Hunter was my favorite track on that album. There were a couple "kickass girl" songs on it, and that was mine. And now with the new album, I love The Day Before The Day. It is so genuinely beautiful, simple and sad. I've always had a soft spot for sad songs. It's amazing to think how different No Angel and Safe Trip Home are, yet they both have some real gems on them!

(Big thanks to Lindsay for taking the time to answer our questions)

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Hey folks. From Monday, download stores everywhere will be selling the Dennis Ferrer Objektivity Mix of Don't Believe In Love.

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For the first of a new series of interviews with the directors behind the short films accompanying each song on Dido's new album, we called up Cristiana Miranda to find out more about her film for The Day Before The Day

Hello Cristiana. How did you get involved with the SafeTripHome.com films project?
I'm a director at a company in London called Knucklehead. I'm 25 and only started directing when I was 23. I worked as a receptionist at Knucklehead before this, but then I did a little film for the Discovery Channel about Dita von Teese, the Burlesque artist. Anyway, we have a representative for music videos and when he got the proposal from Sony he thought it was completely up my street, so he sent it over to me. But he actually sent me the English pitch, not the Mediterranean one. I thought, given that I'm Portugese, it would be great to do the Mediterranean one. And that's what eventually happened. The second I heard the track it clicked instantly, because it really feels a lot like this tradition of Portuguese songs that we have called fado. They're very melancholic, deep, emotional songs that mostly talk about you surviving pain or having to deal with pain but carrying on. It's such a powerful track with such a powerful subject that I just thought, "Wow this is a great opportunity to do something quite emotional".

Obviously death is very much at the centre of the track. Would you say that death is at the centre of your film?
I wouldn't say specifically death, it's more the feeling of loss. That's why I didn't choose to shoot anything directly related to death. I think the track reflects very much this feeling that you get from the fado. Death's there, it's almost like a ghost, but you overcome it. That's why in the track she says, "Clocks will carry on". I felt that was the most important thing of the track. It's very dark and it's obviously about death, but there's an undertone of survival that appealed to me and that was what I wanted to get in the film. It was this sense of we deal with pain, we live in pain, but we survive and we're proud of it.

Were you given free reign to hear the song and do what you want with it?
Absolutely. I keep saying to people, projects like this don't come very often. It was purely down to your instinct of what the song makes you feel and how you'd like to tell a story about this. In my mind I automatically wanted to talk about fishermen. Growing up close to the sea I always watched fishermen, and admired them. They have such an authentic expression of having a hard life. It's in their faces and the way they're burnt by the sun and the way they look at the sea. So I thought that just linked perfectly. The only brief was the theme of home: what is home to you and what is home to someone who you'd do this film about? And I thought it was perfect because fishermen have two homes: they have the home that they live in with their family and then they have their other home, the sea, which they respect and admire. So I tried to show both, and how different they are in their lives, but how similar at the same time.

Your film does seem to tie into the lyrics, even though it's about something different.
I chose this theme - the fishermen - because I knew it would link. I knew that I would get the images to reflect the feelings I think Dido's trying to portray in the song. Obviously I'm slightly manipulating the song to fit to my subjects as well. But once you see them together - the song and the film - they can tell a story. It's not a specific story, it's quite vague. I wanted to keep it that way because I think the hero in the song and the hero in the film is the feeling, is that feeling. It's not the fisherman, it's not the boy and in the song it's not the person that dies that she's talking about, it's the feeling that she's communicating. So that's why I kept it slightly distant. Even in the way I shot it, I never went very tight or very close.

When you watch it, you're aware it's very beautiful and very nicely shot, then you start to realise that something bad appears to have happened, that people are in mourning.
I hope people will want to go back and watch it again. You kind of want to understand the emotion you felt when you saw it. Did I connect with the people? Did I connect with the place? Or was it something that kind of disturbed me because it is obviously sad? And that is my point. I don't want to give you answers, I want to give you a challenge. I based it on a Portuguese word that's saudade. It's a very specific word that only exists in Portuguese. It kind of means "longing for". It's sort of a nostalgic feeling, but you can't really explain it. It's something that you mourn about and then you long for, but at the same time it's something that you've loved and that you look back and you still take some pleasure from. So when I thought of this film I thought that's the feeling I want to capture, even though it's quite a difficult thing to explain.

There is a sort of beautiful sadness about your film. It's emotional without forcing it down your throat.
Exactly. That was always my objective. And I like to keep questions open. I'm a big admirer of David Lynch and directors like that - they give you a lead or a dream and then you can walk away from it and make your own narrative.

You call the film Fisherman - as opposed to Fishermen.
Well, obviously there is a tale there of this young man. My reason to put him there was because there's something slightly whimsical about the film and when you're trying to shoot things from a perspective of a younger person I think it's easier to make it more dreamy. And I also really wanted to show that there's a gap in the generations. You obviously see he's much younger than everyone else. He's a real-life fisherman - people keep asking me if he's a model or an actor. He is the last of the young fishermen. Once he's gone there'll be no one left to replace him. His kids are not going to be fishermen any more. And again, it's that sense of nostalgia that I wanted to transmit. It is also a dying tradition that I was trying to portray. Also it was very important for me from a cultural point of view to try to be as faithful to what the fishermen do and to who they are as people and to try to film them in the most honest way. Because I didn't want to dramatise, I just wanted to report, but to give it that emotional setting.

He does look like a Hollywood leading man.
I know. When I met the young fisherman, I thought, "This is going to be quite difficult because you look like a Calvin Klein model! People won't believe in me". But when he dressed as a fisherman you could tell he was a fisherman, because he knows what he's doing - it's his life. His father was amazing too. We called him the Clint Eastwood of the fishermen because he's just got this wonderful look and his eyes are so strong.

Did you have to spend a lot of time on a boat?
Yes. We followed them on their typical days because they obviously couldn't stop working for us. We went out fishing and spent five or six hours with them. They go out and don't come back until they find fish. So once you get on the boat there's no coming back. It was an amazing experience because the sea was incredibly rough. We couldn't shoot anything on a long lens because my DP [Director of Photography] was getting very, very sick. It was the most phenomenal experience because it was very rough. You begin to understand how dangerous it is and how much effort they put into it. And that anxiety - they go out to the sea and they need to bring fish back, it's their meal ticket. When they come back they shut down the lights in the boat and you're just travelling back for hours. There's the sky above and there's nothing else but the ocean. And all the fish look like this beautiful silver sea in the boat. It really was an amazing experience. I'm very grateful to the fishermen for allowing us to be part of that.

How did you find the women who are in the film?
We kind of kidnapped people in the streets! I would see someone and say, "I'm so sorry would you mind coming in and I'll film you for two seconds". It was hard work, because they're actually very nice, happy, friendly people. So I would have to tell my DP, "I don't want to be unprofessional, but I'm just going to turn my back and shut up and you just film them quietly, because if I keep looking at them they're just going to keep talking and we can't have that". But the second they stop they have a natural sad expression. And that comes from generations, because these people did grow up seeing their families going to the sea. It used to be quite heavy for them, because the sea there is very rocky and dangerous. Once the boats were out at sea they would sometimes be at the beach looking far away and they would see the boats getting completely smashed by the waves, without them being able to do anything. So I think there is a cultural grief that's been passed down. It's not very present but once you look at their faces, it's there and no one can take it away.

So are you pleased with how your film turned out?
Absolutely. It was a stunning experience. I'm very grateful that Dido came up with this concept because I think the way music videos are going nowadays, it's often not very interesting. But she really picked up on the fact that people get emotionally connected to her music and these films are a brilliant idea to extend that emotion and that trade of feelings.

Have the fishermen seen it?
They have! I went to Portugal recently and sat down with them and watched it. It was the scariest experience I've ever had because I know they're so honest. If there was something bad about it they would definitely tell me. But it was so gratifying because they were very pleased with it. They felt that I didn't lie. They said, "You didn't try to make us look happy when we weren't not happy and you didn't try to make us look sad or more sad than we are. You just portrayed the truth of our lives." They're very humble, but they were incredibly giving and it just comes across. It was a very emotional, human experience to watch it with them. They don't understand English, so they don't understand the lyrics, but they all said the music was so beautiful and really matched the film. For them to say that there's clearly a connection, an emotional connection. There's no better response than that.

Now we just need the Calvin Klein scouting people to come and find your fisherman.
Ha! Actually, his father said to me at the end, "Can you take him to England?" I said, "I think that's kidnapping!" But if there's any chance of him being scouted I'd be incredibly happy. He was such a nice person and such a beautiful human being that it would be a beautiful twist of fate if someone should pick him up.

 
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Italian TV appearance on Sunday
10/12/08
On Sunday afternoon Dido will appear on Quelli che il calcio on Italy's Rai 2 channel. Dido's performance is due to air between 2.30 and 3.30pm. (Calcio, as many of you will know, is the Italian word for football/soccer.)

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Your choice for the next single?
11/12/08
Safe Trip Home has been out for a little while now, giving you plenty of time to dissect and digest it. So, we were wondering, which song would you choose as the next single if it was up to you?

Let us know in the messages of the web              x

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As we told you last week, Dido was a guest on Italian sports show Quelli Che Il Calcio yesterday afternoon. Here's a video of her performance...


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Win a signed Dido lithograph
20/12/08
Over on travel site tripwolf.com they're currently running a contest to win a Safe Trip Home lithograph signed by Dido. To win it, you'll need to upload your best photograph in one of the following three categories:

- Your last travel photo before heading home
- Best travel photo
- Best adventure photo

http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/competition/dido (http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/competition/dido)


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Hey folks. Christmas may almost be upon us, but Dido just took a break from last-minute shopping to email us some more answers to the questions you've been sending to askdido@didomusic.com.

What was the first instrument you learnt to play?
Tornike from Georgia
Dido replies: The first one was the recorder. That was when I was about 4. Then I started playing the violin and piano when I was about 9. I absolutely loved the recorder as a kid, though. I would carry it around everywhere, playing all the time. The recorder I play on Grafton Street is the same one I had when I was a child.

The songs that you write have to do with your real life. But do you really not believe in love?
Felipe Alcaí­no Saldí­as
Dido replies: I absolutely believe in love! That's what the song is about. How life is
better with love.

What's your favourite time of the day? :-) I'm a big fan of, um, 9.27pm.
Kit, Lisbon
Dido replies: That's the sort of question I love and the sort I ask people. :-) Basically it's different in different cities. About 6am in Los Angeles when the air is clear and the sky is totally beautiful, and in London I wake up every day (without fail) at 7.20am. Even if I go to bed at 5am! It turns out that was the time of day I was born. I wonder whether that has anything to do with it? I just love watching the sun rise.

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A Christmas message from Dido
24/12/08
Hey folks. We've just received this message from Dido for you:

Happy Christmas and a great new year to everyone. Sending lots of love and thanks to all of you for all your support. I hope the holidays are full of love and happiness for you.

See you in 2009!

Love

Dxxx

And a very merry Christmas from didomusic.com too - have fun folks.

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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 25, 2008, 11:31:28 pm
Dido cumple hoy 37 años!!!!
FELICIDADES!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:
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This just in from Dido:

Happy new year everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday whatever you were doing. I'm so so happy to be home and with my family in beautiful freezing england and here's a little clip to celebrate that! It's a performance of 'northern skies' from the acoustic fan gig joel and I did in october in notley abbey (in the english countryside).

See you all soon.

Love,

Dx
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 06, 2009, 11:29:06 pm
Northern Skies (http://www.didomusic.com/es/news_and_diary/news/a_new_years_message_and_a_northern_skies_film/)
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 07, 2009, 11:20:13 pm
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Hello folks - happy new year to you all.

We thought those of you in the US would like to know that The Day Before The Day will feature on tomorrow night's episode of Grey's Anatomy. It's on ABC at 9/8 Central (check your local listings for full details).

In other news, keep an eye here on the site in the next few days for more Ask Dido answers and our latest interview with one of the directors of the safetriphome.com films.

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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 08, 2009, 11:10:40 pm
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Here are some more answers from Dido to the questions you've been sending to askdido@didomusic.com.

What made you work with Jon Brion? What record(s) made you aware of just how great the man is?
Tom of UpandRunningRecording
Dido replies: I met Jon at Abbey Road one day and the thing that struck me the most was meeting someone who shared my obsession and joy with music and details and stories and sounds and just approaches it with total love and excitement and newness every day. He really is the most wonderful person to work with. He brings out the best in everyone and I definitely feel like he did with me. Truly inspiring and a great great experience.
Probably one of my favourite Jon records is the Eternal Sunshine soundtrack. But there's so much of what he does that I absolutely love. The Fiona Apple records too. What about you?

I love the black nails and the high-heeled ankle boots in your new video. Are they Louboutins?
George (21), Vienna, Austria
Dido replies: Yes they are! Well spotted. :-)

What are your favorite shows on the TV?
Igor Ramos, from Portugal
Dido replies: The Shield, The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under. All brilliant!

I would like know, what do you feel when you are onstage?
Florencia, Uruguay
Dido replies: There's so many things I can feel on stage. Before I go on stage I am always nervous. I can't help it. Then once I open my mouth and start singing/playing I feel calm. And when I see how lucky I am with how great the audience always is, I just get a huge rush of warmth and peace and excitement. I'm doing what I love and just love every minute. I love playing live for the accidents that happen, the sounds and dynamics that are created between the players that will never happen again, just because of the circumstance, the room, the audience, everything. Every night feels different and every night is different!

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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 16, 2009, 11:08:18 pm
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Hi Tinge. How did you get involved with the Safe Trip Home project?
When I heard about it, I jumped at the chance to pitch for something in Thailand. Because although I'm from London, I'm half-Thai, half-Malaysian, so I thought that could work quite nicely. They sent me the track and as soon as I heard it, I thought of Nong Toom, the lady-boy Thai boxer. The lyrics are so her, that movement is ying and yang - vulnerability and strength, inward movement and outward movement.

So that's Nong Toom in the film?
It is, yeah.

How did you get her to be involved?
My mum called her up and asked her.

For those who haven't heard of Nong Toom, can you give us a bit of background?
Well, she was originally a man. And basically she was spotted in her village by a prominent Thai boxing coach, even though she was very shy and quite soft, even as a boy. She already had a kind of sensitive side to her and she said she always felt she was a girl in a boy's body, but she was just phenomenal at boxing and she loved it. They took a bunch of kids from that village and they had rounds of selection and she was left as the kind of chosen one to be trained. And over the years she discovered that really she was more of a woman than a man and bit by bit she started to come out. She started in the changing rooms putting moisturiser on, putting nail varnish on and starting to wear make up. And she was really famous for her boxing style. Like when all the other guys would all be psyching each other out, she'd be really smiley and cute and then just whack the shit out of the other person.

Is she someone you'd been aware of for a long time.
Yeah, she's been on my periphery. She's part of Thai folklore in a way. Everyone's aware of the lady-boy boxer. She's a household name over there. And she was the subject of a film, Beautiful Boxer, too.

Did you have a plan B for the film if she said no?
To be honest I didn't really spend much time thinking what would happen if she said no because that way lies madness! And, luckily, she said yes immediately. She was very excited about it. When I played her the song her eyes went really teary and she said, "That's me, that's me." It was really sweet. She really connected to it. It's a really emotional song and there's an intimacy to it. It's very feminine, with a sense of struggle in it and a sense of liberation that connected to her life. Coming out in a really macho environment is not an easy thing to do. Femininity is quite a soft thing to try to assert - particularly in such a macho environment. So to carve out room for herself she had to have a certain toughness. Her martial arts training is what gave her the strength to withstand all the emotional knocks when making that transition.

Once you had her on board, did you have an idea of your film's plot?
Yeah, I had a rough idea. The brief we were given was to make a kind of documentary-style film. So I thought the most authentic documentary route would be to go in and spend time with the subject; see what her life is, see what floats her boat.

So you just filmed her to see what you got?
Well, we had a meeting with her first and asked what her daily life consisted of, because we needed to have some kind of plan and schedule. So, for example, we knew she likes to go out in the morning, train on the beach, do some jogging, buy crabs with her friends, frolic around playing volleyball and then go and eat crabs at her parents' house and play with the kids.

Is that her real parents in the film?
It is, yeah. It's all her real friends. Her brother's in it and so is her adopted daughter. It really surprised me when she said that she was a mum and that she had a daughter which she'd adopted as a tiny little newborn. I thought that mothering aspect was a very important thing to present.

The film doesn't make it explicitly clear that its subject used to be a man. Was that deliberate?
Well, I knew it was going to be on the internet and the internet is a place where people chat and comment so I thought it would be more fun if half the people who watched it would actually think that she was a woman first. In the end we put in a few clues at the start of the film, like when we're panning across the trophies at the start, there are a few hints to a more masculine identity there. But, ultimately, I thought it would be more fun to tailor it to the kind of interesting creature that the internet is - I hoped the film would be a bit ambiguous so that Nong Toom's identity would emerge organically, through people's comments. I could just imagine people saying things like, "Wow, that's an amazing woman," "That's not a woman, it's a lady boy!', 'Oh really?'.

Someone commenting on the Safe Trip Home site said the the film made him feel, "Sexy, because let's face it the girl is gorgeous."
Yeah, and I think that's great. That's the power of if. It can turn things upside down. As a piece it's doing more than just being a piece of work. It's challenging but in a really subtle way, by just showing her and people responding to her as she is.

And, of course, she is beautiful.
She's amazing. I learned a lot from her about eyebrows and hair! All us girls felt really masculine around her. She is very beautiful. I think over time she's just got more and more feminine as she settles into her new body. It's become the body of a woman.

But she's still involved in boxing?
She's not a professional boxer any more, but she's still involved in training. She wants to set up a training camp to train kids who have been on drugs or are from really poor backgrounds. But she did continue to box immediately after her operation. Some places would say you must box women, whilst others said it was alright to still box men. She said it was really interesting because she found it easier to box men than women. She said she thought women had a kind of strength that comes from a place that wasn't physical. Even when she had the body of a woman, she was still beating men. Because she had experience of being a man she believed she could beat men, but she wasn't using her physical strength to beat them. There was something else. I studied Thai Chi and there's a kind of Chi-like element that resonated with her and we tried to present that in the film; that very feminine energy.

It sounds like it was a fascinating project to work on.
It was brilliant, I loved it so much. It was a really hard shoot physically but we could see in the monitors that we were getting some really great stuff.

Was this quite an unusual project for you?
Yeah, it was. It was interesting trying to find the biting point in the edit between editing for the music and editing in a more straight documentary way. It was a very interesting process. It was fun to marry slo-mo and beauty with gritty documentary. A kind of poetry and documentary.

And you're pleased with the result?
Yeah, I am. I love it. I think the track and the images work really well together.

Has Nong Toom seen it?
Yeah, we had a screening in Thailand and she loves it. She's really happy with it. But then she was already a big Dido fan!


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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 30, 2009, 11:54:41 pm
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Hey folks. Dido's just emailed through her latest batch of answers to the questions you've been emailing to askdido@didomusic.com. Look out for some more soon.

Q. Hello Dido. You're a big football fan, right? I wonder if you also like to play football yourself, and if you do are you any good?
Greets Karin (Holland)
Dido replies: I used to play all the time and had a girls' football team at school, but I hardly ever play now unless it's with my nephews or my brother. When I was young I played football every day in the park with whoever was around. My brother used to let me play with his friends but then would tell me that I had to stand next to the goal and be a goal post (it's an older brother thing) which was sort of boring and a bit painful sometimes... I definitely had dreams of playing for Arsenal when I was young, though.

Q. Hi, Dido. Upon listening to your new album I've noticed that almost every song is recorded in a minor key and the overall mood of the album is rather melancholic. The cover photos do not have a smile. Since those songs are more personal to you than ever, it is safe to assume that the reason for this mood is your life experience. So the question is: are you happy?
Regards,
Andrew
Dido replies: I suppose you're right! I didn't intend it to be that way but a lot of songs were definitely written at a more troubled time in my life. Losing dad and how that felt was also a huge influence and I can see that now I can take a step back from it. At the time I'm writing it is not a clearly thought out thing and I just write with no regard for how it will sound to the outside world. I really love and value life and am so happy and excited by every new day, but definitely a darker side can sometimes come out when I'm writing songs. That's the beauty of writing songs and of playing music for me - it's not a rational thought-out thing and you can surprise yourself with what comes out when your whole conscious and unconscious mind gets involved. Anyway I'm rambling as It's an interesting question (thank you). But yes, I'm very happy and spend my days laughing and smiling and enjoying so much. And then write dark songs... :-) oh well!

Q. What did you have for breakfast today?
Holly, NYC
Dido replies: This morning I had some berries and yoghurt. But that was because I was feeling healthy. Usually I have a big bowl of cereal and fruit. I could actually eat breakfast for every meal. Definitely the best meal of the day.

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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 08, 2009, 12:02:07 am
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Here's some more of Dido's answers to the questions you've been emailing to askdido@didomusic.com.

What was your inspiration behind Burnin' Love? As soon as I heard it I could just see it on a show like Grey's Anatomy. It's just a beautiful song.
Ben, London.
Dido replies: I'm so glad you like it. It's definitely one of my favourites. I wrote it with Citizen Cope and the chorus lyric is his lyric. It was the first song we wrote together. We just sat down and it came out in the most natural way possible. I loved working with him. I love his voice and I love that it's not something I would have written on my own. We wrote it in New York but actually it's my favourite song to listen to on the album as I drive around Hollywood in the late afternoon/early evening. It just feels right.

When you write a song, which room of the house do you write in? Or do ideas come to you spontaneously and you write there and then?
Will
Dido replies: Good question. It made me think if there is a room I write more in. I have a room with a piano with skylights so I can see the sky and do a lot of recording and writing in there but I also seem to have written a huge amount of songs at the kitchen counter. Quiet Times was written at the kitchen table, Summer was recorded in the kitchen, Grafton Street at the kitchen counter. You know what, the more I think about it, they're mostly written in the kitchen. :-) I also write a lot while I'm walking around London and then just either try and remember my ideas or put them into a Dictaphone or my mobile phone. I walk to most places in London and listen to my ipod and it gives me so many ideas and makes me love the way that music makes me feel, more every day.

I was wondering if and when you intended to go on tour next? Thanks in advance.
James from Telford
Dido replies: I think I'm going to do a proper tour after the next record. I've written and recorded so much recently and am just loving being in the studio and doing that at the moment. So I imagine another record will be released before the next tour. I'm really looking forward to touring when we do though. We had such an amazing time last time. Meeting so many people, playing in incredible outdoor venues in the summer. I felt so lucky every day. By the time I've finished all this recording I'll be very excited to be out!

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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 14, 2009, 09:04:49 pm
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Here are some more of Dido's answers to the questions you've been emailing to askdido@didomusic.com.

Dear Dido. I like the song Do You Have a Little Time as performed on the album Life For Rent, but I absolutely love this song as performed on Live at Brixton Academy. My question is if you think there is an optimal performance (producing, creation) for each song/melody, or that it can be performed in very different ways, each way liked by another group of people?
Edward de Grijs, The Netherlands
Dido replies: Actually the Live at Brixton Academy is the first version of that song as I wrote it. I often like to go back to the first versions when I'm performing live. The one on the record is a different version that came about when I heard a brilliant sample that Mark Bates was working with in the other room in the studio and we decided that song worked really well over it. But in answer to your question - I don't know. I think the beauty of songs is that once the core of the song is there there are indeed a million ways to do it. But I tend not to think too much about it and just take the song where it wants to go naturally. Whether that's on record or whether that's live. And yes, I'm sure that different people like different versions.

Where is your favourite beach?
Natalie, Germany
Dido replies: My favourite place in the world is Connemara in the west of Ireland. The beaches there are so incredibly beautiful and empty and hold so many memories for me. I used to spend a lot of time near the Twelve Bens (a little mountain range that goes down to the sea). Without a doubt my favourite place in the world.

I wonder, do you remember a record you got as a present when you were a child (maybe as a Christmas gift?), and which you still listen to today?
Knut, Norway
Dido replies: Yes! I remember one year my brother gave me a collection of my first albums (I'd only ever managed to save up enough for singles at that stage in my life) all of which I loved and had a huge influence on me I think. I remember among them was Yellow Moon by the Neville Brothers, Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got by Sinead O'Connor, a Chet Baker record, an Odyssey album, a Chieftains album. A bit of variety, but all albums I still absolutely love.


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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 17, 2009, 11:09:24 pm
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Tonight's episode of The City on US MTV will feature Dido's track Look No Further. The show will be broadcast at 10pm ET/PT
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 18, 2009, 11:06:57 pm
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As you know, top directors from across the globe have been commissioned to make short films for each track on Safe Trip Home - which we're hosting at safetriphome.com.

If you've seen the six that have been made so far, you'll probably be pleased to hear that we've just added a new film to the site. This one, Journey's End, was made in the North of England and is soundtracked by Northern Skies.

We've also launched a new simpler version of the safetriphome.com site, where you can easily watch all seven of the films. But you can still plot your journey on the old version, by clicking on the globe in the top right corner of the site's new front page.
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Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 18, 2009, 10:55:53 pm
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Nicholas Warren de Bristol pregunta: Si tuvieras la oportunidad de crear una canción para una pelí­cula de James Bond, ¿asumirí­as el reto?
Respuesta de Dido: Absolutamente! Una de mis favoritas es Nobody Does It Better de Carly Simon, creo que de la pelí­cula "La espí­a que me amó"... Simplemente brillante!

Bernie¡ de Chicago pregunta: ¿Cuál fue tu álbum favorito de 2008?

Respuesta de Dido: Mi disco favorito del año (siempre es difí­cil esta pregunta) es probablemente el álbum de Bon Iver ("For Emily, Forever Ago"). Lo he escuchado mucho cuando estaba en Los íngeles y conducí­a a lo largo de la costa. Es un gran disco para escuchar de principio a fin y transportarte a un mundo diferente y otro estado de ánimo. Absolutamente
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Publicado por: Serena en Abril 17, 2009, 11:50:20 pm
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Dido's just emailed us her latest answers to the questions which you've been sending in to us at askdido@didomusic.com (keep 'em coming!). Here they are...

How do you pick your setlists?
Emma xx
Dido replies: I definitely think pretty carefully about taking the audience on a journey as I would when choosing the order of an album. I pick the songs that are the most fun to do live and then create highs and lows and quiet moments and jumping around moments. The lighting is also really satisfying to work on as it’s something I really enjoy when I go to a show myself - when I feel like I can see the music.

What's the best thing you've ever made yourself (other than music)?
Fiona, Kent
Dido replies: A painted lampshade. My proudest art moment... :-)

Do you like the cinema? If your answer is yes (like I think) what is the last movie did you see? And what is your favorite movie?
Natalia, Argentina
Dido replies: The last movie I saw was on a plane last week and it was called Elegy. It was good actually. It’s hard to pick my favourite movie. But a few highlights of my life were seeing the Godfather movies, Star Wars (I wanted to watch them every weekend), Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, most Pedro Almodóvar movies, Midnight Cowboy, the Graduate, ET (I went to see it for my birthday when I was about 10 and it was the first movie that made me cry). The next movie that made me cry uncontrollably was Gone With The Wind. Jaws was another favourite. I didn’t go in the sea for about 2 years after seeing that.

What was your dream job when you were a child? A singer?
Lu Yunhe,China
Dido replies: A tennis player. Completely unrealistic, but I was just obsessed with it.
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Publicado por: Serena en Abril 25, 2009, 07:43:58 pm
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Here are some more of Dido's answers to your questions. Keep 'em coming to askdido@didomusic.com. Thanks folks.

Do you have the need to create a special atmosphere (it could be songs, or a place where you like to be, etc) to write your songs and thinking about the melody when you are composing?
Cybill, Peru
Dido replies: No is the simple answer. I can write anywhere. The most prolific place for writing is my kitchen table, though. A huge amount of my songs have been written there. I get pretty inspired on planes too. The lack of oxygen seems to give me good ideas.

Do you like gardening? Are you any good? Got any top tips?
Paul, London
Dido replies: I’m hopeless but I’ve been trying with mine. It’s a whole new world. My advice is to get a few gnomes, let it grow wild and it’ll all fall into place..

The question everything comes down to: dark, milk or white chocolate?
Tom, London
Dido replies: Milk. I can eat more of it. Dark chocolate I love but I can’t eat enough.


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Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 08, 2009, 06:24:00 pm
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I watched that Northern Skies live video in your website and you were playing guitar on it (I think it was the same one you played at the "live at the Brixton Academy" dvd). I loved the sound of the instrument (it's absolutely beautiful) and I'd like to know what kind of guitar was that, because I'm thinking of buying one for me.
Daniele
Dido replies: It’s a Gibson J200. I absolutely love it. It’s quite a big guitar but I just get lost in it and I write tons on it.

I'm curious about which track of yours is the most personal, or which track means the most to you?
Thomy from Hungary
Dido replies: Probably grafton street.

When writing songs at what time of the day are you most creative?
Emerson Smith
Dido replies: First thing in the morning or after a bottle of wine.

What do you feel and think when you hear other people singing your songs? Do they add anything different to the meaning of the original song?
Rob S
Dido replies: I love it. I get to hear the song in a whole new light. Here’s an example – a YouTube video of a guy with a beautiful voice doing a really lovely rendition of ‘Closer’. This made me so happy to hear. Enjoy!
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Publicado por: Serena en Junio 18, 2009, 11:17:48 pm
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Do you like to bike?
Charles Marchetti
Dido replies: Yes I love it. Until I fall off. On tour I would take a bike with me on the bus and then go for a cycle when we landed in a city. It was a great way to see things in the short amount of time I'd have to do so!

In your videos, you have such a sense of style. Do you have a stylist, and if not where do you get your fashion inspiration?
Gina Y.
Dido replies: I do have a stylist and she's great. She's called Andrea Lieberman and she makes clothes a lot of fun. I'm not big on shopping so this helps a lot!

Are you starting your world tour this summer?
Darshil Shah from Sydney
Dido replies: I'm not going to tour until next year now actually. I'm having so much fun being in the studio and making another record that I don't want to stop for the minute. I'm sure I will be touring again when the next record is finished.

If you could collaborate with any current artist, who would it be? And Do You watch The X Factor? If yes, did you enjoy Diana's performance of White Flag?
Tom, England
Dido replies: Sigur Ros would be my choice this week! And no, I've never watched X Factor. Was it good?

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Publicado por: Serena en Junio 28, 2009, 11:06:13 pm
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Here are some more of Dido's answers to the questions which you folks have been sending to askdido@didomusic.com.

Do you have a song that you like to sing in the shower?
Tamara, Canada
Dido replies: Raindrops keep falling on my head.

You must travel a lot. What's been your worst journey?
Paul in Dubai
Dido replies: My worst journey was a flight to Thailand where I got the most horrendous food poisoning 4 hours into the journey. They were looking for a doctor on the plane but there wasn't one. There was only a nun! She was absolutely lovely though and she'd been a nurse before she became a nun. She basically just held my hand and looked after me till we got to Bangkok

What's your favourite album at the moment and why?
Caroline, Nederland
Dido replies: This changes every few days but today it's Deadmau5 - random album title.

Have you got a favourite pair of shoes?
Jane, Oxford
Dido replies: My converse. I seem to wear them every day.

Right, I'm buying you a pizza. What toppings will you have?
Sue, London
Dido replies: Thank you very much! Mushroom. You're making me hungry.


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Publicado por: Serena en Julio 20, 2009, 08:09:50 pm
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Hi folks. Here are some more of Dido's answers to the questions you've been sending to askdido@didomusic.com (keep 'em coming!).

Hi Dido. Do you like dogs? What's your favourite breed? And have you got any pets?
Macarena de la Argentina.
Dido replies: Yes I do. I love them and would love to have them if I stop travelling for long enough! I'd have a golden retriever or a labrador.

Hello Dido. When I listen to your first 2 albums, there are a lot electronic bits in it. I always loved that. But with the Safe Trip Home album, you have left those electronic bits out. Or at least, a lot less than normally. What made you decide to change the style of the 3rd album? Or did it just go that way?
Keep making great music!
Daniel Heijl, From the Netherlands
Dido replies: I intentionally didn't use any electronics on the 3rd album. It was a challenge that started as a small thought and then turned into a big theme of the record. We had a lot of fun creating sounds from all manner of instruments (bells, wind instruments, strings, brass, pots, pans, cans, sandpaper, anything).  This was instead of using anything pre-programmed. It was a great learning experience for me and also made me a much better musician pretty quickly! It's also making me really appreciate the joy of electronics again on this new album I'm making. It's good to take a break and now I'm celebrating my electronic roots again. :-)

Hi Dido, The internet is telling me that your first two albums are pop music, and Safe Trip Home is folk. Do you think they got it right? How do you describe your music?
Cheers,
Tom
Dido replies: I leave the descriptions to other people!
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Publicado por: Serena en Julio 26, 2009, 11:10:36 pm
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Here are Dido's latest replies to the questions you've been sending to askdido@didomusic.com.

Hello Dido. When you're planning a holiday, are you more of a beach bum or city break girl? And is there any place you've never been to that you'd love to visit? Thanks!
Liz, Gloucester
Dido replies: I love both. It depends how tired I am. I can stare at the ocean for a pretty long time though and love not having to get dressed. But I also love nothing more than walking everywhere round a city for a few days. I'd love to go to India, Chile, Poland, St Petersburg, Alaska.

What would be your most preferred music instrument for song writing?
Tanisha, India
Dido replies: Probably guitar as it feels so natural to sing and play at the same time.

What other languages do you speak or want to learn?
David Mercado
Dido replies: Very bad French and trying to learn Spanish
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Publicado por: Serena en Agosto 01, 2009, 10:31:52 pm
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To whom do you dedicate your success?
Mia, Philippines
Dido replies: There's a few people but one of the main ones is my brother Rollo. He brings a lot of joy into what I do. To be able to work so happily together has made this an amazing experience from the beginning for me. A combination of being so much fun working together and also the fact that when he criticises me (which older brothers do) it just spurs me on to write an even more beautiful song if I can. Sometimes I feel like his brain has all the parts mine is missing. We're working together at the moment on the next album and I'm loving every minute.

What is your favourite board game?
From Kevin Tan, 16 (Malaysia)
Dido replies: Scrabble. All my friends hate it apart from one. So no one will play with me. I miss it.

How many songs do you have on your iPod?
Georgia, York UK.
Dido replies: 14,336.
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 17, 2009, 10:38:23 pm
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With Dido back in the studio recording her fourth album, we gave her a shout to find out how she's doing.

Hello Dido, how are you?
Very well thank you. This is my favourite time of year. I've just got in from a fantastic walk in the countryside where I'm working. There is truly nothing better than walking in cold sunshine listening to music, so I feel great.

What have you been up to over the last few months?
I've been working on a new record. The last few months has been spent mostly at home just writing and recording away on my own in the kitchen - still the place I get the most done!

How is the new material coming along?
Great. I'm really enjoying what I've been doing. I've been embracing my electronic roots again which is even more enjoyable than ever before after all I've been learning in the last few years. Loving Logic 9 too.

How does the new stuff compare to the Safe Trip Home songs?
You'll have to wait and see! I'll fill you in more as time goes on, but it's a whole new world.

Are you still playing a lot of the instruments?
So far, I'm playing all of them. But hopefully we'll get some professionals in soon! I'm working with Rollo at the moment and he's great at inspiring me to play everything. He doesn't really give me a choice.
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 17, 2009, 10:39:33 pm
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As promised, here's the second part of our interview with Dido.

Has it been fun working with Rollo on the new album?
Definitely. I love working with Rollo. He's always excited and smiling and inspiring and just great company.

Do you have a vague idea of when we're likely to hear the new stuff?
You'll start hearing things appearing next year, for sure.

Are there any plans for a tour?
This will be a really fun record to tour, so yes.

What have you been listening to?
This morning my walking playlist included William Orbit (Strange Cargo III), House of Cards by Radiohead, Sombre Reptiles by Brian Eno, Something in the Way She Moves by James Taylor, Kool and the Gang's Get Down On It, Jack Penate, The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds, Lindstrom, La Roux, Harry Nilsson, Regina Spektor, Trentemí¸ller and Deadmau5. All of which put me in a very good mood.

Finally, what's the best film you've seen recently?
I really enjoyed 'In the Loop' and the Story of Anvil (brilliant ending!)

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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 25, 2009, 08:14:31 pm
Dido cumple hoy 38 años!!
 FELICIDADES!!!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 05, 2010, 07:25:15 pm
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Hello Dido, did you have a good Christmas?
Hi there, happy new year to everyone! I had a great Christmas with my family. Very relaxing. A lot of snow, a lot of cake. All good.

You said in the last interview that you've been working in the countryside - do you think the surroundings of a studio can have an impact on the sounds you make in it?
Well there's a few sound effects that I could maybe do without. A lot of birds and cows and low flying air force planes... I'm not sure whether it has an effect or not. So much of what I write and produce is so internal that often it doesn't matter where I am. Most of the time I'm in a room with no windows when I write anyway. I do find it inspiring to go for an amazing walk in the country every morning though before we start work though. Makes me feel really lucky to be alive.

When you're writing new songs, do you listen back to your first three albums for inspiration?
Not very often. I do listen to them for fun occasionally, sometimes when I'm driving as they all bring back such amazing memories. Each record was borne out of such a specific era of my life, it's great to take myself back there.

What do you tend to eat and/or drink during an average day's recording?
Cereal. It's easy and quick and if I'm really focused on something I don't want to bother cooking anything. I could eat breakfast for every meal quite happily.

Who makes the best tea, you or Rollo?
Definitely me. :-) I think he might even agree.
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 18, 2010, 11:10:59 pm
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Good news! No Angel has been nominated for the Best British Album of 30 Years at this year's BRIT Awards
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 18, 2010, 11:11:35 pm
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Did you deliberately decide to make this album hark back to your electronic roots, or did it just turn out that way?
As with everything I've done, it just turned out that way. I'm not good at planning these things out or thinking too far ahead. I never have been. Part of it is I just make the music I want to listen to at that particular time and the other part is that I'd put a new logic program on my computer last year and was really enjoying playing with it at home and the record just grew out of that and all the inspiring sounds I could find or create. The difference now to before is that making the last album taught me so much about playing and arranging and engineering and production etc.. That I can really enjoy just being self sufficient and making records wherever I am on my own. It feels really good to get lost completely in my own world and create a new sound that way. Then on top of that, when I do get into a studio with Rollo or Sister Bliss it just feels amazing to have their extra inspiration and input at that point and watch the tracks transform. I'm having a lot of fun making this record.

When you're in this stage of the process, do you find yourself thinking about nothing else but recording? Or are you good at leaving it behind when you shut the studio door?
I'm not great at leaving it behind properly if I'm in a proper studio situation and I've always got songs and ideas going round in my head at all times. It's how I see the world around me I suppose. But I have good periods of time when I don't think too much about it as there's so many other things I like doing or learning about and people I want to see. I also get my best ideas when I just forget about it all for a minute and let my brain relax!

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and written lyrics?
I've dreamt a few lyrics and I've learnt that you have to write them down. I always think I'll remember them in the morning and never do.

Finally, what was your favourite book of 2009?
My favourite by far of last year was BROOKLYN by Colm Toibin. Really moving and engaging. I was gutted to finish it as I wanted to stay in that world for longer.
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 19, 2010, 11:04:11 pm
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Voting is now open for the Best British Album of 30 Years Award which No Angel has been nominated for at this year's Brits
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Publicado por: Serena en Abril 21, 2010, 05:58:40 pm
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We're very pleased to announce that a brand new Dido song, Everything To Lose, will feature in the upcoming movie, Sex And The City 2, which is released at the end of May 2010. The track will also be available on the film's soundtrack album.

We gave Dido a shout to find out a bit more about the new song:

Did you write Everything To Lose specifically for the movie?
A rough demo of 'everything to lose' was on a cd I gave to someone with a few demos of songs from the new album. The people doing the film heard it and loved it and so we had to suddenly finish it up in a couple of days last week to get it into the film in time. It's so exciting for me that people will be hearing it this quickly after I've done it and when it's still so fresh for me.

When/where did you record it?
Rollo, Sister Bliss and I all did our bits at home. I recorded my parts in the kitchen. It's a very easy and fun way to work and is how I've been making my new record so far. It challenges me more when I've only got myself to rely on when I'm recording on my own and I've been able to really go with my own instincts and experiment before anyone hears anything. I finished it off with my brother in the English countryside (hoping not too much bird and cow noise on there!).

Are you pleased with it?
I really am. It's a song that puts us all in a good mood. It's a true love song really, even though it's talking about that fear you can get when you actually really love someone and have finally got something real to lose. I love the sound of it and I've been having so much fun with working with Rollo and Sister Bliss on this album so far. I'm enjoying getting back to my electronic roots so much. Very happy! Hope you all like it too.
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Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 09, 2010, 08:00:17 pm
Everything to lose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEm0Wki1WtE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEm0Wki1WtE)
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Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 13, 2010, 10:32:26 pm
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We thought you might like to see the full lyrics to Dido's new song, Everything To Lose, which she's just emailed over to us:

EVERYTHING TO LOSE

I used to be so fearless, so limitless and free
Happy on my own and nothing really bothered me
I had desires to see the world, jump out of planes and fly
I loved to be alive, but I was not afraid to die
I loved to be alive but I was not afraid to die…

I used to be so sure of things and self contained
I could carry on with no need to explain
It didn’t matter if I ever made it home
Could go too fast, drink all night and dance alone
I loved to be alive but I was not afraid to die
I loved to be alive but I was not afraid to die

Since I met you, I’ve got everything to lose
Since I met you, I’ve got everything to lose

I used to be so thoughtless so easy and free
Could walk away, not think ahead and had no plans to keep
No hand to hold no one to bring down with me
I wouldn’t see the worst and it only hurts me
I loved to be alive but I was not afraid to die

Since I met you, I’ve got everything to lose
Since I met you I’ve got everything to lose
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Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 17, 2010, 05:56:09 pm
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The brand new Faithless album is released this week, and has two tracks featuring Dido's vocals - they are Feelin Good (which you can hear in full below) and North Star.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YquiHDsH4Mk& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YquiHDsH4Mk&)

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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 25, 2010, 10:59:53 pm
Dido cumple hoy 39 años!!!!
FELICIDADES!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 28, 2011, 10:15:37 pm
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Following this week's amazing news that If I Rise has been nominated for the Best Song Oscar, we gave Dido a shout to find out a bit more about collaborating with A.R. Rahman, being on the 127 Hours soundtrack and plans for album #4.

Hi Dido, congratulations on the Oscar nomination. Where were you when you found out about it?
I was in a restaurant and a friend texted me. I nearly fell off my chair.

Presumably you're pretty pleased?
I'm so pleased. It's a proper honour and getting to work with someone as brilliant as A.R. Rahman on a Danny Boyle movie is a bit of a dream come true anyway. Way back when, the 'Trainspotting' soundtrack was probably one of the musical moments that influenced me the most. I actually wrote 'Here With Me' which was my first song over a track on there. Danny Boyle has always done incredible music in his films I think, and I'm a huge A.R. Rahman fan anyway. A.R. Rahman’s whole soundtrack to this film is beautiful and I’m properly proud to be a part of it.

Have you spoken to A.R. Rahman since the nomination was announced?
I have, I spoke to him yesterday. What a lovely guy. Very inspiring.

Of course, this is just one of six awards that 127 Hours is up for. Did you expect it to do so well when you became involved?
To be honest I'd only read the book when I first got involved. I was working with A.R on something else anyway and he mentioned that he was working on a soundtrack. He told me the story of the film and I realised I actually already had Aron Ralston's book at home because it had interested me. I went home, read the book properly which was very moving and very inspiring, and then went back in and did the track. A.R. explained where in the film the track would be and it felt like the 'no lyrics' lyrics in the verses were the right thing to do as it wouldn't interfere with what was going on in the scene too much. I didn't think too much more of it other than that it was a great experience to work with A.R. and a beautiful piece of music. I didn't actually see the film for the first time until recently when everything was finished.

And what did you think of the film?
I was blown away by it. As I'd read the book I was pretty intrigued as to how Danny Boyle was going to get round the fact that it's one guy stuck in a rock for the whole film. He did it absolutely brilliantly. I was so drawn in from the word go, really moved and riveted and actually found it pretty exhilarating and inspiring by the end. The way it was shot just draws you right in and I felt a bit like I was cutting my own arm off at the pivotal scene. I hope I'd be able to have the human strength to do the same thing in the same situation! My hiking holiday in Utah wasn't nearly as exciting though...

This is a great start to 2011 for you. Is it looking like you'll finish the new album this year too?
The new album should be finished soon. Very excited about it. We've had a lot of fun doing it. I've done a lot of stuff with Rollo here in the UK and then I spent some time in California over the summer and wrote a load of songs there with a different flavour that I love. Driving round California is about the most inspiring thing for me I think. I got to work with some great people there too - Jeff Bhasker, Greg Kurstin, Rick Nowels again. Happy days.

Would you like to work with A.R. Rahman again?
I'd absolutely love to. We have done another track and I just need to finish the lyrics on that and we'll get that finished and I'd love to do more with him. He's an amazing human being to be around and incredibly talented and I learnt a lot from the short time we already spent together. His melodies are absolutely beautiful. I realised I'd never actually sung another person's melody as one of my songs and he writes melodies I could never write but I just love singing. Especially when you get more of the Indian scale in there. It's not dissimilar to Irish music and so it really resonates with me and moves me.

Do you have any other collaborations lined up?
I certainly do. Too early to say for sure as I don't want to jinx things but there are things going on hopefully!

Finally, if you win, where do you think you'd put the statuette?
Where everyone can see it. :-) It would be pretty unbelievable to win an Oscar.

Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 25, 2011, 10:28:14 pm
If I Rise (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE3KA7DdhQQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE3KA7DdhQQ)
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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 24, 2011, 01:34:54 pm
Ha sido madre!!!

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British pop singer Dido became a mother few months ago, but she has successflly hidden it from a public eye untill now. British tabloid Daily Mail revealed that the singer gave birth to a son and named him Stanley. It's a bizzare name choice, because that's the name of a character from her duet with Eminem who kills his girlfriend and unborn child and then commits suicide after he fails to receive a reply from his idol.
This is her first child, born in a marriage with a writer Rohan Gavin.
Congrats to parrents!
The singer will celebrate her 40th birthday tomorrow, on Dec 25th, while she announced her fourth album to be released next year.
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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 25, 2011, 08:55:45 pm
Dido cumple hoy 40 años!!!!
FELICIDADES!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:
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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 26, 2011, 02:17:21 pm
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El 25 de diciembre es una fecha muy especial. La navidad está llena de regalos, de comida y de festejos. Para la cantante británica Dido, una afortunada, todo ello llega multiplicado por tres.

   Y es que, según infoma Daily Mail, Dido nació un 25 de diciembre hace cuarenta años. Tanto le ha gustado verse colmada de regalos en un sólo dí­a, juntando los recibidos por su fiesta de cumpleaños con los de debajo del árbol, que ha decidido que íéste es el mejor presente que puede hacerle a su primer hijo.

   Así­, Dido, que estaba embarazada del que es su primer bebíé, ha dado a luz a su hijo íéste mismo dí­a, el dí­a de navidad y el de su propio cumpleaños.

   í‰ste ha sido el mejor regalo que Dido haya podido recibir jamás en este dí­a y ahora Stanley celebrará y compartirá con su madre este mágico dí­a de navidad.

   Su marido, Rohan Gavin no ha dado a basto con los regalos, además, aunque puede que sea simple casualidad, Rohan aún no se ha pronunciado sobre el hecho de que su hijo se llame igual que la canción que su mujer, Dido, protagonizó con el rapero Eminem en el año 2000 y que la lanzó al estrellato internacional.
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 19, 2012, 10:02:50 pm
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The Girl Who Got Away
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 25, 2012, 06:13:51 pm
Nueva canción

No Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDLtrf7HJxE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDLtrf7HJxE)
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 25, 2012, 06:56:22 pm
Una demo

Yesterday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiwhbiV-VuE& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiwhbiV-VuE&)

Y una foto

(http://photovvebsite.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dido-armstrong.jpg)
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 25, 2012, 06:58:39 pm
Lo que se sabe!

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La información de la que se dispone hasta ahora es la siguiente:

PRODUCTORES:

Estos son los nombrados principalmente por Dido:
- Jeff Bhasker: Ha trabajado con el en varios temas que íéste califico como muy buenos, y ha trabajado en el disco de íél, haciendo al menos voces de fondo.
- Rick Nowels: Productor con el que ya ha trabajado en todos sus discos anteriores, y ha vuelto a escribir con el para el nuevo.
- Greg Kurstin: Primera vez que trabajan juntos, y al parecer tambiíén ha varios temas hechos con el.
- Rollo: Su hermano y productor habitual.
* Con Lester Mendez trabajó en varios temas, uno de ellos estaba hace una año ya incluso mezclado, pero Dido no ha mencionado haber trabajado con el, por lo que no se sabe que pasará con esos temas.
* Tambiíén trabajo en mas temas a parte de 'If I Rise' con A.R. Rahman, de hecho Dido comento en Febrero del 2011 que uno de ellos solo necesitaba ponerle letra.

CANCIONES:

Dido mencionó en un tweet el tema 'The girl who got away', que contarí­a con Ash Soan en la baterí­a.

COLABORACIONES:

Al parecer está casi confirmado que habrá colaboraciones, pero se desconocen aun quienes serán los colaboradores.

DESCRIPCIí“N:

- En 2010 Dido lo describió como que serí­a un disco más divertido para salir de gira que STH.
- En 2011 lo calificó como una extravaganza electrónica, con gran parte del disco como resultado de grabaciones de ella cuando paso varios meses en L.A.
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 25, 2012, 07:01:27 pm
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- Podremos oí­r un adelanto muy pronto.
- Everything To Lose, que fue lanzada en 2010 y se usó en 'Sex in the city 2', no estará en en disco, hay mucho material nuevo.
- Ha vuelto a trabajar con Brian Eno, que ya trabajo con ella en 'Grafton Street' de Safe Trip Home. La canción con Brian Eno será la que cierre el nuevo disco.
- Contato con Benny Bennassi por Twitter el otro dí­a, ofreciendole hacer alguna mezcla, a lo cual Benny se mostró muy dispuesto.
- Hace 2 dí­as estuvo en Parí­s para presentar en la sede francesa de su discográfica el nuevo disco, el cual dice está prácticamente terminado.

De hace unos dí­as!
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 25, 2012, 07:04:41 pm
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Ultimas noticias:

- Dido estuvo oyendo hace unos dí­as la versión masterizada del disco, de la cual se ha encargado Tom Coyne (Adele, Britney Spears, Sade, BSB, Beyoncíé y muchos más).

- Al parecer, la fecha de lanzamiento establecida por ahora es el 4 de Marzo.
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 25, 2012, 07:43:12 pm
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DIDO is making a comeback next year and she might just surprise a few people who think of her as middle-of-the-road.
The singer-songwriter’s next album will include a contribution from hip-hop duo RIZZLE KICKS.
HARLEY ALEXANDER-SULE and JORDAN STEPHENS had sessions with Dido in late 2010 after she heard an early version of their hit Down With The Trumpets.
A source said: “Dido spotted Rizzle Kicks before they became famous when she had just started work on her next album.
“She asked them to work with her and they contributed vocals to one of her new songs.
“Then Dido got pregnant and the album was put on hold.”

Dido’s upcoming album is titled Girl Who Got Away and is due for release next March.
Sony will be putting a lot of effort into promoting it. Her first two albums sold more than 35million copies.
Rizzle Kicks will be hoping the new one does too. The royalties will roll in.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4662683/dido-rizzle-kicks-collaboration.html#ixzz2DGG49VuY
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 27, 2012, 08:33:59 pm
Twitter

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trying to finalise the order of songs on the album. going in circles but i think i'm getting there now. will let you know it when i do! x
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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 22, 2012, 04:44:47 pm
Let us move on (ft Kendrick Lamar)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnrswAX5qFo& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnrswAX5qFo&)
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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 22, 2012, 04:53:50 pm
Tracklist (http://instagram.com/p/TEv5pnuU8H/)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A-E2ghGCQAEfRMT.jpg)
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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 22, 2012, 04:56:58 pm
Thank you @ Abbey Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZ34J01FG8& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZ34J01FG8&)
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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 25, 2012, 05:13:47 pm
Dido cumple hoy 41 años!!!!
FELICIDADES!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 03, 2013, 03:52:25 pm
(http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151395054022905&set=a.10151295801377905.516515.19571497904&type=1&ref=nf)
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 03, 2013, 03:57:20 pm
Making of No Freedom (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.538423212837439.125551.538414262838334&type=1)
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 03, 2013, 04:02:06 pm
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Girl who got away' tendrá una edición de lujo o deluxe que contendrá canciones extras y remixes adicionales. En total son 18 canciones, 7 más que la edición normal, con 3 remixes (entre los que se incluyen uno de Everything to lose) y 4 canciones extras:

1. No Freedom.
2. Girl Who Got Away.
3. Let Us Move On".
4. Blackbird.
5. End of Night.
6. Sitting on the Roof of the World.
7. Love to Blame.
8. Go Dreaming.
9. Happy New Year.
10. Loveless Hearts.
11. Day Before We Went to War.
12. Let Us Move On (Jeff Bahsker version).
13. All I See.
14. Just Say Yes.
15. Let's Run Away.
16. Everything To Lose (Armin Van Buuren Remix).
17. Lost.
18. No Freedom (Benny Benassi Remix).

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_aq_E1Ho26Y/UN7smPFN8ZI/AAAAAAAAAFI/Kv2-Jmp4-G0/s400/Dido-Girl-Who-Got-Away-2013-Promo.png)
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 08, 2013, 05:30:22 pm
La portada!

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/1facca52a6c007c51209e32892c3061d/tumblr_mgbeyc9vTJ1rri2r3o1_500.jpg)
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 11, 2013, 06:45:51 pm
No Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nO45A7tTMs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nO45A7tTMs)
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 12, 2013, 06:36:27 pm
Portada del single!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BAbQwN7CIAAJKiD.jpg:large)
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 12, 2013, 08:16:22 pm
Letra de No Freedom

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I take it by your silence
That I’m free to walk out the door
By the look in your eyes I can tell
You don’t think I’ll be back for more

Try to think of a world
Where you could stay and these safe hands could go
Take your heart above the water
Wherever I choose to go

No love without freedom
No love without freedom
No love without freedom
No freedom without love

Even when you don’t see me
Even when you don’t hear
I’ll be flying low below the sun
And you’ll feel it all out here

No love without freedom
No love without freedom
No love without freedom
No freedom without love

I’m standing here in silence
The world in front of me
Holding you in my hand
And seeing as you’d see

No love without freedom
No love without freedom
No love without freedom
No freedom without love
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 17, 2013, 11:25:44 pm
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JuNspc2S_RU/UPfm-pOUsYI/AAAAAAAAAIw/V6LhJEVzYy0/s400/music-dido-3.jpg)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wEy2IDcvmJs/UPfm-pGUekI/AAAAAAAAAI0/N5lfsi01x3k/s400/music-dido-2.jpg)

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Nuevas fotos!
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Publicado por: Serena en Enero 27, 2013, 11:07:06 pm
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í‰ste será el cuarto disco de estudio de la cantante y tendrá como primer singles el tema “No Freedom”.

Dido deleitará el próximo cuatro de marzo a todos sus seguidores con la publicación de “The Girl Who Got Away”, su cuarto trabajo.

Este álbum, que acaba de estrenar portada y lista de canciones oficial, contará con once temas entre los que destacan el elegido como primer single “No Freedom” y su dúo con el cantante Kendrick Lamar, en la canción ”Let Us Move On”.

La solista lleva desde 1999 en el mundo de la música, una carrera marcada, sin duda, por su primer trabajo, el disco “No Angel” con el que llegó a vender más de 21 millones de copias en todo el mundo.

Tras íéste publicó otros dos, “Life for rent” (con más de 12 millones de copias vendidas) y “Safe Trip Home”, su disco más arriesgado y con el que consiguió ser Top 10 en nueve paí­ses y el número uno entre los discos más vendidos en Europa.
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 01, 2013, 11:59:04 pm
Entrevista Evening Standard

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What’s changed most for you over the past five years?

My whole life. Having got married and had a baby [Stanley, 18 months], I don’t think of myself at all any more, which, although it sounds clichíéd, is actually quite liberating.

Does it make songwriting harder?

It does because you don’t have time to wander around and think big thoughts, but my songwriting is still the way I see the world.

Your last album was released in 2008, do you feel the pressure of a comeback?

Not really. I know for everyone else it feels like I’ve been away forever, but there’s never been a break from music for me. It’s not intentional that there are four years between each album, it just makes me look quite slow.

Do you still speak to Eminem?

No, I haven’t spoken to him for years, not for any reason other than we’re not pen pals.

How did he first get in touch with you?

After ‘Thank You’ I got a letter out of the blue when I was in New York with a CD and a note saying: ‘I love your track, I want to use it, and how does this sound to you?’ I put it on and it was ‘Stan’; it just sounded amazing and I was beside myself with excitement.

You’ve called your son Stanley, is there any connection to the song?

No connection. Stanley has always been my favourite name.

Your music is very serene, was it strange hanging out with rappers?

At the time I’d been touring around the States as part of an all-female festival and then I went straight into filming the ‘Stan’ video with Dr Dre and going on the Anger Management Tour with Papa Roach. It was very surreal but they were all very gentlemanly.

Your ‘Dido flip’ haircut was nearly as famous as Jennifer Aniston’s ‘Rachel’, have you got another look in the pipeline?

No. It really freaked me out when I saw a Wikipedia page devoted to my hair.

Dido’s new album Girl Who Got Away is out on 4 March
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 06, 2013, 06:07:37 pm
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 10, 2013, 04:04:02 pm
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Four years after the critically acclaimed ‘Safe Trip Home’ became Dido’s third million-seller - taking her to an astonishing career total of 29 million albums sold - the Londoner returns with her fourth album.

And it’s no exaggeration to say that ‘Girl Who Got Away’ might just be her finest record yet. These are the songs of defiance, hope and heartbreak to make the planet fall in love with Dido all over again.
 
Recording ‘Girl Who Got Away’, Dido was often reminded of making ‘No Angel’, her debut album which remains one of the planet’s biggest-selling records of this century. Like that world-conquering debut, the new album is built around waves of sumptuous electronica, Dido’s softly powerful voice and a host of strikingly memorable songs. Warm, evocative and bursting with the emotion of life’s little details, ‘Girl Who Got Away’ is classic Dido; at once modern and timeless.

Also, as with ‘No Angel’ (and, indeed, its 2003 follow-up, ‘Life For Rent’) the majority of the new album’s literate, life-affirming songs were written and produced by Dido and her brother, Faithless founder Rollo Armstrong. And, just like in the early days, she worked on it without really imagining that people would ever hear it.
 
“It was an incredibly fun record to make,” she beams. “There was no pressure on me at all. It’s all been so natural and easy.” Dido had a blast, whether working alone at her kitchen table or alongside trusted collaborators Brian Eno, Jeff Bhasker, Rick Nowels, Greg Kurstin and, of course, Rollo in various home studios and hotel rooms on either side of the Atlantic. “On every other record I’ve made, there have been really tricky days,” she says, “but there weren’t any like that on this one.”
 
Much of the album was written and recorded before the summer of 2011 when - not long after receiving an Oscar nomination for If I Rise, the 127 Hours theme she made with A R Rahman - Dido and her husband had their first child.

“I wrote everything on this album before I got pregnant,’ she says. “And a lot of it was actually recorded while I was pregnant. It’s really fun to think back to when I was singing these songs. Like with ‘Girl Who Got Away’, I remember the baby was kicking me to the point I thought I was going to fall over!”

An unmistakable optimism shines through the new album, which Dido completed late in 2012 after taking a year off to concentrate on motherhood. That positive spirit is there in the life-loving, ‘Go Dreaming’; in the ode to true love that is the album’s first single, ‘No Freedom’; and in the driving ‘Let Us Move On’, which features a pin-sharp guest spot from the world’s hottest rapper, Kendrick Lamar. And it glows particularly brightly in the loved-up redemption of the folksy, autobiographical Sitting ‘On The Roof Of The World’.
 
Which isn’t to say that this album is all sweetness and light: Dido certainly retains her knack for disguising a barbed lyric with a beguiling melody. So, the propulsive ‘End Of Night’ might sound like one of her most upbeat songs yet, but it is, in fact, a rather vicious break-up song. Blackbird, meanwhile, is deliciously withering.
 
And the album’s title? “It’s one of my favourite songs on the record,” she says. “But I guess it also sums up the last few years for me. Taking a step back from it all and going off to have the whole happy adventure of starting a family and making an album that I really am so proud of. And now I just can’t wait for people to hear it.”
 
She might be the girl who got away. But make no mistake, Dido is back.

‘Girl Who Got Away’ is out March 4th. You can pre-order the album from iTunes at http://smarturl.it/gwgadigidlx or Amazon at http://smarturl.it/GHGAamz
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 10, 2013, 04:07:49 pm
Letra BlackBird

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He put the coffee in the cup and when milk filled it up
He added sugar and I never knew he liked it like that
He took his coat from the hook and his scarf and his hat
And he put down a key and said I won’t be needing that

And he turned and smiled and said that´ve explained it all
And he walked down the hall and he opened the door
And said "Of course, I’ll call"

Oh why do I bring you love
When all you give me back is pain
Oh why do we search it out
To watch you wash your hands and walk away

Now there’s a black black black bird in my chest
All the flatter all caged in
Wanting to break free with the wolves in my head
You’re tearing every wise thing I should have said

Oh why do I bring you love
When all you give me back is pain
Oh why do we search it out
To watch you wash your hands and walk away

We’re like the strangers we were when we first met
But the pain in strangers had the end
And all that remains is a day without plans
The loneliness and the forever lost

Oh why do I bring you love
When all you give me back is pain
Oh why do we search it out
To watch you wash your hands and walk away
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 10, 2013, 11:40:14 pm
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English singer-songwriter. Dido acquired international success with her debut album No Angel in 1999. She talks about her 4-year break from the music industry, settling down, getting married, becoming a mom, dealing with a hyperactive 18 month old son named Stanley, and enjoying a very reclusive private life. Her 19th album, Girl Who Got Away, will be out March 4th.

The last time we met was in sunny California when you had just finished Safe Trip Home, but were about to go back into the studio and record yet another album. What happened?

Yeah, well I sort of did – almost. But then, then I had a baby in the middle of it all. (laughs)

So you were actually working in ‘08/‘09?

Well, ‘08 I was promoting the last record. And then ‘09 … OK, sorry, let me just check this very quickly, sorry. And then ‘09 I started … you know, doing some bits and bobs of writing. And then did a lot of it… yeah, sort of was working. Yeah, I was working with Rollo in ‘09 in the studio; we got a lot of stuff done. And then in 2010 I went to America for a while to do some stuff there. I worked with Greg Kurstin and Jeff Bhasker and Rick. And there was a lot of sort of waiting around for various people. So I ended up spending some time there. And just sort of working on my own. And then I got pregnant and I had a baby. And actually by the time I had Stanley, I’d pretty much written and recorded everything. And then we really just sort of pulled it together in the last couple of months. So then I did take some time off.

Eighteen months to be more precise.

(laughs): And then sort of just… Yeah, the last few months we sort of pulled the record together. And, you know, we were always sort of doing bit and bobs. But it was a proper like: “OK, now we’re finishing this record now.”

However, you were still quicker than with the last one…

Exactly. (laughing)

Was becoming a mother and having a baby a conscience decision? Did you feel the clock ticking?

No, I mean, I just fell in love and, you know, it’s the simple story. I fell in love and we wanted to have a baby. And we’re very lucky, very lucky to had one. I think… yeah, it wasn’t complicated the thought process, you know. (laughs) You meet the right guy, you want to have a baby.

Plus you had been training as auntie Dido for years?

Exactly. My lovely, lovely nephews.

Were you sort of lacking something over the years? Like a shoulder to rely on or someone that makes you feel complete?

No actually, no. I’ve never been someone who is like: “Oh my God, I have to have a baby ah… to complete everything.” But having had a baby, now I see that it just is brilliant. It’s the best thing ever. Like I am so glad I’m getting to experience that type of love, you know. It’s a whole different type of love. And whole different way of seeing the world, you know.

That’s why I asked. I mean, in ́08 you had reached a point in your career where there was a lot of pressure, your dad had passed away and you had experienced some nasty break-ups. So taking time off and starting a family was probably the best decision you could have made.

Yeah, I mean, there was probably more expectation about that record than there is about this one, which is really nice, you know. Like I love, you know, I’ve always been much happier being the underdog. No expectation, nobody’s even knowing that there’s a record coming, you know. That is a great place for me to be in. And I think, you know, since that point that I last saw you, you know, I’ve had this amazing adventure of getting married, and, you know, falling in love, getting married, having a kid. And, you know, when you have a baby – I don’t know how it is for other people – but for me it’s like life begins again. You see everything through someone else’s eyes, you know. And everything’s fresh and it’s this whole, you know, whole new world you’re seeing through somebody else’s eyes. And it’s just so exciting. You just get these rushes like: “Oh, I can’t wait to go here with him and do this with him.” And, you know, it’s brilliant.

Did you re-write the album once you were pregnant? Did the topics in your songs change?

Actually, no, no. Because, you know, like at the end of the day I still, you know, what I do is I write songs about things that mean something to me. So actually there are no songs on here that, you know, are about that directly, you know. And I think… you know, it doesn’t change the way I write songs, you know.

Is that why there are still lots of dark songs then?

Absolutely.

Like “Loveless Hearts”, “Love To Blame”, “No Freedom”, and of course “Day Before We Went To War”…

See “No Freedom” I see as quite a positive song. I think, you know, I definitely don’t see that as a dark song. But, you know, like something like “End of Night” is quite a sort of dark, it doesn’t sound like it is, but you know. It’s a dark song and…

A break-up song?

Yeah, it’s actually about a sort of friend. But yeah, I mean, that that’s the thing with songwriting is you can sort of take something and when you turn it into a song, when you turn a feeling into a song, it can then become about so much other stuff, you know. And become relevant to all sorts of different times of our life. And I think, you know, like I’ve always, you know, what I do it’s never sort of directly autobiographical, it might be personal, but I also think in life – even in your incredibly happy times – you’re still going to have your dark times, do you know what I mean. You can’t help it. And vice versa.

It sounds like a warning as well…

Yeah. (laughs)

Like: “Don’t mess with me – I am going to celebrate our separation?”

Yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, that song’s really just a sort of, you know, I feel nothing song. (laughs)

Honestly: Weren’t you tempted to write about babies, husbands and dippers – at least a bit?

No, not really, not yet. No, I don’t know. I just sort of feel like some things you don’t, you know, like a lot of what I write about are the things that are a little bit complicated, you know. That might have a sort of darkness and a lightness, you know. Things that aren’t black and white, cut and dry, you know. When it inspires me to write a song is because there’s actually a juxtaposition of something going on. And that’s what to me makes something worth writing about, you know. And in a way having a baby doesn’t have that at the moment. Because it is just, you know, yes I’m absolutely exhausted, but it is amazing, you know. It’s like you’re laughing all day and as I said: “It’s this sort of fresh feeling of, you know, seeing life through new eyes.”

While most people think that every songwriter basically writes about himself?

Yeah. I think, you know, if you only did that you’d soon run out of things to write about probably. And I think … I also am lucky cause I have Rollo’s lyrics to work with as well, which is just brilliant, you know. And I’ve always had that. And I think that always gives it a different energy. And it means that we can sort of mix both our feelings on one subject, you know. And to me it’s always, you know, I’m never trying to sort of write a diary. I’m just trying to write a great song that means something to me. And wherever it means different things at different time, you know, that’s fine. But you know, it’s not like I’m trying to just sort of say: “This is how I feel and I want you all to know it”, you know. (chuckles) It’s more like: “Here’s a song and it’s come from somewhere in my emotions and my brain.” And then someone will come back, you know, song like “No Freedom”, people have come back to me with so many different reactions of what it means to them. Some of which I put in there and some of which I didn’t, you know. And I’ve had everything from, you know, it’s about love or death or religion or, you know, war, all of these things come back to me. And yeah, a lot of it is the things I was thinking. But a lot of it isn’t. And that’s what I’ve always loved about songwriting.

With “No Freedom” being like a lesson in simplicity and minimalism?

Yeah, yeah. But, you know, it’s funny, ́cause usually I tend to write sort of, you know, bigger songs about a very small moment in time. But that’s actually a sort of smaller song about a lot, you know, it’s sort of a lot of how I feel about the world or about love or death or anything. It’s all in there.

And the “Girl Who Got Away”? That’s you, isn’t it? Because you got away with everything so far?

(laughs): Yeah. Lots of people are having lots of, lots of different meanings to that. I mean, you know, essentially it’s sort of, you know, it’s one of my favorite songs on the record. It’s a song I really enjoyed writing. It’s a song I really enjoyed singing. I remember when I was singing it I was pregnant at the time. And, and really nearly about to have, it was like, only a few weeks before Stanley came along. And I just remember him like kicking me to the point of like, I thought I was just going to just fall over, you know. Like you’re sort of singing and you think: “Is this actually going to hear us?” you know. Like it’s sort of, was so big I thought he was going to hear it. And I think, you know, it’s this sort of good evocative title. It sort of sums up lots of things I feel. And, you know, and I guess the thing that people keep mentioning is that I just keep disappearing and coming back. And I’m okay with that. (laughs)

You’ve always been into that phantom thing, haven’t you?

Yeah, well I just sort of feel like, you know, that’s just… Not consciously, that’s just, I guess what’s happened, you know. You make a record and then you go off and have an adventure of some description or whatever it is, and then you feel inspired to write some more songs and then you put another record out, you know. It’s a pretty simple life.

So you’re not one of those pop stars who have to be in the press every day?

Yeah, no I’m not one of those, thankfully. And no that would be a… I’d find that very exhausting. (laughs)

Also the title track seems to refer to a happy day with no commitments whatsoever. Is that your definition of joy or happiness: Having time off, wasting the hours doing nothing?

Yeah, and I think it’s about sort of shedding off, you know. There is a sadness in there and a happiness in there, you know. Cause it’s about shedding off responsibility. And also wanting to be the, you know, not the dependable, reliable, you know, girl, you know. But actually being, you know, the sort of flighty, restless, sort of person as well, you know. And I think, you know, so we’re, you know, we’re both. (chuckles)

Like you’re no angel?

Yeah, exactly. (laughs)

But musically this is a departure, isn’t it? Like going more electronic for a change?

Not really. I think it’s where I came from, isn’t it? To me it’s sort of, it just ah… it feels very natural this record. It was a very easy record to me. Like it didn’t feel like I was doing anything that didn’t feel really natural. And I hope that it feels timeless because of that, you know. Because that’s what I always want it to be. And that’s always the highest compliment when people sort of say, you know: “It sounds modern, but it sounds timeless.” And that’s what I always want. Cause I want to be able to listen to things in 10 years from now and still enjoy it. And still feel really proud of it. And, you know, not be sort of bowing to sort of temporary trends or whatever. But having said that I also love listening to music now. And you can’t help referencing the things that you loved, the things that are going on around you.

But essentially what I do is, you know, I’m a songwriter. And then I want the songs to sound as good as they possibly can. And, you know, often what you’re trying to do is you’ve written a song and on most songs on this record I’ve recorded at home at first, or in a hotel room, or wherever I was just on my own. So recorded appallingly by me. Because I hate editing on the computer. So everything’s done in one take. But then the problem is that there’s a flavor on the demo that has a sort of magic, you know. If you fall in love with a song there’s a magic. So Rollo’s job a lot of the time was to, you know, was me sort of going: “That there’s just something I love about this demo, and I’ve recorded appallingly”, you know. But we keep as much as we could from those original recordings. And then he would be: “But it needs to sound like a record,” you know. (chuckles) And I think that’s often been his challenge on this album. And I think, you know, he’s risen to it brilliantly. And that sort of, that’s how it all, you know, that’s how it all starts.

Well, obviously he had his magic trousers on again.

Yeah, exactly. (laughing) And I just think, you know, I love going back to what I know. I love dance music and hip-hop and dub and, you know.

So you’re paying homage to Faithless as well?

Not really. I think it’s almost just like what feels, I mean, you know, it’s like you write a song… Like for instance a song like “Blackbird” I wrote on the guitar, played it to Rollo, it sounds like a folk song. And then he looks at me and he’s like: “You do realize that that’s like 140 beats per minute, you know. That is the perfect tempo, you know.” Like, so then him and Sister Bliss come along and just turn into this brilliant, you know, electronic… But that was not, you know, the original thing was this sort of picky guitar thing. And that’s what I find so exciting about working with Rollo is because he’ll just suddenly change it into, you know…

Like transforming your original version into something new?

Yeah, and he gives it back to you, and you’re just like: “Wow this just really, really works”, you know.

Why did you pick “No Freedom” for the first single then?

You know what, I just love the song, you know. I love the song, I love the lyric. I think it means something, it’s emotional. Like to me, you know, I think like those, you know, there’s a lot of songs, you know, I could put out first. But I just feel like essentially, you know, what I love doing is writing songs that are emotional, you know. And that’s what I love listening to as well. And I think I got to trust my instincts on that.

Even though it’s not representative of the album?

I think it’s representative of the album.

Well, I only got played five songs and that one really stands out…

Oh, okay yeah. I think it is really represents the album, you know. And that is a song in its sort of natural form. And I think to me it is really represents of what’s on the album.

Working with people like Greg Kurstin and Rick Nowels – are you after the Lady Gagas and Katy Perrys of this world?

No. (laughing) No, I wouldn’t dare. I mean, you know, I think we’re all probably quite different. Lady Gaga’s amazing, she’s a force to be reckoned with.

Just imagine being on tour for four years nonstop and having to record two albums in between…

I know, she’s incredible. She just like works so hard. And she’s so good to her fans. And she really, you know, she’s very, I do really admire her.

While you prefer listening to Aloe Blacc?

Yeah, love him. He’s great.

And the Jungle Book obviously…

(laughs)

Not to forget Gotye, whose “Somebody That I Used To Know” was one of the best singles in years…

It’s just brilliant, wasn’t it? It was just fantastic.

Other than that: What are you into at the moment?

Lots of stuff actually. And what have I been listening to? I’ve really enjoying the Alt-J album. And just been listening to that. And Kendrick’s album, love that. And The Weekend stuff, you know, all of that. I really love all that stuff, you know. There’s a lot of really exciting music out there.

Is Brian Eno involved in this album as well?

Yeah, so he did a track – “The Day Before We Went To War”, which I love, you know. I just love to work with him on every album forever. You know, he’s just so enjoyable to work with.

So what’s that like? Is he just stopping by, spreading some magic dust?

He just has magic dust, you know. He’s just one of those people who is interested in everything, he’s interesting about everything. He sees music in a way that I really like, you know. He’s sort of not afraid of just something really simple, but you’ve put a huge amount into. You know, the track I did with him, the riff he did is so simple, but it’s actually built up of so many interesting parts. But you wouldn’t know it, you know. And what comes back at you is this pure simplicity. But no, I just think he’s just so clever.

Meaning: He’s like a muse or a spiritual advisor?

Not even like… just someone that I just feel very lucky every time I’ve got to work with him, you know. That simple. It’s just like, you know, who do you most want to work with? – Brian Eno. Okay, you know. (chuckles)

And whatever happened to the track you recorded with Rizzle Kicks?

Oh that will, that will just sort of appear at some point. And ah… they’re so many tracks that aren’t on the record that will be sort of used for other stuff and around, on the internet and blah, blah, blah.

I assume you must have written tons of songs over the years.

So many, yeah. I mean I had like a huge amount to choose from for the album. But for the album I picked the sort of 11 that worked really well together. And then there’s another 6 on the deluxe album thing. And then there are loads more that will just float out. (chuckles) There’s a lot of music this time.

And why Kendrick Lamar? Is he like the hottest thing in rap these days?

Yeah, I mean we recorded that quite a while ago. And I just love his voice. And I love his record. And, you know, just feel really lucky I love what he does on the track, it’s brilliant.

It’s got that Massive Attack thing, doesn’t it?

Yeah, a little bit. Who knows? People hear all sorts of different things in my music, which I like, you know. It’s sort of…

I liked the headline in The Sun: “Dido Gets Her Hip-Hop Kicks.”

(laughs)

But to quote “Blackbird”: Do you feel like there’s something caged in you and you have to let it out every once in a while? What do you do then? How do you react?

(laughs): Well, music is fine. I have music as my outlet for anything that feels caged. I can write a song about it.

On a daily basis or how does it work?

I don’t write songs daily. But I’m always thinking about things. And writing bits and bobs here and there.

Having sold 35 million albums: What’s your poison? Have you bought the big house, are you driving around in fancy sports cars, is there an army of servants and private security?

No, no I lead a pretty simple life, you know. And ah… no, I mean, you know, wish I could say something more interesting. I think, you know, I’m always going to enjoy traveling and, you know, traveling the world that would be great. I haven’t done much recently. But that will always be something I’ve always loved doing is, is feeling, you know, the world is not such a big scary place, you know.

You’ve always been a very reclusive, though. Is it all about protecting yourself or what is it?

Again, it’s not really intentional. Yeah, I mean I just don’t see the need, you know. I just sort of feel like, you know, I haven’t really given it a whole heap of thought. It’s more like, you know, this is what I do: I write songs, I put them out there, you know, and I guess I keep myself to myself in a way because I love having something to write about. And I love having a pretty normal life. And at the end of the day sort of, you know, I don’t want to feel like I live in a bubble or overprotected or, you know, I don’t want any of that. And I think uhm… thankfully I’ve been able to strike a balance of having a pretty sort of normal life with all my old friends that I’ve always had, and writing songs and putting them out there and then disappear. (laughs)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 15, 2013, 11:50:06 pm
Entrevista!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM4nr86hUdg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM4nr86hUdg)
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 15, 2013, 11:57:52 pm
Bonita foto!

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/521397_500855379960160_942908270_n.jpg)
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 19, 2013, 08:36:57 pm
Fragmentos de los temas (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/fragmentos-de-todas-las-canciones-de.html?spref=tw)
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 20, 2013, 10:41:28 pm
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Just Say Yes:


If by chance I saw you at first,
first time now there on the dance floor
I will put my coat back in town now head for the door
And I’ll ask your name,
just because you’ve been there before
have been burned, don’t walk away

Just say yes, I say no
You can say yes and just come home,
just come here don’t step away
don’t stay up there when you can be here
nothing is familiar, nothing stays the same but it’s ok.

Even if you think you should walk
Before you can run and falling is wrong.
Even if, if you believe think spars against you again

Just say yes, I say no
You can say yes and just come home,
just come here, I step away
don’t stay up there when you can be here
nothing is familiar, nothing stays the same but it’s ok.

You should clear a space in your head
Kick out the lame, the lost and the death
And who will know you and you at just bones
and who will care, how beautiful you are

Just say yes, I say no
You can say yes and just come home,
just come here, we step away
don’t stay up there when you can be here
nothing is familiar, nothing stays the same but it’s ok,
nothing is familiar, nothing stays the same but it’s ok.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 20, 2013, 10:43:37 pm
Guapa!

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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 21, 2013, 09:08:03 pm
Jimmy Kimmel Show

No Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QMBhUkVue4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QMBhUkVue4)

White Flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80oHtR9FeY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80oHtR9FeY)
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 21, 2013, 09:11:06 pm
Samples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqTaozgFbU& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqTaozgFbU&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 25, 2013, 06:22:36 pm
Letras del album (primera parte) (http://www.metrolyrics.com/blog/2013/02/22/lyric-premiere-dido-girl-who-got-away-part-i/)
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 25, 2013, 11:21:15 pm
Para oir el disco entero (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/escucha-el-disco-entero-girl-who-got.html?spref=tw)
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 26, 2013, 03:25:08 pm
No Freedom @ Perez Hilto (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/actuacion-de-no-freedom-en-perezhilton.html?spref=tw)
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Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 26, 2013, 03:34:12 pm
Entrevista BBC!

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Dido has taken five years off between albums, but she hasn't been wasting her time. With a new baby and a fresh batch of heartfelt ballads, she's re-energised and ready for the limelight, she tells the BBC.

"I am the sound of modern conflict."

Not words you'd expect to hear from Dido, purveyor of wistful balladry and Queen bee of adult pop.

But apparently the singer frequently gets "letters from people who are in the middle of a war" telling her they've been listening to her music.

She's touched, if somewhat confused, by the response.

"The whole thing sounds quite unreal to me," she laughs. "Is that going to make you fight properly?

"Maybe you want something else. Like AC/DC."

Dido's latest single, No Freedom, is one song that's affected people on the frontline. Although it's a painful story of heartbreak, the refrain: "No freedom without love", has been adopted by rebel groups in Syria.

"There's even videos now from Syria," she marvels. "It's pretty amazing, I certainly wasn't writing about that.

"But when you write an intensely personal lyric, the thing that often surprises you is that it's about most things for other people."

Like the majority of Dido's forthcoming album, Girl Who Got Away, No Freedom was actually written before the Syrian uprising began in March 2011.

She was pregnant at the time with her first son, Stanley, and recorded her vocals right up until the day he was born.

"There's nothing nicer than singing and having a little dancing friend inside," she says.

"Certain songs he really wriggled around for, and certain songs he wouldn't - it was quite a good test of what should go on the record."

Once Stanley arrived, recording was put on hold. Dido spent the next 18 months going through the same things as every other parent - sleepless nights, acid reflux, and a thorough grounding in CBeebies.

"My IQ definitely dropped," she says. "I know it's a cliche but your brain just goes, sort of pffftlbt.

"I'm glad that I'd written the record before my brain fizzled out."

Stripped back
Showcasing the new songs at a low-key London gig last month, Dido apologised to her record label for "taking so long" - but the truth is that she needs time away from the limelight to develop and nurture her ideas.

Instinctively cautious, she frets over lyrics and arrangements, her instinct for simplicity a counterbalance to the kitchen sink approach of her producer (and brother), Rollo.

"He'll put a tonne of stuff in, and I'll get really angsty and confused because there's too much," she says.

"So he'll go off and make a cup of tea, and I'll pull all the faders down and start pulling up what I actually remember wanting in there.

"But having said that, I like to put enough in a song that you want to listen to it again and again. So if you're listening to it on headphones, or in your car, suddenly you'll hear something different."

In other words, Dido is playing a sneaky game of deception with her listeners.

When you first hear Blackbird, a standout track on the new album, its a pretty, playful song - almost a nursery rhyme. But beneath the surface, its structurally complex and lyrically dark, relaying the story of a man walking out on his family.

"If I've got a really dark lyric, it's probably disguised in a chirpy song," says the singer. "There's usually a conflict somewhere.

"To me, that's what makes life interesting - nothing is ever completely as it seems."

She breaks her rule just once, on Loveless Hearts - which is as desolate as its chorus: "Did loveless hearts build the world, only to tear it apart?"

Dido calls it "my bleakest song ever", written about "a really bad" experience that she couldn't "make sense of".

Politely, she declines to explain any further. She "might tell a fan later down the road", but first wants people to relate the story to their own lives.

"I don't like stifling people's imaginations," she explains. "If I explained everything from the word go, and all the songs related to me - how interesting is that?"

Part of her skill is this ability to blend into the background. Critics say it robs her albums of personality - one reviewer likened the last one to "a warm cup of milk" - but fans connect to the songs precisely because they don't have to negotiate the shameless bravado of Lady Gaga or Rihanna.

Trauma
She is that rare thing: An unassuming megastar, selling more than 29m records, but able to walk down the high street unmolested when she's off duty.

"It's weird, the public consciousness," she says, "it just snapped again."

"Literally in the last week, I've had a few people coming up and say, 'I really like your new single'. Just out of the blue, and I've not had it for years.

"I get that thing where people do a double-take because they think I'm an old mate, and then they're mortified."

The attention is not unwelcome... unless she's in a department store.

"Once, I was trying on bikinis, which is the most traumatic thing ever, but once every three years you have to go in and find a new one.

"The big video screens in the shop went dead and then they started playing my video. I was on every screen on the shop.

"It was like someone had come along and taken all my clothes off and run away with them."

Humiliating changing room nightmares aside, is Dido ready to put family life to one side and step back into the limelight?

"I love singing, and I love singing live," she says.

"It's always better than rehearsing or singing at home. It's a shot of adrenalin that you just can't recreate anywhere else.

"But there's nothing better for me than the life I've got now. I do music in quite a quiet way. I get to be with my family, with this thing on the side that is exceptional and is amazing."

No Freedom is out this week. Girl Who Got Away follows on 4 March.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 27, 2013, 11:19:32 pm
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Ya se conoce la fecha de publicación del videoclip de 'No Freedom', será el próximo lunes 4 de Marzo, el mismo dí­a de la publicación internacional del disco, según ha informado Dido desde su cuenta oficial de Twitter.

En otro orden de cosas, mañana Dido aparecerá como invitada en el programa de la televisión inglesa BBC1, BBC Breakfast News. Para quien pueda sintonizar la cadena, Dido saldrá sobre las 8:30 a.m. (hora de UK).
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 28, 2013, 10:29:15 pm
Entrevista!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKcwxjJx9i0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKcwxjJx9i0)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 28, 2013, 11:59:18 pm
Fragmento de una entrevista!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bZDehb529A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bZDehb529A)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 02, 2013, 05:32:05 pm
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Since her previous work, 2008's Safe Trip Home, the singer-songwriter Dido had her first child. However, she tells Rolling Stone that her fourth studio album, Girl Who Got Away, due March 26th, is definitely not an album about motherhood.

"All of the album was written before Stanley came along," she says. "I actually thought it was coming much sooner, sort of at the end of 2010, and then I found out was pregnant – which was fantastic – at the end of 2010. There's a whole heap of different flavors on this album, and different emotions, and in a way it sort of covered more ground for me emotionally and musically than any other record I've done, but in quite a simple way."

To get those flavors, she worked with a variety of collaborators – some familiar, like her brother Rollo (from the band Faithless) and Brian Eno, and some new, including Kendrick Lamar. Dido says the Lamar collaboration, "Let Us Move On," came about from the involvement of Jeff Bhasker, who's enjoyed a lot of recent success with the band Fun. However, it was Bhasker's work on another record that attracted Dido's attention.

"I'm a big Kanye West fan. I think he's great. I'd love to do a track with him one day," she says. "That 808s [& Heartbreak] album I just love. I just thought that was a great record. That's one of the reasons that I wanted to work with Jeff Bhasker."

Dido is a big believer in bringing new blood into her circle of music. "You always learn something more, and it makes the music and songs more exciting," she says. "I wouldn't have written a song like 'End of Night' with Rollo. I like that variety. That's what gave No Angel a lot of its variety – working with different people at different times."

Yet she absolutely understands the value of long-term relationships and familiarity. Case in point: she calls the most autobiographical song on the record one she didn't even write the lyrics to. "'Sitting on the Roof of the World' is actually written by my brother, but it just feels so relevant to me," she says. "I think that's the beauty of working with Rollo. He's the only other person who's ever written lyrics for my stuff, 'cause it sort of feels like this extension of my brain . . . I get really nicely surprised by his lyrics. I might sing them one way at first, thinking they're about this, and then suddenly it'll become about something else."

While the new songs predate the birth of Stanley, she admits that she now hears them differently after having a son. "A song like 'No Freedom,' for instance, on this record, was written about one thing, and then since Stanley was born I listened to it with fresh ears, in a way, and it sort of becomes about something different, which I love. I always feel pleased if a song does change meaning in that way, because I feel like I've written a good song," she says with a laugh.

Right now Dido has no confirmed U.S. tour dates, but if she does make it Stateside, she is looking forward to exploring with her son. "What's great now is I can do a whole heap of things again, and sort of seeing them through Stanley's eyes makes it completely fresh. You get the glorious Technicolor version of things you've seen before, and they look even better when you see them through his eyes," she says.



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dido-greets-motherhood-with-girl-who-got-away-20130301#ixzz2MOtvNaa9
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 02, 2013, 05:49:31 pm
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Dido: 'Im bad at buying things, once I crashed a new car the first time took it out'

'White Flag' singer-songwriter Dido has admitted that she tends not to spend in extravagant ways because an unfortunate incident with a car showed her that money can go to waste easily.

Speaking about her history of expensive purchases, Dido explained that on top of buying a vehicle because it had a pretty colour scheme she also got herself a car that she crashed into a wall the first time she drove it:

"I'm not very good on purchases. A few years ago I bought a car because the interior was the same colour as my No Angel Cd - red and black. That's a girl reason for buying a car.

"Then I made the mistake of buying another car, which I hated and managed to drive into a wall the first time I went out in it, writing it off in the process. That taught me about keeping it simple."

 
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 03, 2013, 11:01:32 pm
Entrevista

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHbGPaDDmjQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHbGPaDDmjQ)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 04, 2013, 05:48:35 pm
Video No Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsevYF7LZ6I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsevYF7LZ6I)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 05, 2013, 04:00:35 pm
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Dido está muy contenta con las opiniones sobre su disco, que son todas muy positivas. Por eso ha organizado una fiesta conjunta para escuchar el disco a la vez que responde preguntas de los fans a travíés de su twitter oficial: https://twitter.com/didoofficial.

Si quieres unirte la cita es el Jueves 7 a las 2:30 p.m. (hora de UK).
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 06, 2013, 04:49:30 pm
Bsides del CD (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/canciones-extra-de-girl-who-got-away.html?spref=tw)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 06, 2013, 11:48:00 pm
Entevista + No Freedom en Suecia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A1L0fKvuGs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A1L0fKvuGs)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 06, 2013, 11:51:08 pm
Entrevista + No Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TrdHOl1hTA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TrdHOl1hTA)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 06, 2013, 11:51:59 pm
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Mañana Dido estará en el programa This Morning de la cadena ITV1 de Inglaterra. Realizará tanto una entrevista como una pequeña actuación. Si puedes sintonizar la cadena, Dido aparecerá a las 11 a.m. (hora de UK).
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Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 07, 2013, 03:33:45 pm
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Dentro de una hora empezará la fiesta para escuchar el disco con Dido a travíés de Twitter, donde podremos preguntar a Dido algunas preguntas para que las responda. Utilizad el hashtag o entiqueta: #GWGAparty. Si queríéis podíéis enviar vuestras preguntas a nuestro perfil en Twitter y se las haremos llegar.

https://twitter.com/HereWithDido
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 07, 2013, 04:09:18 pm
Acaba de anunciar en Twitter q el siguiente single es

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W6HqbTBOEtU/UTisy8pChDI/AAAAAAAAAX8/t9tt2JmL1lg/s1600/endOfNightNewSingle.JPG)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 07, 2013, 04:36:05 pm
Foto

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f7BWT04x0Jk/UTiySbBzMII/AAAAAAAAAYM/lEdDMN9XVLo/s400/BEw4IAVCQAIqP7d.jpg)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 07, 2013, 11:46:04 pm
Sitting On The Roof Of The World (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5LfgkTkh7Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5LfgkTkh7Q)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 07, 2013, 11:48:47 pm
No Freedom @ This Morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2FRPM5jRQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2FRPM5jRQ)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 07, 2013, 11:49:47 pm
Otra foto

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oVKSRQhtYBo/UTi7qoy-KNI/AAAAAAAAAYc/JO_8tsgYrnc/s400/45397_440387392711073_959016659_n.jpg)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 08, 2013, 08:50:57 pm
Este fue el encuentro de ayer en TW!

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Dido: Bien. 5... 4.... 3.... 2.... 1... Dad al play de vuestro disco de 'Girl Who Got Away', ¡AHORA!

1 - No Freedom.

Dido: No Freedom querí­a ser el primer single porque es una de mis canciones favoritas que he escrito y parecí­a una manera simple de empezar.

@pedro__ts: Esta canción es preciosa, es muy tuya, para ser sincero. Me encanta la letra y los sentimientos que general. Las baterí­as fueron grabadas por Rollo y @_UTRB

Dido: No es una canción sobre una relación sentimental más, es sobre el amor en general, en todas sus formas, y no, no es una canción sobre una relación abierta.

2 - Girl Who Got Away.

Dido: Creo que es posiblemente mi canción favorita del disco, aunque eso cambia. A Stanly tambiíén le encanta.

@paullomachado: ¿Escribiste esta canción antes o despuíés de Safe Trip Home?

Dido: La escribí­ en 2010 y Rollo escribió gran parte de la letra. ¡í‰l es 'La Chica que se fue'! :) Un beso.
Alguien lo ha preguntado y sí­, pensíé en 'End of Night' como tí­tulo para el disco durante un segundo, pero al final me quedíé con Girl Who Got Away.

3 - Let Us Move On.

@BlairMondoux: ¿Cuál es el significado de esta canción?

Dido: Solo que la vida es larga y los malos tiempos pasarán.

@FrankieFI: Escuchando #GWGAparty desde las islas Falkland. #LetUsMoveOn es mi segunda favorita despuíés de No Freedom. ¡Bien hecho! :)

4 - Blackbird.

Dido: Esta canción la escribí­ en las guitarra y sonaba como una canción country y despuíés Rollo vino y la hizo sonar muy distinta. ¡Me encanta!

@ThomasBarber3: Blackbird me recuerda a algunas canciones de No Angel, ¿es algo deliberado? :)

Dido: No, pero es genial.

@paullomachado: "He put the co.. [inicio de la canción] ¿Fue intencionado, no? jajajajaja.

Dido: Si, un movimiento especial de Rollo. 'he put the co...'

@NimrodGod: ¿Considerarí­as publicar la versión de guitarra tambiíén?

Dido: ¡Si lo pides amablemente! Sí­, seguro que haríé algún acústico para alguna actuación en cualquier lugar. Es muy divertido.

5 - End of Night.

Dido: ¡Próximo single! Lo acabo de decidir. ¿Es una buena elección?

@ppboots: Es una de tus mejores canciones. ¿La tocarás alguna vez en directo? ¡Por favor!

Dido: ¡¡Sí­!! Definitivamente, no puedo esperar. Preparando mis pasos de baile. La persona sobre la que escribí­ la canción es, bueno era, un amigo... Ellos escucharon la canción y les encantó y ¡no tienen ni idea de que es sobre ellos! Me alegro de que todos estíéis contentos con EndOfNight, no puedo esperar para cantarla en directo.

@ShanLovegood_TW: ¿Cuál es tu parte favorita de la canción?

Dido: #endofnight you were ugly when the beat kicked in and ugly when it left...y el estribillo. La escribí­ en 2010, pero todaví­a me encanta.

6 - Sitting on the Roof of the World.

Dido: Es la canción más autobiográfica en la que no he escrito la letra, mi hermano escribió la letra. Creo que es sobre mi, de todas formas. :)

@paullomachado: ¿Dónde podrí­a estar el techo del mundo para ti?

Dido: Haciendo paracaidismo sobre los Alpes.

7 - Love to Blame.

@ppboots: ¿De donde ha venido esta extraña canción?

Dido: La base de la canción la mandó p*nut, quien hizo los ritmos para White Flag y Who Makes You Feel. Me encantó y escribí­ más y se expandió.

8 - Go Dreaming.

@ThomasBarber3: ¡ME ENCANTA #GoDreaming! ¿Cuánto tiempo te llevó escribir la letra?

Dido: Una tarde con mi hermano. Esta canción es sobre mis valores en la vida. Siempre quiero hacer lo correcto y ser mejor. Tambiíén habla sobre levantarse contra la intimidación, para mi. Fue muy divertido hacer esta canción. Empezó cuando hice los bajos y desde ahí­ la canción se hizo sola.

@paullomachado: Me encanta el estribillo. ¿Quíé canción de este disco escribiste en la cocina? :P

Dido: Go Dreaming es una de ellas.

@iamseifzahran: ¿Te gustarí­a hacer una versión acústica de Go Dreaming?

Dido: Sí­, El otro dí­a probíé a hacer una versión acústica. Suena muy bonita, con un poco de blues, muy diferente del disco.

9 - Happy New Year.

Dido: Happy New Year y Christmas Day no tienen nada que ver, excepto un poco de tristeza por canciones de fiesta.

@Nanny_SCCP_: Me encanta #HappyNewYear. ¿Cuál es la inspiración de esta canción?

Dido: Tuve unas Nocheviejas difí­ciles en el pasado. Prefiero el dí­a de año nuevo ahora. :)

10 - Loveless Hearts.

Dido: #lovelesshearts, penúltima canción. Otra canción de "cocina" :) Escribí­ el estribillo hace años y despuíés algo malo pasó y escribí­ las estrofas.

11 - The Day Before We Went to War.

Dido: #DayBeforeWeWentToWar la última canción del disco. ¡No puedo creer que esto se haya pasado tan rápido!

@SoyFelipo: ¿Dónde grabaste esta canción? ¿Hay pájaros al principio, fue intencionado? Es mi canción favorita.

Dido: Grabíé las voces fuera en el jardí­n de la casa de mi hermano porque hací­a mucho calor dentro.

@JohnPeterGray: ¿Quiíén hizo los arreglos de orquesta?

Dido: La orquesta la hizo @rossidavide y tocó cada instrumento. Es un genio. Tambiíén tocó los arreglos de cuerda en No Freedom.


Dido: Se acabó. Gracias por uniros, ha sido muy divertido, la próxima vez lo haremos para la versión deluxe. Ha sido increí­ble. Muy buena idea hacer esto. Gracias por gastar el tiempo con nosotros. ¡Vosotros moláis! Gracias por uniros a mi. Se acabó por ahora.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 08, 2013, 10:34:30 pm
Entrevista @ This Morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPErepIFDmg& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPErepIFDmg&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 10, 2013, 05:06:31 pm
No Freedom @ KFOG Space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-OTSS13nuA& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-OTSS13nuA&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 11, 2013, 05:29:31 pm
Letra de Girl who got away

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I wanna move with the seasons
Go with the flow, take it easy
And let stuff go

I wanna sleep like a baby
And rise with the sun
Kick it all back
And get nothing done
Wanna make this day
The longest day
With a warmth that
Delivers happiness

If only for today I wanna be
The girl who got away
The lover who really loved
The dancer who danced
To the last song

Don’t wanna take sides
Don’t wanna make sense
Of pounds and pence
I want to be alone
Don’t want hide
Don’t want to be talked over
Or walked upon
I want to think the heart is bigger than the head
Wanna follow you but not be led

If only for today I wanna be
The girl who got away
The lover who really loved
The dancer who danced
To the last song

I know what it’s like
To be passed over
To go unnoticed
To be clumsy get things wrong
and I know what it’s like
To arrive too late
To be told to leave
To be walked upon

If only for today I wanna be
The girl who got away
The lover who really loved
The dancer who danced
To the last song
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 11, 2013, 05:37:22 pm
Entrevista @ Magic Breakfast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaPJ1sxZpr4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaPJ1sxZpr4)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 11, 2013, 11:12:06 pm
Letra Let's us move on

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Don’t wrap it up in gold
Don’t hide it behind the sun
Just give it to me as it is
And let it stand
Don’t fly it like a kite
Between the clouds
It needs no excuse
Just bring it down
Let eyes that are in pain
look upon it
In all it’s glory

Let us move on
Let us move on
For this is short
And it will pass

For every voice that is lifted
In reverence and pain
Show us now
And let love not be chained
We should feel what we can stand
And let us be alive
So we know
That we’ve done all we can
Let hearts that are frozen
Get to see it
In all it’s glory

Let us move on
Let us move on
this is short
And it will pass

And let all that is lost be forgotten
And it will pass
So let all that is lost be forgotten
Let us move on

Like the waters in the open sea
When tribulation come all we can say is hopefully
And yesterday you can probably say it's no hope for me
But today I'm overly dedicated
I'm 'posed to be a testimony for broken hearts in the city
You're either crash landing or planning on flying with me
Misery loves standing behind its company well
Vividly I can see that your feelings would like to dwell
On our past encounters, reaching over the counter
Told me that it's appealing to pop a pill as downer
I heard emotions burn deep
I heard when you fall out of love, the drop is steep
I heard when you see a dove, that's what you trying to be
Got these burdens under my wings, but I'm still free
'Cause I can make the decision to let it all go away
Before I ever run astray, I look you in your eyes and say

Let us move on
Let us move on
For this is short
And it will pass
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 11, 2013, 11:16:03 pm
Girl Who Got Away (acoustic) (http://www.stylist.co.uk/people/dido-video-premiere?Preview=7e1703958d1bb848355ccf4b1ee34e13119f3ca2#image-rotator-1)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 12, 2013, 11:16:00 pm
Letra de Blackbird

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He put the coffee in the cup and when milk filled it up
He added sugar and I never knew he liked it like that
He took his coat from the hook and his scarf and his hat
And he put down a key and said I won’t be needing that

And he turned and smiled and said that´ve explained it all
And he walked down the hall and he opened the door
And said "Of course, I’ll call"

Oh why do I bring you love
When all you give me back is pain
Oh why do we search it out
To watch you wash your hands and walk away

Now there’s a black black black bird in my chest
All the flatter all caged in
Wanting to break free with the wolves in my head
You’re tearing every wise thing I should have said

Oh why do I bring you love
When all you give me back is pain
Oh why do we search it out
To watch you wash your hands and walk away

We’re like the strangers we were when we first met
But the pain in strangers had the end
And all that remains is a day without plans
The loneliness and the forever lost

Oh why do I bring you love
When all you give me back is pain
Oh why do we search it out
To watch you wash your hands and walk away
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 12, 2013, 11:18:21 pm
Para oir y comentar el disco (http://girlwhogotaway.didomusic.com/#)
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Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 13, 2013, 04:07:13 pm
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Dido tiene pensado aparecer próximamente en un par de programas de televisión americanos con el objetivo de promocionar en Estados Unidos el nuevo disco (el cual tiene como fecha de salida el 26 de Marzo). Así­ aparecerá el dí­a 26 en 'Live with Kelly and Michael' y al dí­a siguiente en 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 14, 2013, 10:58:39 pm
Letra End of the night

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Only now it’s gone
I can see the year
See for what it was
And start another day
All the liberty you took
The love that you abused
The friends that you turned
Against me if you could
And you’re twisting what I say
All that saying you were scared
It doesn’t matter anymore
Cos I’m not there

You were careless when the beat kicked in
And careless when it left
And careless all the way
I didn’t see it till the end

I feel nothing
When you cry
I hear nothing
See no need to reply
I can smile now
And turn away
Come over here
So you can see me walk away
And celebrate
The end of night
The end of night

It only takes one lie
To bring this house down
Behind closed doors
No one tells the first time round
Pain is worse when you bring it on yourself
The sweetest bully building
A love that couldn’t last

You were ugly when the beat kicked in
And ugly when it left
And ugly all the way,
I didn’t see it till the end

I feel nothing
When you cry
I hear nothing
See no need to reply
I can smile now
And turn away
Come over here
So you can see me walk away
And celebrate
The end of night
The end of night

After the fall comes love
I hate to hate and love to love

I feel nothing
When you cry
I hear nothing
See no need to reply
I can smile now
And turn away
Come over here
So you can see me walk away
And celebrate
The end of night
The end of night
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 14, 2013, 11:00:09 pm
Los libros que Dido lee (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/los-libros-favoritos-de-dido.html)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 17, 2013, 08:13:04 pm
Entrevista en Los Angeles (http://www.chymfm.com/2013/03/14/dido-exclusive-interview/)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 17, 2013, 08:14:04 pm
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Despuíés de realizar una actuación para un programa de televisión francíés, Dido acudió a la emisora de readio RTL, suponemos para realizar alguna que otra entrevista que aun no se ha publicado en internet.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 18, 2013, 05:54:05 pm
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Como bien sabíéis estos dí­as Dido ha estado realizando una pequeña gira de promoción por Francia, haciendo entrevistas y pequeñas actuaciones. Una de esas actuaciones es la realizada para la emisora de radio RTL2, la cual se emitirá el próximo dí­a de 6 de Abril. En dicha actuación Dido cantó 4 canciones: No Freedom, Girl who got away, White flag y Thank You.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 18, 2013, 10:45:09 pm
No Freedom @ Abbey Road (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/no-freedom-acustico-en-abbey-road.html)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 18, 2013, 10:48:39 pm
 Letra Sitting of the roof of the world

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I climbed a mountain
Not knowing that I had
Thought it was just a road from a to b
I took no protection
Not much of anything
Just went as I was
Looking in windows
And playing songs
And knocking on doors
And I was not scared
I just enjoyed the sights
Kept myself to myself

There I was
Sitting on the roof of the world
There I was
There I was
Not knowing how I got there
Or how to leave

Everyone says
I was lucky to have got there
As not many can
But truth be told
I was saved
By the love
Of a good man
Who came and got me
And bought me down
From on
Up there
I’d be lying if I didn’t say
I missed it now and then
But I have no wish to go back there

There I was
Sitting on the roof of the world
There I was
With all the gods
Not knowing how I got there
Or how to leave

People say
What’s so special about being back here
With everyone so close
But that’s the point
I don’t want to be different
I just want to fit in

There I was
There I was
Sitting on the roof of the world
There I was
With all the gods
Not knowing how I got there
Or how to leave
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 18, 2013, 10:50:12 pm
Letra de Love to Blame

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Helen of troy was the kind of girl
Who really had it all
Not a care in the world but her head was turned
And forever changed
She said one love is lost but another is found
So just take the keys and let’s just go, birds fly south

Nothing ventured
Nothing gained
It’s all about love
So I’m not to blame
I’m not to blame

She said I’ve dotted my I’s and I’ve crossed my t’s
Had time for friends when they needed me
I try to make sense of senseless things
Try to live how I believe
And of course I leave things behind that I’ll regret
But there’s time enough for new things yet, for new things yet

When the dust covers the sun
And all you hope for is undone
Will you turn and say
Nothing ventured
Nothing gained
It was all for love
So love is to blame
Love is to blame.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 18, 2013, 10:52:16 pm
No Freedom @ Le Gran Journal (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/dido-en-le-grand-journal.html)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 21, 2013, 11:31:22 pm
En Vanity Fair

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Earlier this month, British singer-songwriter Dido returned from her five-year sabbatical (and maternity leave) with her fourth studio album, Girl Who Got Away. VF Daily recently caught up with the “White Flag” artist about her creative process, her adventures in gluten-free cooking, and her ability to write and record a song in a day. Highlights from our chat:

Vanity Fair: Congratulations on your new album. You’ve called it a mix of everything you like—dance music, ambient, hip-hop, pop. Is that a different approach than on songs you’ve written for your previous albums?

Dido: Not really, no. No Angel [released in 1999], especially, was a sort of similar thing. Whenever I write a song, I just want to produce it in the way that’s best for the song, and I’ll end up referencing all the music I love. And I love tons of different types of music, whether it’s dance or dub or hip-hop or ambient music, or pop, or folk. What I enjoy is feeling free to jump around. You know, as long as it’s held together with the song. That’s how I hold the albums together.

You just mentioned freedom, and you said in a video from the record label that you felt a sense of freedom with this record. Would you expand on that a bit?

Many years had passed and it felt like there wasn’t a lot of pressure, in a good way. The record happened really naturally, and I was sort of going about my life, working with people, and writing songs. Working with my brother [Rollo Armstrong], and going back to basics a bit as well, it just felt like a really free and easy process. The third album, I think I was just more concerned with wanting to do something different and change things, and that almost became a more difficult record. Often it’s the second one, but for me, I think it was probably the third.

This one is a bit more joyful than the previous album, isn’t it?

With me things are never quite as clear-cut as that, and there’s always a mixture of dark and light in every song. That’s how I like to write songs. The third record was quite a dark record, and it’s quite a dark time, and a very emotional record. This one is as well, but in a sort of different way.


The third record is quite an intensely dark record. I didn’t really realize until I started performing it live, and thinking, Wow. I was singing some quite dark songs every night. [Laughs] This is what you want from a career: you want to look back and each album is a phase in life, and you pour everything into it, and everything you felt during that time is on that record. What was nice about this most recent one is there’s this confidence there from making the third album; I felt more able to follow through on some of the ideas I had, whether they were crazy or not.

Your album before this one was in 2008, but all of your albums have had three to four years in between.

A lot of that is because of touring. I toured for three years, for instance, with No Angel. And I toured for two years after Life for Rent. I would get on the road and then just keep going and going and going. I’ve never been able to make a record while on tour. I find the headspace quite different. In between each record, as well, I want to have a life, an adventure, and have something to write about.

What is your creative process like when you write?

When I’m writing a song, it’s like a blurry picture, and then suddenly I really know what I’m writing about, and it all becomes clear. Unless something’s really clear and I really know what I’m writing about, or it’s really emotional, I’m probably not going to finish it.

Other days I literally just sit in the studio and write. A huge amount can come out then. It’s all in there, and I think if I only waited for those little moments to happen, I don’t think I’d get anything on the page. I just do love to sit with my guitar, and I start playing, and then it turns into writing a song. It just always seems to.

When or how do you know when a song is right? Or when it’s finished and doesn’t need any more tweaking?

The one thing I think I’ve prided myself on. I feel like I do know that, and I think there’s a real art to knowing that. You can go too far, or you can stop not soon enough. But for me, it’s when I just want to listen to it over and over again, when it moves me, when I’m definitely O.K. with playing it to my harshest critics. The minute I get to the stage where I really want to play this to people, like family members, that are going to tell you the truth in no uncertain terms, you know.

Do you change your songs for a while, or do you usually nail it fairly quickly after the inspiration for the song comes?

That’s always different. A song like “Thank You” I wrote in five minutes, and then a song like “White Flag,” I had the chorus for a year before I could finish the verses. It just went round and round in my head, and the picture was just blurry, and then suddenly it got really clear. On this album, too, a song like “End of Night” was written in a day. Then a song like “No Freedom” I carried around with me for ages in different versions. I like to record vocals the minute I’ve written a song, if not when I’m actually writing the song. Like on “End of Night” I was actually writing it as I was singing it, and I think you get a real rawness to that.

You’ve had some songs on movie soundtracks, like 127 Hours and Sex and the City 2. Do people commission those?

Often that happens. In the case of 127 Hours, that was done for the film. It was a complete shocker when it got nominated for an Oscar. I couldn’t believe it. That just came out of the blue. I was just working with A. R. Rahman, and then I think Danny Boyle heard my voice singing something over this track, and then he said, “Would you like to do a song for this film?” And I already knew the story, I had read the book anyway, so I was completely up for it. It was just done in a day, and I thought, Well, that was fun. And then I started getting e-mails a few weeks later, saying, “You’ve been nominated for an Oscar!” And I was like, What? That was really, like, out of the blue, and brilliant.

Was that a song that took five minutes?

No, that was pretty quick. It was a weekend. I spent a lot of time doing it over the weekend, and then recorded it in, like, 45 minutes, an hour, and that was that, and it was done. And A. R. Rahman, he’s one clever guy; you know, I can’t really take a whole heap of credit. He’s the one that made it work with the film, and I was really happy to just use my voice. It’s a whole art to making things like that really work with a film.

When you are not making working, what kinds of things do you like to do?

I like snowmobiling. [Laughs] I have to say, I love doing things that completely take all my brain away from everything. I’m not great at sitting around, because then I’ll start thinking of writing another song. If I really want to relax, I actually need to do something that takes all my concentration. Like driving a snowmobile very fast over the snow.

And I actually do love baking. While I was pregnant, I sort of went baking-crazy and . . . yeah, until my husband stopped me, ’cause it was just getting ridiculous. He feels like he needs to eat it all. He doesn’t want it to go to waste. So I was, like, baking cake after cake. There’s something really beautiful about baking. It’s sort of like, you start with a pile of mush, and you make this amazing thing out of it. I’m very good at slightly strange, alternative, healthy baking. Like I’m always coming up with sugar-free, wheat-free this and that and the other -free recipes, and some of them are absolutely disgusting! Just, some of them go so wrong.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 21, 2013, 11:35:11 pm
Letra Go Dreaming

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En el especial de hoy, os dejamos la letra de Go Dreaming:

Inglíés:

Another summer coming to an end
And I’m still walking on without a care
And even if the birds have flown, the sun has gone
I’ll still be here

Oh I want to walk with kings
Oh and take a chance on things
And though I may give way to those who could cause me pain
And step aside to threats and bullies
I still believe, I still believe

I’d rather go dreaming, believing in something, better than in me
I’d rather die loving, lost in the feeling of letting go
I’d rather die caring, working for something, seeing it as good
I can let it go, I can let it go

They’re all flying flags and making noise
Bringing on their speeches drinks and boys
But when they’re gone I’ll be standing here
And picking up the mess they left
I still believe, I still believe

I’d rather go dreaming, believing in something, better than in me
I’d rather die loving, lost in the feeling of letting go
I’d rather die caring, working for something, seeing it as good
I can let it go, I can let it go
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 21, 2013, 11:36:38 pm
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Nuevo reportaje/entrevista donde Dido habla de la importancia que para ella tiene tener una vida cotidiana más allá del mundo de la música y lo que ha supuesto para ella ser madre. Además comenta cómo ella no decide "hacer un disco", sino simplemente escribe canciones y cuando estas toman forma acaba realizando un nuevo cd, un proceso que ella describe como mucho más natural.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1illaeUEQk& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1illaeUEQk&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 21, 2013, 11:38:49 pm
Letra Happy New Year

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wear the jewels you gave me round my neck tonight
Though I know you won’t be there
I’ll wear them in a gold chain that catches in the light
Though I know of course you won’t appear

I’ll leave the party early after a drink or two
And I’ll check my phone for calls
Though I know there will be none from you

I’ll walk home with snow falling
Deep on frozen lawns
And I’ll leave all those others celebrating
All the things that they have done

I’ll come over to your office and watch them come and go
Though I know I won’t see you there
And I’ll take a train down to the coast and sit and watch the sea
I’ll be sitting there alone

As usual, above all things I miss you every day
Without pause
Happy new year my darling
Happy new year

I’ll walk home with snow falling
Deep on frozen lawns
And I’ll leave all those others celebrating
All the things that they have done
Happy new year my darling
Happy new year
And I’ll leave, leave.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 21, 2013, 11:40:04 pm
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RZ5oyssOXq8/UUoIyZYB__I/AAAAAAAAAcg/dvQQrbYx2RE/s1600/remixEndOfNight.JPG)

Remix de End of night
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 21, 2013, 11:42:22 pm
Entrevista (http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/music/2013/03/20/dido-girl-who-got-away)

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With hit singles like “Here With Me,” “Thank You,” and “White Flag,” Dido’s haunting, folky voice quickly became one of the signature sounds of the 2000s. But before she became an international superstar and one of the best-selling singers in the U.K., the artist formerly known as Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong began cultivating an LGBT fan base thanks to early performances in various dance clubs and collaborations with her brother Rollo’s dance act Faithless.

Working once again with her brother, Dido has returned with a new album, Girl Who Got Away, a captivating concoction of pop, electro, folk, and hip-hop swirled with ambient and dance infusions that pays tribute to her musical past, while moving her familiar sound into new territory.

As she prepares for the album’s release, available Tuesday, Dido took a moment to speak with The Advocate about why she’s happy to have an LGBT following, the evolution of dance music, and creating the soundtrack to life’s important moments.

The Advocate: From collaborating on tracks with his electronic band Faithless to cowriting songs with him on your solo album, you’ve worked closely with your brother Rollo throughout your career. What’s been the best and worst part about working with such a close family member?
Dido: The best part is the love he puts into it. I feel like surely no one else could have a producer that is as passionate about their work as he is about mine. Plus, we have such a nice time working together because there’s a lot of love that goes into the music. However, that passion means he can be very difficult sometimes. Especially when he doesn’t like a song I’ve done as well as I do and gets really adamant that he hates it.

That must make for some interesting arguments.
Oh, yes. [Laughs]

With dance music being embraced by the mainstream, some people have said that the genre has lost its edge, but as an artist who got her start singing vocals for dance tracks, do you agree?
Yes, it probably has lost its edge somewhat. I think it’s inevitable for something like that when it goes mainstream, but I personally don’t care as long as it moves me and gives me that huge emotional rush that I love to get from dance music. As an artist, it’s great music to be proud of as well. I remember times when I was singing on dance records and performing in clubs onstage and there’s no better feeling than seeing people dance while you’re singing. It doesn’t get any better than that. It’s such an immediate response and it’s quite exciting. For me, it feels like home.

When did you first realize you had a large LGBT following? 
Almost immediately. I think from starting in the clubs I realized right away. I was always very happy to have a gay following. There’s a real loyalty there, which is pretty remarkable.

Your new album, Girl Who Got Away, manages to sound fresh as well as familiar. Did you approach the project with a desire to hearken back to your classic sound?
I guess I can’t really help coming back to my classic sound. The way that I write makes it unavoidable. It’s just the way I do things, but that’s what gives it its familiarity. However, I’m always trying to make music that you can listen to a few years from now and it will still sound fresh. That’s why Rollo is so brilliant. He brings me out of the ’90s, back into the present day, and the way he layers sounds is so clever. You’ll think you’ve heard a track and then you listen to it another time and you hear a whole new set of stuff. We’re always working to keep it sounding timeless.

Will you be touring to support your new album?
Yeah, but we only just started. I’ve been doing some acoustic shows and with a couple of guys who are really fun, but very soon we plan to do some proper big shows too.

The lead single from your new album Girl Who Got Away, “No Freedom,” can easily be interpreted as commentary on the current state of marriage equality. Was that something you were aware of when you were recording the track?
It wasn’t what I was writing about, but what I love about “No Freedom” is all the different meanings that people are getting from it and attributing to it. It’s about all the different forms of love, and for me, love is everything.

Because you have such a large LGBT following, you’ve undoubtedly heard many stories about the positive affect your music has had on their lives.
Yes. I love it when people come and tell me stories about how much a song means to them. Whether it’s a wedding, starting a relationship, or even a breakup, it’s an amazing thing to be the soundtrack to someone’s important moment.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 21, 2013, 11:43:47 pm
Letra de Loveless Hearts

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I can find the good news in anything
But without you, that’s all gone
No one could have told me how much I’d miss you
And how soon the world moves on
How can they not hear me
When I say
We’re not safe anymore

Did loveless hearts build the world
Only to tear it apart
How did those gods tempt you to leave
Just when we needed you most

The sun will rise today as it did yesterday
And I’ll keep on going too
But every hour that I get through it breaks my heart
That I am losing more of you

Did loveless hearts build the world
Only to tear it apart
How did those gods tempt you to leave
Just when we needed you most
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 23, 2013, 05:09:14 pm
Letra de Day before we went to war

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All the pictures on the wall
The sand lying on the floor
The bed upstairs still unmade
The dust float in the light
The people just left
All laughter and mess
Forgetting this and that
And rushing back
The front door open
The music still playing in one room
Down the hall
Towels on the floor
And then it’s quiet
Just the bees and birds
The summer haze
Of the trees
And the air
Feeds it all
Feeds it all

We can all feel it
Like a light hand on your back
Welcoming you
We can all feel it
Like a light hand on your back
Welcoming you
The day before we went to war

All the parasols and kids at play
The sea so still and calm
Blue as the cloudless sky
Just the gentle hum
Of the summer’s goings on
Broken by the sudden rush
Of two planes
Flying low and fast
Into the sun
Into the sun

We can all feel it
Like a light hand on your back
Welcoming you
We can all feel it
Like a light hand on your back
Welcoming you
The day before we went to war
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 23, 2013, 05:10:44 pm
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Según informa el club de fans oficial de Brasil, parece ser que el próximo single, End of Night será lanzado el próximo 6 de Mayo.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 25, 2013, 03:56:24 pm
Entrevista (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/dido-the-voice-of-no-angel-is-back-8544596.html)

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If, like me, your first glimpse of Dido back in 2000 was as the heavily pregnant girlfriend bundled into the boot of a car by a deranged Eminem fan called Stan, then you might find it amusing that she called her first baby Stanley.

Her appearance in the video for “Stan”, and Eminem's decision to sample her single “Thank You” on the track, would set Dido on the path to becoming one of the biggest-selling UK stars in history, shifting more than 30 million albums.

At 41, after five years away from the limelight, Dido is back to promote her fourth album, quite appropriately titled (given her freedom from the trappings of fame), Girl Who Got Away. The record was finished a couple of years ago but Dido, who married British screenwriter Rohan Gavin in 2010, fell pregnant during production so delayed its release.

When we meet at the Ivy Club in London, Dido is onto her second pot of herbal tea (no wonder her skin is so dewy and her hair so shiny!) and I can't resist asking if there's a link between her two-year-old's name and the rather menacing character in the Eminem song that catalysed her success.

“No, of course there isn't,” she says, good-humouredly. “Everybody thinks there is. And I'm fine with that. It was such a nice era for me. But he's actually called Stanley for a number of other reasons.” Though she declines to reveal them.

Girl Who Got Away made its debut at No 5 in the UK album charts. It might be a relief for the singer whose 2008 album Safe Trip Home went barely noticed in comparison to the riotous success of its predecessors – probably because it was a rather downbeat collection of songs written around her father's death.

The new record is a return to form, although the combination of striking melodies underscored by electronic pop is safe territory. If it was intended to be a change of direction then it hasn't worked. But it contains enough feel-good Dido for the fans to come running back.

It was co-produced once again with her brother, Rollo Armstrong, who was behind No Angel and Life for Rent. The siblings, who had a very bohemian upbringing, (Dido having been christened Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong by their parents – “I don't know why, blame my mother!”) worked together for many years before her break-out success, and she toured with his band Faithless in the Nineties. Listening to her talk it becomes clear that family is the axis upon which her world revolves.

“I absolutely loved singing pregnant,” Dido confesses. “Usually in the vocal booth it's quite lonely. You're singing away and everyone else is the other side of the window. But I loved [Stanley] kicking away to the rhythm. It was just so nice having a little mate moving around in there with me. It felt really special.”

She tells me that, halfway through recording the album, she told everyone she worked with she wanted to do all her albums pregnant, “which was horrifying for everybody else”. The mother-son pre-natal collaboration was compounded when Stanley was born and seemed to recognise some of the music. “When he was just a few weeks old [songs from Girl Who Got Away] were the sounds that would calm him down the most. I truly believe he heard me singing them.”

Dido says she would like to have more kids and, when I ask about plans to take the new album on the road, she is reticent. “I'm really not sure if I'm going to tour yet. I've only got half a band together at the moment. But if I did go on tour Stanley would definitely come with me. It would be too weird not to. He's a pretty cool, adaptable kid and he loves playing the drums. He'd have a blast at soundcheck.”

During our conversation Dido comes across as natural and unpretentious. She is casually interested in everything around her. She asks almost as many questions as I do (“Oh is that shorthand? Do you have kids? What do you think?”) which is quite unusual, and endearing, in a world-conquering songstress.

She has been repeatedly compared with Adele, whose album sales (32 million) have only recently surpassed Dido's own. Would Dido like to follow suit and do a 007 tune like “Skyfall”? “Oh my god, yeah I'd love to do a Bond theme tune. If I was ever asked I would be there in a second. Adele's is brilliant. I think that'll take some beating. I love James Bond. That's the highest thing you can do, right? She's achieved everything and she's so young. Her voice is amazing.”

Speaking of her “relatively late” success, Dido says: “I worked in publishing up until I was 24 and then I started touring with Faithless and as a backing singer for a while. I didn't make No Angel until '96 and didn't release it until I was 28.”

Having found herself “in a parallel universe for a minute” trying on pregnancy bumps with Dr Dre, who directed the “Stan” music video, Dido never expected things to take off as they did. “I've had an amazing career,” she says earnestly. “I just consistently feel lucky to get to make the records I want without having someone tell me what to do.”

She talks fondly of the age “when you used to get CDs in the post” and is in awe of the availability of new musicians on YouTube. “It's much harder for artists these days. There used to be process for getting heard. Top of the Pops etc… But now you can discover anything instantly it's hard to know where to look. Although there's something nice about knowing you can just get drunk and put your whole album up online.”

Having Eminem pick her song out “completely at random” changed her life. “I got a letter from him out of the blue with a CD just saying: 'I love the track. Can I use it?' I was a proper fan but I did think for a moment: 'What's he going to have done with the song?' But it just sounded amazing.”

Dido's career thus far has been sandwiched between two very important Stanleys, the youngest of whom has “changed everything”: “I used to be really restless. I'd come back from touring and I'd want to get going again, to have more adventures... But then when I became a mum that feeling disappeared. Everything makes sense and feels right suddenly.”

'Girl Who Got Away' is out now. The single 'End Of Night' is out on 6 May
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 25, 2013, 04:00:07 pm
Entrevista NPR (http://www.npr.org/2013/03/24/175058517/the-girl-who-got-away-dido-gets-free)

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Continua hablando sobre lo mucho que la gustó grabar el disco durante su embarazo: "Me encantó cantar embarazada", confiesa Dido. "Por lo general la cabina de grabación es bastante solitaria. Estás cantando y todo el mundo está al otro lado de la ventana. Pero me encantó cómo [Stanley] me daba patadas al ritmo de la canción. Fue tan agradable tener un compañero moviíéndose allí­ conmigo. Me sentí­ realmente especial ".
Dido cuenta que, a mitad de la grabación del álbum, le dijo a todos los que trabajaban con ella que querí­a hacer todos sus discos embarazada "lo que fue horrible para todos los demás".

Respecto al tema de realizar una posible gira, en esta entrevista dice algo diferente a otras anteriores, mencionando que no es seguro que vaya a realizar inminentemente una gira:  "Realmente no estoy segura de si voy a hacer una gira todaví­a. Sólo tengo media banda junta en este momento. Pero si me voy de gira Stanley sin duda alguna, vendrí­a conmigo. Serí­a muy raro que no lo hiciera. í‰l es un muy bueno, un chico adaptable y le encanta tocar la baterí­a. Tendrí­a una explosión en la prueba de sonido".

Ante la comparación que mucha gente hace de ella con Adele y la pregunta de si la gustarí­a hacer una canción para una de las pelí­culas de James Bond como ha hecho Adele, Dido responde sin duda alguna: "Oh, Dios mí­o, sí­ me gustarí­a hacer una melodí­a Bond. Si me preguntan estarí­a allí­ en un segundo. Adele es brillante. Creo que será difí­cil de superar. Amo a James Bond. Esa es la mejor cosa que puedes hacer, ¿verdad? Ha conseguido todo y ella es tan joven. Su voz es increí­ble. "

Finalmente se confirma la salida del próximo single, 'End of Night' para el próximo 6 de Mayo.

Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 25, 2013, 04:02:35 pm
Sobre el marido de Dido

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Para los más curiosos he aquí­ algo de información sobre el marido de Dido, el guionista Rohan Gavin. Hijo de la escritora de libros infantiles de origen indio, Jamila Gavin, actualmente esta trabajando en una serie de detectives humor negro titulada 'Knightley & Son' (Knightley e hijo).

La serie trata sobre un dúo de detectives, padre e hijo, donde Darkus, de 13 años de edad, a menudo tiene que resolver el crimen debido a la mala costumbre de su padre de caer en un ataque narcolíéptico en el momento menos oportuno. El primer libro de la nueva serie será publicado en edición de bolsillo en julio de 2013.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3Fb7CMLB0nE/UVBIfGvmF1I/AAAAAAAAAdA/b1yDdJhrndc/s320/gavinrohan.jpg)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 25, 2013, 08:41:26 pm
Portada End Of Night

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ae9OACTT5nA/UVCdQYl_YWI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/huYPdqoWJ-g/s400/endofnightcover.jpg)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 26, 2013, 05:19:05 pm
Foto

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QkLOEZnC8Po/UVHI397NcSI/AAAAAAAAAdg/rZaLbDXZpMs/s400/130_zps0fa4626a.jpg)


Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 26, 2013, 05:22:56 pm
Lyric video End of night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfWDBJ_LeP0& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfWDBJ_LeP0&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 26, 2013, 05:24:59 pm
Dido en RTL2 (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/video-de-dido-en-rtl2.html)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 26, 2013, 06:04:04 pm
White Flag @ Perez Hilton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zy482-_dA& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zy482-_dA&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 26, 2013, 07:53:41 pm
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End of Night saldrá con remixes

El club oficial de fans de Brasil nos vuelve a dar pistas sobre el próximo single, parece ser que la edición se compondrá de remixes y videoclip. Además es muy posible que este videoclip sea grabado esta misma semana.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 27, 2013, 03:50:27 pm
No Freedom @ Kelly and Michael

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADMZ9qb1TK0& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADMZ9qb1TK0&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 27, 2013, 03:52:40 pm
Entrevista en Yahoo (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/video-entrevista-en-yahoo.html)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 28, 2013, 04:22:48 pm
Dido in La Boí®te í  questions (Le Grand Journal)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmBuc7AQis& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmBuc7AQis&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 29, 2013, 08:14:43 pm
Chat en en Huffington Post (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/video-chat-en-huffington-post.html)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 31, 2013, 05:50:08 pm
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Hace unos dí­as se emitió este programa de la BBC Radio2 donde Dido escoge algunas de sus canciones favoritas y explica lo que significan para ella. Estas son las canciones que Dido escogió:


My Forbidden Lover – Chic
Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
Halo – Beyonce
Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack
State Of Independence – Donna Summer
Just An Illusion – Imagination
Video Games – Lana Del Ray
The Chain – Fleetwood Mac
Why – Carly Simon
Angel – Sarah McLachlan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-A-loK-ck& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-A-loK-ck&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 01, 2013, 05:08:10 pm
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ODyUY0RQ1K0/UVitRYb3n1I/AAAAAAAAAek/t1kCLRKo_HM/s1600/descargaencargar.JPG)

Ya se puede encangar el single
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 02, 2013, 04:31:32 pm
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bqNNmUgD2Ks/UVnJqF0bWVI/AAAAAAAAAfE/6whAFFcvUDI/s400/NoangelTOP2.JPG)

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Desde hace algunos meses la BBC Radio2 ha estado realizando una encuesta entre sus oyentes para determinar el top 100 de sus álbumes favoritos. El resultado deja a No Angel, el disco debut de Dido en un honroso 5º puesto.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 04, 2013, 10:33:31 pm
No Freedom @ Jimmy Fallon (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/no-freedom-en-jimmy-fallon.html)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 04, 2013, 10:35:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vm-n8D-YVk& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vm-n8D-YVk&)

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En este ví­deo hacen una pequeña entrevista a Dido en una calle de Nueva York. La pregunta sobre si la gusta el Matzah, un pan ácimo tradicional de la pascua judí­a.
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Publicado por: Serena en Abril 04, 2013, 10:36:48 pm
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Girl Who Got Away sigue cosechando íéxitos, aunque quizás no tantos como con anteriores disco, Dido ha conseguido entrar con Girl Who Got Away en la lista Billboard de los 200 álbumes más venidos en Estados Unidos en el puesto nº 32.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 05, 2013, 11:21:07 pm
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Dido nos muestra esta foto con unos CD's promocionales del nuevo single. De momento no están a la venta, ya que es probable que estos cds estíén meramente destinados a las emisoras de radio para que promocionen la canción. Contienen dos canciones:

End of Night (JR Single Mix).
End of Night (Radio Edit).

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JLKj3mhxlew/UV7cc-4xjhI/AAAAAAAAAf4/Vlq8lwwzHQg/s400/555086_10151590927637905_918492815_n.jpg)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 05, 2013, 11:23:22 pm
Entrevista (http://uk.eonline.com/news/401028/kate-middleton-she-s-brought-a-real-magic-to-the-royal-family-says-brit-singer-dido)

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En esta entrevista Dido habla sobre Kate Middleton, esposa del prí­ncipe Guillermo de Inglaterra: "No puedes dejar de disfrutar de ellos. Son tan encantadores. La boda, me sentíé allí­ paralizada, y derramíé una lágrima. Ella estaba tan hermosa", continuó. "Es simplemente precioso. Es un poco de magia. Creo que ha traí­do una verdadera magia a la familia real y para Inglaterra. Tengo que decir que fue muy, muy especial".

Dido tambiíén habló sobre con quien la gustarí­a trabajar en el futuro: "Me encantarí­a hacer una canción con Kanye West algún dí­a", dijo. "Creo que es genial. Es un genio loco. Creo que es un gran rapero y cuando estaba haciendo este disco, una gran cantidad de las influencias en mi cabeza eran en realidad del disco 808s. No sólo la simplicidad, sino tambiíén el tipo de inmensidad de íél ... Creo que es inteligente y muy bueno".
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 05, 2013, 11:27:50 pm
Le Gran Studio

No Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAnI4e763kk& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAnI4e763kk&)

Girl Who Got Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGcWw6sepgQ& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGcWw6sepgQ&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 05, 2013, 11:34:04 pm
White Flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWMQD0tYWA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWMQD0tYWA)

Thank You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWMQD0tYWA& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWMQD0tYWA&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 06, 2013, 08:00:38 pm
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Según el club de fans de Brasil está próxima semana está prevista la grabación del videoclip de 'End Of Night'
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 06, 2013, 08:02:47 pm
Una foto

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_Wh5w9ngY6c/UWA45xzrmPI/AAAAAAAAAgY/5AR8z_obq3s/s1600/164285136.jpg)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 07, 2013, 05:21:29 pm
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Este álbum cuenta con más electrónica que cualquiera de su trabajo anterior. ¿Cuál fue su enfoque esta vez?
Gran parte del míérito de este nuevo trabajo va a mi hermano, Rollo. í‰l es mi mejor crí­tico, mi amigo y mi compañero musical. Yo habí­a escrito la mayor parte del material para este álbum mientras estaba trabajando en mi anterior disco, por lo que sólo era necesario grabarlo. Pero tuvo que ser pospuesto porque luego un regalo maravilloso vino a mi vida - mi bebíé, Stanley. Este álbum ha sido testigo de las diferentes etapas de mi vida.

Hay mucho dolor en la escritura y la música de este álbum. ¿Quíé te inspiró?
Este álbum está escrito principalmente por Rollo. í‰l es el único que se entrega a la escritura poíética. Para mí­, todas las canciones están influenciadas por lo que estaba sintiendo en ese momento. Mi vida ha sido una montaña rusa. Ha habido muchas aventuras y, como compositora, deseas compartir esos sentimientos.

¿Cuál cree usted que es su USP?
Mis experiencias, que se transforman en palabras. Mi tiempo con la música me ha hecho la persona que soy. Es el amor por la música el que me ha traí­do hasta aquí­ y me hace seguir adelante. Cuando tení­a seis años, robíé una grabadora de mi escuela ... te puedes imaginar mi relación con la música, yo era una apasionada incluso entonces.

¿Hay planes de viaje de la India? Muchos de sus contemporáneos han tenido conciertos aquí­ en el último año.
Muchas de los grandes han llegado allí­, eso es cierto. Siento que algo me está tirando hacia la India. Seguramente estaríé ahí­ en los próximos años. Me gustarí­a vivir la rica cultura de allí­.

Fuente (http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Music/I-feel-something-is-pulling-me-to-India-Dido/Article1-1035540.aspx)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 09, 2013, 03:41:39 pm
Remixes End of the Night (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/mas-remixes-de-end-of-night.html)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 09, 2013, 03:46:03 pm
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A travíés de las redes sociales Dido nos ha dejado estos ví­deos cortos sobre la grabación del videoclip de End of Night. En el primero se ve como esperan el momento de la grabación en una habitación de una casa señorial donde se está realizando la grabación y en el segundo ví­deo se puede ver una secuencia del videoclip donde aparece Dido cantando en la mencionada casa:

Video 1 (https://vine.co/v/btmLuVZZAQn)

Video 2 (https://vine.co/v/btKUavBxi2u)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 09, 2013, 03:47:27 pm
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Foto del rodaje
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 10, 2013, 05:49:13 pm
Entrevista

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-YIXw8aYA& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-YIXw8aYA&)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr6XcURkziQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr6XcURkziQ)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 11, 2013, 10:46:37 pm
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End of Night ha entrado, antes siquiera de que salga el single oficialmente, en la lista B de la BBC Radio 2.

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Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 13, 2013, 04:33:34 pm
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El ví­deo de Stan no fue mi mejor momento.
La estrella del pop saltó a la fama en 1999 cuando apareció en Stan, canción de íéxito del rapero Eminem.
Sin embargo, ella reveló que su papel en el ví­deo como la novia de un acosador en avanzado estado de gestación no fue su mejor actuación. Ella dijo a The Sun: "Al principio del ví­deo de Stan, yo digo:" ¡Stanley ' Ese no fue mi mejor momento.Cada vez que veo ese video, el trozo del principio me hace reí­r. Recuerdo estar sentada en el retrete en el set con Eminem y Dr. Dre allí­ y pensando: ¿Cómo puede la vida llegar a ser tan surrealista?' Es muy difí­cil sentarse en el retrete sin querer ir al baño. No fue mi momento más sexy". Sin embargo, agregó: "Me encantó hacer ese video. Fue muy divertido".
A pesar de que ya no está en contacto con Eminem, Dido ha calificado al rapero como "un buen ser humano e inteligente." Y agregó: "Yo síé que mucha gente tiene un montón de cosas que decir sobre íél, pero fue increí­ble para mí­. í‰l era tan respetuoso e interesante para estar cerca de íél. No puedes escribir letras como esas y no ser un ser humano excepcional. Creo que es uno de los narradores modernos más grandes".
En el descanso de cinco años desde que publicó su último álbum, Safe Trip Home, Dido, de 41 años, tuvo su primer hijo con su esposo Rohan Gavin - llamándolo Stanley.
Dido dice que el ví­nculo entre su hijo y la canción de Eminem no fue intencionado - pero a ella no le importa que la gente lo relacione. Ella mencionó: "Realmente no me importa porque fue un buen momento en mi vida. Al principio no me di cuenta de la conexión entre los nombres, pero incluso cuando lo hice no habrí­a cambiado el nombre porque yo siempre habí­a querido llamar a mi hijo así­. Es solo una coincidencia que la canción 'Stan' se llamase Stan. No veo Stan como el mismo nombre que Stanley".

Dido admitió que la búsqueda de la fama "relativamente tardí­a" a la edad de 28 fue una bendición para ella, "Yo no creo que podrí­a haber manejado la fama a una edad temprana. Adele tiene tal aplomo y ella es tan brillante llevando su fama que te olvidas que ella sólo tiene 24 años. A los 24 años yo no era capaz de manejar lo que ella está manejando. Tengo un respeto total cuando los artistas jóvenes parecen llevarlo muy bien. No estoy segura de poder haberlo hecho yo".

Ella tambiíén apoya a estrellas como Rihanna. Ella menciona: "Creo que la gente deberí­a ser capaz de hacer lo que quiere hacer y creo que es absolutamente hermoso. Ella es impresionante, incluso magní­fica".

Dido - que lanzó su cuarto álbum, Girl Who Got Away, el mes pasado - insiste en que ella no se siente amenazada por la riqueza de talento femenino que dominan las listas de íéxitos. Ella dijo: "Yo no creo que sea una competición. Me encanta escuchar a grandes artistas femeninas, es mi música favorita. Me encanta Emeli Sande, Adele, Jessie Ware ... Me siento orgullosa de ser parte de eso".

Hablando sobre la inspiración detrás de su nuevo single End of Night, ella dijo: "Alguien tení­a realmente hasta los hue***, lo cual es raro. Se trata de ese momento de liberación, cuando finalmente te das cuenta que ya no estás molesta".
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 13, 2013, 05:13:12 pm
Entrevista

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1QX-gPiezk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1QX-gPiezk)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 14, 2013, 04:43:09 pm
End of Night (Single)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdKKudE26w4& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdKKudE26w4&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 18, 2013, 04:14:39 pm
La letra de End of night

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UH5OIWId7lg/UW_IuzaypII/AAAAAAAAAkI/Z5ejFhc7GKM/s1600/b2412842a80b11e29f3f22000a1f978e_7.jpg)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 20, 2013, 05:51:04 pm
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Dido está ensayando. A travíés de sus redes sociales comparte esta foto, que sin lugar a dudas, da una visión peculiar de los ensayos. Desconocemos de cualquier forma si esos ensayos están enfocados a la promoción del próximo single, o si por lo contrario pueden significar que Dido está pensando en iniciar una gira en los próximos meses.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 22, 2013, 04:22:58 pm
Entrevista Virgin Media (http://blogs.virginmedia.com/music/blogs/dido-interview-v-festival-was-scary)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 23, 2013, 03:59:04 pm
End of Night @ TV Total (http://tvtotal.prosieben.de/tvtotal/videos/player/index.html?contentId=140682&initialTab=related&showId=1257-00)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 23, 2013, 04:03:15 pm
End of night @ Morgenmagazin (http://mediathek.daserste.de/sendungen_a-z/435054_morgenmagazin/14267572_musik-live-dido)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 24, 2013, 04:06:35 pm
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La emisora inglesa Magic.co.uk organiza un evento muy especial en el que Dido realizará un concierto. Para la ocasión la emisora sortea entradas y además ofrece una puja solidaria para dos entradas al concierto; las dos pujas mayores se llevarán sendas entradas además de un pase para conocer a Dido en persona y el dinero será destinado a la ONG de la emisora.

El concierto incluirá una cena y degustación de Champagne. El concierto se celebrará en Claridge's el próximo lunes 29 de Abril. Para entrar en el sorteo debes dar a 'me gusta' en la página de Facebook de la emisora. Recuerda que el sorteo solo incluye el regalo de la entrada, no del viaje hasta Londres.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 26, 2013, 06:01:53 pm
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Parece ser que finalmente se publicará el videoclip antes de la fecha de salida a la venta del single. El equipo de Dido anuncia que el videoclip se publicará en tan solo 4 dí­as. ¿Teníéis ganas de verlo? :P
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 29, 2013, 04:03:54 pm
End of Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeR0DYTNCDA& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeR0DYTNCDA&)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 01, 2013, 04:31:18 pm
End of night @ Jools Holland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gDDJb_IJW_c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gDDJb_IJW_c)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 02, 2013, 04:41:09 pm
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Tracklist del single 'End of Night'
Ya se conoce el tracklist del single EP 'End of Night', compuesto por cuatro remixes de la canción:

1. End of Night (Radio Edit).
2. End of Night (JR Mix).
3. End of Night (Vince Clarke Remix).
4. End of Night (Cedric Gervais Remix).
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 03, 2013, 07:01:30 pm
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Dido ha revelado que le gustarí­a grabar una canción con The Lumineers. La cantante dijo que es una fan de la banda de country-folk y de su música "provocativa". "Me encantarí­a hacer algo con los Lumineers. Me encanta su voz y todas sus vibraciones", dijo a Digital Spy. "Hay algo tan provocador en su sonido, especialmente su canción 'Stubborn Love'.


La estrella tambiíén reveló que iba a considerar la publicación de una colección de remixes de su actual LP Girl Who Got Away, y agregó: "Hemos hecho un par de excelentes remixes de una canción en el álbum llamada 'Blackbird' y otra con Vince Clarke en el nuevo single 'End of Night'. Soy un gran fan de Vince por lo que, literalmente, le enviamos un correo electrónico sobre esto y una semana más tarde la mezcla estaba allí­. Me encantarí­a hacer más".

Con esto, queda solucionada la duda sobre el remix de Blackbird, que situaba a la canción como posible tercer single del disco.
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Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 05, 2013, 04:38:58 pm
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Desde hoy ya puedes comprar en iTunes el nuevo single de Dido, End of Night
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Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 07, 2013, 04:18:16 pm
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El próximo 19 de Junio Dido dará un concierto en Parí­s. Dido participará dentro del festival organizado por la emisora RTL2 en la sala l'Olympia. Para asistir solo será posible con invitación, para ello has de participar en un concurso que ofrece la propia emisora
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Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 09, 2013, 04:13:23 pm
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Este fin de semana Dido aparecerá en el programa de talentos 'The Voice UK'. En principio no se prevee ninguna actuación suya, aunque tampoco está confirmado. Dido se encargará de ayudar a Danny O'Donoghue con sus concursantes para su actuación en el programa.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 14, 2013, 11:05:03 pm
End of Night Instrumental

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J1SyrCiB40 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J1SyrCiB40)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 16, 2013, 04:33:18 pm
En The Voice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm91lTnNF4Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm91lTnNF4Y)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 20, 2013, 04:13:26 pm
Fotos Sunday Times

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zVNlcjjhntY/UZi5Rs2dSOI/AAAAAAAAAwc/wkpTwnVaPyE/s400/uuuSTZ19CONT10_343083k.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zVNlcjjhntY/UZi5Rs2dSOI/AAAAAAAAAwc/wkpTwnVaPyE/s400/uuuSTZ19CONT10_343083k.jpg)

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cRlvTA1VNQE/UZi5SVwiu4I/AAAAAAAAAwk/RYE1QcnLEOI/s640/uuuuBKnijcHCEAAONjF.jpg)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 20, 2013, 04:50:17 pm
Thank You @ L'Olympia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A0QVS_4kcU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A0QVS_4kcU)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 25, 2013, 04:55:43 pm
Concierto RTL2 (http://www.rtl2.fr/video/7762504405/concert-tres-tres-prive-dido)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 27, 2013, 04:15:21 pm
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Dido had hypnotherapy to cure her stage fright.

The 41-year-old singer underwent treatment to combat her nerves and was pleased it was successful as her anxiety was affecting her performances.

She said: ''I went to hypnotherapy for stage fright years ago and it completely worked.

''I always get nervous, but it was getting to the point where it would mess with my singing.

''My mum said that if you stop getting nervous you stop caring but there's nerves and there's complete meltdown.''

The 'Thank You' singer - who has 19-month-old son Stanley with husband Rohan Gavin - also admitted she enjoyed turning 40 - until she suffered a nasty fall from a treadmill that left her scarred.

She said: ''I loved turning 40, other than falling off the treadmill while trying to get fit on my birthday on Christmas Day. That threw me out for a bit.

''More than a year later, I still have scrapes on my legs.

''It was so sort of Laurel and Hardy I was crying and laughing at the same time. I'd walked across the treadmill by mistake forgetting it was on and just went flying. That was m welcome to my forties.''
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Julio 02, 2013, 04:04:38 pm
Blackbird (Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjXRtYRsxLE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjXRtYRsxLE)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Julio 13, 2013, 08:58:06 pm
Reportaje en Sony Brasil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oO7PVmde2k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oO7PVmde2k)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Agosto 28, 2013, 05:34:11 pm
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El aclamado rapero Eminem actuó ente pasado fin de semana en los festivales de Reading y Leeds dentro de su gira Europea. No fue poca la sorpresa cuando apareció sobre el escenario Dido para cantar 'Stan', canción que Eminem sampleó a partir de 'Thank You' en el año 2000 y que catapultó a Dido a la fama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKvY88-RbS0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKvY88-RbS0)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Agosto 28, 2013, 05:35:09 pm
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Aprovechando el tirón mediático que ha tenido la aparición de Dido junto con Eminem en los festivales de Reading y Leeds, esta mañana su equipo ha anunciado a travíés de la web oficial la salida de un nuevo recopilatorio.

'Dido Greatest Hits' saldrá a la venta el próximo 25 de Noviembre y hará un repaso a la carrera musical de Dido, contendrá sus grandes íéxitos entre los que no faltarán ‘Thank You’, ‘Here With Me’, ‘White Flag’, ‘Life For Rent’ y ‘No Freedom’.

Desde 1999, Dido ha publicado cuatro discos aclamados por la crí­tica, que juntos han vendido más de 30 millones de copias. Ella es una de las artistas femeninas más exitosas que el Reino Unido ha producido nunca, y sus dos primeros álbumes, 'No Angel "y" Life For Rent ", siguen siendo dos de los álbumes más vendidos del Reino Unido de todos los tiempos.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 03, 2013, 04:34:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6cH-TUTgXE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6cH-TUTgXE)

Mas de Dido con Eminem
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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 13, 2013, 03:50:41 pm
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Parece ser que debido a un error, alguien envió al Dj Cobra la demo de No Freedom (la cual no ha sido publicada). Gracias a ese error ahora tenemos este remix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3mj5zEx5_U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3mj5zEx5_U)
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Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 18, 2013, 04:50:32 pm
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El próximo 30 de Septiembre se celebrará en Ginebra (Suiza) la entrega de premios UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, un evento que se celebra anualmente para premiar a aquellos que ayudan en la causa de los refugiados. Este año, Dido será una de las artistas que participaran en la gala.

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The next September 30th will be held in Geneva (Switzerland) the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, an event held annually to reward those who help in the cause of refugees. This year, Dido is one of the artists participating in the ceremony.

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Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Septiembre 23, 2013, 08:27:23 pm
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 02, 2013, 04:43:29 pm
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Ayer Dido participó en la gala de celebración de UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, en la que se premió a Angíélique Namaika por su labor humanitaria. Dido realizó una actuación en la gala, por desgracia esta gala no ha sido emitida en ningún medio de comunicación. Lo único que podemos ofreceros son estas fotos que ha compartido Dido en sus cuentas sociales:

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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 02, 2013, 04:45:28 pm
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Este mes es el mes de sensibilización contra el lupus, una enfermedad grave y mortal. Dido ha compartido una foto haciendo el sí­mbolo de la 'L' contra el lupus con la mano. Este es un tema muy delicado para Dido ya que su padre falleció hace algunos años a causa de esta enfermedad.

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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 04, 2013, 03:28:40 pm
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En los últimos comentarios que Dido ha realizado por la red social Twitter ha mencionado que estaba seleccionando una serie de sus remixes favoritos de sus canciones para el disco recopilatorio que saldrá el próximo mes de Noviembre, de grandes íéxitos.

Hace algunos meses ya sugieron rumores sobre la posibilidad de que se publicara un disco de remixes. Todo esto da pie a pensar que o bien el Greatest Hits estará formado por diferentes remixes escogidos por Dido o bien, que el nuevo álbum incluiríé un disco de remixes.
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 09, 2013, 09:30:59 pm
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Por fin se ha publicado la lista de canciones que conformarán el álbum recopilatorio de Dido, Greatest Hits, que saldrá a la venta el próximo 25 de Noviembre. Ha sido la propia Dido la que, a travíés de su cuenta de Instagram, ha publicado una imagen con la lista de canciones escrita de su puño y letra.

El disco se compone de dos cd's, el primero un disco recopilatorio de sus grandes íéxitos y el sengundo se trata de un disco de remixes, que incluye tanto nuevos remixes de las canciones del último disco de estudio como remixes de sus discos antiguos.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 09, 2013, 09:31:56 pm
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Geatest Hits.

CD1.
01 - Here with me
02 - Thank you
03 - Hunter
04 - White Flag
05 - Life for rent
06 - Don't leave home
07 - Sand in my shoes
08 - Don't believe in love
09 - Quiet times
10 - Grafton street
11 - Everything to lose
12 - Let us move on Feat. Kendrik
13 - No freedom
14 - End of night
15 - Blackbird
16 - One step too far (Faithless)
17 - Stan
18 - If I rise (A. R. Rahman)

CD2.
01 - Here with me (Chilling)
02 - Thank you (Deep Dish)
03 - Hunter (MJ Cole)
04 - White flag (Timbaland)
05 - Life for rent (Skinny 4 remix)
06 - Sand in my shoes (Above + Beyond)
07 - Don't leave home (Gabriel + Dresden)
08 - Don't believe in love (Dennies Ferrer)
09 - No freedom (DJ Cobra)
10 - End of night (Cedric Gervais)
11 - Go dreaming (Mantronix)
12 - Blackbird (Moguai)
13 - NYC (POSIBLE CANCIí“N NUEVA)
14 - Northern skies (Rollo)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 10, 2013, 04:22:11 pm
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Finalmente con la publicación del tracklist del recopilatorio, hemos podido ver como solo habrá una canción iníédita. Dicha canción se titula NYC, siglas que quizá puedan hacer referencia a la ciudad de Nueva York (New York City). La propia Dido hace un rato ha confirmado a travíés de twitter que esta canción es nueva. Aun se desconoce si será la elegida como single para promocionar el lanzamiento del album recopilatorio Greatest Hits.

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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 15, 2013, 04:31:26 pm
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El píérfil Mash Up Tracks tiene como proyecto hacer mezclas con canciones, tomando de unas la música y de otras las voces para crear una nueva canción o remezcla de ambas. En esta ocasión ha realizado una mezcla entre dos canciones de Dido y Roxette, Listen To Your Heart (voces) y Here With me (música). Este es el resultado:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdP67-dRGT0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdP67-dRGT0)
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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 15, 2013, 09:04:14 pm
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Esta mañana Dido ha revelado a travíés de las redes sociales cual será la portada de su próximo disco recopilatorio que saldrá a la venta el próximo 25 de Noviembre.

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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 17, 2013, 08:52:43 pm
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Esta mañana Intermon Oxfam de Gran Bretaña ha desvelado el top 3 de los artistas cuyos cd's más se donan para la mencionada ONG. Dido está en el primer puesto seguida de Oasis en segundo lugar y Robbie Williams en el tercer puesto.

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Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 18, 2013, 10:27:09 pm
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El pasado mes Dido actuó en la ceremonia de los premios Nansen Refugee Award en Ginebra. Este ví­deo hace un resumen de la noche y muestra un pequeño fragmento de la actuación de Dido:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5P7g5tooU8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5P7g5tooU8)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 24, 2013, 03:56:12 pm
NYC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUuPlbQXvn0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUuPlbQXvn0)

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White house on the beach
My steps down to the sand
The plane takes off and we
We are jerks when it lands

Waiting in a room
Where the windows won’t open
Got coffee with no mud
And my heart still ain’t broken
Still ain’t broken
Still ain’t broken

And the music stops
And the beat goes on
And the music stops
But I’m dancing on

I won’t be home until I’ve walked
Every street in New York
And I’ll walk on without your love
Without your love
Dancing on til I’m alone
There’s no need to return
Without your love, until I have walked
Every street in New York

Boat goes
From one island to the next
An old man drinkin beer
Women on the bench

And the music stops
And the beat goes on
And the music stops
But I’m dancing on

I won’t be home until I’ve walked
Every street in New York
And I’ll walk on without your love
Without your love
Dancing on til I’m alone
There’s no need to return
Without your love, until I have walked
Every street in New York

Glory when my plane takes off
Don’t know me when I’m home
Say your prayers with your fingers crossed
Forget to call before I go

If I had to phone tonight
To say I made you sad
And though I’ve fallen in your call and palm

I won’t be home until I’ve walked
Every street in New York
And I’ll walk on without your love
Without your love
Dancing on til I’m alone
There’s no need to return
Without your love, until I have walked
Every street in New York
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 01, 2013, 04:31:35 pm
Concierto!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ5AA851RLU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ5AA851RLU)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 06, 2013, 04:29:20 pm
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Dido ha estado grabando una entrevista para promocionar el disco 'Greatest Hits', en la que contará algo de cada canción. De momento solo tenemos esta foto.

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Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 12, 2013, 04:47:34 pm
Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krmi4AGmYOI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krmi4AGmYOI)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 13, 2013, 03:56:59 pm
Sampler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrWe1ZJOHgM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrWe1ZJOHgM)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 15, 2013, 03:23:42 pm
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Esta noche se celebrará la 33º gala de la ONG Children In Need, en la cual entre otros artistas, aparecerá Dido para tocar Thank You, como parte de la promoción por la salida del álbum recopilatorio Greatest Hits. El programa se emitirá esta tarde en la BBC 1 a las 7:30pm (hora de UK) o en la BBC2 a las 10pm (hora de UK).
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 17, 2013, 04:37:37 pm
Thank You @ Children In Need

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AIcQe1Dw3c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AIcQe1Dw3c)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 18, 2013, 04:40:04 pm
Entrevista (http://www.realradionortheast.co.uk/music/artist-interviews/dido-evenings/34a6a)

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En la siguiente audio-entrevista Dido habla sobre lo implicada que ha estado en la preparación del recopilatorio Greatest Hits, cómo su cuñada fue quien la ayudó a componer NYC, sobre los programas de cocina en televisión y sobre todo la mención a que cuando Sony contactó con ella para realizar el Greatest Hits, ya habí­a empezado a trabajar en un nuevo y futuro disco.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 19, 2013, 06:47:10 pm
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Sony acaba de lanzar la exclusiva, es posible escuchar el disco completo entrando en el siguiente enlace y registrándose.

Escuchar aquí­ (http://www.sony.com.br/camposony/som-e-sony/premiere-dido/)
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Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 19, 2013, 07:05:11 pm
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But despite this, Dido believes that if she were to have started her career on a program like The X Factor or The Voice, she would have struggled to make the cut.

Speaking exclusively to omg! ahead of the release of her Greatest Hits collection, the 41-year-old singer/songwriter admitted she couldn’t see herself doing well on a TV talent show.

She told us: “I think I would have floundered on one of those shows! I’m glad I never went there.

“Get to the dancing bit and I’d have been out!”

This isn’t, however, to say that she is against the format of creating stars on television - with Dido herself even appearing as a guest mentor on series two of The Voice earlier this year.


Dido as a guest mentor on The Voice. Copyright [Wenn]


“It was really fun, I really enjoyed it. I was just there for a day. They all were great, really good singers I was super impressed. They only get given the song in the morning it’s really hardcore,” she said.

“I love that sort of thing, I love listening to other people sing.

“There are so many different ways to hear someone and I don’t think any of them are better or worse.

"Good songs and a good voice will get out there.

“If someone moves you and they’re singing a beautiful song I don’t really care how it got there.”

Dido’s collaboration with Eminem on the critically acclaimed and commercially successful 1999 hit ‘Stan’ was arguably her big break.

The track used a sampler from her second single ‘Thank-You’ with both songs appearing on the Greatest Hits collection.


With Thank-You being released after ‘Stan’, Dido admits that there were times when people would get confused as to why she was performing what they thought was an Eminem track.

She said: “I think the funniest thing was when I had to sing ‘Thank You’ at a friend’s wedding and this guy came up to me and said ‘why are you singing Eminem song at a wedding?’ and I was like ‘you know what? Oh whatever!’”

Regardless of this, Dido is adamant that the collaboration still means a lot to her.

“I was so proud of it. For me music is music and if it’s taken out of context and used in a brilliant way then I love it just as much,” she explained.

“Stan brings back as many amazing memories as does Thank You. They’re just very different ones!

“When I listen to Stan I so clearly remember making the video – getting to meet Dr Dre and Eminem – they were my heroes. But then Thank-You reminds me of weddings…and not being stuck in the boot of a car!”

With a career spanning 15 years, Dido had the huge task on her hands of putting together her Greatest Hits collection, something she found to be a therapeutic process in the end.


“It was really nostalgic. I got really into it. It’s fun for me when I listen to it from beginning to end – it’s this crazy fifteen year diary in an hour,” she said

“I actually wanted to do a remix album for a while so it was a perfect time to put the remix album in there because they meant a lot to me from over the years. There’s a sort of mixture of nostalgia and then new stuff.”

And as for her favourite track?

“White Flag just will never get old for me because I was just so proud of having written than song and it had such an amazing reaction. It brings back so many memories – I still love singing it,” she admitted.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 20, 2013, 03:59:51 pm
Entrevista Billboard

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Best-of albums can be simple victory laps, but they're also a great time for personal reflection. For British adult-pop singer Dido, her upcoming "Greatest Hits" compilation has provided a perfect opportunity to reminisce on the fourteen years since releasing her deubt album, "No Angel." That album produced the Top 5 hit "Thank You," which peaked at No. 3 and was famously sampled on Eminem's tour de force single "Stan."

Speaking to Billboard on an afternoon she spent digging through old photographs, Dido answered questions regarding the career that produced "Thank You," performing with Marshall Mathers, and the remix collection included on the deluxe edition of "Greatest Hits," due out Nov. 25 on RCA Records.

Billboard: So with digging through all these old pictures and videos, it sounds like there's been a lot of reminiscing going on.

Dido: Yeah! i think November is looking-back month for me. It's been fun, though. I haven't really looked back that much until now, and it was actually amazing listening to the "Greatest Hits" album as a whole. It's kind of a crazy diary of my last fifteen years compressed into an hour. The thing for me about music is it really does being back a true memory and a true emotion, when sometimes memories can get muddled with other things. But something about writing a song -- you remember where you were, what you were wearing, what you were doing, who was there. You remember everything. Listening to these songs again, I really remember things clearly. It's pretty crazy.


Did you ever think you would have a greatest hits album?

No! (Laughs) It was a bit of a surprise. I was in the middle of making a record and my friend came and said, "Do you want to do a greatest hits?" And I was like, "Really?" It probably always seems crazy to do a greatest hits. I had so much fun putting it together... it's like a proper celebration of the last 15 years. It's not something you think will happen.

How did you go about selecting the tracks to go on the album?

It wasn't a struggle. I struggled more with the remix album, because there were so many remixes that I loved. It was hard to fit them all on. And I wanted to include some that people had never heard. There were some Timbaland remixes that no one had ever heard before and then there were some new remixes, like a Mantronix mix of "Go Dreaming," a mix of "Blackbird" by Moguai. I wanted go get all that on. On the main album, I kept it simple. I basically picked singles and songs I love and kept it in chronological order. Then I added a few collaborations to really represent the whole era.

Do you ever wonder how your son Stanley will be introduced to your music?

He sees me singing and I think he just thinks that's what mommies do (laughs). They all do it! He's only two so he's not going to grasp it yet. I sing to him every night -- I've always sung him to sleep. Then a few nights ago, he just turned around and said, "Turn it off!" I was like, "Oh dear." My singing career might be over with Stanley.

This summer, you performed "Stan" onstage with Eminem at Leeds Fest. What's it like performing that with him after all these years?

It was brilliant, a lot of fun. The crowd reaction was amazing. A real buzz. It was a really fun thing to do.


I read that Eminem considered working with you again for "The Marshall Mathers LP 2," but decided against it. Was there any dialogue there?

Someone just told me about that. No, never mentioned.

A lot of your lyrics are very personal -- revisiting these songs for "Greatest Hits," are there any songs you look at in a different way? Any "What was I thinking?" moments?

I always know where I was and what I was thinking when I was writing the songs. Things will become more or less relevant to your life... Just remembering how strongly I felt when I wrote "White Flag." Sometimes it still stirs up a bit of the old emotion. There's a song called "Everything To Lose" that I did for a film and I wrote it before Stanley came along. When I listened to it after he was born, it was really relevant. I definitely get transported back to the moment I was in when I wrote the song.

What about the compilation's never-before-heard track, "NYC"? When did you compose that one?

I wrote that with Greg Kurstin the same time I wrote (2013's) "End of Night," "Happy New Year, and "Let's Runaway," and saved it because I didn't finish it. And I actually thought this was the perfect album for it to go on, because it references lyrically when I first started and first came to America. I came over to New York with a point to prove to my brother (producer Rollo Armstrong) who basically said, "You can't do this." I was walking the streets of New York thinking, "I'm not going home until something happens, and I won't go home until I've walked every street in this town." I thought this was the perfect album to put it on, as opposed to the next record.

What were your impressions of New York the first time you were there?

It was so overwhelming the first time. I'm a city girl -- I live in London and always have. I'm totally fine being in the city, but I remember being there -- it was near Christmas -- and I had a slightly dodgy cab experience. The cab driver stopped in Times Square and started hitting another driver with a crowbar. I don't know what they were fighting about. It was Christmas, and I waited an hour and a half for this cab. I wasn't going to let it go! I tried to stop them from fighting, like, "Maybe don't kill the guy." Then he got back in the cab and we got to where we were going. He didn't charge me, which was good!

I love New York. My band is all from New York, and we've played together for over 10 years, so it all started there. All my big moments happened in New York. I first heard about "Stan" when I was in a hotel in New York. I remember getting the letter, getting the CD, and putting it on my little CD player, and just being completely blown away.

So you got a letter asking for your permission to use "Thank You"?

Yeah, I just got a letter saying, "We heard your track. We love it. We'd like to use it for this track 'Stan.' Can you take a listen? I hope you like it and can we use your song?" It was completely out of the blue. I put it on like, "I wonder what he could have done." You just don't know. And I was a big Eminem fan, so it was pretty cool. And then I heard it. I remember because I had some friends staying in the same hotel. They were literally running down the hall, like "You gotta listen to this; it's just brilliant!"

 

Here's the tracklist from "Greatest Hits," due Nov. 25 via RCA:

1. Here With Me
2. Thank You
3. Hunter
4. White Flag
5. Life For Rent
6. Don’t Leave Home
7. Sand In My Shoes
8. Don’t Believe In Love
9. Quiet Times
10. Grafton Street
11. Everything To Lose
12. Let Us Move On Feat. Kendrick Lamar
13. No Freedom
14. End Of Night
15. One Step Too Far (Radio Edit) - Faithless Featuring Dido
16. Stan - Eminem Featuring Dido
17. If I Rise - Dido and A. R. Rahman
18. NYC *

"Greatest Hits: Deluxe Edition" features a second disc with the following remixes:

1. Here With Me (Chillin' With The Family Mix)
2. Thank You (Deep Dish Radio Edit)
3. Hunter  (M J Cole Remix)
4. White Flag (Timbaland Remix) *
5. Life For Rent (Skinny 4 Rent Mix)
6. Sand In My Shoes (Above & Beyond Radio Edit)
7. Don’t Leave Home (Gabriel & Dresden Radio Mix)
8. Don’t Believe In Love (Dennis Ferrer’s Objektivity Radio Mix)
9. No Freedom (DJ Cobra Mix)
10. End Of Night (Cedric Gervais Remix)
11. Go Dreaming (Mantronix Remix)
12. Blackbird (Moguai Remix)
13. Northern Skies (Rollo Remix)

* previously unreleased


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Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 21, 2013, 03:57:19 pm
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En esta audio entrevista de EQ Music Dido habla de la nueva canción 'NYC', sobre ‘Sitting On The Roof Of The World’ del disco 'Girl Who Got Away'. Pero tambiíén sobre los fans dentro de la nueva industria musical, el casting de David Boreanaz para el videoclip de 'White Flag' y Dido da un consejo a las futuras cantantes que buscan hacerse un hueco en la música.

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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 02, 2013, 05:35:51 pm
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She is a personal diarist with mass appeal, like Bridget Jones with a microphone.

Dido burst onto the music scene in 1999 when she released No Angel and shot to fame in the US when her Thank You vocals were featured on Eminem's hit single Stan.

And now the singer, who won the MTV EMA award for best new act in 2001, is releasing her Greatest Hits album.

The 41-year-old singer ( who looks AT LEAST ten years younger than that in the flesh) told 3AM that she believes White Flag is her greatest hit - the song she's proudest of.

"What else can we expect from the album?" we asked her.

"There's new stuff, old stuff," she says.

"It was definitely a personal thing. A lot of people had a lot of opinions about what should go on there and I was like, 'Do you know what? It's my album.' I'm not listening to you."


The star made a comeback on stage with Eminem at Reading festival earlier this year and said it was the highlight of her summer.

We asked her if she had any plans to collaborate with anyone else.

"I think always. There's always things that you want to do."

"It's not like I've got a wishlist but things come up and you think, 'You know what, this would be perfect.'"

The singer also says she's in the middle of making a new record.

"I never put stuff out that I don't like," she explains.

"I'm just way more confident now and I know what my strengths are," she added.

Dido's Greatest Hits album out on the 25th November.



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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 02, 2013, 05:52:52 pm
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Ultimately, Dido believes her upcoming collection of songs is "the crazy diary of my life" rather than a greatest hits record.

Dido's Greatest Hits, available on November 25 through RCA Records in standard and deluxe editions, covers almost 15 years, beginning in 1999 with the release of No Angel.

That and her three other studio albums, including last March's Girl Who Got Away, are nicely represented on this 18-song compilation, along with treats such as the Academy Award-nominated "If I Rise" (with A.R. Rahman) and "NYC," a lively new dance track that was released in October.

Eminem's "Stan," the rap single that put the UK woman who only needs one name on the U.S. map thanks to her sample of "Thank You," is also there, signifying the start of a remarkable global adventure.

The deluxe edition adds 13 remixes of some of her most popular songs, including a previously unreleased version of "White Flag (Timbaland Remix)."

Such examples provide proof that she was destined for greatness, yet during an overseas phone conversation last week, the lovely Londoner almost seemed embarrassed to attach superlatives to her work.

"Nice question," Dido said in a playful tone ranging somewhere between sweet and sarcastic when asked what makes this particular collection of songs great.

"It's not something that I would have suggested doing," she explained softly. "I didn't wake up one morning and think, 'Oh, I'm going to do a greatest hits album.' It never even crossed my mind."

After Sony approached her with the idea, Dido said she still was in the middle of making Girl Who Got Away and needed some time to consider it.

"And I thought as long as I can put together something that I truly love, that feels like a proper celebration of the last 15 years," there would be enough hours in the day to make it happen. Even for a Great Brit who's balancing being a wife-mother-daughter-sister-singer-songwriter.

Not that she needs a career validation, but perhaps Greatest Hits will serve as a gentle reminder of what Dido has quietly but skillfully accomplished since bursting on the scene.

The effortless grace of her understated vocals blend splendidly with the powerfully personal nature of her lyrics. Of course, the cool chanteuse who for years was cranking out platinum records and imaginative but tasteful videos without a wrecking ball or sledgehammer in sight doesn't mind some controlled chaos in her life.

The seasoned performer who plays various instruments, including guitar, keyboards, recorder and drums, enhances her sound with electronica dance beats, propulsive bass lines and impassioned collaborations with artists ranging from Eminem to Kendrick Lamar.

The winner of the MTV Europe Music Award for best new act in 2001 didn't watch the EMA's earlier this month, when Miley Cyrus' latest publicity stunt went up in smoke, but still was curious enough to ask if it was a good show.

"I think it's quite an exciting time," Dido said of today's pop music scene, too classy to diss anyone. "I like that people can put things out any which way. It's not necessarily a whole album. It's just sort of various collaborations and I think there's a lot of good stuff around."

Saying she's discovering new things everyday, Dido at the moment is raving about electronic act Pete Lawrie Winfield (under the guise of Until the Ribbon Breaks), recent albums by London Grammar (If You Wait) and Lorde (Pure Heroine), then added, "I actually downloaded the Eminem album (The Marshall Mathers LP 2) a couple of days ago; I'm really enjoying that."

Still, Dido remains a romantic throwback of sorts who still listens to music on the radio, influencing audiophiles who yearn for the days or yore before tell-all books and viral videos captured boys (and girls) behaving badly.

Simply put, she's told, the beauty of her music lies in the beauty of her music.

"I mean, yeah, it's sort of all I've got, really," she modestly said with a laugh, remembering when people thought Dido was the name of a Swedish band. "But I mean that's what I love. ... Back then, we didn't have to know each other quite so well. It was like, 'I just like this music and I don't care if I don't know anything about this person's life.'
"I think one of the reasons that someone like Adele resonates so much with people is that actually we don't know much about her life. And I think that's great. And it means that you listen to her songs and you make them your own."

Having sold more than 29 million albums, Dido has plenty of listeners worldwide. And though she said she's pleased with the response to Girl Who Got Away, her first studio album in five years after taking some time off to start a family, it only remained on the Billboard 200 charts for three weeks, peaking at No. 32. By comparison, her second album, Life For Rent, peaked at No. 4 and was on the list for 47 weeks.

In a world where fickle fans often ask -- "What have you done for me lately?" -- career interruptus might be an artist's biggest fear.

Being out of the limelight for so long would scare almost anyone who craves attention. But Dido didn't give it a second thought.

"It's not like I'm trying to hang on to anything, if that makes sense," she said, deciding to hold off on a "full-blown around-the-globe tour" until she completes her next record "hopefully" next year. "Like, you know, all I'm ever trying to do is make music and put it out there and it's there for people if they want to hear it. But I'm not feeling like a desperate need to hang on to a certain level of fame or anything like that."

Dido was more disappointed with the lukewarm reaction to 2008's mostly overlooked Safe Trip Home, the album she co-produced with Jon Brion that features Mick Fleetwood (drums), Brian Eno (keyboards) and her co-songwriting brother, Rollo Armstrong. The timing seemed right to press pause and make family a priority.

"I put my heart and soul into that record," she said without a tinge of bitterness. "And pretty much no one's heard it, which is fine, and it's sort of there to be heard one day."

Personally, she considers "Grafton Street" her most meaningful song "by far," written just after the 2006 death of her 68-year-old father, William O'Malley Armstrong, who had spent 10 years in the hospital.

No more trips to Grafton Street
No more going there
To see you lying still
While we all come and go

" 'Grafton Street' still could make me cry," she said. "I'm not a big crier but if I was feeling vulnerable, that one definitely could. ...

"My whole life was sort of built around visiting him in the hospital and then getting on a plane and going and doing a show and then coming back and visiting the hospital," she said. "You know, we spent so much time together. We had these amazing times, even though the hospital was this really dark place. We had amazing times in that room. And it's sort of a song about, wow, actually really missing being with you in this place."

Admittedly, though, this "very, very honest" song "was quite hard to sing live," Dido said. "And I hadn't really thought it through, you know. And a lot of that album was very dark and quite hard to do live. Of course, I didn't really want to do a big tour on that particular record. And that's when I thought I'd disappear from view a little bit."

"Grafton Street" and "Quiet Times," also from from Safe Trip Home, "were some of the best songs I've ever written," she said. "And they don't get their moment in the sun."

Yet the ever resourceful entrepreneur decided to give them -- and listeners -- a second chance by including both in the Greatest Hits package.

When she finally committed to the project that "was sprung on me," Dido took total control of song selection.

"I had a crazy, crazy couple of weeks of putting the whole thing together. But it was really enjoyable," she said.

If others wanted to provide input, it was a matter of thanks, but no thanks.

"I basically told everyone that they were entitled to their opinions but ... (laughs) I definitely, I was very much like I could've sent out an email saying, 'You're very welcome to tell me what you want on it but this is my record, so I'm choosing.' ... And I'm like, 'You know what, this feels right for me, so I trust my instincts on it.' "
While her calming, inspirational voice shines on tracks such as "Here With Me" and "Thank You," Dido revealed that she was a late bloomer when it came to singing.

"I don't remember a time not playing music," she said. "Like my earliest memories are from being at primary school playing recorder, playing music, and just running upstairs when I got home from school to practice. That's just all I wanted to do."

It's easy to understand why she never took a voice lesson, but to this day the perfectionist in Dido still thinks, "Maybe I should."

That's hard to believe, especially after hearing her innate gift, those golden pipes that don't require any fine-tuning.

Singing publicly for the first time as a 17-year-old at the boys school she attended, Dido recalled it was a risky move to perform "Summertime" and "Cry Me a River" with a jazz band and thought, "I was channeling Ella Fitzgerald."

Dido went in another direction, and apparently made a few side trips to the Fountain of Youth. Now, nearly 25 years later (her 42nd birthday is on Christmas Day), she is raising another musician whose initial inkling is to play music, not sing it.

Like mother, like son.

"He's an insane drummer," Dido joyously said about her 2-year-old Stanley with husband Rohan Gavin, a British writer who she said is also a great musician.

Since both parents learned to play music early in life, her son "is probably getting a little bit of that passed down through the DNA." But Stanley's passion even amazes her.

"He just doesn't stop. ... Since the moment he could move his hands, he hasn't stopped drumming," Dido said. "He won't even let me on the drum kit. So I've never been able to show him how to drum because he always grabs the sticks and just sits there. ... Everything's a drum. Like every single piece of furniture, every toy eventually becomes a drum and he just loves it. ...

"It's so sweet to watch. You know what? He'll probably forget all about it when he's 4, but right now I think that's one of his huge pleasures in life."

For Dido, her little drummer boy undoubtedly is delivering the greatest hits of them all.

Dido publicity photos by Guy Aroch/RCA Records.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 03, 2013, 03:55:53 pm
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Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 03, 2013, 04:08:10 pm
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Wander down Upper Street in Islington, north London, or pop into the local Waitrose and you never know, you might just bump into a pop superstar.

Dido, with 38 million album sales and a Greatest Hits album coming out this week, is one of the biggest-selling artists of the 21st century, but mansions, private planes and entourages are not her thing.

Even now, 14 years since she shot to fame with the album No Angel, Dido is still demure and softly spoken. She’s 41 but looks ten years younger, more like a teenager in fact, as she fiddles with her necklace, her black nail polish chipped. What’s changed is that she’s found peace of mind.

She’s married to novelist Rohan Gavin, son of children’s writer Jamila Gavin, they have a two-year-old son Stanley, and she’s determined to live an ordinary life.

Stanley loves shopping, going round the aisles, holding the bags of salad,’ she says. ‘I don’t want a life that’s so different from everybody else’s, where I don’t have all my friends and family around me.’

Stanley thinks Mummy only performs for him, and when her band comes over to rehearse he thinks he’s one of them. When she asked Stanley what does Daddy do, earlier on the day we met, he replied, ‘He writes books’.

‘When I asked what does Mummy do when she’s working, he looked a bit thoughtful as if to say, “She works?” Then he said, “Mummy eats books.” I thought, “Where are you even getting that? What have I been doing?”’

Dido has actually been devouring books all her life, coming from a literary family. Her late father William Armstrong was managing director of publishers Sidgwick & Jackson and her mother Clare is a poet. Christened Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong – though she became known by the family as Dido after the tragic Queen of Carthage – she understandably preferred to call herself the more commonplace Clare, after her mother.
 
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‘I’m sure my mum feels quite proud of her name choice now, but it wasn’t fun as a kid. You don’t need more reason to feel a bit isolated. It’s hard enough being a kid.’

Her bohemian mother didn’t like Dido and her brother Rollo (who went on to become one of the band Faithless) having friends around and there was no TV or stereo in the house, though plenty of books. They felt like outsiders growing up, but Dido feels this left them with a rich legacy.

‘What Rollo and I do have from our childhood is a real ability to be on our own, using our imaginations to create our own fun. We both love reading and creating things, so whatever our parents did, it worked, whether it was intentional or not.

Having not seen Eminem for eight years, Dido got an unexpected call from his people earlier this year asking if she would like to perform Stan with him at the Reading and Leeds Festivals (pictured in 2000)
Having not seen Eminem for eight years, Dido got an unexpected call from his people earlier this year asking if she would like to perform Stan with him at the Reading and Leeds Festivals (pictured in 2000)

‘As a kid and a teenager I desperately wanted to fit in, I never felt quite like I did. You have to be a rebel in some way growing up and I was quite a difficult teenager. In pictures of me then I’m a bit scowly, I had really dark gothy hair. It wasn’t about looking good, I did not look good, but I thought I was cool and kept it up the whole time.

'You couldn’t be all smiley and happy. But whatever got me here I feel lucky to have had. I’ve always lived like that. I don’t ever look back  and regret things because I think, “Am I happy now? Is it good now? Yes.”’

Dido’s background was in classical music. She went for lessons at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music in London, played violin and piano and toured Europe in a classical music ensemble. She dreamt of becoming a concert pianist until she realised she’d never be good enough.

After her A-levels she worked at a leading literary agents while studying law at night. ‘I don’t know why I picked law. I just wanted to use my brain in some way. It didn’t last long. I was just trying to work out what I wanted to do. Music was a hobby and didn’t seem like a realistic thing. I was in a band and we did gigs. I’d do sessions that were advertised in the back of music magazines. Dreadful.’

She was emotionally fragile in those early days. She suffered panic attacks after signing with song publishers in October 1996. In her head she thought she’d signed away the most personal part of herself, the solace her songs brought her. ‘Music had been my only refuge, the one solid thing in my life that I would go to if I was happy or sad. It was the way I expressed myself. On signing a deal most people would go out and party, but I thought, “Oh no!” I felt I’d given the one uncontaminated piece of my life away. But I got over it.’

Her music came to the attention of American hit maker Clive Davis, who nurtured Whitney Houston’s career, and later record executive LA Reid, who went on to become a judge on American X Factor. Despite both men’s reputations as tough operators they were sensitive to her fragile talent and it took several years before she was ready to face the public. The result was the 1999 album No Angel, which she took on a three-year tour round America and went on to sell 21 million copies.


 â€˜I was probably a lot more fragile when I started out in my career. I’m a way more confident person than I was. Part of that is getting older. Turning 40 you get this wave of acceptance'

After its release she was surprised to receive a letter from notorious rapper Eminem requesting permission to use part of her song Thank You in his song Stan. She agreed and the song helped make her a star.

Having not seen Eminem for eight years, Dido got an unexpected call from his people earlier this year asking if she would like to perform Stan with him at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in the summer.  ‘I kept it totally quiet and we just rocked up on the night. The crowds were unbelievable. They worked out who it was pretty quickly.’

Despite the trauma of signing that earlier publishing deal, she found fame a comfortable fit, largely because she couldn’t comprehend how famous she had become.

‘In a funny way it was less hard to get used to fame than signing the publishing deal because I wasn’t properly aware of it. By the time things kicked off with the record I was on a tour that lasted three years, so you’re not aware of what’s going on in the real world.

'You’re in this pretty cool place where you get up, get on the bus and do your show. It wasn’t until I came home that I realised what had happened. There were little moments that made me realise it, like a journalist turning up at my mum’s house. I think I’ve been treated incredibly respectfully, which I’m thankful for. But I don’t have anything to hide, it’s all in my music anyway.’

She is still as passionate about her music and is working on new material, but everything is subservient to her role as a mum. Stanley, whose name has nothing to do with the Eminem song, has also helped her bond with her own mother. When Dido was 15 or 16 – she can’t quite remember which – she moved away from home because of their difficult relationship.

She once said, ‘It was just hard for us to live in the same house as each other.’ She laughs, perhaps with a twinge of embarrassment,  at the recollection and lays the blame on herself. ‘I probably wasn’t the best company. But now we have wonderful chats. She’s one of my favourite people to talk to.’

They now live round the corner from each other. ‘She’s an amazing person, scarily intelligent, brilliant company and a revelation as  a grandmother. The love and happi- ness on Stanley’s face when she comes around the corner – I wouldn’t lose that for the world.’

Dido was very close to her father, who died in 2006 after a long illness. Her debut single Here With Me was written the night she came home from the hospital when he was first taken seriously ill, and she was at his bedside singing his favourite song, The Dubliners’ Raglan Road, as he lay dying.

The lyrics, written by poet Patrick Kavanagh, were about William’s aunt Hilda O’Malley. ‘Dad played me that song when I was young. It was a song we both had a huge connection with, and I sang it to him all the time when he was ill.’ She wrote the song Grafton Street on her 2008 album Safe Trip Home, based on Raglan Road, as a tribute to her father. ‘My love I know we’re losing but I will stand here by you,’ she wrote.

Dido’s personality has been transformed over the years. She exudes contentment, though not in a smug way. She’s simply found her centre of gravity. ‘I was probably a lot more fragile when I started out in my career. I’m a way more confident person than I was. Part of that is getting older. Turning 40 you get this wave of acceptance.

'I feel like I’ve got it now. I don’t mind not being liked, that’s what it is. It’s taken me a good 20 years to spot that. Half my career is based on wanting to be liked but you get to the stage where you think, “I’m not going to be liked by everybody and I’m OK with it.” As long as the people I love want me back.’





Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 04, 2013, 03:53:34 pm
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Following the release of her best-of collection this week on RCA, Dido is officially out of her record contract and a free agent.

“I’m like an overexcited kid,” the British singer/songwriter tells HitFix. “I have so many ideas. ‘I can do this, I can do that.’ I’m like ‘take a breath’.”

More about what’s next for Dido a little later, but first she spent a few minutes looking back with us over her nearly 15-year career covered on “Greatest Hits,” a compilation of all her singles from her 1999 debut, “ No Angel,” on. Among the selections are “Here With Me,” “Thank You,” “White Flag,” “Life for Rent,” and Eminem’s “Stan,” which samples “Thank You,” and helped catapult Dido to stardom.

She listened to the album from start to finish while mastering the project. “It was this crazy, emotional 15-year diary in an hour,” she says. “When you write a song, you’re so clear about where you were and what you were feeling, even more so than when I see a picture. I have such clear memories.”

As often happens, the songs take different meaning and shapes as life progresses. “Everything to Lose,” originally featured on the 2010 “Sex and the City 2” soundtrack, “is probably more relevant now,” Dido says. “When you do finally really fall in love, having a kid, and having the fear” of losing it all.

Indeed, the birth of her son in 2011 has changed the prism through which she views life. “I’m a more emotional person since having Stanley. I was never the big cry person. Now I’ll be in the cinema and I start crying. I was crying at ‘Philomena’ 10 minutes in. My husband was like, ‘Are you alright?’ So any of these songs that are emotional, I feel it all bigger because of Stanley. It opens up a part of you.”

The collection includes a new track, “NYC.” Though written recently, it is about an era, pre-1999, when everything was still possible for her, including failure. “It’s about a time back at the very beginning when I came to New York City with the words of my brother ringing in my head: ‘This is probably not going to happen for you, but good luck’.”

Even after all her success —she’s sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and garnered an Oscar nod for “If I Rise” from “127 Hours”—the uncertainty remains. And she’s fine with that. “I’m still unsure of where the road ahead goes,” she says. “I’ll always be that person. I feel more comfortable not knowing. I crave those feelings. There’s room for magic to happen.”

While being without a record contract would strike fear in some, for Dido, it strikes a sense of possibility where music dictates every decision. “You can just put music out. For me that’s extremely exciting,” she says. “Sometimes [on a label] I feel like you make things and you have to wait for ages and you just play this big waiting game. Now, you can do this project here and that project there. It’s dictated by what you’re doing creatively.”

She’s coy about what’s next as she has material now that is taking her in two “extremely different ways,” and she hasn’t chosen which path to take yet. “It all becomes about the music and that’s the world I live in.”



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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 09, 2013, 04:45:15 pm
Smalltown Boy

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Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 15, 2013, 05:11:26 pm
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Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 16, 2013, 04:10:51 pm
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You won’t find a pop star more down-to-earth than Dido. Even though she remains one of the biggest-selling artists of all time, she has a remarkable talent for staying under the radar.

Taking some time out to have her son Stanley, now two, helped with that, but Dido reckons she’s always led a low-key life. “It’s really cool,” smiles the 41-year-old singer. “Because my face wasn’t on the first or third albums, I’ve managed to keep it hidden. For a long time people thought I was a Swedish band.” And when she does get recognised, the fans, she says, are always lovely.

“It’s amazing being somewhere in the world you’ve never gone to before when someone comes up and sings your song at you. I think the most random incident was when I was in Ethiopia with Oxfam and the guys driving us started singing Thank You. It was insane. I also remember being in a teeny place in Thailand and walking past this woman singing one of my songs in a hotel bar. In those moments you get this rush, where you can’t quite comprehend how far it’s spread. You feel welcome anywhere and all because of music, which is amazing.”

Dido began to get noticed back in 1998 when her first single Here With Me was used as the theme music for the US science fiction programme Roswell. Then her second single, Thank You, featured in the Gwyneth Paltrow film Sliding Doors later that year. Dido’s debut album No Angel was released in 1999 but it was the following year that her career skyrocketed when Thank You was sampled by Eminem in the rapper’s hit single Stan. Suddenly her music was reaching a whole new audience. No Angel was re-released in 2001 and remains – along with her second album Life for Rent – one of the UK’s biggest sellers.

So how much does she owe to Eminem?

“Oh loads,” she concedes. “Stan was just so out of the blue. I remember first hearing it, sitting in a hotel room in New York and I thought, ‘Wow, this is just brilliant’ – I was so blown away by the rap on it. I was doing pretty well in America anyway, so I thought things would be solid, but it just went stratospheric at that point. My life was changed 100 per cent.”

But Dido herself stayed remarkably the same. How does she do it?

“I’ve never really struggled with fame, maybe because I’ve never gone out seeking it,” she reasons, pointing out that she’s kept all her old friends over the years, but “made lots of new ones, too.”

Some of those friends are in pretty high places. As well as collaborating with Eminem – they shared a stage again at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival – Dido has teamed up with the likes of Annie Lennox, Brian Eno and Sting (“I was so starstruck – I was such a big Police fan and he was really cool”). But one of her biggest career highlights, she says, has been working with her elder brother Rollo.

A music producer and founder-member of the band Faithless, he has also contributed heavily to his sister’s back catalogue over the years, co-writing and producing tracks on all her albums.

“Working with my brother has just been brilliant,” she beams. “We’ve had our fights but always about music, never about anything else. Our values are really similar and we like the same music. We’ve just got closer and closer.”

Born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong on Christmas Day 1971, the girl who would be Dido was blessed with a creative environment from the start. Her father William ran the literary publishing house Sidgwick & Jackson, while her mother Clare is a poet. And the Armstrong artistic tradition looks set to continue. Dido’s husband of three years, Rohan Gavin, is a screenwriter and novelist, while little Stanley is already muscling in on Mum’s band rehearsals.

“He’s obsessed with drumming and his keyboard. He walks around carrying it wherever we go and just starts playing,” she laughs. “He loves it when the guys come round to rehearse and he truly believes he’s in the band now. He gets his serious face on and he bangs the drums and cymbals while we play. I don’t know where he learnt to do that, but he won’t let anyone else on his drum kit – it’s his most precious possession.

 Dido is now working on her music again

I’m in the middle of writing an album of original material and it took me a while to get back in to it after Stanley was born just because I was so focused on him and my husband

Dido admits that having a baby affected her song-writing, and that as a parent she now looks for different inspirations.

“I’m in the middle of writing an album of original material and it took me a while to get back in to it after Stanley was born just because I was so focused on him and my husband,” she reveals.

“You get so involved in the minutiae of daily life and being a family, which is so important to me. Plus for a while you have a head full of nursery rhymes and they’re not the things you want to write songs about.”

The singer has also been busy assembling a greatest hits album, an 18-track compilation covering her multi-platinum career.

“I’ve never really looked back before because I’m always writing new songs and moving forward,”

she says. “So it was quite emotional putting the album together. The memories came flooding back – I remember everything around every song I’ve written, even what I was wearing at the time. The album is chronological too, so it’s like this crazy 15-year diary of my life compressed into an hour and 10 minutes.”

She concedes that the music industry has moved on a lot in that time and, for the most part, she’s glad that she’s not starting out in it today.

“It’s changed massively – in good and bad ways,” she reckons.

“I had so much support from my record company and really got to build up my confidence. There’s not the same patience now – people need to be doing well quicker – but then it’s amazing that you can write a song, put it up on the internet and the next day people hear it. That’s utterly liberating.”

So what does she think of the current glut of TV talent shows?

“You can find a great singer anywhere,” she says. “You might walk past someone busking, or see someone on The X Factor or an advert and think they’re amazing.

The simple fact is, if someone gives you chills and moves you, then their voice is worth listening to.”

Dido did some mentoring on The Voice earlier this year – a role that she’s happy to return to – but you’ll never catch her on a judging panel.

“Music, for me, isn’t a competition so I find the whole concept of judging really funny,” she admits.

“I really enjoyed mentoring on The Voice – the contestants were amazing and it’s quite a challenge. I was like, ‘God, I wouldn’t do this!’

I don’t think I would have had the confidence to perform on live TV in front of so many people – and I’m in total awe of some of the amazing artists I’ve met who are so young but totally poised.”

We’re likely to see more of Dido’s backstage talents – she has already penned songs for numerous artists, including Britney Spears, and says she’d like to do more of the same as she gets older.

“I love working with other people’s voices,” she says, “and I’m always wanting to write a better song. When I wake up that will always be in the back of my mind. But Stanley comes first, it’s that simple.”

To that end, she is now focused on planning a festive family get-together. “Everyone will be here for Christmas – cousins included – and it’s the first year Stanley will know what’s happening. He’s already getting excited, although I don’t think he realises it’s mummy’s birthday too – that might take a few years. But I’m really looking forward to it. Everything just seems so much more exciting and fun with a baby around.”

 

Dido’s Greatest Hits is out now. Visit www.didomusic.com for details.
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 18, 2013, 04:10:27 pm
Thank You @ O'Brian Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXN9aQFWrcs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXN9aQFWrcs)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 18, 2013, 04:12:18 pm
Entrevista Google + Sessions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB4WnOgi04o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB4WnOgi04o)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 19, 2013, 04:02:41 pm
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Hace algunas semanas Dido realizó una entrevista en la radio británica, Spire FM, para promocionar su Greatest Hits. Ahora contamos con el audio de dicha entrevista

Escuchar aquí­ (http://herewithdidoarmstrong.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/entrevista-en-spirefm.html)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 23, 2013, 04:59:51 pm
Entrevista The Breeze (http://southampton.thebreeze.com/on-air/evenings/dido/)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 25, 2013, 07:28:51 pm
Dido cumple hoy 42 años!!!!
FELICIDADES!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Enero 13, 2014, 04:00:18 pm
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Dido told me: “Lily is a genius, I love it, it’s a sweet John Lewis advert one day and then another song that made me really laugh the next.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for her. She’s clever and funny, but at the end of the day she has got a lovely, lovely voice.”

Lily’s satirical video for Hard Out There, which pokes fun at misogynistic pop stars, has been criticised but Dido, 41, can see through the furore.

She said: “I haven’t kept up with what’s going on in terms of the video but it’s good she’s making people think with a positive message. I listen to it again and again.”

Reflecting on her own videos Dido said: “I don’t really watch them. For me it’s about songs and singers, but I suppose I did push the video envelope by being in a bath once.”

Dido’s career is celebrated with a new Greatest Hits album – out now – and she’s more than happy to look back on her work.

She mused: “It’s a diary of my life for the last 15 years and it was nostalgic putting it together.

“White Flag is a great song to sing and I love the reaction it gets live to this day. Grafton Street is my most emotional moment, about my dad. That still makes me cry.”

Although much has changed during her career, Dido, pictur­ed right, remains positive about the state of the music industry.

She explained: “Ultimately the same things still matter – singers and songs.

“Take someone like Adele – she’s an amazing singer, writes beautiful songs.”

And the Greatest Hits doesn’t spell the end for Dido, far from it.

She added: “I’m working on new stuff. I love a lot of electronic music and dance music, and also hip hop. But I also love folk music.

“There’s always a thing in my head questioning where the song should go, so I tend to let the song dictate where it goes.”
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Enero 13, 2014, 10:39:59 pm
Google Live Sessions

White Flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h80IrClHcks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h80IrClHcks)

Thank You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vzSMcW1JG4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vzSMcW1JG4)

No Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_l1wT_0GhE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_l1wT_0GhE)

Life for Rent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0BHXlAbZ0s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0BHXlAbZ0s)
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 25, 2014, 04:56:10 pm
Dido cumple hoy 43 años!!!!
FELICIDADES!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:
Título: Re: Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 25, 2015, 07:01:11 pm
Dido cumple hoy 44 años!!!!
FELICIDADES!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 25, 2016, 03:58:08 pm
Dido cumple hoy 45 años!!!!
FELICIDADES!!!! :011: :011: :011: :011: :011:
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 12, 2018, 04:38:23 pm
Hurricanes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQAc-AmDaww (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQAc-AmDaww)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 12, 2018, 05:23:16 pm
Anuncio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPeut4bfVjY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPeut4bfVjY)

El disco sale el 8 de marzo
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 29, 2018, 05:03:21 pm
Hurricanes (Lyric Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mfladpK0AA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mfladpK0AA)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 21, 2018, 04:24:39 pm
Friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K3YibZQbOA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K3YibZQbOA)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Enero 22, 2019, 04:30:14 pm
Giving You Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o16GncQt5dY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o16GncQt5dY)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Enero 24, 2019, 05:26:04 pm
Giving You Up (acoustic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtejrJ7T764 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtejrJ7T764)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Enero 24, 2019, 05:37:33 pm
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Wow, times flies. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Dido's multi-platinum debut, No Angel.  Released in 1999 the album became a worldwide phenomenon a year later when Eminem sampled the refrain from the gorgeous "Thank You" for the smash "Stan."

As a result of that push from Eminem, No Angel went on to sell 21 million copies worldwide, making it the second biggest-selling album in the U.K. for the 2000s (behind only James Blunt's Back To Bedlam).

Dido followed that with the brilliant Life For Rent, a magnificent collection that mixed a singer/songwriter folk sensibility with sublime electronic beats largely courtesy of her brother, Rollo, from the acclaimed U.K. act Faithless.

Life For Rent went on to sell 14 million copies worldwide and spawned a sold-out tour that took her to arenas in some markets, cementing Dido's status as one of the brightest new talents in pop music.

She followed that with 2008's Safe Trip Home and 2013's Girl Who Got Away, both strong collections. Though neither had the same impact commercially as Dido chose not to tour behind either album.

It's been 15 years now since she has toured in the U.S. All that will change in 2019 though as Dido will release a stunning new album, Still On My Mind, out March 8 on BMG, and follow that with a world tour. From the opening single, the ethereal, majestic "Hurricanes" to the rest of the 12 songs, the album is a much welcome and stellar return to form for the one-time music superstar.

I spoke with Dido about the new album, how her long absences are unintentional, making music with her brother and why even though she never wanted to write a song about motherhood, that actually jumpstarted Still On My Mind.

Steve Baltin: It blew my mind to hear it had been 15 years since you toured the U.S. Are there other artists who've had similar long breaks that inspire you?

Dido: It blew my mind when I actually counted out the numbers. It was like, "Oh my god, it really has been 15 years." For me it's not an intention. Every album there's been quite a long gap and there's been a bit of living in between and then I end up writing more and it builds up. I'm a very unintentional person, I don't really have a big plan and I'm not very good at thinking past next week. But what happens is enough songs come together that I start feeling like, "Oh, I'd just love people to hear this." And then I put a record out (laughs). As far as other artists it gives me comfort that you see people who do it with such grace. They just put a record out, they sort of disappear and then they put another record out like Sade comes to mind. I thought Kate Bush coming back after all that time was just fantastic. But, from my point of view, I just feel really lucky that I still get to do this after all this time. That, to me, feels like magic.

Baltin: I love the new material. It feels very contemporary but undeniably you. When did you know you wanted this to be an album?

Dido: That's so nice to hear because not many people have heard it. Well, barely anyone has. But that's really lovely because I just have no idea if people are gonna like it. So few people have heard it and it's been made in such a small way, with my brother. How this album came about is I had my child and just wanted to hang out with him and that was a really natural progression. And then I was sort of writing with various people cause I always do. Then I just sort of woke up one morning and was like, "I would love to make a record, but I only really want to make it if it's with Rollo, my brother. And I don't want to make one if it isn't." I sort of wanted to go back to how it was at the beginning when music was almost a byproduct of me and my brother hanging out with each other. And that, to me, is why this whole thing started. I wanted to feel that again and that's what this album is. It's basically me and my brother hanging out and making music.

Baltin: Was there one song that jump started this album?

Dido: My dark album was the third album. I wrote that when my dad died and that was actually why I didn't tour the third album cause I realized when it came to it I couldn't really sing the songs live because it was so raw at the time. So this album is very different. I never wanted to write a song about having a kid. But I had a few ideas in my head and I almost felt like, "Get it out of your system, write a song about what you feel having a kid and then put it in the bin." Anyway I wrote this song, it's the last song on the album, called "Have To Stay." And I was so proud it and it so sums up how I did feel about being a mother and this unconditional love. And that sums up the whole record. Suddenly the floodgates opened and I wrote all the rest of the songs. That was the song that started it and that wasn't even really meant to be a song anybody ever heard. Everyone fell in love with it.

Baltin: It's funny what you say about the third album. Look at a song like "See You When You're 40" off Life For Rent and I'd be curious to see how that song has changed for you being around 40. Are there songs from the catalog you are excited to revisit with your new perspective on life?

Dido: I'm way past 40 (laughs). It's funny, I'm still not living by the beach and that is still what I want. I'm still quite not living that life. When I do actually listen to those songs and sing them again sometimes I'm like, "They're still really relevant to my life now." Obviously having a family it takes you into this whole other dimension and you're never gonna return. And it's a whole different world. And even just making music this time around I feel different. In a way it's more relaxed, it's very sort of natural and easy. The songs, some of them feel very young and I love that because it takes me back 20 years or so. But some of them still feel sort of relevant, like "Life For Rent," for example.

Baltin: Have you been surprised by how they stay relevant to your life today?

Dido: It's the way you feel things and if you write honestly about the way you feel things that probably doesn't change much. I was on tour for like nine years straight in the end. And I remember songs changing while the tour was going on. So one song that might've been more of a distant thing for me, then one day I'd be singing it and I'd think, "Oh my god, this is really hitting home." And sometimes when you met fans and met people in the street and they would tell you a story about how the song affected them or the particular story about where the song was relevant and that would bring a whole other level of emotions to it, which was sort of amazing. So, for me, my songwriting has always come from the same place, which is I don't write songs unless there's light and dark in it. There's no song of mine that's out and out happy and no song that's out and out sad really. For me songwriting is about finding those little moments of conflict in life, whatever they are. And that's what inspired me to write the song. So that's never changed. I wrote my first song when I was nine and that's never changed.

Baltin: Who are those songwriters that capture the light and dark best for you then?

Dido: I admire so many people and I look at people and think, "Wow, what a great songwriter you are." I look at Carole King, Sarah McLachlan, all these amazing people you just think, "Wow, I dream of the day I can write a song as good as they have done." The one that springs to mind is "Angel," by Sarah McLachlan, which is the most comforting song in the world, but then you realize it's sort of about drug addiction. It's the most beautiful song that wraps you in it, but it's actually quite a dark song. And that song will always make me cry.

Baltin: After the long hiatus from the road are you excited about touring and does it feel almost like a new beginning?

Dido: I'm excited, I have no idea what it will feel like doing it 15 years later. I'm excited because it feels like the right record at the right time. Third record wasn't the right record and the fourth record wasn't the right time as I had a brand new baby. So there was no way I was gonna go on tour. But it just feels fun and I feel, as a songwriter, I want to engage with people and sing songs with people in the room and it's an interactive thing. You can go so long as a songwriter sitting in the room on your own and then at a certain point you just want to share music with people and you just get so much inspiration from that. I do anyway. Whenever I'm actually playing with a band or performing for people it gives you this whole wave of new songs, of new inspiration. And it's also a great feeling. I've got bands full of friends and there's nothing better than that moment when you're in mid-song and it's sounding good and it's working. That's what it's all about, that's the high bit of the job.

Baltin: And is the low bit the traveling?

Dido: I love flying, I'm pretty excited. I feel lucky to be doing this. I love being on a plane. I've written a lot of songs on planes. There's something about the lack of oxygen, the cabin air pressure and the view out the window. I absolutely love flying.

Baltin: You mentioned this being the right time to go sing in a room for people. How much has the tumult in the world influenced your music and that feeling it is the right time?

Dido: You can't help have that feeling creep into things. It's funny, I've noticed, for me when the world gets more uncertain, chaotic or confusing, I get smaller. I start focusing on the really small stuff. In a way it's sort of good. I focus on micro moments anyway, but then they become really micro. It's almost like you couldn't even write a song about the bigger picture. I couldn't because it's too big. I take a lot of comfort at that point in sort of, and just life in general, when the world does get confusing, for me to focus on the small moments and the things that really keep you calm, make you happy, family moments is what I end up doing. And it's the same with songwriting. You go into more small moments, comforting place.

Baltin: When you go back and listen to this album are there things that surprise you or stand out?

Dido: When you put all the songs together and then people go, "Oh wow, there's a huge theme of this, that or the other." And you're like, "Oh wow, I did not notice I was doing that. But good point, there are a lot of songs about similar themes." And that's what you start noticing as the record as a whole has a feel to other people. To me, I'm so clear where my head is at when I'm writing the song and each part of the song. I'm a very visual songwriter, so even when I'm singing the songs I can still see exactly where I was when I wrote it or what I was thinking or what visuals were playing in my head. So I still hear the songs that way. There were a lot of songs to choose from and I ended up choosing 12 I thought went well together. That's when you start finding themes that you didn't really expect.

Baltin: Is there one recurring theme you really notice on this album?

Dido: I don't know. I think that's for other people to sort of feel. I don't think I'd want to think too much about what the theme is. It's sort of all is not as it seems is the sort of theme probably.
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 13, 2019, 01:07:02 pm
White Flag (acoustic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqJEeD6qCgg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqJEeD6qCgg)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 19, 2019, 06:40:36 pm
Giving You Up (Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsVMKuG8QZU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsVMKuG8QZU)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 22, 2019, 08:44:08 pm
Chances

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAKtWaPK0_M&t=7s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAKtWaPK0_M&t=7s)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 26, 2019, 11:25:55 pm
Hurricanes (acoustic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlcIa-9if4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlcIa-9if4)

Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 01, 2019, 03:13:28 pm
Still On My Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjQM_qBt3Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjQM_qBt3Y)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 05, 2019, 08:11:40 pm
Thank You (acoustic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irzOMH7GcnQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irzOMH7GcnQ)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 05, 2019, 08:14:12 pm
Still On My Mind Photoshoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDrTtuotRiM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDrTtuotRiM)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 12, 2019, 08:49:25 pm
Mad Love (acoustic)

htts://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCa_wgfiUXk (http://htts://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCa_wgfiUXk)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 14, 2019, 04:59:25 pm
Entrevista

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-JR73j5CI&feature=youtu.be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-JR73j5CI&feature=youtu.be)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 14, 2019, 05:06:10 pm
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Although she's perhaps still regarded most for her 2000 single "Thank You" (and its subsequent sampling on Eminem's "Stan"), English musician Dido has had a fruitful career beyond that early breakthrough. True, she's only released a few albums over the past 20 years, but each has both retained and expanded upon her beloved trademarks and laudable songwriting (so her career is a case of quality of quantity thus far). Luckily, her fifth LP, Still on My Mind, is no exception. An excellent mixture of pop, hip-hop, folk, and electronic elements, it's a continuously cherishable sequence that once again cements Dido as a singular artist.

The follow-up to 2013's Girl Who Got Away, Still on My Mind finds Dido once again working with several producers and co-writers, including her brother, Rollo (himself a renowned remixer and co-founder of electronic music troupe Faithless). It was this desire for sibling collaboration that sparked her creating the record in the first place, as she specifies in the press release: "To be honest, this album was almost accidental. I woke up one morning and thought I just want to work with my [him]... We're great together, I enjoy the company, and we are so in sync." Without a doubt, the pair — as well as their creative partners — fashion topics like motherhood and the ups and downs of love into another idiosyncratic and striking entry in Dido's catalog.

While just about every track her offers a satisfying blend of varied music and valuable songwriting, there are a few places in which the latter category truly shines. Opener "Hurricanes" is easily among the best inclusions here due to its evocative evolution from sparse confessional (consisting of only her voice and some oscillating guitar notes) to a tour-de-force of impassioned vocal layers and programmed symphonic timbres. It's quite powerful, as are the majestic interlocking voices, empowered lyricism, and subtle piano chords of its immediate successor, "Give You Up".

Later, the choral "You Don't Need a God" is gorgeously pure and uplifting, whereas "Some Kind of Love" is deeply effective due to its fusion of downtrodden acoustic guitar arpeggios and angelically cathartic singing. Afterward, "Walking By" becomes sobering and profound with its piano patterns and build-up of orchestral strings and percussion. As for closer "Have to Stay", its echoed vocals and transcendental background beautifully captures the cognitive dissonance of realizing that you'll have to let your child leave the nest someday ("Cos that's what love is, darling / I'm here as long as you need / When you show you're okay on your own / I'll smile and leave"). It's the most straightforward piece on Still on My Mind, yet it's also the most profound and lingering.

Elsewhere, the arrangements and production take center stage. "Hell After This" would still be solid if stripped down, but it's the ever-changing concoctions of beats, strings, backing chants, piano, horns, land guitar strums that make it most interesting instrumentally. Likewise, electronic additions such as "Take You Home", "Friends", and "Mad Love" are more superficially and nostalgically danceable (honestly, they feel plucked from mid to late 1990s radio, which isn't necessarily a bad thing). That said, the penultimate "Chances" fares better at surrounding a heartfelt lead performance with an arresting coat of stacked voices, computerized syncopation, and swirling tones.

Still on My Mind is another rich outing for Dido in every way. At its peak, it provides awe-inspiring combinations of singer/songwriter radiance and novel sonic manipulations and juxtapositions; at its weakest, it's still innovative and diverse enough to appeal to specific audiences and maintain Dido and company's willingness to expand their palettes and take their listeners to different places. That's what all artists should do, so Still on My Mind proves commendable from start to finish.
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 15, 2019, 04:45:16 pm
Giving You Up @ Jonathan Ross Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWN9UwrL1Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWN9UwrL1Y)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 17, 2019, 01:42:12 pm
Musiques

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4eiYePj_-4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4eiYePj_-4)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 20, 2019, 06:53:01 pm
Chances (Acoustic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuyg8EskEI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuyg8EskEI)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 27, 2019, 06:03:56 pm
No Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5lZ_JR5fSU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5lZ_JR5fSU)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 27, 2019, 07:58:14 pm
What am I doing here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7goZ_SAX4J0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7goZ_SAX4J0)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Marzo 30, 2019, 04:16:50 pm
Giving You Up @ MOMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl6i5aPpurs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl6i5aPpurs)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Abril 05, 2019, 04:57:41 pm
Take You Home (Edit)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zGIjVlNyvE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zGIjVlNyvE)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 06, 2019, 04:34:18 pm
Setlist Praga (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/forum-karlin-prague-czech-republic-73908e2d.html)

Take My Hand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ0y9U9tRKE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ0y9U9tRKE)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 07, 2019, 06:52:04 pm
Take You Home (Official Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTXCuJMo118 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTXCuJMo118)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 08, 2019, 03:53:29 pm
Setlist Zurich (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/volkshaus-zurich-switzerland-3b90fca0.html)

Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 09, 2019, 04:35:43 pm
Setlist Milán (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/teatro-degli-arcimboldi-milan-italy-5b90f768.html)

Giving You Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5lEmtJOY0w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5lEmtJOY0w)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 12, 2019, 06:58:18 pm
Setlist Munich (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/circus-krone-munich-germany-6390ea97.html)

Take You Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFuiDpUXgw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFuiDpUXgw)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 12, 2019, 07:02:10 pm
Setlist Viena (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/wiener-stadthalle-vienna-austria-7390e29d.html)

Hurricanes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpE53u5fuY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpE53u5fuY)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 14, 2019, 05:16:05 pm
Setlist Frankfurt (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/alte-oper-frankfurt-germany-6390caff.html)

Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 16, 2019, 06:04:54 pm
Setlist Berlín (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/tempodrom-berlin-germany-7b90c2e4.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 17, 2019, 04:32:17 pm
Setlist Hamburgo (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/laeiszhalle-hamburg-germany-4b903bc6.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 18, 2019, 04:40:56 pm
Setlist Amsterdam (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/paradiso-grote-zaal-amsterdam-netherlands-b9031fe.html)

Here With Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xpKL_m4IQ0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xpKL_m4IQ0)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 20, 2019, 04:32:55 pm
Setlist Düsseldorf (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/mitsubishi-electric-halle-dusseldorf-germany-3b9020b8.html)

Chances

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9SwrLO_xkg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9SwrLO_xkg)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 21, 2019, 03:57:06 pm
Setlist Bruselas (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/cirque-royal-koninklijk-circus-brussels-belgium-33901451.html)

Thank You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ668aZmvM8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ668aZmvM8)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 22, 2019, 04:49:22 pm
Setlist Paris (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/lolympia-bruno-coquatrix-paris-france-6b9016fe.html)

Life For Rent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k41LlpbYvEE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k41LlpbYvEE)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 27, 2019, 05:02:45 pm
Glasgow (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/royal-concert-hall-glasgow-scotland-5b907314.html)

Sand in my shoes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFJuhISfT2M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFJuhISfT2M)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 28, 2019, 04:29:07 pm
Setlist Dublín (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/olympia-theatre-dublin-ireland-b90698a.html)

Thank You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLs2HD1XjAk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLs2HD1XjAk)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 30, 2019, 04:36:37 pm
Setlist Manchester (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/albert-hall-manchester-england-1b905948.html)

Take My Hand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJGuCJdVa-k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJGuCJdVa-k)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Mayo 31, 2019, 04:07:55 pm
Setlist Londres (día 1) (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/roundhouse-london-england-6b9056f2.html)

Sitting On The Roof Of The World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxjg9T92hO8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxjg9T92hO8)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 01, 2019, 07:05:14 pm
Setlist Londres (día 2) (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/roundhouse-london-england-73904ed9.html)

Life For Rent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mham1P_Otss (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mham1P_Otss)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 11, 2019, 07:01:00 pm
Take Me Home (Behind The Scenes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ZCQKRXu90 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ZCQKRXu90)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 14, 2019, 04:23:58 pm
Setlist Chicago (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/vic-theatre-chicago-il-2b91ecc6.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 16, 2019, 11:09:40 pm
Setlist Toronto (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/danforth-music-hall-toronto-on-canada-6b91e2e2.html)

Life For Rent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JnEcgYWrtM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JnEcgYWrtM)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 18, 2019, 11:40:46 pm
Setlist Boston (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/house-of-blues-boston-ma-4391d39f.html)

Take You Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joiRIDksklg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joiRIDksklg)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 20, 2019, 04:47:20 pm
Setlist Nueva York (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/terminal-5-new-york-ny-3b91c06c.html)

White Flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh5pX9oBd8A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh5pX9oBd8A)

Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 22, 2019, 08:56:01 pm
Setlist Washington (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/lincoln-theatre-washington-dc-5391379d.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 23, 2019, 06:57:59 pm
Setlist Philadelphia (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/union-transfer-philadelphia-pa-6b912ec6.html)

Take My Hand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGgdhD5vhgM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGgdhD5vhgM)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 26, 2019, 05:54:52 pm
Setlist Los Ángeles (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/wiltern-theatre-los-angeles-ca-39111c3.html)

Take You Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxiFMzuUprg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxiFMzuUprg)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 27, 2019, 04:40:58 pm
Setlist San Francisco (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/masonic-auditorium-san-francisco-ca-43910b2b.html)

Have To Stay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha3jnpvudjA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha3jnpvudjA)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 29, 2019, 04:32:14 pm
Setlist Portland (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/roseland-theater-portland-or-1b917930.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Junio 30, 2019, 08:17:05 pm
Setlist Vancouver (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/orpheum-theatre-vancouver-bc-canada-6b91768a.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Julio 01, 2019, 04:12:04 pm
Setlist Seattle (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/the-showbox-sodo-seattle-wa-391690f.html)

Life For Rent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5FG1USuew (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5FG1USuew)

Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Julio 22, 2019, 03:53:29 pm
Friends (Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHT-Ghhsfbs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHT-Ghhsfbs)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Julio 26, 2019, 05:37:22 pm
Hurricanes (After The Storm Mix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKRXDdRigwQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKRXDdRigwQ)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 02, 2019, 08:06:20 pm
Just Because

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9PUFart3G4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9PUFart3G4)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 03, 2019, 04:36:29 pm
Setlist Herose (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/jardins-du-trocadero-paris-france-6b9c722e.html)

White Flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0vGzUS4Rl4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0vGzUS4Rl4)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 03, 2019, 04:41:52 pm
Entrevista

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DbemfOQgUg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DbemfOQgUg)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 01, 2019, 03:58:43 pm
Setlist Buenos Aires (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/teatro-coliseo-buenos-aires-argentina-4b9d2702.html)

My Boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB4P_ZtXI7g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB4P_ZtXI7g)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 03, 2019, 06:14:38 pm
Setlist Sao Paulo (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/unimedhall-sao-paulo-brazil-739d16dd.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 04, 2019, 04:04:57 pm
Setlist Belo Horizonte (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/km-de-vantagens-hall-belo-horizonte-brazil-1b9d09b4.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 07, 2019, 04:43:08 pm
Setlist Curitiba (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/teatro-positivo-curitiba-brazil-39d71db.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 09, 2019, 04:53:45 pm
Setlist Río de Janeiro (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/km-de-vantagens-hall-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-39d6133.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 11, 2019, 04:47:32 pm
Setlist Ciudad de México (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/auditorio-nacional-mexico-city-mexico-539d534d.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 18, 2019, 04:47:48 pm
Setlist Poznan (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/sala-ziemia-pozna-poland-39a99f7.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 19, 2019, 04:55:06 pm
Setlist Leipzig (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/haus-auensee-leipzig-germany-639a86d3.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 21, 2019, 09:47:00 pm
Setlist Hannover (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/kuppelsaal-hanover-germany-739af68d.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 23, 2019, 08:21:41 pm
Setlist Boulogne Billancourt (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/la-seine-musicale-boulogne-billancourt-france-b9ae5a6.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 24, 2019, 01:01:26 pm
Setlist Merksen (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/lotto-arena-merksem-belgium-39ad947.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 25, 2019, 04:15:09 pm
Setlist Amsterdam (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/afas-live-amsterdam-netherlands-139ad1b9.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Noviembre 29, 2019, 04:40:29 pm
Setlist Birmingham (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/arena-birmingham-birmingham-england-7b9a32d8.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 01, 2019, 06:47:10 pm
Setlist Glasgow (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/armadillo-glasgow-scotland-b9a1d7a.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 02, 2019, 06:54:20 pm
Setlist Dublin (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/3arena-dublin-ireland-b9a1582.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 04, 2019, 04:28:34 pm
Setlist Manchester (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/o2-apollo-manchester-manchester-england-4b9a0b02.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 05, 2019, 05:25:20 pm
Setlist Brighton (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/brighton-centre-brighton-england-1b9a7d94.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 06, 2019, 12:41:40 pm
Setlist Ipswich (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/regent-theatre-ipswich-england-2b9a7886.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 08, 2019, 06:50:34 pm
Setlist Sheffield (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/sheffield-city-hall-sheffield-england-1b9a6964.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Diciembre 09, 2019, 03:50:38 pm
Setlist Londres (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dido/2019/eventim-apollo-london-england-4b9a6352.html)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Enero 10, 2020, 03:54:29 pm
Baloise Sessions (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDakpZV-1enBhQC8YDo0Oj3WD0GQrEgLB)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Enero 10, 2020, 03:55:33 pm
BBC Radio 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN-4OTtkoTA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN-4OTtkoTA)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 05, 2020, 11:09:28 pm
Entrevista @ Sunday Brunch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htA662CPwhs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htA662CPwhs)
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Febrero 27, 2020, 04:40:39 pm
En Madrid, el 17 de junio

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un día antes del desembarco de la británica Dido, una de las voces más reconocibles del pop, en la que será su primera visita a España y a la capital en 16 años.
Título: Re:Dido
Publicado por: Serena en Octubre 23, 2021, 07:13:21 pm
Citar
¿Quién se acuerda del famoso Thank You de Dido? Puede que hayan pasado años de su debut, pero parece que ahora la canción ha vuelto otra vez a nuestros oídos. Concretamente, a nuestras pantallas. Ahora resulta estar de moda la remasterización de canciones de míticos grupos o artistas en Tik Tok. Un ejemplo claro es la de Chiquitita de ABBA, Love de Nwantiti, More Than A Woman de Bee Gees o incluso el mix de Gold de Harry Styles con la canción Levitating de Dua Lipa. También han sido protagonistas de esta red social canciones de los 80 como la de F.R. David con Words. Increíble la creatividad de las personas para hacer videos graciosos o de tips sobre cualquier cosa.

Pero ahora es el turno de Dido, la cantante británica que debutó en los años 90. Su canción Thank You está siendo viral en Tik Tok, pero en este caso para recrear situaciones tristes. Y es que tiene sentido, pues la canción es triste y habla del desamor, describe el proceso de asimilar una ruptura dolorosa. Debemos de admitir que nos encanta poner bandas sonoras a nuestras historias y Thank You es una de ellas.

No Angel y Thank You, las piezas que marcaron un comienzo
Florian Cloud de Bounevialle o’Malley Armstrong, mejor conocida como Dido, es una cantante inglesa que empezó su carrera musical en los 90 grabando canciones para una colección que iba a llamarse Odds and Ends. Sin embargo, las piezas tuvieron que esperar un poco para después lanzarse el 11 de octubre de 1999 en el disco No Angel. Su primer disco se convirtió en un debut mundial y sencillo Thank You tuvo una gran acogida. Su voz cautivó a miles de personas y llegó a vender alrededor de 20 millones de copias. Esto le hizo ganar el premio al Mejor artista Nuevo de MTVE Europe Music Awards (EMAs), dos premios NRJ Awards y dos BRIT Awards. Está claro que No Angel le abrió las puertas a muchas oportunidades para crecer como artista.


El éxito la siguió más adelante con su nuevo disco Life for rent, con el que llegó a los 14 millones de copias. Fue nombrada "Cantautora del año" tras el lanzamiento de su canción más destacada: White Flag. Una canción muy profunda que fue dedicada a su exprometido, con el que llevaba siete años de relación. La razón fue que quiso centrarse en su carrera profesional y el tiempo, en ese momento, era oro para la música.

Dido seguía enamorándonos con su voz angelical y poderosa en cada una de sus canciones, pero llegó el momento de la pausa: dejó su carrera por 5 años para volver en 2008 con Safe Trip Home, su tercer disco de estudio; producido por ella y Jon Brion. El disco tuvo buena repercusión entre sus fans, pero no era lo mismo que al principio. En la industria musical empezaban a emerger nuevos artistas y géneros potenciales que robaban cada día la atención. Aún así, Dido consiguió vender hasta 3 millones de copias y ganar 9 discos de oro.

Pausas y más pausas
Las pausas dejaron de ser sorpresa para convertirse en algo rutinario, pues la artista británica lo volvió a hacer: regresó cinco años después para lanzar su cuarto álbum, Girl Who Got Away, siendo un disco muy apreciado entre sus seguidores, pero sin ningún reconocimiento.


Dido en su concierto en California, en 2001. / Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images
Su amor hacia la música era muy profundo y solo le importaba disfrutar y compartir ese sentimiento con sus seguidores. Lo demás era secundario.

Si cinco años nos parecían muchos, imagínate seis. Siempre hay alguna razón por las que una persona se ausenta y el caso de la intérprete era uno. Dido se alejó para vivir una de sus etapas más importantes: formar una familia junto al escritor Rohan Gavin. Aquí Dido ya estaba más centrada y se da cuenta que el amor está por encima de su música. Un gesto muy bonito y totalmente respetado.


En 2019 lanza Still On My Mind, su quinto disco y con el que llegó a encabezar listas musicales en algunos países, como EE.UU, Reino Unido y Suiza.

La remasterización de Thank You en Tik Tok
Puede que en la categoría "Para ti" te hayas cruzado con algún vídeo gracioso de una situación embarazosa o triste con Thank You de fondo. Sin embargo, se trata de una cover de un usuario de esta red social. La remasterización está publicada en más de 28.000 vídeos en Tik Tok. En esta ocasión, escuchamos la voz de un chico y con efectos de tormenta, para dar más énfasis a la tristeza.

Esto es lo más actual que tenemos de la artista inglesa, pero llevamos solo dos años sin conocer ningún proyecto musical. A lo mejor nos quedan tres años o más de espera. Dido nos ha enseñado que esperar, en muchas ocasiones, merece la pena.