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August 18th, 2010 - Greenwich Shopping Park supports local stars of the future.
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July 8th, 2010 - Greenwich Shopping Park takes Boots Suncare Mascot to visit Woodhill Primary School
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June 28th, 2010 - It’s Night Work for Scissor Sisters
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June 8th, 2010 - Greenwich Shopping Park’s SportsDirect.com gives marathon runner a helping ‘foot-up’
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June 8th, 2010 - Bluetones introduce ‘A New Athens’
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May 25th, 2010 - Greenwich shoppers get free advice on health and fitness
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May 18th, 2010 - Christina Aguilera returns with Bionic
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May 11th, 2010 - Slash releases first solo album
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May 4th, 2010 - American Idol runner up, Lambert, releases debut album
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April 20th, 2010 - Meatloaf is back...
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April 6th, 2010 - MGMT return with new album
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March 23rd, 2010 - Kids in Glass Houses latest album released at HMV
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March 16th, 2010 - Goldfrapp- Head First now at HMV
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March 9th, 2010 - Amy MacDonald 'A Curious Thing' is out now at HMV
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March 4th, 2010 - Greenwich children become ‘Little Geniuses’ on World Book Day
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March 2nd, 2010 - Alphabeat 'The Beat Is' is out now at HMV
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February 16th, 2010 - Peter Gabriel 'Scratch My Back' is out now at HMV
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February 9th, 2010 - Songs to set the mood this Valentine’s Day
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February 2nd, 2010 - Hot Chip return with fourth album... out now at HMV
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January 26th, 2010 - The boys from The Valleys release fourth album... out now at HMV
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January 22nd, 2010 - Show smoking the red card
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January 19th, 2010 - Are you Greenwich Borough’s most romantic couple?
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January 18th, 2010 - Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber releases debut album My World
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January 12th, 2010 - Esmeé Denters releases debut album Outta Here
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December 23rd, 2009 - Recycle your cards with the Woodland Trust at Greenwich Shopping Park this Christmas
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December 21st, 2009 - Late night shopping and festive fun at Greenwich Shopping Park
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December 14th, 2009 - Alicia Keys releases fourth album
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December 7th, 2009 - Snoop Dogg back with 'Malice in Wonderland’
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December 1st, 2009 - Late night shopping and festive fun at Greenwich Shopping Park
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December 1st, 2009 - Ronan Keating releases his 'Winter Songs'
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November 24th, 2009 - Children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent to benefit from sales of 2009/2010 HMV calendar featuring the inspiration selections of Dylan, Bowie, McCartney and other icons
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November 16th, 2009 - Charity call for choirs who’ve got talent!
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November 16th, 2009 - Singer-songwriter John Mayer returns with latest album
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November 7th, 2009 - Will Robbie’s return get you to rock your body?
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November 3rd, 2009 - Does Leona Lewis’ latest album have the X Factor?
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November 3rd, 2009 - Greenwich Shopping Park Searches for the Borough’s Family of the Year
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October 23rd, 2009 - Frighteningly fun Halloween event
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October 15th, 2009 - Buble's back
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October 13th, 2009 - Willow Dene football team kicks the competition into touch by winning Greenwich Shopping Park’s sponsor a kit prize
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October 10th, 2009 - Put the light into your life with Editors latest album
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September 22nd, 2009 - Marathon Man
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September 20th, 2009 - Newton Faulkner back with eagerly awaited album
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September 15th, 2009 - You won’t be able to resist Muse’s latest album
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September 8th, 2009 - Is Jamie T the King of the charts with his latest album?
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August 28th, 2009 - Precious photos for keeps
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August 18th, 2009 - It’s Just Jack back with his latest album
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August 11th, 2009 - Arctic Monkeys are back on the scene
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August 10th, 2009 - Making Shopping Kid’s Play this summer
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August 4th, 2009 - Calvin Harris gets you Ready for The Weekend
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July 21st, 2009 - Sparks is back with a Battlefield album
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July 8th, 2009 - Greenwich Shopping Park goes yellow for local hospice
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July 6th, 2009 - The Veronica's release album from down under
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June 30th, 2009 - Will La Roux's album give you thrills?
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June 22nd, 2009 - Greenwich Shopping Park marks Child Safe Zone Scheme’s first anniversary with local parents and toddlers
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June 15th, 2009 - The boy from Blackheath releases hit record
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June 11th, 2009 - Does your team deserve a sporting chance?
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June 9th, 2009 - Leicester's finest Kasabian return with latest album
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June 2nd, 2009 - Daniel Merriweather releases debut album
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May 26th, 2009 - Kings of Leon back with smash hit record
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May 11th, 2009 - Ladyhawke releases debut album
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May 1st, 2009 - Will Lily's latest album make you Smile?
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April 29th, 2009 - Know your Enemy
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April 14th, 2009 - Killers back with latest album
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April 7th, 2009 - Is Kelly your American Idol?
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April 1st, 2009 - Greenwich Shopping Park announces winning fashion designer
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March 25th, 2009 - Going Gaga
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November 20th, 2008 - Budding fashion designer scoops prize for ‘Yummy Mummy’ creation
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Hot Chip return with fourth album... out now at HMV

February 2nd, 2010

Hot Chip release their fourth studio album 'One Life Stand' following their critically acclaimed third album 'Made in the Dark' which yielded the top 10 hit 'Ready for the Floor'. The electro-pop outfit continue to craft infectious melodies and hooks aided by their disco laced sound. The Londoners also look to explore new territory here with steel pan player Fimber Bravo contributing to the single 'One Life Stand'.

 

While Hot Chip were one of many bands from the early 2000s to have adopted an electro-pop sound, they stand apart from the pack both for their melodicism and for their fully live, band-oriented approach to the genre.

 

'One Life Stand' is a full-blooded leap into the unknown, an album that is awash with Hot Chip's trademark creative bravery and a searing emotional intensity from first track to last. Indeed, 'One Life Stand' is by far and away Hot Chip's most complete body of work to date, an album that is more cohesive and more soulful than 2007's ambidextrous 'Made in the Dark' and more ambitious than 2005's Mercury nominated and Grammy award nominated 'The Warning', 'One Life Stand' is an album that establishes Hot Chip as one of the most relevant and creative bands of our era.

 

With Joe Goddard, Alexis Taylor, Felix Martin, Al Doyle and Owen Clarke at the helm it is no surprise that they borrow, create and take inspiration from a plethora of influences. 'One Life Stand' sees a proliferation of influences as diverse as the burgeoning UK funky scene to soul music, modern R&B, Northern Soul, Gospel, Golden Age Electronica, Detroit House, Southern soul, the sounds of Arthur Russell, Prince and Theo Parish, and they all sit effortlessly alongside the band's signature pop aesthetics, wild electronics, off kilter beats and intoxicating musical experimentation in a way that only Hot Chip can execute.

 

The songs for 'One Life Stand' were largely written around the piano, the Wurlitzer, or the Prophet keyboard, and demoed at Alexis' and Joe's respective home studios. They were then taken to Lanark Studio which Al and Felix own and run, to be fully produced and fleshed out with the three remaining band members. In addition, recording contributions from legendary innovators of their respective fields Charles Hayward (This Heat), and Fimber Bravo (Steel n' Skin), as well as newer musicians Leo Taylor (The Invisible), and string arrangers and experimental composers Emma Smith and Vince Sipprell (Geese), were added to elevate the record further.

 

Featuring the archetypal Hot Chip song, title track and first single, 'One Life Stand', built on a metronomic but pulsing groove, and reaching up to a joyously simple/naive chorus of monogamous embracement, the album is from start to finish one of love - euphoric, nostalgic, brotherly, realistic even.
It is mainly a sequence of club classic stompers - from the anthemic 'Hand Me Down Your Love' to the life-affirming absurdist black humour of 'I Feel Better' - tempered with the contemplative, tender realism of 'Slush', and the romantic melancholy of 'Alley Cats’. The finished record is Hot Chip's most up-front, coherent and melodically bold record to date; an uncluttered, warm and soulful, uplifting and heart-on-sleeve collection, and are definitely one to watch out for in 2010.