It has been a golden twelve months for Chicane.

The 'Best Of' went gold, and the single 'Poppiholla' followed suit. But of course, there is so much more to Chicane than this; the live show has gone from strength to strength. Playing shows large and small all across the globe, including one very special night with Armin van Buuren in Amsterdam in October of this year!

The band return from Australia to play the last London show of the year at The Forum on Saturday 12th December, before leaving for India and returning just before the holidays.

Nick has been busy in between remixing, Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'RELAX' and 'Purdy' for William Orbit. William is the Grammy award winning ambient master, and he will be performing with Chicane at their London show, which in itself makes the event a very special occasion. There will also be a few 'old' friends playing along side the mainstay of the band.

2010 will see the release of a new studio album and much more live work, a new single is in the offing late February.

Now, for your chance to win a pair of tickets to this special show, all you got to do is become a fan if you aren't already, and add a comment stating why you'd love to come, and we'll pick a winner and let them know by noon on Friday 11th December. Easy as that.

You must be over 18 and have ID to prove this, and be able to get to the show and back by way of your own means, ie we won't be providing transport!

We will also pick four other people who will receive "Best Of" albums. Good luck!!

The Chicane video for "Hiding All The Stars" is attracting a good deal of comment, much like the sleeve for the single!

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

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

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

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

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

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

The video was shot in the east end of London. Misconceptions are everywhere, one that commonly occurs with the band is that Nick or Chicane is a DJ.

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Finally made the jump from the other Social 'scene' and into the realm of Bebo!

The NEW single, 'Bruised Water' (Chicane vs. Natasha Bedingfield) is out on August 25th 2008 for Digital Download. To pre-order from Townsend Records, simply click the following:

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And following hot on the heels of that will be 'The Best Of' album, coming very SOON!!

Welcome to the page and hope to hear from some of you soon!!

Nick