Kylie gets into the Groove

 

Friday 8th June '07

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As the 'leaky Kylie' furore rumbles on... (okay, in brief... they weren't leaked deliberately, the leak certainly hasn't been 'contained' properly, some shister has been selling further tracks on Ebay, and the tracks haven't necessarily been pulled from Kylie's next album - In My Arms, after all, is a future classic) ...we thought we'd bring some positive news regarding Kylie's recent work with the guys from Groove Armada. Let's hope we don't get our grubby mits on these songs until day of release! The list of collaborators for Kylie on her latest album project (cutely dubbed 'Kylie X') is fast becoming a who's who of the UK music scene's top teams.

 

From their latest online blog, interview with Andy 08.06.2007:

 

Hello Andy. What have you been doing this week?

Well on Sunday, Tom was over in Barcelona for a naming ceremony, which was nice. We were up on a roof terrace and it inevitably turned into an afternoon of drinking in the very hot sun, with the consequences that followed from that. It was a good fun. A rare social occasion at the minute.

 

You weren't held back by the children?

No, we had a nice time with lots of kids running around, but then they all collapsed into bed and out came the cold beers. We went out on the town in Barcelona too. I showed Tom a few hidden corners and secrets that I've come across. It was actually the first night out we'd had together this year that didn't involve work.

 

That must've been nice.

Yeah, it was really good fun. And then we flew back on Monday to start working on some songs for Kylie Minogue.

 

Wow. How did that come about?

Well, this sort of thing happens more often when you're on the radar, y'know when you're on the radio and all that kind of stuff. Offers have come through before, but usually because of all the live stuff, you can't do it. But we had a little window of opportunity, so we decided to go for it. So it's once again been a week of 24 hour days. We've been working with Karen who we worked with on 'Song 4 Mutya'. We'd be working with her on melody ideas in the daytime, based on the music that we'd written the night before. She'd be there in the days and then we'd stay up all night and do the next one.

 

And did Ms Minogue feature?

Yeah, on Thursday we went to a studio down her way and worked on what was our favourite and her favourite of the tunes that we'd come up with. So we got that one down. And then there's another one of the ones we've been working on which she's really into as well. We're off to a good start.

 

Had you met her before?

Never, no. But she's lovely. She's a great singer and she's incredibly easy to work with. And I think this one track we did is a big tune. I'm quietly confident about it.

 

Haven't quite a few people worked with her on this album?

They have, yeah. I heard a few snippets here and there just to get the flavour of it. As always we've gone off on a bit of a tangent, but she sounds great on it. She's just brilliant at giving it a real attitude. I think it's gonna be a big one.

 

But there's no guarantee that she'll use it?

Well she's working with loads of people and there'll be loads and loads of tunes and then she'll pick 12 or 15. But it was a great experience anyway. It was a nice pop moment when we came out of the studio and Kylie was saying hi to Geri Halliwell who was working next door. And there were lots of paparazzi outside. When Tom and I left the studio, Tom even stopped to tie his shoelace to give them plenty of time, but sadly nobody wanted any photographs of us two!

 

You must be about twice Kylie's height.

Yeah, I stayed seated most of the time. But she did have some excellent boots on which she was very proud of - apparently she got them in a retro shop in Melbourne. They had quite a heel on them, so that brought her a bit nearer to my height! But she was great. She's definitely got that star presence, but she was a lot of fun and it was really nice to meet her. From the way it went, I'm hoping it might be the first of one or two occasions like that.

 

Of course she's done stuff with your mate Calvin Harris too. She's picking some good people.

Yep. But ours is the best tune! Ha ha! The one that we've done is killer.

 

And it must be the first time you and Tom have worked on a new track in the studio together for quite a while, after you made the new album at your respective homes in London and Barcelona.

It is. And that went really well. So it's been a good week all round. I've got the old red eyes back again, but apart from that it's been great.

 

good snippets there thank you for posting,everyone alway says how kylie is to work with she seems so so down to earth i love it