Sophie Ellis Bextor

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Instagram Live Kitchen Disco’s during the Covid-19 lockdown were a means of virtual escapism for many, and became weekly moments of united sequined catharsis for the hundreds of thousands tuning in.

The weekly live Instagram streams brought together the two main roles Sophie balances in her life:performer and mother. Underneath the family’s sparkling kitchen disco ball, Sophie, her husband Richard Jones (who also plays bass in Sophie’s live band), and their children’s familial exuberance puta smile on the face of the hundreds of thousands watching live on Instagram. The individual videos of songs from the performances also garnered millions of views on Twitter. Last November Sophie completed a 24-hour Kitchen Disco Dancethon in aid of Children in Need, raising a staggering £803,000 for the cause.

Now as we emerge into the world again, Sophie has announced the Kitchen Disco Tour for 2022;bringing together all of the camp and frivolity of her original show to live stages across the country.

“During lockdown, our family kitchen discos became a precious time where we could all bopabout and be a bit silly. It made me feel connected to everyone who joined us, and I can honestly say the music was a real tonic which brought sparkly joy to my soul every Friday. The discos we shared have inspired me and now I want to see all your faces so I can sing for you. I want to give everyone a night where just for a little while, we can all lose ourselves under the mirror ball and dance and have fun. Won’t that feel magical?! I CANNOT WAIT!”

The Live Kitchen Disco Tour will bring the virtual to life, cooking-up classic glitter ball staples and Sophie’s own dancefloor-beckoning bangers from across her seven albums, as well as a variety of well-known classics including Our House by Madness and My Favourite Things from the Sound of Music, ina thoroughly domestic Studio-54 sensation for disco divas of all ages.

Ahead of these incredible live dates Sophie released a new album ‘Songs From The Kitchen Disco’, a collection of the songs that soundtracked her lockdown kitchen disco. The album features all ofSophie’s biggest and best-known disco hits in one place for the first time ever! Available on various colourful and collectable formats (CD, Double Vinyl LP and Tape) the album includes 6 Top 10 hits,including Murder On The Dancefloor and Take Me Home.

Sophie also recently launched her new podcast, Spinning Plates, with each one hour episode featuring an interview with another working mother about the difficulties and joys of a work/life balance. With episodes so far featuring Fearne Cotton and Caitlin Moran, the podcast has already become Apple’s number one Parenting podcast everywhere from the UK to Greece to Ecuador.