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■■■ 2008-08-13
This summer MTV, the original home of music video, is delving into the archives to define the greatest video ever made. Experts from MTV TWO, MTV BASE and VH1 have already set out their opinions on the Top 100 videos in their respective genres. We're delighted to tell you that Björk's's All Is Full Of Love has been nominated in MTV TWO's Greatest Video Ever Top 10. From 18 August the combined MTV TWO, BASE and VH1 Top 10s will be put to the public vote. That means us! We Can Vote:
The vote closes at midnight on 14 September and the ultimate Top 10 Greatest Videos Ever will be revealed on Sunday 21 September at 7pm across MTV channels. |

■■■ 2008-07-31
Björk releases the new single ‘The Dull Flame of Desire’ on September 29th 2008 through One Little Indian Records. Flooded with melancholic passion and restrained hope, ‘The Dull Flame of Desire’ sees Björk accompanied on vocals by Antony Hegarty from Antony & The Johnsons. Antony joined Björk onstage at her recent Hammersmith live shows and sang ‘Dull Flame’ to showstopping effect. ‘The duet seemed unsurpassable – the pair’s distinctive vocals brought to life against brass, transfixing the crowd’ The Independent April 15th. ‘The Dull Flame of Desire’ features lyrics taken from a translation of a poem by Fyodor Tyutchev as it appears in the film ‘Stalker’ by Andrei Tarkovsky. Taken from her most recent studio album ‘Volta’, ‘Dull Flame’ is written and produced by Björk and follows recent singles ‘Earth Intruders’, ‘Declare Independence’, ‘Innocence’ and ‘Wanderlust’. Björk has also commissioned brand new mixes of ‘Dull Flame’ by Modeselektor and Mark Stent as well as a Sinden mix of ‘Innocence’. Mixes come on Limited Edition 12” and CD, Cat No 881TP7CD/881TP12. Meanwhile the video concept for ‘Dull Flame’ is as unique as we come to expect from Björk. Out of hundreds entrants for the “Innocence” music video competition (which ran on www.bjork.com offering new directors the chance to work with Björk), she chose 3 new directors to collaborate on the “Dull Flame” video.
Björk and Antony performed against green screen in New York then each director was sent the raw footage to edit and create their piece. Christoph Jantos (Berlin) Masahiro Mogari (Tokyo) and Marçal Cuberta Junca (Girona) are the chosen directors. Each director was given their own section of the film, to develop how they wished - on completion the 3 films were edited together in London to make the final music video. ‘Volta’ is Björk's sixth studio album and follows the release of ‘Medúlla’ in 2004. Featuring ten new and original tracks, ‘Volta’ is written and produced by Björk, with two tracks co-produced with Timbaland and one with Mark Bell. 2007 and 2008 has seen Björk take her thrilling Volta Tour across the world in series of festival headline performances and her own shows to considerable acclaim, and continues through Europe this summer. Pre-Order is available NOW for the Double Pack! 12” A1. Dull Flame Of Desire Modeselektor’s Rmx For Girls B1. Dull Flame Of Desire Modeselektor’s Rmx For Boys 12” C1. Innocence Sinden Remix D1. Dull Flame Of Desire Mark Stent Album Mix CD 01. Dull Flame Of Desire Modeselektor’s Rmx For Girls 02. Dull Flame Of Desire Modeselektor’s Rmx For Boys 03. Dull Flame Of Desire Mark Stent Album Mix 04. Dull Flame Of Desire Video / Radio Edit 05. Dull Flame Of Desire Mark Stent Instrumental 06. Innocence Sinden Remix DVD Dull Flame Of Desire Video White label vinyls There are also 2 white label imprints made available:White Label #A White Label #B |

■■■ 2008-07-19
Best Female Video MTV needs your help determining which videos get nominated for the Best Female Video! Select the one you love best by casting a single vote. You've got until Wednesday (July 23) to make your selection here. The two Björk-videos up for nomination are Declare Independence (directed by Michel Gondry) and Wanderlust (directed by Encyclopedia Pictura). |

■■■ 2008-07-16
Verona, the location of hopeless love. Romeo knew that when he started 'singing' underneath Juliets balcony, trying to get her out on the town. The town then being Verona today being the beautiful city of Verona, with it spectacular arena. He, Romeo did not know that he would not have had to spend so much time underneath the balcony if Björk had been playing in town. Well how would Shakespeare have known? The Madwebcarpenters of bjork.com know something. Never to walk under a ladder or stand underneath somebodies balcony whispering sweet nothings.
The MWC know this:
We have 30 tickets to give to 15 people who want to see the show in Verona on the 28th of July. Simply send us and email at bjork.verona@gmail.com and 15 will be picked of random and given 2 tickets to the concert. For you and your loved one!
Only the lucky ones will be contacted on Monday 21st
This is one of the last Volta concerts so if you have not seen it yet, you are cutting it short! [edit 22/07/08: entries are closed and finalized. thanks for you participation]
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■■■ 2008-07-08

Shortly before the Náttura concert The Reykjavik Grapevine published an interview with Björk and author Andri Magnason. The interview is very enlightening as to the reasons for the concert. We pulled this off nattura.info : "THE GRAPEVINE: First, tell me a little about how this is all connected: the concert, Andri’s book release and his upcoming film release. Is there more? How did this come together? BjöRk: It was really just a coincidence. But with this, like so much else that has to do with this issue, people are very upset. I’ve never been a part of anything like this before, and I never really thought I would. But there is just so much at stake here. ... Also, I thought I would just do more good that way. But now, there was little slump, so I decided to just raise as much hell as possible. There were still people around who hadn’t given up entirely, and I started talking to them, and that’s when I met Andri. His book was just about to be released in English translation" More can be read at www.nattura.info and at Reykjavik Grapevine. |

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