aaamusic | On 09, Nov 2010

What a stellar year 2010 has been for Everything Everything. From 5 star album reviews to sell out shows up and down the country to a performance on Later…it’s been everything they’d ever envisaged and some.

But it’s not likely to stop there as the year draws to a close, not only are they staging two sold out shows with the RNCM in December (further details below), they are kicking off 2011 with serious intent by releasing their massive song ‘Photoshop Handsome’ in January.

The video for the single is completely brilliant. 50 animators were given a few frames of greenscreen footage of the band to animate. They then Photoshopped the band members and background in whichever way they wanted. The result is eye popping (quite literally in places).

“Our new single Photoshop Handsome looks at the world of digital image manipulation and computer game re-incarnation. What would it feel like to come back to life as one of the ‘perfected’, false, immortal beings that adorn magazine covers, adverts and games?

We took the idea of photoshopping and digital re-imagining of the self to its most extreme conclusion with our new video. We laid out loose guidelines for a huge number of creative digital artists and let them run free with their imaginations, each editing literally only a few seconds of video in total. The result is a very colourful and diverse explosion of ideas, the image of ourselves re-imagined hundreds of times in 3 minutes. We hope to open the imagination and raise some thoughts about what it means to change our perceptions of ourselves to the extent we do.” Jonathan Everything

Check out the video :

Watch the ‘making of’ the new video exclusively on Wired.co.uk – http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/08/everything-everything-photoshop-handsome-video

Everything Everything will perform their exceptional debut album ‘Man Alive’ in its entirety in both Manchester and London. The record has been specially re-arranged and scored by the band and arrangers David Coyle and Ben Cottrell for a 13 piece classical ensemble from the Royal Northern College of Music.

Man Alive Ensemble performances:

13/12 RNCM in conjunction with Now Wave – SOLD OUT

15/12 Union Chapel in conjunction with Blue Flowers – SOLD OUT

Everything Everything has also been confirmed on the line up for the NME Awards Tour 2011 this February along side Crystal Castles, Magnetic Man and The Vaccines.

NME Awards Tour Dates 2011:

Thu 03 Feb Glasgow O2 Academy
Fri 04 Feb Manchester Academy
Mon 07 Feb Newcastle O2 Academy
Tue 08 Feb Nottingham Rock City
Wed 09 Feb Leeds O2 Academy
Fri 11 Feb Norwich UEA
Sat 12 Feb Birmingham O2 Academy
Sun 13 Feb Cardiff Uni Great Hall
Tue 15 Feb Bristol O2 Academy
Wed 16 Feb Bournemouth O2 Academy
Thu 17 Feb Brighton Dome
Sat 19 Feb London O2 Academy Brixton 

Ticket Info:

NME Pre-sale – on sale 9am on 10th November
www.nme.com/tickets / 0871 230 1094

General release – on sale from 9am on 12th November
www.gigsandtours.com / 0844 811 0051
www.ticketmaster.co.uk / 0844 826 2826

Tickets are priced £16 each plus a 50p charity donation to Teenage Cancer Trust.