On Monday 16 June 2008 Jon Hopkins, one of the principle musical collaborators on the new Coldplay album 'Viva La Vida', is to support Coldplay at their Brixton Academy show.
Personally invited by Coldplay to support them, Jon will also support the band at their forthcoming Barcelona and New York Madison Square Garden shows on 17 and 23 June where, as with his Brixton set, he will play over the backdrop of a re-mix of short animated films by legendary San Francisco based animator Vince Collins. In addition to these dates, Jon will also be DJing for Coldplay on the 14 - 30 July 2008 leg of their world tour.
A musical shapeshifter; a composer, musician and studio wizard, Jon Hopkins' two previous albums have seen him labelled by the likes of Brian Eno (who introduced Coldplay to Jon) as an electronic innovator, whilst an impressive sweep of artists from Herbie Hancock, David Holmes, Massive Attack, King Creosote and The Fence Collective to Coldplay, not to mention Wayne McGregor, have all called upon the 28 year old's skills as producer, composer and musician.
Now putting the finishing touches to his third album 'Insides', which includes the sublime 'Light Through The Veins' (a track which Coldplay were so taken with that they used a reworked version to bookend 'Viva La Vida') and is due for a September 2008 release via Just Music, Jon will also play live at this year's Bestival and on the main stage on Saturday night at The Big Chill as well as a DJ set at The Green Man Festival, whilst his scored music for Wayne McGregor's Random Dance makes it's way across Europe with the dance company this Summer.
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