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Hot Chip

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Show and Tell: Hot Chip: Hot Chip's Alexis on One Life Stand set
Alexis’s head, obscured by the centrepiece for our One Life Stand video. Next door they were filming the video for Joe McElderry’s X Factor hit “The Climb”, with a huge artificial lake and clouds of dry ice
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Show and Tell: Hot Chip: Couple in fur coats in New York
Our recent foray into the charts was thwarted by the soundtrack to Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. The day we found this out I spotted this couple in a flea market in New York
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Show and Tell: Hot Chip: Cover art for Hot Chip EP with Robert Wyatt
We used some of these objects, collected in a quiet French town, in the cover art for our EP release with Robert Wyatt and in the Bugged Out compilation
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Show and Tell: Hot Chip: Hot Chip's Al lies on the floor during rehearsal
Al lies splayed out on the floor during the long, icy weeks of rehearsal that began our year. That also explains his footwear. Photograph: Hot Chip
Show and Tell: Hot Chip: Grafetti in Paris
This frightening collection of Henry Darger-like grotesques was spotted on a wall in Paris during a recent stay
Photograph: Hot Chip
Show and Tell: Hot Chip: Chef statue in rural Slokakia
This picture was taken during a filming trip to a small town in rural Slovakia
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Show and Tell: Hot Chip: Spar advert in Austria
Every culture has its own quirks, obvious only to outsiders. So it is with advertising, which has a slightly different set of guidelines in each country. In Austria, for example, it’s perfectly natural to pile noodles on to a lady’s head to sell Chinese food
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Show and Tell: Hot Chip: Hot Chip's Al stands in Galway
Al stands in Galway, looking out towards the Aran Islands. Nearby is a restaurant called Nimmo’s which somehow brings the atmosphere of Williamsburg, New York to a sleepy Irish city
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