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Girl Ray cover Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Murder On The Dancefloor"

02 December 2021, 11:13 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

For this year's festive outing Girl Ray have delivered a cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Murder On The Dancefloor", and they'll be donating proceeds from the track to Hackney Night Shelter.

Their cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor's classic follows their May outing "Give Me Your Love", and arrives with a Poppy Hankin-directed video that shows the trio at an office Christmas party.

Speaking about their choice of song, Girl Ray said, ""Murder On The Dancefloor" has always had a special place in our hearts - it was forever etched into our memory when a few years back at a post-show karaoke session in Bristol, I over-excitedly shoved the microphone to Iris’ lips when it was finally our turn to sing, chipping her front tooth in half for the remainder of the tour. Since then it has of course remained our karaoke song, and a favourite at our DJ sets. When we were looking for a song to cover for this year’s festival seasons, it seemed a natural fit. It became one of our favourite parts of our live set, and we thought it would be only right to record it in honour of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s truly perfect pop song."

They added of the video, "We've always wanted to work together in an office; I think we're secretly middle-aged office workers at heart. None of us have been to an office party but they sound really fun so we decided to recreate one for our video. It felt like "Murder on the Dancefloor" is the sort of song that would go down really well at an office party. Poppy seemed really excited about her new "gimbal" she'd bought for her iPhone, so we decided to let her film, direct, and edit the whole video. We couldn't find any actual offices to make the video in, so Moshi Moshi reluctantly let us use their work space for it. Hopefully after they see the video they'll take us on full time."

All proceeds from the track will be donated to the Hackney Night Shelter.

They're yet to follow up their 2019 second album Girl.

Girl Ray's cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Murder On The Dancefloor" is out now via Moshi Moshi. They play Best Fit's Five Day Forecast showcase at The Lexington on 21 January 2022. Visit dice.fm for tickets.
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