Sophie Ellis-Bextor is writing her first Christmas album and taking her ‘kitchen disco’ to the Royal Albert Hall

British singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor is making a Christmas album for the first time in her career. Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Christmas Disco will be released for Christmas 2027, and that same season she and her band will once again head out on a Christmas tour of the UK.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor announced the news on her Instagram on 11 November.

“Something you probably already know about me is that I love Christmas… For Christmas 2027, I am releasing my first ever Christmas album. I’m writing it now and loving every second of it,” the singer wrote.

The tour is called the Christmas Kitchen Disco Tour. The name goes back to the weekly live streams she hosted from her own kitchen on Instagram during the 2020 lockdown. There are seventeen concerts, from 21 November to 15 December 2027, from Glasgow’s Armadillo to London’s Royal Albert Hall.

A ticket via the record

To get tickets before everyone else, fans need to pre-order the album from the singer’s official store before 10:00 GMT on Monday 16 November: vinyl, CD and cassette are available with a signed art card, and an order in any format comes with an exclusive pre-sale code. Those who have already ordered through the store will also receive a code. General sale opens on Friday 20 November at 10:00 GMT.

The November leg takes in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bradford, Brighton, Bournemouth and Ipswich. In December she plays Sheffield, Gateshead, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, York, Bristol, Swansea, Portsmouth and Nottingham before the finale at the Royal Albert Hall on 15 December. The same hall will also host Gregory Porter next year: he plays four nights there in summer 2027.

Her voice in Sky’s Christmas advert

While the album is still being written, Britain’s Christmas already sounds like Sophie Ellis-Bextor. On 6 November Sky launched That’s Christmas Sorted, the biggest Christmas campaign in its history, and its soundtrack is Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) by Spiller featuring the singer. The 2000 dance hit still lives on the dancefloor: a Purple Disco Machine rework of it appears on the House Masters compilation we wrote about in February.

The 60-second film was directed by Dave Meyers of RadicalMedia, whose music video credits include Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Harry Styles, with choreography by Shay Latukolan, known for his work on Jungle’s Back On 74. In Sky’s costume emporium, famous outfits spring to life and hit the dancefloor: the original Wicked dresses, Monica’s turkey head from Friends, costumes from Bridgerton, Game of Thrones, Moana and Love Actually, and Premier League kits. The dancing was done by real performers, while the world around them, according to Sky Creative executive creative director Robin Garton, was built with pioneering AI production techniques.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s voice is on our airwaves too: Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer) by Freemasons, featuring her vocals, has been played on ONE//FM 17 times over the past 90 days.