CYNDI SUBMITTED FOR GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

She has been been submitted for Grammy nominations in the following categories:
Best Dance Recording - "Into the Nightlife"
Best Electronic/Dance Album - "Bring Ya to the Brink"
Best Short Form Music Video - "Into the Nightlife"
Let's hope she gets nominated!

CYNDI ON GOSSIP GIRL

Cyndi will have a cameo role on the CW show Gossip Girl.Date: Monday, November 10 Episode: "Bonfire of The Vanity" Time: 8:00-9:00 p.m

CYNDI LAUPER AT SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE, W12

Cyndi Lauper arrived on the stage with a piece of cardboard in one hand and a hammer in the other, knelt down with difficulty — boy, were those leather trousers tight — and started the show by banging beats on the floor through the card. The singer who spent her 1980s heyday as the screwball foil to the more calculating Madonna has clearly lost none of her quirky charm.
Nor has she shed as many fans as you might expect. There was barely breathing room at Shepherds Bush Empire and the tumultuous cheers that greeted the short, slim, blonde bob-sporting Lauper suggested that those aware that she is still making music hadn’t just come for the hits. Indeed, the 55-year-old is on the verge of a commercial comeback, thanks to her current album Bring Ya to the Brink, a classy collection of beats-backed tracks made with a host of hip young producers.
Bouts of demonic dancing, daft stories delivered in her nasal, “New Yawk” whine and a spell of flirtation with a mortified security guard added a sense of fun to a fast-paced show that relied on Lauper’s versatile, emotive vocals to raise the music far beyond pedestrian pop. The opener Change of Heart was a badly dated bombastic rocker played by a four-piece, middle-aged, male band, but Lauper infused it with soul and her energy was infectious. When she jumped on to a chair down in the crowd, a hundred hands tried to grab her. Mostly they belonged to gay men, who spent the show either punching the air or filming the singer on their camera phones.
She Bop, Lauper’s controversial ode to masturbation, was magnificently moody; her passionate guitar playing on a cover of Prince’s When U Were Mine contrasted sharply with Madonna’s faux rock chick moves and a folk arrangement of Time after Time, on which she played the dulcimer, was luminously lovely.
Oldies and techno-tinged newies went down equally well. The highlight was either the new single Into the Nightlife, a deliciously dizzy disco stomper that got the crowd dancing, or an extended Girls Just Want to Have Fun, performed as a duet with the sexy young unknown Jesse Jane, that delved into calypso and electro before fans drowned out the duo. Lauper may insist that she never went away, but it definitely looks as if she’s back.

OH CYNDI, DEAR, YOU KNOW YOU'RE STILL NO.1

Twenty-five years after Girls Just Want To Have Fun made Cyndi Lauper a 1980s pop icon, the New Yorker returns with a new album and a tour promoting human rights, says Declan Cashin.Cyndi Lauper has the strongest 'Noo Yawk' accent I've ever heard, so it was probably not the best idea to volunteer to teach her some Irish during the course of a transatlantic phone call that had a five-second delay due to being relayed through a London agency. "My son's name is Declan too," she tells me excitedly after I introduce myself (though junior Lauper's version is spelled 'Declyn', named, she reveals, after Declan McManus aka Elvis Costello). "Do you want to know how to say the name in Irish?" I volunteer. "Sure," she replies, and so begins two minutes of comical, at times painful, phonetic lessons as Gaeilge ("It's pronounced 'Day-glaw-en', come on Cyndi, one more time"). At any rate, the pop legend will have time to perfect her new found language skills this week when she touches down here for the first time in her career, playing the Savoy in Cork on Friday night, and a sold out date in Tripod, Dublin, on Saturday. Almost 25 years to the day since the release of She's So Unusual, the monster hit album that contained such enduring classics as Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Time After Time and She Bop, the 55-year-old Brooklyn native is back on tour to promote her tenth studio album, Bring Ya To The Brink.Having seen her last two albums -- At Last and The Body Acoustic -- fail to make any major critical or commercial impact, Lauper is in the thrust of a full-blown career renaissance right now, drawing five-star reviews for her new effort, a dance and club-fused stomper with collaborative input from Euro dance-pop maestros such as Dragonette, Scum Frog and, most notably, Basement Jaxx. "I just wanted to make some music with energy," Lauper explains. "I found that the dance community is a little more innovative, and adventurous. So I reached out to artist-producers to make this unique sound, as opposed to just producers in their own right. I was looking to push the envelope a bit, and make something that was familiar and joyful, and let's face it, dancing is about as joyful as it can get."The sound and style of Bring Ya To The Brink has also drawn fresh comparisons between Lauper and that other opinionated, middle-aged pop diva looking to keep her sound modern and relevant: Madonna. The two stars burst onto the scene at almost the same time in the early 1980s, but went on to have wildly divergent careers. It must be sweet, therefore, to read the words of one British music critic who wrote that Bring Ya To The Brink was "the album Madonna should have made instead of Hard Candy". Lauper pauses momentarily when I ask if she recognizes any parallels between their careers. "You know, I think Madonna was always better at some things than I was," she replies. "I focused more on singing, and writing poetry. She was focussed on writing too, but she comes at it from a totally different place. "I think she comes at performance art like a dancer, and I couldn't dance to save my life. I think she's a big inspiration for me sometimes, but we're like apples and oranges. I always say I'm like her evil cousin from a completely different family!"Aside from her new album, the singer's stock has also been given a boost due to the True Colours tour, a collaborative project she created last year to raise awareness of human rights issues, notably on behalf of the gay community, of which she has been a vocal and fiercely pro-active supporter for many years. The second tour, which just finished in July, featured the likes of Indigo Girls, Andy Bell, Regina Spektor and Joan Armatrading, as well as performances from comediennes Margaret Cho and Rosie O'Donnell. "I do as much as I can for the gay community," she says. "But, you know, I'm not Oprah. I can't build a school in Africa, but I think everyone should do what they can."I just think that everybody's civil rights are up for grabs if one group doesn't have them. What they're saying is, 'We live in a free society...oh, except for you guys over there'. That means you could be in the next group that's the exception, and then the next group, then that group, and that's how it starts."I don't think it should be tolerated. If something happens that you think is wrong, you have to raise your voice. This is supposed to be the age of reason."Lauper also used this year's True Colours tour to appeal to American attendees to vote in next month's presidential election, and it's not surprising to hear who will be receiving Lauper's vote on November 4. "I think Barack Obama would understand what it's like to be discriminated against compared to McCain or Sarah Palin," she states. What does she make of Palin? "Not for nothing, Declyn plays hockey so that makes me a hockey mom and I don't talk like that," she says. "It will be interesting to see what happens." Bring Ya To The Brink is out now. Tickets are still available for Cyndi's show in The Savoy, Cork, on Friday night.

STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON

Cyndi was the guest on Steve Wright in the Afternoon today and she spoke about her career, politics, music and more. Download the interview here.

CYNDI LAUPER SHE'S BACK FOR MORE GIRLIE FUN

The original girl who just wanted to have fun, Cyndi Lauper is back - and thankfully not as part of the never-ending 1980s revival in which anyone who released a couple of singles during that decade is called a 'legend' and sent on tour with Limahl.

Instead, part-time wrestling aficionado and restless campaigner Lauper is touring with a new album, Bring Ya To The Brink, from which her current single Into The Nightlife is taken. It bears funked-up, floor-filling comparison to Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor, and Lauper has had a hand in writing and producing every track.
With 25million album sales under her belt, Lauper may not yet be in danger of overtaking the pop queen, but she's certainly motoring along in the same fast lane.

And since 1983 debut She's So Unusual made pop history by producing four Top Five singles from a single album, there's no shame in using a little retro-branding. Thus Lauper's current UK visit comes as part of her True Colors tour - the song that originally brought international attention to Lauper's traffic-light hair, thrift-store chic and ear for a great pop tune. The artwork for Bring Ya To The Brink may picture her in domestic mode with broom in hand, but on the basis of its content, there's clearly plenty of fun to be had with Lauper yet.

Thu, Carling Academy Glasgow, 121 Eglinton Street, Glasgow, 7pm, £25. Tel: 0844 477 2000. www.cyndilauper.com

ROSIE AND THE GOLDBUG TOUR WITH CYNDI LAUPER

One of the UK's most successful examples of going down the indie route Rosie and the Goldbug have just been confirmed as main support for the 1st leg of Cyndi Lauper's European Tour. Cyndi, well known for her vocally superior and emotionally intense live performances, recently concluded the second year of her 25-city True Colors Tour. The tour, which raised awareness about gay rights, featured icons B-52s, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts as well as up and coming acts like Tegan and Sara, The Cliks, Regina Spektor and many more. So continuing with her support of upcoming talent, she hand picked Rosie and the Goldbug to come on the next tour with her. Rosie and the Goldbug can already boast of an Xfm playlist, and support from 6 Music and Radio 2 aswell as playing a number of festivals all over the country this summer including Bestival and Latitude. Their videos can be found playlisted on Q, E4, 4 Music and NME TV. Rosie & The Goldbug have been forming some impressive partnerships. One of which includes co-writing with Marcella Detroit (formerly of Shakespear's Sister) and Glasgow band El Presidente. All this for their debut album which they worked on alongside producer Jim Eliot. Jim is one half of Kish Mauve (the top electro duo whose track 2 Hearts was covered by Kylie Minogue for her comeback single). "…their mix of electronics and rock is more rough and ragged than Ladyhawke's shiny cyber-disco"- Guardian "Like Siouxie Sioux slapping Gwen Stefani over a bed of spiky synths" - Clash "It's rare to find well-written pop songs presented in a substantial and enthusiastic way and even rarer to have that realised in an 11 track record. A + + + + + +" - Artrocker "…should fit in somewhere nicely between Gwen Stefani and Dragonette in your CD collection… - Popjustice

BIRMINGHAM SETLIST

October 13, 2008 (Birmingham)
Change Of Heart
Set Your Heart
Grab A Hold
When You Were Mine
She Bop
Echo
Into The Nighlife
All Through The Night
I Drove All Night
Money Changes Everything

Encore

Time After Time
Sisters Of Avalon
Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
True Colors

OFFICIAL UK SINGLES CHART

True Colors is at #90 on the Official UK Singles Chart. No sign of Into The Nightlife yet.

Cyndi-Oke

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN THE OUTSIDER

'Have a cannoli," says Cyndi Lauper, pushing a bakery box across the coffee table. She's about to eat one of the cheese-filled, ruinously calorific Italian pastries. "Here, eat it from the box - you never know who's been on the table."

It's hard to imagine Madonna making such a gesture, let alone watching approvingly as the cannoli is swallowed. It may be unfair to still be comparing Lauper to Madonna 25 years after the pop rivalry that resulted in the arguably more talented Lauper being relegated to runner-up, but the similarities make it hard to avoid. Both are Italian-American Catholics whose personalities engulf their music; both are in their third decade in a business that often measures a career in months; and both have influenced subsequent generations of singers. Gwen Stefani and Alison Goldfrapp certainly seem to have taken Lauper's full-color kookiness as their model.

There is also a new point of comparison: Lauper's first album of new material since 1997, Bring Ya to the Brink, is a back-to-the-disco record that has things in common (including the use of hip young producers) with Madonna's recent return to her early 1980s sound. The difference is that the crackling Bring Ya to the Brink sounds like it was made not with platinum discs in mind but to sate Lauper's massive appetite for musical experimentation. That's just as well; its first single, Into the Nightlife, sold well, but the album, despite thrilling the critics, hasn't had the same success. Is she bothered? Well, one of her favorite expressions is "I don't give a hoot!", and she does seem to mean it.

"David and Declyn," she says, referring to her husband and son, "have said to me that they wish I had Madonna's business sense. I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow." As an artist - a word she much prefers to singer, since she's also a producer, video director, occasional actor and organizer of True Colors, a multi-band outfit that travels America with a human-rights message - she's grown significantly since her 1984 signature hit, Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Although she was never again so in tune with the zeitgeist as she was then, dressed in those thrift-shop petticoats and urging girls to fight for their right to party, she has done far more interesting things since.

There have been, among her 12 albums, a bravely sparse acoustic adventure, a covers set that reinvented standards such as Walk On By, a self-written Christmas collection and now this new disco record, which was co-produced by youths so screamingly hip they don't mind being known as The Scumfrog and Digital Dog. (The better-known Basement Jaxx also figure.) "My music is about a joyful experience," she says. "I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should. I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot."

There's a lullaby sweetness to her speaking voice that contrasts markedly with both her powerhouse singing style and the New York accent that coats every word. Years ago, as a guest on Terry Wogan's TV show, she was ribbed by Wogan about the accent and, supremely straight-faced, told him: "Most people think I'm cockney." It transpires that she was being serious. "People do say I sound English sometimes," she says. "At home, sometimes they say that." Home is still New York, where they clearly have a novel perception of the English accent.

But maybe I've misunderstood: Lauper's thoughts aren't always easy to follow, sometimes emerging as a stream of images that don't bear much relation to the question she's meant to be answering. Asked how she'd hooked up with Basement Jaxx, who co-wrote the album's fabulously spaced-out track Rocking Chair, she instead tells a story about taking the Eurostar to London from Paris. "The train goes under the water, so you don't see the white cliffs of Dover! When we went through the tunnel, I was sitting there, quietly singing The White Cliffs of Dover to myself." She then describes what she'd been wearing on the train - lots of enveloping layers and a fedora - and then sighs, saying: "When you're young and walk down the street and look eccentric, that's cute. But when you're older, they're scared of you. Get to the other side of the street! The difference between the way you look and the way you think you look! I thought I looked like Greta Garbo."

There's nothing eccentric about her appearance today. She's downright glamorous: stylishly angular platinum hair, black jeans, black sweater and fierce, high-heeled black boots. She looks years younger than 55, and is very pleased when I say so. "Ageism? There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood." And Madonna? "She's fantastic. She's like Wonder Woman."

She's keen to discuss Bring Ya to the Brink, written and recorded in Europe. "I wanted to experience writing in a different place. I never went to Europe to write before. I didn't go as a famous person, I went as a writer and stayed at a hole-in-the-wall hotel in Chelsea, and I could come and go without being noticed. I went to Brixton [to work with Basement Jaxx] and that was so great."

Despite having sold around 25m records - including one, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, that's considered the definitive pop moment of its year, if not the early 1980s - Lauper doesn't relish the limelight, and worries about its effect on Declyn, 10. "He was two when he first realized I was famous," she says. "It's hard for him. People look at him, and he feels the pressure of being my son. Someone came up to me in the street and kept talking and talking. Declyn said afterwards, 'Who are you?' And I said, 'I'm a mommy.' And he said, 'No, you're not - you're Cyndi Lauper!'" She searches through her handbag and pulls out photos of a long-haired little boy wearing a hockey mask. She laughs: "I'm a hockey mom."

This leads to a brief discussion of the moment's other renowned hockey mom, Sarah Palin, for whom Lauper has mixed feelings: "She gives a good soundbite. It's great McCain picked a woman, but it's sad he picked one who's unqualified." On her blog, she has reproduced an essay by Gloria Steinem, the US feminist icon, that rues the choice of Palin, and the site provides a link to register to vote. On her True Colors tour this summer, she banged home this same message, telling audiences: "It's more important to vote for the American president than the American Idol."

You don't do a bad soundbite yourself, I say. She looks dubious, as if I've insulted her, then decides no offense was intended. She's a sensitive person, she says, who's always felt herself an outsider, "and not through choice. I've always been the outsider looking in." So the title of her multi-platinum 1983 debut album, She's So Unusual, was apt? "It wasn't a joke," she says.

The back cover of Bring Ya to the Brink shows Lauper standing outside a suburban house, gazing into a window. This photo, inspired by a painting she did while studying art as a teenager in Vermont, has only one interpretation: exclusion. Despite the professional success, the 17-year marriage to Law & Order actor David Thornton, and the warm reviews that greeted Bring Ya to the Brink, she still sees herself as the odd one out. Not that she's bothered.

"Do people know who I really am, what I really do?" she says. "No. Do I care? No".

Cyndi Appears On Graham Norton Show

Cyndi appeared on the Graham Norton Show in the UK on Oct. 9th. Check out some clips from the episode! Visit the MEDIA Gallery.

Change of Heart

Hole In My Heart (all the way to china)

Goonies "R" Good Enough

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Manchester Set List:

Into The Nighlife
Set Your Heart
Change Of Heart
I Drove All Night
When You Were Mine
She Bop
Echo
Rocking Chair
All Through The Night
Lyfe
True Colors
Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Rain On Me
Time After Time
Money Changes Everything

SOUTHAMPTON SETLIST

October 11, 2008 (Guildhall, Southampton)

Into The Nighlife
Set Your Heart
Change Of Heart
When You Were Mine
She Bop Hole
In My Heart (All The Way To China)
Echo
Rocking Chair
All Through The Night
Lyfe
Sally's Pigeons (Acapella)
True Colors
I Drove All Night
Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Encore

Same Ol' Story
Time After Time
Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Money Changes Everything
Fearless

BRING YA TO THE BRINK UK TOUR BEGINS

Cyndi kicked off her UK tour in style last night, playing a host of tracks from her new album "Bring Ya To The Brink," including "Into The Nightlife," "Rain On Me" and "Echo." She also performed several classic hits, treating fans to "Time After Time," "All Through The Night" and "True Colors."

Her opening act was Jessie J. Feel free to review any of the tour dates here. Also, the tourbook is being sold at all venues for £10 and should be available for order online @ www.cyndilauper.com soon. If

THE POLISH NATIONAL TOP 50

Into The Nightlife is up 5 places this week on the Polish National Top 50. This week it is at number 30.

True Colours- A Capella ('94)

Meet Cyndi's Hero

October 9th, 2008CNN and Cyndi have partnered together to highlight an extraordinary person to be this week's CNN Hero. Cyndi's Hero — Cathy Nelson — will be profiled on the various CNN networks and on CNN's Heroes website starting this week. Cathy has been a leader for over 25 years in the civil rights movement, most notably on behalf of the LGBT community. She has been a true leader in the struggle for equality and a great friend to Cyndi.

NORWEGIAN DANCE CHART

Into The Nightlife has debuted at #20 Norwegian Dance Chart this week!

NEW! Fanshots Photo Contest

October 8th, 2008Enter our new contest by submitting your best and coolest photos that you take at Cyndi's upcoming shows in the UK, Ireland, Europe and South America. If you saw Cyndi's recent concerts in Japan, you can submit your photos, too! Get the details now!

Live In Paris-She Bop

INTO THE NIGHT LIFE REMIX

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adopt your own virtual pet!

Some Great Wallpapers

THE GOONIES (BLU-RAY)

The Goonies (Blu-ray) will be released in the UK on October 6th and Japan October 8th. It includes commentary from Director Richard Donner, "The Making of Goonies" feature, deleted scenes, Cyndi Lauper's "The Goonies R Good Enough" Music Video, and the theatrical trailer.

Check out Cyndi's Blog

This year's presidential campaign should be important to all of us. Be sure to check out Cyndi's recent blog entry where she has shared an article published by renowned women's rights icon, Gloria Steinem. Her article addresses one of this election's hot topics: Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin.

LIVE... AT LAST UK RELEASE

Live... At Last is finally being released in the UK on October 6th. Order your copy here.

BE ON THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW!

I was contacted by The Graham Norton Show this morning and they are looking for fans to be in the audience! Here are the details:

They are looking for fans to be in the audience and a few people to sing some classic Cyndi Lauper songs. They will record the show Wednesday (8th October) night at about 7pm at London Studios (near Waterloo station). However, any of those wanting to take part in the singing would have to get there a bit earlier (about 5pm). Filming would finish about 8:30pm.

If anyone is interested, please contact Pete Snell on 0207 960 2071 or email petes@sotelevision.co.uk.

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INTO THE NIGHTLIFE CHART UPDATE (USA)

Into The Nightlife has moved up to #6 on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay Chart.