Yesterday Imogen took home the Ivor Novello award for ‘international achievement’ in London! The award was presented by Annie Lennox who happens to be a friend of hers.

We’d like to wish Immi a massive CONGRATULATIONS! With an Ivor added to the Grammy she won earlier this year it’ll soon be time to build that awards cabinet!

About The Ivors: The Ivors celebrate the outstanding writing achievements of songwriters, composers and their music publishers. The awards either celebrate artistic excellence in a specific work, exceptional performance figures in the award year or recognise the outstanding achievements of a particular songwriter or composer throughout their career.

Photo by Kikishua

On Friday 19th Feb Imogen played in front of a sold out crowd at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire.

During the show Imogen recorded a live improvised piece of music, where the key, tempo and time signature were chosen by the audience 30 seconds before she started. ”The Shepherdess” is what the audience heard.

All the proceeds from sales of “The Shepherdess” are going to Great Ormond Street hospital in London who helped save Imogen’s leg when she was just 12 months old.

In true Imogen style, the artwork for the download was crowd-sourced from fans who attended the show. If the download is deemed a success for the charity Imogen hopes to perform a live improvisation at every show on her upcoming North American tour, donating the proceeds of downloads to a charity in each city.

The read the full story and to buy “The Shepherdess” for £1, head over to: http://charity.imogenheap.com where you can see how we have utilised online publishing platform Bandcamp.com to power this special download.

We’d like to wish Replenish client Imogen Heap congratulations for her Grammy win last night!

Imogen took home the Grammy for “Best Engineered Album, Non Classical” for her latest album “Ellipse” which she produced and engineered herself, making her the first female artist in Grammy history to win this award!

Not to be outdone by 2007’s outfit which featured lilly pads and a toy frog, this year Imogen’s ‘Twitdress’ included an LED necklace which displayed a live Twitter feed showing fan’s messages, and a transparent handbag complete with an embedded iPhone displaying Twitpic photos that fans sent to her via Twitter.

Replenish were on hand assisting Imogen on the night. From here in the UK we tested the Twitter and Twitpic photo feed shortly before Imogen took to the red carpet and then proceeded to spend the night moderating all of the content sent to Imogen’s necklace and handbag to avoid any potential offending messages.

The ‘Twitdress’ went down a storm with the music and tech press alike – the perfect accompaniment to a Grammy award!

Check out some great photos of Imogen on the red carpet and receiving her award at Socialite Life

We’re delighted to report that after a lot of very hard work by everyone involved, long-time Replenish client Imogen Heap is finally getting the recognition she deserves with her new album ‘Ellipse’ debuting at #5 on the Billboard Top 200!

The album (which you can listen now) also came in at #1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic album chart, #1 on the Billboard Internet album chart, #2 on the Billboard Digital album chart, #3 on the Billboard Alternative album chart, #4 on the Billboard Rock album chart, #4 on the Canadian album chart, and #39 on the UK Top 40 album chart!

Here’s what Music Week had to say:

“Leading the Brit pack, singer/songwriter Imogen Heap’s second album Ellipse sold 48,000 copies to debut at number five, comprehensively beating the number 145 peak of her 2005 debut, Speak For Yourself. Despite its modest chart place, Speak For Yourself was nominated for a pair of Grammy awards and saw several of its songs used on popular TV shows, helping it to eventually achieve sales of 431,000 copies, while its most successful track, Hide And Seek, fell short of the Hot 100 but has sold more than 685,000 copies on download.

The digital format is also much favoured by buyers of Ellipse, accounting for 29,000 of the album’s sales last week. That is enough for it to debut at number two on the digital albums chart. It goes one better on the Electronic/Dance chart, where it debuts at number one. Introductory single First Train Home saw a 161% spike in sales after Heap performed it on David Letterman’s show and enters the Top 200 digital songs list at number 197, with sales of 7,500 increasing its overall tally to 43,000.”

Much has been said about our efforts with Imogen’s online campaign, and we’re chuffed to see that it’s paid off for her!

Yesterday we took part in an experiment with Imogen Heap to test out new video conferencing app Vokle.

The app allows Imogen to not only broadcast live video to her fans (there were over 200 watching and commenting via Twitter and a live chat room), but it also allows fans to ‘call in’ and ask Imogen questions whilst interacting with her. Imogen was able to pick callers from a shortlist and bring people in and out of the conversation.

We are hoping to use Vokle in the future as Imogen promotes her new album Ellipse, hosting regular video conferences with fans, and maybe even a special guest or two. Check out the video above that Vokle posted of the live discussion. Pretty cool huh?