Rogue Traders are gearing up to release their new album Night of the Living Drums this Friday, which comes in the form of a double-disc set titled The Sound of Drums.

The first disc acts as a greatest hits compilation featuring all the band’s singles with Natalie, as well as a few fan favourites such as White Lightning and On Your Way To The Disco. It also goes back to the beginning with tracks lifted from their debut album We Know What You’re Up To such as Stay?, the smashing club-banger Overload, and ARIA award winning INXS remix One Of My Kind.

Disc two is the band’s long-awaited new album with lead singer Mindi Jackson, who took Nat’s place as the band’s frontwoman after Nat left in 2008.

You can pre-order your copy on iTunes now or get in quick for a signed CD via JB-HiFi and Sanity.

The Sound of Drums is released this Friday, 11 November.

Nat rocked the Channel 7 studio this morning, performing her new single All We Have live on Sunrise before heading off to perform at the Sony Foundation’s charity lunch. Check it out below:

And if you haven’t already, buy the single on iTunes here!

Nat owned the stage at the 2011 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards on Friday, opening the show with a performance of her new single All We Have. Watch the performance below:

She also presented the award for Baddest Baddie which went to radio host and Australia’s Got Talent judge Kyle Sandilands, and then got slimed with fellow Hall Of Slime nominees Guy Sebastian and category winners Bindi and Robert Irwin. Watch that below:

See all the photos from the orange carpet here.

Nat rocked the X-Factor stage tonight with the debut live performance of her new single All We Have, which you can watch below:

All We Have is available now on iTunes. Nat performs at the Kids’ Choice Awards October 7.

All We Have is now available to buy digitally!

The three track EP contains the hot new single plus two amazing remixes by Khaled and 7th Heaven.

Click here to get your copy on iTunes, and then spread the word!

Almost missed this one! Music blog Ausp0p recently had a little Q&A session with Nat. Check it out below:

One of her contestants was the first top 12 elimination on last Wednesday’s night’s episode of The X Factor. But that hasn’t dented Natalie Bassingthwaighte’s enthusiasm any – with a new single incoming and plenty more surprises up her X Factor sleeve, we ask Natalie Bassingthwaighte about her first year on the judging panel, juggling the pressures of TV and motherhood and just when we might expect that new album.

Q : How did your inclusion on this year’s X Factor judging panel come about?
I was ready to do something with TV again and this ticked all the boxes. I get to mentor these contestants and really sink my teeth into it.

Q : And your thoughts on the show so far?
It’s fun. It’s been the most fun I’ve had on any job ever. It’s very emotional as well though, I laugh and I cry.

Q : How many of the contestants could take out the competition?
I’ve got an amazing group – Mitchell and Andrew are so unique and both are definite contenders to win it. I was sad to see Cleo go, she was gorgeous and it was hard because people didn’t get to see everything she could do.

Q : How have you coped balancing this crazy X Factor ride with being a mumma to little Harper?
It’s pretty crazy. It’s been all the travelling with the baby which was hard but now we’re filming, it’s easier.

Q : On a personal note, it’s been more than two years since you released your album ’1000 Stars’. You’ve finally got something new for us…
I have a new single ‘All We Have’ out soon and just finished filming the video clip – I had a vision and it all came together so I’m really proud of it. I didn’t know if I would sing again but around Christmas, I realised I wanted to do it again.

Q : So an album… What can we expect, and when? Because you know you can’t be an X Factor judge and not have an album to plug – it’s the rules, you know.
Can’t tell you exactly when but it’s not far away – the single is out on Friday!

X Factor airs on the Seven Network Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30pm.
Natalie’s single ‘All We Have’ is released digitally this Friday (September 30).

Nat was on tonight’s episode of Today Tonight talking about her new single All We Have and her role on The X-Factor. You can stream it below:

A special behind the scenes look at the making of the All We Have video has been posted on Nat’s official Facebook Page, which you can stream below:

Nat also shared a very cute clip of her daughter Harper rockin’ out like mummy during rehearsals for her upcoming performance on The X-Factor:

All We Have is out digitally tomorrow. Nat performs on The X-Factor results show on Tuesday.

The super hot clip for Nat’s new single All We Have debuted on tonight’s episode of Today Tonight, and it’s all about the ‘big’ -  big sets, big costumes, big dance routine, and big hair; all wrapped in a very slick production directed Benn Jae. You can stream the video below:

NATALIE Bassingthwaighte’s 13-month-old daughter, Harper, was suspicious when her mother was sporting a Paddle Pop Lion-style mane on the set of the video for new single All We Have.

“I had bright orange lipstick and massive hair and Harper didn’t recognise me,” Bassingthwaighte says.

“I said, ‘Bubba it’s mummy’. She finally let me hold her and she kept pushing this massive hair away as if to say, ‘That’s not yours’. Once we took her on set she couldn’t stop moving. She got her dance freak on.”

Baby Harper dancing to her mother’s new single sees things come full circle – after having a child Bassingthwaighte planned to quit music.

She’d enjoyed success as part of the Rogue Traders for two albums, also meeting Harper’s father and her husband-to-be Cameron McGlinchey, who was the band’s drummer. Her solo career was christened with a No.1 album, promoted while hosting So You Think You Can Dance.

At home with her baby post-Dance, Bassingthwaighte was questioning her career.

“I wasn’t inspired by music for a long time, I didn’t really know where I wanted to go with it or even if I would go back and pursue it,” Bassingthwaighte says.

“I’d had Harper, I just felt so content with life.”

Last Christmas, experimenting with DJ Poet (Black Eyed Peas) Bassingthwaighte had a musical epiphany.

“Something clicked and it all felt right. I went, ‘Oh my God, I can do this’ and I wanted to get stuck into it again. It’s that old thing with music, you can’t really let it go once you’ve done it.”

Her “comeback” single, All We Have, is the most club-oriented moment Bassingthwaighte has released – a similar vibe to Jennifer Lopez’s On the Floor.

“I wanted it to be fun, and fearless and fierce. I’ve touched on those things before, but never really pushed them like I do on this,” she says.

“I thought if I did do music again I wanted to come back with something strong and powerful. This is more me than anything I’ve ever done.”

It was the last song she worked on with her A&R man, Jay Dee Springbett, before his death in July.

“Jay was there when we recorded it, a week before he passed away. We were on such a high, we were so excited about the direction my project was going to take,” she says.

“Without him I wouldn’t be doing this at all, from Rogue Traders to my solo career to this new phase. This track means so much more to me. I feel very emotional about it. (His death) was so sudden and very surreal.”

Video of the pair during recording All We Have was played at his funeral.

“He was like, ‘Hits baby, we make hits!’,” she says. “Apart from crying my eyes out I smiled thinking, ‘Yeah baby let’s make this a hit’. I want to do it as much for him as for me.”

The song was co-written by McGlinchey. The pair will marry later this year. “It’s a big job organising a wedding, around working and being a mum,” she says.

They’ve refused lucrative offers to sell it to a magazine.

“It’s very enticing financially, but I don’t want to arrive at my wedding shrouded in umbrellas. We weren’t even going to book a video person or a photographer. That’s how we spend our lives, doing photos or videos, but our friends said we’d regret it. So we are having them there but not very long. We want to make it as private and personal as possible,” Bassingthwaighte says.

She is relishing giving back through her mentoring role on The X Factor – she’ll also perform All We Have on the program next Tuesday.

“With everything I’ve learnt to do and not to do I can help people,” she says. “I’m loving it. It’s the best job in the world. It’s also the hardest job, you are so emotionally connected and you’re responsible for them in a way.”

There’s also a possible new career – children’s performer.

“I sing Harper the daggiest kids songs in the world. I’m sure every parent does. Her favourite goes ‘Yummy yummy yummy in my tummy tummy tummy’. I could be the next Wiggles!”

HEAR All We Have (Sony) out tomorrow
SEE The X Factor, Channel 7, Mondays/Tuesdays, 7.30pm

Source: Herald Sun