2012 looks set to be a very exciting year for hotly tipped Belgium born Melbourne based multi-instrumentalist and producer, Gotye (pronounced Gauthier).

After launching the album Making Mirrors in Australia in August with two visually explosive gigs at Sydney Opera House, Gotye embarked on a worldwide tour of sold out shows including two in London. He will return to the UK for an album launch show at Wiltons Music Hall on 13^th February – with tickets snapped up in just twenty minutes - followed by newly announced dates at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London on 29^th February, the HMV Ritz, Manchester on 2^nd March and Oran Mor, Glasgow on 4^th March.

When the video for the stunning forthcoming single Somebody That I Used To Know was released online in June it triggered an overwhelming worldwide response. Just three weeks after Gotye posted it on YouTube the song had received nearly four million hits (this number has now exceeded 17 million, averaging 1 million hits a week), topped the charts in 4 countries (Australia, Holland, Belgium and New Zealand) and made it to No.1 on the Hype Machine Twitter chart. Hear it once and you’ll be haunted by it for weeks. It will be released in the UK on 6^th February via Communion / Island Records, a week ahead of the album Making Mirrors.