During the wonderful Supersonic Festival in Birmingham a couple of weeks back we did an interview to a girl called Katherine. She asked us to give her and her boyfriend Michael’s new little girl kitten a name. As we only have one girl in our band; Anna and she’s a sweetheart, it felt natural to pass her name along to this little wonder…

Isn’t she lovely?

This is what Michael told us about about Anna:

“We found her on our doorstep one day and took her in from the rain, and she hasn’t left since! She is the sweetest animal there has ever been. At the moment she is just starting to learn how to climb trees and chase butterflies, and deciding to claw everything in the house”

Posteverything.com has been the place to get Efterklang & Rumraket releases and merchandise since we signed to The Leaf Label in 2004. Just last week Posteveryhting.com closed down after many years of fine service. We will miss them!

There is a bunch of buylinks on our pages that directs you to Posteverything.com. We haven´t had time yet to change them but we will fix it soon.

In the meantime we can tell you about The Leaf Labels new mailorder shop which can be found here: Leaf at Greedbag. They have all the Efterklang stuff or will soon anyway.

We can also remind you about Rumrakets MP3 store at Klicktrack.com. There you can download all the Rumraket releases in high quality and DRM free MP3s. The Efterklang releases are also available there but can only be purchased if you have a Danish address. The others are universal.

Recently we just added Halcyon EP by Canon Blue and Parades by Efterklang to the Klicktrack store.

When Thomas turned 30 on July 11th we played in Bracknell, England at the Fringe Festival.

In the outro of Caravan we started singing Happy Birthday to You and soon the crowd sang with us for Thomas. The photo below is taken by Adrian Holden exactly at the moment when a very happy and surprised Thomas came forward to the stage and received his honor!

Look how happy he is! it is good to turn 30!

yesterday we arrived at the airport in Barcelona and when we stepped out of the gate we were very lucky to catch the last km of Carlos Sastrés time trial. To our joy and surprise we saw that he had defended his yellow jersey!

Today when Carlos will be celebrated as the winner of Tour de France 2008 we are in Zaragoza, Spain the home country of Carlos. Im sure that when we play tonight at the EXPO 2008 we will give Carlos a shout out!

A couple of days ago we posted a music video made by Molly (age 10) and Jojo (7) and their complete remake of our song Mirador (incl. new music and lyrics) Read the story here

Now it turns out that the sweet kids from Maine, US and their father, have just recorded a live version of the song as well and put it on youtube. Have a look, we love it!!!

Please tell them how great they are on youtube

Its been too long since the last update on our photo blog – so late that the batch of photos we just uploaded is pretty huge!! The entire US tour is now documented plus what we did in June.

Have a look right here: www.flickr.com/photos/efterklang-recordings

This photo is taken from the stage when we played this years Roskilde Festival

We have just come across this on youtube. It is über cool! We love it! Thank you Molly and Jojo!!!!!

Here is what Molly and Jojo´s Father says about the video:
Ever wonder what that strange video is about, with the little bird-guy? We sure did! We even wrote to Efterklang to ask them, but they never wrote back (red. we did write back actually). So what DO we know? Well for one thing, it seems that Danish people like to whisper and mumble when they sing: “Something smthg smthg smthg Mountains… smthg smthg smthg Sea…” Well, wonder no more! Here is the video that will explain it all for you! The new words are by Molly (10) and Jojo (7). It should all be perfectly clear to everyone after this!

Wandering through the woods so far
Diving into the ocean
From clouds to sea
Just use the mountain to reach the sky…
La la la la, la la
Fall down from the flowers
Loopdy loop and fall
The extra mounten
Once there were mountens
The mounten was sad,
One day a Mama was getting a baby
The baby was coming
The baby came
Despite all the strange melting away
From lollypop Land
Painting a world
Look out for THE CROCODILE
Falling straight through
Blueberries and stars
Strawberries too

and now for the masterpiece video and new version of our song!

Watch the official music video by Nan Na Hvass & UFEX here