As promised – we have good news for you!
We have just announced our Scandinavian Tour dates and we have a new video to show you!

The video is for Modern Drift and it is made by our good friend Kristian Leth (www.speedofsound.dk). It is based on Dyrehaven, den Romantiske Skov, a film from 1970 by artists Per Kirkeby and Jørgen Leth (Kristian’s father). The film geek will know that our album title Magic Chairs draws on inspiration from another film by Jørgen Leth.

You can watch the video below the new tour dates:

February
19.02 – Oslo, NO – By:Larm – Sentrum Scene
20.02 – Oslo, NO – By:Larm – Folketeateret

April
05.04 – Norway / TBA / support: Heather Broderick
07.04 – Helsinki, FI / Korjaamo / tickets / support: Heather Broderick
08.04 – Tallinn, Estonia / Von Krahl Theatre / support: Heather Broderick
10.04 – Stockholm, SE / Strand / support: Heather Broderick
14.04 – Århus, DK / Voxhall / support TBA
15.04 – Aalborg, DK / Studenterhuset / support TBA
16.04 – Göteborg, SE / Brewhouse / support TBA
17.04 – Copenhagen, DK / Store VEGA / support TBA

May
22.05 – Malmö, SE / Babel / support TBA

UPDATE: yes we can!! thanks for voting

The competition is tough, but you can help us by voting on Modern Drift here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/the-radcliffe-and-maconie-show/pick-and-mix/

and early next week we will lots of exciting Efterklang news for you. Its a promise!

Rasmus / Efterklang

We are very happy to inform you about three festivals, that we just added to our concert calendar.

First one is SXSW Festival in Austin. We will end our already announced US Tour at this crazy event playing a few shows. Next one is Friction Festival in Berlin. We will play there on the 8th of May. The third announcement is Haldern Pop Festival on August 14th. More dates to be announced soon.

18.03 – 20.03 SXSW Festival / Austin, TX / info
08.05 – Berlin / Astra Kulturhaus / Friction Festival
14.08 – Haldern Pop Festival, Germany / Festival info

Jan. 8th update! You can now watch the concert film on Danish Radios PIRAT TV station.

Gaffa is Denmarks biggest music magazine (print & online) and according to the readers of Gaffa, Performing Parades by Efterklang & The Danish National Chamber Orchestra is the best Danish Music DVD to come out in 2009.

Thank you!

Other news today – The SLARAFFENKLANG concert in Copenhagen is now sold-out. There are still tickets available for the concert at Voxhall in Århus.

Performing Parades can be bought directly from The Leaf Label and Rumraket

Hope you’re all enjoying yourself with family, champagne, coffee, friends, painkillers or whoever or whatever is around you today. Our tiny band have completely split up, for the cause of holiday, being literally spread all over the world. Thomas in Thailand, Rasmus in Istanbul, Casper in Toronto and Mads taking care of business in Copenhagen.

Guess we needed a little break from each other or just simply a little time with someone else. After all, we’ve been seeing the world collectively nearly everyday for the past couple of years, and very soon we’ll be joining forces again (tour dates 2010).

Wow! An entire decade just passed by, and the slipstream of nostalgia just reached our shore. From the view from our nose tips, it’s been a very very special one! Mainly because there was no Efterklang a decade ago, and secondly because we’re having the time of our life!

Lets look ahead. Just around the corner, on February 22nd (23rd in the US) 2010, we’ll release our 3rd studio album: Magic Chairs, coming out on our very own Rumraket label in Scandinavia and our brand new home 4AD in the rest of the world.

We’re ULTRA EXCITED to present it for you!!!

Here is a Happy New Year Video Postcard from our 4 corners of the world to all of you sweet people. The postcard includes 4 snippets of songs from Magic Chairs. Enjoy!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU & YOURS. SEE YOU SOOOOON!!!

Rasmus, Mads, Thomas, Casper

Video postcard from Efterklang – Happy New Year!