Dear Emma, Carlista, Liselotte, Esther, Cato & Mira

You were so good! We will never forget the concert we played with you yesterday!
Keep playing music and being so cool and happy!

And thanks to your teacher Yumika as well!

PLEASE WATCH THIS TV REPORT BY TV BRUSSELS! Magnifique!!!
http://tvbrussel.be/video/13/brusselse-efterkids-deense-sferen

best wishes
Thomas, Mads, Casper, Frederik, Heather, Niklas and Rasmus

This week we play three concerts in Belgium (and one in Istanbul) and for the concert in Brussels we are happy to announce that we will be joined by 6 local Efterkids!

Efterkids is our attempt to raise awareness for the need for free music education in schools. It also works as a project that makes it possible for us to collaborate with kids across the globe in real life on stages but also online via the course material available at www.efterkids.com

For the concert at AB (Ancience Belgique) on Wednesday Yumika Lecluyze who teaches at the music school of Sint Agatha Berchem will bring 6 of her students who has been rehearsing on the string parts for Natural Tune and Full Moon the last couple of weeks. We look forward to meet the kids and play music with them. We don’t know their names yet, but we know that they are 8,10 and 11 years old and that Yumika teaches them after the Suzuki Method.

This is a list of the concerts we are playing this week:
(more concerts can be found here: www.efterklang.net/home/concerts)

24.11 – Brussels, BE / AB Club (Spot on Denmark) / WITH EFTERKIDS / Tickets
25.11 – Hasselt, BE / Cultuurcentrum Hasselt / Tickets
26.11 – Roeselare, BE / Cultuurcentrum De Spil / Tickets
27.11 – Istanbul, TR / Babylon / Tickets

PLEASE VISIT THE EFTERKIDS SITE AT WWW.EFTERKIDS.COM

As you might know we will be on the road in November in Denmark, Liverpool, Belgium, Istanbul, Spain, Lisbon, Russia & Uppsala. But we also just announced a full European tour in February and March 2011.

This will be the absolute last chance to see Efterklang perform live for a considerable amount of time. After this tour we will take a break and when we get back together we will begin the work for our 4th album and we have decided that there won’t be any Efterklang concerts before this album is finished.

The tour in 2011 will be special as it is the last, but also because of the first 4 shows that will be very special and then we have a very special support act/event lined up for the rest of the tour. We look forward to announce this soon.

Once this last tour is over we will have played more than 340 concerts since October 2007. It feels like we have been on tour almost constantly. We have loved every second of it and would just like to say thanks for the ride!

FINAL MAGIC CHAIRS TOUR 2011
for the November & December concerts 2010 click here

CROSS LINX Festival TOUR as:
Efterklang + Daniel Bjarnason & their Messing Orchestra
17.02 Utrecht, NL / Vredenburg / info w. The National & Owen Pallett
18.02 Eindhoven, NL / Frits Philips / info w. The National & Owen Pallett
19.02 Groningen, NL / De Oosterpoort / info w. The National & Owen Pallett
20.02 Rotterdam, NL / De Doelen / info w. The National & Owen Pallett

FINAL MAGIC CHAIRS TOUR with the 7-piece live band:
22.02 – Cardiff, UK / The Globe / tickets
23.02 – Sheffield, UK / Queens Social Club / DrownedinSound Events / tickets
24.02 – Glasgow, UK / Oran Mor / tickets
25.02 – Manchester, UK / Academy 3 / tickets
26.02 – Newcastle Gateshead, UK / The Sage Gateshead, Hall Two
27.02 – London, UK / Scala / tickets

March
01.03 – TBA
02.03 – TBA
03.03 – Lyon, FR / Epicerie Moderne
04.03 – Aarau, CH / KIFF
05.03 – Chur, CH / Kulturhaus
06.03 – Zürich, CH / Stall 6
08.03 – Vienna, A / Szene / tickets
09.03 – Kosice, Slovakia / Tabacka Kulturfabrik
10.03 – Prague, CZ / Meet Factory
11.03 – Leipzig, DE / Centraltheater
12.03 – Bremen, DE / Lagerhaus
13.03 – Berlin, DE / Volksbühne
14.03 – Frankfurt, DE / Brotfabrik / tickets
15.03 – Dortmund DE / Konzerthaus / tickets
16.03 – Hamburg, DE / Knust /
17.03 – Rostock, DE / Mau

And here is a new Efterklang photo!

photo taken by Luca Venter

We are happy to confirm that one of our favorite new bands from Denmark will play support on Efterklang’s 6 upcoming Danish concerts in November

04.11 – Århus, DK / Voxhall / Tickets / supp: Sleep Party People
05.11 – Fredericia, DK / Ungdommens Hus / Tickets / supp: Sleep Party People
06.11 – Kolding, DK / Godset / Tickets / supp: Sleep Party People
11.11 – Herning, DK / Fermaten / Tickets / supp: Sleep Party People
12.11 – Viborg, DK / Paletten / tickets / supp: Sleep Party People
13.11 – Albertslund, DK / Forbrændingen / Tickets / supp: Sleep Party People

Here is video of Sleep Party People playing live:

We are very excited to share these news. In February we will take part of the annual Cross-Linx Festival in The Netherlands together with The National and Owen Pallett. The festival takes place in concert halls in 4 different cities (Utrect, Eindhoven, Groningen & Rotterdam) and one of their objectives is to let the alternative rock scene cross with the classical scene.

Therefore we have been invited to create a very special orchestra for these four concerts. We will be 16 musicians on stage plus our new friend Daniel Bjarnason (Bedroom Community) who will conduct and also do the arrangements for this special concert. It is too early for us to share all the details, but we can let you know that our band for these 4 shows will include a saxophone quartet!

The tickets go on sale tomorrow (Saturday) and if you would like the chance to attend one of these unique Efterklang concerts then we recommend you to book tickets fast. As mentioned the line-up include our good friends from The National and also Owen Pallett who is equally brilliant! Its gonna sell out and most likely very fast!

TICKETS HERE: Ticketmaster (the Rotterdam show should be added here before tomorrow)

THE DATES
17.02 Utrecht, NL / Muziekcentrum Vredenburg
18.02 Eindhoven, NL / Muziekcentrum Frits Philips
19.02 Groningen, NL / De Oosterpoort
20.02 Rotterdam, NL / De Doelen

HERE ARE OUR TOUR DATES FOR THE REST OF THIS YEAR

October
14.10 – Reykjavik, Iceland / Iceland Airwaves

November
04.11 – Århus, DK / Voxhall / tickets
05.11 – Fredericia, DK / Ungdommens Hus
06.11 – Kolding, DK / Godset / tickets
07.11 – Liverpool, UK / Liverpool Music Week @ O2 academy Liverpool / Tickets
11.11 – Herning, DK / Fermaten / tickets
12.11 – Viborg, DK / Paletten / tickets
13.11 – Albertslund, DK / Forbrændingen / tickets
17.11 – Madrid, Spain / Teatro Lara
18.11 – Sevilla, Spain / Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
19.11 – Lisboa, Portugal / MusicBox / Tickets
24.11 – Brussels, BE / AB Club (Spot on Denmark) / Tickets
25.11 – Hasselt, BE / Cultuurcentrum Hasselt / Tickets
26.11 – Roeselare, BE / Cultuurcentrum De Spil / Tickets
27.11 – Istanbul, TR / Babylon / tickets

December
04.12 – Uppsala, SE / Uppsala Koncert Kongress

Today September 7th we start our 4th North American Tour in Montreal, Canada. We really look forward to this tour. 21 concerts await before it all ends in New York in a month on October 2nd. New American band Buke And Gass will support us on the entire tour and we look forward to get to know them – we already love their music!

We will be touring as a 7-piece. It will be the four of us and then Heather Broderick on piano, Peter Broderick on violin + more and Daniel James of Canon Blue on guitar. We are thrilled to welcome back both Peter and Daniel to the live band. It´s been a while since we had the pleasure of playing with them.

To celebrate the beginning of the tour we are giving away a free REMIX MP3. It is a remix of Alike made by Opiate aka Thomas Knak. We love all his work and we love this remix! Take a listen!

Alike (Opiate Remix) (click to Download)

For a full list of concerts and ticket links please visit:
www.efterklang.net/home/concerts

This week it was announced that we will play six concerts in Denmark in November. We will perform as a 7 piece and look forward to this little tour.

We won´t play any shows in our hometown Copenhagen this fall, but Albertslund is just a short train ride away so maybe we will see some of our Copenhagen friends there?

November will also take us to Belgium and some places south! We can announce those soon.

04.11 – Århus, DK / Voxhall / tickets
05.11 – Fredericia, DK / Ungdommens Hus
06.11 – Kolding, DK / Godset / tickets
11.11 – Herning, DK / Fermaten / tickets
12.11 – Viborg, DK / Paletten / tickets
13.11 – Albertslund, DK / Forbrændingen / tickets

Here is a photo of Thomas & Efterklang playing at Den Grimmeste Festival earlier this summer:

photo by Jesper Hedemann – all rights reserved

First of all thanks to everyone who came out to this year’s concerts so far. We had two really good tours around North America and Europe and just now we are taking a short break before our summer tour starts on June 19th.

The upcoming summer tour holds 23 new Efterklang concerts and we look forward to all of them, but some of them makes us really excited! For example the two Performing Parades concerts in Amsterdam and Stockholm (more info here). We are also excited about our concert in Northern Norway north of the Arctic Circle in the midnight sun! Playing with Grizzly Bear in Hyde Park in London will also be special and then there are all the really great festivals. Roskilde, Benicassim, Green Man, Off, Haldern Pop and many more! For the Traumzeit Festival in Duisburg we will be playing live with a local fraction of the Efterkids project which will be fun as well.

All dates can be seen below and in here: http://www.efterklang.net/home/concerts.

June
19.06 – Holland Festival, Amsterdam, NL / Muziekgebouw ann’t IJ / Performing Parades w. Metropole Orkest / info & tickets
21.06 – Festspillene Nord-Norge, NO (Harstad) / More Info / Tickets
28.06 – London, UK / Serpentine Sessions in Hyde Park / w. Grizzly Bear / Tickets

July
01.07 – Roskilde Festival, DK / festival info
04.07 – Traumzeit Festival, DE / festival info
05.07 – Stuttgart, DE / Club Schocken / Tickets
07.07 – Rennes, FR / Les Tombées de la Nuit / Festival info
08.07 – Vendôme, FR / Cour du Cloître / Hosted by Figures Libres
09.07 – Festival de la Cité Lausanne, CH / festival info
10.07 – Copenhagen Jazzfestival, DK / Charlottenborg / festival info / Tickets
18.07 – Benicassim, Spain / festival info
31.07 – Den Grimmeste Festival, DK / festival info

August
04.08 – New Note Festival, Hillerød, DK / info
05.08 – Skanderborg Festival, DK / info
06.08 – Off Festival, Poland / Festival info
07.08 – Liege, BE / Micro Festival / Hosted by jauneorange (more info)
08.08 – Standon Calling Festival, UK / festival info
11.08 – Stockholm Kulturfestival, SE / Performing Parades w. Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Gustav Adolfs Torg / more info / FREE
14.08 – Haldern Pop Festival, Germany / Festival info
15.08 – Luxemburg, LU / Exit07
19.08 – Sønderborg Statsskole, DK / TBA
20.08 – Malmö Festivalen, SE / TBA / more info
22.08 – Green Man Festival, UK / festival info

the amazing audience at Immergut Festival, May 29th 2010

Yep thats right – our rather big side project SlaraffenKlang will play two concerts in Denmark in May. Last time in January was a treat. We had so much fun and we expect the fun to continue!

Slaraffenklang is 50% Slaraffenland and 50% Efterrklang – a total of 11 to 13 members. If you can then please join us for these two performances:

20.05 – Spot Festival, DK / festival info / as SLARAFFENKLANG
27.05 – Copenhagen, DK / Pumpehuset / as SLARAFFENKLANG / Tickets

Now you know! Look forward to this European tour! Brighton tomorrow!
xo
Efterklang