We started in Oslo two days ago. Tonight we are in Helsinki and in about 6 weeks we will have been in 33 cities in 17 countries.

We hope to see you somewhere along the way!

OUR EUROPEAN MAGIC CHAIRS TOUR!:
April
05.04 – Oslo, NO / Garage / support: Frederik Teige / Tickets
07.04 – Helsinki, FI / Korjaamo / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
08.04 – Tallinn, Estonia / Von Krahl Theatre / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
10.04 – Stockholm, SE / Strand / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
14.04 – Århus, DK / Voxhall / supp: The Late Great Fitzcarraldos / Tickets
15.04 – Aalborg, DK / Studenterhuset / supp: The Late Great Fitzcarraldos / Tickets
16.04 – Göteborg, SE / Trädgårn (Venue Changed!) / supp: The Late Great Fitzcarraldos / Tickets
17.04 – Copenhagen, DK / Store VEGA / w. The Late Great Fitzcarraldos / Tickets
20.04 – Brighton, UK / Concorde 2 / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
21.04 – London, UK / Shepherds Bush Empire (by ATP) / support: Heather Broderick & Esben and the Witch / Tickets
22.04 – Oxford, UK / O2 Academy / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
23.04 – Edinburgh, UK / Cabaret Voltaire / support: Slaraffenland / Tickets
24.04 – Belfast, UK / Black Box / Moving on music / supp: Slaraffenland / Tickets
25.04 – Dublin, IE / Whelan’s / support: Slaraffenland / Tickets
27.04 – Bristol, UK / Metropolis / support: Slaraffenland / Tickets or Tickets#2
28.04 – Paris, France / Nouveau Casino / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
29.04 – Tourcoing (Lille), France / Grand Mix / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
30.04 – Saint Nazaire (Nantes), France / VIP / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets

May
01.05 – Pau, France / Centrifugeuse / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
02.05 – Barcelona, Spain / Apolo (La [2]) / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
04.05 – Rome, Italy / Init / support: Heather Broderick
05.05 – Bologna, Italy / Covo / Rocker Festival
06.05 – Basel, Switzerland 1. Stock (Walzwerk zu Basel) / support: Heather W. Broderick / Tickets
07.05 – Freiburg, DE / Theater Freiburg / Tickets
08.05 – Berlin, DE / Astra Kulturhaus / Friction Festival
09.05 – Athens, Greece / Rodeo Live Club / support: Frederik Teige / Ticket info
11.05 – Cologne, DE / Gebäude 9 / support: Heather Broderick
12.05 – Hamburg, DE / Knust / support: Heather Broderick
13.05 – Rotterdam, NL / Rotown / support: Heather Broderick / Tickets
14.05 – Nijmegen, NL / Doornroosje / support Heather Broderick
15.05 – Brussels, BE / Les Nuits Botanique at Cirque Royal / w. CocoRosie / tickets
22.05 – Malmö, SE / Babel / support TBA
29.05 – Neustrelitz, DE / Immergut Festival

1.Stock, Basel – November 2009 – by The Get Up Kid

Hello sweet people!

We start our European tour in Olso on Monday April 5th and we would like to use this post to shine a light on some of the different bands that will be supporting us on this 31 concert long tour.

Lets start with one of our absolute favorite new Danish bands! They are called The Late Great Fitzcarraldos (http://myspace.com/thelategreatfitzcarraldos) and they will support our Danish tour (+ Gothenburg). They are incredible and we can´t wait to play live with them.

14.04 – Århus, DK / Voxhall / w. The Late Great Fitzcarraldos / Tickets
15.04 – Aalborg, DK / Studenterhuset / w. The Late Great Fitzcarraldos / Tickets
16.04 – Göteborg, SE / Trädgårn / w. The Late Great Fitzcarraldos / Tickets
17.04 – Copenhagen, DK / Store VEGA / w. The Late Great Fitzcarraldos / Tickets

We have a list of wonderful names playing with us over the next 6 weeks on our European Tour. Our piano player Heather Woods Broderick (myspace.com/woodsmusical) has a superb solo album out and she will be supporting the majority of the concerts.

On some occasions, like the tour start in Oslo, our guitarist Frederik Teige will be the support act. Frederik recently finished his solo album and it is powerful and beautiful – do check him out here: myspace.com/frederikteige.

Another band we recently have fallen in love with is Esben and the Witch from Brighton, England (myspace.com/esbenandthewitch). They will support our concert in London on April 21st. We look forward to that!!

21.04 – London, UK / Shepherds Bush Empire / support: Heather Broderick & Esben and the Witch / Tickets

Finally we are happy to say that our good friends in Slaraffenland will be supporting four of our concerts in April. They are on their own European tour, but these four dates matched with our schedule and we look forward to play with them. It will be fun as always. Check them and their new album and tour out here: www.slaraffenland.net.

FOR FULL INFO ON ALL CONCERTS AND OUR TOURS – PLEASE VISIT WWW.EFTERKLANG.NET/HOME/CONCERTS

This Tuesday (March 2nd) we start our North American Tour in Philadelphia. We are super excited about this, but we got a rough start to this new adventure.

First off, Balmorhea (our support band for the North American tour) had to cancel all their concerts due to a family emergency.

On top of that our dear Peter Broderick (who plays violin and much more in our live band) also had to cancel this tour, due to a knee surgery that isn´t healing properly. We will miss Peter a lot and hope he will recover soon – send him and Balmorhea som love.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR!!
Despite the sad news we have decided to play this tour and we are eager to play for you all! We have been waiting a long time for Magic Chairs to be released and we hope and believe the tour will be great! For now we will perform as a 6-piece and then hopefully Peter will be able to return soon.

New support bands have been announced for all dates and we will hook up with good friends like Sam Amidon and Volcano! along the way.

THE DATES WITH UPDATED SUPPORT INFO:
02.03 – Philadelphia, PA / First Unitarian Church / Tickets / supp: F. Teige and H. Broderick
03.03 – New York, NY / Le Poisson Rouge / Tickets w. Sam Amidon & D. Bjarnason
04.03 – Boston, MA / TT The Bears / Tickets / supp: Magic Magic
05.03 – Montreal, Canada / La Sala Rosa / Tickets / supp: Burls
06.03 – Toronto, Canada / El Mocambo / Tickets / supp: Snow Blink
07.03 – Detroit MI / The Pike Room / Tickets / supp: Sunlight Ascending
08.03 – Chicago, IL / Lincoln Hall / Tickets / supp: Volcano!
11.03 – Seattle, WA / The Triple Door / Tickets / supp: Pan Pan
12.03 – Vancouver, BC, Canada / Biltmore / Tickets / supp: Apollo Ghosts
13.03 – Portland, OR / Doug Fir / Tickets supp: Helios & Dragging an Ox…
15.03 – San Francisco, CA / Bottom Of The Hill / Tickets supp: Tartufi
16.03 – Los Angeles, CA / Spaceland / Tickets / supp: Sisu
18.03 – Austin, TX / SXSW / 4AD & Bella Union showcase @ Buffalo Billiards (201 East 6th Street) / w. Midlake / We’re on at 12AM
19.03 – Austin, TX / SXSW / Danish Day Party (815 East 6th street (The Music Gym)) / We’re on at 2PM
19.03 – Austin, TX / SXSW / End of an Ear In-store (2209 South 1st – Unit C) / We’re on at 5PM
20.03 – Austin, TX / SXSW / more info

1.Stock, Basel – November 2009 – by The Get Up Kid

Thursday this week (thats tomorrow already) we are celebrating the release of our new album. Everyone is welcome and there will be great live music. Entrance is free and we start at 20:00 and end at 01:00 Frederik Teige, Heather Broderick + Peter Broderick and Slaraffenland are all performing live. Come join us. It is at Global in Copenhagen N – more info and at globalcph.dk

xox
EFTERKLANG

PS: We have recently been announced for Roskilde Festival in Denmark, Off Festival in Poland and Immergut in Germany. Summer here we come!

Lots of news these days and a little hard to keep up, but here are a few simple and good ones!

This week you can listen to our new album in full at our profiles at Myspace.com/efterklang & Soundvenue.com/artist/efterklang. Magic Chairs arrives in stores on Monday already! Exciting days!

Pre-order (CD/LP): Rumraket.com – Rough Trade (UK) – Insound (US)

ESBEN AND THE WITCH to join us in LONDON April 21st
The other good news today. One of our new favorite bands from England have just been announced as support when we play at Sheperds Bush Empire on April 21st. Esben and The Witch are from Brighton and they are great! Click here for tickets & info

We are so excited to visit Roskilde Festival again. It will be our third time this year and no doubt another highlight.

Another highlight is to be working with Hvass&Hannibal – we love them.
UK Magazine Creative Review just named Magic Chairs record sleeve of the month.

All dates are now fully announced (except for May 7th) and we are so excited about going on tour again! We hope to see you at one of our concerts. The support slots are also almost fixed now. Balmorhea will support the US tour and Heather Woods Broderick most of the European tour with some assistance from Slaraffenland and Frederik Teige (our guitarist).

We should also let you know that you are now able to listen to three tracks from our upcoming third album Magic Chairs on the front of www.efterklang.net. The songs available for streaming are Modern Drift, Alike and Full Moon.

And you can now PRE-ORDER Magic Chairs on VINYL and CD using these links: Rumraket (DK) – Rough Trade (UK) – Insound (US) – imusic (DK)

February
18.02 – Copenhagen, DK / Global / RELEASEPARTY – Slaraffenland, Frederik Teige +Heather & Peter Broderick will all perform live – FREE ENTRANCE, come join us
19.02 – Oslo, NO – By:Larm – Sentrum Scene
20.02 – Oslo, NO – By:Larm – Folketeateret

March
02.03 – Philadelphia, PA / First Unitarian Church / support: Balmorhea
03.03 – New York, NY / Le Poisson Rouge / support: Balmorhea
04.03 – Boston, MA / TT The Bears / support: Balmorhea
05.03 – Montreal, Canada / La Sala Rosa / support: Balmorhea
06.03 – Toronto, Canada / El Mocambo / support: Balmorhea
07.03 – Detroit MI / The Pike Room / support: Balmorhea
08.03 – Chicago, IL / Lincoln Hall / support: Balmorhea
11.03 – Seattle, WA / The Triple Door / support: Balmorhea
12.03 – Vancouver, BC, Canada / Biltmore / support: Balmorhea
13.03 – Portland, OR / Doug Fir / support: Balmorhea
15.03 – San Francisco, CA / Bottom Of The Hill / support: Balmorhea
16.03 – Los Angeles, CA / Spaceland / support: Balmorhea
18.03 – SXSW Festival / Austin, TX / info
19.03 – SXSW Festival / Austin, TX / info
20.03 – SXSW Festival / Austin, TX / info

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 / tickets / support TBA
20.04 – Brighton, UK / Concorde 2 / support: Heather Broderick / ticket info
21.04 – London, UK / Shepherds Bush Empire / support: Heather Broderick / tickets
22.04 – Oxford, UK / O2 Academy / support: Heather Broderick / ticket info
23.04 – Edinburgh, UK / Cabaret Voltaire / support: Slaraffenland / ticket info
24.04 – Belfast, UK Black Box / support: Slaraffenland / ticket info
25.04 – Dublin, IE / Whelan’s / support: Slaraffenland / ticket info
27.04 – Bristol, UK / Metropolis / support: Slaraffenland / ticket info
28.04 – Paris, France / Nouveau Casino / support: Heather Broderick /
29.04 – Tourcoing (Lille), France / Grand Mix / support: Heather Broderick /
30.04 – Saint Nazaire (Nantes), France / VIP / support: Heather Broderick /

May
01.05 – Pau, France / Centrifugeuse / support: Heather Broderick /
02.05 – Barcelona, Spain / La [2] de Apolo / support: Heather Broderick / ticket info)
04.05 – Rome, Italy / Init / support: Heather Broderick
05.05 – Bologna, Italy / Covo / Rocker Festival
06.05 – Basel, Switzerland 1.Stock / support: Heather W. Broderick
07.05 – Germany TBA
08.05 – Berlin / Astra Kulturhaus / Friction Festival
09.05 – Athens, Greece / Rodeo Live Club / support: Frederik Teige
11.05 – Cologne, DE / Gebäude 9 / support: Heather Broderick
12.05 – Hamburg, DE / Knust / support: Heather Broderick
13.05 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Rotown / support: Heather Broderick
14.05 – Nijmegen, The Netherlands / Doornroosje / support Heather Broderick
15.05 – Brussels, BE / Les Nuits Botanique at Cirque Royal
22.05 – Malmö, SE / Babel / support TBA

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

Hello Sweet Friends!!!!

February 22nd (23rd in the US) 2010 we release our third album Magic Chairs and we can´t wait!!! (free download and album details can be found here)

But lets talk about concerts now! We can announce 24 new concerts today!! We will go on tour with our new 7-piece live band consisting of yours truly (Mads, Casper, Thomas and Rasmus) and then with the addition of Heather W. Broderick, her brother Peter Broderick and long time friend Frederik Teige. These three people also play an important part on our new album btw.

February 2010
19th – By:Larm Festival, Oslo Norway (info)
20th – By:Larm Festival, Oslo Norway (info)

March
2nd – First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia PA USA, support: Balmorhea
3rd – Le Poisson Rouge, New York NY USA, support: Balmorhea
4th – TT The Bears, Boston MA USA, support: Balmorhea
5th – La Sala Rosa, Montreal PQ Canada, support: Balmorhea
6th – El Mocambo, Toronto ONT Canada, support: Balmorhea
7th – The Pike Room, Detroit MI USA, support: Balmorhea
8th – Lincoln Hall, Chicago IL USA, support: Balmorhea
11th – The Triple Door, Seattle WA USA, support: Balmorhea
12th – Biltmore, Vancouver BC Canada, support: Balmorhea
13th – Doug Fir, Portland OR USA, support: Balmorhea
15th – Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco CA USA, support: Balmorhea
16th – Spaceland, Los Angeles CA USA, support: Balmorhea

April
20th – Concorde 2, Brighton UK (£10 advance /£12 door – ticket info)
21st – Shepherds Bush Empire, London UK (£15 – ticket info)
22nd – O2 Academy, Oxford UK (£10 advance /£12 door – ticket info)
23rd – Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh UK (£10 advance – ticket info)
24th – Black Box, Belfast UK (£10 advance – ticket info)
25th – Whelan’s, Dublin IE (€17.50 advance – ticket info)
27th – Metropolis, Bristol UK (£8 advance – ticket info)
28th – Nouveau Casino, Paris France
29th – Grand Mix, Tourcoing (Lille) France
30th – VIP, Saint Nazaire (Nantes) France

May
1st – Centrifugeuse, Pau France
2nd – La [2] de Apolo, Barcelona Spain (€15/18 – ticket info)

More to come…

photo by Colin Quinn, Manchester 2009

About a year ago we played a concert together with our good friends in Slaraffenland. We morphed our bands together, called it Slaraffenklang and played each other songs in new versions as a 12 piece rock band. You can still download a free live EP, recorded at that concert, over at rumraket.com/shop/freedownloads.html

Now the mutant band returns! Slaraffenklang will come back to do two concerts and then it will go back to sleep in its monster hideout. Here are the dates:

23.01 – Aarhus, DK – Slaraffenklang Concert! @ Voxhall – tickets
24.01 – Copenhagen, DK – Slaraffenklang Concert! @ Skuespilshuset – tickets