September 26 2008, 8pm we will perform our latest album Parades live from start to finish in a new arrangement for more than 60 musicians. We will hook up with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra, a top tuned and professional classical orchestra, and we cant wait! The concert will take place in Copenhagen at the newly built DR Byen (in fact the first concert there ever) in their Studie 2. There is about 400 tickets for sale so don´t sleep on this one. Approximately the first 250 tickets sold are seated and then the rest will be for standing audience. We truly believe this will be a special evening and we want to share it with you!

You can read more about the concert here: PÅ DANSK // IN ENGLISH
Here is a direct ticket link (danish/english): Billetnet.dk

Update on August 17th: An extra concert has been added on the same date but 10pm!

construction of the concert hall in the new DR Byen

We are playing in Prague today! If you are around come by!

It will be a special show as it will be our first concert ever as an 6 piece band. After playing about 150 concerts as an 8 piece band we look forward to try this out and we have been rehearsing all week to make it perfect!

Anna is on vacation this week so Peters sister Heather Woods Broderick is sitting in on piano, vocal and flute. Besides Heather the band will be Mads, Casper, Thomas, Rasmus and Peter.

Also worth mentioning is that the set-list for tonights concert will include two songs from Springer our debut mini-album from 2003. We will play Bright and Kloy Gyn. We haven´t played those songs in 3 and 5 years!

We are on at 9:45pm. You can read more about the Midnight Sun Festival right here

Heather Woods Broderick - fresh woman in the Efterklang camp

We are now playing The Brudenell Social Club on the 10th and not the 13th of July.

and then we are playing at the huge Bal de la Bastille in Paris on July 13!

hope to see you somewhere!
- Rasmus

We are supporting The National for two shows in Denmark in August!

We are very happy about this, because we love that band - and especially because The National themselves specifically asked for Efterklang to support their shows in Denmark.

Their latest album Boxer has been one of the top 3 most played albums in our tour-bus since October.

August 12 - Store VEGA - Copenhagen - tickets
August 13 - Train - Aarhus - tickets
(we can´t make it home in time for the show on August 11 so another band will support that one - we will let them announce first - but we can let you know that it is a fine band!)

yep! come cruise with us!
We are playing on the Copenhagen-Oslo ferry this friday!

More info on the concept and tickets and so on - right here: Rock Cruise (in danish)
(if you wanna go, but doesn’t understand danish, please get in touch…)

Thursday June 5th I was traveling home to Denmark from Denver, Colorado as the last Efterklang member (the others left the day before) leaving USA and the great tour we had behind us. I hope we can come back soon as I really really liked touring in USA and the people and the reception we received - thank you!

OK - once again - I was traveling home on the 5th set to arrive 1pm in Copenhagen on June 6th exactly 12 hours before Efterklang was playing this years SPOT Festival. When I got to the airport in Denver I was told by 4 different United Airlines people that unfortunately I was going to miss my connecting flight in Chicago to Denmark due to storms. This meant I would have to stay another day in the US and more important that it would be impossible for me to play this years SPOT Festival which I was very psyched and motivated to do.

I called home and delivered the bad news to Casper from Efterklang and to Jesper our Danish booker. They immediately called around to check if we could play on the saturday instead and woke up about 15 people in the middle of the night I reckon.

I was feeling very sad and frustrated when something incredible happened! There was an earlier flight to Chicago which also was delayed and to which I was on the stand-by list for. It was completely sold-out and only 2 people got on the plane via stand-by. I was not among them, but then an airport miracle happened. One of the stewardesses went on board and came out and said that according to the computer the plane was full, but there was an empty seat in there and she pointed to me and said “get on board”.

I was so happy and thrilled. The joy and relief I felt when we played at SPOT is indescribable. It felt so good to be there. Playing for so many people and getting standing ovations two times of course helped extra on my mood. It was a great evening and a perfect way to end a month of touring in the USA.

the lovely audience at the SPOT Festival

notice the people on the balcony too! - photo by Peter Broderick from the stage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr6qhC_ZAec”>
The sweet Adam Drucker (Doseone) joined us on stage, while we were supporting the super friendly and amazing Subtle in Seattle a couple of weeks back. We just found out that this special moment have been captured and uploaded to Youtube. The song is called Mirror Mirror (a new one) and Doseone is finishing it up big time:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr6qhC_ZAec

Much Love from NY

the lovely audience in San Francisco

we are halfway through the Danish Dynamit tour and we are loving it! So far we have played 12 of 24 shows. we started in Denver and then we went to Salt Lake City and then to Portland where from we drove down the coast while stopping several times to play memorable shows. We are now in the midst of crossing the country and today you can find us in Austin, Texas.

The temperature and climate here can best be described as walking around in one big hairdryer turned to full power. We have started to appreciate Air-condition and sunblock a lot!

the Phoenix BBQ and pool party
A few days ago we played in Phoenix where my cousin Chris lives. He invited us all for BBQ and pool party and we had so much fun. Desert living rocks!

We have 12 more shows to go! we look forward to all of them!!!

see ya!
Rasmus & Efterklang

Finally, we can confirm the very first US Tour in Efterklang history! We’ve worked and hoped for this to happen for a very long time, and now it’s time!

designed by Nan Na Hvass

Here’s the grand master plan for our north american roundabout:

06.05 - Denver, CO / Larimer Lounge / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
07.05 - Salt Lake City, UT / Urban Lounge / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
09.05 - Portland, OR / Doug Fir / w. Subtle & Slaraffenland / tickets
10.05 - Seattle, WA / Nectar Lounge / w. Subtle & Slaraffenland / tickets
11.05 - Eugene, OR / WOW Hall / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
12.05 - San Francisco, CA / Bottom Of The Hill / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
13.05 - Visalia, CA / Cellar Door / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
14.05 - Los Angeles, CA / Spaceland / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
15.05 - San Diego, CA / Casbah / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
16.05 - Tucson, AZ / Plush / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
17.05 - Phoenix, AZ / Modified / w. Slaraffenland
19.05 - Denton, TX / Hailey’s / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
20.05 - Austin, TX / Mohawk / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
22.05 - Atlanta, GA / Drunken Unicorn / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
23.05 - Chapel Hill, NC / Local 506 / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
24.05 - Washington, DC / Rock and Roll Hotel / w. Subtle & BMSR / tickets
26.05 - Philadelphia, PA / The First Unitarian Church / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
27.05 - Hamden, CT / The Space / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
28.05 - New York, NY / Knitting Factory / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
29.05 - Boston, MA / TT the Bears / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
30.05 - Montreal, PQ / Zoobizarre / w. Slaraffenland
31.05 - Toronto, ONT / El Mocambo / w. Slaraffenland / tickets
02.06 - Chicago, IL / Empty Bottle / w. Slaraffenland & Nick Butcher / Free
03.06 - Kansas City, MO / Record Bar / w. Slaraffenland / tickets

As you can see, we’ll be playing nearly all of the shows together with our good danish friends from Slaraffenland. Therefore we’ve chosen to call this tour The Danish Dynamite Tour:). We hope and believe this will be a row of very special concerts!

Can’t wait to see you all finally…
Much love from all of us
Thomas, Mads, Rasmus, Frederik, Niklas, Anna, Peter & Casper

We have had major issues with UK Immigrant services today. This means we have been forced to cancel our concert tonight in Southhamton.

We are very very sorry

we will carry on as a 7 piece band until we hopefully will get a UK work visa for our missing member