Ring Them Bells, a new Danish indie/noiserock act featuring ex-members of the bands Campsite and Lampshade, are giving away their debut single "Technicolor" as a free download: http://www.ringthembells.dk/
Look for the band's debut album to be released later this spring.
Danish act Campsite has decided to call it quits and will be doing one last concert at Rust in Copenhagen on February 28. Read more at the band's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/campsite
Updated live dates for As In RebekkaMaria:
03/13 - Uppåt Framåt, Gothenburg (SWE) w/Jojo DJ Team
03/14 - Release Party, Copenhagen (DK) w/Jojo DJ Team
03/24 - Voxhall, Århus (DK) w/Vive La Fete
03/25 - Store VEGA, Copenhagen (DK) w/Vive La Fete
03/26 - Kulturbolagt, Malmö (SWE) w/Vive La Fete
03/27 - Storan, Gotheburg (SWE) w/Vive La Fete
03/28 - Nalen, Stockholm (SWE) w/Vive La Fete
04/10 - Rust, Copenhagen (DK) w/Familjen
04/11 - Studenterhuset, Odense (DK)
04/17 - Templet, Lyngby (DK)
04/17 - Rust Nightclub, Copenhagen (DK) w/Yelle
04/19 - Pakhuset, Århus (DK) w/Familjen
04/25 - Studenterhuset, Aalborg (DK)
04/26 - KulisseLagret, Horsens (DK)
04/30 - Bergen Fest, Bergen (NOR)
05/03 - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels (BEL)
05/08 - Rotown, Rotterdam (NL) w/Campsite
05/09 - Dqliq, Luxemburg (LUX)
05/10 - Ekko, Utrecht (NL) w/Campsite
05/24 - Café Kino, Copenhagen (DK)
05/25 - Stars, Vordingborg (DK)
08/02 - Knust, Hamburg (GER) w/Campsite
08/22 - PStereo Festival, Trondheim (NOR)
Lampshade frontwoman RebekkaMaria is working on a soloproject along some of her bandmates and Johannes Nidam from Campsite. The name of the project is called As In RebekkaMaria and the music is described as "pop with a twist," citing influences as diverse as Brigitte Bardot, The Knife, Cat Power and Sufjan Stevens.
Check out the new Campsite video for the song "In case": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbuxR7OzJI
Their singer looks so unbelievably greasy.
New tourdates for Lampshade, a band whose most recent album "Let's away" is one of my favorites for 2006:
08/04 - Lott Festival (GER)
08/05 - Knust, Hamburg (GER)
08/19 - JFK Open Air, Stemwede, Haldern (GER)
09/07 - Gimle, Rosklide (DK) w/Campsite
09/08 - Forbrændingen, Albertslund (DK) w/Campsite
09/09 - Loppen, Copenhagen (DK)
09/15 - Voxhall, Århus (DK) w/Campsite
10/04 - 603qm, Darmstadt (GER)
10/05 - 013, Tilburg (NL)
10/06 - Kompleks, Heerhugowaard (NL)
10/07 - Hedon, Zwolle (NL)
10/09 - Sugar Factory, Amsterdam (NL)
10/17 - Gebäude 9, Cologne (GER)
10/18 - Feierwerk, München (GER)
10/19 - Cafe Mokka, Thun (CH)
10/20 - Musikzentrum, Hannover (GER)
10/21 - Musiktheater, Kassel (GER)
10/22 - Scheune, Dresden (GER)
10/23 - White Trash, Berlin (GER)
10/24 - Franzis, Wetzlar (GER)
10/25 - Rosenkeller, Jena (GER)
10/26 - Mausefalle, Bonn (GER)
10/27 - Forum, Bielefeld (GER)
10/28 - Museumskeller, Erfurt (GER)
11/01 - Landet, Stockholm (SWE)
11/25 - Rust, Copenhagen (DK)
11/26 - Stars, Vordingborg (DK)
The one thing I couldn't get over when listening to this Danish band's debut was how much their lead vocalist/guitarist Johannes Nidam sounds almost like a cross between Paul Banks of Interpol and Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand. Campsite's music tends to be a mix of both bands. Twelve tracks of dance-y, electro-indie-rock/pop (or whatever it's being called these days) that kept me interested from the opening track "Pastime" to the pleading vocals of "Parade" and the delightful bounce of "Clean cut". The closer, "I collide", is the best closing track I've heard all year and ends the album on a good note.
- Navy Keophan
Denmark's Campsite made the cut for the latest edition of Deep Elm Records comp "This is indie rock: The best bands you've never heard" which I guess is their new series to take over from where the "Emo diaries" left off. The label picked the selected artists from over a thousand band submissions. The disc comes out on November 8 and you can get the full tracklist here: http://www.deepelm.com/sum/449_sum.html