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  Jul 20, 05:35 AM

  New project...Confessions...

  What would the soundtrack of your life sound like? Post a video or comment, confess and listen...

  
  Confessions is an audio-visual project by Teitur, composer NicoMuhly and the dutch ensemble HollandBaroqueSociety. About a year ago these young and talented artists started a challenging project: composing music for youtube clips. Even the comments were used as an inspiration for the lyrics and in a short time four wonderful songs were created, all matching the video's in a surprisingly brilliant way.
  
  Now it is time for 'Confessions Part Two'...Teitur and Nico will compose music to the videos you upload.
  
  The only condition is that the video should show something personal as their project is called “Confessions”. It could be something like ‘I bet you never knew this, isn’t this beautiful or this is my sleepy aunt drooling on her sweater kind-of-thing’. The video can be 5 minutes and it would be best if the main focus is one event. Not too fast and a bit slow would be perfect!
  
  Also the filmer should be okay for Nico & Teitur to use it, and certainly you will get the credit for your work.
  
  Here's the site...http://www.confessions-tour.com
  
  and check out the promo vid here..http://www.trifid.nl/confessions/
  
  Have fun!!
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  Jun 23, 09:08 AM

  New Teitur EP Out Now!!!

  

  The EP is out today...
  
  Teitur's new single The Girl I Don't Know is released today!  It's available as part of an awesome 4 track EP.  A well as including the single it also features 3 live tracks recorded for the Radcliffe and Maconie Show for BBC Radio 2 earlier in the year.
  
  The full tracklisting is...
  
  1. The Girl I Don't Know
  2. The Singer*
  3. Don't Let Me Fall in Love With You*
  4. Catherine The Waitress*
  
  * Live on the Radcliffe and Maconie Show
  
  To download the EP in the highest audio quality go to the A&G Records download store...

  http://www.agrecords.co.uk/ag_shop.asp
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  May 29, 05:06 AM

  Teitur Needs Your Votes!!!

  He's on the Radcliffe & Maconie Show Pic 'n' Mix...
  
  Each week BBC Radio 2 presenters Radcliffe & Maconie pick 4 tracks of the best new music and put them up online for listeners to vote on the best one.
  
  The winning track is played on their show every day for the next week!!!
  
  They have put Teitur's forthcoming new single, The Girl I Don't Know, into the vote!
  
  As I'm sure you'll agree, it would be lovely to hear Teitur on the radio everyday thus please go to the site to vote for him!!! Also get everyone you know to vote as well!!! : )

  Here's the link to vote...

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

  If he does win hopefully they'll play some of the live tracks Teitur recorded for the show earlier in the year.  The live tracks sound so good they will be part of a new EP coming out in June for Teitur's new single The Girl I Don't Know.
  
  Please vote and tell others!!
  
  Thank you friends!!
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  May 22, 09:02 AM

  Teitur The Girl I Don't Know EP Out June!!!
  
  New single for the singer...
  
  Teitur's next single will be the wonderful The Girl I Don't Know.  It will be available on an EP that will include 3 tracks recorded live on the Radcliffe and Maconie show exclusively for BBC Radio 2.  
  
  The tracklisting will be...
  
  1. The Girl I Don't Know
  2. The Singer*
  3. Don't Let Me Fall In Love With You*
  4. Catherine The Waitress*
  
  *BBC Radio @ - Radcliffe and Maconie Live Session.
  
  The live tracks are stunning and make for a truly fantastic EP.  It will be available to download on June 29th!
  
  The beautiful video for the single The Girl I Don't Know is avaiable to watch online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfzLAoQpd68
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  May 22, 09:01 AM

  Teitur On Full UK Tour Now!!

  Catch Teitur live during May and June...
  
  Teitur is on tour now in the UK and having already performed shows to rapturous audiences in Brighton, Portsmouth, Leeds, Oxford and Birmingham it is shaping up to be a wonderful tour!  
  
  The tour isn't even half way through yet so there's still plenty of chances left to watch the singer live!
  
  The tour will call at...
  
  Cardiff Club llfr Bach (21)
  Cambrigde Junction (22)
  Bristol Dot to Dot Festival (23)
  Nottingham Dot to Dot Festival (24)
  York The Duchess (25)
  Manchester Ruby Lounge (26)
  Leicester The Musician (27)
  Sheffield Plug (28)
  Norwich Arts Centre (29)
  Newcastle Cluny (31)
  Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire (June 1)
  London ICA (3)
  Dublin Sugar Club [CANCELLED BUT WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED] (5)
  Glasgow King Tuts (7) 
  Aberdeen The Lemon Tree (8)
  
  Teitur will also be joining the summer festival circuit with shows so far confirmed for Latitude Festival(16th-19th July, Suffolk) and Summer Sundae Weekender (14th-16th August, Leicester).
  
  For ticket info check out the 'On the Road' section of www.agrecords.co.uk
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  May 22, 08:59 AM

  Teitur's The Girl I Don't Know Video!!!

  Ready to watch now...
  
  In April Teitur filmed the video for his new single The Girl I Don't Know in Soho, London, and the video is now finished and available for your viewing pleasure!!
  
  The video focuses on a barman in a strip club and his fascination with a newly hired stripper.  He watches her loss of innocence as she decends into the seedy, dark world of the strip club.
  
  A beautifully shot video, it can be viewed here.
  
  Teitur's new single, The Girl I Don't Know, will bereleased on June 29th in the form on a EP.  The EP will feature three exclusive live tracks recorded from the BBC Radio 2 Radcliffe and Maconie session that Teitur recorded earlier in the year.  
  
  For an exclusive listen to one of the live tracks from that session go to Teitur's myspace www.myspace.com/teitur 
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  May 13 2008, 01:03 PM

  Roadblog: Oh, Canada!

  M o n t r e a l - This visit to Montreal was a beautiful spring day. The last time I played there it was so cold, that it hurt in my hands when I went outside for a cigarette. We played in a place called "Sala Rossa" that reminded me in a curious way of the place we played in Berlin which was called "Roter Salon" - also meaning "The Red Salon". Its overseas twin venue in Montreal is, naturally, also dominated by the colour red and has a theatre-like stage with drapes on the side - perfect for "The Singer" material. However "Sala Rossa" didn't have a picture of Lenin in the merch booth! They serve wonderful Spanish tapas downstairs! We played a lot of Faroese songs which was fun. My friend Tina Dico has also joined us for these three shows in Canada. She did a solo set after Helgi. The audience were wonderful. They stood up from their chairs and danced when we played "Catherine the Waitress."
  
  
  Q u e b e c C i t y - Crazy story: Once upon a time, not long ago, a girl from Quebec City named Marie travelled to Iceland. There she met a Faroese skipper, who hired her to work on his boat - He took her to the Faroe Islands and payed her to sing in the caves for his scooner tourists. The country and her new life on the sea made a strong impression on her and she felt forever grateful. She took lots of pictures on the Faroes. Yesterday she showed me all those pictures in her home. I saw a young Mikael Blak (now a Teitur band-member) playing stand-up bass together with father Kristian and a 17 year old singer named Eivør - who is since then became Faroe Islands queen of song. It's funny how it all comes back. Marie returned the favour in Quebec City. She brewed us a strong tea and lent us her house to shower in. She had Faroese music in her home. She also had a recording studio in her basement. Her partner David was the sound engineer at the venue where we played and so we all exchanged music. The venue was packed and very sweaty!
  
  
  T o r o n t o - What a venue! What a crowd! ("The Courthouse" is an old courthouse like the name suggests). The ceiling was very high and the sound was perfect! I love it when someone has the vision to turn a place like that into a music venue. I was told that KD Lang had just done a show there with a pianist - I would have loved to have heard her voice in such a place. Thank you to everyone who was there - it was a night to remember. My friend Alex moved back to Toronto two years ago. He is the guy who wrote the letter from New York that I turned into a song on "The Singer" - the song is called "Letter From Alex" written four years after his father died. I had been looking forward so much to playing it for him, but at the show Alex asked me not to play it - It's too depressing, he said. (I think he likes it much better in Toronto). Instead, I ended up playing this silly song that I wrote just before soundcheck. It's more of a lyric rant than a song. More like "Alice's Restaurant" (One of the funniest songs ever - by Arlo Guthrie - check it out). The song was about a cab-driver of Armenian decent who drives around Toronto and it goes into how his family got a Martin guitar in a Batman soft-case, a canon-camera, an iPod with hi-fi headphones, credit-cards and how his buddies in the cab-community now have four international cell phones with John Mayer's old telephone number. It's a true story. That's what happened last time I was in Toronto in November! I left all my things in a cab outside of the Drake Hotel while talking to a journalist about Christopher Walken and the "More Cowbell" sketch. I went into the Danish consulate the next morning without nothing but my smily face and my name. Strangely, I got back to Copenhagen two days later.