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Jun 04, 04:06 PMTeitur featured on NPR, plus European summer festival datesTeitur was recently featured on NPR's "Day to Day" program. If you missed it live, you can listen online here:
NPR.orgAlso, there are some festival gigs in Europe and a long awaited full band gig scheduled in London this summer:
03 July 2008 Roskilde Festival Main Stage - Roskilde, Denmark
15 August 2008 FM4 Frequency Festival - Salzburg, Austria
29 August 2008 Union Chapel - Islington, London, England
(1st band show in London since 2005, special support is Tobias Froberg)30 August 2008 Electric Picnic Festival- County Laois, Ireland
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May 13, 01:03 PMRoadblog: 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. -
Apr 21, 03:12 PMNorth American dates (change in venue for Birmingham)Teitur will be hitting the North American shores starting in Atlanta tomorrow night!
Please note that there has been a change in venue for the April 23 show in Birmingham, AL. The show has been moved to the Bottle Tree Cafe. If you already have tickets, they will be honored at the new venue.
see the Bottle Tree website for details.
Just a reminder of all the North American dates:
22 Apr 2008 Vinyl at Center Stage - Atlanta, GA
23 Apr 2008 Bottle Tree Cafe - Birmingham, AL
26 Apr 2008 The Basement - Nashville, TN
26 Apr 2008 The Dame - Lexington, KY
27 Apr 2008 Creative Arts Theatre - Morgantown, WV
29 Apr 2008 Jammin’ Java - Vienna, VA
30 Apr 2008 Rams Head On Stage - Annapolis, MD
1 May 2008 Grand Opera House - Wilmington, DE
2 May 2008 Johnny Brenda’s - Philadelphia, PA
3 May 2008 Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
6 May 2008 Two Boots Roadhouse - Bridgeport, CT
7 May 2008 Middle East - Cambridge, MA
8 May 2008 Higher Grounds - Burlington, VT
9 May 2008 La Sala Rosa - Montreal, QC
10 May 2008 Le Cercle - Quebec City, QC
12 May 2008 The Courthouse - Toronto, ON
13 May 2008 The Ark - Ann Arbor, MI
14 May 2008 Schubas - Chicago, IL
16 May 2008 Varsity Theater - Minneapolis, Minnesota
17 May 2008 Legion Arts | CSPS - Cedar Rapids, IA
19 May 2008 Soiled Dove Underground - Denver, CO
20 May 2008 Velour - Provo, UT
23 May 2008 The Roxy - Hollywood, CA
24 May 2008 Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA
28 May 2008 Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
29 May 2008 Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR
31 May 2008 El Corazon - Seattle, WA
We hope to see you all out at a show!
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Apr 08, 09:31 PMThe Singer - available for digital download on April 9th
The Singer is available for download in the US on April 9th (yes, that’s tomorrow, you lucky kids!) at the following fine digital retailers:
iTunes - http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=277382378&s=143441
eMusic - http://www.emusic.com/album/Teitur-The-Singer-MP3-Download/11187980.html
Rhapsody - n/a
Napster - http://free.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=12779401
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/The-Singer/dp/B0016XI0MA/ref=sr_f3_3?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1207667808&sr=103-3
Also, make sure to check out the tourdates for a show near you! Teitur is wrapping up his dates with KT Tunstall, and will hit the States starting on April 22nd in Atlanta. You can pick up a copy of the cd exclusively at the shows before its physical release on May 13th.
Hope to see you on the road!
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Mar 13, 11:14 AMNew video interviewNew Teitur interview on dayrobber.com:
http://www.dayrobber.com/content/view/159/
Also check out Nico Muhly's blog about their adventures in Holland for the CrossLinx festival:
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Feb 19, 07:36 PMNew Album - The Singer and Tour DatesTeitur's new album "The Singer" has been released in Scandinavia, and is due out around the world in March or April.
Teitur is currently on tour - check for dates near you!
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Hope to see you on the road!