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The Summer of Love has begun

June 28, 2011 – 11:54 am

Warhol, Niko, Jake & Morrison in Skive

Hi, friends!

Sorry about the non-blogging lately. We’ve been busy. With what, you may ask? Well, the past month we’ve played @ SPOT festival, Skive Festival, Å-festival and Fanø Free Folk Festival. Four very different, but none the less fantastic festivals. Thank you for your support. It’s very, very much appreciated!

Three things about the SPOT-festival I have to mention:

- MOJO heard us at SPOT festival, and they were “thrumming with excitement”. We were too. The Line of Best Fit were there as well and took some great pictures and said some lovely things about our show.

- If you want to hear our concert from SPOT, it is actually available for purchase through NEXT2LIVE.

- The Danish photographer David Bust took some photos during the SPOT-festival. You can see them in the gallery below.

We’ve already entitled this summer “The Summer of Love”. Yeah. Not very original – but it’s true. We already love this summer. We love playing for you guys, and we love that we’ve just begun the summer tour. This weekend we’re going to play our biggest concert ever. @ Roskilde Festival, Odeon Stage. We can’t wait, mildly put.

2/07 Roskilde Festival, Odeon
15/07 Fredagsrock, Plænen, Tivoli, Copenhagen (supporting Savage Rose)
13/08 Skanderborg Festival, Rytmehans
14/08 Skagen Kirke

SEE YOU, FRIENDS!

Love/The Hymnboy

 

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Live News Review

Summerlove in Copenhagen

April 5, 2011 – 9:24 pm

Hi folks,

yeah, just because it isn’t summer yet, it doesn’t mean, that you can’t put it in a title, right? So – three good things happened the last three days. Here we go in chronological order:

SUNDAY
YOU guys made it happen last Sunday: Sister Sorrowsong made it to the TOOOOOOP @ Det Elektriske Barometer. #1, ladies and gentlemen! Thank you so so so much for voting! Vote again, if you feel like it – you decide the list :) ! Thanks.

MONDAY
Yesterday, we got the first UK-review of the album. The Line of Best Fit wrote some beautiful things :) ! We’re very, very, honored. In about three weeks or so, we’ll be going to London to play the JaJaJa show at The Lexington. Can’t wait :) !

TUESDAY
Today it got out: we will support the magnificent, legendary Danish orchestra Savage Rose at their concert in Tivoli. It’s needless to say, that we look forward to this event. It will be the 15th of July, and on this day, the title of this blogpost will make sence.

Peace,

Jonas/The Hymnboy

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News

My ears have the same colour as the red band on the cover of my upcoming album

February 4, 2011 – 2:10 pm
Dear fans, friends and listeners

Yesterday the album was available for streaming through Bandcamp. Today it’s not.

I’m sorry I had to take it down; I’d be happy to share it with all of you, but there is a plan and a record company and some other folks, and according to the big masterplan, we’re not supposed to release the music for streaming yet.

But yes, for a short while it was possible to listen to it on Bandcamp. I’m so happy and thankful for the fantastic response it got; I saw a lot of people passing the link forward on Twitter and Facebook, and I don’t think you’d have done that, if you didn’t like the music.

What happened was that we were preparing some download-codes for the LP-edition and for reviews, and while we were doing that, a bat, looking like Lady Gaga flew through an open window, which confused one of the girls in the office so much, that she dropped the jaw, which hit the CEO on top of his head. In surprise the CEO jumped from the chair and landed on the officedogs tail, causing the dog to howl very loud and running scared directly into the desk, where the communications officer was busy setting up the Bandcamp. As the desk took a jump, without him noticing it, he accidentially put a mark in the wrong place and that was why the album suddenly was available for streaming.

We have now closed the window and I hope you’ll forgive me and my friends at Good Tape (and the bat!) for this mess.

I’m looking so much forward to share the album with YOU in just a few weeks!!!

With love,

Jonas, the hymnboy
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News

Soundvenue Friends Sampler

February 1, 2011 – 2:51 pm

Hey guys!

With just a few weeks to go before release of the album, Hymns from Nineveh has been chosen by the Danish magazine Soundvenue to be on their February compilation with “Sister Sorrowsong” in a special radio edit – alongside with great acts such as Peter Bjorn & John, Hercules and Love Affair and Chimes & Bells. You can read more HERE. (it’s in Danish, sorry!)

This is great! Much more good stuff to come!

All the best,
Jonas – The Hymnboy

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Live News

Snowtime and Spring Tour

February 1, 2010 – 1:20 pm

Hello, my dear followers!

It’s been a while – I’ve been relaxing after crazy December. Hymns from Nineveh managed to get to the top #1 spot on Det Elektriske Barometer at the end of the year 2009, what an amazing end to the “Uncomplicated Christmassongs”-story.

In the latest issue of GAFFA, they predict, that HfN will be the next big act of 2010. Let’s hope they are right about that.

Copenhagen is covered in snow – beautiful and a bit annoying. I sit in my appartment and long for the spring. So what is more exciting than a spring tour?!

05/3 COPENHAGEN, LØVES BOGCAFE
06/4 AARHUS, VOXHALL *
07/4 AALBORG, HUSET *
08/4 ODENSE, DEXTER *
11/4 COPENHAGEN, PLANETEN (HUSET MAGSTRÆDE) *
18/7 COPENHAGEN, NEMOLAND **

*) w. MURDER
**) w. CODY

More shows will be added, but this is the confirmed shows for now.

I hope, you stay warm, and I hope to see you at the concerts!

With love

Jonas/Hymns from Nineveh

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News

X-mas mixtape

December 20, 2009 – 2:35 pm

Hi, everyone!

Christmas is here! Copenhagen is all covered in snow and disappointment. So – if your head is hanging low, then go to GAFFA.dk to see the mixtape, I have made for you.

It is 6 songs, that maybe’ll make your christmas a little better. (in addition to the uncomplicated ones, of course :) )

My favorite christmassongs (apart from the beautiful Danish psalms and hymns) are:

Bob Dylan: Winter wonderland
Beach Boys: God only knows
Mechanical Bird: Winter Light
Wham!: Last christmas
Lennon: Happy X-mas/War is over
Sufjan Stevens: That was the worst christmas ever!

If you should make a mix-tape, what would it look like?!

Love/The hymnboy

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Friends Interview News

A day in the life

December 16, 2009 – 8:04 pm

10.08 AM: Woke up, realised I had overslept. Should have been @ Good Tape to have a meeting at 10 o’ clock!

10.40 AM: Meeting with labelboss Mads + Caspar and Aske. We brainstormed on the subject “What to do with the coming album”. We had a good dialogue. Decided to organize ideas and choose songs in January+February, so we would know what to do, when recordings begins in March. Exiting!

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News Review

Some math: # 1 at myspace #2 on P3 and available on iTunes

December 14, 2009 – 5:57 pm

Hi, everyone!

For English readers: What a crazy christmastime this is for Hymns from Nineveh! Currently, HFN is #1 on the overall-chart at Myspace Denmark!
And – “Uncomplicated Christmassongs” are now available through iTunes. So go! :)

Below, there is a message in Danish, but you can get a small recap here: Hymns from Nineveh is humbled and honored by being #2 on the alternative hitlist, Det Elektriske Barometer on Danish National Radio!

Til de danske: Hymns from Nineveh har gået besærkergang op ad rangstigen på Det Elektriske Barometer på P3 og ligger pt. nr 2 – tusind, tusind tak for hjælpen! Som i sidste uge, vil jeg gerne have hjælp fra DIG, nu for at kunne blive på listen..

Send senest onsdag d. 16 december en mail til barometer@dr.dk med dine 3-5 favoritter i prioriteret rækkefølge.

Det kunne se sådan ud:

1. Hymns from Nineveh – Christmas is here
2. Band Ane – en dag i skolen
3. Jónsi – Boy Lilikoi
4. Efterklang – Modern Drift
5. Mew – Silas and the magic car.

Tusind tak for din stemme!

Til slut: endnu en dejlig anmeldelse – 5/6 U’er hos Undertoner, hvor herligt!

Hurra og julesne
/hymnedrengen

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News

Det Elektriske Julebarometer

December 7, 2009 – 3:26 am

HI!

Recap of the message below: Hymns from Nineveh is being tested this week on Danish National Radio P3′ alternative hitlist, “Det elektriske Barometer” – this is huge!

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Søndag fik Hymns from Nineveh æren af at blive testet på P3s Det Elektriske Barometer. Det ville være en stor hjælp, hvis du ville stemme på sangen Christmas is Here, så æteren kan fyldes af julemusik, der har noget på julehjertet.

Du gør således:

Send en mail til barometer@dr.dk og skriv dine 3 forslag fra listen i prioriteret rækkefølge. Det kunne evt. se sådan ud, og du kan bare copy/paste det ind:

1) Hymns from Nineveh – Christmas is here
2) Lykke LI – Possibility
3) Kashmir – Mouthful of wasps

Du kan også gå ind på Barometerets hjemmeside og se hele listen og selv vælge dine favoritter.
Tak for din stemme!
Alt det bedste fra en glad hymnedreng

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Album News

"Uncomplicated Christmassongs"

November 25, 2009 – 7:26 pm

Dearly beloved readers!

It’s a pleasure to finally say, that the Christmas-EP is now streaming at myspace!

Update nov 30: Now it’s also available for download!

"Uncomplicated Christmassongs" cover by Gertrud Hjelm Kongshøj

It has been some crazy, lovely, exhausting, lifegiving months for me, and I’m very, very proud of the outcome. Some might say, that it is a silly thing to do – to make a christmasrecord, but I work with the device, that I have to obey the inspiration, and inspiration gave me 5 christmassongs this summer.

I couldn’t have done it without the magnificent Aske Bode and Caspar Hesselager/SLUU. Nor could the record contain the banjo, upright bass, female vokals, mouth organ, percussion, piano, synthesizers and all the other instruments without the fantastic people who took time to stop by. Thank you every one!

The tracklist is:

1 Christmas is here

2 Uncomplicated Christmassong

3 The Boy in the Manger

4 Immanuel

5 Winterfire

Lyrics will follow on the blog soon. So you can sing along. Or figure out, what is sung.

If you like what you hear, it will be able for purchase through Klicktrack from monday 30th of November! (Scandinavia only, sorry – iTunes will follow shortly)!

Let me know what you think of it.

Merry Christmas
from
The Hymnboy

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