We played Skanderborg Festival 4 days ago and it was quite an experience! It was exiting to play on such a big Stage and we had a blast during the show. But we gotta admit that it was a big challenge to play in the afternoon, cause there were no drunk people (!) - but lotz of happy people though. It's kinda wierd to play when it's not dark yet cause you can't really tell if your effect-pedals are on or off... But on the other hand it's really cool that you don't have to wait all day to do your show before you can get drunk and enjoy everything else on a festival :D Thanks to everyone who joined our show and to everyone who complimented us later.

See the Danish music magazine GAFFA's fotos here

GAFFA's review in Danish

During our show Danish TV channel TV2 OJ made a reportage from the festival. It's not about Darling Don't Dance but there's some video clips of us. Funny.

Danish online newspaper BT wrote an article about the opening of Skanderborg Festival 2009 (There's a foto of DDD)

Darling Don't Dance er blevet udnævnt til ugens band på Bandbase.dk i uge 23.
Singlen "Wake Up Pity Stops" var udnævnt til dagens track mandag d. 1. juni.
På BANDBASE kan du læse en meget rosende og ærlig artikel skrevet af Rasmus Ardahl, Ansv. redaktør på BandBase.

I dag er en god dag!

We're really glad that our song "Wake Up Pity Stops" has been listed as a contender to the danish music magazine soundvenue's HIGH 5. We're really glad that a lot of people, we don't know, (and who don't know us) get the chance to listen to our single.
If you wanna help our song to make it to the HIGH 5 list go to www.soundvenue.dk and vote. The webpage is only in Danish, (which I don't get) but it means, that there's no point for all our American friends to go and create a profile to vote. (just so you don't waste your time).
SOUNDVENUE HIGH 5

Thanks!

Crazy Shit! Last Friday (the 27th) something big came out of nowhere.
In the afternoon I got a phone call from a journalist who wanted to
meet up with Darling Don’t Dance right away, to do an interview for the
Danish national TV channel DR1. The thing was that the whole country
had been going nuts for the last few months about this really popular
TV show called X-Factor. Friday the 27th was the show's big finale.
 The journalist wanted to highlight the opposite of this mainstream,
staged TV show by showing the underground music scene, the scene that
families and people watching X-Factor might not necessarily know about.
 He found Darling Don’t Dance on the Internet and thought that this art
punk/noise rock girl trio would be the perfect example.

Well suddenly, I was in a big hurry, since I agreed to meet up with the
journalist and cameraman within an hour! I called the girls and our
drum boy and luckily we’d already agreed to meet at our rehearsal space
exactly at this time to load the car and go to the venue - we were
supposed to play the same evening.

We spent a few hours in our rehearsal space playing songs while DR1
filmed and interviewed us.  Afterward we rushed to the venue to load
in. Funny thing was, the TV guys also arrived at the venue in their
advanced LIVE-TV car, so they could spend the rest of the afternoon
editing the interview into one piece and filming our live show.

We drove home to get all dressed up but had no time to rest. We got
back to the venue and made a quick sound check (no biggie since we were
playing backline only). The room very quickly filled up with tons of
people and soon there were so much noise that the journalist could
barely hear the TV-people from the main office in Copenhagen in his
headphones.  So we had to turn our backline WAAYY down, but it was cool
anyway.  We waited for the journalist to give us the go-ahead and WAM
BAM we were on – playing live on national TV!  We did a few songs and
then went off-stage – and off TV.

As scheduled we did our REAL show at 11.30pm – and that was a f***ing
amazing show! The first show with our new drummer by the way - it was
totally freakin’ amazing!

Can’t wait to play more shows with him.

By the way: Thanks to everyone who wrote us nice things after seeing us
on TV.  Thanks to everyone who noticed our name a checked out our space.

Xoxo

Julie, Mette, Maria // Darling Don’t Dance

Use this link to go see DDD on Danish TV:

This is what the Danish music magazine 'Soundvenue' wrote about Darling Don't Dance when the chose us to be Soundvenue Selected. We think they wrote REALLY nice stuff about us and wanted our dear friends in NYC and everyone else who doesn't understand our wierd language to read it too (o:


"Smashing Pumpkins, The Breeders, and Dinosaur Jr. are a few of the cool names from the early 90s that come to mind when listening to the danish girl-group Darling Don't Dance, whose wonderful, noisy melodies float like feathers above their wall of turned up guitar-fuzz. With Julie on vocals the band has a super-cool, skillful vocalist who recalls the quivering intensity of Giant Drag's Annie Hardy. In the company of two other young ladies – Mette and Maria on bass and guitar – Darling Don't Dance both sound and look like a beautiful, more melodious version of their closely related American "sisters" in Sleater-Kinney, except with a male counterpart on the drum seat.

Whether you call it excellent garage rock or splendid noise-pop, it's certain that the girls can and will make it in the world. Even without a label behind them they've already performed in New York, but we think they should hold their horses, stay in Denmark for a while, and who knows – maybe release an outstanding debut album loaded with ambitious and captivating songs like 'Golden View'. We'll keep our fingers crossed."

Forskellige danske aviser bragte i starten af august et interview med Darling Don't Dance, læs 2 online udgaver her:
Urban:
http://www.urban.dk/article/20080810/kultur/80810001/

Århus Stiftstidende: http://stiften.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080806/DHS/175278102/-1/rss-section