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THE ELEPHANTS

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About Me


Hello people of Planet Earth, we are The Elephants. A group of people based in Copenhagen, Denmark, who love funny instruments, Sweden, New York, Brian Wilson and long walks. Our debut album has been released in most of the European countries on Tapete Records last autumn (2007). You can hear some of the songs from the album here on this site. Enjoy!

FOR BOOKING
DK: Nikolaj Thorenfeldt / [email protected]
G A S, Benelux, UK: Tapete Booking / [email protected]
US: Microindie Booking / [email protected]

Contact the band: [email protected]
Press material can be found at our website elephants.dk !

Video for "Caroline Knows" (directed by Fenar Ahmad)

Video for "5 Minutes" (directed by Mads & Alexandra Hartmann)

Pics from Germany/England Tour 2008

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/25/2006
Band Website: elephants.dk
Band Members: Bjarke Bendtsen: vocals, guitar - Martine Madsen: guitar, vocals, lapsteel, violin, woodblocks, drums - Mads Ringblom: harmonica, theremin, perc., vocals, ukulele, piano, keyboards, banjo, saxophone - Kim Vestergaard: drums, horn - Tomas Raae: bass, vocals, perc.

Occasional live elephant:
Claus Højensgård: Trumpet, vocals, perc.

Influences: other animals (seagulls e.g.), airplanes, girls, the beach boys, neil young, summer nights, an old Ford-T, days off, surf, splinters in the feet, harmonica, paul auster, huge quantities of accumulated love, shallow numbers, flypaper, velvet Underground, a holiday cottage, cheap beer, lack of cheek-to-cheek-dancing, nostalgia, western films and other films, THE THEREMIN, hidden formulas, confused doctors, bukowski, simplicity, huge orchestras, jetlag, flaming lips, shivers, surprises, california dreaming, desperate Sundays, billie holiday, banjo, wine, coffee, small apartments and more.

Sounds Like:

RELEASE DATES:
Oct 5 2007 - Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Benelux
Oct 8 2007 - Scandinavia
Nov 26 2007 - UK
Dec 12 2007 - Japan

HOW TO BUY THE ALBUM?

DOWNLOADS
iTunes
iTunes Japan

CD/LP
all over europe:
glitterhouse.com
amazon.co.uk

Scandinavia
dotshop.se
cdon.com

UK
roughtrade.com
piccadillyrecords.com
normanrecords.com

Germany, Austria, Switzerland
tapeterecords.de
amazon.de
glitterhouse.com

Benelux
sonic.nl

France
amazon.fr

Japan
amazon.co.jp
hmv.co.jp
quince-records.com

or go to your favorite record store!

Record Label: Tapete Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Berlin gig cancelled

Hi, we're sorry to tell we won't be playing the scheduled gig at Bang Bang Club on May 31. Hopefully we can compensate with a show next fall./E
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Tue, 20 May 2008 05:29:00 PST

Rust på torsdag!

Kære Københavnere!vi spiller på Rust nu på torsdag i stort 6-mands line-up med ekstra trut fra blæser-Claus Højensgård. Der er både nyt og gammelt materiale på programmet, som får en afpudsning inden ...
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Mon, 19 May 2008 03:26:00 PST

Rust 22. maj + SPOT Festival

Kære venner, elskerinder, fans og net-bekendte, vil lige gøre opmærksom på vores to gigs i DK dette forår: København:  RUST 22. MAJ hvor vi spiller med Shout Welling...
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:05:00 PST

New video

We’ve uploaded a video for Caroline Knows, directed by Fenar Ahmad. It was recorded one evening in a dance school hall with a lot of mirrors... Take a look./TE...
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:28:00 PST

Thanks/danke sehr (back in DK)

Dear all, THANKS to everyone who came to the shows on the tour! We had a lot of great nights, cool to see some of you German people we saw on last tour + all the new faces, and jolly good to meet you...
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:53:00 PST

UK this week!

Greetings!We are having a day off in Luxembourg after the first week of the tour in Germany. Big thanks to everyone who came to the shows and to you who have left us a message here on myspace. It&rsqu...
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:10:00 PST

Tour coming up, new bass-player and more

Dear everyone,a lot of things have happended since we raised our trunks to the surface last time.First of all there will soon be a change in the line-up as our bass-player Rasmus has decided to concen...
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:17:00 PST

Update!

Hey everyone!We're back from our winter holiday, soon ready to start working on all the new songs Bjarke has in his hat. Hopefully you'll be able to hear some of them on our Germany/UK tour in March.H...
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:06:00 PST

Out in Japan!

Hey all people in Japan!Our Japaneese collaborator Quince Records will release our album tomorrow on Dec 12 so you can buy it in the stores and on iTu...
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:11:00 PST

UK (and more) in March!

We're very happy to announce that we will make it over to the British in March next year. Our bookers haven't finished their job yet but it looks like there's going to be one week in England...
Posted by THE ELEPHANTS on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:09:00 PST