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The Gray Brigade

New album Fanfare out now!

About Me

We are The Gray Brigade. Some time ago, we wrote a bunch of simple but beautiful popsongs, and arranged them with everything from grand horn sections and choirs to accordions, glockenspiels and a hell of a lot of drums.
Shortly thereafter we travelled to an old clergyman´s mansion in northern Sweden to record a few of the songs and pretend to be The Band. After a while we shaved and presented the world with our first EP. People liked it and put us in some magazines and asked us to play festivals like Hultsfred, Popaganda and Pop Dakar.
In 2007 we returned to the mansion to record some more songs. The result, available to you via our fine distributor Dotshop.se, is our debut Fanfare, which we are mighty proud of. Go get it!

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Member Since: 3/15/2006
Band Website: graybrigade.se
Band Members: Pernilla Söderberg – vocals
Johanna Dellenbrant – vocals
Anders Molander – guitar
Mikael Lundh – trombone
Elisabeth Thorén – vocals
Thomas Jackson – lead vocals
Pia Påltoft – piano, vocals
Magnus Ekenstedt – guitar
Lars Nordesjö – lead vocals
Magnus Thorén - accordion
Pernilla Axerup – piano, vocals
Tobias Axerup – bass
Jöns Ahlén – drums, percussion
Måns Ahlén – saxophone
Kristian Axerup – drums, percussion
Influences: Marion Black, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Auster, Aphex Twin, Arrested Development (TV show), Eddie Izzard, Peeping Tom, Arthur Russell, The Wicker Man, Edie Sedgwick, Grigorij Perelman, Elliott Smith, Joanna Newsom, Cy Twombly, Solomon Burke, Peter Singer, August Strindberg, Chan-Wook Park, Phil Spector, David Bowie, Stanley Kubrick, Yoko Ono, Yves Klein, Augustus Pablo, Terence Mallick, Björn Olsson, Astrid Lindgren, Olafur Eliasson, Boards Of Canada, William S. Burroughs, Four Tet, Tim Burton, Khonnor, Fluxus, Brian Eno, Jorge Luis Borges, The Clash, Colleen, The Muppet Show, The Cure, Efterklang, Walt Disney, The Beach Boys. Yukio Mishima, Hot Chip, Charlie Chaplin, Jenny Wilson, Andy Warhol, Kazumasa Hashimoto, Donnie Darko, Nico, Psapp, Vincent Gallo, Regina Spektor, Henry Darger, Solaris, Grace Jones, Wired, Stina Nordenstam, E.T., Talking Heads, Dave Eggers, Tape, Anthony & The Johnsons, Hans Arnold, Uusi Fantasia, Kompakt, Arthur C. Danto, The Whitest Boy Alive, Tom Waits, Nicolas Roeg, Klaus Kinski
Sounds Like: Roy Orbison, Arcade Fire, The Polyphonic Spree, The Staple Singers, Solomon Burke, Ray LaMontagne, The Beatles, Josh Rouse, David Bowie, The Ark, Tim Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Elvis Costello, The Supremes, Zombies, Bruce Springsteen, Moneybrother, Sufjan Stevens, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Spiritualized, Ann Peebles, The Concretes, The Flaming Lips, Nick Cave, Patrick Wolf, The Walker Brothers, Velvet Underground, Mercury Rev, Nicolai Dunger, The Beach Boys, The O'Jays, The Magic Numbers, The Rightious Brothers

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Record Label: Gray Economy
Type of Label: Indie

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Get Merry...

...with The Sweptaways, Magnus Carlson & The Gray Brigade. Press play & repeat to create an everlasting Happy Christmas!
Posted by The Gray Brigade on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:11:00 PST

Hot damn!

Our days are so brim-filled with glorious events these days that we are practically bursting at the seams. Our first album "Fanfare" will be released on 24 of September on our very own Gray Economy la...
Posted by The Gray Brigade on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:18:00 PST

Cry Cry Christmas out now

We have said it before. The Gray Brigade aims to make music that has Phil Spector putting his guns back in the drawer. It doesn´t get much closer than this. Cry Cry Christmas by the Sweptaways feat. M...
Posted by The Gray Brigade on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:28:00 PST

The Sweptaways, Magnus Carlson & The Gray Brigade

It sounded like a good combination, and indeed it was. Keep your ears and eyes open for the only christmas single you need to buy this year - Cry Cry Christmas with The Sweptaways feat. Magnus Carlson...
Posted by The Gray Brigade on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:43:00 PST