Swedish Friends of A Camp!

We need your votes! “My America” is up for this week’s radio P3 Trackslistan. However, we need all of your help to get into Top 10! You can cast your vote here from 2pm on Saturday 13 June. Thanks!

A Camp

With all this talk of covers, we couldn’t help but notice that a few of you brave people took a shot at covering our song STRONGER THAN JESUS…..look!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n43bNo4MgxM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=214AdOA6eqc&feature=related

And we must say we’re touched and honored! This gave us an idea, how about taking a whack at one of our songs yourself? It could be STRONGER THAN JESUS, it could be any of them from Colonia. Sing it, tape it, post it, let us know you’ve done it, and the creator of the most super awesome version (in our opinion of course) will get a super awesome prize. And everybody who rocks it gets added to our youtube channel, no matter how much you suck! How’s that for a deal?

Ok friends we love you , now show us your stuff !

xoxoxo a camp

Note from the people who make the rules: To submit your entry please send us a youtube link of your clip to acamp@nettwerk.com. Please make sure to include your full name. The contest will run from May 29th- June 9th. We will announce ONE winner per week from valid entries. The winners will receive a signed copy of Colonia, and a US tour poster, and your video will be featured on A Camp’s, myspace, facebook and website for one week. Please remember that this is not the place for porn, or other inappropriate material. Have fun!

We are very excited to announce that we are getting ready to release an EP of cover songs that we’ve been hoarding. They will be available on iTunes on June 9th, and other digital sites on June 16th.

The track listing is:

“US + THEM”: By Pink Floyd of course, one of the most beautiful songs imaginable. The only reason we thought we could approach this one at all is it just seemed to sit perfectly within our musical vocabulary and we thought Nina’s voice could perhaps add another dimension to this already brilliant piece of music.

“BOYS KEEP SWINGING”: Who doesn’t love Bowie? He’s given us so much…and again we thought it would be rocking to hear this particular track come out of a girl’s mouth, also at this point it’s the loudest thing in our live set and is a massive energy release. It’s a totally catchy song as well, and it’s like Bowie just said to hell with it and recorded things in the most train-wrecked non-commercial way he could come up with, almost guaranteeing its commercial failure back in ‘79.

“DONE IT AGAIN”: Grace Jones did this originally on her Nightclubbing album (pull up to my bumper baby!), and it’s a hot track. We were drawn initially to the bizarre very smart lyrics and also that the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind is name-checked, that HAS to be the only instance of that in pop music. The time-travel/”ZELIG” tone to the words made a lot of sense as well as that’s kind of our vibe with Colonia. And we dug the sweet cocaine, studio-in-Barbados groove. The song manages to simultaneously seem nearly asleep and yet totally insane (in the best way), full of this world-weary sadness, plus a rage deep in there somewhere…not unlike Grace herself! As it happens we were on tour recently in Europe about a day behind her, so would see fresh traces of her along our journey, it was spooky and fun. We don’t believe she really exists. This track has become a fan fave in our live show. It’s got that Bosso flav; and Nina gets to bust out her magic claves!

North Americans!

Thought we were slacking? Thought we forgot you? Hardly, friends.

A Camp don’t sleep. See? Cos in short order we will embark on a US/ Canadian tour and fully intend to rock your asses. Like we told ya: we just did it to Europe, now we intend to bring the the same ruckus to you.

As always we promise you blood, and we promise you feathers…

Fair warning, we’re coming to get you sexy kids.

Stay gold n c u very very soon!
A C A M P

PS. In case you missed them, here are the links to download the Harlem Sessions mp3’s that have been featured on various sites over the past few weeks:
NY Post Popwrap blog: “Chinatown”
Filter Magazine: “My America”
Spin.com: “I Signed The Line”

PPS. Some nice people are saying some nice things about Colonia, here is a sampling of the ones that made us blush:

“Beguiling gorgeous stuff-and smartly funny too.” - Spin
“Cardigan Nina Persson roams even further away from ‘Lovefool,’ delivering china-delicate songs well-suited to her beautifully worn alto” - Rolling Stone
“…Colonia is an enthralling amalgam of wistful, dreamy and gorgeously plaintive pop with lyrics that float between the stingingly sardonic…” - Black Book
“…instant classic…” - Entertainment Weekly
“…what sticks out most is Persson’s expressive, always comforting voice…” - Stereogum.com
“Persson strikes gold with two siren calls worthy of the last, doom laden Abba albums. “Love Has Left The Room” is her “Winner Takes It All”; “I Signed The Line” her “One of Us”. At its peak Colonia is Lou Reed’s bummer supreme Berlinreinterpreted by the Nolan Sisters. What’s not to love?” - Mojo

NORTH AMERICAN DATES
May 26 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
May 27 - Middle East - Cambridge, MA
May 28 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
May 30 - Johnny Brenda’s - Philadelphia, PA
May 31 - Les Saints - Montreal, QC
June 1 - Mod Club - Toronto, ON
June 3 - Double Door - Chicago, IL
June 4 - Fine Line Music Café - Minneapolis, MN
June 5 - Record Bar - Kansas City, MO
June 6 - Bluebird Theater - Denver, CO
June 8 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
June 10 - Richard’s on Richards - Vancouver, BC
June 11 - The Crocodile - Seattle, WA
June 12 - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR
June 14 - The Independent - San Francisco, CA
June 15 – Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA

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Hello good peoples of North America!

A Camp is so very proud to announce the arrival of our latest album COLONIA, washing up on your mighty shores Tuesday April 28.

Anon we will set out on a US/ Canadian tour and fully intend to rock you. Having just wrought happy damage upon the modesty of the European public, we intend to commit the same loving cruelty on you, our gentle New World friends. Complete dates are listed below, but to give you a little preview you can view the video interview we did with SPIN Earth in the lovely city of Copenhagen.

As always we promise you blood and feathers, and are humbled by and thankful for your love and support.

Stay golden, North America;  and we will see you under the hot lights soon enough.

hugs,  A  C A M P

Colonia on iTunes and Amazon

North American Tour

May 26 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
May 27 - Middle East - Cambridge, MA
May 28 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
May 30 - Johnny Brenda’s - Philadelphia, PA
May 31 - Les Saints - Montreal, QC
June 1 - Mod Club - Toronto, ON
June 3 - Double Door - Chicago, IL
June 4 - Fine Line Music Café - Minneapolis, MN
June 5 - Record Bar - Kansas City, MO
June 6 - Bluebird Theater - Denver, CO
June 8 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
June 10 - Richard’s on Richards - Vancouver, BC
June 11 - The Crocodile - Seattle, WA
June 12 - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR
June 14 - The Independent - San Francisco, CA
June 15 – Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA

Peoples!

A Camp is on tour! And lo we have begun a VIDEO DIARY, which we are updating daily! This can be found right here on acamp.net, or on our Youtube channel

See we refuse to Twitter or whatever , but we realize we have to cave to one of these new methods of showing you various microscopic details of our daily lives. We’ve discovered it’s actually kind of fun, maybe for the same reason that David Lynch reads the weather every day over the radio in Los Angeles. Perhaps eventually someone out there will detect a pattern in all of this minutiae and nonsense and get back to us with some answers. Much appreciated! Meanwhile tune in and enjoy / suffer / be bored / grow with us, your fave band, A CAMP!!!!!

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

NINA WITH BILL CLINTON! SAY WHAT?

Hello all and welcome to A CAMP ’s shiny new site! We’ve got much to share with you, and many activities coming up, so please check back frequently. NOTE: Why not sign up for email updates by pressing the ye olde banner under the bear on your right? YOU WILL RECEIVE A FREE DOWNLOAD OF A TRACK ONLY AVAILABLE RIGHT HERE! Otherwise, look around , and enjoy happiness lifestyle times!

* waiting around to rock you *

Sleepy after 6 hours of promo in Hamburg……4 more to go then it’s crazy sausages all around yo