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BLUES PILLS – Presenting Home-Made Video For Home-Made Music

26 Tuesday Aug 2014

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Alexander Örn Númason, Óskar Logi Ágústsson, Blues Pills, Chubby Checker, Cory Berry, Cream, Debut Album, Don Alsterber, Don Alsterberg, Dorian Sorriaux, Elin Larsson, Grand Magus, Graveyard, Guðjón Reynisson, Gypsy, Hammer Of Doom, He-Man, High Class Woman, Horisont, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Kaleidobolt, Marijke Koger-Dunham, Mikael Akerfeldt, Roadburn, Rock Hard Festival, Rock Hard Megazine, Rock Revelation Tour 2014, Solstafir, Streetclip.TV, The Beatles, The Vintage Caravan, TuRock Essen, Voyage, Zack Anderson

After entering the German Media Control Charts on a most overwhelming #4, BLUES PILLS have released a new video for their album track ‘Gypsy’ (A CHUBBY CHECKER Cover) as a way of thanking their fans.

Stated the band on their Facebook page: “We made a home-made music video to the song ‘Gypsy’ from our debut album. We wanted to give something back to the fans as a “thank you” for all the amazing support! We shot it one night on tour, in our hotel room in Frankfurt. Hope you dig it!”

Furthermore BLUES PILLS have just recently sold out the Hamburg show of their upcoming headlining run in October. The show has now been booked to a bigger venue, called Uebel & Gefaehrlich. More shows on this tour will be sold out soon!!! Be quick!

Blues Pills LiveBLUES PILLS
THE VINTAGE CARAVAN
presented by METAL HAMMER, ECLIPSED, ROCKS, VISIONS, METALNEWS.DE, BLAST!, NOIZELETTER, MUSIX & ROCK IT!
02.10.2014 DE – Leipzig, Moritzbastei
03.10.2014 CH – Pratteln, Up In Smoke Festival
04.10.2014 DE – Nürnberg, Rockfabrik
06.10.2014 AT – Vienna, Arena
07.10.2014 AT – Innsbruck, Weekender
08.10.2014 DE – Ludwigsburg, Rockfabrik
10.10.2014 BE – Antwerp, Desertfest
11.10.2014 DE – Kaiserslautern, Kammgarn International Blues Festival
13.10.2014 NL – Nijmegen, Doornroosje
14.10.2014 DE – Essen, Turock
15.10.2014 DE – Hamburg, Headcrash
17.10.2014 DE – München, Keep it Low Festival
18.10.2014 DE – Berlin, Bi Nuu
19.10.2014 DE – Frankfurt, das Bett

FRANCE TOUR
BLUES PILLS
presented by MyRock
06.11.2014 F – Strasbourg, La Laiterie
07.11.2014 F – La Roche sur Yon, Le Fuzz Yon
08.11.2014 F – Paris, Le Point FMR

UK TOUR
BLUES PILLS
10.11.2014 UK – Bristol, The Fleece
11.11.2014 UK – Birmingham, The Oobleck
12.11.2014 UK – Manchester, Star And Garter
14.11.2014 UK – Milton Keynes, Crauford Arms
16.11.2014 UK – Glasgow, Audio
18.11.2014 UK – The Dome, London

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BLUES PILLS – Announce European Headlining Tour!

29 Sunday Jun 2014

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Alexander Örn Númason, Óskar Logi Ágústsson, Blues Pills, Chubby Checker, Cory Berry, Cream, Debut Album, Don Alsterber, Don Alsterberg, Dorian Sorriaux, Elin Larsson, Grand Magus, Graveyard, Guðjón Reynisson, Gypsy, Hammer Of Doom, He-Man, High Class Woman, Horisont, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Marijke Koger-Dunham, Mikael Akerfeldt, Roadburn, Rock Hard Festival, Rock Hard Megazine, Rock Revelation Tour 2014, Solstafir, Streetclip.TV, The Beatles, The Vintage Caravan, TuRock Essen, Voyage, Zack Anderson

Up and coming multicultural Blues Rockers BLUES PILLS announced their upcoming European headlining tour in support of the band’s forthcoming self-titled debut album. The quartet will be supported by Icelandic label mates THE VINTAGE CARAVAN. Produced by renowned Don Alsterberg (GRAVEYARD, HORISONT), »Blues Pills« is set to be released July 25, 2014.

The Vintage CaravanIIThe album is already being praised by pretty much every rock magazine out there and described as “the debut album of the year” (Boris Kaiser/ROCK HARD).

TOURDATES
02.10.2014 DE – Leipzig, Moritzbastei
03.10.2014 CH – Pratteln, Up In Smoke Festival
04.10.2014 DE – Nürnberg, Rockfabrik
06.10.2014 AT – Vienna, Arena
07.10.2014 AT – Innsbruck, Weekender
08.10.2014 DE – Ludwigsburg, Rockfabrik
10.10.2014 BE – Antwerp, Desertfest
11.10.2014 DE – Kaiserslautern, Kammgarn International Blues Festival
13.10.2014 NL – Nijmegen, Doornroosje
14.10.2014 DE – Essen, Turock
15.10.2014 DE – Hamburg, Headcrash
17.10.2014 DE – München, Keep it Low Festival
18.10.2014 DE – Berlin, Bi Nuu
19.10.2014 DE – Frankfurt, das Bett

Blues Pills & The Vintage CaravanThe first limited edition of »Blues Pills« will also include a special bonus DVD which will feature the band’s entire gig at 2013’s installment of renowned German “Hammer Of Doom” festival as well as a video interview with Streetclip.TV – see tracklist below.

DVD (Live @ Hammer Of Doom 2013):
01. Bliss
02. Dig In
03. Devil Man
04. Little Sun
05. Mind Exit
06. Astralplane
07. Black Smoke
+ Video interview with Streetclip.TV
The ten tracks of »Blues Pills« will also feature a cover version of the CHUBBY CHECKER classic ‘Gypsy’.

“It’s a song everyone in the band liked and we used to play it on our soundcheck. Slowly it worked itself into our set list, and now it’s going to be on our debut album as well. Back in the days lots of bands covered each other to honor the other artist, and they did it with their own touch on it. Some examples are, JIMI HENDRIX ‘All Along the Watchtower’, JANIS JOPLIN ‘Tell Mama’, ‘Summertime’ and ‘Ball and Chain’, or JOE COCKER ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’, everyone was doing it with the right reason. For us, we want to honor CHUBBY CHECKER and also bring it back to life by doing the cover version the BLUES PILLS way. Hopefully people like both versions and, yeah, it’s just a killer tune.“ – BLUES PILLS

»Blues Pills« Tracklist:
01. High Class Woman
02. Ain’t No Change
03. Jupiter
04. Black Smoke
05. River
06. No Hope Left For Me
07. Devil Man
08. Astralplane
09. Gypsy (CHUBBY CHECKER cover)
10. Little Sun

The cover art (as seen in the tour poster) was created by legendary artist Marijke Koger-Dunham (THE BEATLES, CREAM).

Commented the band: „The artwork is by the incredible artist Marijke Koger-Dunham. She painted it sometime in the late 60ies, and because we were looking for some 60ies inspired artwork, we thought “what could be better?” For us, it is a representation of the balance of life, as shown in all the symbolism of natural dualities such as darkness and light, sun and moon, life and death, etc. It shows how opposite forces are interconnected and compliment each other to form a whole. Besides that, it just looks absolutely amazing!“

Blues PillsThe band will be playing the following open air events this summer:

27.06.2014 NO Steinkjerfestivalen, Steinkjer
04.07.2014 NO Skanevik Blues Festival, Skanevik
10.07.2014 CH Montreaux Jazz Festival, Montreaux
11.07.2014 AT Clamrock, Klam
12.07.2014 AT Lovely Days Festival, Wiesen
17.07.2014 LT Devilstone Festival, Vilnius
24.07.2014 CH Blue Balls Festival, Luzern
25.07.2014 IT Totem Psychfest, Rome
26.07.2014 DE Wilwerath Rock City, Wilwerath
28.07.2014 UK St. Pancras Old Church, London
31.07.2014 DE Burg Herzberg Festival, Breitenbach am Herzberg
01.08.2014 DE Krach am Bach, Beelen
02.08.2014 DE Labertal Festival, Schierling
07.08.2014 NO Oya Festivalen, Oya
09.08.2014 SE Getaway Rock Festival, Gävle
14.08.2014 DE Summer Breeze, Dinkelsbühl
16.08.2014 PT Sonic Blast, Moledo Do Minho
22.08.2014 CH Open Air Gränichen, Gränichen
23.08.2014 NO Parken Festival, Bodo

More to be announced soon!

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THE VINTAGE CARAVAN – Riding The Nightliner Through A Snowstorm, With HE-MAN!

23 Monday Jun 2014

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Alexander Örn Númason, Óskar Logi Ágústsson, Grand Magus, Guðjón Reynisson, He-Man, Mikael Akerfeldt, Roadburn, Rock Revelation Tour 2014, Solstafir, The Vintage Caravan, TuRock Essen, Voyage

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Sometimes doing Interview with touring bands will lead to what? Deep, meaningful conversation, consuming amounts of booze beyond believe or just good clean fun! As Icelandic Classic Rock trio THE VINTAGE CARAVAN were en route of the “Rock Revelation Tour 2014”, alongside labelmates GRAND MAGUS, one of their trips took them to the heart of the German Metal scene, right in the centre of the Ruhr-area. Facing a completely SOLD OUT venue, TuRock, Essen that is, vocalist&guitarist Óskar Logi Ágústsson and bassplayer Alexander Örn Númason found themselves on the stairway to backstage heaven (sorry, couldn’t help it!), where they spent quite some time trying to figure out how to put together one of He-Mans rubber companions and not to forget doing an Interview. While sticksman Guðjón Reynisson reportedly was taking an inside-lesson on German culture, Óskar and Alex were taking a Q&A, which couldn’t be used in full due to the recoding being pretty much noise – to make a long story shot(er), here now is the mailer done afterwards – FINALLY!

For the average Metalhead, Iceland is just known as „Solstafir-Country“… Tell me about Iceland and the music scene in general.

The Icelandic music scene is very fertile and active, it consist mainly on artsy pop but the rock scene is very strong in our Sólstafir country. The down side of being a band there is mainly costs regarding flying, lack of venues do to hotels being built down town and all the elfs that we have to battle before performing live, they do not approve.

The Vintage Caravan_IVThe clueless caravan

What is it like to grow up in Iceland? How much emphasis is put on musical education?

For me growing up in Iceland was absolutely wonderful. Beautiful landscapes and great people. I don’t know anything else, so yeah.

Have you ever considered doing Icelandic vocals?

Nah not really, I just don’t think it fits the music we make, could sound kind of cheesy.

Would you say that your music includes Icelandic roots or are you more influenced by your own idols/favourite bands?

Everything we see, we experience and feel influences our music. Surely there are icelandic elements in our music, we are always trying something new for us. Best example of the Icelandic landscape influencing our music is in the track “Winterland” on Voyage, i wrote that while we were driving to a gig out in the country, and in the blink of an eye we were inside a snowstorm.

How did you meet each other and how did you form the band?

Me and gaui have known each other for 10 years now and have been playing together since we were twelve, so eight years. I asked him a few times to join the band when I was 9 or ten but he had a school band that he was in so he had no time for the ginger kid. but at age 12 he finally gave in haha. We have been trough a lot, especially for our young age. In 2009 we came in third place in the icelandic battle of the bands (Músíktilraunir) and I received an award for my guitar work, after that (then aged 14) we went on a roll and shortly became on of the most active live bands in Iceland, within Iceland ofc.

The Vintage CaravanTrio in full

Is playing in the band a full-time job?

You could say that yeah, in January we decided to move to Denmark, after our march tour, to be closer to the scene. So yeah this is a full-time job for us, which is a dream come true.

How did you get to play two sets at Roadburn this year and how did you choose the set-lists?

Let’s just say Guðjón is very persuasive! Haha, no, we had been booked for the festival the month before being signed, Walter Roadburn helped us a lot with that. then a month before performing at the festival Mikael Akerfeldt chose us to play at his curated night, he apparently loved the album, which was really amazing for us, really meant a lot. For Mikael’s set we did a proggy’er set with more emphasis on improvising, and the other set, late on the saturday evening we did more of an up tempo party set. It really is a wonderful festival.

The Vintage Caravan_VWinner smile of two very accomplished lads!

What does MARSWATT stand for?

It’s a secret, only to be relived when all the planets are aligned and Carrot Top clicks his heels three times.

Do you have any interesting/unusual hobbies?

Alex skates a lot, I love to sleep, Guðjón plays real life call of duty when drunk with a wooden stick.

How do you spend your spare time on tour?

Kidding around, taking a walk in the city we are in, sleep/resting, watching movies in the nightliner, waiting and eating. That kinda sums it up, haha!

What are your plans for the future? I heard you would like to move to the European mainland.

We are going to keep living here in Sonderborg, Denmark the rest of the year. We have been writing a lot lately, we have a lot of festivals and tour dates coming up, a tour in october will be announced soon. Then going home for christmas and spending january and february recording our album. the plan is rigging up our stuff and record in an old farm out in the icelandic country side, should be really interesting. Please check out our facebook and our album, Voyage. Cheers brothers and sisters!

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THE VINTAGE CARAVAN & GRAND MAGUS – To Join Forces

06 Wednesday Nov 2013

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Alexander Örn Númason, Arik Roper, Álftanes, Óskar Logi Ágústsson, Bathory, Björklöven, Bullet, Crucified Barbara, Debut Album, Expand Your Mind, Fox, Free Fall, Grand Magus, Graveyard, Guðjón Reynisson, Iceland, Iron Will, JB, King Diamond, Ludwig Witt, Mercyful Fate, Orchid, Quorthon, Roadburn Festival, Sanda Karlsdóttir, Scorpion Child, Skellefteå, Skellefteå AIK, The Birch Leaves, The Hunt, The Vintage Caravan, Umeå, Voyage, Witchcraft

2013-11-06 03:00 – With the upcoming releases of both Swedish rifflords GRAND MAGUS and Icelandic Classic Rock newcomers THE VINTAGE CARAVAN scheduled for release at the beginning of 2014, the two trios now revealed news on mutual European Tour in March. Joining in as well for the “Rock Revelation Tour 2014” will be Norwegian Rock’n’Rollers AUDREY HORNE and German Blues Rock Newcomers ZODIAC.

tvc2013GRAND MAGUS will be leading this tasty pack. The successor to last years‘ highly acclaimed output »The Hunt«, ” that entered the German album charts at # 42, will hit the shelves on January 31st, 2014.
Opening up the rock shenanigans will be THE VINTAGE CARAVAN. Their debut record »Voyage« will be out in early 2014. If you would like to get a hint on what to expect from those young fellas, check out their music video to the track ‘Expand Your Mind’ here:

Join in all four bands on the following dates:

18.03. FR Paris – Divan du Monde
19.03. DE Cologne – Gebäude 9
20.03. DE München – Backstage
21.03. AT Wien – Szene
22.03. CH Aarau – Kiff
23.03. DE Stuttgart – Universum
24.03. DE Berlin – C-Club
26.03. DE Hamburg – Markthalle
27.03. DE Frankfurt – Batschkapp
28.03. DE Geiselwind – Musichall
29.03. DE Essen – Turock
30.03. DE Nijmegen – Doornroosje

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