Maria *Glittering guitar & light fairy vocal
Julie *Baby blue guitar & tuneful rock vocal
Mette *Gloomy bass&mysterious whispering vocal
Live Drummer: Anders Haaning
As all good rock stories this one also starts with three friends forming a band. We didn't have a clue as of how to do so, we just really felt like creating something powerful and charged. So with no idea whatsoever of what we wanted to sound like, how a song is supposedly structured or whether or not lyrics should rime, we just started playing.
Time was spent on various experiments: What does it sound like, if a violin bow is used on a bass? How many beers does it take for me to loose all capability to tune my e-string? What if I stopped using a pick and instead started beating franticly with my cord? What will happen if I insist on using only my index finger when playing? We soon found that this way of expressing and creating without so many words gave us a feeling of great release. As time passed we found an irreplaceable togetherness and our unique universe had been created
Who could have known that this lack of intent could ever result in anything? And yet, some time later we found ourselves with an actual set of amazing songs. We soon agreed that this was way to good to keep contained inside Denmark so on a whim we booked tickets and went to New York. To our pleasant surprise we found ourselves perfectly at home as a part of the underground music scene. The overly positive response to our music made it hard to leave the city, so ever since we've divided our band activities between New York and Denmark
A pattern has taken shape and very paradoxical it seems like not having a plan is our best plan. So although we now have reached an unspoken understanding and intuitive knowledge about in which direction we're moving, we continue not knowing how our next song is created, whether or not it will have a chorus or if lyrics necessarily need to be about anything. What we do know is that as long as we play we'll make it work.
30.8.09
Darling Don't Dance - now on Twitter! Follow DDD's activitys by signing up at twitter. DDD on twitter
25.8.09
GAFFA nyhed: Danske navne til Iceland Airwaves "Både Darling Don't Dance, Oh Land og When Saints Go Machine er på programmet til den islandske festival". Læs hele artiklen her.
21.8.09
Darling Don't Dance has officially been added to the program at this year's "Iceland Airwaves" festival i Reykjavik! More info about the festival and line up at www.icelandairwaves.is This festival is similar to the Danish SPOT festival that takes place one a year in Aarhus - just bigger!
14.8.09
Læs en ny anmeldelse af "Bare Frames" på Undertoner.dk, der, humoristisk som det er, beskriver Darling Don't Dance som "kantet, deprimerende indiepunk" =) Darling Don't Dance: Bare Frames
4.6.09
DJ Mojo NYC has put "Wake Up Pity Stops" on his podcast on July 7 on BREAKTHRURADIO.
3.6.09
"Bare Frames" has been reviewed on the music website Diskant. Score: 8/10 Read review (In Danish!)
1.6.09
Darling Don't Dance is band of the week on BANDBASE.DK. We appreciate!
1.6.09
"Wake Up Pity Stops" made it to the Soundvenue HIGH 5 list! Thanx to all who voted!
25.5.09
"Wake Up Pity Stops" has been listed as a contender to the danish music magazine soundvenue's HIGH 5. Please go vote!
14.5.09
Darling Don't Dance gets airplay on Danish national radio channel P3!
For the Danes; read more on "what's new on P3"
1.05.09 - BARE FRAMES has been released!
Our EP "BARE FRAMES" is now available on itunes. If you wanna buy a VINYL or a CD please go to Pad & Pen Records' webpage
16.04.09 - WAKE UP PITY STOPS The first single from "Bare Frames" has been released!
You can buy it on itunes TODAY!
14.04.09
Hey! DR1 indslaget om Darling Don't Dance fra d. 27. marts er dukket op på youtube. Så nu har mulighed for at se eller gense interviewet! DARLING DON'T DANCE LIVE PÅ DR1 D.27. MARTS 2009
12.04.09
EP Release Party LINE UP:
Khmer Rouge
The Shaking Sensations
Fifty Foot Spiders
Little Yells Alot
DARLING DON'T DANCE
25.03.09
I anledningen af at vi udsender vores EP "BARE FRAMES" holder vi en kæmpe fest på Stengade30, kbh. d. 30. april 2009! Festen starter kl. 20 og for at skabe den perfekte steming har vi valgt at invitere nogle bands og venner til at spille sammen med os. Vi vil snart offentliggøre hvilke. Vi, Darling Don't Dance, giver selvføgelig også en live smagsprøve på, hvad EP indeholder af melodiøse kompositioner og vidunderlige støjladninger. Det er naturligvis gratis at være med til at fejre udgivelsen af vores EP - vi håber der er mange, der vil komme og tjekke det ud, om ikke andet, så for at høre 3 andre rigtig fede bands. Der vil løbende blive opdateret info om denne fest på facebook.
23.03.09
We are so glad to announce that our EP, called ”BARE FRAMES”, is gonna be released on May 1st 2009 by Pad & Pen Records!!
20.03.09
Hey folks! It's been a long time. We've been really busy - but in a gooood way! As you can see we have removed most of our old demos - to make space for new songs! Soon - VERY soon - we'll announce the EP release date, the EP title and some other VERY exciting news... Soon friends, we're so close and can't wait to tell you!
20.01.09
Igår blev de sidste grundspor til Darling Don't Dance's kommende EP indspillet, så nu gælder det blot mix, mastering og artwork før EP'en er klar til at se dagens lys. Undervurdér dog ikke, at sådanne ting tager tid, og vi vil være sikre på, at det hele er præcis, som det skal være, førend vi lader musikken flyve... Vi forventer stadig at afholde en releasefest primo april. Foruden denne kæmpe fest vil der selvfølgelig blive mange andre mulighder for at opleve DDD live i løbet af april og maj. (datoerne vil blive offentliggjort løbende) Bl.a. smugstarter vi den 27. marts på maskineriet i Aarhus for at varme op til de følgende koncerter. Vi glæder os til at kunne præsentere nogle nye sange for jer her på Myspace.
29.12.08
Actually this is old news but we think it's SO awesome that we wanna share it with all of you. Where ever we go we stick our selfmade-handcutted-blue-dress-sticker. Like Julie said to this guy at this nyc-bar bar in 2007 "here ya go - a sticker, you can stick it everywhere" In 2008 one sticker suddently appeared on the internet! A cool guy found it in the bathroom at Goodbye Blue Monday (a nyc-venue we played in 2007) and put it on his FLICKR profile...that's just awesome!
15.12.08 SOUNDVENUE SELECTED - SOUNDVENUE SELECTED
SOUNDVENUE SELECTED - SOUNDVENUE SELECTED - SOUNDVENUE SELECTED - SOUNDVENUE SELECTED
Soundvenue har valgt Darling Don't Dance som SOUNDVENUE SELECTED uge 50. De skriver bl.a.:
"3 piger + 1 fyr = Noget af det bedste garagerock, der har ramt vores breddegrader i år. Med deres smukke melodier indhyllet i start-90'ernes guitar-fuzz er Darling Don't Dance et særdeles glædeligt bekendtskab." Klik her for at læse mere.
28.11.08
Dear friends, it's time to a little update; We have been writing and recording songs for our EP (to be released ultimo march 2009). It will contain 5 brilliant songs that we're really excited about. During December/January we'll finish recording/mixing/mastering and the beautiful cover-artwork should be done too. We're planning on throwing a big release party in march so stay tuned to find out the exact date cause you're all invited! Afterwards we'll go on a mini tour in DK, more about that later.
28.11.08
A nice photo of Darling Don't Dance appears in the Danish newpaper 'Metroexpress copenhagen' today. We had fun at "Release it" and would definitely join that club again if we lived nearby!
21.10.08
Hey everyone, a cool live video clip from 'kvindemuseet' just showed up on YOUTUBE. Go watch it!
15.10.08
Husk nu alle kære venner og bekendte (og jer der måske ikke er nogen af delene), at DDD spiller på Studenterhus Aarhus nu på fredag (17/10) i anledningen af Strange Ears Festival. I får hele 6 koncerter for kun 40 kr fredag aften (og hvis i vil se 6 bands mere lørdag koster det 60kr). Se mere om arragementet og de andre bands HER.
Det er faktisk lidt vigtigt, at I kommer lige præcis denne aften, da det bliver vores sidste koncert i flere måneder! Vi skal nemlig koncentrere os om at indspille en rigtig fed EP, som I kan få fingrene i i starten af 2009.
11.10.08
A group and a fan page of Darling Don't Dance has now been created on FACEBOOK - anyone can join and be our virtual friend! YEAH!
Af MARTIN HVIID De fremtidige
"På Kvindemuseet får man muligheden for at være hurtig på aftrækkeren og opdage det næste store musiktalent. Darling Don't Dance er et nyt band baseret i Århus, der netop er vendt tilbage efter en tur til New York. Bandet bevæger sig et sted mellem pop, surf, artpunk og 60er rock, og har energi nok til at spille to koncerter i løbet af kulturnatten."
Læs hele artiklen HER
10.8.2008
Read the interview that Darling Don't Dance made right before they went to nyc: (unfortunately only in danish)
"Darling Don't Dance performs Un Ensemble de Punk from the EP Bare Frames. The video is a re-edited version of The Sonics' Psycho a Go-Go video (1965). This is an unofficial Darling Don't Dance video. Chick's got moves..." Made by Anders Pødenphant Andersen.
