Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Blue Van to release album April 7

Denmark's own The Blue Van are set to release their third album entitled Man Up on April 7th via iTunes. A physical release will follow soon thereafter with an announcement to be made in the coming weeks.

Man Up is the follow up to 2006's Dear Independence which was received with rave reviews including being one of David 'Fricke's Picks' in Rolling Stone. Man Up is currently enjoying major success in the band's native country most notably being nominated as Denmark's P3 'Breakthrough Artist of the Year' & 'Hit of the Year' as well as the first single 'Silly Boy' being touted by Danish National Radio (DR-P3) as "The Week's Unavoidable" and presently sits in the Top 10.

The new album is already making waves here in the states with the title track being heard in a recent episodes of 90210 and CSI NY in addition to being used in Scrubs season premiere teaser campaign. The song will also be featured in an upcoming Playstation NBA video game. The previously mentioned 'Silly Boy,' which is the first U.S. single is also featured prominently in the current Behold Samsung TV Ad running for their T-mobile phone.

The Blue Van formed in the remote Danish town of Bronderslev where they met in kindergarten and started to play music together at the age of 12. They moved to Copenhagan six years ago, at the age of 20, to further their career and have spent a lot of their time in the past few year in the U.S. recording and playing as many gigs as possible.

The band will be touring the US (dates to be announced) and doing festivals in Europe for the rest of the year including the P3 Awards show in Denmark at the end of this month. On past tours, the band has shared the stage with the likes of Jet, Hot Hot Heat, Electric Six and The Pretenders as well as their own headlining tour.

www.myspace.com/thebluevan

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