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Posts Tagged ‘ First Aid Kit ’

Single: First Aid Kit — I Met Up With The King

Single: First Aid Kit — I Met Up With The King

Liane Escorza says: "The first time I ever saw First Aid Kit play was at the Slottsfjell festival in Norway last year. I didn’t know about their sound back then but I was lured into the promise of a fresh and captivating act. And so it was. The soft harmonies of these two Swedish...
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Album: First Aid Kit – The Big The Black and the Blue

Album: First Aid Kit – The Big The Black and the Blue

Callum Mitchell says: "First Aid Kit have made an album way beyond their years; their sound evoking an image of a couple of worn out, world-weary housewives sat on their Kentucky porch strumming away and singing songs of lost lovers and meetings with the dead"
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First Aid Kit announce new single and UK tour

First Aid Kit announce new single and UK tour

Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara have announced the second single to be taken from their forthcoming album The Big the Black and the Blue. Single I Met Up With The King, which is inspired by a lyric from one of FFS’s favourite artists Gram Parsons, is due out on 1st March. First Aid Kit take to...
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First Aid Kit announce album release and December gig

We've sorted your Christmas with Alessi's wonderful party plans, and now we've found a remedy for the January blues. Sisterly Swedish double act First Aid Kit have announced that their debut album, The Big Black and The Blue, will be released on Wichita Records on 25th January 2010.
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First Aid Kit Bandstand Busking this Sunday

First Aid Kit are the latest band lined up to grace the bandstand for a busk, this time at the Arnold Circus Bandstand off Old Street on Sunday, August 2nd. The free afternoon gig will also feature Micachu and the Shapes, David Thomas Broughton and TreeTop Flyers.
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First Aid Kit ask fans to suggest songs to cover

FFS first became aware of First Aid Kit thanks to the YouTube video of their beautiful cover of Fleet Foxes' 'Tiger Mountain Peasant Song', which has been seen over half a million times. Following on from its success Johanna and Klara have decided to recording a series of covers suggested to them by their...
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End of the Road line-up proper swoon-worthy

End of the Road has a very special place in the hearts and minds of the FFS collective, as it was at this splendid festival last year that we began spreading the love that is our website. EOTR 2008 was just lovely - small, brilliantly curated and covered in fairy lights and ribbons....
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EP Review: First Aid Kit – Drunken Trees

Drunken Trees really isn’t a bad name for a record that would provide the perfect soundtrack for a cider-soaked spring picnic in the park. The mix of languid guitars, interweaving vocal harmonies and perfectly charming lyrics might seem a bit familiar, and though it doesn’t necessarily push boundaries, there can be no doubt that...
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For Folk’s Sake Interview: First Aid Kit

Johanna and Klara of Sweden's First Aid Kit are teenage sisters who are taking the folk world by storm. Their debut EP Drunken Trees, which has been available in their home country for a year, is soon to be released in the UK. For Folk's Sake caught up with the girls for a quick...
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First Aid Kit hit London for three February shows

First Aid Kit will be arriving to patch up London town with an instore set at Pure Groove Records on Monday February 23rd at 1:15 pm. Yes, this is lunchtime and yes, it's a Monday, but we put it to you, FFS fans, that we can fill that wee record shop with like-minded...
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