Hope you’re well, we’re past the halfway point of the week. Celebratory pain au chocolat for me I think! Ida Maria has just announced some more UK tour dates to support her new single Queen Of The World which is out on May 12th. I was hoping you’d news story up for me, do you reckon you could whack it up for me? If you could, that’d be enough to make me do 5 star jumps and punch the air with joy.
May
Friday 9 - Brick Yard, Carlisle
Saturday 10 – Empire, Middlesbrough
Sunday 11 – The Tunnels, Aberdeen
Monday 19 - Cockpit, Leeds
Tuesday 20 - Jericho Tavern, Oxford
Wednesday 21st – Kings College, London
Tuesday 27 - Glee Club, Birmingham
Thursday 29 - The Foundry (Uni), Sheffield
Saturday 31 - Academy 3, Manchester
June
Sunday 1 - King Tuts, Glasgow
Monday 2 – Cluny, Newcastle
“She has the rare performer’s ability to turn every night into the gig of her life.” Evening Standard
“Gobby, confident and full of throwaway remarks, yet deeply thoughtful, Ida’s pop songs are the only way that she has found to connect with the wider world…A self–styled nihilist who loves a drink, she’s throwing everything at the wall while she still can - and expects every single band on the planet to do exactly the same.” Time Out
Ida Maria is a 23 year old Norwegian singer-songwriter-guitarist who combines the songwriting suss of early Strokes and the fearlessness of Iggy Pop with a voice that has been compared to Janis Joplin yet also echoes the other-worldly strangeness of Björk.
Following on from two limited edition singles on her own label Nesna Records, ‘Oh My God’ and ‘Drive Away My Heart’, and the single ‘Stella’ on Waterfall/RCA, Ida Maria releases her new single ‘Queen Of The World’ on 12th May. Opening with ‘whisky please, I need some whisky please’ the song is about drinking and feeling like you’re the best at everything and essentially the ‘Queen Of The World’ when you’re drunk. A definite favourite live, where Ida jumps about shaking her hands in the air, in effect portraying the theme of the song.
Now living in Stockholm, Sweden, Ida (pronounced Eee-da) Maria grew up in Nesna, a tiny university town in the north of Norway with a population of 1,776, one gas station, one pub, one closed-down shoe factory and lots of mountains. It's near the Arctic Circle, which means that it's in perpetual darkness for half of the year.
An utterly absorbing, totally unselfconscious front woman (“A fizzing yelping ball of Nordic excitement”, Dazed & Confused) Ida Maria gives everything when she plays live, where she is joined by her band - Stefan Törnby on lead guitar, Johannes Lindberg on bass, and Olle Lundin on drums. Having already performed an exhilarating set on ‘Later…With Jools Holland’ and recently filling out dirty dives from Camden to Shoreditch, make sure you catch her live on her next tour.
The debut album from Ida Maria will be released in the summer.
May
Friday 9 - Brick Yard, Carlisle
Saturday 10 – Empire, Middlesbrough
Sunday 11 – The Tunnels, Aberdeen
Monday 19 - Cockpit, Leeds
Tuesday 20 - Jericho Tavern, Oxford
Wednesday 21st – Kings College, London
Tuesday 27 - Glee Club, Birmingham
Thursday 29 - The Foundry (Uni), Sheffield
Saturday 31 - Academy 3, Manchester
June
Sunday 1 - King Tuts, Glasgow
Monday 2 – Cluny, Newcastle
Queen Of The World
The new single released by Waterfall/RCA Label Group on May 12th 2008
“She has the rare performer’s ability to turn every night into the gig of her life.” Evening Standard
“Gobby, confident and full of throwaway remarks, yet deeply thoughtful, Ida’s pop songs are the only way that she has found to connect with the wider world…A self–styled nihilist who loves a drink, she’s throwing everything at the wall while she still can - and expects every single band on the planet to do exactly the same.” Time Out
Ida Maria is a 23 year old Norwegian singer-songwriter-guitarist who combines the songwriting suss of early Strokes and the fearlessness of Iggy Pop with a voice that has been compared to Janis Joplin yet also echoes the other-worldly strangeness of Björk.
Following on from two limited edition singles on her own label Nesna Records, ‘Oh My God’ and ‘Drive Away My Heart’, and the single ‘Stella’ on Waterfall/RCA, Ida Maria releases her new single ‘Queen Of The World’ on 12th May. Opening with ‘whisky please, I need some whisky please’ the song is about drinking and feeling like you’re the best at everything and essentially the ‘Queen Of The World’ when you’re drunk. A definite favourite live, where Ida jumps about shaking her hands in the air, in effect portraying the theme of the song.
Now living in Stockholm, Sweden, Ida (pronounced Eee-da) Maria grew up in Nesna, a tiny university town in the north of Norway with a population of 1,776, one gas station, one pub, one closed-down shoe factory and lots of mountains. It's near the Arctic Circle, which means that it's in perpetual darkness for half of the year.
An utterly absorbing, totally unselfconscious front woman (“A fizzing yelping ball of Nordic excitement”, Dazed & Confused) Ida Maria gives everything when she plays live, where she is joined by her band - Stefan Törnby on lead guitar, Johannes Lindberg on bass, and Olle Lundin on drums. Having already performed an exhilarating set on ‘Later…With Jools Holland’ and recently filling out dirty dives from Camden to Shoreditch, make sure you catch her live on her next tour.
The debut album from Ida Maria will be released in the summer.
