Henie Onstad-rehearsals

We have been spending a couple of days at Henie Onstad Art Centre, rehearsing some new songs for our show there tomorrow. Its a beautiful place, and we cant wait to play there. Here are some pictures:

Days in the studio

We are currently working on alot of new material in our studio in Oslo, and cant wait to bring them all out to you in 2010. Some of the new songs will be performed at our show at Henie Onstad on Sunday. New songs have titles like “Ghosts”, “Why Wont You Tell Me”, “Gone Today” and “Faith”, and we are very happy with the direction things are taking. We are also working on a our third mixtape, which will include our edtits of other peoples songs, some of our remixes as well as great songs by the likes of Dinosaur L, Jaga Jazzist and Jon Christensen, to name a few. Along the way we took some pictures, and you can check out some of them here:

Poster and info for show on Sunday

On Sunday February 7th we are playing the first show in quite some time, and we are happy to get out of the studio in which we have been working so hard in, and get on stage again. We will be playing some new songs at Henie Onstad, so come out to check out this celebration of the independent recordstores in Oslo. Pow Pow and Alfabulator is also playing, both very interesting acts.

Facebook HERE and Underskog HERE.

“Isle Of Now” nominated for Norwegian Grammy-award!

We are happy to announce that our record “Isle Of Now” has been nominated in the category “best pop-album” in the annual Norwegian Grammy Awards – Spellemannsprisen.
Should be a good party.

Montée at Last Train in Oslo during by:larm

From February 18-20th, the festival by:larm will be taking place in Oslo, and Montée is playing. We’ll be performing a couple of shows, one of which will happen at the famous club Last Train in (the otherwise shitty street) Karl Johans gate. It’s going down on friday February 19th at 2300 hrs, and we hope to see you all there.
3-4 new songs will be performed. You get in with a by:larm-pass or by buying a ticket in the door.

For a great radiodocumentary on this longlived and longloved club, check this out (courtesy of Trine Sollie):
http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/584549

RIP Teddy Pendergrass

We are very sad to hear Teddy Pendergrass left this earth yesterday, only 59 years old. He had many ups and downs during his career, from Grammy Awards to the awful spinal cord injury he suffered in 1982, which paralyzed him from the waist down. But as you can see in this interview, he didn’t let that break him down:

Remix of T.H White (US) coming soon

We just finished a remix of the New York-based artist T.H White which will coming out soon. Its a six minute long dancetrack, and we are very happy with it. We will get back to you with more info and a streaming version of it soon. Stay tuned.

Montée at Henie Onstad

Montée will be playing a show at Henie Onstad Art Centre. Exciting!

Vote for “Isle Of Now” – Natt&Dags Oslo-record of the year!

Great news – Our debutalbum “Isle Of Now”, which was released in March this year, has been nominated by the Norwegian magazine Natt & Dag as the Oslo-record of the year!

We are very happy about the nomination, but still need your help, as it also relies on people voting for us online.

Please vote for us HERE.

They write the following (Norwegian only):
“Dette obskure prosjektet ved navn Montèe startet det hele for et par år tilbake i et mystisk hjemmestudio i en leilighet på Torshov. Et par konsentrerte år ved skissebordet resulterte i en monsterdebut av en skive, Isle Of Now – et popmesterverk landet ikke hadde hørt maken til verken før eller siden. Kritikerne fra Nordkapp til Lindesnes trodde ikke sine egne ører og utropte dette nye søtnosbandet til årets store overraskelse. Dødsbra, rett og slett. ”

The awardshow takes place on February 11th, and coincides perfectly with Maya and Erlends birthdays. Party on!

Merry X-mas from Montée!

We wish you all a dog-on merry christmas with this fantastic tune:

Best regards,

Montée