We are more then proud to announce that Moon & Sun will play this years edition of Fusion Festival. Doesn’t ring a bell? Fusion is one of the most amazing festivals in Europe. It takes place from June 30 until July 3rd in Larz, Germany. Just above Berlin. Unfortunately the Festival sold out on December 3rd, but if you belong to the lucky 55.000 who managed to get a ticket, make sure to check Moon & Sun! We’ll see you there.

01-07-2011
Moon & Sun at Fusion festival
Time: 15:00-16:00
Place: TBA
With: Dark Dark Dark, Herman Dune, Hundreds, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Mogwai, NoMeansNo, Rainbow Arabia, Trans Am, Zun Zun Egui and many many more.

We’ll leave you with this neat new video for Moon & Sun’s ’000000′ made by Tomas Adolfs!

Some festivals are decent, some are excellent. Our definition of excellent? Well FabrIQ festival would be a good example. It’s takes place in ‘s Hertogenbosch a nice city by it self, but if you add a little Nils Frahm, Sleep Party People, Suuns, Lars Ludvig Lofgren, Cloud Nothings, Benoit Pioulard, Sea of Bees, Jay Minor & The Saint Helena Dove, Tu Fawning and some The Black Atlantic (yup…The Black Atlantic) to it, you will have yourself an excellent town to spent your Sunday (Sunday the 27th of February that is).

There are still tickets available! So claim those ‘I was there’ points! You’ll be happy you’ve done so (when you’ve ran out of topics at boring birthday parties’).

More info can be found heeere: WWW.FABRIQ.ORG

Dear friends,

I hope your are fine! It’s almost been over a month since we have been in touch. Lately we’ve been very busy with all sorts of things. So unfortunately or social skills have been lacking a bit. Needless to say we’ve been working our ass of for the good cause. One of the things we’ve been working on is to get our offspring’s to your side of the world and I think that it’s save to says that we did a decent job on that one.  Now for all dates, we suggest that you’ll visit the tour dates page, but to feel good about ourselves we need to brag about some of the festival dates right here. So here we go.

The Black Atlantic will be playing

Sep 24 – Reeperbahn Festival – Hamburg
Oct 07 – TAIX – Culture Collide – Los Angeles
Oct 09 – 826 – Culture Collide – Los Angeles
Oct 22 – The Livingroom – CMJ – New York

Furthermore early 2011 will bring  the Black Atlantic to China, but more on that soon.

My Bubba & Mi will be playing

Iceland Airwaves on 3 locations
Oct 15 – Iðnó – Reykjavík
Oct 16 – Norrænahúsið – Reykjavík
Oct 17 – Listasafn Islands -  Reykjavík

My Bubba & Mi seem to be getting a hold on the festival thingy as well, leading to sceneries like these!

To round things up, a new addition to our roster will be announced soon. We love it, you are going to love it and her record will be released on November 1th. Thats it for now!

Kind regards,

Your Bear

The Black Atlantic guys enjoyed some well deserved time off in America after a hectic first half of 2010 filled with touring, touring and then some more touring. Geert revisited the cabin in upstate New York with his wife and baby girl where ‘Reverence…’ was recorded. Stef went on a big hiking trip with his girl while Kim locked himself up in another cabin to work on his solo project. Doesn’t get any better then this!

Or does it?
They’re playing some fantastic festivals in August and early September. Grab your agenda and check out that schedule;

01.08.2010 – NL – Rotterdam @ Duizel in het Park Festival
http://www.duizelinhetpark.nl

06.08.2010 – DE – Friedland @ Jenseits von Millionen Festival

http://www.jenseitsvonmillionen.de/

07.08.2010 – BE – Genk @ Absolutely Free Festival
http://www.absolutelyfree.be/

12/14.08.2010 – DE – Haldern @ Haldern Pop Festival
http://www.haldern-pop.de/

20.08.2010 – NL – Bunsschoten @ Xnoizz Flevo Festival “The Subyard”
http://www.flevofestival.nl/

04.09.2010 – DE – Dresden @ Sound of Bronkow Festival
http://www.kfrecords.de/sob-festival/

08.09.2010 – DE – Berlin @ Popkomm
http://www.popkomm.de/

Well well well, with a swell presentation behind us, we can now announce you our humble share as a part of the Le Guess Who? 2010 festival. We are honoured to present you a night at Ekko as well as an acoustic night at Kargadoor. So here we go: Beep! Beep! Back up the truck! Proudly presents: Barsuk recording artists Menomena, 31knots’ leadsinger side project, called Tu Fawning and the folk rock of Jason Molina’s buddy Elephant Micah. Yes, that good friends are some sweet sweet artists. More bands will be announced in the upcoming month.

But of course there is way more then just then these Beep! Beep! contributions. Check out this far from complete list of artists that the festival is serving you already.

Swans (vs) opening with support from James Blackshaw (en)
Caribou (can)
Beach House (vs)
The Tallest Man On Earth (zw)
Dimlite (sw)
Trembling Bells (sco)
Ganglians (usa)
Subtitle (usa)
Sharon van Etten (usa)
Voice Of The Seven Thunders (uk)
Alasdair Roberts (sco)
Junip (zw)
Fitz (vs)
Ty Segall (vs)

The Le Guess Who? festival takes place in Utrecht, the Netherlands from November 24th till November 28 2010.
Early Bird tickets cost € 50,- and are on sale from juli 3, go to Tickets for more info.

For now we will leave you with some high quality youtube material by Elephant Micah.

Cheerio!

Tonight Beep! Beep! Back Up the Truck will be represented by We vs. Death and Kismet along side some other great artists including Robyn, The Go! Team and Uffie at the German festival and music convention in Cologne. The venue will open at 8pm. Make sure to stop by if you happen to be in the neighborhood! More info can be found by clicking here or on the image underneath. Abgefahren!

Besides getting cooked by the scorching sun and cooling down with some fine Canadian lagers we’re actually also doing some usefull things here in Toronto during the fabfab NXNE Festival. We won’t bother you with all of our more then awesome stories, but you should read and remember these messages:

1. The Black Atlantic will be playing two shows on saturday. The first is at 20.25 during the 5th Annual João Carvalho Mastering NXNE BBQ. You’ll find it at: 43 Laing St.
Loads of food, beer & band, all day long.

The official showcase is at The Painted Lady at 218 Ossington Ave.
Time? Midnight!

And if you happen to walk by The Bovine Sex Club at 542 Queen West around 4.45… look up! The Black Atlantic will be playing a acoustic tune on the balcony there for Balcony TV.

2. Beep! Beep! will be showing their filthy swagger during the NXNE Indie Music Market at Dundas Square. I actually don’t know what filthy swagger would mean, but we’ll bring our merchandise, bizznizz cards and our happy selves. Want to find us? See the plan below.

We also hooked up with a local talent who uploaded a video of herself dancing a while back. She happened to live in Toronto, so why not shoot a dance for the complete song? Well, we did, and it was fun. Pictures to prove it.