It’s summer people! And if you didn’t notice, you will soon! How? My bubba & Mi will bring it. The lovely ladies packed their bags and will make there first appearance tonight at Start! Festivallen in Kopenhagen. Tomorrow the girls will pick up the twins …Twins? Yes, Twins!… and head in to Germany. With the tour comes a single named ‘Bob’, containing two new brand new tracks. So pick your date people! It’s on!

(More Italian dates have been added)

Kopenhagen, DK
June 16, 2011 Thursday
Start Festivallen

Leipzig, DE
June 18, 2011 Saturday
Horns Erben

Gaildorf, DE
June 19, 2011 Sunday
Sommerfest

Haldern, DE
June 21, 2011 Tuesday
Haldern Pop Bar

Jena, DE
June 22, 2011 Wednesday
Rosenkeller

Flensburg, DE
June 24, 2011 Friday
Volksbad

Hamburg, DE
June 26, 2011 Sunday
Astra Stube

Berlin, DE
June 27, 2011 Monday
White Trash

Potsdam, DE
June 28, 2011 Tuesday
Waschaus

June 29, 2011 Wednesday
Live In The Living
Berlin, DE

Offenbach, DE
June 30, 2011 Thursday
Hafen2

Lörrach, DE
July 01, 2011 Friday
Altes Wasserwerk

Stuttgart, DE
July 06, 2011 Wednesday
Cafe Galao

Erlangen, DE
July 07, 2011 Thursday
E-Werk

Karlsruhe, DE
July 08, 2011 Friday
Cafe Nun

Zürich, CH
July 21, 2011 Thursday
La Catrina

Carpi, IT
July 22, 2011 Friday
Coccobello

Parma, IT
July 23, 2011 Saturday
Giovane Italia

Belluno, IT
July 24, 2011 Wednesday
Magazzini Prensili

San Salvo, IT
July 25, 2011 Wednesday
Beat Cafe

L’Aquila, IT
July 26, 2011 Wednesday
Piscine Comunali

Piacenza, IT
July 27, 2011 Wednesday
Spazio4
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‪As some of you may know renting a van is an expensive joke. Especially when you’re on tour for three months straight. So you may understand having your own van is of great value.‬

My bubba & Mi are about to face this problem and therefore need your help. In return they have a huge list of thank you gifts matching the amount you donate.

If you’d like to support the music that you really love, then this is probably one of the best ways to do so. It’s much much appreciated.

-Beep! Beep! Back Up the Truck-

You can participate here.

The girls of My Bubba & Mi are coming back to the Netherlands for some more shows to promote their lovely debut album ‘How it’s done in Italy’. We’re proud to tell you the band will visit both Noorderzon Festival in Groningen and Into the Great Wide Open Festival in Vlieland. Check out all dates below:

28.08 Noorderzon Festival, Groningen
29.08 Full Colour Festival, Emmen
30.08 Astra Stube (with Elliot Brood), Hamburg (DE)
31.08 In de Kringloop (video shoot), Zwolle
01.09 CinéPalace, Kortrijk (BE)
02.09 CuldeSac, Tilburg
03.09 Into the Great Wide Open, Vlieland
04.09 Into the Great Wide Open, Vlieland
05.09 Into the Great Wide Open, Vlieland

My Bubba & Mi – How it’s done in Italy

1. Gone
2. Bubba’s Blues
3. Steamengeene
4. Really Really
5. Satisfied mind
6. I will never love a young boy again
7. Hwaii Blus
8. After you
9. Blind state
10. Apple spell

Gone

oh honey you’re so strong like chili powder
in your arms, when you hold me in them
I never have a chance to get away

I’m with you when I’m gone
I walk the streets on my own
all night long

oh honey you’re so strong like chili powder in your arms
how do you make time to be so juicy
like pineapple in the sun

and everybody knows
pineapple-chili is what goes
best together in this world

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Bubba’s Blues

It’s seven in the morning, and I’m building a tree house for two
let’s make up the mess we made from mayhem and chess

there is silence on the other side
moon and mills, pockets full of pills
trying hard to stay off the track,
but my wonderment is you in the sack

it’s eight in the evening, having difficulties with my dreams
be aware of the robots in here they might just lick your hair

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Steamengeene

Oh steam engine
accompany my heart
birds exploding from joy
shoe shave is fine
now is a goldmine
sugar sugar sugar
you’re back on the beach with your darling
I’m back in the woods with my dear

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Really really

My intestines are warm holding your arm
you slipped it under there, with your paw

oh I will see you soon with the moon
and the great walls of waves
around us around, stay gold
who taught you to freeze huh?
why aren’t you as warm and fluid
as I know you can be

we’re all here, hang loose no moose is too huge
live it leave it. yeah when you’re in hell, keep going
I love you more and Hemingway with a shotgun!

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Satisfied mind

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I will never love a young boy again

Come back in 5 10 years
and we’ll get married then
but I will never love a young boy again
800 months older than him, am I
in my hands he is a bar of soap

oh these hours of letting him go
these hours of letting go
you

I’d like to hang you up in a tree
and let you age there
listen to the leaves
and move with the wind

I am 100 years
in my hairs
I want a BEAR

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Hwaii Blus

I only lie when I’m sleeping
and maybe in those dreams
I dream of you in my bay

I’m stayin’ at the
ComeonIwannalayya’
how about you?

honey milk, honey milk
lay me in the shade
and tell the sharks to go away

sugar booger
don’t wait too long
sugar booger
don’t you dare to wait too long

it’s Hawaii it’s Hawaii
that’s where it’s at
lay your hat, in the waves

I’m a turtle for you
or a palm leaf
I’m something you can eat
before you sleep
and I dream inside you

chocolate milk, chocolate milk
been sippin’ it all night long
belong, life long, where’s your sense
of right and wrong?

a brazen hussy
layin’ at your feet
cocoa cavities in my teeth

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After you

After you pushed my heart over
I was out for a week
I could feel it beating under the sheet

I’m all nerves
you think I look like a harp
now your shoes on my belly
the bed full of dirt
but I feel it beating softly
under the sheet

when I get lazy I act like I’m crazy
but your manners
just send me straight into bed

you and the rest of you’s
boots and all and the fever
the donkey harp heart
is still the king

sure you can make me blue
but you can’t change how I feel about you
I can feel it beating under the sheet

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Blinde state

If you are tired of seeing things
come and find a blind state I have designed
we can walk with our nose we can talk with our toes
through tactile trails and smell details

smooching, pineapple rag,
make out

It’s ever dark but don’t be scared
take my hand, we can walk the long way home
cause we’re off the hook from devil’s tool facebook
take my hand, we can walk the long way home

But beware, keep your nostrils far away from the maple tree
poison earwax birds may sing sweet, but when heard,
you’ll drown in the south sea

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Apple spell

an image in my mind, but a place is hard to find in the break of dawn
everything is green, nothing as it seems but the music moves me

the Apple spell, it tastes so well,
let’s move in the rhythm of sinking soul
when the lights move on low all gets thick and slow
the accident of touch, says so much
if I bewilder you, you do it too
the rhythm of sinking soul, keeps playing

tick tack on the wall life moves too fast to fall
so sing me to sleep, before you go

as you bewitched my body and soul you have to sing me to sleep
before you go
so, sing me to sleep

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Tonight My Bubba & Mi will kick of their “How it’s done in Italy” tour. During their 30 day trip the girls will hit Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland and (how else could they) Italy.  Make sure to catch them live, before they catch you!

(Tour)dates

30 MAR – HANNOVER (GER) @ Glocksee
01 APR – UNNA (GER) @ Spatz und Wal
03 APR – METZ (FRA) @ Emil Vache
04 APR – MIDDELBURG (NL)@ Ko D’oooor “Avonduren”
05 APR – AMSTERDAM (NL) @ Dwaze Zaken café
06 APR – LEIDEN (NL) @ Wot Nxt houseconcert
07 APR – GRONINGEN (NL) @ De Kunstbank
08 APR – BRUXELLES (BE) @ La Piola
09 APR – UTRECHT (NL) @ De Stern / BEEP! BEEP! release party
10 APR – PARIS (FRA) @ LE BON ACCUEIL
11 APR - BILBAO (SPA) @ Cotton Club
12 APR – MADRID (SPA) @ RTVE – radio show
13 APR – MADRID (SPA) @ Fotomoatòn
15 APR – BERN (CH) @ Cafè Kairo
16 APR – BRESCIA – TIPO “00″
17 APR – ISOLA DELLA SCALA (VR) @ Ca’ Magre
18 APR – FERRARA @ Zuni
20 APR - GENOVA @ Kitchen Mon Amour
21 APR – SANSEPOLCRO (AR) @ Enoteca Tiratardi
22 APR - ROMA @ Dal Verme
23 APR – @ TBA
24 APR – TERNI @ La Palmetta
25 APR – BARI @ Storie Del Vecchio Sud
27 APR - S.BENEDETTO @ Pao
29 APR – CESENA @ Lego Cafè
30 APR – PEGOGNAGA (MN) @ Casbah
01 MAG – @ TBA

Holla at ya girls!

My Bubba & Mi‘s debut album ‘How it’s done in Italy’ is out now.

1. Listen to the complete album HERE.

2. Download this baby HERE.

3. Check out the artwork below & order the album HERE.

The 10″ vinyl is a bit delayed, but we’re expecting it in next week. Of course you can pre-order that baby here as well.

Enjoy listening to this marvelous piece of art!

“It just happened that way. Then we became friends and My Bubba & Mi.” is the answer to the question how three girls from Denmark, Sweden and Iceland became roommates in an apartment in Copenhagen. Sometimes life’s that simple.

My Bubba & Mi is a special female trio that reeled us in with their intrigueing mix of folk, expert fingerpicking and vocal harmonies so warm they’ll melt the biggest glacier. They themselves are far more down-to-earth.
“lullabies from the countryside”, is what the ladies call it.

The latter might be a more accurate description, as the trio headed to the sunny, wide fields of southern Italy to record their debut. The story goes as follows. An Italian bar-owner was cycling through the city of  Copenhagen on holiday. He was taken in by hypnotising sounds seeping through the window of a small bar nearby. Overpowered by his curiosity the man entered and saw My, Bubba and Mia performing for a small audience. A fan was born. The man invited the ladies to come to Italy to perform their music. “All right”, the threesome said and they left. A second invitation followed soon afterwards, this time to record a CD. “Agreed”, the answer was yet again and they packed their bags. Yes, that’s how simple life can be.

‘How it’s done in Italy’ is the mesmerizing debut of My Bubba & Mi and furthermore the first Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck release from an international artist. The album will be released on March 8th on CD and vinyl. The 1,500 covers are – believe it or not – hand-made by the bandmembers themselves. Each cover is a unique piece of art.

Here’s what Bubba has to say about it:

“It all started when we adopted some 10″ vinyl covers. We found them, and saved them from being thrown away. They are old, from the 40′s & 50′s, all are different, with old commercials on them from old radio stations, notes from their former owners and they smell good. This was before artist made their own artwork, their tunes were just wrapped in brown paper with stamps from the distributor.We then made stamps with our own name and songs and some striped paper became a part of the outfit.

The CD packaging is based on the same idea, some brown paper, folded, glued, sometimes stapled with our stamps on it. It sounds simple but it took a month or more, day and night to make. Many people were involved, friends and uncles and friends of uncles.All are different, some are crooked, none are straight. And that is how it’s done in Italy, hand made by My Bubba & Mi.”

Making 1.500 covers by hand is the kind of crazy we can appreciate, but still makes you wonder when regret kicks in.

“The idea is as stupid as making hand made spaghetti for a party with thousand people. But it’s nice, when people take their time to do things by themselves. Following the process from beginning to end. Spoiling it with love and time. Things like that are rare to find now a days where most things are downloadable.”

True that. These girls know what’s what, that’s for sure.

DOWNLOAD ALBUM (all formats available, free)
DOWNLOAD TORRENT (mp3 only)
BUY THE CD (for € 10,-)
BUY THE VINYL (for € 15,-)
SHARE ALBUM (bandcamp player)

1. Gone
2. Bubba’s Blues
3. Steamengeene
4. Really Really
5. Satisfied mind
6. I will never love a young boy again
7. Hwaii Blus
8. After you
9. Blind State
10. Apple spell

All songs written and performed by My Bubba & Mi.
Artwork by My Bubba & Mi.

Beep! Beep! Back up the truck
WWNBB

BEEP008-2010
CC BY-NC-SA

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  My Bubba & Mi
  How it’s done in Italy
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  My Bubba & Mi
  How it’s done in Italy 10″
  €15.00

Ah, remember…A year and a half ago we dove right in that Dutch musicbizz and got our paws wet (and a little more than just paws I’m afraid). Seven beautiful releases  – and countless valuable experiences later we feel like weathered veterans, but really, those albums only whetted our appetite. It’s time for new things. New territory to be discovered.

The last couple of months we’ve been peaking over our countries border and saw some awesome new things that made us think ‘gimme!’. One of those ‘things’ is a 3 piece group named My Bubba & Mi from that strangely appealing, home-of-lego country called Denmark.

Here’s the story in short. There’s three girls – My, Bubba and Mia – from three countries – Denmark, Sweden and Iceland. Somehow they ended up in the same place: an appartment in Copenhagen and became friends. Bubba tells us:

“It just happened that way. Then we became friends and My bubba & Mi. During our third concert, in Copenhagen, Andrea, an italian café owner, happened to bike by, and he heard our voices he said and came in. After the show he told us we should come play at his café in Italy. We were pleased that he liked us, but we thought we’d never hear from him again. Then a couple of months later we got an email from Alessandro at WWNBB, who had been introduced to our music by Andrea, and who wanted to organize a tour for us in Italy the following year. We went, and they asked us to come back soon to make a record. We did.”

They did alright.

They left Italy with a lovely record called ‘How it’s done in Italy‘. The girls themselves describe their music as lullabies from the countryside, which we must admit, goes a long way. Think folk, country & blues, think old days, lovely harmonies, think of a robust contrabass dating a fragile casio keyboard. No, stop thinking, start listening!

Gone
I will never love a young boy again

Yes sir. ‘How it’s done in Italy‘ get’s the lovely catalogue nr. BEEP008-2010 and is our first release of an international artist! The album will be released on CD & Vinyl and hits the stores March 8. We’ll have the girls over for a little tour in April. More on those things later. For now, the girls would like to say ‘hi’ to you their selves. Why don’t you say ‘hi’ back?