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L'aventure Asteroids Galaxy Tour a débuté en été 2007, avec la rencontre de Lars et Mette. Ils passèrent l'été dans le home studio de Lars, à  créer des compositions acidulées, libertaires et aventureuses. Jusqu'à  devenir un collectif de 6 personnes, un collectif de création azymutée...

In summer 2007, Lars met up with former band mate and singer Mette to play her some demos. She went home with a CD and returned the day after with lots of ideas of her own. The pair immediately set to work, spending last summer practically living, recording, eating, composing and sleeping in Lars s self-built studio in his one room flat in Copenhagen. Every night after a hard day s work, they would end up drunk on Lars s balcony until early morning.

Mette has an incredible, quirky, unschooled voice that s so strange, compelling and cool, says Lars. It s her voice I have in my head when I write every song. She is a great inspiration and the longer we re together, the more the music becomes a collaborative effort. If I present her with a song she always adds brilliant ideas of her own, or sings it in a way I hadn t expected, taking the song to a new level.

What the songs have in common is a sense of adventure and a feeling of freedom you rarely find in pop music anymore. The sounds of different decades rub shoulders as though they have always partied together and there is a genuine warmth that comes partly from friends making music purely for the love of it and partly from Lars s vintage recording equipment.

Mette and Lars are the core of The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, but live, the band grows to a six-piece. Included are a fully fledged horn section of trumpet and sax players, clavinet sounds, a drummer and guitarist. They insist they are neither a duo nor a band. Think of them as more of a collective - a group of dedicated friends with similar minds and dreams.

Finally, about that name... I stole it from Miloud, our Moroccan trumpet player, who runs a hippy jewellery shop when he s not rehearsing with us , laughs Lars. He s a dear friend and a special guy with a brilliant, random mind and a big influence on the band. He came up with the name and I grabbed it. I like it because it sounds like the title of a film or a book, rather than a band name. It s asking you to step in to a story and join us on a journey - a trip in our galaxy .

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