2. First Aid Kit
• First Aid Kit are a Swedish folk duo consisting of sisters
Johanna and Klara Söderberg, whose close vocal
harmonies folk-influenced song writing have been
influenced by the likes of Fleet Foxes and Joanna
Newsom.
• The girls, from Enskede, a southern suburb of
Stockholm, the siblings began to compose songs in
2007. Their 2008 YouTube video cover of the song
"Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" by Fleet Foxes, began to
spread their name rapidly on the Internet. The sisters
subsequently appeared alongside Fleet Foxes
performing the song in a concert in The Netherlands.
First Aid Kit- Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
3. How it all started..
• Starting out in 2007, the sisters sent a demo tape of their
home-recorded "Tangerine" to a Swedish radio station,
which gave it airplay that summer. Later that year the
duo signed to Rabid Records, a label co-owned by the
Swedish electronic duo The Knife. April 2008 saw the
release of the debut EP Drunken Trees in Sweden. The
London-based Wichita Records label reissued the EP
one year later, bolstering its track list with a cover of
Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" and videos
of three songs performed live in a Swedish forest. During
their early years the duo had a collection of songs
posted on the social networking site MySpace, one of
which was "Cross Oceans", a re-recording of which later
appeared on Drunken Trees.
First Aid Kit- Tangerine
4. The first album..
• They released their debut album, The Big Black & The
Blue, in 2010. The release of this album was followed
by an extensive tour of around 100 shows around the
USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and parts of
Europe. They even headlined the Thursday night at the
Primavera Festival in Barcelona. After playing a concert
in Nashville the duo were approached by Jack White
(The White Stripes) who requested them to record a
single for his Third Man Records series. In February
2011 the duo collaborated with Bright Eyes during their
performance of Lua.
First Aid Kit- Ghost Town
5. The second album
• In January 2012 the band released their second album,
The Lion's Roar which was produced by Mike Mogis.
The album was critically acclaimed upon release. It went
straight to No. 1 in Sweden on the week of its release
and No. 35 in the UK.
First Aid Kit- The Lions Roar
6. Other achievements…
• On August 3rd 2012, the band performed at the
Lollapalooza 2012 Festival. They also performed
at Bestival on September 7th, 2012 and then
later on Berlin Festival on September 8th, 2012.
• First Aid Kit have performed twice at the Polar
Music Prize. In 2011, they performed the song
Dancing Barefoot for the winner Patti Smith and
in 2012, they performed America for the winner
Paul Simon.
First Aid Kit- Dancing Barefoot
