Turboweekend is a Danish

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 synthesizer

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 rock

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 band, formed in 2006 by the three childhood friends Martin Øhlers Petersen, Silas Bjerregaard and Morten Køie.

2006-2008

"Into You" the bands first radio hit, was recorded in early 2006, and Turboweekend played their debut concert in April. During 2006 the band became increasingly popular at the Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 hipster

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 parties, and got booked for Roskilde Festival 2007

Roskilde Festival 2007

Roskilde Festival 2007 was held 5 –8 July 2007 with warm-up and camping from 1 July. The stages Metropol and Ballroom were replaced by two new stages, Astoria and Cosmopol...

 Roskilde Festival 2007

Roskilde Festival 2007

Roskilde Festival 2007 was held 5 –8 July 2007 with warm-up and camping from 1 July. The stages Metropol and Ballroom were replaced by two new stages, Astoria and Cosmopol...

. The debut album Night Shift was released on October 1, 2007 on Copenhagen Records

Copenhagen Records

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http://www.discogs.com/artist/Turboweekend. In 2008 the band played at Danish radio award show "P3 Guld" and was nominated as Newcomer of the Year at both "P3 Guld" and "Zulu Awards". In mid 2008 the band started working on their second album.

2009-2010

Turboweekends second album Ghost of a Chance was released March 23, 2009 on Mermaid Records

Mermaid Records

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/Sony Musichttp://www.discogs.com/artist/Turboweekend.
Ghost of a Chance became the band's breakthrough record and nominated them for the main prize P3 Prisen at P3 Guld 2010.
On October 16, 2009, Ghost of a Chance was released in Germany

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 and Switzerland

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 and in 2010 in Poland

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 on Sony Music. The first single "Trouble Is" reached number 1 on the German college radio playlist.
In the spring of 2010 Dutch

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 DJ Tiësto

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's remix of "Trouble Is" was released worldwide.http://www.tiestoblog.com/news/world-premiere-of-turboweekend-trouble-is-tiesto-remix/

In July 2010 the band played at Roskilde Festival

Roskilde Festival 2010

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 Roskilde Festival 2010

Roskilde Festival 2010

Roskilde Festival 2010 was held on July 1-July 4 with warmup from June 26. For the 2010 edition of Roskilde Festival, they decided to close down the Astoria stage.-New features:...

 again. At the same time "Trouble Is" hit number 1 in Poland and at the end of the year it was the 8th most played track on the Polish radio station Eska Rock.

On November 10, 2010 the band released the free EP Bound via their webpage. Turboweekend was among the 5 nominees for MTV Europe Music Awards

MTV Europe Music Awards

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 Best Danish Act at the show in Madrid in November 2010.

2011

At P3 Guld on January 14, 2011 the band won the award P3 Breakthroughhttp://www.dr.dk/p3/temaer/p3-guld-2011. The album Ghost of a Chance was certified Gold in January 2011 in Denmark.http://www.presswire.dk/default.asp?o=1&pid=45712

Festivals

• Roskilde Festival
  Roskilde Festival
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   2007, 2010
• Skanderborg Festival 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• SPOT Festival 2008, 2009, 2010
• Skive Festival 2010, 2011
• Nibe Festival 2009, 2010, 2011
• By:Larm
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   (Oslo) 2009, 2011
• Liverpool Soundcity 2009

Albums

• Night Shift (2007)
• Ghost of a Chance (2009)
• Ghost of a Chance deluxe edition (2010)

Singles

• Into You (2007)
• Wash Out (2007)
• Glowing Vision (2008)
• After Hours (2008)
• Something Or Nothing (2009)
• Holiday (2009)
• Trouble Is (Joker remix) (2009)
• Trouble Is (Tiësto
  Tiësto
  Tijs Michiel Verwest, , known as Tiësto , is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto...
  
   remix) (2010)
• Now (2010)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Result
2011	P3 Guld	P3 Breakthrough	winner
2010	Gaffa Awards	Danish Hit of the Year (Trouble Is)	winner
2010	MTV Europe Music Awards MTV Europe Music Awards The MTV Europe Music Awards were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. Originally beginning as an alternative to the American MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards is today a popular celebration of what MTV viewers consider...	Best Danish Act	nominee
2010	P3 Guld	P3 Prisen	nominee
2008	Zulu Awards	Newcomer of the Year	nominee
2008	P3 Guld	Newcomer of the Year	nominee

External links

• http://www.facebook.com/turboweekend Turboweekend on Facebook
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• http://www.myspace.com/turboweekend Turboweekend on MySpace
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• http://www.discogs.com/artist/Turboweekend Turboweekend on Discogs
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