Fleet Foxes performed the day before, and when Pecknold spotted the duo standing at the edge of the stage they were unexpectedly asked to join to sing "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song".
First Aid Kit's first show outside Scandinavia was on 22 November 2008 at the Crossing Border Festival in Netherlands. Their father took a leave from his job as a teacher and accompanied them on tour, also helping with soundchecks. Johanna (left) and Klara Söderberg in Wiesbaden in 2009ĭue to international touring, Johanna quit high school in the autumn of 2008 and Klara never started it. : 32:40-34:30 It led to First Aid Kit becoming internationally known, and them signing with Wichita Records at the end of 2008. Robin Pecknold, frontman and lead guitarist for Fleet Foxes, noticed the duo's message about the video and praised the song on his band's webpage with multiple exclamation marks, causing a surge of popularity of the video. The duo was already quite well known in Sweden by August 2008, when they uploaded a cover version of "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" by Fleet Foxes to YouTube.
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Their first appearance in Swedish TV was also that month.
The EP was produced by their father and was a re-recorded collection of songs from their MySpace site originally called "Cross Oceans". Īpril 2008 saw the release of the debut EP Drunken Trees in Sweden.
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It was decided to sign them to Rabid Records, a label co-owned by The Knife with conditions that allowed the duo to have full control over their music and album art. After doing so, and seeing them play live, Dreijer said that the duo had to be saved from bad deals with the industry. Their mother asked Dreijer to check out her daughters' songs on MySpace. Meanwhile, their younger brother coincidentally attended the same kindergarten as the daughter of Karin Dreijer, half of Swedish electronic duo The Knife and also known as Fever Ray. More gigs followed but as Klara was 14 and still at school, they could only play during weekends. The first official performance as First Aid Kit was at PUNKTmedis library in Stockholm on 6 October. It immediately went on air and was listed as one of the best songs of the summer 2007, which led to requests for live performances and even some offers from record companies. They also sent a demo of their song "Tangerine" to Swedish radio. In April 2007 the sisters started to upload their self-made songs to the social networking site MySpace. : 8:20–8:55 The most important advice their father gave them was to sing so loud that even somebody behind a wall could hear it. Their father has said that he was astonished and actually a little jealous of the ease his daughters had in producing top-notch music. Klara and Johanna also started to write and compose their own country-folk songs inspired by Devendra Banhart and CocoRosie, among others, without much influence from their parents, who were fonder of Patti Smith, Velvet Underground and the Pixies. She found the term "first aid kit" and thought it best described what she wanted her music to be. : 16:10–17:55 : 2:55-4:35 Klara preemptively came up with the name for their band at age 13 by looking through a dictionary. Fascinated by the result, the two began to sing together, first at home and then as street singers in the Stockholm metro and in front of liquor stores. But it wasn't until she saw the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and listened to its soundtrack that she was inspired to sing " Down in the River to Pray" with Klara. Johanna enjoyed a wide range of music, from Britney Spears to German techno. The same year, she received a guitar as a Christmas present and quickly learned to play it. This led her to country and folk music stars such as Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Carter family, Louvin Brothers, Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. In 2005, when Klara was 12, a friend introduced her to the band Bright Eyes. Klara applied for admission to a music school but she was not accepted. Klara and Johanna both attended the Internationella Engelska Skolan of Enskede. Klara wrote her first song "Femton mil i min Barbiebil" when she was six. : 0:40–2:40 Klara's first favorite songs were Judy Garland's songs from The Wizard of Oz and Billie Holiday's version of " Gloomy Sunday", which she sang without much understanding of the English lyrics. įrom childhood, Klara and Johanna were eager singers, giving concerts using a jump rope as a pretend microphone. Their mother is a teacher of cinematography. Their father was a member of the Swedish rock pop band Lolita Pop : 3:20–4:03 but quit before Johanna was born and became a teacher of history and religion. Johanna was born on 31 October 1990 and Klara on 8 January 1993. Sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg are from Enskede, in Stockholm.
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