Copenhagen/London/Berlin, September 18, 2009 – The Danish Alternative Pop band The Asteroids Galaxy Tour has opted to sign with BMG Rights Management. The announcement was made today by Hartwig Masuch, CEO of BMG Rights Management, and comes with the release of the band’s debut album “Fruit” which is hitting stores today in Germany and throughout Europe on September 21. As part of the deal, BMG will exclusively represent both the publishing rights and the master rights for the album.
Formed in 2007, the career of the Danish psychedelic pop duo, consisting of female singer Mette Lindberg and songwriter Lars Iversen, has taken off rapidly. While working intensely on their first album, the two were first scouted by Amy Winehouse who, after listening to the band’s demo, invited them to open her Denmark tour. Music industry veterans David Enthoven and Tim Clark, who have already carved out the success of T-Rex, Roxy Music and Robbie Williams, signed a management deal with the band shortly thereafter. The band’s first single, “The Sun Ain’t Shining No More,” was released in September 2008. Later that year, Apple featured another tune, “Around The Bend,” for its global iPod Touch TV advertisement. In 2009 Australia’s largest department store, Myer, chose the song “The Golden Age” when opening their summer range.
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are adapting soul sounds from the 60s and 70s, taking individual elements from the subsequent decades and forging them together to form an insisting and persuasive style of independent rock, finished with an irresistible voice and alluring hook lines.
Tim Clark commented: “We are delighted to be working with BMG Rights. Combining master and publishing rights under the same deal means that we can exploit both in a much more complimentary fashion. David and I are particularly pleased to be renewing an association with Bertelsmann that stretches back to the late 60s when Ariola licensed so many of the artists with whom we worked and continued with Robbie Williams' successful publishing deal with BMG Music Publishing.”
Tony Moss, BMG’s Managing Director UK & Ireland, said: “This is a particularly exciting deal for us with a particularly exciting band. Combining both publishing and masters in this new type of deal gives us great flexibility in what we can do to support the release, especially for synch.”