Turboweekend return
What they thought was a definitive full stop turns out to be a comma in the story of one of the most distinctive Danish bands of the 2000s and 2010s, now returning six years after their last tour. Turboweekend visit Denmark’s four largest cities in spring 2025, with new music also on the way.
They stopped at the top. Aware that the creative drive they had shared since their teenage years was no longer pointing in the same direction, the friends in Turboweekend said goodbye and embarked on their very last tour together in 2018. Or so they thought.
“We have known each other since the sandpit and made music together since we were boys. But by the end, we had nothing left. It was completely dead: the creativity, the desire and, to some extent, the friendship too. Turboweekend had begun out of pure love, but we felt trapped in a huge, hungry machine that had to be fed every day with our time and souls just to keep the wheels turning. It came at the expense of our joy in life, and at that point we could not turn the ship around, so we stopped,” says singer Silas Bjerregaard.
It was a difficult but necessary decision, one that would prove exactly right for Turboweekend.
“In many ways, the six years that have passed have given us some much-needed distance from it all. But with that distance, a natural longing has also emerged for a strong friendship and the love we have for one another and for music,” says drummer Martin Øhlers Petersen. Bassist Morten Køie adds: “When we met again in the rehearsal room, everything was up in the air. We each brought a few sketches, but no expectations, so essentially we had a completely blank sheet of paper and lots of new colours to start drawing and painting with. It really feels as though we have rediscovered the joy of making music, and now we cannot wait to get out and play live again!”
There was nobody like Turboweekend when they debuted in the mid-2000s. In the preceding years, the Danish scene had been shaped by a melancholic, inward-looking tone. Suddenly, three colourful characters appeared with an outgoing, soulful, rock-electric energy. With the band’s first major radio hit, ‘Into You’, it became clear that Turboweekend’s influential new-rave parties in Copenhagen’s underground had the potential to reach Denmark’s biggest stages. And they did.
Their acclaimed debut ‘Night Shift’ (2007) was followed by the band’s major breakthrough, their second album ‘Ghost of a Chance’ (2009). Hit singles ‘After Hours’, ‘Something or Nothing’ and, especially, ‘Trouble Is’ led to prestigious awards including Hit of the Year at the GAFFA Awards and P3 Gennembruddet at P3 Guld. Turboweekend, touring both Denmark and abroad, received a Danish Music Award for Danish Live Act of the Year in 2011.
‘Fault Lines’ (2012) introduced new shades to Turboweekend’s ever-colourful palette, and Danish listeners sent their third album straight to number one. ‘On My Side’ was also named the year’s Uundgåelige hit by P3 listeners.
In 2015, Turboweekend reached what would temporarily be their musical full stop with ‘Share My Thunder’, another highly acclaimed album which produced the heavily streamed hit ‘Miles and Miles’. Meanwhile, Silas Bjerregaard and his bandmates, having built a reputation over ten years as one of Denmark’s finest and most compelling live acts, took to festival stages including NorthSide, Smukfest, Wonderfestiwall and Tinderbox.