PLACE OF BIRTH:TB: Copenhagen

JK: Kerteminde

TH: Roskilde – know the festival?

TB: 21/3/75

JK: 11/11/75

TH: 15/1/74

TB: Isn’t it cheesy to have a personal motto?

JK: Keep an open mind.

TH: Beautiful, emotional, personal, timeless and honest.

JK: Long bearded creative loving guitarist

TH: Optimistic, hungry, stubborn, emotional, absentminded.

 

Whomadewho are three guys from Denmark with three slightly different backgrounds that have their very own sound. Tomas Barfod (drummer) is a house DJ on the Scandinavian house scene, Tomas Hoffding (vocals/bass) used to play in Danish garage rock bands before getting infected by the disco virus and Jeppe Kjellberg (vocals/guitar) used to play in avant garde jazz bands. As Whomadewho, they play disco and include many varied influences from surf to folk to 70s funk. Their three 12” singles created a buzz and heavy rotations with DJs all over the world. They are best known for ‘The Loop’ and their disco-punk cover of Benny Benassi’s ‘Satisfaction’.

 

TB: Actually, I like chilling to deep techno – like Kompakt and other German stuff. I know old people think it’s very noisy but I like the deep and monotone sounds when I’m relaxing.

TH: If I am lucky, there’s a bathtub at the hotel where I can chill out way too long. Sometimes we get drunk like a rock band should.

TB: Whomadewho. It started as a fun thing but now it’s the biggest musical thing I have ever been involved in, and I’m having fun while doing it.

JK: Staying with my girlfriend for four and a half years.

TH: All the old ones – Bowie, Beatles, Dylan and exciting new stuff like Flaming Lips, Beck and Smog. I try not to waste my time listening to stuff that’s big today and gone tomorrow. I think it’s amazing how some artists manage to make albums that you want to listen to over and over, and some of them you just grow tired of in no time. There is so much beautiful music around, and I will never get to know more than a fraction of it.

TB: There is a new acoustic album which is folk/country versions of our debut album. We will soon start working on our next “real” album as well as the Tomboy album – my side-project on Gomma records. It’s gonna be a weird mix of live disco and old skool techno.

TH: One is with an old band of mine called Garbo and another is a duo with a very talented songwriter friend of mine. Of course, I’ll be recording a kickass-rockdisco- country-goth-blues-house-boogiewoogie album with Whomadewho. I have absolutely no idea what it will end up sounding like.

TB: Harmonies and warm sounds.

TH: Delays, synths and strange sounds. People who sing badly in a nice way.

TB: The legendary 80s icon Grace Jones who I would persuade to work with me. Also, a lot of other cool and eccentric people that will be nice to namedrop later.

TH: Beck, John Lennon, Mozart, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Kirsten Dunst. I will ask the guys to go to my studio to write and record the greatest song in the history of music. When they start work, I will spend the night trying to convince Kirsten to be my girlfriend.

TB: Being talented, original and energetic.

JK: Focus, hard work and a small amount of talent.

TB: When I succeed in things I have pursued.

JK: Intolerant people that don’t show respect to each other. People that refer to “us” when you are together and mention other people as “them” in a very bad way. That’s a very annoying Danish thing that makes me angry.

TH: Creating something good and working towards finishing something. It’s also a good feeling of finally finishing something off. Then, after five minutes of relaxing and enjoying the wonder just created, I feel empty inside and start up something new as fast as I can.

TH: That’s impossible to answer. ‘Wish You Were Here’ by Pink Floyd always gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes. I think you judge a song on the associations it gives you, based on what happened in your life at the time when you got to know it. Songs are a big pipeline to your soul and your memory.

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