Another song placement on MTV's Jersey Shore, two weeks in a row, this time around it's 'Big Personality'.

Bow Down (to no man) has been added to the playlist on national Radio 1 in Belgium.

Bow Down (to no man) was featured on MTV's Jersey Shore last night

HOGNI signs with American record label Spectra Records.

HOGNI will be on NBA 2K11, due to release on Oct. 5th! 29 tracks are on the soundtrack: Big Boi and Snoop Dogg ... and HOGNI! The cover features Michael Jordan himself! 

http://www.2ksports.com/news/nba2k11/402

HOGNI is nr 4 on the World's coolest podcast: 

http://www.undemocratichitlist.com/podcasts.php

Get 'HOGNI - Soul Company' on Norwegian radio!!!
Vote here: http://nrkp3.no/sjef/

Billboard is featuring HOGNI's live video of 'Soul Company'!

See billboard.com. Click videos. And today, on the front page of the video section, you will find HOGNI - Soul Company (live video) on 'new pop'.

Awesome!

HOGNI will play @ Italia Wave Love Festival, Livorno Italy, July 17th ...160.000 visitors last year! Headliners: Kraftwerk, Placebo, Aphex Twin! http://www.italiawave.com

Singing fool home page... featuring Moby, Jonas Brothers, AC/DC and HOGNI!!! http://www.singingfool.com/

HOGNI and the band are playing at Spot Festival in Aarhus, Denmark.

Time: Friday, May 22nd, at 24:00.
Venue: Archaus.

Spot is the biggest music business showcase festival in Denmark.
But it's also open to the public. So come see the show if you're near!

GOOM Radio, the first real internet radio of France, has added 'Soul Company' to the playlist of their channel ROCK YOUR LIFE!

Skope Magazine had 1,742,617 hits in November 2008 with 100,000 streams per month and growing. And they just added HOGNI's 'Soul Company' on their radio playlist.

Platform One in the USA picked HOGNI to be a part of an on campus college campaign. They've made a compilation CD with selected bands, and HOGNI's two songs 'Soul Company' and 'How High' are featured on the CD. They've printed 10.000 CD's and 20.000 download cards which they distribute to 100 college and university areas all over the U.S.
The campaign started two weeks ago, and will continue for another two months or so. Platform One just hosted a charity benefit concert with Kings of Leon.

After playing at this year's MIDEM, held in Cannes, France, HOGNI was invited to be a part of a project called 'New Names'. A big Russian record company, Style Records, is profiling upcoming artists from Russia, and also artists from outside of Russia. This is a national campaign, where they will work together with partners that reach all the way from one side of Russia to the other. Here, the featured song is 'How High', and so far it has already been played twice on Russian radio.

HOGNI has been selected to perform at this years MIDEM Talent held in Cannes, France!
MIDEM is one of the major music industry gatherings in Europe.

Magic Mirrors Wednesday 21st 13:05 pm

The trip has been made possible
with support from



More music from the Faroe Islands
Visit www.musicfromthefaroeislands.com

Høgni will be doing a little solo tour in Switzerland in November.
Check out the dates in the Live section.

You'll hear Høgni perform some of the new material in the time to come, so come check it out and get a sneak preview of the new album to come.

Hope to see you there!

Høgni and the band are playing at this year's Roskilde Festival on the 2nd of July (stage Pavillion jr.).
See you there hopefully!!

Høgni Lisberg, Teitur, Eivør Pálsdóttir, Brandur Enni and Gestir. These will be the bands playing at the Atlantic Music Event, held in NASA, Reykjavík on March 31st. Check out the LIVE menu to see all forthcoming shows.

Høgni & the band are doing a tour to Nordisk Films Biografer A/S around Denmark.

The dates are:
Copenhagen, March 27th, at Metropol Biografen (the old Palladium)
Odense, March 28th, at Biocity Odense
Århus, March 29th, at BioCity Århus.

All shows start at 19:00 - and end at 20:15
You'll get a FREE BEER half an hour before the show starts

Price: 75,- DKK
(Members of KLUB Gaffa: 50,- DKK)
Order the tickets from www.biobooking.dk or by phone: 70 13 12 11

BeatBox booking will be doing the booking for Høgni in Denmark.
This is really good news: The company has been one of the biggest and best in Denmark for many years now.

Høgni will be doing the support for HUSH (representet by BeatBox) on some of the shows on their tour in March.

Check out their website to see some of the other bands they represent www.beatboxbooking.dk

Høgni is nominated at this years Planet Awards on the Faroe Islands in the catagory Best Faroese Artist/Band.
You can vote by sending the text message
"pla bf 3" to 1930.(Faroese phone numbers only!)

Høgni won a Planet Award in 2006 for Best Album.

The album will be released in Switzerland on January 8th. Høgni will be on tour in Switzerland as well with the band in late January/early February. Check out the exact dates in the Live section. So if you’re in Switzerland: - Keep your eyes and ears open!

Morning Dew will be released in Denmark on Nov. 13th The album is being released by Sonet, a sub-label of Universal-Denmark.

Visit www.sonet.dk for more info.

For the first time ever, Høgni and the band will be performing on the big outdoor festival in Klaksív (FO), called Summarfestivalurin. Last year they had around 8.000 visitors! Hope to see you there on Aug. 4th.

Visit www.summarfestivalur.fo for more info.

Høgni and the band will be playing at this year´s G! Festival in Gøta, Faroe Islands! The G! Festival was the first big outdoor summer festival on the Faroe Islands, and it has gotten bigger and bigger every year.
Last year 6.000 tickets were sold.
Visit www.gfestival.com for more info.

The Atlantic Music Event (AME) showcase of Faroese music, held at NASA in Reykjavk, Iceland was a succes! Six Faroese bands (Marius, Gestir, Deja Vu, Makrel, Lena, Høgni Lisberg) performed, together with Icelandic band Dikta. The Icelandic media has been playing a lot of Faroese music lately, and the songs Morning Dew (Høgni Lisberg) and Can´t Earase It (Lena) are on the A-playlist (most performed songs at the moment) of national radio Rás 2.

We all had a really good time, and all of us really enjoyed performing in Iceland. Icelanders are such kind people, and you always feel welcome when visiting!

Thanks to all who came to the shows! Looking forward to seeing you again, hopefully really soon!

Heres a link to a solo-performance of the song Morning Dew on Icelandic national TV on the program Kastljos http://dagskra.ruv.is/streaming/

Morning Dew is "Album of the week" on Rás 2, national radio on Iceland this week. This is a good warm-up to the big AME concert at Nasa, the event that includes 5 Faroese bands and one Icelandic band, performing on Saturday April 22nd. Well be performing at Grand Rokk on Friday April 21st and at Nasa on April 22nd. There will also be live performances on national TV and radio programs during the stay in Iceland. So stay tuned if youre in Iceland the next days!

"Just Dig" from the new album hit nr. 1 last Saturday on the Faroese hitlist! This is the second single from the new album. The first single was "Learn to Ride on Waves", which stayed at nr. 1 for 5 weeks.
Vote here http://www.uf.fo/15bestu/

Upcoming shows:

Atlantic Music Event (AME) 21st and 22nd of April in Reykjavik, Iceland.
AME, a travelling Faroese showcase, has arranged a trip to Iceland with six bands. Høgni and the band will be a part of this trip to Iceland, performing in Reykjavik at NASA and Grandrokk

Spot Festival 2nd of June in Århus, Denmark.
Høgni will have a solo performance at this year's Spot Festival at their intimate singer/songwriter scene at AROS.

Asfalt 3rd of June in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
Høgni and the band will be a part of the first Asfalt festival ever to be held on the Faroe Islands. The festival takes place in the centre of Tórshavn on the 2nd and 3rd of June on six different scenes, both indoors and outdoors.

Just dig went from nr. 7 to nr. 3 on Faroese hitlist 15 Tær Bestu this week.
Vote here http://www.uf.fo/15bestu/

"Learn to Ride on Waves" has exceeded the time limit of 15 weeks on the Faroese hitlist 15 Tær Bestu. The single spent 5 weeks on the top as nr. 1 and is spending its last week on nr. 2. This means, that even though the song is on the list, you can not vote for it anymore.

The next radio single, "Just Dig", entered the list on saturday at nr. 7. If you would like to vote, follow the link http://www.uf.fo/15bestu

Remeber that you can not vote for Learn to Ride on Waves anymore. You can vote for Just Dig

"Learn to Ride on Waves" is still on the top of the Faroese charts and has been nr. 1 for 5 weeks now. "Just Dig", also from the album "Morning Dew", is the next tester for the hitlist.
Vote here: http://www.uf.fo/15bestu/

"Just Dig" from the album Morning Dew is being "powerplayed" on Faroese national radio this week. This is Høgni's second song being powerplayed from the new album.

Høgni has added his profile to Myspace.com. On www.myspace.com/hognilisberg you can hear songs from the new album and add to the 'myspace friend section'

Learn to Ride on Waves is still nr 1 on the Faroese hitlist '15 tær Bestu', making it four weeks now. Only one week to go until the show's timeframe will exclude the song. So if you want to support the song for one more week, follow this link to vote http://www.uf.fo/15bestu/atkvodur.asp

Learn to Ride on Waves stayed nr. 1 on the Faroese charts again this week, making it 3 weeks on the very top! The song has been on the list for 12 weeks, and after 15 weeks it will have exceeded the time limit for a song to be on the charts. So remember to keep voting for another 3 weeks on http://www.uf.fo/15bestu/atkvodur.asp

Learn to Ride on Waves maintained its position as nr. 1 on Faroese hitlist 15 Tær Bestu this week!
Keep voting on http://www.uf.fo/15bestu/atkvodur.asp

Høgni signed a booking deal for the Benelux area with Artist Management & Agency in Belgium in January. Through this deal Høgni got a distribution deal of the album Morning Dew for the Benelux area with big distribution company PIAS.

Two songs from the new album, "Morning Dew" and "Just dig", are on A- rotation on Radio 1, Belgium!

Learn to Ride on Waves, the first radio single from Høgni´s new album, hit nr. 1 on the Faroese charts yesterday!
So after just two and a half months the album has recieved a "best album" award and a nr. 1 single! Thanks to everyone who voted! And remember to keep voting on http://www.uf.fo/15bestu/atkvodur.asp

Høgni's new album "Morning Dew" won the Planet Award on the Faroe Islands last night for "Best Album 2005"

Morning Dew is once again nominated as album of the year. The brand new award show on the Faroe Islands, "Planet Awards", has nominated Morning Dew amongst five different albums to be album of the year. The voting will be announced on the 28th of January. 

The Faroese newspaper Dimmalætting has nominated "Morning Dew" amongst 5 albums to be Album of the Year on the Faroe Islands 2005. The nominees are:

200 "Viva La Republica"
Høgni Lisberg "Morning Dew"
Deja Vu "A Place to Stand on"
Tvey av Kamarinum "Dámliga Gøtan"
Petur Pólson "Koma"

To vote for Morning Dew as album of the year, write an SMS with the message "dimma af2" and send it to (+298) 1920. Deadline is on January 24th.