Absent Elk's 2009 Concert History

Absent Elk frontman Kjetil is from Norway, an emigration which gave the band their unusual name and influences much of the lyrical content. The rest of the band are from Brighton, and have played together in various formats for many years before finding the right man to complete the lineup. Within three weeks of meeting Kjetil, Absent Elk played their first live show to a few thousand festival-goers, having written an entire new set. They then signed to Sony BMG and quickly set about work on their debut album.

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 02, 2009
The Zutons / Camera Obscura / Lightning Seeds / The Leisure Society / Ebony Bones! / Stevie Appleton / Absent Elk Cardiff Civic Centre Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Jun 05, 2009
Girls Aloud / Absent Elk / Emma Deigman / Girl's Can't Catch / Julian Perretta

Out Of Control Tour

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Metro Radio Arena Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
May 14, 2009 –
May 16, 2009
The Great Escape 2009
Mumford & Sons / The xx / Cage The Elephant / The Temper Trap / Kasabian / Metric / Bombay Bicycle Club / Marina / Peter Bjorn and John / Metronomy / Citizen Cope / Noah & The Whale / Crystal Fighters / The Maccabees / Django Django / Chairlift / Wavves / The Joy Formidable / Black Lips / LIGHTS / Blind Pilot / Fink / Everything Everything / Dan Auerbach / Enter Shikari / CSS / The Charlatans / Villagers / Mystery Jets / Little Boots / William Fitzsimmons / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / The Big Pink / Mr Hudson / White Denim / Ane Brun / The Boxer Rebellion / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Just Jack / Asaf Avidan & The Mojos / Heartless Bastards / Slow Club / fanfarlo / Ben Kweller / Gang Of Four / Wolf Gang / Dan Black / Johnny Flynn / British Sea Power / School of Seven Bells / Little Comets / Connan Mockasin / Girls / Cloud Control / The Low Anthem / Datarock / Cursive / Arkells / V.V. Brown / Idlewild / Titus Andronicus / Beast / Hockey / Patrick Wolf / Bell X1 / Holy Fuck / The Handsome Family / The Veils / Wintersleep / Dan Mangan / Triggerfinger / British India / The Soft Pack / Cocoon / Racoon / The Twilight Sad / We Have Band / James Yuill / Hey Rosetta! / Vivian Girls / We Are the Ocean / Emmy the Great / The Hundred In the Hands / Teenagers / And So I Watch You from Afar / The Invisible / I Blame Coco / Jesca Hoop / The King Blues / The Rumble Strips / Thomas Dybdahl / Moriarty / Frankmusik / Lightspeed Champion / Maps / Soap&Skin / Teitur / The Pipettes / Chew Lips / Liam Finn / Sophie Hunger / TTNG / The Acorn / Neil Halstead / Casiokids / The Leisure Society / Evil Nine / Bashy / Pulled Apart By Horses / Crystal Antlers / Future of the Left / Marnie Stern / Sharks / De Staat / Times New Viking / Futurecop! / Leona Naess / Dananananaykroyd / Juliette Lewis / Naive New Beaters / Evan Dando / Black Box Revelation / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Polly Scattergood / Rainbow Arabia / Speech Debelle / General Fiasco / Telepathe / Manel / Johnny Foreigner / Micachu & The Shapes / Freeland / S.C.U.M / Trailer Trash Tracys / Smoke Fairies / Solid Gold / Gran Ronde / Peggy Sue / Riz MC / Turbowolf / Three Trapped Tigers / Lawrence Arabia / Golden Silvers / Let's Wrestle / Abe Vigoda / Kap Bambino / The Phantom Band / Hanne Hukkelberg / Brakes / Broken Records / Fight Like Apes / Iain Archer / Kissy Sell Out / Sky Larkin / Dan Smith / Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu / Esser / Lay Low / DM Stith / Amazing Baby / Yves Klein Blue / The Apples / Engine-EarZ Experiment / Woodpigeon / Hjaltalín / The Mae Shi / The John Steel Singers / I LIKE TRAINS / The Gay Blades / Ohbijou / Zach Hill / Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble / Karkwa / Filthy Dukes / We Are Wolves / Phantom / 80Kidz / Friendship / Mirrors / The Answering Machine / Theodore (UK) / Grasscut / The Bewitched Hands / The Shining / Pure Reason Revolution / Colourmusic / Alan Pownall / Cocknbullkid / The Ghost of a Thousand / Miranda Lee Richards / The Miserable Rich / Post War Years / Flashguns / The Deer Tracks / Kid British / Blue Roses / The Computers / zZz / Thomas Tantrum / Duchess Says / My Latest Novel / Mika Miko / Melissa McClelland / Shapes / Aziz / Beth Jeans Houghton / Banjo Or Freakout / My Tiger My Timing / Ocelot / Fan Death / Die! Die! Die! / I Was A King / Luke Doucet / The New Wine / Bearsuit / Hatcham Social / Dark Horses / Found / Exlovers / My Sad Captains / Mutiny On the Bounty / Grammatics / The Week That Was / The Rogues / Spires / I Heart Hiroshima / Heartbreak / Trip / Race Horses / Blakfish / The Boy Who Trapped the Sun / Harrys Gym / Sweethead / Skint & Demoralised / Medusa / LoveLikeFire / Fever Fever / Your Twenties / Mongrel / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / The Chapman Family / Phantom Limb / Baddies / It Hugs Back / Advaita / Mechanical Bride / A Grave With No Name / Sad Day for Puppets / Mpho / Mike Bones / Official Secrets Act / Yes Giantess / Hot Leg / Tonight Is Goodbye / DE DE MOUSE / Dag för Dag / Gable / Betty and The Werewolves / The Brute Chorus / Slaves to Gravity / Bang Bang Eche / Thomas Truax / SJ Esau / Crave / Ipso Facto / Kurran and the Wolfnotes / Magic Magic / Invasion / Brian Borcherdt / Soft Toy Emergency / Joe Gideon & The Shark / Rebekah Higgs / Calories / The Alexandria Quartet / Hexes / Elle Bandita / Males / Indigo Children / Throats / Gentle Friendly / Cuchillo / Roses Kings Castles / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Swarathma / Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy / Perfect People / Absent Elk / Gloria Cycles / Mothlite / Kasms / Catherine A.D. / Rosie & The Goldbug / Ulterior / Adam Heldring / The River Phoenix / Fanzine / Koko Von Napoo / Screaming Tea Party / Gold Teeth / Swanton Bombs / The Locarnos / Hospital Bombers / This City / Planet Earth / Christopher Rees / Jaakko & Jay / Video Nasties / Tucker / Me My Head / The Mark Inside / Hoodlums / Citadels / Telegraphs / Panama Kings / The Last Republic / To the Bones / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Electric City / Come On Gang! / Our Fold / Betty Steeles / Riddim Saunter / Birdengine / Threatmantics / Lyrebirds / Kaputt / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Dirty Stop Out / Tom Allalone & The 78s / TV Off / Mean Poppa Lean / Kids Love Lies / Ruby Jean & the Thoughtful Bees / Giantess / 4 or 5 Magicians / Emily Baker / The Moi non Plus / The She Creatures / Lightsgoblue. / Artefacts for Space Travel / London Blackmarket / Superfuzz / Youves / The Balky Mule / Barringtone / Charlie Ash / Televised Crimewave / Dimbleby & Capper / You Animals / The Shiny Brights / Nathan FLutebox Lee / Ultimate Power Duo / Juliette and the New Romantiques / Lion Club / Kate Rogers Band / Arthur Delaney / The Great Shakes / valerie francis / Joe Rose / Rory McVicar / Hot Silk Pockets / Natccu / Pocket Lips / PUNCH & THE APOSTLES / Luke Doucet & Melissa Mcclelland / ANGEL PIER / Cubrik / The Rouges / Girl In A Thunderbolt / Snish / Bonne Aparte / Lonely Ghosts / Battletorn / Last Mango in Paris / tin can telephone / Charlie Calleja / Little Lost David / Rodney Fisher / Ezra Bang & Hot Machine / Nullifier / Rgbs / Meme Love / Baby Venom / i!AMYOU / DJ Pdex / Astro Firs / Hunting the Minotaur / Geometri / Butcherd Beats / The Electric Flowers / This Tawdry Affair / Cassie & The Cassettes / The Train Chronicles / ROCK i.D. / Northernxposure / Riot Lights Show all bands
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Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 14, 2009
May 08, 2009
Girls Aloud / Edei / Girls Can't Catch / Absent Elk
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Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre (SECC) Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
May 05, 2009
Girls Aloud / Edei / Girls Can't Catch / Absent Elk

Out Of Control

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Utilita Arena Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Apr 30, 2009
Girls Aloud / Edei / Girls Can't Catch / Absent Elk
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The SSE Arena, Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Apr 29, 2009
Girls Aloud / Edei / Girls Can't Catch / Absent Elk
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The SSE Arena, Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Apr 28, 2009
Girls Aloud / Absent Elk / Girls Can't Catch / Emma Deigman
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The SSE Arena, Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Apr 26, 2009
Girls Aloud / Edei / Girls Can't Catch / Absent Elk
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The O2 London, England, United Kingdom
Apr 25, 2009
Girls Aloud / Edei / Girls Can't Catch / Absent Elk
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Utilita Arena Sheffield Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


How many concerts has Absent Elk had?

Absent Elk has had 17 concerts.

What genre is Absent Elk?

Absent Elk is most often considered to be Rock, Indie, Alternative Rock, Alternative, British, Brighton Indie, and British Indie Rock.

When was the last Absent Elk concert?

The last Absent Elk concert was on May 05, 2011 at Patterns in Brighton, England, United Kingdom. The bands that performed were: Absent Elk / Icarus Youth / Hold Fire.

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