Junior Senior seem to be moving the UK: They are playlistet on BBC's Radio 1, SBN, XFM to mention a few - and the media seem to pick up the band. First the funky mag Dazed & Confused issued a full page, and later 4 pages on the band - then Junior Senior got a great live review by NME, and the same cool music mag has dedicated a full page in colour to the band.

Labeled as "Hot New Band" and under the headline "Conquering the world with their Wham-meets-Motown sound: Danish electro-pop duo Junior Senior" the magazine brings a quite entertaining interview with the guys about... and Ronan Keating love for the band.

"Ronan's right - Move Your Feet is a great song. It ping-pongs between Wham's 'Club Tropicana', The Hives, Stardust's 'Music Sounds Better With You', Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Dick Dale, and Motown's greatest hits. The LP 'D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat' is even more eclectic- like a record shop dust-up between Fatboy Slim (who tried desperately to signe the band, having heard 'Move Your Feet' at last year's Miami Wither Musc Conference) and the Avalanches."

The British music webmag Dotmusic.com calls "Move Your Feet" 2003's first perfect popsingle and rates the single with 10 out of 10. At the same site there's a great review of the bands recent gig at The Metro in London(Jan 23rd 2003), that makes you more than keen on being there and witness it the next time:

"Squeezing into London's tiny Metro club presents something of a challenge on most nights of the week, but tonight it's virtually impossible. Despite the fact that Danish duo Junior Senior are yet to release any material in this country, the place is packed (and probably over its legal-capacity) on the strength of reputation and limited radio airplay of a killer pop single."

"By the time criminally addictive current single 'Move Your Feet', explodes, the evening has taken on the atmosphere of a private party..."

And Radio 1 has picked up the song as well. They are now playlistet on UK's biggest radio station, after DJ and host Jo Whiley picked the song as "Jo's Pet Song" (=record of the week).

Yeah, now it's official: Crunchy Frog are nominated to no less than 9 Danish Music Awards (=Grammy's), so now the goal is to buy up some major labels, start smoking cigars and go play some golf!

This year have brought the world releases from three crunchy bands, and all them earned three nominations each:

Junior Senior: "Hit of the year", "Band of the year" and "New name of the year"
Superheroes: "Band of the year", "Video of the year" and "Singer of the year" (Thomas Troelsen)
The Raveonettes: "New name of the year", "Best rock album" and "Best singer" (Sune Wagner).

Not too fucking shabby...but let's see what happens on March 1st. (Note: the only DMA any CF act actually won was The Raveonettes: Best Rock Release of 02: Whip It On.)

Some awards have already been handed out. Yesterday DK's one and only (or so it seems) music mag Gaffa announced their Gaffa Awards, all selected by the readers. The big winner was Junior Senior with 3 awards as "Best new band", "Best music video" and "Hit of the year". Thomas Troelsen from superheroes picked up the award as "Singer of the year". In December Junior Senior picked up the "Hit of the year" award, when Danish National Radio P3 (DK's Radio 1) handed out their P3 awards, and in October Junior Senior won Danish magazine Chili's one and only music award.

Late January will bring the Danish Critics award "Steppeulven", with Thomas Troelsen nominated as "Vocalist of the year", The Raveonettes as "Hope of the year", Sune Wagner (Raveonettes) as "Musician of the year" and Move Your Feet (Jr. Sr.) as "Melody of the year". And early February will bring Danish Deejay Awards, where Junior Senior are nominated as
"Club hit of the year" and "DJ's favorite".

And in Sweden Superheroes have been nominated by the prestigious SAMA-award for "Best Scandinaviasn Album of 2002".