New Politics Stop at Chameleon Club

“Everything happened so fast, you know?” says a grinning and wide-eyed Soren Hansen, “We are go-getters so we haven’t really stopped to think about how far we’ve come.”
Hansen is one-third of the Denmark-based rockers New Politics, who recently made a stop at The Chameleon Club in Lancaster. The band was originally formed by Soren and their lead vocalist David Boyd. The duo began writing songs all throughout a four year period. Later, Soren would convince David to enter a song they had written in a radio contest in Denmark. Out of the hundreds of bands participating, New Politics would eventually emerge as the standout and soon after signed a deal with RCA records and later would add the addition of drummer Louis Vecchio
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It was really what ignited us,” says David, “we really had no idea where it was going to go but we had a purpose now.”
The duo would later make the move to the U.S. and settle down in an apartment overlooking the New York skyline in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Soren says with excitement, “I love the U.S. the constitution runs so deep here, people have the chance to look at something and go for it.”
After the growing popularity of the band with hits like “Yeah Yeah Yeah” and “Dignity,” the band set out on tour alongside Ballyhoo, opening for The Dirty Heads. After a month on the road the bands arrived in Lancaster on Wednesday as David and company looked to bring energy, charisma, and politics.

“Its ironic, our songs aren’t apart particular governments, it’s about society in general,” says Hansen.
“Yeah,” chimes in David, “Everyone can’t point fingers at other people, but we’re really pointing them back at ourselves.”
The band hit the stage after Ballyhoo! And quickly began with a fast-paced song titled “Nuclear War.” Energy exploded through the crowd as Vecchio intensely laid down drum beats while David mesmerized the crowd as danced across the stage with all kinds of moves.
Songs later included “New Generation,” a song geared towards the teenage crowd, David always interacted with the crowd, often looking straight into the cell phones of spectators videotaping. Soren captured the crowds attention with superb guitar playing while providing back up vocals for David.
The band ended with their most famous hits “Yeah Yeah Yeah” and “Dignity” as David began break dancing and even doing a back-flip off of the wall. The crowd was fueled by the crowd interaction and the connection Vecchio, Hansen, and Boyd brought to the stage.
This upstart band is just beginning to uncover the layers of their full potential. Soren and David say they are already working on new material and can’t wait to get back in the studio to create an even better album.
“We want to put everything we can into every album, we know it’s impossible to make a perfect record, but we want to make that imperfect record that’s perfect in it’s own way,” says David.
“ I agree, the day you write the perfect song is the day you’ll become dead inside,”