Overtaken?

It may seem a bit unnecessary to whine about the concert scene in Lund. Above all Mejeriet does a very good job and there is no real reason to complain as long as they continue to set up shows with bands such as Language of Flowers and Architecture in Helsinki. However, I now notice that we miss out on both Mates of State and Sufjan Stevens, and it makes me sad. When I look at the respective touring schedules I realise that it would be difficult to add another city, but I still think it is a shame that the concert promoters in southern Sweden not have done more to bring them here.

Mates of State, October
19 Reykjavik, Iceland Airwaves Festival
20 Stockholm, Sweden Debaser
21 Berlin, Germany Lido
23 Amsterdam, Holland Paradiso
24 London, United Kingdom King's College
 
Sufjan Stevens, November
1 Dublin Olympia
2 Manchester Academy
3 London Barbican
5 Gent Voorhuit
7 Barcelona Casino L'Allanca
9 Paris Bataclan
10 Gloria Cologne
11 Amsterdam Paradiso
12 Copenhagen Vega
14 Oslo Sentrum Scene
15 Stockholm Berns
16/17 Reykjavik Frikirkjan Church

The Hidden Cameras come to southern Sweden, but Mates of State and Sufjan Stevens in particular were two of my concert hopes for this fall (of what was realistic, otherwise I would probably say The Arrogants and The Snow Fairies). Going to Copenhagen will not be an option because it is too expensive. Still Lund stands up well as a concert town in Sweden. That is a very poor mark to Malmö, Gothenburg, Uppsala, and Linköping. Debaser will open a venue in Malmö in March next year. It could hopefully mean that some of the well known bands that Kulturbolaget ignores soon may play live on a stage in my neighbour town.