Lost in Translation

This is so sick that I do not know what to say. The Japanese edition of Lucky Soul's debut album The Great Unwanted can be purchased at Cduniverse.

Monsters Are Waiting - Ones and Zeros

Brittle Stars reunite in a few weeks for their supposedly last show ever, but I can already name their successors. Monsters Are Waiting do have a different sound, but their beautiful song Ones and Zeros sounds like a more poppy and upbeat Brittle Stars.

Go to Monsters Are Waiting's myspace and listen to a cover of I Wanna Be Adored and the less immediate but equally lovely song Ha Ha.

Popaganda in true Luger spirit

Sometimes a press release is enough to open a circus. The non-profit music association Popaganda decided to sell out and invited Sweden's most disgusting booking agency named Luger. Without having to change clothes, the latter soon found themselves comfortable in the roles of clown and monkey.

The free (no entrance paid by the audience) Popaganda festival was held on the campus in Stockholm in late May 2001 to 2006. The Stockholm University Student Union (Stockholms universitets studentkår, SUS) financed the festival whereas the association Popagande were responsible for the arrangement. The last Popaganda festival was held in May 2006 and offered the audience live shows with artists such as Mew, Frida Hyvönen, Final Fantasy, and Hello Saferide. I would had gone to the Popaganda festival that spring if it had not overlapped in time with the opportunity to see my beloved favourite band Language of Flowers at a real indoor stage at a place with amazing sound (I just described the venue Mejeriet which is located in Lund).
The negotiations between SUS and Popaganda stalled in October 2006. The two project leaders at Popagande left their positions. Officially, they said that their salary issue was not resolved. The association Popaganda was more direct and referred to frictions with SUS. SUS responded by replacing the locks and blocking the pass cards of Popaganda's office in the student union building. The conflict was on. So much for six years of collaboration.

SUS moved on, threw out the pop music and arranged Re:publik, a "broader" festival, the following spring. Re:publik's line up may not have impressed any music fan, but the reduced artist fees resulted in a more balanced budget and less risks. In one way, I can fully understand SUS's intention. As a festival arranger you surely must dare to lose in order to win, but it still feels insanely gratuitous to defend a potential budget loss of hundred of thousands Swedish crowns (SEK), as was the case if the festival was ruined by bad weather. Popaganda also moved on and started a free club at The Southern Theater (Södra Teatern) instead.

In an interview a few months ago, the SUS President spoke about Popaganda:
- I think it is fun that Popaganda continues even without our involvement. There are few free festivals and it feels good to have been building up a free festival such as Popaganda. I do not think they are going to start cashing in on the brand. It is only positive if someone else is willing to secure the supply for the students, says Stockholm University Student Union President Edith Ringmar.

I read somewhere that Popaganda's project leader wished SUS good luck with Re:publik. Just when relationships were improved, at least in public, the bomb was released:
The association Popaganda and Luger have initiated a collaboration that allows Popaganda to resurrect, monitor and evolve its existence in The Festival Sweden. A new venue will host a late summer party of large dimensions, namely Eriksdalsbadet in Southern Stockholm.
On August 29-30, it is time for the sequel that breaks the original.

Suddenly it appears that SUS and Popaganda were cut from the same cloth. What happened to the ideals? But Luger is the worst. This new festival will not, despite the name, have much in common with the old Popaganda festival. My first thought was that Luger just complimented Way Out West with a newly promoted Way Out East 2. There are not many things left of the festival formerly called Popaganda. The 18-year age limit is replaced by a 13-year limit, the non-profit collaborator (the student union) has been dumped for a strictly business relationship, and the date is moved to late summer.
On closer examination it turns out that Popaganda 2008 will be held on the weekend that the free festival Pop Dakar was held the last two years.

Somehow Luger still managed a piece of art. First they broke an unwritten rule in The Festival Sweden by scheduling their festival Where The Action Is on the same date as another festival, then they put their teeth into Popaganda. Only one thing is clear, this will be difficult to beat.


By the way, El Perro del Mar's gig almost two weeks ago was wonderful. Somewhat surprisingly, I Can't Talk About It was the best song of her concert set. But I was a little disappointed that the admission fee of 185 SEK was not reduced. The event was promoted as a live package with both Lycke Li and El Perro del Mar, and only one of them came to the venue (the right person though). When I got home I was reminded that Mejeriet had booked the show via Luger. Curtain down.

Sunny in Lund

The venue Mejeriet writes on its website that Lycke Li is temporarily ill and can not sing for a week. That suits me perfectly since the mentioned Li does not have the luck to be honored a visit by yours truly any more times.

However, I really look forward to see El Perro del Mar who thus becomes the evening's main act. Last time I saw her in Lund, El Perro del Mar outshone The Concretes fronted by Victoria Bergsman high on valium. Tonight El Perro del Mar will, very deservedly, be the center of attention. I hope she looks forward to it as much as I do.

As I am writing this, the sky is blue outside my window while I am eating breakfast at the computer to start the best weekday of all.

Minipop - Like I Do

Tricia Kanne walks into my world. She has decided to stay here. I will not let go of her. She won my admiration the moment I heard Like I Do at Minipop's website (Ask Me a Question is played first but just click the arrow above the title to change track).

Tricia Kanne is beautiful as a dream. Her voice reminds me of Stars' incredibly talented singer Amy Milan. A compliment that Tricia and her Minipop fully deserve. Listen to more songs at myspace.

Moonbabies - Take Me to the Ballroom

The Malmö band Moonbabies will play at Debaser in their home town on the second of May, and I will be there. I have a fantastic night to look forward to if they sound as good live.

Jan - Talk of Love

Today's blog post is about a 42-year-old singer/songwriter from Minneapolis who makes her living by designing invitations, menus, and other fine things for festive occasions. In her spare time, Jeaneen Gauthier is playing and singing in a band called Jan. The song Talk of Love from the EP Everything Must Go is as beautiful as the cover. The record label Guilt Ridden Pop is giving away the EP for a symbolic price of three dollars (postage paid if you live in the US).

Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh

Talulah Gosh's self-titled song was played at the club on my way home from the Friday I mentioned in the latest post. That was a very nice ending to an enjoyable evening. I wonder if Amelia Fletcher ever sang a better song. Perhaps Shallow on Heavenly's first album, but that would probably be the only one.

On youtube I found a video called "Cesc and the City". The video shows the world's best midfielder Cesc Fabregas in my favourite team Arsenal (that seems to go hand in hand) scoring against Manchester City at the start of this season to the tune of My Boy Says, assisted by the team's most intelligent player Alexander Hleb. The combination of a recorded video sequence from an Arsenal game and the sound of a Talulah Gosh song put together into a video clip must be extremely rare, but I prefer to watch the football videos without music after all. My beloved Arsenal are having a tough period in the league right now, but I support them in both good and bad times.

When I do not think about Arsenal, I plan for the summer and atumn. There is a lot of things to be done now. This will be a tough, but hopefully also rewarding week.

Signed Papercuts - Nothingness

Sooner or later, you come to believe that you already have seen all the bands you want to see. I went to Blekingska with my friend Anna last Friday to see Bridal Shop. By chance, we got to talk to a friend of the band after the show. She asked us what band we most of all wanted to see live. Anna had previously told me that Stars were booked for this year's Accelerator festivial. We both said that we wanted to see Stars live.

In recent days, I had a look at the flights and trains to Stockholm, only to realise that it would be too expensive to go there just for a concert with Stars. I hope that Stars will play at Vega in Copenhagen. Otherwise, I am not very interested in concerts this spring. I came up with the following "list" after I checked the upcoming concerts in this region:

March 28 at Blekingska in Lund - Friday Bridge
April 11 at Mejeriet in Lund - El Perro del Mar

I have seen both of them live before so this concert spring will certainly not bring me any major surprises. It would had been fun to see Marit Bergman again, but her concert is arranged by Kulturbolaget and I will not go there again. Firefox Ak is playing at Mejeriet in April and I like her music but not so much that I would pay 120 SEK in entrance. In that case I rather attend a gig with a small band that surprises me, like Signed Papercuts lit up a small stage on a cold December night.

The Charade - The World Is Going Under

The Charade mix their third album Keeping Up Appearances. Meanwhile the world is falling apart. The most tiresome question for a while must be do you have Facebook?

Some people are not capable to communicate in the usual way with cell phone and email anymore. The epidemic known as Facebook is both the virus, the symptoms and the disease at the same time. On the other hand, Facebook is only a little child of its time that has grown too big too fast.

The first episode of the Swedish TV show Survivor (the Swedish version was called Expedition Robinson) aired in 1997, a few years after the Internet breakthrough. Of course, Survivor itself was never the great change. Survivor was just a TV show concept that aired at the right time and thus only serves as an example in this case. Sadly, the entire Survivor concept (at least in the Swedish version) was based on the not very appealing character trait of sacrificing someone else for your own benefit. More importantly, Survivor started a trend where the boundary between the private and the public loosened up.
Ten years later, we see the full effects. After Myspace, it was only a matter of time until someone else would take the concept further. A community has major flaws when it is the rule rather than the exception to have hundreds of friends. Allow me to raise a rhetorical question - who does have 735 friends?

In December last year I got an offer to be captured, if only for a moment, by the media world. The weekly young adult entertainment guide Dygnet Runt (in fact a Friday appendix produced by the newspaper Sydsvenskan) had sent an invitation to their photocall for people who "in the past year have made Malmö and Lund a little better, a little better looking and more fun to be in". One day I unexpectedly found such an invitation in my mailbox. I obviously got the invitation because I was the promoter at Blekingska's indie pop club Indigo last autumn. I stayed at home instead of going to a group photo that would reach hundreds of thousands readers. I can not say that the idea of mingling with the region's entertainment elite attracted me. Once I later got the newspaper in my hand, I noticed that 114 people had come to the photocall. The title was "The Chosen People". Either you are with us or not. Trendy or not trendy. It reminded me of my very early shool years and class mates who said "you are invited, you are also invited, but you may not come". I was very pleased with my decision to not go to the photocall when I saw that a number of media horny and incredibly annoying Nöjesguiden (another young adult entertainment guide) profiles were on the same group picture that I would had been if I said yes.

However, the purpose of this post is not to picture myself as conceited. It is rather a desperate cry for help, hoping to avoid hearing well we set up something, what is your facebook?

Until then, I listen to The Charade's new song The World Is Going Under which is a gem among all the pigs who are taking themselves too seriously while thinking they are the middle point of earth.

Sambassadeur - Malmö January 25

In order to move on, you sometimes have to accept the phrase "kill your darlings". In exceptional cases, the darlings kill themselves.

Sambassadeur's Coastal Affairs was the best EP of 2006, but now I also know that Coastal Affairs was the beginning of the end. I adored and still love Coastal Affairs, but the EP inevitably brought Sambassadeur in a new direction characterised by a luxury and orchestrated sound. Last year's album Migration was a huge disappointment and another victim of the sterile, overproduced sound landscape which Jari Haapalainen and like-minded producers, in this case Mattias Glavås, have made their own. The Sambassadeur that are on tour this spring does not have much in common with the band I once fell in love with.

Last Friday, Sambassadeur played in Malmö in front of Southern Sweden's worst crowd on a stage that was far too big for the band. Nothing could save the gig under those circumstances and I should probably give up attending concerts at the venue Kulturbolaget. When Sambassadeur played New Moon as their first song I knew that the concert would be my definite farewell to the band. In all honesty, I had not expected anything else, but I wanted to be there to be sure.

Sambassadeur is not exactly known as a strong live band, but I still can not understand why you play live when you show no interest in the audience. The songwriting core of the band, Joachim Läckberg (guitar) and Anna Persson (vocals), looked uncomfortable in the spotlight in the center of the stage. The bassist Daniel Tolegård and the other guitarist Daniel Permbo stood on either side and at least made an effort. A band must realise though that something is wrong when their guest drummer is the most interesting person to watch.

Sambassadeur will certainly have more success in the future, but I am not particulalry interested when the production has become more important than great melodies. Sambassadeur wrote fantastic songs some years ago. Sambassadeur did not play If Rain, Dead Leaves or even Between the Lines at the show. The only song that really made me shine was my song - Marie. In the end, Marie alone made it worthwhile to take a Friday trip to Malmö after all.


Four out of Ten.

Penny Century - Nothing Burns Like Bridges

Today I woke up by myself five to six in the morning. I will soon sit on my days off and eat breakfast four 'o clock at night if this sick thing continues.

I was wrong in my last post. It does not take an hour a day to travel between Lund and the city I yet do not have a relationship with. It rather seems like I should be happy if I can limit the travelling to two and a half hours a day. It is raining outside and I have yawned since I came home a couple of hours ago. A brutal contrast to the beautiful Monday which was the best day in a long time.

Everything is as usual at tweenet. Their visitors have voted for indiepop favourite things in 2007. The votes are now counted and the list about the best bands of the year is dominated by talented but boring ones. Who seriously rates Cats on Fire as the world's best band?
Julia Hanberg's Penny Century is certainly not the world's best band but still deserve some attention. Bizarrely, Penny Century got almost all their votes on tweenet's list from people related to their record label. I could have voted for Penny Century's song Nothing Burns Like Bridges from last year's album Between a Hundred Lies, but Penny Century seem to remain a band with great potential that do not get the recognition they deserve.

Sons and Daughters - Darling

I woke up by myself well rested nine o'clock in the morning to a day off. Apparently, I am going to travel between Lund and Malmö the next ten weeks, and with that I say goodbye to one hour a day.

In total, I spent 1300 SEK directly related to my studies yesterday. The monthly bus card cost 640 SEK and the course literature was equally expensive. Surprisingly, I was still happy because I managed to "cheat" the system and come home with a CD album I almost got for free.

The Academy bookstore (Akademibokhandeln) hands out discount cards for which you collect stamps. Ten stamps mean that you can deduct 100 SEK when you buy at their store. Yesterday, I had for once remembered to bring my old half-filled discount card and reached ten stamps. I expected to get my discount but it would only be given at the next purchase. That is annoyingly stupid and it would not be possible to use the discount without buying things I do not need right now. I walked around in the bookstore, thought about it and then asked the cashier if I could use the discount on music CDs. That was okay, so I came home with Säkert's debut album for 29 SEK. What a bargain!

It is said that a new semester is an excellent time for a fresh start. I would actually feel that way if I could only get my apartment cleaned. The new year has started well so far. Let us celebrate with some new music. Sons and Daughters sound like Long Blondes in some songs. Sons and Daughter's latest album This Gift may not be as good, but the song Darling is wonderful. Listen at the band's myspace.

Setlists and pop dreams

Among all the stressfull Friday nights at Blekingska last fall, I remember one conversation very well. The band Irene were preparing the stage for sound check. In the meantime, I was speaking to Tobias and Malin of Laurel Music about which songs they were going to play. Please don't show me the setlist, I do not want to know anything before the show, I said. Why not, Malin asked. Then and there I found it difficult to give a quick answer and probably said something stupid such as it gets more exciting that way without further explaining myself. It stroke me afterwards that this conversation opened my eyes. At that moment I became aware that there are so many different ways to experience a concert.

A great deal of my experience at pop concerts is the concept of being left unknown about exactly what songs that will be played and how they are arranged, in the same way that you do not know how things are going for your favourite team in the next match. It may seem a bit silly that this could impact the experience so much, but we both forget that when the favourite band plays our song.

As a promoter, I collected setlists from most, but not all, gigs at Blekingska last fall. It may be fun to look at them in the future. For the record, I add the setlists to this post as well. The dotted line separates the ordinary concert set from the encore.


Like Honey, September 21, 2007
New York – Tiles – Old Boy – Telling Lies – Five Minute Dream – Nothing's Right
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Airport

Language of Flowers, September 21, 2007
Where You Belong - Who You're With - Cat's Miaow - You're The One - Summer's Been and Gone - If It's Not You - Songs About You - Panda Girl - I Don't Care at All - Tara Mascara
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Botanic Gardens

Secret Shine, September 28, 2007
Oblivion – Lost Memory – Sound of Light – Deep Thinker – Hate You When You Smile – Adored – Stars in the Sky – Hit the Ground – Cafe Crash – Wish Coming True – Loveblind

Friday Bridge, October 5, 2007
Introduction de la Soirée – Le Satin S’empare – The End of the Affair – Literature – The Lady Julie – Armance L’Actrcie – Shanghai Shipping – Edward the Hedgehog – The Story of Agnes – Love and Nostalgia – 24 Hour Party People – It Girl

Strange Idols, October 12, 2007
Say Anything – Old Times – He’s Out Looking for Love – She’s Gonna Let You Down Again – X-ray Vision – New song – Intensions – Blue Espers/Berlin - It’s No Fun
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Ovanite Sensation

Laurel Music, November 2, 2007
The Way Love Goes – Dreams and Lies – Disappear – Northern Light – No One Wants Forever – Into the Blue – Sirens
(in Copenhagen the following night Laurel Music added Question Mark, Karma 2 AM, and another new song to the concert set)

Irene, November 2, 2007
The Game – Little Things – Looking for Love – Stardust – Seaside – Waterfront – End of the Line – September Skies – Only You – Baby I Love Your Way – June Is Flat – Little Lovin’ – By Your Side

Lucky Soul, November 10, 2007
My Brittle Heart – One Kiss Don’t Make a Summer – Ain’t Never Been Cool – Struck Dumb – Add Your Light to Mine, Baby – The Towering Inferno – Baby, I’m Broke – Gimme Love – The Great Unwanted – Heatwave by Marta Reeves and The Vandelas – Lips Are Unhappy
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The Killing Moon by Echo and The Bunnymen

The Sunny Street, November 30, 2007
Drawings – Blackberries – Morton and Claude – Kill You – Rainy Hearts – Comedians – Cyclists – All the Way – Greasy Crisps – Pottery and Glass


In some strange way, I managed to also get a setlist from Säkert's gig at Kulturbolaget in Malmö on December 1. I post that one as well, but I will not bring home any more paper pieces from concerts in a while.

Säkert, Kulturbolaget December 1, 2007
Och Jag Grät Mig till Sömns - Rotary - Stetoskop - Någon Gång Måste Du Bli Själv - Ditt Kvarter - Det Här Är Vad Dom Säger - Min Hemstad - Faller Isär - New song - Sanningsdan - Allt Som Är Ditt - Är Du Fortfarande Arg
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Det Kommer Bara Leda till Något Ont - Vi Kommer Att Dö Samtidigt - 2006

My 2007

Concerts
A really good concert almost always comes down to more things than the music. Sambassadeur have written my soundtrack (the tambourines are shaking but I don't hear the sound, it's my favorite song but I don't like the crowd) of many gigs that were spoiled by people who were talking during the songs. The crowd was horrible when Lucky Soul played at Debaser Medis in Stockholm on Friday, November 9. Lucky Soul played at Blekingska in Lund the following night. The office people who ran the student nation decided to overprice the tickets. I was not happy with that, but the concert was absolutely fantastic because all people who had paid an expensive ticket for the show came for the music rather than the booze. People jumped up and down crazily to the hits Lips Are Unhappy and Ain't Never Been Cool, but they were still completely silent during the quit ballad Baby I'm Broke. Wonderful!
This was very ironic since the crowd at the very same Blekingska talked constantly during Laurel Music's comeback gig only one week earlier. I saw Laurel Music in Copenhagen the following night. It was a very intimate concert with seats around tables for the audience. I had a totally clear view and everyone was quiet the whole time. Laurel Music's concert in Copenhagen will stay in my memory for life. Language of Flowers gave me another unforgettable night when I had the honor to host their last ever show.
The Magic Numbers end the concert year 2007 on Wednesday. I look forward to that gig but I do not think that it will manage to get a place on my list. The concert year has really been that good! I attended 16 concert nights this year, but I have not written any concert texts this fall. You were always on my mind, but I did not have the time to write.

1. Language of Flowers – September 21 at Blekingska, Lund
2. Lucky Soul – November 10 at Blekingska, Lund
3. Laurel Music – November 2 at Huset Magstreade, Copenhagen
4. Irene – November 2 at Blekingska, Lund
5. Au Revoir Simone – November 12 at Vega, Copenhagen
6. Strange Idols – October 12 at Blekingska, Lund

In addition to these concerts, I will particularly rembember the shows with Like Honey (at Blekingska as the support act for Language of Flowers), Air (at Vega the same night as Au Revoir Simone), and Säkert at Kulturbolaget in Mamö.


Albums
Just as I predicted a year ago this year's best album was made by a band whose name begins with "L", but I did not know that (to me) unknown Let's Go Sailing would take me by storm.
Sambassadeur's second album was clearly the disappointment of the year. The single Subtle Changes promised much, but everything I loved with Sambassadeur was lost on the long awaited album Migration. I should really appreciate the record given that Anna sings on all songs except one, but Migration fails to shine despite more than 20 listenings. Sambassadeur have changed their sound and many people will like it, but I will never ever prefer the current pop orchestra sound over the magic of If Rain. I give Migration the rating five out of ten. I have not decided the rating of The Chaos in Order and it will not be needed either. A number one on a year list is greater than a numerical rating.

1. Let's Go Sailing – The Chaos in Order
2. Lucky Soul – The Great Unwanted
3. Immaculate Machine – Fables
4. Celestial – Dream On
5. Tupelo Honeys – Salute You
6. Stars – In Our Bedroom After the War
7. Palomar – All Things, Forest
8. The Afternoon Naps – Sunbeamed
9. Friday Bridge – Intricacy
10. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
11. Säkert! – Säkert!
12. Fireflies – Goodnight Stars Goodnight Moon
13. Irene – Long Gone Since Last Summer
14. Love Dance – Result
15. The National – Boxer

Also good: Au Revoir Simone – The Bird of Music, The Loose Salute – Tuned to Love, Cats on Fire – The Province Complains, Electrelane – No Shouts No Calls, and Blonde Redhead – 23.


Songs
In the end I had to give in and admit that Bobby Wratten wrote two of the best songs this year.

1. Trembling Blue Stars – Idyllwild
2. Lucky Soul – One Kiss Don't Make a Summer
3. Stars – Bitches in Tokyo
4. Celestial – Dream On
5. Stars – Take Me to the Riot
6. Northern Fields – Never Take the Beauty
7. The Strange Idols – It's No Fun
8. Trembling Blue Stars – November Starlings
9. Tupelo Honeys – The Return of the Weeping Man
10. The School – Let It Slip
11. The Garlands – You Never Notice Me
12. Club 8 – The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
13. Let's Go Sailing – Sideways
14. Sambassadeur – Subtle Changes
15. The Secret History – Mark and John
16. Irene – By Your Side
17. Immaculate Machine – Dear Confessor
18. The Secret History – Our Lady of Pompeii
19. Penny Century – Nothing Burns Like Bridges
20. Jonna Lee – Dried Out Eyes
21. Säkert! – Någon Gång Måste Du Bli Själv
22. Like Honey – Telling Lies
23. Palomar – You're Keeping Us Up
24. Those Dancing Days – Hitten
25. Liechtenstein – Stalking Skills


2008
Laurel Music's new album is called Cycles and will likely top my next year list. In addition, Katie Goes to Tokyo, Like Honey, and The Charade release new album. And The Secret History will hopefully come to Sweden.

The Boy Has Gone Away

A year ago, I complained about the poor concert scence in Lund. In April this year, I nominated myself for the position as promoter at Blekingska nationen. The following lines were included in my presentation: If I am elected, I intend to make Club Indigo a unique, alternative concert scence that will give the audience happiest days of our lives-evenings this fall. I gladly listen to artist recommendations, but I am solely responsible for choosing the bands that will play at the club. It is my true opinion that a concert club will work at its best with a clear, consistent and considered band booking policy instead of eternal compromises.

I was, of course, elected and my work began after midsummer. As I am writing this almost half a year later, it is with tremendous pride that I am looking back on the fall. The mission is completed and the result speaks for itself. We were the club that exclusively set up the first concert in Sweden for Secret Shine and Strange Idols. We were honored a visit by Lucky Soul. On our inquiry, Laurel Music did a comeback gig after a year of silence. Language of Flowers played their last show ever at little Blekingska.

I would be lying if I said that all concert nights were perfect but it was amazing those nights where everything clicked. As promoter with the sole responsibility for band bookings, I was - together with sound engineers, club managers, band hosts, DJs, workers at Indigo and two hard working guys at the nation's office (thanks for this fall everyone!) - one of several people who during the fall of 2007 made Club Indigo the world's best pop club the three nights (September 21, November 2 and November 10) when everything came together perfectly.

September 7: Differnet
September 21: Language of Flowers (UK) + Like Honey
September 28: Secret Shine (UK)
October 5: Friday Bridge
October 12: Strange Idols (UK)
November 2: Irene + Laurel Music
November 10th: Lucky Soul (UK) + Napoleon
November 30: Punky's Dilemma + The Sunny Street (UK)

End of the Line

Last Friday's Club Indigo came to be my last night as DJ at Blekingska nationen. I had decided in advance to not do any more DJ sets. In total I got six nights as DJ at Blekingska from January 2006 to November 2007.

Last Friday, I easily found myself to be my harshest critic. I somehow forgot to play The Field Mice. And I did not play Happiest Days as the closing song! A reason as good as any to step aside and make way for a new generation of kids.


(22.00)
Air - Cherry Blossom Girl
Trembling Blue Stars - November Starlings
Stars - Elevator Love Letter
Cats on Fire - Higher Grounds
Aberdeen - Sink or Float
Irene - End of the Line
The Aislers Set - The Way to the Market Station
Celestial - Nothing Happens Twice
Those Dancing Days - Hitten
Northern Fields - Never Take the Beauty
Red Sleeping Beauty - Make Me Smile
The Strange Idols - She's Gonna Let You Down
The School - Let It Slip
Language of Flowers - Summer's Been and Gone
Tilly and the Wall - Nights of the Living Dead
The Eyeliners - Everything's Alright
The Primitives - Secrets
The Cardigans - Rise and Shine
Ride - Twisterella
(23.00)
Like Honey - Airport
Wilson Hospital - Call Me A.S.A.P.
Sambassadeur - Marie
The Fat Tulips - Confessions of an English Girl
The Popguns - Waiting for the Winter
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THE SUNNY STREET LIVE
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Comet Gain - You Can Hide Your Love Forever
Belle and Sebastian - Sleep the Clock Around
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
Stone Roses - Mersey Paradise
My Favorite - The Informers
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
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PUNKY'S DILEMMA LIVE
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(00.50)
New Order - True Faith
Human League - Don't You Want Me
Blondie - Maria
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is a Place on Earth
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
Le Sport - Tell No One About Tonight
Caesars Palace - Over for It Started
Pulp - Disco 2000
The Long Blondes - Once and Never Again
The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me
Lucky Soul - Ain't Never Been Cool
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Language of Flowers - If It's Not You
Tralala - All Fired Up
Morrissey - First of the Gang
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
The Essex Green - The Late Great Cassiopia
Lucky Soul - Lips Are Unhappy
The Magic Numbers - Take a Chance
(02.00)
The Arrogants - Lovesick

The School - Let It Slip

I never went to the Another Sunny Day and The Icicles show in Malmö. I am not overly sorry for that. For once, I feel there is an excess of good concerts in the region. This Friday, The Sunny Street and Punky's Dilemma come to Lund and that will be my last time in the DJ booth at Blekingska. I really look forward to that.

There seem to pop up small amazing bands everywhere all the time. Today's trip goes to Wales and Cardiff where we find The School, a mini-Lucky Soul who have listened to Camera Obscura. But why compare with other bands when the song Let It Slip speaks for itself?

Air

An email landed in my inbox. It told me that I got two places on the guest list for the Air + Au Revoir Simone show at Vega in Copenhagen next Monday. This month will be so damn good.

Lucky Soul at Blekingska this Saturday

It is said that a poster says more than a blog post.