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I have some technical issues with the blog at the moment (I cant upload photos any more). Therefore I’m leaving for a weeks vacation and I hope the problem has solved itself when I’m back. Ta-da.

Parklife is a one-day festival in Midsommarkransen, Stockholm. It is today.

The gig schedule:
1610 Racket and Ball
1740 Everyday Sensations
1850 Choir of Young Believers (DK)
2000 Boat Club
2110 The Honeydrips
2220 Santa Maria
2330 Theoretical Girl (UK)

Open from 15 to 01. The dance-floor will Dmitry Fyodorov take care of.
The tickets are 120SEK in the door. You have to be 18 years or older.

See you there.

You can read the reviews of his CD over at SvD or DN (both in swedish, sorry).

I’m not alone appreciating their music (links in swedish).

Samuraj Cities posted two videos from Emmaboda on their myspace today. I’ll steal them and re-post here.

My modest ones

All along the shoreline

And no, I still don’t like the Bright eyes reference.

They lost power on stage, except Timo’s guitar and microphone.

They did one on the “big stage” and one at Indiedagis which was an “inofficial mini-festival” in a tent on the camping area. These pictures are from the big stage.

Great performance by Of Montreal, like always.
Review in SvD (Swedish)

My darling YOU! on the last Emmaboda festival. Only one photo of this. Sorry about that.

I just got back from Emmaboda and me and a friend took some of photos. Right now I’m too tired to upload all the photos so you’ll have to manage with a teasing 45 seconds video clip of Of Montreal.

I got an email yesterday. There were around 1000 people on the camping area. Two days before the festival starts.

This is the last Emmaboda festival, there won’t be one next year. They’ve sold more than 3000 tickets, but will let more than 4000 in on the area this time so there are tickets left.  See you there!

There are two stages; “Ängen” and “Skogen”.

Wednesday (pre-party)
19:00 A Smile And A Ribbon
20:15 Effete
21:30 Mixtapes and Cellmates
23:00 Billie The vision & the Dancers

Thursday
Ängen
14:30 Utah Rangers
15:30 Las Palmas
16:45 The Besties
18:15 Detektivbyrån
20:00 I´m from Barcelona
21:45 Of Montreal
23:30 120 Days
00:00 Wired for Mono

Skogen
14:00 64Revolt
15:00 You/Me
16:15 Black Belt
17:30 Miss Li
19:00 A hawk and a hacksaw
21:00 Räuberhöhle
22:45 Au Revoire Simone
00:15 Help she Can´t swim

Friday
Ängen
13:00 Those dancing days
14:00 Sian Alice Group
15:30 Almedal
16:30 Ida Maria
18:00 Familjen
19:30 Timo Räisänen
21:30 Spiritualized - Acoustic Main Lines
23:45 The Black Angels

Skogen
13:30 Tractor Pulling People
14:45 Pistol Disco
16:00 Look Look (dancing boys)
17:15 The Tellers
18:45 Kristian Anttila
20:30 Ex-Girl
23:00 The Teenagers
00:45 Samuraj Cities

Saturday
Ängen
13:30 My darling you
14:30 CK
16:00 Rough Bunnies
17:15 Dubbel Organisterna
18:45 Xiu Xiu
20:45 Oneida
23:15 Dinosaur jr
01:15 Audionom/1999

Skogen
13:00 Band in box
14:00 Salty Pirates
15:15 O´holics
16:45 Archie Bell
18:00 The Konki Duet
19:45 Shout Out Louds
21:45 Welle: Erdball
00:30 The Mary Onettes

Source

Everyday Mistakes - The boy on the hill
Fosca - Secret crush on third trombone
Cats on Fire - Born again christian
Cats on Fire - Higher grounds
Action Biker - Eating noddemix & french grammatics

If you find any other ones, please let me know.

Hi. If you read this you’ve come to the right address. Blogger/Google disabled my other blog for some reason so I had to move here instead.

There are some videos from Rip It Up over at YouTube.

Kissing Mirrors - Let’s kill cupid
Days - Simple thing
Television Personalities - Silly girl
Ring Snuten! (feat. Dorotea) - Champagnefrukost på sängen
The Tough Alliance - First class riot
St. Christopher - All of a tremble

If I may summarize:

• I heard there were 800 people there, but I dont think there were more than 200-300 (max) in the audience listening to the music. Why?!
• The first day was better than the second. On the second it was like if everyone was having a hangover and no one did anything “extra”. My Darling YOU! excepted. This might be because I had very high expectations on the bands.
• Television Personalities‘ singer Dan Treacy should probably take it easy on the alcohol in the future. Maybe this was how they wanted their gig to be, but… I don’t think they managed to finish a single song. He was pretty close on Part-time punks where he got 80% of the lyrics right, on the fourth(?) try. People in the audience weren’t pleased about this. This morning when I was leaving the area I saw Dan walking (oh well) around, still drunk. His mates wanted him to jump in the car so they could leave, when he dropped the immortal “There’s always time for a beer”. Pure class?
• Great DJ-sets from Air France and Jens Lekman. Even though they were quite short.
• I’m not sure I like the whole festival-concept (not being able to shower/sleep like home, rain, mud, lots of people everywhere - I’m not a peoples person..).
• Very nice arrangement. Short breaks between the bands and they played in time.
• A big thank you(!) to my festival guide on the friday who helped me out with the basics (this was my first more-than-one-day festival) and was great company.
• Why did everything stop at 2? Everything official that is..
• I picked up a hitchhiker and I’m still alive. He was standing in the rain in a pink t-shirt and a pair of pink shorts (he had been standing there for one hour and twenty minutes!) wanted a lift to Säffle. He wasn’t sober. After explaining to him he was on the wrong side of the road (Säffle was south, he was trying the get a ride north) he introduced himself as den rosa mannen (“the pink man”). After doing some googling it appears he has been dressed in pink clothes since 2001. I repeat: I’m still alive. He was a nice guy though.

On a side-note, I can’t find any Rip It Up-coverage in the big news papers over here. Weird.

There wont be any photos from Day 2. Even though I charged the batteries it doesn’t want to start. Rumours say it might be dead.

Update: If you have any photos I can use, please send them to hellosurprise at colorize dot net.