Posts with tag ”arvika”
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Best concerts of 2009
The music industry spent most of 2009 insisting it was dying. Album sales were collapsing, record labels were panicking and every executive seemed to have discovered the phrase “new business model”. Meanwhile the bands did the only sensible thing: they got in the van and hit the road.
Sun and mud at Arvikafestivalen
Arvikafestivalen has always been a gamble with the weather. You arrive expecting one thing and leave having survived another. One moment the Swedish sun is doing its best impression of the Sahara, baking thousands of pale Scandinavians dressed in black and paler than Marilyn Manson.
Best concerts of 2008
Live music is one of the few things left in modern life that refuses to be compressed into a convenient little file. Albums are souvenirs. Concerts are where songs earn their scars.
Arvikafestivalen goes floodland
It had been a couple of years since my last pilgrimage into the forests of Värmland, but Arvikafestivalen still felt like coming home.
Arvikafestivalen 2004
For one long weekend every summer, The forests of Värmland become home to Sweden’s strangest temporary city. Thousands of people living on cheap beer, questionable hygiene and an unwavering belief that black clothes are appropriate in the summer.