Global Viking

It is very strange, the issue about Sharia. In counties there Sharia is the law the women have no equality against men. But this is something what is very difficult to talk about. All muslims are not for Sharia. Sharia is something very stone age.

Here is a Swedish blogger writing about it.

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First day of Accelerator, a music festival in Stockholm, had four bands playing.

The festival has a nice and friendly atmospere and it does not matter where you stand or sit, you feel you are rather close to the band anywhere.

First to play was Johnny Flynn from UK. He is both actor and musician. He had his sister on the stage too. She was supporting Johnny with her song.

Next on the stage was Wild Beasts. They are very good singers, you know falsett singer. And not only one singer in the band. But the namn on the band, is it not the wrong name? They are goog, but not especially wild.

About to be wild: the next band was wild: Foals from Oxford. Their singer is sometimes said to be a young and angry Robert Smith (from The Cure). Maybe. But a lot more angry.
The singer in Foals were going down to the audicence during the play and he was kicking on the drums after the play.

The last and final band was Band of Horses. The lyric and nostalgic band is so GREAT.
And the best thing: they have just made two albums yet, so I think we can look forward to a lot of masterpieces and great concerts with this Seattle-bases band. How can I describe them? I think they are inspired of an early Neil Young, from his Harvest-time.

Some of my films from the concert:

(I have also posted about the concert in my Swedish blog).

And in my place at MySpace.

Band of Horses:

Foals:

Wild Beats:

Johnny Flynn:

Andra bloggar om: Johnny Flynn, Wild Beasts, Foals, Band of Horses, Accelerator, Neil Young
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Sebastian Teller

Eurovision Song Contest has one great opportunity: to find and discover artists from many European countries.

As for example: this year I found Sebastian Tellier from France.

Some facts from Wikipedia about this wonderful musician:

Sébastien Tellier (born 1975 in Paris) is a French singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently signed to Record Makers, a French independent record label. He sings in English, French and Italian.

Tellier’s first album, L’incroyable Vérité (The Incredible Truth), was released in 2001. Tellier went on tour with Air in support of the album and was joined on stage by world-renowned theremin player Pamelia Kurstin. L’incroyable Vérité is a pop album featuring styles from lo-fi electronica to bizarre cabaret tunes. Its sleeve featured Tellier in full evening dress on the front, while the back of jacket had a shot of him cavorting in a playboy’s pool. He instructed listeners only to listen to the album by candle light. The track, “Fantino”, was chosen by Sofia Coppola for the soundtrack to her 2003 film Lost in Translation.

Of course you can read more about him and listen to his music in his place at MySpace.

Andra bloggar om: music, Sebatian Tellier, France, ESC, Frankrike

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