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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Breaking news of popular Summer live-music TV-show Allsång på Skansen!
New season will get new host and it will Måns Zelmerlöw who'll replace Anders Lundin who was host since 2003. Last year has met critically low viewing rates and loads of press claims show needs to change host, format and everything to keep going (read more about it on EuropeCrazy) so Måns' name was constantly rolling along with this negative wave as new host who could save it all. And today it was officially announced that Måns will be new host. What can we say about it? Sure we're glad as Måns is amazing live-artist and hope that it'll also bring some renovations among invited artists. Usually we don't complain but still it would be better to get more starting and younger artists so we could enjoy some really fresh music in orchestral arrangement through Summer music season.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
August returned loads of viewers back to tv-screen and crisis of Allsång på Skansen seems to disappear.
No secrets who was the most expected person by Swedish Stereo in this episode - Linda Sundblad who gets my eternal credits for her contribution in Lambretta - one of the best Swedish rock-bands ever.
Linda performed her single "To All My Girls" co-written with Max Martin and Alexander Kronlund following images and choreography from music video and amazing version of "Over The Rainbow" perfectly fiting Linda's voice. Among another modern pop-acts you could also see Mange Shmidt with 2 hits "Allvarligt talat" and "Giftig", first performance featured famous Swedish producer Christian Falk's daughter Vanessa, real discovery of the night (was new Swedish dance-princess just born?), hope soon we'll hear more about this girl with such a stunning vocal. Second Mange's performance was supported by another popular Swedish artist - Thomas Rusiak. Pop-star of 80s Jakob Hellman has also made its comeback to a big stage and seems like it was big event for many fans in Sweden.
Foreign guests The Baseballs performed their rockabilly covers for Rihanna's "Umbrella" and Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold" and choir of Alsång performed original version of recently reborn hit "We No Speak Americano" and finally happened something totally unexpected, performance that completely destroyed my mind and made me watch it at least 10 times, I mean performance of Finnish shouters-choir Huutajat, I guess I didn't see such a crazy things if not years then months fo sure, you need to also!
Linda Sundblad - To All My Girls
Linda Sundblad - Over The Rainbow
Vanessa Falk - Private Party
Mange Schmidt & Vanessa Falk - Allvarligt talat
Mange Schmidt och Thomas Rusiak - Giftig
Jakob Hellman - Hon har ett sätt
Jakob Hellman - Vara vänner
Huskören - We No Speak Americano
The Baseballs - Hot N Cold
The Baseballs - Umbrella
Huutajat - Trollmors vaggsång
Huutajat - Stockholm i mitt hjärta
Huutajat - Amsterdam Treaty
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Let's check what interesting we could watch this week in the biggest music tv-shows of Sweden. Yesterday we've got Sommarkrysset back but Lotta På Liseberg and Allsång På Skansen had a lot of interesting guests as well.
This time Lotta invited Swedish sweetheart Sanna Nielsen who performed her last single "Devotion" and new song "A Part Of Me" (that was presented earlier on Love Stockholm 2010 as "Sound Of Spring"), very pleasant work in Celine Dion direction of last Sanna's album. Another big public favorite Kalle Moraeus was singing his Melodifestivalen-hit "Underbart". Timo Räisänen who was also involved this year in after-show of Melodifestivalen performed his last single "Outcast". Watch whole show here.
Sanna Nielsen - Devotion
Sanna Nielsen - A Part Of Me
Kalle Moraeus - Underbart
Kalle Moraeus - My Nadine
Timo Räisänen - Outcast
Lotta Engberg - En sån karl
Allsång På Skansen this time presented 2 Top-5 finalists of Melodifestivalen - Timoteij and Darin. Darin gave stunning performance of his "You're Out Of My Life", new brilliant single "Lovekiller" and Lena Philipsson's cover "Kärleken är evig", it all was (not surprisingly) accompanied by screams of Darin's happily wild fans. Timoteij presented new single "Högt Över Ängarna", sure didn't forget about folk's beloved "Kom" and old song "Fjäril vingad syns på Haga". Other participating big names were Kikki Danielsson with her classic hit "Bra vibrationer" and new single "Let this light shine on me forever", ex-Rednex with new name Cotton Eye Joe Show, medley of their biggest hits and covers of "Ring Ring" and "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms", Movits! with their own "Äppelknyckarjazz", "Fel Del Av Gården" and karaoke of "Fritiof och Carmencita", Olivia Stevens with some classic stuff and Christopher O'Regan. Watch whole programme here.
Darin - You're Out Of My Life
Darin - Lovekiller
Darin - Kärleken är evig
Timoteij - Kom
Timoteij - Högt Över Ängarna
Timoteij - Fjäril vingad syns på Haga
Kikki Danielsson - Bra vibrationer
Kikki Danielsson - Let this light shine on me forever
Cotton Eye Joe Show - Medley
Cotton Eye Joe Show - Ring Ring
Cotton Eye Joe Show - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Movits! - Fel Del Av Gården
Movits! - Äppelknyckarjazz + Fritiof och Carmencita
Olivia Stevens - Det börjar med ett glas champagne
Olivia Stevens - Vill ni se en stjärna?
Christopher O'Regan
And finally Sommarkrysset as usual came back with Melodifestivalen-2010 participants, this time Crucified Barbara were singing their hit "Heaven & Hell", schlager-veteran Anne-Lie Rydé performed Vikingarna's cover "Hallå" from her new released album "Dans På Rosor", Fibes Oh Fibes! with one of their hits "Lovechild" and two Scandinavian guests Rasmus Seebach from Denmark performed currently popular in Sweden track "Natteravn" and Norwegian duo Madcon tried to repeat Eurovision-flashmob with single "Glow" being on the top of many European charts this Summer after band's performance in Oslo. Programme was finished with another big Madcon's hit "Beggin'", band was joined by Magnus Carlson with Swedish version of this song titled "Jag ber dig". Watch whole show here.
Crucified Barbara - Heaven & Hell
Anne-Lie Rydé - Hallå
Fibes Oh Fibes! - Lovechild
Madcon - Glow
Rasmus Seebach - Natteravn
Madcon & Magnus Carlsson - Beggin'/Jag ber dig
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Can you imagine sweetness of Sibel, Anna Bergendahl and Pauline in one artist? That's what I discovered just a few days ago.
Jasmine Kara is a new artist, when she appeared on Love Stockholm 2010 with her new single "In The Basement" I thought that it's some foreign guest-artist, fast look at her Myspace page convinced me she is American and as the single didn't make a big impact on me, I turned my attention to other interesting moments of the festival. At the same time during Summer new Jasmine's songs were rolling around Swedish iTunes chart and now when Jasmine released new video for her another single "Try My Love Again" I've found out that she's actually artist with Swedish-Iranian roots who was born and grown in Sweden and though last years she tried to breakthrough in USA currently she builds career in Sweden and it promises to be successful. On July 28th Jasmine will release her album "Blues Ain't Nothing But A Good" in Sweden and right now you can check what she is about on her Myspace page. Mostly it's a retro blues-stuff, probably you'll find something similar with Christina A. style (because of loud strong vocal of Miss Kara as well).
Talking about "Try My Love Again" it's a verrry catchy piece of Summer, sounding poppier (even with some raggae-vibes) than "In The Basement", Jasmine shows herself like utterly nice person, full of life, energy and charm. That's what's totally buying me from the first look and listen and making Jasmine's performance at Allsång på Skansen in two weeks one of the most expected ones. Hope you'll like her too!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Anders Lundin presented second episode of tv-show Allsång på Skansen and the biggest highlight for all pop-fan audience undoubtfully was performance of Eric Saade who presented two last singles - as always very well choreographed performance of "Manboy" and "Break Of Dawn" with funny moment of leading out on the stage happy crazy fan in the end. Winners of Dansbandskampen The Playtones performed Alexander Rybak's "Fairytale" and their own song "Excuse Me". Also audience could enjoy performance of Mikael Wiehe, Marie Küler, Marie Bergman, Wille Craaford & Marika Willstedt (you could see Marika on Melodifestivalen-2010 performing with Jessica Andersson on cello), foreign guests invited to Skansen were Australian Ten Tenors. Check whole episode here.
Eric Saade - Manboy
Eric Saade - Break Of Dawn
Allsång - Jules Sulvain Potpurri
The Playtones - Fairytale
The Playtones - Execuse Me
The Playtones - Temperaturen
Wille Craaford & Marika Willstedt - Bara Vänner
Wille Craaford & Marika Willstedt - Mormors sista ord
Ten Tenors - Bohemian Rhapsody
Ten Tenors - Thunderstruck
Marie Bergman - Ingen kommer undan politiken
Marie Bergman - Sång om syrsor
Mikael Wiehe - Strö all min kärlek
Mikael Wiehe - Det hrä rä ditt land
Mikael Wiehe - Sång till frihet
Family Four-potpurri
Marie Küler imitating Mona Sahlin
Allsång - Sånt är livet
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Yesterday annual tv-event "Allsång På Skansen" has started new season on SVT and audience from the very first show got the biggest names on the stage - three winners of Melodifestivalen - Carola, The Ark and Anna Bergendahl performed with some old hits singing karaoke with public and performed their own stuff. Carola was promoting her new programme devoted to Elvis Presley and Barbara Streisand with their songs (performance of "Woman In Love" deserves special attention!), The Ark performed their new songs "Take A Shine To Me" and "Stay With Me" and Anna was singing "This Is My Life" and "Have A Heart". But don't forget to check some old hits covers, for example Anna's "Båtlåt" turned to be very sweet one showing uniqueness of Miss Bergendahl's voice. Among other guests of the show you could see MozART Group, Thomas Järvheden and Hanna Hedlund. Watch whole show here.
Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life
Anna Bergendahl - Båtlåt
Anna Bergendahl - Have A Heart
Carola - Woman In Love
Carola - You've lost that loving feeling
Carola - Idas Sommarvisa
The Ark - Stay With Me
The Ark - Take A Shine To Me
The Ark & Carola - Calleth You Cometh I
Ola Salo - Sjuttonde Balladen
Thomas Järvheden - Sekundär Ångest
MozART Group - How To Impress A Woman Being A Musician
MozART Group - Amadeus Jackson
Robban Broberg Potpurri
Allsång - Upp och pröva dina vingar
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
...You could see Ola Svensson singing Tomas Ledin's song "En Dag På Stranden" on the stage of Skansen on National Day...
...Carola performing her new single "Det är bara vi" devoted to wedding of princess Victoria...
...Eric Gadd with his last single "Rise Up!" and well-known back-vocalists (Thérèse Löf, Michael Blomqvist and Anna Andersson) behind him (MF-2011 warning???) on a beautiful stage on Skeppsbron...
...Sarah Dawn Finer covering the winner of Eurovision-2010...
... Kalle Moraeus just having sold his new album golden with the song that really helped him with it...
and also
...especially popular these days band Johnossi performing their hit-single "What's The Point?"...
...Cookies N Beans covering Bee Gees classics "Islands In The Stream"...
... Timo Räisänen performing his last single "Outcast"...
...Rigo performing on National Day Swedish song "Stockholms Ström" (no ideas about where it came from)...
and Miss Li with really nice performance of her "Bourgeois Shangri-La".
If you're still gonna be in Stockholm in close future, don't forget to check programme of LOVE Stockholm 2010 or take a look at this short programme from Aftonbladet.
Also two summer great tv-shows "Allsång på Skansen" and "Lotta på Liseberg" have announced this year line-ups.
"Allsång på Skansen" will start 29th June and we'll see among others The Ark, Anna Bergendahl, Carola, Eric Saade, Darin, Timoteij, Kikki Danielsson, Salem Al Fakir, Thomas Di Leva, Oskar Linnros, Mando Diao, Tove Styrke, Orup, Hanna Lindblad, Charlotte Perrelli, Magnus Carlsson, Måns Zelmerlöw and Sarah Dawn Finer.
http://svt.se/2.112060
"Lotta på Liseberg"'s (starting from 21th June) line-up is not less fantastic and has a lot of interesting artists like Charlotte Perrelli, Alexander Rybak, Markoolio, Linda Bengtzing, Velvet, Alcazar, Jessica Andersson, Erik Linder, Kalle Moraeus, Sanna Nielsen, Timo Räisinen, Måns Zelmerlöw, Timoteij, Maria Haukaas Storeng, Erik Gadd, Andreas Johnson, Cookies n’ beans, Anna Bergendahl, Jill Johnson, Rigo, Caroline af Ugglas and Eric Saade.
http://www.tv4.se/1.1668077
Sunday, May 16, 2010
As it happens every year this summer we'll be able to catch many open-air tv-performances on Swedish TV, probably it won't bring as much joy to pop-followers as attendance of famous Rix-FM festival and if you come to Sweden in closer few months I extremely recommend you to visit it. Well, those who can't visit Sweden can follow shows like Sommarkrysset, Allsång på Skansen and Lotta på Liseberg (to name a few). Yesterday we could see first show Sommarkrysset this year from park Gröna Lund in Stockholm and it has given us premiere of Orup's new single "Tiden Bara Gick", spring hit of this year "Manboy" by Eric Saade and performance of Swedish pop-queens Velvet and Linda Bengtzing with "Victorious" in all their fabolousness and amazingness with guest performance of the winner of Brittish X-Factor Alexandra Burke, not less than EMD were the hosts of the show yesterday and next week show will be hosted by fröken Bengtzing with performance of Timoteij, Eric Gadd and Rebound.
Eric Saade - One Summer (Live Sommarkrysset 2010)
Alexandra Burke - Bad Boys (Live Sommarkrysset 2010)
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