Ryan Adams - Blank Space

Time to wrap up Way Out West and post the last one from the festival. This time it was my 10th Way Out West of 11 :) The weather was pretty good, only two days with rain, site was in good condition and easy to build on, the volunteers was awesome as always in Gothenburg and made the life easy for us in the crew. The music was ok, even if I would love to have some more Rock than the festival supply´s. The vegetarian food was really good this year, good mix of various dishes. My favourite this year of all the artists is Ryan Adams and PIXIES. Both bands deliverd great music.

Here comes a batch of some live and odd pictures from the almost 2 weeks that I spent over there.

First picture i took, a shot of the small lake in the Dungen area.

The Secret bar in the Dungen area, day before the opening.

Some love at the Boneyard

Decorations of giant gold balls.

A well packed car 🚙 

11th version of the signs at the entrance.

A bar table from the amazing bar at Höjden.

A ballon customise IT car.

The load out of the Chiefs car!

Frank Ocean’s - Panalux Molebeam Spotlight

1 of 4 parts of Frank Oceans surround set with speakers and the Panalux light.

Frank Ocean set up, with a mirror ball in the middle of the surround set.

Frank Ocean live set, pretty odd and cool layout at a festival.

Feist live at Azalea

Band Of Horses live at Flamingo

Band Of Horses live at Flamingo

Lana Del Rey live at Flamingo

Lana Del Rey live at Flamingo

Regina Spector live at Azalea

Ryan Adams live at Flamingo

Ryan Adams live at Flamingo

MØ live at Flamingo

Pixies live at Azalea

Graveyard live at Linné

"Blank Space" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her fifth studio album 1989 (2014). It was written by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback. The song was released to the radio by Republic Records on November 10, 2014 as the album's second single, after "Shake It Off" and is the second track on the album. Musically, "Blank Space" is an electropop song with lyrics that satirize the media's perception of Swift and her relationships.

Ryan Adams' cover version of the song was featured on his Taylor Swift tribute album, 1989 (2015). Father John Misty released a cover version of the song in the style of the rock band The Velvet Underground in 2015. The cover is a reinterpretation of Adams' version and is built on the melody of the song "I'm Waiting for the Man."

Today's tune "Blank Space" is taken from the fifteenth studio album "1989" by American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, released digitally through his own PAX AM record label on September 21, 2015. The album is a track-by-track cover of Taylor Swift's album of the same name. It debuted at number 7 on the US Billboard 200 chart, one position ahead of Swift's 1989, which was in its 48th week on the chart.

Adams first became interested in Taylor Swift's album while coping with the collapse of his marriage to Mandy Moore. On what attracted him about Swift's album, Adams stated "There's just a joy to 1989," describing the album as "its own alternate universe." Adams initially described the album as being in the style of The Smiths. When recording the album, Adams said he found a sound somewhere between Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town and The Smiths' Meat Is Murder.



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Rival Sons - Jordan

A little more music from Bråvalla festival, the first act on stage was Rival Sons, a band that i have been able to see live serval time, a band that i always love to watch and this time it was absolutely magical. What a reception they got, almost so you got goose bumps, even if part of the crowd not yet arrived at the festival.

Anyway,  here are some more pictures.

Rival Sons

Gogol Bordello

Airbourne

Ghost

 Snow, the Green Stage mascot.

Gaslight Anthem, Guitar Stack

Rival Sons

Armin Van Buuren

Ps, i just need to show an amazing carving done by Spader Ess!

Todays tune "Jordan" with Rival Sons at their live Last.fm Session at Gibson Studios in London, Rival Sons was the first act out on Bråvalla Festival and did a awsome gig. The tune is taken from the 3:rd album "Head Down"




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Frank Ocean - Pyramids

Bråvalla festival is now over. To sum it all up, it was a nice festival, though it was a bit messy in between, but such one can expect when a new festival is to be built up on a new ground, but all issues got resolved in the end and all the bands could step up and play their songs to audience's cheers.

This year I was a bit of a handyman during this festival that changed the role each other day, started with "Steel", ie stage structures, then became the "production" that is, sound and light, the gig day, I was assistant stage manager at the Green stage and finished with a bit of truck driving on stage shredding. Now I'm finally at home, a little worn, but happy nonetheless.

Here are some pictures.

 A funpark next to the festival!

Green Stage / Stage 2

Stage building!

Case pushing!

Truss!!

 

More truss!

A view off Green & Blue Stage

Dancing outside the White Stage

 Snow, the Green Stage mascot.

Frank Ocean

More pictures tomorrow

Christopher Francis Ocean (born Christopher Breaux; October 28, 1987), better known by his stage name Frank Ocean, is an American singer-songwriter from New Orleans, Louisiana. Ocean started his career as a ghostwriter for artists such as Brandy, Justin Bieber, and John Legend. In 2010, he became a member of alternative hip hop collective OFWGKTA, and his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, was released the following year to critical acclaim. The singles "Novacane" and "Swim Good" both achieved chart success. The mixtape gained the interest of recording artists such as Kanye West, Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z, and he consequently appeared on West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne album.

Todays tune "Pyramids" is a song released as the second single from his debut studio album Channel Orange (2012). The song was written by Ocean and produced by Malay & Om'Mas Keith. The track features an uncredited guitar solo from recording artist John Mayer. On June 7, 2012, Ocean posted a small teaser video featuring a snippet of the song onto his tumblr account, and released the full, nearly 10 minute song later that day onto his official SoundCloud account. The song explores a narrative of a pimp falling in love with one of his clients. The track lyrically contains several extended metaphors referencing Cleopatra, pyramids, and strip clubs. The song received highly positive reviews and was called epic in nature by several publications, who praised the ambition and scope of the track's length, along with the lyrical merit.

The song was featured in a teaser for Ocean's upcoming album and was released with a cover featured The Simpsons style characters. The music video was directed by Nabil Elderkin and featured an orange car with an atmospheric background. The song has since debuted on the UK R&B Chart at number 31. The track has been featured during television promos for Channel Orange. Ocean performed "Pyramids" during his Channel Orange tour through North America.

Music video by Frank Ocean performing Pyramids (Explicit). (C) 2012 The Island Def Jam Music Group



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