Royal Republic is a Swedish rock band formed in Malmö, Sweden in late 2007. The band consists of guitarist/lead singer Adam Grahn, guitarist Hannes Irengård, bass guitarist Jonas Almén and drummer Per Andreasson.
The first single and todays tune, "All Because of You" was released in September 2009 and is currently being aired on Swedish radio stations, including Sveriges Radio and Bandit Rock. Royal Republic has already gained acclaim for their energetic live performances.
Crashdiet is back with a new single from the upcoming 3:rd album "Generation Wild" out April 14. Crashdiet, Swedens biggest Sleazerock band who is inspired by bands like Skid Row, Guns ´n Roses, Kiss, W.a.s.p. among others. Crashdiet has really make a big mark in the Swedish sleaze scene and is a band that other new bands model themselvs on. Now with the new singer Simon Cruz, Crashdiet once again regained their energy and made a new cool record. The third album "Generation Wild" has been produced by the hit maker producing team RamPac and mixed by Tobias Lindell and marks the start of the cooperation with the band’s new label Frontiers Records. And this album sounds great, could say that this is the strongest one so far and with this album they will open up new doors and soon they will leave the clubs and move up to bigger arenas. And if you are living in Stockholm, DON'T miss the release party next friday!
Crashdiet line up:
Martin Sweet – Guitar
Simon Cruz – Vocal
Peter London – Bas
Eric Young – Drums
Crashdiet has released some samples from the new album, check it up as this one rocks!!!
Track Listing:
442
Armageddon
So Alive
Generation Wild
Rebel
Save Her
Down With The Dust
Native Nature
Chemical
Bound To Fall
Beautiful Pain
Taken from the forthcoming album "Generation Wild" out April 14 - 2010
Swedish Opeth - one of the most acclaimed bands in the metal genre in the last 20 years - will celebrate its 20th anniversary in spring 2010 with six exclusive concerts "Evolution XX: An Opeth Anthology" worldwide, Stockholm, Essen, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. Opeth did their premiere gig at Circus here in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Each event will be in two sets. In the first set, they will play their breakthrough album Blackwater Park in its entirety. The second set will contain the mixed material from the band's entire catalog. They will play over two hours (Stockholm almost 3 hrs) of carefully selected venues to bring an intimate, exclusive, "you would have been there" - summons. Check the set list, you can see it below (Stockholm gig).
In addition to the gig at the beautiful Djurgården, Stockholm will Opeth play on the famous and prestigious Royal Albert Hall in London and at the luxurious Lichtburg in Essen, which is the oldest theater in Germany.
It was a very nice day at the Circus, everything floated on and things got into place as it should do. Though it did go, of course, not without pain, sound technician who would have been here and on the tour was injured during a accident the day before the gig and broke a few ribs, nothing serious, enough to not be able to implement the gig, so a stand in technician had to jump in to do the gig and he did a pretty good job, a new technician is booked for the other gigs. (Heard something about that it should be Slipknot's sound engineer). Although the proposed microphones that would have been used for gigs got feet's and find themselves a new owner (stolen) but it got resolved in the end.
Opeth had also released an exclusive VIP tickets that fans could buy that included a Meet & Greet with the band that include taking photos, chat, autograph-writing, soundcheck and a goodie bag with various Opeth stuff, but the bag was missing, as it should have been used to keep the contents in, obviously some mishap with the mailing from the merch firm , but the fans would get it sent home. A funny thing was that the fans who had purchased this fine fine ticket was mainly outside Sweden, countries such as Norway, Finland, Denmark, England, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Japan and others and this says it's a lot of greatness abroad. There were a dude from Norway that had a marvelous collection of odd Opeth stuff, like the first demo, test pressed 7-inch and test pressed records, probably worth a fortune. So in the end, the fans was happy.
It was a magical night at Circus with lots of treasures out of Opeth's catalogue. The entire 3 hours of delightful music. And i was also lucky to be able to take a some photo's during this evening and you can watch the result here.
In addition to Opeth there were a lot of nice guys in Crew, including their Guitar Tech "Milly Evans", who also works as a Tech for Paradise Lost, and who also was the stand in on parts of the last Paradise Lost tour when Greg Mackintosh quickly and merrily had to dropp off because his father had fallen ill critically. Milly also plays in Terrorvision. In addition to Milly there was another guy called "Ludwig Witt" who was the drum technicians for Opeth, also from a variety of nice bands including Firebird and Spiritual Beggars.
Enough of this, now it's time to select the tune of the day and the melody is supposed to be related to this evening of course. I personally came in quite late for Opeth's music and is more into their most recent works, so I choose a song from the second act taken from thier latest record Watershed, Enjoy this!
Jenny Amanda Katarina Jenssen (born Bengtsson, 12 September 1988 in Lund, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and Idol 2007 runner-up. Jenssens first album released in 2008 became one of that years most sold music albums in Sweden which saw it peak at number 1 on the Swedish album chart. She also had success with her music singles, with seven individual placements on the Swedish single chart for her songs.
Happyland is the second album by Swedish singer Amanda Jenssen, who finished second in Idol 2007. It was released on October 28, 2009. The first single off the album was the title track "Happyland" and it was released September 28, 2009 and entered the Swedish Singles chart at number 3. Yesterday Amanda Jenssen had a show at Debaser Medis here in Stockholm with a full band and the venue was almost sold out, witch is very good for her indeed, i was only able to catch the last four songs (I choose you, Sing me to sleep, Happyland and Minnie) She has a really great voice and are a great performer, the band backing up her is doing a great job.
This was the last show on tour, you could notice that some of the stuff had been used well as for example the "Happyland" neon sign where parts of the sign was broke and missing, almost that the sign sayed Lappland :)
Todays tune is the title track from her latest album "Happyland", this clip is from the TV-show "Go'kväll" October 2009.
