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Way Out West – Göteborg, August 13-14, 2010

I just had the most brilliant time at the Way Out West-festival in Gothenburg. Saw many fantastic concerts, photographed a few, and enjoyed the atmosphere immensely! Here’s a mash-up of some pictures – I’ll make a few individual posts with more photo’s for a few of the shows, but it’ll have to be further into the coming week. Enjoy!


The National, Way Out West
The National, Way Out West 2010

Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Way Out West
Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Way Out West 2010

Being front row for Iggy Pop was quite the experience! Especially when he suddenly invited people to come up on stage. Several kids around me hurried to climb over the rail and get on stage and most of them got to sing a bit with Iggy. It was great to see how thrilled they were, although it was less of a thrill to suddenly have the masses smashed up against me even tighter thinking they too would get to climb over. More fuel to the fire was added when Iggy came down the stairs and sang in front of us for a while. Yup, I touched Iggy Pop, haha (or the other way around, I suppose)! Fun show, with “I wanna be your dog” as the highpoint.

LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem, Way Out West 2010

M.I.A.!
M.I.A., Way Out West 2010
Crazy-good show! It was just as fantastic, noisy, uneven and HARD as expected. I’m probably biased – Maya half-climbed into our front row and sang and grabbed hands and danced, oh, 2 ft from me? I’m still giddy!

Mumford & sons
Mumford and sons, Way Out West 2010

The Radio Dept.
The Radio Dept, Way Out West 2010
Askars! Hahaha
Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Bosworth, Way Out West 2010
(Ran into Eric Northman at The Radio Dept. show – hee!)

Pavement (Stephen Malkmus)
Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, Way Out West

Håkan Hellström
Håkan Hellström, Way Out West
Best Damn Show Ever. (Well, except Nick Cave at Where the action is 2009) Håkan performed his debut-album song by song since it’s turning 10 years old this year. I haven’t seen a solo-show of his since that tour, so getting to see him do this album again after a decade and doing it in his hometown with 25,000+ people there.. incredible.

And I TOTES got to hold his haaaaand! And there’s practically proof of it, too – this photo made it into GT (newspaper) today and that’s Håkan standing in front of me as he’s singing to the crowd and his hand is juuuuust about to grab my hand. HEHE! Seriously – best moment ever. Tack Håkan för 10 fina år!!

Copyright Björn Larsson Rosvall - Scanpix

Dogbreath – Sollefteå, July 31, 2010

Dogbreath - Nipyran i Sollefteå
Dogbreath – Nipyran, Sollefteå, Sweden

Neo – Sollefteå, July 31, 2010

Neo på Nipyran
Neo – Nipyran, Sollefteå, Sweden
See 4 more photo’s from this show: (Continued)

Makthaverskan – Östersund, July 29, 2010

Makthaverskan - Storsjöyran 2010
Makthaverskan – Storsjöyran, Östersund, Sweden
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The Mary Onettes – Östersund, July 29, 2010

The Mary Onettes - Storsjöyran 2010
The Mary Onettes – Storsjöyran, Östersund, Sweden
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The Ark – Östersund, July 29, 2010

The Ark - Ola Salo - Storsjöyran 2010
The Ark – Storsjöyran, Östersund, Sweden
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[ingenting] – Östersund, July 29, 2010

ingenting - live på Storsjöyran 2010
[ ingenting ] – Storsjöyran, Östersund, Sweden
See 3 more photo’s from this show: (Continued)

Miss Li – Östersund, July 29, 2010

Miss Li - Storsjöyran 2010
Miss Li – Storsjöyran, Östersund, Sweden
See 3 more photo’s from this show: (Continued)

Salem Al Fakir – Stockholm, June 17, 2010

Salem al Fakir - Stockholm, June 17
Salem Al Fakir, Love Stockholm 2010, Skeppsbron, Stockholm, Sweden
See 4 more photo’s from this show: (Continued)

Motoboy – Stockholm, June 17, 2010

Motoboy - Stockholm, June 17, 2010
Motoboy, Love Stockholm 2010, Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, Sweden
See 4 more photo’s from this show: (Continued)