Vikunja – The second supporting act for Halmstad concert

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Vicunja, a band from Halmstad, was founded in 2006 and consists of Alex Hansson (vocals), Johan Israelsson (guitar), Joakim Persson (bass) and Martin Larsson (drums). After appearances in Nalen in Stockholm and at the Peace & Love festival in Borlänge Vicunja released a video for the song “Some People“.

Theirs music has been described as a cross between ABBA and Nirvana.

More music at MySpace or YouTube. Vikunka also have their own website which you can check out here!

Source: Kulturbloggen.com

2010 FIFA World Cup best goalkeeper is Roxette fan

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Iker Casillas is a World Cup-winning Spanish football goalkeeper who plays for the Spanish club Real Madrid and serves as captain for the Spanish national team. In 2010 he captained the national team that won Spain’s first ever FIFA World Cup and the Golden Glove Award for the tournament’s best goalkeeper.

In this very short interview for Spanish Tele 5 TV he admitted (?) that he liked (?) Roxette.

Proper translation is needed!

 

Source: Wikipedia
Thanks to Eva S. Cantos for the information.

Paintbox to perform with Roxette on August 14th

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The Halmstad festival, as Per Gessle has announced recently, slowly takes its shape. The first supporting act for Roxette Halmstad concert on August 14th is Paintbox.

We are trio from Halmstad, Sweden – consisting of Linnea Olsson, Magnus Helgesson and Gicken Johansson. We play and make music that makes us happy! We are at the moment working on our second album, which will be released this year, around november/december. Until then, check out our debut album Bright Gold and Red (WCM001), released inDecember 2008. It is available for download on iTunes and CDBaby. If you would like to order the cd, check out any good cd-site, or order it straight from us. Check out the video to the song Winter, directed and edited by Magnus Helgesson.

 

More informations at MySpace.