Halmstad

#gtsommar 450m2 of Swedish summer

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Marknadplatsen in Halmstad is almost ready to have a great ‘golden times’ party tonight. The brand new stage of 450m2 with two big screens on each side, lights and sound systems was built by over 200 people. The total area for the concert amenities, including toilets, refreshments is a staggering 10,000 m2. As HallandPosten informs 1500 was the number of the extra tickets released this Wednesday since the production got bigger and they were able to fit in more people than they thought in the beginning. Additionally Micke’s son Dennis will be part of the filming crew, Gyllene Tider drummer shared this information on his blog the other day.

For those who head to Halmstad, Halland Posten published list of places which Gyllene Tider’s fans should visit during their stay in town – from Hamiltons Vag till old Tits & Ass studio in Styrdal.

If you are interested in live reports from Marknaplatsen, Hallands Nyheter journalists are of help. Today at 3pm CET they will start reporting all happenings from the premiere night. Follow them here.

Corina Lesu contributed to the article.

Win a chance to meet Gyllene Tider in Halmstad!

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Are you going to see Gyllene Tider live in their hometown Halmstad next week? Keep on reading!

In cooperation with Gyllene Tider’s Management and Live Nation we are proud to offer you the chance to meet Per, Micke Syd, Anders, Göran and MP backstage in Halmstad on Friday, 5th of July, 2013.

To participate in the contest simply write an email to judith@roxetteblog.com including the following information:

– your name
– your nickname on Roxetteblog
– cell phone number

and (correct ;-)) answer to this question:

– Gyllene Tider’s new compilation “Soldans på din grammofon” – 2 vinyl LP version will come with a bonus EP. Name one of the 4 tracks included in this EP.

The winners will be chosen randomly amongst all participants who answered the question correctly.

Hurry up! The contest runs until Tuesday 2nd of July 2013 23:59 CET.

Good luck!

Don’t forget to read the small letter…

Contest terms and conditions:
– you can only participate once
– we will randomly pick the winners among all valid emails (valid means: with name, nickname, cell phone number and correct answer).
– the winners will be notified per email on Wednesday 3rd of  July 2013 and will be required to reply to the email confirming their attendance to the meet & greet
– further instructions where/when to meet will be sent per email or SMS on the concert day. If you are not at the meeting point at the agreed time, the prize will be given to somebody else!
– the winners will have to have a valid ticket for the concert and are responsible for their transport to and from the venue and any costs that might arise
– the prize is for one person only, so the winners won’t be able to take their friend(s) with them to the meet & greet
– Roxetteblog will not enter into any correspondence regarding the result of the contest
– in the event the meet & greet is cancelled, no other date or other prize will be offered as replacement
– of course, all submitted data will only be used for the purpose of the contest, to contact you for confirmation and instructions, and won’t be given to third parties
– the names and a picture of the winners may be published on this website anytime
– last but not least, you can bring one item to have it signed by the members of Gyllene Tider

 

Update 3rd July:

The lucky winners who sent us the correct answer and are going to meet Gyllene Tider on 5th July in Halmstad are:

1. John Ashfield
2. Celestte Robins
3. Eliza Roszkowska Öberg
4. Cecilia Vazquez
5. Nicole Breuer
6. Anders Johnsen

If you are among the winners, check your e-mails, because Judith will send out the details today. If you don’t reply to that e-mail by the time Judith states, the already picked (picked the same way as in the video below) next participants will have the chance to take part in the Meet & Greet. If you are in the list above, but you have changed your mind and don’t want to meet GT, the same rule comes into action, so the next picked participants will get the M&G opportunity.

You can watch the video of picking the winners here.

 

 

Linnea Henriksson, Gyllene Tider’s support act

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Many of us were keeping fingers crossed for Brainpool as GT’s support this summer, but it soon turned out that we will see someone else in this role. The tour is very close now and you might be interested in who’s that girl who will be on stage before Gyllene Tider each night during the tour.

Linnea Henriksson is from Halmstad, born in 1986. She is a Swedish jazz and pop singer and songwriter. She participated in Idol 2010 and finished the talent show at the 4th place. In 2007 she became the singer of a Swedish band called Prylf and together they released an album (Kind of Green) in 2010. Linnea’s debut album (Till mina älskade och älskare) as a solo artist was released in May, 2012.

She was voted to be the Artist of the year in 2012 and won P3 Guld, which is a music prize awarded by Sveriges Radio P3 to Swedish artists in several music categories.

 

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Regarding her relations to Gyllene Tider, Linnea says to nwt.se:

I was singing their songs at each speech day. They are Swedish summer for me. I don’t think I’ve experienced a barbecue, where their music was not there somehow. They have certainly left their mark on Halmstad, so I feel very proud.

 

As Orup helped Linnea in writing songs on her debut album, nwt.se’s reporter asked her if it is time to get help from Per Gessle, too:

If one day we would be sitting there any night, both of us with a guitar, I won’t be the one who says no. He’s a great songwriter and it would be fun to work with him.

 

Linnea says regarding the GT tour:

Even those who have not heard me before and will come only to listen to Gyllene Tider, I’ll really try to fill up with energy.

 

Here you can watch her videos and listen to 2 of her songs:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBAXCF9XQ8E

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjqpQFH_FM

 

See you soon, Linnea!

 

 

Awesome Gyllene Tider signing session photos

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You may remember Expressen’s article about a big chaos when Gyllene Tider had their signing session in Halmstad. Well, journalists like colouring their headlines and of course, there was no chaos at all, but what is very true in the article is that Basia Konarzewska, a great Polish Roxer, was flying to Sweden with a friend of hers to be present on the signing sessions in Halmstad and Kungsbacka. Basia had a fantastic weekend with the guys and she took some awesome photos of the two sessions she was attending. Judge them yourself by clicking here. Happy faces all around! 😉

 

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© Basia Konarzewska

 

Gyllene Tider enters the soccer world

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As Gyllene Tider published the news on Monday, they are going to sponsor 2 Halmstad soccer teams: Halmstads BK and IS Halmia. Per Gessle is already a major sponsor of Halmia since many years.

Gyllene Tider is divided into two soccer camps. Per, MP and Göran are supporting Halmia, while Micke Syd is for HBK. 3:1 is not a bad result of a ”match”. Oh, we didn’t forget about Anders: he prefers fishing. 😉

Micke Syd gave a short interview to Sveriges Radio yesterday talking a bit about the sponsorship. Listen to it here.

Jersey of HBK is blue and will have a red Gyllene Tider logo, while red-white Halmia jersey will have a blue logo on the back. Aftonbladet showed a montage of the HBK jersey. It won’t look like this, but you can have a look at how blue and red fits together. Halmia’s jersey you could already see several times on facebook, Roxette Official. 😉

 

Halmia

Photo taken from Roxette Official’s facebook page

 

Update: Halmia’s jersey will look like this:

GT_Halmia

Photo was shared on Gyllene Tider’s facebook page.