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Christmas Musik
When it comes to public opinion, “Christmas Music” can be a real conversation divider. There’s a radio discussion forum I participate in , for example, which seems evenly divided at the moment by those...
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Christmas Drinks
Funky plastic booths at South Sydney Rugby League Club You know how they say “Oxford Street is dead”, these days? Well last night it certainly wasn’t with quite a few of the clubs heavily packed. I...
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Vapen och ammunition
I’ve spent the night listening to the wonderful album, “Vapen och ammunition” by the Swedish pop/rock band, Kent. Given the news events of the last few days, it’s interesting that “Vapen och...
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Year in Review 2012
It was just me and Kylie for New Year’s Eve this year. After spending last year in Perth, and the year before in Lismore, I didn’t really feel like spending this year at the fireworks in Sydney, or at...
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Melodifestivalen 2013
Child behind thinking hurry up fat bald man, I want a photograph with Nanne also. I really, really love this photograph taken almost three years ago at a shopping centre in Stockholm with Swedish pop...
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Bang A Boomerang – ABBA Special
Graeme Read, then president of the Australian ABBA Fan Club was interviewed on the legendary Australian TV show, Wonder World. “Are you watching the ABBA special”, my friend Yvette texted me tonight....
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Melodifestivalen 2013 #1
Danny and Gina on Melodifestivalen “There’s certainly no Loreen in that lot”, I thought to myself as I watched Melodifestivalen #1 this morning. Melodifestivalen is the multi-heat competition which...
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Melodifestivalen 2013 #2
The songs in the second heat of Melodifestivalen 2013, the competition which chooses the Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, were considerably better than those which featured in the first...
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Melodifestivalen 2013 #3
“It’s Björn Ranelid all over again”, according to one of the blokes they interviewed on the web-only after-show coverage of Melodifestivalen. I think he was a newspaper journalist, and he was referring...
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Melodifestivalen 2013 #4
“What a bunch of bogans”, I thought to myself as I watched how the Swedish public voted in the Heat 4 of Melodifestivalen, the finals which choose the song which represents Sweden at the Eurovision...
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Have Arrived in Stockholm
Sparkles at Beijing Airport at 5.45am Aside from a slight hiccough over the seats, the flight from Sydney to Stockholm via Beijing went off without a hitch. The hiccough with the seats had nothing to...
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Stockholm Under Construction
Katarinahissen – March 2013 I swear there must be a secret plan for Stockholm to put in bid to host the Olympic Games. That, or they’re expecting a Swedish economic crisis, so they’re doing as much now...
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Melodifestivalen 2013
Bananas in Pyjamas at Melodifestivalen “I’ll bet they’re not an official licence by ABC Commercial”, I said to my friend, Patrick tonight as we entered Friends Arena in Stockholm for Melodifestivalen,...
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Radio Days Europe 2013 – Presentation
This is the presentation I made at Radio Days Europe, March 18, 2013 as part of a session on pop up radio stations. The slide you can see behind you now is a snapshot of the homepage of ABC Radio...
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Agnetha Fältskog – A
Three songs have emerged as favourites for me, as I’ve listened “properly” to the new album by Agnetha Fältskog over the last couple of weeks. The first single, “When you really loved someone” is one...
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Lycka till Sverige!
It’s no wonder Sweden won last year. Loreen had a great song in “Euphoria” which she performed very, very well. In ten or twenty years time, I’m pretty sure it will be regarded as one of the “great...
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Jonas Holmberg
Just because I have the complete recordings of ABBA in my record collection, it doesn’t mean I stopped listening to new music in 1982. But that’s what online music stores often presume. I have stored...
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Musical Favourites for 2013 – The Year of Oskar Linnros
As I’ve sat down to look at the most commonly played tracks for the year, I’m kinda surprised it’s the song “Plåster” by Oskar Linnros. Not that I dislike the song, but I kind of imagined there were...
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Walking In The Rain
I first heard/saw the song “Walking In The Rain” when the video clip of Grace Jones performing the song was first played on Countdown. I was about seventeen years old at the time and was completely...
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Monica Z
The last couple of weeks have been reasonably busy, and so I haven’t managed to immerse myself in the Scandinavian Film Festival as I’d hoped. There was one film, however, I definitely wanted to see on...
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