On route to Öland

Today I’ll head for the island Öland on Sweden’s southeast coast, there’s some really cool ancient monuments to see if you’re ever nearby. I’ll upload a few pictures later today – or you can catch them on twitter; @reuterdahl, live.

By the way now I got my tickets to Sweden rock – a hard rock festival in Sweden – and you could say it’s a bit like music archaeology; all the old dinosaurs like Ozzy, Judas Priest, Hawkwind, Whitesnake, Fläsket brinner etc etc… well I better bite my tongue or hold your horses there are some new bands as well.

Perhaps not the best of songs, and I don’t think they’ll play Sweden rock, but it’s a fun anthem that suits this post

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Anvil! The Story of Anvil

This is a bit late as the film premiered about a year ago, but I just got the DVD; if you love metal you love Anvil! The Story of Anvil. A great rockumentary about a band, and what it looks like great guys, that perhaps wasn’t great but that deserved a better hand than was dealt – and now maybe they’ll get it.

Anvil had a handfull of great songs in the early 80’s, but in my memory they became the picture disc (LP) band. You always wanted picture LP’s and singles to hang on your wall, but they were expensive as they often were limited editions – though Anvil’s were always available for a buck or two. Now listening to their back catalogue, there are some great moments, especially the early work, but there are also some really low ones.

This is a love story – for a band, for the music and for heavy rock. It takes you through all emotions – love, anger, frustration, happiness and sorrow as they play for great crowds and and for empty venues, big festivals and clubs in nowhere. This is great entertainment and hopefully the beginning of a better tomorrow for Anvil!

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I love my spotify

Spotify makes me rediscover a lot of bands I seem to have forgotten such as Accept!

Spotify playlist; I’ve would have wanted London leatherboys instead of Balls to the walls but that wasn’t available at Spotify so that goes in the youtube version insted

Though the title really is Breaking up away

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