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Gothenburg club and concert tips – August 7 – 10

Where to go out in Gothenburg this weekend? Monthly Magazine has the answers (Click links for more information)

Published: 7 August 2008 15:07 CEST

Way Out West is back for the second time round! This year featuring top artists such as Neil young, Sonic Youth, Franz Ferdinand and Sigur Rós. Beautiful Slottskogen Park is the heart of the festival. Although there’s no camping in Slottsskogen, you don’t have to worry; the festival ticket doubles up as a club pass that will get you settled until dawn. Let’s just hope the weather for Way Out West is a bit better than what we’ve had over the last few days.

Broder Daniel after party

Celebrate the end of a great band; the local indie boys from Broder Daniel. The bittersweet indie pop band will have their last performance ever at Way Out West. Broder Daniel started out in the late 80s and has since been much loved by many youngsters with teenage angst. We expect the After Party at Kulturhuset Underjorden in Gamlestan to be jam- packed Friday night. The organizers promise great DJs, visuals and secret guests.

Festa do Brasil 2008

Go for a full night of Brazilian style partying at Valand. The money spent will support kids in need in Brazil. Sweden´s best Brazil band Sinho banda Colibri will be playing and the great dancers from Brasilidade Mendes Dance Company will get your feet moving.

Need something that will get you out of that end-of-holiday low? Showdown will be the place for you. Performing on stage are power trio Place to Bury Strangers. If three words were to describe this band it would be; loud, intense and electrifying. In addition, hyped garage punk band Division of Laura Lee will be showing up. This Gothenburg band are known for their amazing live shows. Get in for free with your festival pass or pay 120 kronor at the entrance.

Hederos Hellberg

This concert will be the perfect cool down after an intense weekend in Slottskogen. And the Annedal Church will be a great setting for Hederos and Hellberg’s stripped down piano-harmonica covers. Did you ever wanted to know what Scandinavian melancholy in the post-Bergman era feels like? Hederos and Hellberg will gently take your hand and lead you there.

Meet the Spanish rapper bringing flamenco and bossa nova into hip-hop

Spanish rapper Anton Alvarez known as 'C. Tangana' poses in Madrid on April 29, 2021. Photo: Javier Soriano/AFP

The 30-year-old has emerged as one of the world’s biggest Spanish-language stars since his third album “El Madrileno” — the Madrilenian — came out in February. That ranks him alongside his superstar ex-girlfriend Rosalia, the Grammy-winning Catalan singer with whom he has co-written several hits.

C. Tangana, whose real name is Anton Alvarez Alfaro, has come a long way since a decade ago when he became known as a voice of disillusioned Spanish youth in the wake of the financial crisis.These days his rap is infused with everything from reggaeton and rumba to deeply traditional styles from Spain and Latin America, with a voice often digitised by autotune.

“It’s incredible that just when my music is at its most popular is exactly when I’m doing something a bit more complex, more experimental and less
trendy,” he told AFP in an interview.

And he is unashamed to be appealing to a wider audience than previously: his dream is now to make music “that a young person can enjoy in a club or someone older can enjoy at home while cooking”.

‘People are tired’

The rapper, who sports a severe semi-shaved haircut and a pencil moustache, has worked with Spanish flamenco greats including Nino De Elche, Antonio Carmona, Kiko Veneno, La Hungara and the Gipsy Kings.

In April he brought some of them together for a performance on NPR’s popular “Tiny Desk Concert” series, which has already drawn nearly six million
views on YouTube.

Shifting away from trap, one of rap’s most popular sub-genres, and venturing into a more traditional repertoire was a dangerous move — especially for someone with a young fanbase to whom rumba, bossa nova and bolero sound old-fashioned.

“I think people are tired. They’ve had enough of the predominant aesthetic values that have previously defined pop and urban music,” he said.

Parts of his latest album were recorded in Latin America with Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa of Buena Vista Social Club, Uruguayan
singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, Mexican folk artist Ed Maverick and Brazil’s Toquinho, one of the bossa nova greats.

“What struck me most everywhere I went was the sense of tradition and the way people experienced the most popular music, and I don’t mean pop,” he said.

A new direction

C. Tangana started out in 2006 rapping under the name Crema. When the global economic crisis swept Spain a few years later, hard-hitting trap was
the perfect way to voice the angst of his generation. But after more than a decade of rapping, things changed.

“When I was heading for my 30s, I hit this crisis, I was a bit fed up with what I was doing… and decided to give voice to all these influences that I
never dared express as a rapper,” he said.

The shift began in 2018 with “Un veneno” (“A poison”) which came out a year after his big hit “Mala mujer” (“Bad woman”).

And there was a return to the sounds of his childhood when he used to listen to Spanish folk songs at home, raised by a mother who worked in
education and a journalist father who liked to play the guitar. The Latin American influences came later.

“It started when I was a teenager with reggaeton and with bachata which were played in the first clubs I went to, which were mostly Latin,” he said.

Studying philosophy at the time, he wrote his first raps between stints working in call centres or fast-food restaurants.

As to what comes next, he doesn’t know. But one thing he hopes to do is collaborate with Natalia Lafourcade, a Mexican singer who dabbles in folk, rock and pop — another jack of all musical trades.

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