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What’s On in Sweden: December 18th – 24th

What’s on in Sweden: Eddie Izzard strips all over Sweden, Rave photos in Stockholm, Turkish puppetry in Gothenburg and a Synthfest in Malmö.

Published: 17 December 2009 12:24 CET
What's On in Sweden: December 18th - 24th

STOCKHOLM

Eddie Izzard – Stripped

One of the world’s biggest comedians on tour in Sweden

Price:595-695 kronor

Location: Hovet

Date: 19th December

Time: 8pm

More information: eddieizzard.com

Raving ’89

Acclaimed British photographer Gavin Watson’s exhibition of the rave scene

Price: Free

Location: Fargfabriken, Lövholmsbrinken, 1

Date: 19th December – 3rd January

Time: Wednesday-Sunday 11am to 4pm

More information: Fargfabriken

Soul Food For Christmas

Get into the Christmas spirit with Sam Paris and his Natural Gospel Singers. Gospel mixed with R&B and Jazz.

Price: Free

Location: Allhelgonakyrkan, Helgalunden

Time: 7pm

Date: 19th December

Christmas Market at Skansen

Join the throng at Stockholm’s best known Christmas market

Price: Free

Location: Skansen

Time: 10am – 4pm

Date: 19th-20th December

More information: Skansen

Debaser

Dance off your Xmas feasting at Debaser. DJ’s Anna Storåkers and Sara Kokk

Price: 100 kronor

Location: Debaser, Slussen

Date: 24th December

Time: From 7pm

More information: Debaser

GOTHENBURG

Eddie Izzard – Stripped

One of the world’s biggest comedians on tour in Sweden

Price:595-695 kronor

Location: Skandinavium

Date: 20th December

Time: 8pm

More information: eddieizzard.com

Karagöz – puppet theatre

Traditional Turkish puppet theatre. For ages 3+

Price: 80 kronor (adults) 20 kronor (kids)

Location:Pustervik

Time: 4pm

Date: 20th December

More information: Pustervik

Music Aid on Avenyn

All day everyday, Sweden’s biggest music acts and tomorrow’s stars perform for Radio P3 and SVT

Price: Free

Location: Avenyn

Time: See website for more details

Date: 17th – 20th December

More information: Musikhjälpen

Multimedia Show at Harry Hjörnes

A 360 degree sound and light show on Harry Hjörnes square

Price:Free

Location: Harry Hjörnes Plats

Time: 3 shows 4pm – 10pm

More information: Harry Hjörnes Multimedia Show

Berså Santa Night

Club night for Santa. Reindeer optional.

Price:100 kronor

Location: Berså, Kungsportsplatsen

Time: 10pm – 5am

MALMÖ

Eddie Izzard – Stripped

One of the world’s biggest comedians on tour in Sweden

Price:595 – 695 kronor

Location: Malmö Arena

Time: 8pm

Date: 18th December

More information: eddieizzard.com

Christmas Market

Local designers show their wares and a chance to sample the glögg and other Christmas goodies.

Price: Free

Location: Loftet på Hedmanska Gården (close to Lilla Torg)

Date 19th December

Time: 11am – 5pm

Electrixmas

Synthfestival with synth bands Spark!, Sadman, Aesthetic Perfection, Rotersand + DJs

Price: 395 kronor

Location: Inkonst

Date: 19th December

Time: 7pm to 3am

More information: Inkonst

Little Theatre Of Gestures

Exhibition at Malmö Kosthall featuring a selection of works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum in Basel

Location: Malmö Konsthall

Time: See website

Date: To january 31st

More information: Exhibition website

Malmö’s Police Choir

The Police in concert! Choral singing from Malmö’s thin blue line.

Location: St Pauli Kyrka

Time: 6pm

Date: 20th December

More information: Police Music

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CULTURE

New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday’s death

Fans of the late Johnny Hallyday, "the French Elvis Presley", will be able to commemorate the sixth anniversary of his death with two songs never released before.

Published: 17 November 2023 09:05 CET
New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday's death

Hallyday, blessed with a powerful husky voice and seemingly boundless energy, died in December 2017, aged 74, of lung cancer after a long music and acting career.

After an estimated 110 million records sold during his lifetime – making him one of the world’s best-selling singers -Hallyday’s success has continued unabated beyond his death.

Almost half of his current listeners on Spotify are under the age of 35, according to the streaming service, and a posthumous greatest hits collection of “France’s favourite rock’n’roller”, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Leo
Smet, sold more than half a million copies.

The two new songs, Un cri (A cry) and Grave-moi le coeur (Engrave my heart), are featured on two albums published by different labels which also contain already-known hits in remastered or symphonic versions.

Un cri was written in 2017 by guitarist and producer Maxim Nucci – better known as Yodelice – who worked with Hallyday during the singer’s final years.

At the time Hallyday had just learned that his cancer had returned, and he “felt the need to make music outside the framework of an album,” Yodelice told reporters this week.

Hallyday recorded a demo version of the song, accompanied only by an acoustic blues guitar, but never brought it to full production.

Sensing the fans’ unbroken love for Hallyday, Yodelice decided to finish the job.

He separated the voice track from the guitar which he felt was too tame, and arranged a rockier, full-band accompaniment.

“It felt like I was playing with my buddy,” he said.

The second song, Grave-moi le coeur, is to be published in December under the artistic responsibility of another of the singer’s close collaborators, the arranger Yvan Cassar.

Hallyday recorded the song – a French version of Elvis’s Love Me Tender – with a view to performing it at a 1996 show in Las Vegas.

But in the end he did not play it live, opting instead for the original English-language version, and did not include it in any album.

“This may sound crazy, but the song was on a rehearsal tape that had never been digitalised,” Cassar told AFP.

The new songs are unlikely to be the last of new Hallyday tunes to delight fans, a source with knowledge of his work said. “There’s still a huge mass of recordings out there spanning his whole career,” the source said.

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