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What’s On in Sweden: April 9th – 15th

What’s on in Sweden: Russian burlesque in Stockholm, Johnny Cash tribute in Gothenburg and Rough Aunties in Malmö.

What's On in Sweden: April 9th - 15th

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Rising Stars – Soup Concert

Enjoy Catalan pianist, Alba Ventura playing a selection of beautiful sonatas accompanied by the sound of soup spoons on china.

Price: 180 kronor (inc. soup) / 100 kronor (no soup)

Location: Stockholms Konserthus

Date: 9th April

Time: 12.15

More information: Stockholms Konserthus

The Je Ne Sais Quoi

The international five piece supergroup based in Stockholm, guest Debaser. Pourquoi pas?

Price: 100 kronor

Location: Debaser

Date: 10th April

Time: 8pm

More information: Debaser

Hootchy Cootchy Club

Stockholm’s premier Burlesque club takes on a Russian theme. Get there early for vodka and gherkins.

Price: 180 kronor

Location: Södrateatern

Date: 10th April

Time: 9pm

More information: Södrateatern

Three Bad Jacks

American rockabilly/punk rock from Three Bad Jacks. With support from The Knockouts

Price: 80 kronor

Location: The Regent Pub

Date: 11th April

Time: 8pm

More information: The Regent

Dylan Moran

Comic genius and star of Black Books tours Scandinavia on the ‘What it is’ tour

Price: 345 kronor

Location: Göta Lejon

Date: 13th April

Time: 8pm

More information: Raw Comedy

GOTHENBURG

Baby and Child

Three days to spend your money on the latest clothes and accessories for babies and small kids.

Price: See website

Location: Svenskamässan

Date: 9th – 11th April

More information: Baby o Barn

The Story of Johnny Cash

The Man In Black lives on at Casino Cosmopol

Price: 495 kronor

Location: Casino Cosmopol

Date: 8th – 10th April

Time: 7pm

More information: Casino Cosmopol

The Hornets

Worldclass Jazz/Fusion with the Yellow Jackets latest incarnation as The Hornets

Price: 180 kronor

Location: Nefertiti

Date: 9th April

Time: 7.30pm

More information: Nefertiti

Dylan Moran

Comic genius and star of Black Books tours Scandinavia on the ‘What it is’ tour

Price: 345 kronor

Location: Konserthuset

Date: 12th April

Time: 8pm

More information: Raw Comedy

MALMÖ

Cassy

DJ Cassy (Cocoon, Perlon, Uzuri, Panorama Bar, Berlin) queen of Berlin Electronica

Price: 120 kronor

Location: Inkonst

Date: 10th April

Time: 11pm

More information: Inkonst

Dylan Moran

Comic genius and star of Black Books tours Scandinavia on the ‘What it is’ tour

Price: 345 kronor

Location: Konserthuset

Date: 11th April

Time: 8pm

More information: Raw Comedy

Rough Aunties

South African film about a group of tough Durban women who through their work with abandoned kids have changed attitudes to race, culture and social relationships

Price: 60 kronor

Location: Inkonst

Date: 12th April

Time: 7pm

More information: Inkonst

Allah Made Me Funny!

Three American Muslims fill a whole evening with laughs and funny situations that arise from being Muslim and American

Price: 240 kronor

Location: Slagthuset

Date: 14th April

Time: 7pm

More information: Allah Made Me Funny

Do you know of any upcoming events our readers might like to attend? Drop us a line at [email protected]

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Sweden: A land of hairdressers and writers

Sweden's capital Stockholm is full of hairdressers and writers, and sometimes even writers in hairdressers. And it can be a disturbing city when you're a bald Frenchman who happens to be a writer, observes Luis de Miranda.

Sweden: A land of hairdressers and writers

As a bald French writer exiled in Stockholm since last year, I have rapidly noticed that 50 percent of the Swedish population is either a hairdresser or a writer – or both.

In Stockholm, there is a frisör every fifty metres, where you usually find a lonely person getting a blond hair colour or a new cut, while reading the newspaper.

In the newspaper you will find many articles about people who engage in many different activities but who are also often designated as författare (writer): Sven Svensson, actor and författare; Camilla Johansson, yoga instructor and författare; Fredrik Reinfeldt, prime minister and författare.

It seems that any kind of printed material entitles you to be a författare, and some daily newspapers need to display book reviews in every edition in order to keep the pace and make all the författare happy.

Let’s be honest: I can understand that everybody agrees to call everybody else

a writer – that is an interesting form of collective vanity – but why so many

hairdressers? Some say it’s about money laundering. Or is it also about vanity?

People want to have nice blond hair and it is understandable. But as a bald French writer, I simply don’t exist here in Sweden: having little hair makes me invisible and

being a writer makes me very common.

I am considering wearing a wig and stopping my Swedish classes in order to remain relatively illiterate in the language of Swedenborg (no, this is not the name of my hairdresser). I shall refrain from writing even the slightest memoir on beard shaving.

But please don’t misunderstand me. I love Sweden and the Swedes. I respect any författare, any frisör, and I like fika, folkhem, filmjölk and feminism…

Sweden is just…fantastic.

Luis de Miranda is a French novelist, philosopher, editor and film director who has been in Stockholm for a year. He is also bald.

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