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What’s on in Sweden: April 16th – 23rd

Gothenburg is celebrating its breweries with a special beer week, while soulful star Seinabo Sey is holding three gigs across southern Sweden and Stockholm is hosting a French film festival. Read on to discover more about our cultural picks for the next seven days.

Published: 15 April 2015 17:10 CEST
Updated: 16 April 2015 08:05 CEST
What's on in Sweden: April 16th - 23rd
Seinabo Sey is performing in three Swedish cities this week. Photo: TT
If you don't recognise the name Seinabo Sey, it's time to learn it. The Swedish star with west African ancestry has a big, silky voice that's already won her a string of chart hits across Scandinavia since she burst on to the music scene in 2013 and February this year she picked up the Best Newcomer gong at Sweden's Grammy Awards. 
 
Over the next few days you can catch her live in Malmö, Lund and Stockholm. Live too far away? Watch her latest video and take a look at The Local's five other music tips of the month while you're at it.
 
 
Meanwhile Gothenburg is hosting dozens hundreds of talks, exhibitions and experiments as part of International Science Week. But if that sounds a bit too taxing a way to spend your spare time, why not check out the city's beer festival. GBG Beer Week kicks off with a bus tour of four top breweries on the west coast, on Saturday.
 

International Science Week is being held in Gothenburg. Photo: Dick Gillberg
 
Fancy some culture from further south in Europe? Head to the Swedish capital to catch this year's French Film Festival, where you can watch movies by acclaimed directors including Thomas Cailley, Lucie Borleteau and Benoît Jacquot. Subtitles are in English.
 
Theatre fan? Tickets are still available for a new play performed by Irish-Swedish drama society 'Spuds and Sill' (a play on traditional Irish and Swedish fares, potatoes and herring) on April 17th and 18th at Kulturhuset in Skarpnäck in Stockholm.
 
'Another Peace', a modern drama written by Stockholm-based Irish playwright Niall Balfe, follows the fortunes of Bernie and Paul Quinn, owners of the local shop and post office, as they try to come to terms with the death of their son, Stevie.
 
Click on the interactive calendar below for more tips on what to see and do in Sweden this week.

 

 

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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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