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What’s on in Sweden: May 21th – May 28th

US talkshow host Bill Maher is heading to Sweden for his first Europe tour, a star photographer will chat to visitors at one of Stockholm's trendiest museums and there's a half-marathon kicking off in Gothenburg - as usual, Sweden has something to offer everyone.

Published: 21 May 2015 07:00 CEST
What’s on in Sweden: May 21th – May 28th
US talkshow host Bill Maher. Photo: Janet Van Ham/Ap

American comedian Bill Maher will be performing at Göta Lejon in Stockholm on Tuesday as part of his European tour. The comedian and host of late-night show 'Real time with Bill Maher' is famous for his opinionated and politically incorrect comedy. In an interview with The Local he said: “my whole act is to talk shit about America”. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Last year the artist Nick Brandt received praise for his photographs of East-African animals. Now he’s back with the final part of his trilogy in an exhibition at the museum of photography (Fotografiska muséet) in Stockholm. On Saturday, May 23rd, you can come and listen when he shares the stories behind his pictures.


Fotografiska muséet in Stockholm. Photo: Fotografiska

If you’re hungry in the southern part of Sweden this week, be sure to stop by the Food Festival (Skånes Matfestival) in Kivik and Brösarp. On May 22nd and 23rd the small town of Brösarp becomes a mecca of food, where you can taste the local produce, brew your own beer and stuff your own sausage.


People enjoying the culinary feast on last years festval. Photo: Sexton:nio 

Watch when 64,000 runners take over the streets of Gothenburg on Saturday. The popular half-marathon Göteborgsvarvet is organized by the Gothenburg Athletic Association and they say that around 200,000 people show up to watch the race each year. The course is 21 km from start to finish and offers great views of the city's ship-yards.

On May 29th TEDxStockholm also has their next event, the TEDxWomen Momentum conference. Get details here. 

For more tips on what to do in Sweden this week, check out the interactive calendar below. Oh, and don't forget to watch Eurovision.

 

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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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