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Four fierce autumn club nights in Sweden

Sweden's outdoor drinking season may be over, but there are plenty of hot club nights to choose from across Sweden this week. Here are The Local's top tips alongside our regular interactive calendar of music, culture and family activities around the country.

Four fierce autumn club nights in Sweden
Duo Raw will host Club Queer in Gothenburg this weekend. Photo: Club Queer/Joakim Palm Karlsson
1. Art of Sound, Slakthuset, Stockholm
 
Four floors of techno and house music, 16 live performances, and a host of creative art installations are making their way to Slakthuset in Stockholm on Saturday 26th September (subway stop Globen). There will even be a tent large enough to squeeze in 400 ravers put up on the club's roof terrace. Stockholm resident Vincent Rydell is the headliner on the Techno/Berlin floor while Londoner Letizia Carrero, a regular at Ministry of Sound in London and Privilege Ibiza, will be getting the crowds dancing in the house room. Entry on the night costs 180 kronor.
 
 
2. Woohah!, Babel, Malmö
 
Southern Sweden's ultimate R&B and hip hop night is set to cause a stir when it hits Babel, a former church turned club venue in Malmö on Saturday 26th September. The biggest names on the bill include Uppsala-born DJ Large and Grow Digga and Boy who are visiting Sweden from Nashville in the US. Entry is 80 kronor before midnight, 120 kronor thereafter.
 
 
3. Opening, Under Bron, Stockholm 
 
While the Swedish capital's biggest open air party spot, Trädgården, has closed for the winter, Under Bron, which forms part of the same complex underneath one of Stockholm's largest bridges kickstarts its autumnal festivities this weekend with an impressive line-up. Bella Sarris headlines the downstairs dancefloor on Friday 25th September and fellow Australian Andras Fox takes to the decks upstairs. Entry is free before 11pm, 120 kronor before midnight and 170 kronor thereafter. Subway stop, Skanstull.
 
 
4. Club Queer, Park Lane, Gothenburg
 
One of west Sweden's most popular clubs, Park Lane puts on an LGBTQ night once a month and September's instalment looks set to be a showstopper. On Friday 25th September the event will be hosted by Duo Raw, two of the toughest yet sparkliest drag queens in Scandinavia who describe themselves as giant “disco goblins” dedicated to their dogs Daglas and Scout when they're not wooing partygoers from the stage. DJ Kat & DJ Zocky and the GO-GO Boyz are among the other names on the bill. Entry is 120 kronor.
 
 

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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.

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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