Bring out the gimps……. or three?
Actually it’s the really friendly Swedish band Henry Fiat’s Open Sore, one of the acts who played at Way Out West, Gothenburg, Sweden this weekend, 7-9 August http://wayoutwest.se/english
On site was the lovely Stephanie Moses, yours truly and our Swedish counterparts from WeMadeThis, working it for the SanDisk Wake Up Your Phone Campaign http://www.wakeupyourphone.com/. Way Out West was the third event in SanDisk’s global Live Nation sponsorship calendar - featuring the new SanDisk Mobile Ultra mobile phone memory card.
So who did we meet, what was the gossip…? Top of the list was Franz Ferdinand, N.E.R.D and The Flaming Lips – all of whom played awesome sets as did The Nationals. We also had the pleasure of interviewing The High Hats, Dengue Fever, Dapuntobeat, Joan as Police Woman, Buraka Som Sistema, The Sonics, The Dodos and José González.
Way Out West, voted best Scandinavian music festival 2007, featured a good mix of music including both local and international artists and bands, Gothenburg City club nights and everything Swedish from fashion, hot dogs, dance moves and moshing madness….oh and popular names with almost every other person named Niklas, Henrik or Magnus, go figure?
Score: 9/10. It’s a given really - had a great time with an awesome bunch of people, made all the more fun with Stephanie who kept me laughing the entire weekend.
