September 14th 2025

Hi! Hello hi!

I haven't had any internet access for the month of September aside from phone data, so I haven't been able to update till now. I have pretty terrible internet right now, but I do have it more than on my phone, so while I would usually upload videos in a post like this, I won't. The videos I've linked to I've pre-watched on break at work where I have wi-fi access. Emailing myself the links to the videos so I didn't have to open the videos at home made it easier to conserve data.

So, why would I have posted videos today? Because I went to a music festival!

Well, the free parts of one, anyway.

So in Örebro, there is a music (and apparently also film, but I didn't catch any of that myself) festival called Live at Heart, that takes place in the center of the city; in different venues, inside cafés, out on the city's squares, etc. The outdoor performances are free, as well as those in a café or two.

I considered buying access to all the performances, but since several of them ran pretty late on a work night I would have missed a bunch of them anyway. So, free performances only it is! I'll have you know I got a pretty good bang for my buck!

Without further ado, let's get into it.

The image above is the banner from their website, featuring the water tower "Svampen", or "The Mushroom", in the center.

Wednesday

Wednesday only offered one free performance, so I ended up checking it out. Got to sit front row in the little café where it was, even!

Backa bandet

These guys are called Löfroth & Grabö, they introduced themselves as brothers whose names I can't remember, but I enjoyed their playing. They performed a song that they had only finished writing a couple of days earlier and had only played together like four times before that performance at the café where they were playing that day.

Apparently they've performed at that café before, earlier this summer, so I wouldn't be surprised if they showed up in there again at some point.

It was a pretty chill start to the festival.

Friday

So there were no free performances on Thursday, so we'll hop step jump drew draw drawn right on over to Friday afternoon.

On Friday the weather was terrible later in the afternoon, which is exactly what you'd want when you go to watch a bunch of outdoor performances. Especially when your last umbrella broke during the last storm not too long ago.

So you can imagine I looked like a drowned rat by the end of the night.

Forest Song

First performance I caught was Yellowbrenda.

I was late to this performance, so I only managed to catch the end of it, but what I heard was nice. They had a song where the background track was a recording of the sea from Malmö, a city in southern Sweden, where they were from.

...Actually, scratch that, now that I think about it, I'm not 100% sure it was recorded in Malmö specifically, or if it was in some other city, but I know it was from the Swedish coast.

I really should have written this down as it happened, even though I had no internet. I should still be able to open and close a paragraph without internet access.

Oh well.

Olycksfågelbarn

On to Haiko!

Though I should probably list some more names of other people too, cus he had a few guests who performed with him. I admit I didn't catch all of their names though, and they weren't actually listed as performing, so I have a hard time finding their names now.

I liked the hiphop and chill melodies that switched off with each other, the hiphop mainly while he sang with his guests.

As you might be able to see in the upper left corner the weather was still pretty okay at the start of his performance. It was somewhere during it when the rain started to come down.

Hur hon va

Someone I'd actually heard of before this festival, Angelina Pavanelli!

One of the first of her songs I ever heard was her song "Klick klick köp dig hel" ("Click click buy yourself whole"), a song about trying to buy your happiness by shopping, which... well, I can't say I haven't done that myself, especially when my mental health was terrible. I think a lot of us has done that, just to find a way to get seratonin somewhere when you can't produce any on your own (thank you chronic depression).

This is where the weather became completely horrible. I was sitting on top of the shopping bag I carry my lunch box in on top of a beach chair set out for a different thing Örebro's had out on Järntorget all summer, and a guy decided to sit down on the chair next to mine without emptying the chair of collected water first.

You can imagine how soaked his ass became, he seemed to have forgotten to check beforehand since I was sitting so casually in mine (my ass still got wet but it wasn't nearly as bad).

Saturday

Saturday was the last day of the festival, and this time I actually managed to catch three full performances.

We were even in luck with the weather!

Burning Ships

Anyone remember Mondaine?

If you've been reading my blog for a while, you might remember me going to see them and the band Granit perform at the end of December last year (though I only wrote about it in January this year).

At Live at Heart I got to see them perform again, which was fun! I don't know if I've been able to catch a band more than once before. They're a local band to my province, which makes it easier to catch them live in my area.

Their song Kaleidoscopic Visions was one of my most listened to songs in 2024, btw.

Baby Lady

Örebro goes punk! With the post-punk band Hot Bloke.

I haven't listened to a lot of modern Swedish punk (kind of stuck myself to Ebba Grön, a late 1970's-early 1980's punk band that my mum has on vinyl), so it was fun checking them out.

Honestly though for a festival that's been going on for about 15 years you'd think they'd have figured out how to do better audio mixing (that might not be the term used for live music), punk can (and should) push speakers and mics to the limit.

Guy on the left had a string break mid performance too, it's gotta be stressful to have that happen.

I still had fun with this performance though.

all my lies

Okay I'll be real.

This was the highlight for me, cus. Uh. Gay. Jävligt gay. And Akabane Vulgers on Strong Bypass? They were really cool.

They'd flown over all the way from Japan to perform twice during Live at Heart, once for free, which I got to watch. As mentioned, I haven't listened to a lot of modern punk, and that goes for more than just Swedish punk. But I really enjoyed this.

They had really good stage presence too, but apparently they've been playing together for a while, so it makes sense. They really knew how to excite a crowd.

Did make a post on bsky after that said "Moments that make me get even gayer".

If that's at all possible.

You get a second photo of them cus I wanted to showcase where Mondaine, Hot Bloke and Akabane Vulgars performed.

It's at the edge of a skate park, right in front of a pit-thing people skate inside. During Mondaine and Hot Bloke's performances they had people skating in it, which no doubt got some cool action shots for any possible photographers (I did not manage to get any cool shots of it, unfortunately), and during Akabane Vulgar's performance there were people dancing and rocking out, headbanging and shit down there.

Definitely a pretty cool spot to watch performances at, though it was hard to get that close when they're standing right at the edge of a pit.

I had a great time watching all of these performances, and I'll definitely try to catch whatever I can next year.

Hej då for now, see you next time!

P.S.
Petition for small/indie bands to upload their lyrics online so I can actually tell what's happening pls
(3)D.S.