The creator of the fantastic paintings is Carl Hammoud. He is a young swedish artist born 1976 in Stockholm and educated at Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg. We have been fan of Carls work since a long time and love the way he works with disorder and order and his choice of colours. The pictures are taken from here and if you want too dig deeper in his work this is also the place check out.
We’ve received really great bags made of cotton with the Velour logo on in the store in Gothenburg! Will post up a photo as soon as possible!
We met the great guys from a Gothenburg band called Elefant, Johan och David. They seem to have something great and secret going on. We’ll have to keep a look out!
Nice camp-neighbours!
We met with another writer at Rodeo, Amy, who we know from Gothenburg, so we hung out with her and our friend Anna for a little while before the Strokes and a Swedish electronic band called Maskinen started to play.
Foto: Ingrid Hagberg
OK, now we’ve been really bad at updating, but there’s a lot going on these days! Well, at least, last week we visited the Peace & Love festival in Borlänge, in the middle of Sweden. Plenty of great bands, nice weather and a lot of great people made the festival a memory for life! And all of our Swedish readers – you know that we have a summer-blog at the website of Swedish magazine Rodeo? If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out!
Found the lookbook made by illustrator Victor Jönsson of Loud Major Collective today. Quite nice, don’t you think?
Sometimes you just long for the countryside…
Song of the day: Yes – Countryside
If you’re in Gothenburg tonight – don’t miss out on this! Some bands (like Ram di Dam below) playing, some amazing DJs, and loads of people who want the same thing – to have an unforgettable night. See you there!
This summer, the city of Gothenburg has one more festival to bragg about. It’s actually a festival that is now respawned after first have beeing a touring festival, to exist only in Stockholm, to not be held in 2010, but which now is back!
The headlining band is Coldplay, and among musicians like Brandon Flowers (from the Killers), Glasvegas, Bright Eyes, Paolo Nutini, the Swedish musicians Serenades (our new favourites!), Sahara Hotnight, the Ark and Daniel Adams-Ray, they will give us some great music during one day in Azaleadalen, Slottsskogen. So book the 28th of June in your calenders and get to Gothenburg!
If you’d like to listen to what might be played on the festival, we’ve created a playlist for you guys. Here we go! Velour@Where the Action is!
We’ve
