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Storsjö Yran 2010

A week off, traveling north, long hours on the train and reaching my second favourite city of Sweden – Östersund. With the best of company and three days of music I have had a grand vacation. Between meeting new friends, hearing a lot of familiar and a little new music it is with such such such nostalgia that I already look back on my week. How could it end, why is there not more…

During the week I had the chance to see 16 bands in total, several of them however I only caught half or less of. The Majority (all but two) of those are Swedish. The genres are surprisingly well spread across the board, ranging from hard rock to indie pop.

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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Three days of live music

As the playlist for the three festival days has been finalised I set to work on picking out a preleminary list of mucisians I want to see.

THRUSDAY – This is a day of Rock, kicking of with Sparanzanza, followed by Avatar and Europe at midnight. Odd one out for the day is the Swedish pop artists Nejra. In case I get time or change my mind Oskar Linnros, Ingenting and Shout out louds provide background noise having overlapping playtimes.

FRIDAY – Friday is a mix of pop – folk, rock and electro. Evening starts with Melissa Horn, followed by Astrid Madberg, Johnossi, Sara Blasko, Kent and Familjen. A pretty intense evening of music ending around 2am (close to six hours in total). In case it is too much the most important are Melssia, Kent and Familjen.

SATURDAY – Ending this long weekend of music is Dream Evil, Elliot Murphy, Lars Winnerbäck, Hoffmaestro & Chraa, Teddybears and Motorpsycho. With the most important being Teddybears, Hoffmaestro and Winnerbäck.

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Yran 2010

Currently looking forward to my annual trip up north to Östersund in the middle of Sweden, and the location of Storsjö yran. It is a city festival that I have been attending for the last four years (making this my fifth visit come late July). As per tradition I have also studied the bands (leaving only a few surprises) to find where to best spend my time.
After my analysis I have sorted out 59.15% of the 71 bands looked at that I wouldn’t mind seeing during the three days (that equals 42, why does that number sound familiar ;).

Of these 22.54% (16) are rated by me as 4’s and 5’s, or bands I really really want to see (6 of those are 5’s).

So far only the breakdown per day is available on yran.se (no times), so I can’t yet optimize my viewing by each day based on my ratings.

Of the 4’s and 5’s 25% are indie pop, 19% are indie rock and 13% are electronic.

Ordered by how much I want to see them.
  1. Hoffmaestro & Chraa (Ska)
  2. Melisaa Horn (Folk pop)
  3. Teddybears (Electronic)
  4. Familjen (Electronic)
  5. Kent (Indie rock)
  6. Lars Winnerbäck (Rock)
  7. Marit Bergman (Indie pop)
  8. Johnossi (Indie rock)
  9. Elliot Murphy (Folk rock)
  10. The Bear Quartet (Indie rock)
  11. Markus Krunegård (Indie pop)
  12. Anna von Hausswolff (Indie)
  13. Oskar Linnros (Indie pop)
  14. Nejra (Indie pop)
  15. Motorpsycho (Psychedelic)
  16. Sparzanza (Hard rock)

Richard