I've seen Loreen!!
Last night we decided to go to Karlskoga and the Karlskogafest to
see Loreen premiere her Swedish minitour "Prelude". I'm not very familiar with Karlskoga, so after a bit city cruising, parking and fast walking, I hear distant load music and Loreen singing possibly
Sober. There are people everywhere, families with chattering children, old people strolling and everything in between. It's a city festival (no entry) and the actual concert area is in a narrow small valley with steep sides, a park in the city. The park is packed with people and in the end of the long, circa 30 meters wide grass lawn there is stage with pulsing lights.
Loreen! The park with local families sitting down on blankets having picnic and tents making fast foods, is apparently invaded by Loreen fans like me. We want to advance to Loreen trough the chatting crowd. Chaos and tension, Loreen singing
My heart is refusing me. Her voice is clear but the music is a blur. Advancing, suddenly I'm hit in the stomach by a very strong pulsing base. There is nothing but base. We decide to advance on the steep sides instead. Loreen singing strong in a very beautiful ambient unfamiliar tune -
She’s the one. Yess!!
We reach the stage trough the sides and while descending we can see Loreen on the side monitors. A large tent is in the way.
Euphoria. The speakers seem to be under-dimensioned and the music is distorted. Loreen's voice is clean and clear though. She makes pauses to let the audience fill in
Euphoooria! We raise our right hands in the air, pumping, lifting, waving. She's still only visible on the monitors. I need to advance further. Shamelessly I make my way and suddenly:
There she is!!
She says something "
Då vare klart då" and disappears. We are a bit uncertain what happened and some starts to cheer "
En gång till!" (One more time!). Slowly it dawns to us, it's over for now. We start to make our way back through all the blanket people again. We knew it already, this is only going to be a glimpse of Loreen.
We are satisfied and happy.
edit:
The boo story from Aftonbladet is untrue.