Pre-party on Wednesday, courtesy of Club King Kong!

Oh gosh. It's a five-dayer, again!
The brilliant indie night King Kong have decided to put on the official pre-party, on Wednesday!
And as much as I dread how I'll feel after these five days, I don't mind the slightest!
You won't mind either, because it's going to be a proper blast:

Wednesday night is King Kong-night again. This time it's the officiall preparty to the Cosy Den-festival. There will be live soloperformances by Mattias Björkas from Finnish Cats on Fire and Gary Olson from The Ladybug Transistor. In the DJ-booth we will be guested by Mattias Jansson from Cosy Den, Sara Berg from Malmö clubnight Pop Songs and also Jyoti Mishra aka White Town (UK). And as usual it's free of charge.

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Event page here!

For those of you not on Facebook: this takes place at Södra Bar (info in English available via link), and the nearest tube stop is Slussen. Open from 5PM to 2AM. Gigs 9-ish or 10-ish.

Dinosaurs Are Still Alive! DJ line-up info! (and some sad news)

DINOSAURS ARE STILL ALIVE




There's this little scene in Stockholm with youngsters making noise of the more unfashionable kind, and Dinosaurs Are Still Alive are certainly at the centre of all this. With songs that all sound like immidiate hit lo-fi punk pop tunes at first listen, Adam Forsberg and his mates have already gained quite a bit of attention thanks to these tunes. They've opened for the Sic Alps at Debaser in Stockholm, and have also been brought to Gothenburg for a gig, and had the song "Growing up going down" featured in BBC 6's Tom Robinson Introducing. I almost wish I hadn't heard Dinosaurs Are Still Alive yet, because if you haven't, you're in for an amazing treat.




About the DJ line-up then!

* Thursday: Karin from Cosy Recordings and Johan from SKWBN will start off the night, for those of you who'd like to sit outdoors for a bit before Colin Clary takes the stage at Landet. They'll play some seven inches together between 6 and 8. And indoors, when it's opened there, Åsa who helped setting up gigs when Cosy Den was based in Gothenburg will play her fave tunes.

* Friday: Padde from the amazing Gothenburg indie night Snap-tight! will do some dj-ing between and after the bands at Gula Villan.

* Saturday: Burnsy & Vincent Tigreat from Dirtyclubber in Paris, France will put icing on the cake, playing a neat selection of what Parisians can usually hear at indie nights there, from what probably are France's finest pop DJs.

* Sunday: I'll get back to you about this.

And the sad news? Well, I suppose I shouldn't complain all that much - last year, no-one at all cancelled. But I got an e-mail from the Sock Puppets yesterday saying they can sadly not come because of stupid bosses at work. We hope to bring them over in the future.

Kindergarten Kisses! (+ Mole Says Hi moved to Saturday)

KINDERGARTEN KISSES



Kindergarten Kisses is Albin Zaar, from the deep woods in the South of Sweden, but now living in the country's midst. Albin is also one of the foundation pillars behind legendary and quite brilliant lo-fi collective Models Inc., who have been around for around a decade now. Kindergarten Kisses is also a lovely live act where the audience is taken aboard on trips in forms of short stories of life and death. As he remarks on the myspage: "most of the noises were made by me in one shape or another, only a few by actual ghosts". The proportions of that during this gig? We'll see.

(Oh, and that ticket info post below is now updated a little, at the bottom.)

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Mole Says Hi have been moved to Saturday. If this somehow makes you want to change your pre-booking, that's all cool, just get in touch! Speaking of tickets: 22 left for Friday and 11 left for Saturday.

Ticket info

Just one month to go!

Here's the ticket info (and preliminarly schedule) for Cosy Den 2010!

There will be no pre-booking needed for Thursday and Sunday.

However, in order to visit Gula Villan in Haninge on Friday and Saturday, you'll need to send an e-mail to thirdfloorfireescapeview (at) gmail.com.
Please include your name (and if you're bringing someone along, their name/s as well), and let me know which day you'd like to come - both days is of course fine in the same e-mail.
I'll get back to you right away and confirm that there ticket/s is reserved.

The price you'll pay on the door is not 100% set, but it will probably be 80 SEK for Thursday, 100 SEK for Friday, 150 SEK for Saturday and 0 SEK for Sunday. I hope you like the sound of that.

I will keep you posted about the ticket situation, on the event page and on here.

(If you're playing/dj-ing at the festival, the entrance to the other days is voulantary.)

Below is the preliminarly schedule.

All the best and see you soon,

Mattias

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THURSDAY, Landet
20.00 COLIN CLARY (US)
20.45 THE MARE
21.30 ALLO DARLIN' (UK)
22.15 THE SMITTENS (US)
DJ: Åsa (Cosy Den Bergsjön)

FRIDAY, Gula Villan (Haninge)
18.00 MOUSTACHE OF INSANITY (UK)
18.45 SOCK PUPPETS (DK)
19.30 TBA
20.15 ROADSIDE POPPIES (UK/DK)
21.00 CULKIN
22.00 TIGER TAPE
23.00 HANINGEALLIANSEN
DJ: Padde (Snap-Tight)

SATURDAY, Gula Villan (Haninge)
17.00 TOP SOUND
18.00 DE MONTEVERT
19.00 THE GARLANDS
20.00 STELLA ROCKET
21.00 A SMILE AND A RIBBON
22.00 MOLE SAYS HI
23.00 SODA FOUNTAIN RAG (NO)
DJ: TBA

SUNDAY, Southside's top floor
15.00 NILS FOLKE VALDEMAR SINGS
15.45 KINDERGARTEN KISSES
16.30 BOBBYPINROCKER
17.15 THE BASEBALL FIELD
18.00 LITTLE BIG ADVENTURE
18.45 WHITE TOWN (UK)
DJ: TBA

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Update 26th of July:

I've decided to lower the ticket prices for Cosy Den 2010. This is because of a slightly better economic situation for me personally right now - I can therefor have a smaller margin in the budget.
Admission for Thursday is now 60 SEK instead of 80 SEK, and on Friday the tickets cost 80 instead of 100.
If you haven't booked tickets for Friday and Saturday yet, it's time to do so - there are just 28 tickets left for Friday and 19 left for Saturday.
Please send an e-mail to thirdfloorfireescapeview (at) gmail.com along with your name and which day/s you'd like to come, and that's it!

Colin Clary!

COLIN CLARY



Whilst not being busy with the Smittens and Let's Whisper, one of the most likeable persons in today's world of indie pop also makes good songs on his own. Colin Clary's tunes are cheerful and feelgood but also witty and puzzling. See, now I've lined up quite a few of the qualities that together make pop songs the way we like our pop songs served. Thus, top notch labels WeePop! and Asaurus have released records by him. This will be Colin's first - and perhaps only - solo gig of the summer half-year. I could hardly think of a better way to open the first night of this year's festival. Yow!, as I'm quite sure Colin would have put it.

Soda Fountain Rag!

SODA FOUNTAIN RAG



I've been in love with Soda Fountain Rag for several years. And I've been wanting to put on their first gig in Sweden for about as long. Having performed in many other European countries, it's certainly about time they come and play for us. Ragnhild Hogstad Jordahl's tunes and lyrics are so spot-on and impossible to resist. When playing live, SFR are also a very nice live trio, who've played much-appreciated gigs in London and Hamburg during the spring. Oh, and I've made a deal with the band that they'll surely have to play a pretty long set now they're finally coming over for an exclusive Swedish date, so Haninge is definitely in for a big treat!

Haningealliansen!

After reading this lovely blog post by the Suburban Kids, I was charmed, and somehow felt I wanted them to be a part of the festival in 2010 as well. But I didn't want too many bands from last year, so I came up with an idea. How about trying to take that whole gang of brilliant Haninge acts and turn them into one big awesome band? They wouldn't have to practice anyway because they know each other so well. The liked the idea - and especially getting the chance to finally perform as the collective that they've been for nearly 15 years, but only shown the outside world through the Lötkärr compilation albums. The name comes from a song by legendary instrumental outfit Chloë, and Haningealliansen are...

Johan Hedberg
Indoor Face
Jap Adaptors
Lilla Gubben
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
Springfactory

...more or less - we'll see. If we're really lucky they may even be in the mood for a Chloë song or two. I'm not sure what's going to happen during this gig, and they certainly don't know either, but I have a strong feeling it's going to be quite something.