Lillemanfestivalen

Okay folks, check out the finest festival Sweden has got to offer this summer! May 29th through 31th in the vicinity of Uppsala.

The past
2004. Lilleman is about to enter bootcamp [Military Service] and will miss out on all the festivals. He decides to use the garden at his house in southern Stockholm to stage his own festival, including all the vital parts (the drinking of beer, the making of mud, the living in tents and the general disorder and littering). With a little help from his friends it turns out a success, although Lilleman was the only one actually sleeping in a tent.

The present
Lillemanfestivalen has spawned into a full fledged festival and is relocated.

The lineup
I've made a pick out of the lineup and I believe the three first ones stand a good chance on going international. Enola puts some crying in the crowd. The myspace songlist smells one-step-from-label, The Hyper Actives rips some good rock down the ear channels and The Grand Minor will soothe out those springbreak sores. Another interesting band in line-up is Orkestern, with band members Otto Niklasson Elmerås and Daniel Aldenmark who grew up in my hometown Uddevalla. They've been making music together in different constellations for so long and developed a neat quirky sound easily audible in Orkesterns arrangements.