In 2008 I found her by accident due YouTube when I was searching for some online tutorials in Swedish and Swedish folk songs. I could not understand a word what she was singing, but I really liked her sound and so I started to translate the Swedish subtitles of her songs. Her lyrics are very poetic and full of metaphors, was not easy to make sense of the translation, but very interesting to discover her texts in that way. As I decided to move to Stockholm I immediately had a look at her tour dates and found the concert in Långholmsparken.
I had no idea how famous she is in Sweden, but I knew that she was performing at the Minnesceremoni in Oslo 2011 – here the link if some wanna listen to her:
http://youtu.be/5p44lGaiDrw
At the concert I was rather surprised about the crowd who was queuing with me. In front of me, next to me, behind me – men with men and women with women were kissing, touching, and hugging each other! I really did not know that Melissa Horn is kind of an iconic figure for the gay and pride movement! Beside these fans the most visitors were women (16 to 40 years) who either were coming with their female friends or obviously forced their now upset partners to come with them ;-)
Because I was there one hour before the official entry time I got the chance to stay in the first row! Next to me very young girlies – later I talked to two of them and found out that they were 17 and 18 years old. Baxk home I was worried about my ‘good’ camera and so I just took my pink Nikon Coolpix with me but then I was regretting it because I had a perfect view *damn*.
Before Melissa Horn started her concert at about 9:30pm, Anna Ternheim was performing. She is a Swedish singer but her lyrics are in English. Here the link to one of her songs:
http://youtu.be/6OhYYGrBiDE
After listening 50min to Anna Ternheim the stage got rebuilt and then, finally, we could listen to a nice concert of Melissa Horn!
Here is the link to my Facebook album with some of the pics I took during the concert:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.598613551867.2054225.38602335&type=3&l=f135919fbe
The two girls I talked to were really nice, and one of them (Erika) celebrated her 17th birthday that day! They both were planning on a one year stay in AUS – with a work and holiday visa - before they start uni here in Stockholm. So they were really curious about what I could tell about Tasmania and Melbourne. I had to write down my favourite places and we exchanged numbers. Because they thought my help was soooo outstanding they hugged me goodbye and didn’t want to let go ;-) They were so sweet and naive as just young girls can be!
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