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2008-12-23 på drift? - new kent song as free download for christmas! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Today a Christmas gift fom kent was posted at kent.nu:
"Kent wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year by giving you a brand new song for free, only available through kent.nu. The song is called "På drift?" (translates to "On the road?") and was recorded at Park Studio December 1-2 2008. An alternative version of the new song will be used in Fiends new anti-bullying tv-spot. The tv-spot was directed by Adam Berg and will premiere on Swedish TV shortly (but you can see it here allready. Read more about Friends and their work at www.friends.se. You can donate to Friends through Swedish PG 90 05 27-3 or BG 900-5273. The song is available in different formats and quality, choose what fits you best. Download the song by right clicking on respective link and choose "save as". The mix was done by Stefan Boman at Park Studio and the master by Henrik Johnsson at Masters of Audio. A unmastered Wav file straight from the mixertable is also availaile at kent.nu if you have a 24 bit/96 kHz soundcard." You will find the original lyrics as well as a translation of "På drift?" / "On the road?" in the kentjunkie.com lyrics section. A BIG thanks to kent for a fantastic year with two tours, new songs and the faboulus box set! As the year comes to an end kentjunkie.com also wants to thank all you devoted kent fans out there. You have visited us more than 50 000 times this year and of course kentjunkie.com will keep feeding you kent-news in English as well as updating the discography and other sections. Keep visiting! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-12-15 kent nominated for a total of six awards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All nominations for the different Swedish music awards of 2008 are now official. This year kent has been nominated for one Grammis, four Rockbjörnen
awards and "The Golden microphone" for best live act at the P3 Guld Gala. You can make your voice heard by voting for kent at the
kentjunkie award section.
The winner of the last kentjunkie.com sweepstake was drawn in november and has now also been located; a big congratulations to Alexey Shelestenko from Moscow, Russia who won the Isola US tour poster. Thanks to kent's manager Martin Roos and Per Lindholm at Sony BMG kentjunkie.com will be able to offer five new kent box promo posters during a spring sweepstake. The sweepstake will run January to March and every other week a new poster will be shipped out. As usual if you are allready signed up for the kentjunkie.com newsletter you are automatically in the sweepstake. If you are not allready a subscriber then go to the subscrition page and register for you chance to win one of the posters. The kentjunkie.com concert section as well as the song section and the song finder has now also been updated with info from the kent box. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-11-25 nominate kent for the rockbjörnen awards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The year is coming to an end and hence it is time to start thinking of music awards for 2008. Until November 27 you can nominate kent for the 2008
Rockbjörnen Award. A given nomination is Swedish Live Act of the year 2008 (category 11) but I guess it is also possible to nominate both for Swedish band
of the year (category 3), maybe Swedish album of the year for the kent box (category 6) and possibly Swedish song of the year for Håll ditt huvud högt
(category 5). You vote in the categories at
Aftonbladet.
The five finalists with the most nominations in each category will be published December 5. From then to January 11 the voting will take place and the
winners will be presented at Cirkus in Stockholm January 22. You can read all about kent's previous awards at the
kentjunkie award section.
As reported before the kent box sold gold (over 20 000 copies) allready in the first day of its release. It went straight to number one on the Swedish record sales chart Sverigetopplistan but has now after three weeks moved down to number 10 after last weeks second place. Not only is kent featured in the new Guitar Hero World Tour edition but this thursday November 27 SingStar will release two kent songs for download in their SingStore letting you pose as Joakim Berg this christmas. The two songs are "Om du var här" and "Kräm (så nära får ingen gå)". A winner of the June-September sweepstake for a vintage Isola US tour poster has ben drawn and e-mailed but has not replied. The winner is a Russian kent-fan so if you live in Russia, check your mailbox! A new kentjunkie sweepstake will be announced shortly. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-11-01 the kent box sold gold in just one day! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kent went historic on the day the box set was released; for the first time ever in Sweden a box release sold gold (20 000 copies) on the first day
of sale! Congratulations kent!
A swedish TV-spot for the box-issue is now also available for viewing at the official YouTube kent-channel. It features Swedish documentary legend Hans Willius as speaker: Yet again a cover of a kent song has surfaced. This time it's a Polish band called Papa D who made their own interpretation of the kent song FF. The name of the song and the lyrics are all new and in Polish. Good or bad? You be the judge.. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-10-30 the kent box 1991-2008 has been released! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday on October 29 the fantastic kent box arrived to the stores in the Nordic countries. Some of the fans who preordered the box got it on the
28th. I was lucky enough to get a copy on the 28th and I have now put the box in the
kentjunkie.com discography
where you will find all details about it.
This is one of the most interesting kent releases so far. I don't think anyone ever thought we would get to see a kent box this soon although many has
wished for it. Not only does the 10 CD kent collectors box contain all of kent's albums but also demos (some dating back to the pre-kent years), unreleased
songs and b-sides. In all 133 tracks of which 15 are previously unreleased. This is a huge chunk of music and pretty much a sum up of kent's career so
far. In the box there is also a book of 96 pages containing private photos from kent's career, interview text by Jan Gradvall, examples of setlists
through the years, a list of all kent's concerts going all the way back to 1991 and of course all lyrics. In the press statement prior to the release the
band describes the box like this:"We are very proud to be able to present a half time sum up of our so called history in this box set. Our traumatic youth, doubtful maturity and our reluctant middle age. 133 songs, among them a lot of demos and things non of us in the band has heard in many years, or things we didn't even knew existed. To us all these songs most of all represent a document of time. Incomplete fragments of the lies we once built our self image of. There are so incredibly many memories and stories both fun, pathetic, bizarre and sad linked to these notes. Thanks to all of you who have listened, bought our records and visited our concerts" The early pre-kent demo's of Jones & Giftet and Havsänglar have been restored and sound really good. Especially the Havsänglar songs have really come to life as very nice songs. The three demos on the Isola CD are really great. It's nice to hear the original demo for Alpha, a song that later was reworked and released as b-side in Joakim Berg's side project Paus under the name Sammansvärjningen. The Saker man ser demo has a totally different and very nice tempo making it really interesting. How ever the Din skugga demo is awesome and really stands out as one of the best bonus features of this box. We get an English demo version of Duett plus a unreleased English song meant for Hagnesta Hill, both nice songs but the demo version of Socker feels even more interesting, especially with it's different lyrics. The 2 Meter Sessions live versions are very nice too but it's the live recording of the unreleased song Håll ditt huvud högt that really makes you want to hear more live recordings from kent. It really sounds fantastic, even better than when I was there listening live! The Ingenting demo gives a fun comparison to the final single but it is really the bonus material from the 90's that makes my heart tick when listening to this box. All in all it is a very nice box, a must have if you are in to kent's music. In fact it's a bargain. If you haven't already ordered it Bengans.se offers a multilingual order form and world wide shipping. If you live in Sweden or if you are planning a trip here kent will be signing the box Thursday November 6 at 12:00 in Åhléns City in Stockholm and at 18:00 at Bengans in Gothenburg. 
Also if you live in Stockholm this Friday a new exhibition of rock art opens in Stockholm featuring paintings of kent.
Christina Englund
has produced new paintings of Kent, Depeche Mode, Marilyn Manson, Kraftwerk, Queen and David Bowie. The exhibition
Saker man ser - Rockkonst:08 at Galleri Kocks
starts with a vernissage Friday october 31 and is then open until November 4th.
If you have a band there is still a chance to enter the Park Studio demo contest if you hurry as they have prolonged the last day to sign up; it is now October 31st. The winner will get to spend five days in kent's recording studio Park Studio/The psych bunker in Stockholm, Sweden together with Sami Sirviö and Stefan Boman! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-09-23 kent box 1991-2008 will be released october 29 2008! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Absolutely fantastic news!! Today tuesday September 23rd the following pressrelease was sent out by kent:
"KENT RELEASES COLLECTORS BOX 1991-2008 On October 29th "Box 1991-2008" will be released, it contains: Kent (1995) Verkligen (1996) Isola (1997) Hagnesta Hill (1999) B-sidor 95-00 (2000) Vapen & ammunition (2002) Du & jag döden (2005) The Hjärta & Smärta EP (2005) Tillbaka till samtiden (2007) 26 bonus tracks 1991-2008 of which 15 never before released tracks including "Håll ditt huvud högt" (live, Eskilstuna, summer 08). A total of 133 tracks + one 96 page book containing an interview by Jan Gradvall, private photos, tour history and lyrics. "We are very proud to be able to present a half time sum up of our so called history in this box set. Our traumatic youth, doubtful maturity and our reluctant middle age. 133 songs, among them a lot of demos and things non of us in the band has heard in many years, or things we didn't even knew existed. To us all these songs most of all represent a document of time. Uncomplete fragments of the lies we once built our self image of. There are so incredibly many memories and stories both fun, pathetic, bizarre and sad linked to these notes. Thanks to all of you who have listened, bought our records and visited our concerts", greetings - kent. The box is released simultaneously all over the Nordics October 29." The 10 CD box set with all new artwork will retail for only about 399 SEK in Sweden. The 15 previously unreleased bonustracks are unreleased songs and demos from kents career dating all the way back to when kent were Jones & Giftet and Havsänglar! Another 11 songs are non album B-sides released after 2000. Check out the complete track list at the kentjunkie.com kent 1991-2008 box page! Could there be a better christmas gift? THANK YOU kent!! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-09-20 win five days in kent's studio! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes its true, kent has together with the Swedish music magazine
Studio
put up a demo contest on the Park Studio
homepage.
You send in your demo and a jury consisting of the members of kent plus Stefan Boman (kent's studio technician) will then choose the best demo. The winner will get to spend five days in kent's recording studio Park Studio/The psych bunker in Stockholm, Sweden together with Sami Sirviö and Stefan Boman! Rules: - The song must be your own. - The band/artist has to be unsigned and not connected to any record company or label. - The demo must be in mp3 or aac format. - The file size can not be more than 5Mb. Last day to enter the contest is October 17 2008. Write a few lines about yourself / the band and don’t forget to put down your contact info. Then send the demo to the e-mail address on the competition website. On September 24 the Olle Ljungstöm tribute record will be released and the complete track list has now been announced. The missing song was Vatten, sol och ängar performed by Lisa Miskovsky. You can listen to Joakims, Lisas and the others artists songs on the Olle Ljungström MySpace page. The kent single Vy från ett luftslott (punks jump up remix) is now number three in the Swedish radio P3s chart show Tracks. You can vote for the song in next weeks chart between 14.00 today Saturday and Monday 14.00 (GMT +2). In a recent radio show it was also announced that kent now has the second highest number of accumulated votes from listeners since the Tracks chart show started in 1985 (only beaten by Madonna). Keep voting! 
News in the discography; thanks to the Dutch kent fan Bas a new object from the release of the English version of Isola has been added to the
kentjunkie.com discography.
It is a Dutch pressing of the Excerpts from Isola promo cassette that has somehow escaped the kentjunkie radar. It has the same track list as the UK
version of the promo cassette but a different catalogue number; KENT 002 (yes it's the same catalogue number as on the UK 747 CDS promo). It also has a
slightly different back with Dutch text as seen on the pic. It is now in the kentjunkie.com collection and since it hasn’t popped up until now I have
given it the availability rating 6 (super rare). Big thanks to Bas for finding this issue. Apart from including this issue in the discography I have also
rearranged the order of the English Isola releases in the discography slightly for better overview.
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2008-08-21 kent in guitar hero world tour! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday this press release was published at
kent’s official web site kent.nu:
“Kent conquer the world together with Guitar Hero World Tour This fall the much anticipated tv-game Guitar Hero World Tour is released. Today it is official: one of the Nordic bands in Guitar Hero World Tour is kent. The band contributes with the song VinterNoll2. - We are very proud that kent is in the game, says Nikke Lidner, responsible for Guitar Hero in the Nordics. We had a long list of Nordic bands that we wanted to include in Guitar Hero World Tour, and kent was number one on that list. The band themselves choose what song they wanted to be in the game, and that makes everything even better. VinterNoll2 will be include in all versions of Guitar Hero World Tour, even the US and Australian issues. - This is a different and fun way for the band to reach a new audience with their music. It is also fun for all fans that now can play VinterNol2 themselves, says Per Lindholm, A&R at kent’s record company RCA/Sony BMG. - Guitar Hero is the TV-game series that has reached one billion dollar in turnover in least amount of time, so we can count on millions of Guitar Hero-fans world wide to enjoy VinterNoll2, Nikke Lidner continues. As of the release of Guitar Hero World Tour you will for the first time be able to play as an entire band with authentic drums (including cymbals and pressure sensitive drums), microphone, guitar and base. Together with a music studio it will be possible to compose, record and edit as well as share your own rock songs through GHTunes. The other songs that has now been revealed: Anouk - Good God Beatsteaks - Hail to the Freaks Coldplay - Shiver Hush Puppies - You're Gonna say yeah Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way Lost Prophets - Rooftops The Enemy - Aggro Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez Michael Jackson - Beat It Radio Futura - Escuela De Calor Stuck in the sound - Toy Boy Tokio Hotel – Monsoon “ There is now doubt what will be found under lots of kent fan's Christmas trees this winter. 
Also yesterday Warner Music released some more info regarding the upcoming Olle ljungstöm tribute
"Andra Sjunger Olle Ljungström"
that will feature Joakim Berg among others. The producer Robert Qwarforth has chosen 12 of his favourite songs by Olle Ljungström ans Heinz Liljendahl
and together with some of Swedens best singers some very personal versions are delivered. Among the contributors you find Jocke Berg, Thomas Di Leva, Lisa Miskovsky, Eric Gadd and Bosse Sundström.
This is what Joakim Berg says about his relationship to Olle Ljungström: “Once in the dawn of times a person called my apartment in central Stockholm stating he was Olle Ljungström. He went on saying that he wanted to thank me for a song that I had written that he loved. Of course I did not believe him since 1: Why would a living legend even care about me and our still relatively unknown band? 2: How would he have gotten my phone number (I was unlisted)? 3: What could I ever write that could mean something to one of Sweden’s extremely few genius rock stars? When I realised that it really was Olle Ljungström I guess I stuttered a pathetic thank you and that he had meant very much to me. Your memory fails as it always does when you are baffled. There are lots of things I should have said about his music. About why he is so extremely excellent, trendsetting and significant. What Olle said I will never forget and it is still the best compliment I have ever received." The album "Andra Sjunger Olle Ljungström" include the following tracks: Joakim Berg - Nåt för dom som väntar Love Olzon - Jag och min far Thomas Di Leva - En apa som liknar dig Sara Isaksson - Som man bäddar Alf - Hur långt kan det gå Eric Gadd - Som du Ane Brun/Emil Jensen - Vissa funktioner Andreas Mattsson - Du och jag Uno Svenningsson - Kaffe och en cigarrett Tomas Andersson Wij - Med eller utan Bosse Sundström - Tivoli Lisa Miskovsky – (song not revealed yet) "Andra Sjunger Olle Ljungström" will be released by Warner Music September 24. Olle Ljungström can also be seen in "K special" on Swedish SVT this winter as the film maker and illustrator Jacob Frössén has made a documentary about him. 
Since last week you can find fantastic 360 degree live photos at
kent.nu.
The 360 photos are spherical panorama photographies shot during kent's concert in Eskilstuna July 21 by Per Hjalmarsson och Mattias von Corswant from
WEC360. The photos have been carefully patched together to make three dimensional photographic cubes. Don´t miss it!
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2008-08-04 kent says bye for a while + concert review | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Saturday August 2nd kent did their closing gig of this summer’s tour at Ankkarock in Finland. The last concert in Sweden was in Norrköping August 1st and
you will find my review of that gig at the
kentjunkie.com review page.
The concert section has also been updated with new setlists
and in the kentjunkie.com concert gallery
you will find new live photos. A special thanks to Christoffer Kjellberg for letting me include his kent photos at
musicphoto.se in the gallery.
Also, be sure to take a look at
Oskar Zander’s photos from Helsingborg
as he got the opportunity to photograph the entire concert (usually accredited photographers only get to shoot photos during the first three songs).
The kent web mini series "Stjärnorna i Psykbunkern” with kent in their studio has also come to it's end. You can watch all 25 episodes plus 5 bonus episodes at the PSL Blog. As reported earlier kent has already started planning the making of a new album. In a recent interview Martin Sköld said the band will have some time of, write new material and record a new album and that it make take a couple of years before the band goes on tour again. When it comes to when exactly we can expect new material from kent only time can tell. Of course kentjunkie.com will still keep feeding you kent news but I will also take the opportunity to develop the different sections of the website. Any feedback regarding this site is welcome through the contact page. The kentjunkie.com newsletter will of course still be sent out when there is major news or updates. If you haven´t already subscribed to the newsletter register now and you have the chance to win a kent poster. A big thanks to kent for a great album and 66 fantastic concerts! I would also like to thank all you fans for supporting the best band in the world. Keep visiting! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-07-15 concert reviews + krunegård + new unreleased song! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The past two weeks kentjunkie.com has been on vacation, hence there are tons of news and updates:
The kent summer tour has started. The tour premier at the Peace & Love Festival in Borlänge got great reviews in the Swedish press and the fans were lyrical. You will find kentjunkie's own reviews for the concert in Stockholm and Eskilstuna on the kentjunkie.com review page. Of course the kentjunkie.com set list section has now been updated and you will also find new concert photos by Rockfoto.nu in the kentjunkie.com concert gallery. July 12 it was announced at kent.nu that Markus Krunegård will join kent in Norrköping August 1st. Markus Krunegårds album Markusevangeliet might very well be the Swedish album of the year 2008. It has gotten great response among kent fans and many of them has been hoping for Markus as one of the supporting acts during the kent summer tour. Just like Thåström and Håkan Hellström Markus will do his own concert before kent. As Markus himself is from Norrköping it might be a somewhat special concert. It is also probably the last kent concert in Sweden for a long while. kentjunkie.com plans to attend the concert to give you a review. During the summer tour kent has been playing a brand new and unreleased song called Håll ditt huvud högt. You will find the original and translated lyrics of this new song in the kentjunkie.com lyrics section. Also in a recent interview with DN På stan Joakim Berg said the following when he was asked when the next album will be released: "-We are actually planning to start working with the next album almost directly after the summer tour. We have been talking about me and Martin, or maybe the whole band, going away somewhere to do the basics for new material". Great news! July 2 the Vy från ett luftslott (Punks Jump Up Remix) was physically released in Sweden. You will now find it in the kentjunkie.com discography. The winner of the kent fan video contest for Vy från ett luftslott (Punks Jump Up Remix) at the official YouTube kent channel has also been declared at kent.nu. Big congratulations to Lars Lind, Erik Lind och Kajsa Engdahl from Östersund in Sweden who made the winning video and won merchandise, VIP concert tickets and a meet and greet with kent. The video is now the official video for Vy från ett luftslott (Punks Jump Up Remix) and has been sent out to the TV-stations. You can watch it in the kentjunkie.com video section. The kent web mini series "Stjärnorna i Psykbunkern” with kent in their studio keeps rolling at the PSL Blog . Don't miss it! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-06-25 loads of exciting kent news!! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Two days left to the kent summer tour premier at the Peace & Love festival in Borlänge Sweden and there are loads of exciting kent news:
65 contributions have been uploaded by kent fans for the video competition. The band says they're very happy to see the commitment and the creative joy behind the videos and have now picked five finalists. All kent fans that are already registered at the official kent forum at kent.nu can participate in the vote off. The winner will be presented June 26 and will receive VIP-tickets to seven kent concerts this summer, a merchandise package and will also get to meet kent backstage. The winning video will also be the official video for the Vy från ett luftslott Punks Jump Up remix and it will be sent out to MTV, ZTV and other TV-stations. The remix will be released as physical one track CD single July 2. July 7 a web TV series about kent shot in their studio Psykbunkern in Stockholm called "Stjärnorna i Psykbunkern" will premiere at the Swedish public service music TV blog site PSL. Per Sinding-Larsen is one of the three persons behind the project and he was also one of the persons behind the 2001 kent documentary "Så nära får igen gå – Ett år med kent". Around 25 short episodes of the kent web TV series will be published at the PSL blog continuously during the summer. Fans in Sweden can win one of 12 tickets to the sneak preview of the series in Stockholm June 30 by joining a competition at the PSL blog. Since the Norwegian Quart festival has been cancelled kent will instead be playing at Skralfestivalen in Grimstad, Norway July 10. Tickets can be bought at Billetservice. For those who already bought week passes for the Quart Festival the passes can be traded for tickets to Storåfestivalen, Hove Festivalen or Arvika festivalen. The members of the Swedish electro band Mobile Homes have put Sapporo 72 aside to do a new Mobile Homes album and Sami Sirviö from kent has produced the first single "Close". The album will be released this fall and will be produced by Sami and former Imperiet member Christian Falk. The re-released Taiwan issue of Isola can now be found in the kentjunkie.com discography. Just like the last time it's the European standard version of the English album repackaged with a Taiwanese OBI-strip. There is a new interview with kent made by Swedish news agency TT Spectra during their tour rehersals. It will run in lots of Swedish newspapers and the interview was also filmed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-06-16 kent single for free download, fans invited to do the video | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday night kent released a new single for free download at their official website
kent.nu.
The single is a remix of Vy från ett luftslott made by
Punks Jump Up.
On kent.nu and through their
official YouTube channel
they also encourage fans to make their own video to the remix. By uploading your video as a video response to kent's message on YouTube you enter a
contest. kent has picked a very Swedish theme for this video contest: "lillördag", that means "little Saturday". It was originally a weekday night when
domestic or household workers had their only night off and could go out to enjoy themselves. It was usually Wednesdays and the expression still lives on
in Sweden. The video can only contain your own material. The contest is open for video responses from 16th to 23rd of June and then three finalists will
be picked by kent for fans to vote on. June 26th the video voted winner by the fans will be announced. Apart from the glory the winner will also get
VIP-tickets to kent's summer concerts, a merchandise package and he or she also get's to meet the band! Whether Vy från ett luftslott also will be
released as standard CD single has not yet been confirmed by kent.
More kent news: ever since Du & Jag Döden was released in Taiwan kent has been more popular than ever within the Taiwanese indie community. Sony BMG
Taiwan currently run a promotion sale called
Rock N'Roll Hall of Fame
where they picked out 51 classic
AMG
rated albums and Isola is one of these albums. Hence the English version of Isola was rereleased in Taiwan in May. Just like when Isola was originally
released in Taiwan it's a repackaged import but now with a completely new Taiwanese OBI-strip. The Taiwanese Sony BMG promotion is limited and runs until
July 31st. This new repackage issue of Isola will be included in the kentjunkie.com discography shortly.
The winner's of the prolonged kentjunkie.com spring sweepstake for five copies of the since long out of print FF/Vinternoll2 single can now be found on the previous winners page. In October a winner of a Isola US tour poster will be announced. If you aren't already a receiver of the kentjunkie.com newsletter register here for your chance to win. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-06-09 quart festival cancelled and kent fans hit the museum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Summer is here and now it's only 18 days left to the kent summer tour premiere! There are still
tickets left
if you want to see kent with Håkan Hållström or Thåström.
Unfortunately this Friday the Norwegian Quart-festival announced that this year's festival has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. This probably means that kent won't be playing in Kristiansand but it has not yet been confirmed by kent. The Quart festival has filed for bankruptcy and there is yet no information about what will happen with tickets that are already sold. On Thursday June 12 an exhibition documenting kent fans will premiere at Östergötlands länsmuseum in Linköping. The exhibition is called Du & jag kent and Martin Roos will attend the opening. Kentjunkie.com has now been online for over a year and has now had more than 40 000 visits thanks to all of you. To celebrate this the spring sweepstake has been prolonged and no less than five copies of the since long out of print double single FF/Vinternoll2 is now waiting for their winners. All winners have been contacted trough e-mail, so check your mailbox. All recipients of the kentjunkie.com newsletter will have a new chance to win as a Isola US Tour poster will be sent out to a lucky winner in October. If you haven't already signed up for the newsletter sign up here for your chance to win and tell all your kent-friends to sign up before the end of September. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-05-12 thåström joins kent on tour! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Today it was announced that former Ebba Grön and Imperiet singer Joakim Thåström will join kent on two of their concerts this summer. Thåström will do
his "almost accoustic" concert before kent's gig in Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Also today Håkan Hellström was confirmed for yet another gig together with kent this summer. He will give a concert before kent at Strömsholmen in Eskilstuna. The only kent concert this summer with no confirmed supporting act is now Norrköping. The concert in Strömstad has been moved from Bojakilen to Strömsvallen. Check out all the tour details for the summer in the kentjunkie tour section. Unfortunatey on Saturday Generation EX dropped from number four to number seven in the Tracks chart list. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-05-05 generation ex climbs in the swedish tracks chart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This weekend Generation EX climbed from number five to number four in the Swedish
Tracks chart list. To vote for kent in next weekends chart go to the
Tracks website and vote before 14.00 GMT +1 today Monday.
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2008-05-01 three kent singles in the norwegian hit40 charts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Right now kent has all three singels from Tillbaka till samtiden at the Norwegian chart list Hit40. Generation EX is currently number five in the Swedish
Tracks chart list.
During April it was also confirmed that Håkan Hellström will do a joint show with kent in Strömstad as well as in Helsingborg. It is now also stated that they will do separate concerts at the same stage. Check out all the tour details for the summer in the kentjunkie tour section. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-04-11 håkan hellström joins kent on the helsingborg concert in july | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The kent news keep droping in. Yesterday it was announced that
Håkan Hellström
will join kent at the concert at Sofiero Castle in Helsingborg July 23. If they will do two totally separate gigs or if they will do any joint
performances has not been revealed. Tickets will be released today April 11 09.00 GMT 1+ at
ticnet.se.
There is no other infomation yet about joint concerts or support on the other kent gigs in Sweden this summer. However yesterday Danish iByen.dk revealed that kent will have no less than three bands supporting their concert in Copenhagen June 26: The Storm, Marvel Hill and Hard Candy. Tickets for the Copenhagen tickets are relesed April 11 11.00 GMT +1 at www.billetnet.dk. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-04-10 new kent summer tourdates includes copenhagen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday the single Generation EX was physically released in Sweden and hence the
kentjunkie discography has been updated with the new single. You can buy the physical single
at bengans.se for example, you can view their site in english and they ship worldwide.
April 7 another three concerts were added to the kent summer tour; Strömstad, Helsingborg and Copenhagen. Checkout all the tour details for the summer at the tour section. Did you know that kent has released 177 recorded songs since 1995? The kentjunkie song section has now been updated with all the songs fom Tillbaka till samtiden and it's singles. Do you know of all the other 157 songs from kent's career? You can also find out what issues to find each song at in the kentjunkie song finder. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-04-07 det kanske kommer en förändring translated lyrics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Today Generation EX, the third single from the kent album Tillbaka till samtiden, was digitally released in Europe. You can buy it as download at
for example cdon.com,
bengans.se or at itunes. The single will be pysically released April 9 and the instore price for the
physical single will be only 29 SEK in Sweden.
The single contains a FANTASTIC new bonus track called "Det kanske kommer en förändring" (translates to "A change might come"). You will now find an english translation of the lyrics to this song in the kentjunkie lyrics section. The single also contains a cool remix of Berlin by Simon Brenting. It's a hard and sacred remix of the original song. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-04-06 watch the new generation ex video | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
As of yesterday you can watch the new
Generation Ex video at www.kent.nu. it is produced by the
Popcore collective and features Camela and kent. The video was recorded in kent's studio
the psych bunker/park studio.
You can also vote for Generation EX at the Tracks single chart until monday GMT 14.00 +1. All setlists from the spring tour can now be found in the kentjunkie concert section. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-04-03 generation ex is the new single from kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Generation EX will be the third single from the kent album Tillbaka till samtiden. It will contain a brand new bonus track called "Det kanske kommer en
förändring" (translates to "A change might come") and a remix of Berlin by Simon Brenting. The single will be released digitally April 7 and
pysically April 9. The instore price for the physical single will be only 29 SEK in Sweden. The video is directed by the
Popcore collective that also directed the Columbus video and it will premiere as "Fresh!" on
Swedish MTV April 7.
If you havent seen Max Adolfssons fanastic photos from the gig in Malmö March 23 check them out at rockfoto.nu. There are also some nice photos by Mikael Olsson there from the Sundsvall concert. Setlists will be updated shortly. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-03-07 yet another kent summer concert announced | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yesterday a new kent concert for this summer was announced at Lejongropen in Norrköping Sweden August 1. Tickets will be released at
www.ticnet.se today March 7 at 09.00 GMT +1. Read all details about the kent summer
tour in the kentjunkie tour section. You will also find the setlist from yesterdays kent concert in Örnsköldsvik in the kentjunkie
concert section.
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2008-03-06 new setlists and a review of the eskilstuna concert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There are now new setlists for the last six concerts in the concert section. including the concert in their home town
Eskilstuna. It was the first time in over five years kent played in their home town. You can read a somewhat late review of the concert in the
kentjunkie review section. Also check out photos from the concert at
rockfoto.nu and have a look at some other pics from the concert at the
Eskilstuna Kuriren website.
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2008-02-19 three more scandinavian festivals confirmed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It has now been confirmed that kent will play Nibe Festival in Denmark and Ruisrock plus Ankkarock in Finland this summer. Dates and venues for Stockholm,
Gothenburg and Eskilstuna has also been announced along with dates for the Swedish festivals. However the concert in Strömstad has not yet been confirmed
and is unsure for now. Dates, details and ticket info for the kent summer tour can be found in the kentjunkie tour section.
Tickets for Stockholm, Gothenburg and Eskilstuna will be released Thursday February 21 08.00 GMT 1+ at ticnet.se.
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2008-02-18 press release: kent announces 10 more concerts this summer! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UPDATED
A new press release has been published at kent.nu:"Kent are currently on a Nordic winter tour and after the last concert in Malmö March 23 the band will have done 48 concerts. A total of 130 000 tickets has been sold so far. Today it is also decided that kent will do a total of 14 concerts this summer. Ten festivals will be visited, and three of them in Sweden. Apart from the festivals kent will do four concerts of their own in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Strömstad and Eskilstuna. On these four concerts kent will have supporting acts. Tickets for these four concerts will be released Thursday February 21 08.00 GMT +1. Kents latest album "Tillbaka till samtiden" was 2007's most sold album in Sweden and the band was recently awarded two Grammis, one Rockbjörn and one P3 Guld award." The three Swedish festivals has now been confirmed; Peace & Love Borlänge June 27, Arvika fesivalen July 4 and Storsjöyran Östersund July 31. Ruisrock, Nibe Festival and Ankkarock will probably be the three other festivals but are still unconfirmed. All confirmed details including the already known Norwegian festivals of the summertour can be found here. Regarding the concert in Strömstad kents manager Martin Roos says the details have not bee 100% confirmed yet hence the tickets for this concert will NOT be released February 21 but later. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-02-17 new setlists from this weekends concerts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The setlist from this weekends concerts can now be found in the kentjunkie concert section.
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2008-02-12 new setlists, pics and more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thursday last week kent played their first concert in Sweden on this years spring tour. The gig was in Linköping and you can watch pictures from the gig at
rockfoto.nu.
The setlist from the concert along with setlists from the other shows last week can now be found in the kentjunkie
concert section. You can now also find the setlist for
Rock Fest Haugesund 2006 there thanks to Robert who was kind enough to send it to me. Big thanks!
You can now also find kent's performance from the QX gala on Youtube. Last weeks issue of Situation Sthlm (sold by and in favour of the homeless people of Stockholm) featured the only Swedish interview with kent made before they started this years spring tour. The issue (no. 128) can be ordered by contacting the magazine. Swedish artist Lasse Lindh frequently publishes recorded covers on his website and at the moment you can find a cover of Utan dina andetag for free downloading there. Just right click and save the file from his website. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-02-07 kent performed at the QX Gala monday night | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monday night the Swedish
gay magazine QX
held their annual award show at Cirkus in Stockholm. The gala award people who have contributed to the Swedish gay
community in different ways along with awards for book, movie, song and artist of the year. As always there were a number of secret entertainment acts and
kent was one of the bands. They only did one song: Elefanter. Kent was also nominated in the category Artist of the year but did not win.
On february 28th kent are going to play in their home town Eskilstuna for the first time since 2002 and Raw Bar arranges a kent after party at the bar Harrys in downtown Eskilstuna where The Ark will be DJs. Tickets to this party can be bought through Ticnet. You can now find setlists for the latest kent concerts in the kentjunkie concert section. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-01-27 setlists for the concerts on the 25th and 26th | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On Saturday the kent single Columbus climbed from numer three to number two in the Tracks chart show on radio P3. Help
vote
kent to number one before Monday 13.00 GMT.
You can now also find setlists for the Stavanger and Bergen concerts in the kentjunkie concert section. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-01-25 kent won yet another rockbjörn! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday the 29th Rockbjörnen Award gala took place at Hovet in Stockholm. The gala was webcasted and kent was nominated for four awards (best Swedish
group, album, song and live act of 2007) ad they won one award; best Swedish album 2007. As kent is touring in Norway they couldn't accept the award
personally and a
pre-recorded video clip was shown instead. Joakim said: "We are very glad
for this our tenth Rockbjörn Award and we want to thank all of you who have voted, seen our shows and bought our records. We love you from the bottom of
our hearts. Thank you very much. Peace". Read more details about the
awards kent has won in the kentjunkie award section.
You can find the Arendal setlist from last nights kent gig in the kentjunkie concert section. The concert section has been updated yet again with some new info from Henrik at kent.nu. If you have any info on concerts or setlists missing in the concert section please contact me. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-01-24 setlist from the kent tour premiere in ås, norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday kent opened their spring tour at Studentsammfunnet in Ås, Norway with Swedish electro act Familjen as support. The setlist consisted of songs
mainly from Tillbaka till Samtiden, Du & Jag Döden and Vapen & Ammunition plus a dash of Hagnesta Hill and Isola. You can take a look at the
Ås setlist in the kentjunkie
concert section.
Apart from the setlist from Ås another 21 older setlists has been added to the concert section. A big thanks to Jonas Du Rietz for sending me these additional setlists. With a little help from you all the concert section will be even more correct. Keep sending me those missing setlists. Tonight its time for the Rockbjörnen Awards gala where kent are nominated for four awards. Since kent has a concert in Norway the same evening they will probably not attend the gala but we hope kent brings home all four awards. You can watch the gala webcast at the Rockbjörnen website at 19.00 GMT tonight. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-01-19 kent won group of the year at the p3 guld gala! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday kent won the Group of the year 2007 award at the
2008 P3 Guld gala.
Their manager
Martin Roos collected the award
and said that kent
couldn't be there in person because they are rehearsing for their spring tour but they sent a big thanks to P3 and all the fans who voted for them. Next
award show coming up is the
Rockbjörnen Awards
January 24 where kent is nominated for four awards.
Also yesterday the kent song Ingenting was featured in the Swedish edition of Let's Dance at TV4. A good or a bad interpretation of the song? See it yourself. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-01-16 kent sold most albums in sweden 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The over all Swedish chartlists for 2007 has been presented and "Tillbaka till samtiden" was the best selling album in Sweden 2007 (excluding compilations)
with it's 145 000 sold copies (including downloads).
Today is the last day to vote for kent in the Rockbjörnen Awards and on Friday its time for the P3 Guld gala where kent is nominated for Group of the year. The P3 Guld gala is broadcasted live in P3 at 20.30 GMT +1 and it will be televised in SVT1 at 21.30 GMT +1. The kentjunkie.com concert section has now been updated with lots of new setlists. There is now 127 setlists in the concert section and with your help there can be even more. If you have a setlist that is'nt featured in the concert section please send it to me and I will include it in the list. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008-01-10 kent won two grammis awards! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First of all let me wish you a good new kent year and thank you for 2007. Thanks to you kentjunkie.com has had more than 20 000 visits since the site was
launced in the end of May 2007! I'm glad to see there are kent fans all over the world. All your positive feedback is greatly appreciated. I'm sure 2008
will be a great kent year, the band keeps touring and kentjunkie.com will keep serving you kent news and info. There are lots of kent news already so
lets dig into it:
Yesterday it was time for the Swedish 2008 Grammis gala where kent was nominated for five awards. They received two awards: Group of the year and Album of the year. The award show was televised and kent was represented at the gala by Jocke Berg and Martin Sköld. They said they were very satisfied with the award for Group of the year and thanked the rest of the band, Harri, Martin Roos, Adam Berg and the record company. When receiving the Album of the year award Martin said "thanks to all who love us and thanks to all who hates us, you really push us forward". Also Joakim dedicated the award to Sandra Nordin, who is kent's PR-machinery. 
Traditionally a jury has decided who got the awards but this years the publics votes has been added to the jury votes in some categories. The public
votes won kent their awards, with jury votes alone kent wouldn't have won any of the price. In other words your votes are important! A big thanks to all
fans who voted and congratulations kent! Read all the details about the Grammis Awards and other award shows in the
kentjunkie.com award section and don't forget to vote for kent in the Rockbjörnen Awards!
January 4 a new merchandise shop was launched at www.kent.nu. In the webshop you can order the kent merchandise from the ongoing tour for shipping worldwide! Check it out, there's lots of nice Tillbaka till samtiden merchandise there! The sweepstakes at kentjunkie.com continues. Winners of the November and December sweepstakes can be found at the newsletter subscription page. During January-February three copies of the since long out of print double CD single FF/Vinternoll2 are at stake. If you already subscribe to the kentjunkie.com newsletter you are automatically qualified for all sweepstakes and you don't need to sign up again. Haven't subscribed yet? Do it now for you chance to win nice things at kentjunkie.com! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-12-14 columbus video and kent tour dates for the summer released | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There are lots of kent news from the last couple of days:
Wednesday December 12 four concert dates in Norway this summer was released:
July 3 Kristiansand, Norway, Quart festival July 17 Tønsberg, Norway, Slottsfjell festival July 18 Molde, Norway, International Jazzfestival July 19 Tromsø, Norway, Bukta festival Read more about the summer tour and how to get tickets in the new kentjunkie tour section (the Norwegian tickets has already been released). This probably also means that there will be more Scandinavian concert dates for the summer revealed soon. Will we maybe see kent play both Roskilde and Hultsfred for the first time in 10 years this summer? No information about any other dates has been released yet though. It is getting obvious that kent are really keen on touring right now, they have not announced this many concerts since 2002. Yesterday the video for the new single Columbus was released. This time kent has used the Popcore collective to produce the video. You can watch the video at the official kent channel at Youtube. 
Last weekend the new kent single Columbus went straight to number 1 at the Swedish chart list
Tracks.
On Saturday we get to know if Columbus stays in the top. Voting for Tracks is open Saturday to Monday.
Nominations for Grammis, Rockbjörnen and P3 Guld are now finished and kent are nominated for seven awards. There is a chance for kent to be nominated for one more Grammis as nominations for best video presented by MTV is still under voting. Go to the new kentjunkie award section to read more. There you will also find all awards previously presented to kent. The kentjunkie concert section has been updated with more old set lists plus set lists from the Copenhagen gigs last weekend. More old set lists are added continuously. I have also added a search function for kentjunkie.com. It is probably a bit rough now and you may no find everything on the site using it but it will improve over time. You can always find the search function under about in the menu. The new issue of Zero Music magazine containing a kent-special and four different covers with each member of the band on it was delayed but has now reached the Swedish stores. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-12-07 kent is the winner of svenska popcupen and has the chance to win 10 other awards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday was the day for the big finale in Swedish Radio P3s Svenska Popcupen. The battle was between Lars Winnerbäck and kent. The winner was kent
with 61% of the votes versus 39% and thus voted best Swedish artist/band by the Swedish people. A big thanks to all fans who voted and congratulations
kent!!
December/January means award time and kent have the chance to win 10 awards in three award shows: The Aftonbladet Rockbjörnen peoples choice award, Hovet Stockholm January 24 kent can be nominated in four categories: Swedish group of the year 2007 Swedish song of the year 2007 (Ingenting) Swedish album of the year 2007 (Tillbaka till samtiden) Swedish live act of the year 2007 Voting for nominees is open until midnight tonight December 7. So hurry! Voting for the actual prize then opens December 12. The Swedish music industry award Grammis, Stockholm Globe Arena January 9 2008 kent are nominated in five categories: Album of the year 2007 - Tillbaka till samtiden Band of the year 2007 - kent Composer of the year 2007 (Joakim Berg / Martin Sköld) Producer of the year 2007 (Jon Joshua Schuman / Kent) Lyricist of the year 2007 (Joakim Berg) Voting starts Monday December 11. The Swedish public service radio award P3 Guld, Lorensbergsteatern Gothenburg January 18 kent are nominated for group of the year 2007 Vote before January 7. You can now find updated set lists including the concert at Olympen in Lund December 6th in the kentjunkie.com concert section. Also the kentjunkie.com discography has been updated with the new single Columbus. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-12-04 the new kent single columbus already digitally released | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday on December 3rd the new kent single Columbus with the brand new b-side Tick Tack was digitally released as download in Sweden.
It is available as download on CDON.COM and on iTunes. Translated lyrics for the new b-side
Tick Tack can be found here. The single will be released on CD December 5th.
Also yesterday the tickets for kents up coming spring tour was released. The 2 600 tickets to kent's gig in their home town Eskilstuna February 28 was sold out in only 12 minutes. The last time kent played in Eskilstuna was in 2002. Gävle and Västerås was also sold out yesterday but there are lots of tickets left for other gigs. Updated tour plan and all details of the tour and how to buy tickets can be found here. During thursday December 6 the big final match of Svenska Popcupen will end. Vote for kent at the Svenska Popcupen website. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-11-29 kent nordic spring tour 2008 details released | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Today the details of kent's nordic spring tour 2008 was revealed at
kent.nu.
The band will do a 30 gig long tour starting in Ås in Norway January 23 and ending in Malmö, Sweden March 23. This time kent will bring along the Swedish
electro act Familjen as support. Tickets for the two Danish shows were released November 21 by mistake but the sale has been stopped. Release date for
all concert tickets are this Monday December 3 09.00 GMT +1 (except Finland where it's at 09.00 GMT +2). Tour plan and all details of the tour and how to buy tickets
can be found here.
Also on Monday
Zero Music magazine release their December issue featuring a kent special. The issue will be sold
with four different covers, one for each band member.
The release of Tillbaka till samtiden in Taiwan has been delayed until tomorrow Friday. Sony BMG in Korea released their own pressing of the album November 13th. The big final match of Svenska Popcupen has begun and it's kent against Lars Winnerbäck. Vote for kent at the Svenska Popcupen website. It is also time to nominate artists for the 2007 Rockbjörnen award. Nominate kent at the Rockbjörnen website. Nominations are accepted until December 7. Finalists for the awards will be presented December 12th and then the voting will be open until January 16th. Links to all kent concert photos at Rockfoto.nu can now be found in the kentjunkie.com concert gallery. After playing the Gothenburg gigs on this tour kent has now played more than 400 gigs through out their career (probably more since the kentjunkie.com concert list probably isn't 100% accurate). Set list for the Gothenburg gigs and the first concert in Oslo has been added in the kentjunkie.com concert section. Older set lists will be added continuously. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-11-21 two new concerts in denmark + the new single columbus released december 5th | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday tickets for two new shows in Denmark 2008 were released; Århus February 22 and Copenhagen February 23. Tickets can be bought at
www.gaffa.dk. This indicates that further details about kent's spring tour is around the
corner.
Yesterday it was also confirmed that Columbus is the next single release from Tillbaka till samtiden. It will be released December 5th as a four track maxi CD
single. It will contain one new b-side (Tick Tack) plus two album track remixes. One of the remixes is made by the ex Dive singer Krister Linder.Track list: 1. Columbus 2. Columbus (Krister Linder remix) 3. Vid din sida (Max Graham Club Remix) 4. Tick Tack Yesterday kent.nu also reported that Tillbaka till samtiden now has sold triple platinum meaning more than 120 000 copies! Monday November 19th kent played the last of four gig in Stockholm on this tour. kentjunkie.com got the chance to photograph the beginning of the show. You can see the pictures in the new kentjunkie.com concert gallery. You can also read a full review of the concert including set list here. Set list for all concerts on the tour along with older set lists can be found in the kentjunkie.com concert section. Older set lists will be added continuously. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-11-17 kent at Stockholm Annexet November 16th 2007 review | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday night November 16th kent played their first gig in Sweden on their 2007 Nordic tour. It was the bands first real tour gig in Sweden since June
2005 and what a comeback! The little over 3000 people in the audience got to see a fantastic concert with an impressive and hungry kent. In the end it
was hard to tell who was most happy; the band or the audience. Read a full review of the concert including set list
here.
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2007-11-16 more merchandise + release of tillbaka till samtiden in taiwan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Even more kent merchandise has been released. A special collection of Official Merchandise will be sold in Swedish stores like Åhléns and
Ginza. Ginza started selling this merchandise November 14.
Just like with all kent albums except Kent and Verkligen Sony BMG in Taiwan will import a limited amount of the Swedish issue of Tillbaka till samtiden and repack it with a Taiwanese OBI-srip for the Taiwanese market. The release date in Taiwan is November 23. With 66% versus 44% of the votes kent won the semifinal against Mando Diao in Swedish radio P3s Svenska Popcupen. Next weeks semifinal will decide if kent will meet Timbuktu or Lars Winnerbäck in the final. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-11-14 small amount of extra ticets to the gothenburg concerts released | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Today aroud 100 extra ticets was released for the kent concerts in Gothenburg. Ticets can be booked at
ticnet.se.
Also, don't forget to vote for kent in the semi final in swedish radio P3s Svenska Popcupen where kent are up against Mando Diao. Go to the Svenska Popcupen website and place your vote on kent. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-11-08 tillbaka till samtiden still no 1 in sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For the fourth week kent is positioned as number 1 on the Swedish album selling chart. Not even the release of The Eagles first studio album in 28 years
could outsell Swedens biggest band.
Next week it is also semi final for kent in swedish radio P3s Svenska Popcupen where kent are up against Mando Diao. Go to the Svenska Popcupen website and place your vote on kent. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-11-05 kent tour premiere in helsinki 071104, review and setlist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yesterday kent had their tour premier in Helsinki and it was a fantastic concert! 1700 persons got to see and hear kent play 8 of the 11 tracks on the new
album plus another 12 songs. See the set list and read a full review
here.
Kentjunkie.com will keep you updated with dates and set lists in the
concert section
as soon as possible through out the tour. Next review on kentjunkie.com will be from the first gig in Stockholm.
The Swedish tabloids Aftonbladet and Expressen both rated the concert a 4 out of 5. This saturday the single Ingenting was knocked down to number two after five weeks as number one at the Swedish chart list Tracks. The new electronic sound from kent has already produced interest among DJ's. The DJ Loubar has made remixes of Ingenting and Berlin. and the DJ Tobbe "Sjökexet" Carlsson at Swedish public radio P3's Deluxe has made a versus mix of kent's Ingenting and Outkast's Ms. Jackson. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-11-02 the new kent merchandise revealed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On Sunday November 4th kent start their Nordic tour in Helsinki. The
new merchandise
that will be sold on the tour has now been revealed. As usual remaining merchandise will be sold at
hotstuff.se after the tour.
There is also a new kent channel at Jaiku where Henrik at kent.nu will post reports from the kent tour. Of course kentjunkie.com will be at the Helsinki tour premiere and a review will follow next week. Kent rule the Swedish album selling chart Hitlistan for the third week and the single Ingenting has now been number one for 5 weeks at Swedish radio P3s chart show Tracks. Kent did also beat Sahara Hotnights in the Svenska Popcupen vote off and are through to semi final where they will go up against Mando Diao. The last couple of weeks kent has rehearsed and done lots of promotion. You can read an English interview in the Release Magazine net edition. When kent were in Norway they did a TV-performance on Norwegian TV2 in Senkveld and you can watch the performance here. Swedish TV4 also did the only in depth Swedish TV-interview with the band. You can watch part 1 and part 2 of the interview online. On October 25th the limited vinyl issue of Tillbaka till Samtiden was released in Sweden and you will now find it in the kentjunkie.com discography. Also the kentjunkie.com gallery has been updated with the latest promo photos by Jonas Linell. Emma at rockfoto.nu took some nice pictures of kent at Pumpehuset, you can have a look at them here. About two weeks ago kent also put up all their videos in good quality at Musicbox. You can find links to each video at Musicbox in the kentjunkie.com video library. Now there is a new sweepstake at kentjunkie.com and this time you have the chance to win the new CD Tillbaka till samtiden plus the Dom Andra single and the kent book. Haven't signed up for the newsletter yet? Don't miss your chance to win, sign up If you already subscribe to the newsletter you don't need to answer the question or sign up again, you are automatically in the sweepstake. Winners of the last sweepstake was: Uzair Siddiqi, Canada 1st prize (kent book + 747 CD Maxi (out of print UK edition) Victor Holmberg, Sweden 2nd prize (kent book + The Hjärta & Smärta EP Mike Boone, USA 3d prize (kent book) Heidi Tammisto, Finland 4th prize (kent book) Congratulations! Prizes will be shipped shortly! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-10-19 tillbaka till samtiden straight to no.1 selling double platinum! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The official release date for Tillbaka till samtiden in Sweden was October 17 but the album started showing up in Swedish stores October 12. In just one
week the album sold double platinum (over 80 000 copies)!! According to the Swedish music industry magazine
musikindustrin.nu
Tillbaka till samtiden generated 40% of all album sales in Sweden between 11th and 17th of October.More news: Tillbaka till samtiden is now available on iTunes. Release date for the limited vinyl issue of Tillbaka till samtiden has been set to 24th of October. During the week kent has signed records in Sweden. Tomorrow 20th of October they will sign records 14:00 at Platekompaniet in Oslo, Norway. Also while in Norway they will do a performance in Norwegian TV2 tonight at 22.10 in the show Senkveld. After three weeks Ingenting is still no.1 at the Swedish chartlist Tracks. This Saturday we get to know if the single stays in the top. kent's producer Joshua has made a new post in his blog. The standard an limited edition of Tillbaka till samtiden has now been added to the discography and you can find translated lyrics for all songs here. As from this week kentjunkie.com also delivers this news page as RSS feed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-10-12 kent tillbaka till samtiden already in stores in sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The relasedates for Tillbaka till samtiden has not been officially changed but yesterday some of the Swedish internet stores started shipping the new kent
album Tillbaka till samtiden to fans who have pre-ordered it. Some record stores in Sweden even started selling the album over the counter yesterday.
Red Ink/Rough Trade
reports a delay in the German release but other than that the official release dates are still unchanged:Most internet stores: October 15 pre-order here Denmark, Norway: October 15 Sweden, Finland: October 17 Germany: Delayed until October 26 pre-order here As the album now is about to be released there is a lot of activity regarding kent. Two new dates have also been added for record signings (Gothenburg and Oslo): October 16, Gothenburg (Bengans 17:00) October 17, Stockholm (Åhléns City 17:00, Pet Sounds 19:00) October 20, Oslo (Platekompaniet 14:00) Aftonbladet Webbtv has made an interview with Joakim and Martin. Aftonbladet report that many people has criticized their joint venture with Sony Ericsson and in the interview Joakim says; "Some gets disappointed some think its good, other see the logic in why we are doing it. Its not like we are forcing anyone and we will not do gigs with the Sony Ericsson logo on our asses. We are releasing a music mobile phone together with them, it's like a Walkman. The whole discussion is pretty ridiculous. The same kids that are downloading our albums illegally are whining about us trying to get or income in other ways. Then stop illegally downloading our records dammit and we will stop doing these kinds of things." Martin says in the interview: "We can't care about what people think regardless of If they like us or not. We can only do things that we feel right about." In the printed part of Aftonbladet Jocke says: "We are interested in a long future and for us it's about keeping our studio that bleeds money. A joint venture like the one with Sony Ericsson lets us do another album." Sami says regarding the new sound on the new album: "The thing that makes us most proud with the new album is that we had the guts to take the step. Bands in our position rarely do, they stay on the safe side. To us it was just; fuck the old stuff, let's go". Another interview with kent will be broadcasted in Swedish TV4 Nyhetsmorgon next Saturday morning (October 20). Furthermore Ingenting, the first single from the new album continues to do well in the Swedish charts. It stayed as number one during it's second week at the Swedish hit list Tracks. This week it is also quarter final between Sahara Hotnights and kent in Swedish radio P3s Popcupen. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-10-05 kent tillbaka till samtiden launch party report | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On thursday October 4th kent arranged a launch party in Copenhagen, Denmark. About 350 friends, journalists and people from the music industry together
with a few lucky fans gathered in the small concert venue Pumpehuset for an evening with kent. We got to listen to the new album before we got to see
kent perform live. On stage was a revived kent presenting a new and fresh sound with a strong electronic heartbeat. Kent are back and
they are hungry. Read a full review of the launch party
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2007-10-03 tillbaka till samtiden vinyl issue + US release of kent albums | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It is now confirmed that there will be a limited vinyl issue of Tillbaka till samtiden. It will be printed in 1000 copies and it is already available for
pre booking in Swedish online stores. Release date is not yet confirmed but it will probably be about 2 weeks after the regular CD release.
The US record label The First Time Records (TFT records) will release all kent's Swedish albums starting this autumn with Du & Jag Döden. Kentjunkie will of course keep you updated with the details regarding this. Danish MTV reports that kent will perform four songs live at the exclusive album launch party in Copenhagen tomorrow. Kentjunkie will attend the launch party and a report will follow. The kent single Ingenting continues to dominate the Swedish charts and sales. The single was voted directly to first place in the Swedish radio chart list Tracks September 29. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-09-29 tillbaka till samtiden limited edition details + sign up for the new kentjunkie newsletter and win the new kent book! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The first book about kent premieres this weekend at the Swedish book fair in Gothenburg. The title is "Kent: texter om Sveriges största rockband"
(translates to; "Kent: texts about Sweden's biggest rock band"). It's a book in Swedish containing interviews, articles, chronicles and reviews, in all 69
of the best texts written about kent during their first 17 years. The book gives an in depth and full chronological history of the bands career, their
music, the rock star lifestyle and their relation to the fans. On 335 pages you will find both early interviews from local newspapers and big features
from magazines and national papers. Many of Sweden's best music journalist have contributed with their texts.Fans who have pre ordered the book through
Swedish internet stores got it yesterday. The Swedish book stores will have the book on their shelves October 8th. If you sign up for the all new
kentjunkie.com newsletter you will have the chance to win a copy of the book along with other kent goodies! Go to the
newsletter subscription page
and sign up before 24.00 GMT October 21st for your chance to win!
Other news: Today details about the Tillbaka till samtiden limited edition was confirmed on kent.nu. The limited edition will consists of a book with 120 pages featuring kent photos by Jonas Linell, Thomas Ökvist, Helen Svensson and Michael Hultman. The book is covered in a paper wrap with the cover art and the CD is placed in a pocket in the back. The limited edition will be printed in 15 000 copies and distributed as follows:Sweden 10 000 copies Norway 1 500 copies Denmark 1 500 copies Finland 1 500 copies Germany 500 copies Also today the Tillbaka till samtiden release party was also confirmed at kent.nu. The exclusive album launch will be held at Pumpehuset in Copenhagen 19.00 October 4th. The bands manager Martin Roos made 20 tickets to the closed launch available for the first 20 fans who saw the announcement at kent.nu and e-mailed a special e-mail address. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-09-26 tillbaka till samtiden limited edition, record signing and a new kent.nu mobile service | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There will be a limited edition of Tillbaka till samtiden. The issue has turned up in numerous web-stores the last couple of days however there is yet no
information about the content of this edition. The limited edition will be released simultaneously with the standard issue. release dates are as follows:
Denmark and Norway October 15 Sweden and Finland October 17 Germany October 19 Kent will host a release party in Copenhagen and those who buy a Sony Ericsson mobile phone with a kent package before the party will be able to join a sweepstake where you can win one of 25 VIP tickets. Today two record signings in Stockholm on the release day October 17 was confirmed: Åhléns City 17:00 Pet Sounds 19:00 Also it has been reported that the new kent single Ingenting is now a gold single with 10 000 sold copies after just one week. The Ingenting video on the official kent channel on Yotube has over 50 000 viewings making it no 13 on the most watched official musicians of the week list. All tickets to the second kent concert in Copenhagen December 9 are now sold out. This mean that there are only a few tickets left for the show in Trondheim, all other shows on the tour are sold out. There is a new mobile service on the official kent site kent.nu. By submitting the number to your mobile phone in the box to the right on the start page and then clicking ok you will subscribe to kent news SMS service and you get sent the link to the mobile kent site where you find a shop with two new kent ring tones, a mobile kent forum, news archive, calendar, and mobile Kmail. There is no information on costs for the service or if it is possible to use the service if you are an international subscriber. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-09-23 tillbaka till samtiden tracklist revealed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The tracklist for the new kent album Tillbaka till samtiden has been published at
the Norwegian Sony BMG website (the page with the titles was shut down during Sunday morning).
Here are the titles with translations:
Tracklist "Tillbaka till samtiden"1. Elefanter (Elephants)2. Berlin (Berlin) 3. Ingenting (Nothing) 4. Vid Din Sida (At your side) 5. Columbus (Columbus) 6. Sömnen (The sleep) 7. Vy Från Ett Luftslott (View from a castle made of air OR View from a castle in Spain) 8. Våga Vara Rädd (Dare to be afraid) 9. LSD, Någon? (LSD, anyone?) 10. Generation Ex (Generation Ex) 11. Ensammast I Sverige (Loneliest in Sweden) In sweden there is an expression; "to build a castle of air". This means to makes something up that is not there or to make something sound better than it is in reality. There is a phrase for this in the English language as well; "to build a castle i Spain". Hence the title of track 8 can be translated in two ways. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-09-22 kent interview i dagbladet.no and bigger outtake from café october issue | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 19 there was a interview with Joakim, Sami and Markus in the Norwegian net issue of
Dagbladet.
You can read a translation of the article
here.
The picture in the article seen here to the right was taken by Jörn H. Moen.
Also the Swedish lifestyle magazine Café has published a more extensive outtake of their up coming kent interview on their website featuring a few nice new photos as well. You can read a translation of the outtake here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-09-21 ingenting is doing well in the charts and joakim berg talk´s about why harri left kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
More kent news; After just 3 days in the stores the new kent single has already propelled it's way to number two in the Swedish single sales chart that
was published Thursday September 20. This probably means the single will reach No. 1 next week. The video has its tv-premiere in Swedish TV4's
morning show Friday 21 st and the release of the video will probably increase sales even more. When it comes to air play "Ingenting" was the second
most played song on radio in Sweden just one day after the release.
Itunes in Sweden is topped by kent. The band tops the song list with Ingenting and Min värld as well as the album list as the Ingenting single has 5 tracks and
thus counts as an EP.
Also yesterday Expressen published a piece about Harri Mänty's decision to leave kent that is taken from the up coming interview in Café. According to Expressen there were different points of view and numerous discussions that lead to Harri Mänty's decision to leave kent. "-He is our friend. In that way it was strenuous as hell, says Joakim Berg to Café. -His defection was not expected that's for sure, says Martin Sköld. For a long period of time the band had had discussions about their music. Harri Mänty's opinions differed compared to the others. -Harri came to the band later and from another musical background. The rest of us like the same things. It gets weird when you notice that someone in the band doesn't like the music in the same way, says Joakim Berg. He continues: -It spreads uncertainty that gets in the way. A bit like a door stop. In that way it was a relief when the decision finally came. Sami Sirviö means it was a big step for Harri to take. -I was chocked that it was even possible to quit this band. It was brave of him to find the guts to take that step, he says. They don't think the band would survive yet another defection. - That would brake us up. In that case we would split, says Joakim" Edit 16.25: Yesterday the Swedish marketing journal Dagens Media ran an article on how kent and Adam Berg in the Ingeting video has re-used parts of the end sequence of the ATG commercial Adam Berg and Mattias Montero did for ATG at the ad-agency Åkestam & Holst in the end of last year. The article mostly talks about Adam and Jocke Berg being brothers and that Adam asked ATG to use some of the shots of horse that he filmed in New Zeeland under hard conditions and use it for a kent video. ATG said yes. They did not know about the horse on the kent album cover when Dagens Media asks them but they think its fun that there is like a red line through it all. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-09-20 kent interviews, kent channel at youtube and info on the sony ericsson kent edition mobile phones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There's full activity in the kent camp and lots of news keep popping up:In the upcoming issue of the Swedish lifestyle magazine Café there will be a 12 pages long interview with kent. If you live in Sweden you can order and pay the magazine trough your mobile phone and get it sent home through a special discount at kent.nu. Also on September 17th, on the day of the release of the new kent single Ingenting a 10 minute interview with Joakim Berg and Sami Sirviö was broadcasted on the radio show P3 Populär on the Swedish public service channel P3. You can listen to the interview at the P3 Populär website or you can read a translated transcript of the interview here at kentjunkie.com. More news: Sony BMG has opened a special kent channel at YouTube. At the moment you can watch the new Ingenting video but there is also a video that seem to show how the members of the band are signing the Sony Ericsson kent edition mobile phones. There is also a new Sony Ericsson & kent MySpace page with further information about the Sony Ericsson kent phones. The upcoming exclusive live material from Copenhagen and kent blog described on that page will ONLY be available for persons who buy a Sony Ericsson kent phone. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-09-19 video and lyrics for the new kent single ingenting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The video for the new kent single "ingenting" was relased Tuseday the 18th of September. The video was made by Adam Berg and
Mattias Montero.
Mattias has made music videos for bands like The Cardigans, Prodigy and
the Concretes. Adam and Mattias has previously worked together with commercials for Vattenfall and ATG. You can watch the video
here.
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2007-09-18 the new kent single ingenting has been released | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The new kent single "ingenting" was released Monday 17th of September in Sweden both as download and CDM. The radio premier was set to be the
same date as the release in the stores. Swedish public service P3 was the first station to play the new single early in the morning of the 17th. No promo
copies of the single has been sent out and Sony BMG waited until the end of last week to provide the radio stations with the tracks of the single, in spite
of this the first track from the single turned up on some torrent sites already Friday 14th of September. The interest for the new single release is
obviously big as it caused the official kent web site
kent.nu
to brake down during Monday. The site was up and running again later on monday but the forum is still closed due to technical difficulties.
The CDM single "ingenting" (Nothing) contains the title track "ingenting", three remixes of the song plus a b-side called "Min Värld" (My World). It is clearly a more up tempo and danceable kent that is back with a new sound. Lyrics and complete update in the discography will be added shortly. Tracklist "ingenting" CDM
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RED INK Germany, a subsidiary of Sony BMG is going to release kent's new single and album in
Germany. The single Ingenting will be released in Germany September 21 and the album Tillbaka till samtiden will be released October 19. The issue is the
same as the one released in Sweden. Both the album and single is said to be released on itunes in Germany and you can already pre-order
Ingenting and
Tillbaka till samtiden on amazon.de. For
information about kent in german visit allmybands.de.
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2007-09-04 kent cooperates with sony ericsson to launch the new album "tillbaka till samtiden" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Today kent issued this press release:
Kent and Sony Ericsson in cooperation around the new album 
During the launch of the new album "Tillbaka till samtiden" kent will cooperate with Sony Ericsson. For example the new single "Ingenting" released to the
stores September 17th will be available earlier for those who purchase a new Sony Ericsson Walkman phone. This will happen 24 hours before the single is
available for purchase.
Later this fall an exclusive kent-edition of the coming phone W910 will be launched. W910 kent-edition contains the album "Tillbaka till samtiden", themes, backgrounds and unique ringtones. There will also be opportunities to win tickets to the already sold out concerts. - To launch music through mobile phones feels like a natural development, says kent's manager Martin Roos. - kent is Swedens biggest band but has never done a cooperation like this. Hence of course it feels very exciting to launch this project. kent see's mobile phones as an important carrier of music and we have had a close dialogue during the design of the kent edition W910. We hope and believe that both we and kent will reach big success through this cooperation, says Ola Lilja Molén, nordic marketing manager for Sony Ericsson. - We got an offer we couldn't turn down, says kent. If you purchase a Sony Ericsson W580,W660 or a W880 during September 10 - October 16 you get:
Sony Ericsson W910 kent limited edition will be available from October 17 and contains:
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2007-09-04 markus mustonen and sami sirviö are dj's on the rydes bar 20 year anniversary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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On Friday September 28 there will be a 20 year anniversary of the club
Rydes Bar
at Mejeriet in Lund, Sweden. Artists like Lars winneräck, Nina Persson, Thåström, Titiyo, Damn!, Ebbot Lundberg, Jakob Hellman, The Creeps, Eggstone and
Cristian Kjellvander will appear on stage. Among the DJ's are Markus Mustonen and Sami Sirviö. Tickets will be released at Ticnet Wednesday September 5. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-08-31 hi-fi klubben gives a taste of the upcoming kent interview in gaffa magazine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In their new Swedish and Danish catalouges the Nordic Hi-Fi Store Hi-Fi Klubben has published parts of the
upcoming kent interview that will be featured in the october issue of the free Danish music magazine GAFFA. PDF
versions of the Hi-Fi Klubben catalouges with pictures and parts of the GAFFA interview can be found in both
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