July 17
Extra Liverpool gig announced: The Ferry, Fri Aug 27 21:30 !!!
July 3
Liverpool Beatleweek gigs anounced here!
June 17
I have been changing the look of the homepage a little. Hope you like it.
June 16
During two weeks in London you can do this:
Bachman-Turner at the Relentless Garage (thanks Mark Rashotte for getting
me on the guestlist)
Teenage Fanclub at Sheperd's Bush Empire (thanks Helen for good company)
Crowded House at Hammersmith Odeon (Apollo) (thanks Julain Taylor for the
ticket and good company)
Enuff'z'Nuff at the Camden Barfly
Dandy In The Underworld at Soho Theatre (thanks Vicki for tickets and good company)
As well as visits to Richmond, Kew Gardens, Thames Barrier and Spitalfield & Camden Markets... and the World Cup on big screen TV!
Not a bad place to live, London!
June 9
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June 3
So we're back again from our fifth visit over six years to AROTR in Louisville, KY...
We flew US Airways from Gatwick to Louisville via Charlotte, NC wich was a very
good route to take. Flights on time, small non-busy airports and easy check in.
The festival was great and I think we played some really good shows. The Galt
House is a very comfortable hotel with easy access to the stages, and I even got
a chance to try out the gym a couple of times.
A big thank you goes out to all our friends (you know who you are) and to Gary Jacob and the team for having us again. We'll be back!
And hey, standing on a 19th floor balcony when lightning struck the roof sign was pretty scary!
Peace&Love
Janne
May 19
Janne has just created a little blog in case
any of you are interested in his true life stories! Click the CVK logo to get
there.
He figured that not many people actually read this news section anyway, and hey,
if you've got anything to say, blog it!
May 10
Jason & The Scorchers / The Whybirds
Relentless Garage - Highbury-Islington May 8
If you ever get the chance to see the Whybirds, take it!
This young band from Bedford take their influences and wears them on their
chequered sleeves!
We are talking Young, Springsteen, the Byrds, Americana with a cool British edge.
Harmony vocals
an an energy from just playing and playing and coming together in that special
organic way that is hard
to describe. Early the Church spring to mind somehow... brilliant.
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And so, over to the amazing Jason & The Scorchers.
Warner E. Hodges has to be one of the most entertaining Jason is a world class entertainer and a great storyteller! He knows seemingly by instinct what it takes to make a crowd happy and to get across a message at the same time. I am really chuffed to see them back, and altough I went to the gig mainly to see the Whybirds, I can safely say that JATS are back in my life. Incidentally they have a Swedish drummer, Pontus Snibb who hails from my old hometown of Malmö, south Sweden. |
May 7
Three weeks 'till AROTR...
March 31
THE WHO - Royal Albert Hall
The Who performed their masterpice Quadrophenia af the Royal Albert Hall last
night and yours truly was there..
It was the final show of the 10 year anniversary of the Teenage Cancer Trust, of
which Roger Daltrey CBE is the patron saint.
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The show was fantastic with an enomous band augmented with horns and strings, as well as guests Eddie Vedder and Tom Meighan from Kasabian.
The
pressure was really on Daltrey, to deliver a physically
demanding vocal for 90 minutes.
During The Real Me, I wasn't sure his voice would last, but the
tireless 66-year-old manfully blasted his way through the set. May the mighty Who rock on forever! JLB
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March 25
Some new gigs added to the giglist!
February 1
Steve lets you all know that the Repeatles have been invited back to
International Beatle Week for the eight consecutive year!
The event takes place on August 25 - 31 Bank Holiday, in Liverpool, UK.
January 25
Latest news from Repeatle-world:
The Repeatles are taking a little break until late May when they perform in
Louisville, KY for this year's Abbey Road On The River.
The reason for this is that Janne is living in London for at least 6 months.
What the rest of the lads are doing is unknow at the moment, but rumour
has it that Pete is playing hard rock with his band "Doghouse", and that Steve
is doing punk reunion gigs with "The Pain". Arnie's whereabouts are
as always unknown...
January 20
Found an old picture from 2007. Cute guys in the middle, rockers to the left and
right!
January 6, 2010
Welcome to a new decade, and a Happy New Year to you all!
I am writing this from a snowy London, where life seems to go on a usual in
spite of the "severe weather warnings".
Hope to see you all soon somewhere in the world!
Cheers
Janne
December 14
Many thanks and Christmas wishes to Classe and the staff
at Klara Hall, Enköping and to everyone who saw us perform over six dates the
past two weeks.
We truly enjoyed it and we will be back. Thanks also to Anders Berlin for great
keyboards, acoustic guitar, tambourine and general good spirits!
Now, don't miss us at Big Ben Pub on the 16th for one last gig before Jan disappears to London for six months...
December 1
Thanks to Ashleigh Rist for this lovely drawing of the boys!
November 17
One final gig booked at the Big Ben Pub in Stockholm... on December 16!
Last chance to see the Repeatles in Sweden for a long time!
November 2
Sweden is still in the throws of a warm autumn (fall), anticipating a cold, snowy winter that we all know will come...
In the meantime, the Repeatles are rehearsing new songs, old songs, blue songs
and borrowed songs for a stint of Christmas gigs
in the swedish town of Enköping. These gigs will feature our friend Anders
Berlin on keyboards.
We are also planning our future as a band and deciding what direction we are going to take...
All we can say right now is that the band is sounding really good and we are all looking forward to seeing you all again next year in the USA and wherever else we go...
Until then, be safe and enloy life!
the Repeatles, the flag-bearers of Power Pop & 60s Beat music
September 13
Thanks to Jack and Lasse at Beat Goes On and of course all the people that
turned up for last Wednesday's show!
There is still hope for mankind...
090909
We play a special gig tonight at the Beat Goes On (record store in
Stockholm, S:t Eriksgatan) in celebration of the Beatles remasters.
Also performing is Jack Mittleman of "An evening with John Lennon" fame.
Can't wait to hear the mono-remasters!
September 4
Thanks to everyone who helped make our 7th visit to Beatleweek one of the best yet!
8 Christmas special gigs have been booked at Clara Hall in Enköping. See gigs for more details.
August 14
The Swedish Repeatles website is closed. This is now the only one!
August 10
Two gigs cancelled: Velamsund 21/8 and Nyköping 5/9 due to domestic issues in Norway (!)
August 7
STRINDBERGS - Kulturhustaket, Stockholm, Sweden August 5, 2009
It was a warm summer night in Stockholm, one of those unsual, almost
mediterranean ones that we dream about, bur rarely get, when my old band from the 80s
managed to sell out Kulturhuset. We played a blinder and I would like to share a
few pictures for my friends in the rest of the world just to show you
"another side of me", or the "real me" or whatever we should call it. Thanks to
Johan, Robban, Magic and everyone else who helped to make
it a
magical night to remember! And a BIG thank you to all our fans, who are still with
us over 20 years later... Peace&Love Janne
Ps. special hug to Steve for being there as usual, cheers mate!!!
All pictures by John Törnblom-Borgh
August 5
STRINDBERGS play a gig at Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden sold out
July 30
Updated my bio a little bit.
July 7
Lots of older pictures discovered on a backup server. Find them in the misc-gallery.
July 3
Gig list for Beatleweek ready. Find it here.
June 18
Gallery for 2009 is coming!
June 10
The Repeatles are back in Sweden again, and I write this feeling like TIm
Buckley, that is; Happy/Sad.
Happy because I am home with my family and sad because this transition between
the realworld and the
Repeatleworld is hard. I think all of us feel the same way. But I am glad we
went back and proved we can still
rock out like a hurricane!
We had a great time in spite of broken guitar necks and colds, and played some
of our best shows ever in
Louisville and Halifax. Safe to say, the mission of the Repeatles, to play the
best 60s tribute shows possible
will continue!
I would like to thank the following people for being lovely human beings:
May the best Karma follow you through every life!
Hal & Shelley Bruce
Scott, Gail & Kelly Ferguson
Gary Jacob
Vicky & Marian
Donna Scaglione
Mark Beyer
Karen Iannetti
Robert & Debbie
Jackie & Jane
Chris & Phyllis
Lisa Pasquale
All You Need Is Love
Mark Rashotte
Jay Goeppner & Instant Karma
Itchycoo Park
All our friends in Nova Scotia
Gaelle
Derek & June Cane
Kathy Gurholt
Staff at Our Friend's Pub
The guy who fixed my Gibson ES335
Christina More
The Cryers (thanks for the stories Tommy!)
Steve Sizemore Group
All the bands at AROTR
All the performers at the Maritime Beatle Event
The Winchester & The Vernon clubs
Dale from The Vernon
Guitar Emporium, Louisville, KY
Sound and stage crews at all gigs
The Galt House breakfast staff
The Beatles, The Who & The Kinks
See you all sometime in the future!
Today's motto: don't procrastinate!
Janne on behalf of The Repeatles
May 18
Jan & Steve plays in this band together with Peder Brink. Original songs by Jan
& Peder.
April 29
See you all in the U.S.A!!!
March 5
Arnie's bio under construction...
March 4
Steve's bio has arrived... short but sweet!
March 3
Pete's bio has arrived! Read it and enjoy...
Jan's bio updated, well worth seeing!
February 24
Rumour has it we are going to be playing at Beatle Week for the 7th consecutive year in August!
Good news to some, we hope!
February 13 (Friday)
Revised setlists now published. The idea was to reduce the number of songs we
play to make room for new material.
And also because it's hard to keep all these songs fresh, when some of them
aren't played as regularly as others.
On another topic; we haven't heard anything from Liverpool this year, but so far only the bigger act have been named. Rumour has it they will start contacting bands in a couple of weeks. Are we up for it again? Speaking for myself (Jan) yes... As for the others, I think so... more info when we have it.
February 5
Good news from the AROTR/Jacob camp!
We are rehearsing for our shows in the States and hopefully we will bring you some cool surprises!
January 16, 2009
Welcome to the new year everybody!
The Repeatles have started rehearsing and planning ahead. After a bit of
flaffing about we finally got back into gear
and managed to get some new songs down.
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I'm A Boy (the Who, sung by Jan & Pete) Surrender (Cheap Trick, sung by Arnie) Mary-Jane's Last Dance (Tom Petty, sung by Jan) A Well Respected Man (the Kinks, sung by Jan) My Sharona (the Knack, sung by Pete) |
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This is actually the first time since the spring of '07 that we have rehearsed regularly! Of course this is down to me being back in Sweden again. Hopefully we can get some recording done of some original songs as well.
See you later
Jan
December 29, 2008
Merry Christmas & Happy New year!
December 5, 2008
A few new pictures from Belleville in the Gallery section.
November 27, 2008
A couple of new songs in the download section.
November 22, 2008
It's snowing in Stockholm and the Repeatles are taking it easy. More news about
next year's activities
will be annunced shortly.
October 22, 2008
| Kaiser Chiefs at the Kentish Town Forum yesterday
evening was a great concert. These guys are a cool mixture of 60s pop and 80s new wave with great singalong choruses that doesn't become "football terrace". Singer Ricky Wilson is all over the place and all over the audience (literally) and towards the end of the show he was crowd surfing all the way to the mixing desk. Once there, he stands on top of it and shouts "out of my f-ng way, out of my f-ng way" and the audience parts like Moses and the Red Sea and he just runs back to the stage, Pretty cool, never seen that one before. I love the quirky guitar lines and mixed with synth/bass grooves that make even me want to dance! Very tight and well performed without getting boring.
What struck me the most though, was that the atmosphere, though being
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October 21, 2008
Download section now in operation! Find two live numbers here, for you pleasure!
Happy birthday Peter!
October 2, 2008
"Come Dancing" at Theatre Royal, Stratford was wonderful! A great little piece of English history...
Loosely based on Ray's family in the 50s, and especially his sister Julie, who dies at the age of 19. But it's not sad, it's a heartfelt tribute to a long gone era, as a lot of Ray's songwriting has been as well. The story takes place in "the Palais", a dancehall where the Davies' (here "Waller") all went dancing and where his mother used to sing with the band. The main theme of course is the Kinks song "Come Dancing", and during the play, Ray realises that it was actually written as a tribute to Julie. Ray himself plays the narrator, sings a bit and the second song is actually "Tired Of Waiting". The rest of the music is written specifically for the play. The cast is doing a great job, and sometimes you actually get a "Grease/Singiging In The Rain" vibe. Lovely costumes and the stage is built like a dancehall where some of the audience actually sit on stage as if they were part of the show. .
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In the bar before the show we met lead actress Gemma Salter's mother Patsy and her friend John and had a nice chat with them. The play only runs until October 25 so hurry up! Thanks Ray (and Vicki) for an unforgettable night in Straford Cheers
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October 1, 2008
Janne here: my bio has been updated by none other than ME! Still waiting
for pics and words from the other authors.
Perhaps they have moved on... and are not dwelling on the past? But hey, the
past is cool! You make mistakes, learn from them and make them again and
again... and get better at it. How about "My Favorite Mistakes" anyone? I can
feel a concept album coming on!
Tonight I'm seeing Ray Davies' play "Come Dancing" in Stratford. Review tomorrow.
September 29, 2008
Jan and Steve partied in London.
September 23, 2008
Jan got hold of a Gibson ES 355 in satin black with Bigsby from Gibson Custom Shop.
September 15, 2008
Arnie bought a brand new Gibson Thunderbird.
September 12, 2008
The BAND tab is open, with a little help from a "cosmic freind" (sic).
The SETLISTS tab came to life with the aid of someone who clearly knows what songs we play!
September 9, 2008
We are building a new homepage as you may have noticed.
The reason for this is simply; we got bored with the old one.
It's probably going to take some time to get it they way we want it.
In the meantime, the NEWS, GIGS and GUESTBOOK sections are open.
Be patient my friends...
