scandipop live

In July 2009, we announced that the scandipop club night was turning into scandipop live.

Different event, different time, different venue.

We’re changing! As much as we’ve loved and enjoyed hosting the scandipop club night for the last nine months, we’d like more – and we’d like to give you more too! And so as of this month, the scandipop club night becomes scandipop live! We’ll no longer be just a night out where you can come and dance to the greatest Scandinavian pop, dance and schlager (although that element will still be at the root of our new nights), we’re also going to enable you to come and see the makers of this great music actually perform it live on stage!!! And so every scandipop event will have a different artist for you to come and watch. With us Djing before and after their gig.

The idea is simple. It’s an opportunity for Scandinavian acts to come and perform their music to their UK fans. And it’s a chance for UK fans to finally see live, the artists that make all the great scandipop that they love so much – without having to go abroad! It’ll be everyone from dance divas and pop groups, to electro sirens and wizzards, to Melodifestivalen participants and schlager dames. We’ve already got the first few acts on board – with details of the first event being revealed later this weekend.

Due to the nature of having to get artists to travel abroad for one gig, we can’t hold these events at a specific time every month. So whereas we used to occur on the 3rd Thursday of every month, now we’ll be taking place as and when the artist is available. We might be holding events once a month, or twice per month, or once in two months – it depends on artist availability! Additionally, the venue in which the gig will take place will also depend on the artist – the bigger the act, the bigger the venue, and vice-versa.

To keep track of what events are coming up, it’s best you keep checking this website. Or you can join the facebook group, ’scandipop’, where we’ll be emailing everyone whenever a new event is announced. On top of all this, you can follow us on Twitter if you’re into that sort of thing (www.twitter.com/scandipop)

We love this music, and we know that you do too – so we wanted to finally allow the music and its audience to come together in the same room for a night out. Do come along! X

Before scandipop live though, we hosted the scandipop club nights from October 2008 to June 2006;

scandipop is a new night out in London. Different from the rest in its unashamed attitude towards the pop music that everyone loves, but few acknowledge. Come to scandipop to dance to the music that other club nights are afraid to play – melody driven, key change embedded, dance beat backed, heart on its sleeve pop music. All from the countries which know how to make it best – Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Finland.

Some people’s awareness of Scandinavian pop music begins and ends with Abba, A-Ha, and Aqua. Others have watched and loved the likes of Robyn, Annie, and BWO crossing over from being hidden gems to the saviours of Radio One and Radio Two over the last 12 months. There are some who’ll happily spend the night in the trendy and grimy clubs of East London to a soundtrack of The Knife, The Ark, and Lykke Li. While under the arches of the South London clubs, nothing triggers the dosage like a blasting of Eric Prydz, Axwell, or Stonebridge. Then there are the young clubbers in the North of England who’ve appointed Basshunter and September as their new King and Queen. But as well as all of this, there are also a growing number of pop fans who, starved of their fix of sugary goodness from a desperately cool UK music industry, have migrated their musical purchases to the shores of Scandinavia – rich with gems from a large catalogue of Melodifestivalen and Melodi Grand Prix (Alcazar, Queentastic, Linda Bengtzing), Idol participants who’ve been afforded a record deal (Agnes, Ola, Marie Picasso), and best of all – the old Schlager Dames who have adopted the dance beat as their carer of choice (Carola, Kikki Danielson, Anna Book). No matter which category above you fall into, whether you realised it or not, we all love us some scandipop!

scandipop is a smiley and shiny new night out in London that promises to be more fun than downing a pint of pear cider, taking your clothes off, and jumping up and down on a trampoline singing along to ‘Dancing Queen’. Key change after key change played to a dancefloor of happy campers results in a non-attitude, friendly atmosphere, where everyone’s main aim is to have as much fun as is socially acceptable. And sometimes beyond.

WARNING: Attendance of scandipop will result in incoherent mispronunciation, as you try to sing along to the Swedish language with a smile on your face.