Three years ago, when I first moved to Sweden, I was of course curious about Swedish music, since I already knew a lot of things about Swedish tennis. To be more specific, I thought it would be a good idea to start listening to music in Swedish, since, yes, I already knew a lot of Swedish artists that were singing in English and were known abroad. So I asked my Swedish friends for suggestions. I got a lot. I listened. I put aside some and kept some in mind but none got my attention the way Kent did. For this reason their album Röd made it to the list of albums that made an impression on me. I remember listening to that album while riding the bus to the wonderful middle of nowhere where I used to live and trying hard to differentiate the words. I also remember having to leave Sweden in 2014, 2 days before their concert.

With that introduction done, I will carry on by saying that I am not a diehard fan, but apparently the band is very popular around here.  I say that because their farewell tour sold out so fast that extra concerts had to be scheduled. I happened to get a ticket to one of their farewell concerts so there I was these days going to my first concert where all the songs are in Swedish. Hope that was good practice for my Swedish exam I have today, but more about today in my next post.

In my specific way, I drove my friends back home crazy with this concert, and probably with the band as well. But they have no idea who Kent are, so I was careful enough to make some Instagram stories with some of my favourite songs from them, songs that they played yesterday, and add two clips here (it was quite hard to pick just these two). Unfortunately they didn’t play all the songs I like, but after the concert was over, I would have stayed there to listen to them play a bit more. It was super nice to see so many people gathered to see them. I wonder how many of them have been to more than just one farewell concert? It was very nice to see people dancing, to hear them sing along, to enjoy the atmosphere and the visual show and most importantly, to just stand there and listen to the music, watch the band, and (try to) sing along to the songs I knew. I think it was something I had to do. Some sort of once in a lifetime experience, simply because according to their claims, their music career as a group ends now, so I won’t have another chance to see them live.