#instagrammoments - january to july

#january #skiing #austria #beautyofnature / Breathtaking view in Sölden!

#january #groovytracks #djsandy / I start broadcast 'Groovytracks' at Studentradion 98,9 in Uppsala

#february #scandinaviansoul #andysandy / I get to be part of the first ever Scandinavian Soul Award Night and start working with founder of the site Andy Collins

#march #dollalova #scandinaviansoul / Me and Andy travel to Helsinki and meet up with the new Finish Soul collective. I get to see an awesome AWESOME live performance by three young bands

#april #babasburger #rågsved / Me, Marie and doggy Svea try out the new hipster-burger-place in Stockholm: Babas Burger. Rating: 3/5

#april #groovytracks #radioskanstull / I start boradcast my show at Radio Skanstull in Stockholm city

#may #friend #coffee / Lovely Johanna travels from Gothenburg to Stockholm and we're having a lovely coffee-catch-up at Il Café

#may #sleepover #svea / Sleepovers become weekly-standards at Marie's & Svea's house in Tallkrogen

#may #photo #summer #trädgården / I got an entrance card for Stockholms hipster club nr. 1 Trädgården. Me and best friend Titti kick of summer with black & white photos + beer at Trädgården

#june #birthday #onaboat / Having the best day ever wit my friends celebrating my birthday in the Swedish Artipelago

 #june #midsummer #party / How can you not love this group of happy (crazy) friends?!?!?

#june #bråvallafestival / I'm with WiMP Music this summer and Bråvalla Festival was a great experience meeting bands like 'Bombay Bicycle Club' and 'Imagine Dragons'

#july #groovytracks / The most played song in Sweden right now is 'Din Soldat' - a track by Albin feat. Kristin Amparo. They came to GroovyTracks and performed their song live :)

#july #DEUTSCHLAND / WHHHHHHYUUUT! Germany wins VM!!! :D

#july #photoblocks / My photoblocks at Designtorget sell out.... #ntch #ntch

#july #onaboat / I love life of boats. It makes me happy! Good that summer goes on for another month then wooooooooop woooooop!!!

Visuals for 'Din Soldat'

Here's the video of Albin and Kristin Amparo performing at GroovyTracks with their song 'Din Soldat'. Follow the soulfulness in my life - go to Soul By Sandy :)

SOLD OUT!

A happy jump must be 'the-posture-of-my-life' :) My Photoblocks that I sell at Designtorget sold out! Intense work for 4 days led to another 130 pieces of Photoblocks... my fingers feel like bleeding and dust is still coming out of my nostrils. BUT, I managed to focus and produce these awesome little babies though Swedish summer made it very tempting to just stay outside... I'm very happy and proud to be at Designtorget! Thank you for supporting my work, hope to see Photoblocks in every home I visit hehe ;)Love,
Sandy

Timeless beauty on a summer evening

Camila and I haven't done a photo shoot for some time now, so I'm very happy we got to do one finally. The setting: A warm evening in the midst of Stockholm, where the light keeps is company all night long.

Summer Luvin'

This is what happens when you get some time off with friends - happy jumps all night long! Me and Philastian went for an evening walk around Långholmen, a small island you must visit while being in Stockholm. Close to "Södermalm" this is where you actually find ok water to swim in :) And now sun is finally here again after a minor winter-period and it's very very warm, another week like this and the water will be perfectly heated for madame haha!

PS. Love my new pants from Swedish fashion brand Rodebjer. The best asset this summer!

GroovyTracks - live with Sweden's most played song

Loads of things were going on at the same time in our small studio! 

Sweden's most played song right now is called 'Din Soldat' (Your Soldier) and just sold Platina here in less than two months time, which is so cool! It also reached over 7 million plays on Spotify... The artists behind 'Din Soldat' came to GroovyTracks and sang their song live in an acoustic version were hip hop met soul - Albin feat. Kristin Amparo.

The pianist, Jonathan Alfredsson, blew me away with his talent!

Jonathan, Sandy, Albin and Kristin.Kristin was going to a release party just after having been live on air and she looked so awesome. Like a real soul queen with THE real soul voice. She also performed with Swedish 'Dim Out' at Scandinavian Soul Award Night in February this year. They're both working on new albums to be released this fall, very exciting!!! Dim Out came to GroovyTracks a couple of weeks ago to perform his song 'Förort' live at Radio Skanstull. It sounded like this. Listen to the podcast and enjoy an acoustic live version of 'Din Soldat' with Albin and Kristin Amparo. Big up to Albin Johnsén, Kristin Amparo Sundberg, Jonathan Alfredsson, Nora Bellil och Noah Gibson. And Radio Skanstull of course, love it there :)Puss & love,
DJ Sandy

Bråvalla Festival - Yeah Baby, Yeah!

Finally time for Bråvalla Festival, something I've been looking forward to for weeks now! It was better than I ever could have expected! I'll be working some with WiMP this summer :) It's a music streaming service with HiFi-music. Here with my colleague Felizia! 

The festival was located in Norrköping, about two hours drive from Stockholm. We got to stay there all days, Thursday - Sunday.

Felizia and her boyfriend Gustav!

Our first interview was with these wonderful young guys in Bombay Bicycle Club. Jamie MacColl (guitar) and Suren De Saram (drums) talked about Swedish girls and how bad they're at dancing. I made this one-minute-video-interview with them. If one minute wasn't enough you can read more here. 

Next up: Imagine Dragons!!!! We had so much fun and could not stop talking... We had a long discussion about who would be what character in Lord Of The Rings. Haha! Mentioned got Gollum, Saruman and some dwarf. You've probably heard their song 'Demons' :) Their concert was super super great too!!!

Lana Del Rey was one of my favorite gigs from our first day at Bråvalla (Thursday). She started to eat gum, smoked cigarettes and drank some sort of coffee-drink while being on stage. Well she's able to it all, we loved it. And singing in sunset made the concert even better!

Sam Smith. I'm speechless. Wow. Soooo good. Top three from Bråvalla for sure. He came on stage around midnight Thursday night and it was just the perfect ending to our first day at the festival.

Day two started with interviewing Foxes. She was really cool and loads of people think she did one of the best performances at Bråvalla. Her song 'Let go For Tonight' really made people let go of the night, dancing like crazy! I'm about to finish a one-minute-video-interview with her. To be posted very soon!

We met Steve, drummer in Placebo, really late on Friday evening and were a bit tired... but he gave us so much energy! 

He joined Placebo in 2007 and when we asked him what makes a band stay together for so long (20 years) he said that 'you just stick together'. Like his parents do in their relationship, he said. Read about Placebo in this interview by Nora.

This gig also belongs to one of my favorites, with Kings Of Leon. I loved the lighting and the sound was sehr gut. It had been raining all day so people in the front basically stood in water and mud getting all dirty. But hey, it's was a rock concert!

The day after.... we had some work to do and went to the festival early. We were sitting in the press-room were they had wifi and coffee! 

On Friday it started to rain a lot and lighting hit in the midst of a camping area.. ten people got hurt, some very bad. One of them is still at the hospital in a "really critical condition". We heard a big load sound and when we got to hear what happened a lot of people got really sad. A big big tragedy. And poor people who had to stay outside in their wet tents that night... I was lucky enough to stay at a hotel. 

It's been a really intense weekend, but I'm very very happy. I saw so many nice bands perform and met awesome people! Later this summer I'll also be with WiMP at Way Out West and Stockholm Music & Arts with artists such as Neil Young and Robyn. Can't wait!!! 

Thank you WiMP, my colleagues Nora & Felizia and all the great people I met for making this a fantastic festival! Puss /Sandy