Peace & Love Festival Sweden

Peace & Love Festival Sweden

Peace & Love is the biggest festival in Sweden and the only one with an outspoken message of Solidarity, Diversity and Understanding, which runs through the whole event. It started in 1999 and is located in Borlänge, Sweden.

The concept of the Peace & Love festival is to spread the message of Diversity, Solidarity and Understanding. It’s about crossing borders and bringing differing cultures from near and afar together and trying to get people to change their attitudes towards themselves and others.

In 2006 there were 15,000 visitors per day, with over 37,000 people attending in total and in 2009 Peace & Love became the biggest festival in Sweden with 41, 685 tickets sold.
 
Backyard Babies at Peace & Love 2009
Backyard Babies at Peace & Love 2009
The band that kicked off my very first Peace & Love-festival was Sweden’s own kings of dirty sleaze: Backyard Babies. This band has been around for some time now, they have a number of albums behind them and even a book written about them; ”Blod, svett oc
Electric Boys at Peace & Love 2009
Electric Boys at Peace & Love 2009
The freaky funksters from Stockholm reunited this year to play a couple of festivals and if the rumours are true they might record an album and continue to play together.
Motley Crue at Peace & Love 2009
Motley Crue at Peace & Love 2009
I have to begin this review by saying that I didn’t have big expectations at all after seeing them at Sweden Rock Festival a couple of years back.
The Soundtrack of Our Lives at Peace & Love 2009
The Soundtrack of Our Lives at Peace & Love 2009
For some unexplainable reason I had actually never seen this classic swedish band before. The six-piece from Gothenburg are the remains from Union Carbide Productions, a band who earned a large underground following in the 90’s.
Turbonegro at Peace & Love 2009
Turbonegro at Peace & Love 2009
Norwegian gay death punk outfit Turbonegro entered the Shangri La stage by playing ”All My Friends Are Dead” but surely that wasn’t the case this Friday.
 




Cult of Luna at Peace & Love 2009
Cult of Luna at Peace & Love 2009
Since I had to run like a maniac from the previous gig...
Dundertåget at Peace & Love 2009
Dundertåget at Peace & Love 2009
On the very last day of the festival I got to see my first gig at DZ-stage and it took a while before I found
Gogol Bordello at Peace & Love 2009
Gogol Bordello at Peace & Love 2009
Now this was a band I only know through hearsay; ”awesome live act”,
Jonna Lee at Peace & Love 2009
Jonna Lee at Peace & Love 2009
Jonna Lee is a girl with a very cool name who got very much publicity when she released her debut album
Sanna Carlstedt at Peace & Love 2009
Sanna Carlstedt at Peace & Love 2009
It’s not easy for a female singer/songwriter, or maybe you should say folksinger
The Wildhearts at Peace & Love 2009
The Wildhearts at Peace & Love 2009
The Wildhearts - one of Britain’s finest rock acts - led by the ever so charming Ginger
Thåström at Peace & Love 2009
Thåström at Peace & Love 2009
Joakim Thåström is almost about the closest thing you can get to a living legend on the Swedish music scene
Warrior Soul at Peace & Love 2009
Warrior Soul at Peace & Love 2009
”The band who fought America, fought the system…and ultimately lost”