{"id":9066,"date":"2009-04-28T19:55:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2009-04-28T19:55:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T17:55:24","slug":"the-refreshments-fyller-20-ar-firar-med-ny-rockig-platta-och-turne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=9066","title":{"rendered":"The Refreshments fyller 20 \u00e5r: firar med ny rockig platta och turn\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sodergren.com\/kulturbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/therefreshments290.jpg\" alt=\"therefreshments290\" title=\"therefreshments290\" width=\"290\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9067\" \/><br \/>\nThe Refreshments fyller 20 \u00e5r: firar med ny rockig platta och turn\u00e9, ber\u00e4ttar ett pressmeddelande.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOch h\u00e4r har du pressmeddelandet:<\/p>\n<p>2009 blir ett gyllene \u00e5r f\u00f6r Sveriges i s\u00e4rklass mest popul\u00e4ra klassiska rock\u2019n\u2019roll-band, The Refreshments. I \u00e5r firar de 20-\u00e5rsjubileum med nytt album \u201dA Band\u2019s Gotta Do What A Band\u2019s Gotta Do\u201d (sl\u00e4pps 27 maj) med \u201dKeep Movin\u2019 On\u201d som f\u00f6rsta singel. I sommar g\u00f6r bandet en stor turn\u00e9 genom hela Sverige med start i b\u00f6rjan av juni.<\/p>\n<p>Tv\u00e5 decennier har allts\u00e5 g\u00e5tt sedan ett g\u00e4ng unga G\u00e4vlekillar best\u00e4mde sig f\u00f6r att ta upp tr\u00e5den fr\u00e5n hj\u00e4ltarna i Rockpile och satsa allt p\u00e5 enkel treackordsrock. Tolv raka guldplattor (inklusive \u201dA Band\u2019s Gotta Do What A Band\u2019s Gotta Do\u201d, som har s\u00e5lt guld p\u00e5 f\u00f6rhandsorder), en platina och en halv miljon s\u00e5lda album visar att det var ett klokt beslut.<\/p>\n<p>Nya albumet \u201dA Band\u2019s Gotta Do What A Band\u2019s Gotta Do\u201d \u00e4r ett nytt \u00f6vertygande bevis f\u00f6r att Refreshments har mutat in ett helt eget sound i gr\u00e4nslandet mellan h\u00f6genergisk rock\u2019n\u2019roll, melodi\u00f6s pop och bitterljuv countryboogie. Bandet \u00e4r detsamma som det varit de senaste \u00e5ren: Joakim Arnell (bas\/s\u00e5ng), Johan Blohm (piano\/s\u00e5ng), Micke Finell (sax\/s\u00e5ng\/gitarr), Mats Forsberg (trummor) och Robin Olsson (gitarr\/s\u00e5ng). Men n\u00e5got har h\u00e4nt sedan f\u00f6rra studioplattan \u201d24\/7\u201d fr\u00e5n h\u00f6sten 2007. Soundet \u00e4r vassare och tuffare. Det l\u00e5ter helt enkelt rockigare \u00e4n n\u00e5gonsin \u2013 vilket kanske inte \u00e4r s\u00e5 ov\u00e4ntat f\u00f6r ett band som har \u201dit\u2019s gotta be both rock\u2019n\u2019roll\u201d som valspr\u00e5k. <\/p>\n<p>Turn\u00e9plan<br \/>\n6.6 Vretstorp, Folkets Park<br \/>\n13.6 M\/S Baltic Queen<br \/>\n20.6 Pajala, Me\u00e4nfestivaali<br \/>\n26.6 Uppsala, Katalin<br \/>\n27.6 V\u00e4dd\u00f6, Vikingalunden<br \/>\n10.7 Svedala, SommarRock<br \/>\n11.7 Boden, Western Farm (med The Boppers som special guests)<br \/>\n15.7 Karlshamn, \u00d6stersj\u00f6festivalen<br \/>\n17.7 Borgholm, Slottsruinen (support till Status Quo)<br \/>\n18.7 Tydal, Tydalsfestival\u2019n (NO)<br \/>\n22.7 V\u00e4stervik, MC Dagarna (med Linda Gail Lewis, Sven Zetterberg<br \/>\nsamt The Boppers som special guests)<br \/>\n24.7 Varberg, Socitetsparken (support till Jerry Williams)<br \/>\n25.7 Fr\u00f6vi, Flashboda Bluesfestival<br \/>\n30.7 V\u00e4nersborg, V\u00e4nersborgsfestivalen<br \/>\n7.8 \u00c4lvdalen, \u00c4lvdalsparken<br \/>\n15.8 G\u00f6tene, Arnfestivalen (med Jerry Williams)<br \/>\n29.8 Skutsk\u00e4r, Holmarna Folkets Park<br \/>\n5.9 Olstorp, Olstorps Festplats<\/p>\n<p>Fler datum tillkommer. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NJQnZ0Bu7Zo&#038;hl=sv&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NJQnZ0Bu7Zo&#038;hl=sv&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sodergren.com\/kulturbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/therefreshments600-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"therefreshments600\" title=\"therefreshments600\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9068\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Relaterat:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.svd.se\/kulturnoje\/nyheter\/artikel_2810599.svd\"> Svenska Dagbladet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andra bloggar om: <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggar.se\/om\/rockmusik\" rel=\"tag\">rockmusik<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggar.se\/om\/musikvideo\" rel=\"tag\">musikvideo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggar.se\/om\/turn%E9\" rel=\"tag\">turn\u00e9<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggar.se\/om\/The+Refreshment\" rel=\"tag\">The Refreshment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Refreshments fyller 20 \u00e5r: firar med ny rockig platta och turn\u00e9, ber\u00e4ttar ett pressmeddelande.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3868,4803,6004],"class_list":{"0":"post-9066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"tag-musikvideo","8":"tag-rockmusik","9":"tag-turne","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}