tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63641742011-04-22T05:29:08.513+02:00We are Swedish journalist Johanna Mörtberg, photographer Ingela Hjulfors-Berg, marketing advisor Carl Larsson and filmmaker Mikael Andersson. We are working on a TV-documentary about why swedes love the music of Bruce Springsteen.johannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06004502183339104716noreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364174.post-90937843177312223492007-09-13T20:39:00.000+02:002007-09-14T20:53:57.407+02:00

Two weeks ago we found ourselves outside the Globe Arena, waiting for the ticket sale for the next Bruce Springsteen tour to take place. Johanna was first on the spot, Thursday morning she showed up, camera in hand to capture people in line, queing for tickets. On Friday morning Ingela showed up and the last 24 hours we did a lot of filming also. Olle Sjöström was our talented sound tecnichian

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It's been a while since the last report. A lot of things has happened, I feel a bit embarrased that I haven't written a single line about Mission:project, and all that I've learned during the sessions at Kamera&Bild. To make a long story short, we met five times during the spring and had discussions about our various projects with Olof Glemme, teacher in Photography at Konstfack and Anna Clarén,

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It's been a while since we last updated this webbsite, but we've been laying low, having our hands full with everyday life.But now this project is moving into a new position. Johanna has been selected by the swedish magazine Kamera & Bild to participate in something called Mission:Project. Tha magazine is doing a series of articles about how to complete a specific photographic project. It's not

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Finally we've recieved a positive response to our search for money. Film i Västerbotten has agreed to support us! We get to borrow camera, light- and sound equipment and we can also use their computers for editing. But the best part is that FiV will be supporting us with 27000 SEK! We're so happy for the money because this means we can actually begin filming again. This is great news for us and

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The activity on this page has been rather low, we haven't succeded in getting any financing for our film yet. We recently got turned down by Konstnärsnämnden, so we haven't done much since we don't have any money to film or edit. But Mr. SPringsteen himself has been all the more active. The new cover album, The Seeger sessions will be out on April 24th and he's coming to play in Stockholm, at

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Things are moving. On Saturday, November 12th, we're going to pitch our idea for Filmkontakt Nord. It's a meeting where we'll get to know if our project has potential to reach the Nordic audience and if so, we'll get some coaching about how to proceed and where to look for financing. Read more about Filmkontakt Nord.This meeting is being held during a filmfestival for documentaries in Stockholm.

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We've been working on our film project for almost two years. From the start it was just Mikael and Johanna, but now we have enlisted two new members to our team. Ingela Hjulfors-Berg is a journalist and filmmaker and she's going to be our photographer and editor. Carl Larsson is a business school graduate and web consultant and he's going to take care of the marketing and financing of our

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During the past week there has been a lot of attention on our film project. The interview from last month has resulted in an article in the Asbury Park Press, the local newspaper in New Jersey. Apart from that the film is Mikael's idea and that he asked me to join the project, it was a good article by swedish journalist Anders Mårtensson.There's also been an article in Metro and a longer version

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This has been a weekend that won't fade away easily!It started on Thursday, Mikael and I were travelling in different cars to Gothenburg. Due to traffic jam we got there too late to film and we had some trouble with the tape to Mikael's camera. We ended up being regular audience only, with no shooting except fore some still pictures.Anders and Martin in front of Scandinavium, Gothenburg.The crowd

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So, it's just 24 hours before Bruce Springsteen will play in Sweden again. Our preparations for a hectic weekend with concerts in Gothenburg tomorrow and Stockholm on Saturday seems to be in order. We're going by car to Gothenburg tomorrow and we will be there in time to do some shooting outside the arena and to meet with our fans that we have interviewed before. After the show it's straight back

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Things are moving fast now. Yesterday Johanna was in the papers, the article from TT Spektra is out. The article has so far been published in the two Stockholm papers City and Metro but it will probably show up in other papers too in the next few days.We just got word from Jon Landau management that they turned down our request for an interview, but we're not giving up. On Thursday next week we

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Today our project took another step when Johanna was interviewed by TT Spektra. TT Spektra is a Swedish news agency that produce articles that local papers all over the country can buy. This feature article will be available from the next week, but it will probably be published in papers close to Springsteen's two concerts in Sweden on July 23rd and 25th. We talked a lot about why Swedes love

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Two days ago we had our promoparty in a cellar vault in the Old Town. Mikael had come from Västervik and we spent many busy hours arranging everything for the big night. This included carrying loudspeakers and other musical equipment across the cobblestones of Old Town. It was hard on our backs, but we made it. Our biggest thanks to Staffan who let us borrow it! Then Johanna went to meet Hans

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It's only two days until the opening night for Candy's Room. the past few days have been very busy, we've applied for money from Film i Vasterbotten and it was a hard job getting all the papers ready. But now it's done! The rest of the time I've spent writing a press release, contacting the media about the event and arranging all the stuff we need for the party. Hopefully we'll get everything

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The past few days have been busy. I've been working a lot with Candy's Room, organizing the party, making sure we have all the equipment, updating webbsites and writing pressreleases. But I got a nice break when I got a phonecall. It was journalist Anders Mårtensson who wanted an interview about our film. Anders is based in Hässleholm, but with photographer Jörgen Johansson he has been

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The plans for our Club Candy's Room are ready.Thursday May 19th we'll open the gates to the party which will be held at Själagårdsgatan 21 in Gamla stan, Stockholm.7 p.m. Welcome to the party!Chat with your friends, have a snack and listen to good music.8 p.m Viewing of our filmWe show our pilote film, present our documentary and there will be time for Q & A afterwards.9 p.m Live musicHans

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Yesterday me and my friend Ingela, who is visiting in Stockholm, went to the Dreamfactory, a mini festival about film and filmmaking. It started out very nicely, when Calle my boyfriend called a cab, it proved to be Morgan, a Brucefan that Mikael and I had interviewed for the film, who was behind the wheel. Morgan works as a taxidriver and now he took us to Filmhuset for the festival party. There

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We've got good news! We have confirmed an interview with E Street Band-member Garry Tallent! All we have to do now is raise the cash for a trip to Nashville, with a stop in New Jersey too. To get some money into our project we have decided to launch a club evening here in Stockholm. Thursday May 19th, at seven o'clock pm we open the gates to Candy's Room.We've rented a cool place at Gamla stan,

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We've been catching our breath after a few hard days of work. After the ticket sale was announced, Mikael and I had a hard time getting our hands on a camera, but we managed to borrow one mini-DV from Svante, a friend of my boyfriend's. Thanks to Svante we had the equipment so we could film during the ticket sale.The line starts here. I got to the Globe arena early Sunday morning, got myself a

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Today it's official. Ticketrelease for Bruce Springsteen's two concerts in Sweden will take place om Monday, April 18th. Already fans have gathered around the Globe arena, to stand in line for tickets. Hopefully we're going to make our way there too, to take pictures, film and talk to the fans. We're a bit jumpy too, you can only buy two tickets per person, so it's going to take som effort to get

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After four days of hard work in Umeå we are back in Stockholm. With the great help of our friend, Ingela Hjulfors-Berg, we have a six minute long pilot film.The initial difficulties were solved after a good bit of reorganizing of the material. We managed to edit it in a better way and we were quite proud of ourselves by lunch time on Saturday. But then we ran into more problems as we were going

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We are in Umeå now, we've been here for two days, working on our trailer for the film. Thanks to our good friend Ingela we've been able to come up here for the editing. Yesterday we spent a good part of the day logging material into the computer. We had some trouble getting the different tape recorders and other stuff to work together, but after finding the right cables we made it all work. Today

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Since the convention in Rågsved, there has been quite a few fans who has showed interest in supporting our film financially. Therefore we've established an account, where people can deposit money to help us finish the documentary. It's a so called postgirokonto and the number of the account is PG 152 54 65-9. So far it's only possible for swedish citizens to put money in this account, but should

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Yesterday we went to Rågsved, one of the southern suburbs in Stockholm, to attend the very first swedish Springsteen convention. At noon sharp, we were among the first to enter. The venue soon was filled with fans eager to watch Brucevideos, listen to lectures and enjoying the atmosphere. People are arriving at the convention.Mattias, one of the persons who arranged the convention, talked about

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Hi!There's been some time since the last report, but now things are starting to come together again. Bruce Springsteen is releasing a new album in April, but already this weekend swedish fans are gathering for the first convention ever to take place in our country. The convention is going to take place at Rågsveds Folkets hus tomorrow, February 19th, and there will be cover bands, lectures and a

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During the fall we have been looking fo an editor that can help us cut the trailer we are giong to make. We had some problems when the man we had choosen to work with had to take on other assignments, so we've spent a lot of time trying to find someone to replace him. Things are looking brighter on that front, so we hope we can finish the trailer in January-February. Another nice Christmas

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The recent days have been hectic, and much has happened. First, Clarence Clemons came to Sweden on tour with his own band, The Temple of Soul. We saw his show at Nalen, Stockholm on August 2. Unfortunately we didn't manage to get an interview with him for our film, but we hope that there will be other chances. It was a great show and the Big Man gave us a great rockin' that night. Today there's

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The sun is shining, and summer is not far away, but instead of enjoying the weather, we've been sitting inside watching hours after hours of interviewmaterial. In order to organize the material we're going through it, carefully writing down what people say. It's really hard work, it makes your eyes square and your mind too, but it needs to be done. And now there's only a few tapes left, so

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Yesterday we met journalist Mats Bråstedt at Expressen. He saw his first Springsteen concert in November 1975 and he has seen every show Bruce has played in Sweden except the one at Hovet in 1981. Mats thinks Bruce has matured as a songwriter, from his early years when the songs were almost overflowing with words. "Today he seems to weigh every word carefully before using it, he is more

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Today we went to the fashionable hotel Clarion to interview journalist Håkan Lahger. We had a very interesting conversation about the period 1975-1985, when Bruce was at his peak, according to Håkan. "A lot has been said about Springsteen's performance at Konserthuset in 1975, and all is true. It feels almost embarrassing to use a word such as 'spectacular' but it really was. In a time when most

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Today we have met journalist Mia Gerdin. She worked for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter in 1975 and saw her first Springsteen concert in november that year, at Konserthuset. That was such an mindblowing experience for Mia, that she didn't see any other show until 1992, because she didn't want anything to ruin her memories. She also told us a story of how she was chosen with three other journalists

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Two days ago Mikael and I went to Jönköping to film the performance of The Hungry Heart Band. They played at the local theatre for two nights, and gave the audience an intense show with some of Springsteen's best songs. We filmed the band during soundcheck, and afterwards we made an interview with Hans "Ludde" Ludvigsson, singer in the band and the man behind the tributeshow.Ludde has a long

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A few days ago we received an e-mail from Jon Landau Management about our request to interview Bruce. This is what they told us:Mikael & Johanna,We are in receipt of your request to interview Bruce. Unfortunately, Brucehas declined. Bruce is not taking on any projects this year. We would liketo thank you for thinking of Bruce and wish you much success with yourtv-documentary.Thanks!Tammy

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Today we took the train to Uppsala to meet Niklas, who saw his first concert at the Globe arena, June 17th 1992. The weather was lovely, spring is in the air and the sun was warm. Niklas told us about the adrenaline kick when the gates open and you rush to get a good spot as close to the stage as possible. "I want to be in the front row to feel the fellowship of the other fans. Those in front are

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Today we have met Daniel and Staffan who saw their first Springsteen concert at Konserthuset, Stockholm, November 21st 1975. They had both listened to Springsteen's first albums, but still the show was a complete shock to them. "It was great to hear the songs live, but we never expected the band to be so tight. They could start with those partysongs, then Bruce came out for a solo piano

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Today we have met Måns Ivarsson, journalist at Expressen. His colleague Mats Bråstedt was prevented from coming, but we'll interview him in April. Måns saw his first Springsteen concert in Copenhagen in 1981. He thinks that the heart of Springsteen's production is centered around the albums Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River, and he ranks the tour in 1981 as the best he has

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Today we have met Andres Lokko, who work as a music critic at the eveningpaper Expressen. Andres is also a scriptwriter for Killinggänget, a group that have made a number of humoruos tv-programs and films. Andres saw hist first Springsteen concert in 1981, at Hovet, Stockholm. As he knew only one song (Hungry Heart) he was completely surprised by the intensity and energy, and he still ranks that

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We are building our documentary around the experiences of the fans and the analysis of a group of music critics. But we also hope to get an interview with Bruce Springsteen himself. We have sent to letters to Sony NY and Jon Landau Management to ask for a meeting, but so far we have heard nothing yet. Apparently we got the wrong address to Landaus company, because we got the letter in return,

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Today we've spent our time at the National archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images, looking through some news broadcasts and TV shows. We found some newsfootage of people in line for tickets outside Konserthuset in Stockholm in 1981 and 1985 and there were also pictures from the ticketdrop in Gothenburg 2002. In a program called Magasinet from November 3rd 1988, wellknown swedish journalist

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Today we have met Mattias who saw his first show at The Globe arena, June 15th 1992. He told us about his gigantic expectations before the first concert in 1992 and how the show had been so much better than he ever could imagine. For many years Mattias have been a very devoted fan, but after the concert at the Globe 2002 he was a bit disappointed. And the first night at Ullevi in 2003 didn't

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Today we went out in the snow to meet Tommy who saw his first concert at Stadion, July 3rd 1988. That first show was a mindblowing experience for Tommy, who just couldn't go straight home afterwards. "I walked the streets, filled with euphoria, I don't know what I did exactly, I was just so happy after the show. I got home about 5 in the morning and that day would be my first day at work after

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So we're in for another round of interviews. Today we have met Morgan who saw his first show at Stadion, Stockholm, July 2nd 1988, and he still thinks that the second night back in '88 is the best show he has seen. Stockholms Stadion, the arena where Bruce have played most often, 1988, 1993 and 1999. While Morgan's two cats Borka and Lucifer tried to snuggle up in our camerabags, Morgan told us

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Ten days have passed and we've spent the time planning and organizing our future work. We will resume filming again on February 22nd and go on for about a week. We will also pay another visit to the National Arcive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images where we will look at some more TV-material about Springsteen. Most time is spent on scheduling the interviews for our next run, but it's

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Today we have met Erika, she saw her first concert at the Globe arena, Stockholm, October 24th 2002. She has been brought up with Springsteen's music, her father has been a great fan since 1975, and her older brother and sister as well as her mother, are fans too. And then there is the story of Erika's uncle. He was probably one of the first to see Bruce when he came to play at Konserthuset in

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Today we have met Per, who saw his first concert at Ullevi, Gothenburgh, June 8th 1985. But it was the second night that really swept him away and even though the memories now have faded a bit, some strong pictures remains. Like the one when Bruce leans back, his head towards the sky and kicks in the intro to Born to Run. No matter what age they are or how many shows they have seen - it's one

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Today we have interviewed Inger, who saw her first show at Hovet, Stockholm, May 7th 1981. Johanneshovs isstadion, or simply Hovet, is mostly used for icehockey. The weather in Stockholm today was really bad, with slush and lots of snow. We had to walk through the wind, though the rain, the snow, the wind, the rain... before we got to Radiohuset (The National radio building) and the place where

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Today we have made our first interview with David, who saw his first concert at the Globe arena, Stockholm, October 24th 2002. Mikael and I were both a little nervous about the camera and that all that stuff we needed would be included in the bags that had been sent to us. But the essentials were there and after some time of adjusting the sound and image the camera was rolling! David told us

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Today Mikael and I have spent most of the day at Statens arkiv för ljud och bild (The National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images) where we've been looking at newsfootage from the swedish Bruceconcerts from 1981 to 2003. Most of the footage included interviews with fans in line up for the shows, brief excerpts from songs like Rosalita, BITUSA, Better Days, Boom Boom, My Love Will Not Let

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Fans enjoying the sun at Ullevi, Gothenburgh June 21-22 2003.Time has passed since those sunny days outside the Ullevi arena last summer. But next week we're meeting the fans again, the first interviews for the documentary will take place in Stockholm January 27th till February 2nd. We are also going to cover the show HUNGRY HEART - A Tribute to the music of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN in Jönköping April

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So, here we go! We are swedish filmmaker Mikael Andersson and Johanna Mörtberg, journalist, based in Västervik and Stockholm. We are going to make a tv-documentary about swedish Springsteenfans. Filming starts next week here in Stockholm when we get our stuff together for the first interviews with the fans. The documentary is made for broadcasting on swedish national television and it will be

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