Swedish Parker!

Basically translates to something like “Fluorescent (or Luminous, or Glowing in the dark), Kent!”

Quite possibly the one band in Sweden that EVERYBODY knows.

…and the one that just about everybody likes as well.

They seem a bit like the Powderfinger of this country.

No matter whether you’re an Indie Douchebag or a Poppy EuroTrash Fan, it seems acceptable for anyone to like Kent.

Every young Swede knows at least a couple of their songs, and every kid my age has a bunch of random teenage memories associated with them.

It also doesn’t hurt that they only sing in Swedish, or that they carry the title of “Sveriges största rockband” (Sweden’s biggest rockband).

So for all of the above reasons, they were able to fill up an entire football ground in Stockholm last weekend (granted it wasn’t quite the M.C.G., but still, not bad for a single local band).

What really summed it up though, was the crowd.

It’s like when you go to a gig, and the fans start screaming as soon as the band plays the first few chords of their most popular track (that was me, last week, when MGMT played “Time To Pretend”).

Only with Kent, that’s EVERY song.

This guy was the support act, he was pretty sweet. Some famous old punk rocker that now has THE raspiest voice I’ve ever heard.

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