Sweden Rock Festival 2013

Day 1

9:10 Sue and I are on the train from Copenhagen to Sölvesborg now and just crossing the bridge to Sweden. The weather is great 20C and just pure sunshine. There are some Swedish kids drinking Gamle Dansk next to us and this is their first Sweden Rock Festival. I heard some other folks from the UK in another part of the train. 

10:13  We just passed through Hasselholm. We are due to arrive at 10:58 and then then we will go to the Mjälbyhus, where we stayed last year. The entire large house from the 1700’s is rented out by two groups of people. One from Spain and one from Finland. We are the only other people. I wonder if they will remember us from last year? 

12 We just had lunch out in the garden and the house is totally empty but the Spanish people have been here. They had a flag on the pole with the RUSH logo and the word SPAIN. 

14:38 We had a little nap after the nice lunch and a beer in the garden and are now on the bus to the festival. A few people who are staying at the Hanohus that we remember from last year are also on the bus. It is quite windy out right now but still warm. We have brought layers of clothes as you never know how cold it will get at night.

The Best Band

16  Getting into the festival and getting our wristbands were never easier than this year. They have moved the accreditation pick up. They also have another entrance for VIP again this year near the Sweden Stage which has been shifted to the right about 30 meters or so. A band called the Best Band, a Swedish spandex hard rock heavy metal band was on the 4Sound stage (why don’t they just keep the name, Zeppelin Stage they had all these years?). We did not find them that interesting and are soon off to go see the female blues artist Stacie Collins. 

Stacie Collins

I can see you can get drinking water from the bathroom sinks this year which is good as it is going to be hot. The prices for beer (65kr 500ml, 48kr for 330ml) are still outrageous. They will probably make 40 million in profit this year. We will see. 

17 Stacie Collins was really good. She has a cool raspy voice and plays harmonica on almost all the songs. They are clearly still working on the sound on the Sweden Stage but it is not bad up here on the hill but way too bassy  down by the stage when I took some pictures. You could not hear the guitar at all. The last two songs that they played were great and the band was doing some jamming with some nice duals between harmonica and guitar. They even did a bit of Jumping Jack Flash during the last song. Good set but short. Maybe 40mins. 

Magic Pie

17:30 Next we heard most of Magic Pie from Norway while having come food. The sound was so low it was criminal and they have not moved the Rockklassiker stage so it will be the same disaster as last year once bands start to play in the Rock stage. I would have enjoyed them much more if they played more than 80db. It was criminally low. Sometimes they reminded me of Marillion. They had keyboard, bass, drums, two electric guitar players, one acoustic and nearly everyone in the band did some singing.  Cool band.  The new material they played was very good and they had some nice jamming parts. The lead guitar player reminded me of Steve Morse. Pointless masquerade was a great song. 

Set List: Two new songs, Pointless Masquerade, 

The Black Day was very tragic. I wonder whose bad idea this was? Before the band Threshold, they had this group of 9 years old (Drums, bass, guitar, and three female vocalists) from Sölvesborg. They said this was the youngest band to ever play SRF and I would say also the worst. The singers were all out of tune and just sounded bad, the guitar player was not playing these cover songs well at all, only the drummer and bass players seem to work together. Bad idea. 

THe Black Day

Threshold

Vader

19:30 Threshold from the UK had a lot of technical problems to start and even had to start their opening song again after they aborted it after 1min or so. They had even worse sound than Stacie Collins on the Sweden Stage. IT did get a lot better later in the set. This was the first time the band had ever played in Sweden. If you don’t know them, they play this melodic metal with twin guitars, pad keyboards and operatic like singer. He was a very good singer. I am not really into this kind of music at all but we watched all their set.

The Sweet

20:30 We watched a couple of songs by the Polish thrash band, Vader. They reminded me a lot of Destruction. We went over to check out Sister Sin and they really sounded a lot like the early Warlock albums with a singer who could really sound like the old Doro Pesch (she plays on Friday). Fun to hear some of this but they lack originally a lot. Great attitude and looks. 

22:15 The Sweet that was a huge surprise. I saw them play here 7 years ago and it was ok but it did to really blow me away. They had their own sound guy and the sound was excellent with the guitars nice and loud. It was a cool set with a few cover songs (they opened with the Russ Ballard song New York Groove (Also covered by Ace Frehley). They did a heavy version of You spin me around (Dead or Alive). I had never heard this song but Sue knew it. They played half of the Desolation Blvd LP with Ballroom Blitz, Set me Free, the 16’s and one other. Action was fantastic as well. 

Set list: New York Groove, Hellraiser, Turn it Down, The Sixteens, WigWam Bam-Little Willy, Teenage Rampage, Love is like Oxygen, You spin me around, Action, Blockbuster, Fox on the Run, Ballroom Blitz

23:30 We saw the entire Bullet concert and they were really entertaining. A good front man who sounds a lot like Brian Johnson (not an easy singing style). Very AC/DC inspired but also like 80s Judas Priest for some of the guitar riffing stuff. The local people loved them. I think this is the 3^rd time they played SRF but the first time I had seen them. 

01:30 Candlemass had a really cool stage set up and a good sized but not huge crowd for the main headline act. The sound was excellent and I was pretty blown away by the new singer. He was great. The band played some songs from the last Psalms for the dead LP, which had a lot of organ on it. This was the first I ever saw the band with the keyboard player or the new singer. You could hear the keyboard but sadly he never did any solos, not even one. Just this same style organ sound all the time. He is far too good to just be doing that. It would require the band do jam, do some improve, extend songs but they are content playing them exactly like the records. Anyway, it was a great but predictable set of classics and not nearly as long a set as I thought they would play. Almost too easy for the band. I love them though. What is next for this band?

Set List: Prophet, Bewitched, Dark Reflections, Waterwitch, Emperor of The Void, Under The Oak, At The Gallows End, Darkness In Paradise, Psalms of The Dead, Black As Time

Crystal Ball, Solitude

The bus trip home was crazy as the old driver did not know where the fuck he was going so Sue, I and one Finnish guy, the only three on the bus and all going to the same place, had to tell this guy that he was going the wrong way and had already passed where were staying. He did eventually find the place. 

Day 2

It was a late night but we managed to catch the bus at 13. The Spanish group had a bus at 10:30! Demon was playing when we arrived. We heard some of the set but did not see them play. I love their first three records but they have moved far from that sound now days. The weather is just amazing. I am just in shorts and sandals again. We caught a few songs by a young Swedish speed metal band called Overworld. The band and singer had a lot attitude but I did not think the singer sung very well live. Maybe they are better on the record? 

Overworld

Michael Katon

14:45 We saw the entire Michael Katon set. He is a blues guitar player from near Detroit. He played a lot of slide guitar, boogie rock and roll blues stuff.  The attractive female bass player who could not avoid smiling or laughing during some of the very sexual lyrics of some of the tracks, was not very technical or good. She more or less thumped along with the drums and not adding a lot. He was a competent blues guitarist but not amazing. I did like quite a few of the songs and it was perfect music for sitting in the hot sun with a beer! 

Set List: ??, Whisky Hill, Come On Back To Hell, No More Whiskey, Red Moon Risin', Diablo Boogie, Barbeque On My Boogie, Fried Jalapenos, Boogie Man

15 We saw a bit of Days of Jupiter on the Rockklassiker stage but it was a disaster for sound. You could hardly hear them clear as they were blasted by Survivor on the Rock stage. They a sort of melodic pop metal but with some heavy guitar riffs. Since we were hearing Survivor anyway, we decided to check them out for the hell of it even though this is a band that I hated in the 80s.. same style and genre as Journey, Loverboy,etc… I shot a video of the guitar solo and one of their hits. Enjoy…. They had both of their classic singers from the band but it was quite clear who was in control and who was subordinate!  The crowd was nuts when they ended their show with Eye of the Tiger. 

Huntress

16:30 We saw maybe 5 songs by the California band, Huntress. They play thrashy, speed metal stuff with a small lady with a crazy intense voice. She was like a small King Diamond with these harsh piercing screams and deep intense vocals as well. She was just too much though. I got tired of her after a while but have to admit she is a very impressive singer but can she do this in 5 years? The band rocked. I liked the slower doomy track they played the best.

Well to kill some time we went and checked out Rick Springfield. In a recent issue of classic rock he said that people would be surprised how hard they rock live, well I was not. I think the first two songs he played when we got there were decent but when he took off his shirt, it all went downhill and it was terrible 80s AOR rock music. Ugh… off we went…. He had a pretty decent sized crowd and the sound was great on the big stage. We did hear him do this track from the Sound City soundtrack he recorded with Dave Grohl (Nirvana) and also the classic Crossroads. Strange mix of stuff. 

Sue and I saw Backdraft a few years ago and they were excellent again. I was really happy to hear them play Blue Sky by the Allman Brothers Band. The crowd was not that big as Status Quo is also playing right now. They really rocked the place and have changed their sound a bit being not as southern rock inspired as the past and some of the stuff I would say was almost like stoner rock. Excellent band.

We caught about half the Status Quo concert and Sue had never seen them and I had not seen them in 15 years. Some of the tracks were really good like Big Fat Mamma with a long guitar jam in the middle. I was surprised that Rossi was really on fire on the guitar today and they played a much more rocking set. I had hoped this would have been the frantic four but it was the current line-up of the band. I have heard the new material they had made is really bad but luckily we missed that if they played any. What we saw was really good.

Mark Shelton and myself

Manila Road

Next up was one of the bands that I had only ever dreamed of seeing again, Manila Road! I did an interview with the band in their house in Wichita, Kansas back in 1984 when I put out a HM fanzine called Metal Madness. Anyway, they were really great. The new lead singer sounds exactly like Mark, who also did some lead vocals but not so many. I was blown away that this guy was so close to his original sound. They played a killer set of stuff including a song from the very first record from 1980 called Cage of Mirrors. Mark is a real shredder on the guitar and the whole band plays well. I got to meet and talk with Mark after the show and he was so cool.  A true highlight of the festival for me.

Set List: Masque Of the Red Death, Witches Brew, Metalstorm, ?, HM to the World, ?, Only the Brave, Divine Victim, Road of Kings, Cage of Mirrors, The Riddle Master, Crystal Logic, Necropolis, Flaming Metal System

Amon Amarth from Sweden is a very intense Viking Death metal band. They had half of a Viking ship on the stage as part of the show and that looked cool. I love the lyrical content and power of this band live. I am not sure I would hear their records at home though. The crowd was massive on the Rock stage and people were into it. 

KISS.. what can I say.. I saw them in Dec 1979 on the Dynasty tour and that was pretty cool for a young kid. The show is even more massive and intense today but damn the band are in a serious decline. I saw them on the reunion tour back in 1997 and they were pretty good actually but this was really bad. Paul Stanley just can’t sing at all anymore. If you are doing so badly, you need to stop. The band was just tired, no spark at all, no fire, no excitement.. It left me feeling empty even though I love some of these old songs but it was a bit lame. We even left when the solos started. Pity as I love the old Kiss. 

Set List: Psycho Circus, Shout It Out Loud, Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll. I Love It Loud. Hell Or Hallelujah, War Machine, Calling Dr. Love, Deuce, Say Yeah, Shock Me / Outta This World, Guitar Solo, Drum Solo, Bass Solo (this is when we left), God of Thunder, Lick It Up, Love Gun, Rock And Roll All Nite, Detroit Rock City. I Was Made For Lovin' You, Black Diamond

Day 3

The weather has just been amazing this year. It was roasting hot yesterday but a light breeze so that was fine. I had a hard time coming up today. We got home early but I was just wiped out but did not sleep that great and was up early as the sun bakes our room starting at like 5am. I got up and opened the window at 7 and we lay down for another 1½ hrs or so but it is not really enough rest for me. I am not that young anymore… My feet and back are holding up well though. Today at lot of classic bands like Krokus, UFO, Saxon, The levellers.. Should be fun. 

12:10  We are sitting out in the sun in the garden at the Mjålbyhus waiting for the festival bus. It will be a busy day of music. Sadly, it was announced that Witchcraft was cancelled. Damn. I really wanted to see the new line up and hear the new songs live. 

13:05 The festival bus has arrived. The buses are really bad this year. They are supposed to come every 30mins or every hour and this is only the 2^nd one so far today. The Finns at the hotel are very unhappy as they did not get a bus until 3 in the morning after KISS as there were none for like 2 hrs. That is just really crap service when you play nearly 500kr for the bus wristband or 60kr ticket. 

Firewind (Greece) play melodic speed metal and have a very powerful singer. They are most known now due to the singer is in the Swedish band Spiritual Beggars and the guitar player plays with Ozzy. They are very good at what they do but they sounds like so many other bands in this genre of melodic fast paced metal with ripping leads. Guz did a long guitar solo that was real masturbation and you can totally hear how Zakk Wylde inspired he is. They had a super cool guitar and keyboard jam coming out of his solo, I think it was. I really enjoyed Firewind and the weather was great sitting up on the hill. They did the 80s hit song Maniac and the crowd liked it but it was not much better than the original just heavier. 

Set List: Wall of Sound, Head Up High, Destination Forever, Few Against Many, World On Fire, Guitar Solo. The Fire And The Fury, Till The End of Time, Losing My Mind, Mercenary Man, Maniac, Falling To Pieces

15 Now you choose between Newsted or Asia. We choose to go sit up on the hill in the sun and check out Newsted. There was a big crowd and people were really curious what this was going to be about since there is only this 4 song EP out now. The full length is due in August, he said. Anyway, despite the critics, they rocked! I am not so fond of his singing but they had a lot of pretty cool songs. He acts like he is James Hetfield in many ways. A great frontman and not a bad one to emulate. Some of the songs are like old Flotsam and Jetsam (for which he wrote most of the songs) and As the Crow Flies sounded a lot like Metallica. I really liked Nocturnus as one of the best of the new songs. They have some cool guitar solo sections on some of the songs like this one that I really liked. The Leper Messiah tease was cool and the crowd dug Whiplash and the Motorhead cover, We are the Road Crew. A very solid set. Let’s see how the band evolves. 

Set List: Ampossible, Heroic Dose, Soldierhead. Skyscraper. As The Crow Flies. Nocturnus, Long Time Dead, King of The Underdogs, Leper Messiah tease>Twisted Tale of The Comet, Godsnake, Whiplash, (We Are) The Road Crew

16:25  I had a nice 5min chat with Martin, one of the heads of the festival in the backstage area and he was a super nice guy. I mainly spoke to him about the huge problem with the small Rockklassiker stage where it is just a nightmare for the fans, the bands and sound people to make sound here due to the poor angle that the stage is placed. He agreed this was not working and promised they would solve this next year. We will see. 

DORO

16:45 DORO, who I saw a few years ago here and was great had a pretty big crowd on the main stage, showing she really has staying power as one of the true leaders of the female lead heavy metal bands. She played more or less the same exact set as last time she was here except for a couple of new songs. The Germans I spoke to said they are bored with her as she and her band do the same set year after year..  We also only heard half the show. The slow ballad version of Judas Priest Breaking the Law was unique. Still nice to hear all these old Warlock songs that I really used to like a lot. Speaking off, when my band, Øresund Space Collective recently went and played two shows in Hamburg and we were waiting for the ferry, the car right behind us was blasting the first Warlock record! Cool..

Set List: I Rule The Ruins, Burning The Witches, Rock Till Death, The Night of The Warlock, Metal Racer, True As Steel, Raise Your Fist In The Air, Fur Immer, Hero. Breaking The Law, Revenge, All We Are, Earthshaker Rock, Burn It Up, Metal Tango

18:30 UFO, a band that I have really liked but have now tired of sadly. I wore my 1981 Wild Willing and Innocent tour shirt today and got some nice comments but the band were just so boring and going through the motions playing the exact same set as 4 years ago except for the 3 new songs, one which was really excellent. I will never go to see them again unless I hear they have a fresh new set. It is so lame and fucking lazy to play the same songs every year, when you have tons of classics. Just plain lazy. One of the main reasons I came to see them was also the rumor that maybe Michael Schenker would join since he is playing later in the day with Europe but he was a no show. We should have gone to see the Leningrad Cowboys who I heard were really great, while this was not. 

Set List: Lights Out, Mother Mary, Fright Night, Wonderland, Cherry, Let It Roll, Burn Your House Down, Only You Can Rock Me, Love To Love, Rock Bottom, Doctor Doctor, Shoot Shoot

20 Krokus was a great band in the 80s and I have to say I was really surprised that they totally kicked ass today! Besides the drummer and an additional young third guitar player (who did almost all the lead guitar for the first 70% of the concert), it was the original 4 guys! 

They had quite an amazing mix of new and old songs and closed the show with a great version of an old Manfred Mann song that I had never heard but Sue recognized! The best band of the day, I have to say. 

Set List: Hallelujah Rock 'n' Roll, Go Baby Go, Long Stick Goes Boom, Better Than Sex, Winning Man, Dog Song, Fire, American Woman, Screaming In The Night, Tokyo Nights, Easy Rocker, Bedside Radio, Heatstrokes, Hoodoo Woman, Eat The Rich, Mighty Quinn

22 Again back to the 80s with Saxon! We saw them a few years ago here when they played the entire Denim and Leather album but they suffered from terrible sound and you could not hardly hear the guitars at all. It was not a nice experience. The sound was great today and they played an excellent and powerful set with plenty of new songs and some quite obscure ones as well like Dallas 1PM, which I think they said they have never played at Sweden Rock. Biff was struggling a bit with his voice but still sounding 10x better than Paul Stanley. 

Saxon

Set List: Sacrifice, Wheels of Terror, Power And The Glory, Heavy Metal Thunder, Made In Belfast, Crusader, And The Bands Played On, I've Got To Rock (To Stay Alive), Conquistador

Drum Solo, Solid Ball of Rock, Stand Up And Fight, Dallas 1 PM, 747 (Strangers In The Night)

Strong Arm of The Law, Wheels of Steel, Denim And Leather, Princess of The Night

We did not stay to see Europe, which is a pity as I have still never seen them. I heard it was a great show with some cool special guests. I was having some trouble with breathing and had to wear a bandana over my nose and mouth as the dust was really bad now after many days without a drop of rain. 

Day 4

10:30 I was up early and on the bus with our Spanish friends at the hotel. I really wanted to get here early to catch the Norwegian band, Sahg and the UK NWOBHM band, Satan! 

Sagh had a small crowd including some guys behind me who all had Sahg t-shirts on. Anyway, the band played a great set of stoner rock metal stuff. The opening track was great and had two long guitar solos. They said Firechild was off the new record due out in August. I think it is their 3^rd record. Pyromancer had a great groove, like stoner rock nearly. Good solid set to start the day.

Set List: The Executioner Undead, Soul Exile, Slip off the edge of the universe Firechild, Godless Faith, Pyromancer, Echoes Ring Foreve

I have all the old Satan and Blind Fury releases from the 80s and even had my original Satan shirt from like 1984 that my Dutch penpal, Peter Creemers sent me back then. Still fits! Anyway, Satan was excellent and the new songs 2025 and Incantations were really good. Time to Die was a really fast song with great dual lead guitars. These guys were both great. The original singer also still sang very well and was quite into it. Pretty cool to hear a band like this come back and really deliver a good album and deliver the goods live as well. 

Set List: Trial by Fire, Blades of Steel Time to Die, 2025, Oppression, Break Free, Incantations, Siege Mentality, Alone in the Dock

Me with my original Satan shirt on watching Satan!

Next up was Chris Goss’s Masters of Reality. They are a strange band and quite hard to describe. He is not a very good singer but unique and some of it fits well with their strange brand of rock they play. Some of the songs are really cool like Lay me Down and Down in a Hole. The opening track was very QOTSA like. He did most of the lead guitar and you could not hear him hardly at all for 1/3 of the concert due to a microphone problem but they eventually solved this. The other guitar player played all the heavy riffing stuff and was a cool old guy with a gray hair, beard and sunglasses. We heard the whole show and enjoyed it. 

15 We went and had some food and looked about and came back to the same stage to catch the Levellers. Many more people that for Masters of Reality but it was also quite early in the day. I had never seen this UK folk-rock band before and it was clear that the guys still had it and also several of the original or early members are in the band still. Cool to hear these violin driven political songs at Sweden Rock. Half way through the show I left to go catch the German thrash drinking band, Tankard! I quite liked all their early demos and albums but had never seen them before. They were great fun and I filmed one of their early tracks when they got a girl up on the stage to dance with them. Fun stuff. Some Japanese guys were in the pit having a really good time. Cool band…

Set List: Zombie Attack, Time Warp, The Morning After, Not One Day Dead, Stay Thirsty!

Rules For Fools, Die With A Beer In Your Hand, Rectifier, Chemical Invasion, A Girl Called Cerveza, (Empty) Tankard

Next up we went and found a nice place to sit on the grass (what was left of it!) near the big stage to hear the Quireboys do an acoustic set. I don’t know how long they played but it was a cool set of nearly all original songs but since I don’t know any of their stuff it was all new to me. Apparently this is a band that imploded due to drink and drugs in the 90’s and then has come back again. Neither of the guitar players did not do any solos in any of the songs which I thought was a bit strange. 

Set List: Don't Bite The Hand, There She Goes Again, Devil of A Man, Mona Lisa Smiled

Roses & Rings, Misled, Have A Drink On Me, Mary Ann, I Don't Love You Anymore, 7 O'Clock

Now back to the Rock stage to see Kreator. We had seen them play a very powerful set a few years ago here. They had a super cool stage set up but from what I can understand they are also a band that never changes the set list and plays the same old songs every concert. At one point in the set they split the audience in half near the stage and got a pretty damn big pit going, which was fun to see but it kicked up a lot of dust, so we moved much further away. We saw most of the set before heading off to see what Black Star Riders was all about.

Kreator

Black Star Riders had a massive crowd expecting a lot from these guys. They opened with a new song and the entire show was a new song, two Thin Lizzy songs, a new song, etc.. The crowd was really into and they play well. The new songs sound nearly exactly like remakes of a lot of older TL tracks, for instance, I think it was the opening track, was like Opium Trail at times but not nearly as cool. Emerald was great with an extended solo. The question for a band like this is are they really better than the other Thin Lizzy cover bands out there? Will they make one or two more albums and be able to stand up as a band on their own and perhaps play only 2-3 Thin Lizzy songs in their set or will they continue to be a tribute band that plays a few of their own songs? Time will tell. Anyway, they are a solid band and they rocked and gave the fans what they wanted!  

Set List: All Hell Breaks Loose, Jailbreak, Massacre, Bloodshot, Bound for Glory, Rosalie, Hey Judas, Emerald, Hoodoo Voodoo, Whisky in the Jar, Kingdom of the List, Valley of the Stones, Cowboy Song, The Boys are back in Town

Accept

Accept played a kick ass concert. What can I say. I saw them for the first time in 1984 opening for Saxon! I also saw them a couple of times 10 years ago when they headlined Sweden Rock with Udo back in the lineup and they were pretty cool. They played quite a few new songs and some like Stalingrad were great. It would be cool if they would change around a few of the classic songs they played live a bit more. I would love to hear them play other stuff like Helldriver (1^st album), I’m a Rebel (2^nd album), Burning and Son of a Bitch (3^rd album) etc.. Breaker was the only song from the first 3 great records. Still like Accept!

Set List: Hung, Drawn And Quartered, Hellfire, Restless And Wild, Losers And Winners, Stalingrad, Breaker, Shadow Soldiers, Bucket Full of Hate, Bulletproof, Pandemic

Princess of The Dawn, Up To The Limit, Fast As A Shark, Metal Heart, Teutonic Terror

Balls To The Wall

Now it was time for RUSH. I had not seen Rush in 30 years. I saw them in 1980, 1981 and 1983 and the last time was not very good and I did not like any of the records that I heard in the 80s and 90s. Last I heard was Snake and Arrows and the one song they played at the concert was excellent. Anyway, they started with 3-4 songs from the 80s and if it was not for the cool movies. After Analog Man, they played a great instrumental track. If it was not for the visuals we might have left but then they brought out this 7 piece string section that played with the band for the next 45mins or so and that was fucking cool. The songs in this section of the concert were for sure the best of the show until the 2112 closing song. I have to say they played an amazing concert. The visuals and everything would have been even better if it had been totally dark. The sun had not even gone down when they started at 21:30. The movie they showed for 5mins after the string section left with this tax collector was a real highlight. I think Sue liked it better than the concert. I am glad to see them still making some cool music and putting on a great show 30 years later. 

That was the end of our Sweden Rock. It was my 11^th and Sue’s 9^th (our 6^th together) and we had a great time especially with the weather but damn we spent a lot more money this year on food and beer due to the weather. My favourite bands this year were:

RUSH, Krokus, Manila Road, and Candlemass

One last comment, The festival bus situation was really bad this year and they need to go back to Movia or another company and dump this shit company they used for the 2nd year in a row. The hotel where we stayed the buses are supposed to come every 30 mins starting at 10:30 and usually there were only 2 buses between 10:30 and 13.... and in the night it was also a nightmare for many I was told with only one bus showing up between 1 and 3 in the morning. The price had gone down from 80kr to 60kr and the wristband saved a lot of hassles but the buses were poorly labelled so it was often chaos and nearly fighting as people gather around whatever bus arrives to try to get in without knowing if it was their bus or not as they had no numbers on the front many of them.

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