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By: Camilla Österberg
It was packed and it’s not very surprising. Because if you’ve read some of the previous reviews, she has been raised to the skies and rightly so.
In addition she’s good looking, and does a lot of funny small talk. Although she initially talked about the doctor’s admonition, “Don’t talk, just sing and be happy.”
Sunday evening’s concert included both old and new. Helen sings ballads, pop, and musical – she does everything with panache. She also sang a rock song that she did very well, more of that please. But I can’t help thinking that she is most amazing when she sings musical and there was unfortunately too few such songs.
With her on tour Helen has four great musicians: Martin Östergren on piano and choir, Jojje Wadenius on guitar and choir, Ulric Johanson on bass and double bass and Tomas Bergquist on drums and synth. Jojje Wadenius should feel at home in UKK‘s premises since it was his third appearance this week.
We got a little taste of material from Benny Andersson, Tomas Andersson Wij, Tracy Chapman, Billy Joel and Joni Mitchell. Helen says that she cannot decide what she should sing and therefore it has become a huge variety of songs.
Sjöholm said her first paid assignment was to mime to Lasse Berghagens’ “Behåsamlaren Knut” for which she got 20 crowns from the housewive association Marta. We were also treated to a couple of instrumental songs, Jojje Wadenius played his “Kärleksmorgon” and Martin Östergren ”Hanna flies”. Standing ovations and cheers from the audience ended the concert.
But they did two encores:
One a cappella – a hilarious and filthy little story about horny Maja and “Du är min man”. Here she told a funny anecdote from a gig in Skåne. There was a man who came up and said “You do sing that song. If you don’t sing it – they will kill you” – which understandably didn’t sound very tempting so it had to be that one – “Du är min man” also in that concert.