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Pride week celabration has also left its mark at Allsång på Skansen. One of the most well-known drag shows in Sweden Diamond Dogs has visited Måns with funny Melodifestivalen parody. But also Darin has performed his single-2012 "Nobody Knows" and acoustic version of old hit "Why Does It Rain". And Linnea Henriksson was bringing a big crazy fest with her (like she usually does) and songs from her debut album.

Stockholm Pride week has started and the list of guests is more than impressive. Loads of Melodifectivalen participants, some foreign ESC-artists and fresh Swedish names. What I do like the most about this year is that line-up is much younger, schlager-veterans are good but not in that quantity we had last year. So if you'll be able to visit Stockholm these days - do it, if you won't - check for performances on youtube and catch some other goodies released to be presented live during festival.
Team of Thomas Karlsson and Adam Robinson which has got a big premiere with Ms Trez at last year's Pride are back to deliver another Pride's (unofficial but still) anthem with a new collaborator and a new artist - Belle.
Linda Sonnvik that you should know by Dilba's recent hit "Try Again" has joined Thomas and Adam to write a new track "Sisters Anthem". Producer Mike Moorish and photograper Jenny Eklund have completed the pack.
"Sisters Anthem" correspondingly to its title explodes with a dance-pop anthemic sound and clubby production, not too clubby to break away from its pop-concept but quite enough to warm up live-presentation of the song and become a hot dancefloor filler this week at Pride.
Don't forget to check previous Belle's singles "Sound of summer" and "Spellbound".

Robin Stjernberg has finally got his big TV-premiere of the summer single "On My Mind" and we still adore a big voice this guy have. Definitely looking forward to his new stuff. Nanne was mostly presenting songs from her tribute rock-album and you know that this woman is an internal source of energy so this was another time when she was generously sharing this energy with the audience.

Markoolio - En vecka i Phuket
Markoolio - Rocka på
Robin Stjernberg - Michelangelo
Markoolio - En kväll i juni

There are two sides of Andreas Moe. Acoustic one working on his own songs and club one working with different DJs and making dancefloor-killers.
We don't know which one we like more but we definitely want both to keep going.
After Andreas' collaborations with Avicii and John de Sohn he said that he's got a lot of club-offers and now we've got a new summer hit "Cracks" from French DJ Norman Doray with Andreas responsible for a vocal part.
It's another modern club anthem but what I like the most about this track is a glorious disco-smelling tune behind it and Andreas' vocal flexibly fits it very well.

Schlageristic live post. Allsang på Grensen is really good in haunting schlager-stars lately! Carola, Charlotte Perrelli, Eric Saade. Now Norway has invited Pernilla Wahlgren to perform her old but still massive Melodifestivalen hit "Piccadilly Circus". How nice is that! She has also performed Astrid Lindgren-Medley which is actually not as good as her new song would be but still ok.