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First Aid Kit have won the Nöjesguiden Best Swedish Album award for 2018 with ‘Ruins’.

In this short (Swedish) interview with Nöjesguiden they talk about having played about 125 gigs this year, and say they have to take a break – but not as long as the previous one!. They also hint that future songs might not be as sad – at least not all of them – possibly because they are now feeling happier themselves! They suggest that future songs may be rather different from previous ones and have more ‘pace’.

https://ng.se/artiklar/arets-basta-musik-2018

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As previously reported, First Aid Kit will be participating in this year’s Musikhjälpen (Music Aid) in Lund, Sweden. They are scheduled to appear Today Monday 10 Dec, sometime between 21.00 and 22.00 Swedish time (20.00 and 21.00 UK time).

Live internet broadcast of the event appears to be available as follows:

(these 2 broadcasts appear to be available outside of Sweden but I’m not certain about this)

There is also coverage on SVT24 but I’m not sure of availability outside Sweden.

First Aid Kit are playing at 21.30 Swedish time (20.30 UK time), according to their Instagram account.

(Unfortunately, I can’t guarantee the accuracy of the above information due to websites being in Swedish!)

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A photo has surfaced showing a list of what appear to be songs shortlisted for the album ‘Ruins’, The list includes what seems to be a couple of previously unreleased tracks: ‘Home Again’ and ‘San Gabriel Valley’. Song number one on the list is cut off. Could this also be a new track, or is this perhaps ‘I’ve Wanted You’ from the ‘Tender Offerings’ EP (though it doesn’t look like it)?  As I understand it, ‘Tender Offerings’ was made up of tracks that were originally written for ‘Ruins’. There’s also the mystery of the last song on the list. It looks like ‘You are the Problem Here’ but it might be something else.

If these really are new songs by FAK, what will happen to them? Will they ever see the light of day? Perhaps they’ll be released as singles or appear on a new EP, or maybe even saved for the next album.

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In 2013 some lucky guy managed to get First Aid Kit to play at his birthday party in a restaurant in Helsinki!

The story goes that Klara and Johanna were at a loose end after they’d finished recording their album Stay Gold. They happened to fancy spending a weekend in Helsinki with their boyfriends and this guy was prepared to pay the fee their agents were asking (the money apparently helped pay for a proper tour bus). No doubt it was worth every penny!

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First Aid Kit are scheduled to appear on this year’s Musikhjälpen (Music Aid).  The show is an appeal for money which each year helps a certain cause. Various radio/television personalities are locked inside a glass house in a public square and are broadcast live on Swedish public service radio network Sveriges Radio and on public services television through SVT. People send text messages requesting a song, with each text costing a certain amount of money. This year the event is taking place in Stortorget in Lund.

First Aid Kit will be appearing on Monday 10th December. In addition to broadcasts on the MH app, Sveriges Radio P3 and on SVT Play, there will be live coverage of FAK on Swedish TV channel SVT24 between 21.00 and 22.00 Swedish local time (not sure about participation or broadcast availability outside of Sweden).

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=3946&artikel=7004612

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First Aid Kit ended their current tour in Lille, France last night. Johanna says she lost her voice towards the end but the audience (and her sister) helped her out! It’s surely been a gruelling year for the sisters having completed multiple tours in the US and Europe in support of their album ‘Ruins’. If hard work equated to success they’d be up there with the stars! If talent counted for anything, they’d also be up there! Sadly, it’s performers like Miley Cyrus who get 14 million views on YouTube in just a few days, and, no, I don’t like her new single (or video), no matter how much it sounds like ‘My Silver Lining’!

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There’s been much talk on Twitter recently about whether the new Miley Cyrus/Mark Ronson single  ‘Nothing Breaks Like a Heart’ sounds just like ‘My Silver Lining’ by First Aid Kit.

Well here are the two songs:

 

 

… not sure if they do sound that similar myself, but anyway, First Aid Kit have now responded to the controversy with their own distinctive sense of humour, by performing a mashup of both songs!!

See below!

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A short review, in German, of First Aid Kit at the Muffathalle, Munich, Germany (from Süddeutsche Zeitung).

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/kurzkritik-glatt-glaenzend-1.4235557

(Note: the above review appears to contain one error. As I understand it, the song ‘You are the Problem Here’ was written in response to a well-publicised rape case in Stanford, California, and not composed for the ‘#Me Too’ movement which appeared later.)