Lauryn Hill @ Stockholm Jazz Festival (July, 19th)

[eyeonthehorizon]

Just got back from Stockholm today, after seeing the so much anticipated mis Hill at the Stockholm Jazz Festival. Ok, been home for hours though... just gotten my behind to the computer by now, late midnight! So I´ll make this one short, cause I'm fighting sleep, trying to stay awake...

To start of I just got to say WOW!!! That's the best performance I've ever seen in my life! She was so incredible, that I couldn't do much other than gasp(in my mind of course). The opening number was Doo Wop, which she just..... aaargh!! It was so good!!! She kept it going for about ten to fifteen minutes(that's what it felt like). The best song she performed was definetly Lost Ones! Such power!My pulse was far beyond healthy, that's how good she was!!! (trying to keep the exclamation marks down).

She wore beautiful “seventies” clothes, with big golden earrings (the same she wore on the BET Awards), a blue shirt with flowers on it, a sort of brown “beadnecklace”, tight blue jeans with the typical high waist(BET), a wide belt with a big buckle, and bundles of bracelets.... retro. (not sure about the belt, might be me making that one up?)

Her and the band worked so good together. She kept calling for the drummer to take it up, just when you were thinking it couldn't possibly get any better, she turns around an and calls for him and the band to take it up a notch. It was crazy! So powerful! The crowd loved it. And the way she moved around on the stage, taking the whole performance to another level itself. Her body language shone with confidence, love, joy. Lauryn's back! And as she said to the audience, she's excited to make music again. I thought you could tell that she really loved being on stage again. Especially when the 8- 9 thousand big audience sounded like 25 thousand or something! It is the biggest experience of my life. I had the very front row, just by the fence, and right in front of her! It couldn't have been any better!

The “play list” for the night was pretty much like the previous concerts. I'll get back to you when I'm awake enough the recall which songs she did and the correct order she sang them, so I don't mess that up. Any way, when she in the second half, towards the end, started singing Fugees songs the crowd lost it! And the way she did it! I love her for giving me such joy in my life! Get this, to sing along with Lauryn Hill on Killing me softly(like she sang it on the BET), fu-gee-la, Ready or not and How many mics!! With both Lauryn and the crowd going through the roof (if there was any). To sing along with Lauryn on Lost ones, To Zion, Ex-factor, Final hour, Doo Wop...... Freedom time, I just want you around...... the list goes on and on.

I sure wish I would have been to see her in Copenhagen, had been planing for that in months (but there's this thing called “parents”, and just because you're not 18 yet they think you can't handle going to Copenhagen by you're own. Even though you've been around the world and across the seas without them. Just now, they think, “oh, you're not old enough”), so therefore I miss out on Norway as well. But Lauryn was so great that the concert in Stockholm weighs up for it. The stage presence was awesome. Plus I got a little souvenir from the show, so I'm ecstatic!

Thank you Miss Hill!!!


//Am I the only Swede here?

[True love]

Excellent! This is the Lauryn that we all know and love so much..EXCELLENT!

[armand]

Hi!

I was also at the concert in Stockholm (and will actually be visiting this nice festival every day until saturday). Lauryn was of course the main event. And she was great. I missed her in 1999 but saw her in 1996 with The Fugees. And although she´s a different person today - then she was a party girl, now she is a mature woman - she still "has it". Without a doubt.

It was a little disappointment she didn´t make any encores. I think the audience deserved it. but maybe it had something to do with the time limit. As it was outdoors she wasn´t allowed to play after midnight and that´s when she finished. But at the festival last year it was no problem to play 10-15 minutes longer so (the Angie Stone concert) I think an encore shouldn´t be a problem. But apart from that it was absolutely great!

However, "eyeonthehorizon" gives wrong information on the first song. She started with Doo Wap, then the new song "Walk" and the "Lost ones", in a version that was not so long as mentioned. That is, as previous concerts.

Best wishes to everyone

[eyeonthehorizon]

Yes, i misinformed you all. Sorry, it was 03:00 past midnight or some when I wrote it, hadn't really slept for over 24 hours... about the length of the song, it was probably just five minuts or some, but for me it felt like this wonderful forever...

I'we changed it now...so now it should be all correct I think.....

[eyeonthehorizon]

www.svd.se/ssi/streaming/popup.asp?did=10162627&PP=&OS=win&B=ie&Q=true&WMP=true&R=true

webbtv.tv4.se/webtv/tv4/showContent.do?treeId=3013&progId=16933&itemId=

webbtv.tv4.se/webtv/tv4/showContent.do?treeId=3013&progId=16934&itemId=

Pictures:
www.tv4.se/visa/?ID=399735

www.svd.se/ssi/bildspecial/?did=10163710

Now the movie links should work, plus I added on more to it!!

[lion]

Mmmmh, I am not able to get them work, too.

[STina]

you're not the only swede, I'm here too =P
I was also there, in stockholm, and it was the best show ever!!!
I liked when she did some kind of "manifest" from the score
eyeonthehorizon: if your parents dont want you to go by yourself, bring them! but they dont have to go to the concert though. but they'll probably pay for everything, and thats good.

[fugees-online]

for more check:
www.tv4.se/visa/?ID=399735

[liems]

hey i was wonderieng if you had any video from the concert of l.boogie or something like that

[liems]

hey i was wondering if you had any video of l.boogie if yes please sign me on your msn [e-mail] please

[soulistic]

thanx for putting up this forum i missed the consert..i was on vacation did not know she was comin to my town

[Big-D]

Thanks