2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

Presented by: Levitation

Moon City Boys

Thursday, March 19
8:30PM - 9:10PM

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I was charmed from the moment I opened their parcel. Typewritten, hand-folded paper sleeve, adorned with found art and glued-on band photos. I wasn’t sure if that sort of thing still happens and it makes me happy that it does. The sound is of a band unafraid to grow up in public, harking back to a time where indie was not a cliché, but simply meant ‘independent’, and a culture where a truckload of ideas was more valuable than a library of chords.
Moon City Boys formed in Stockholm in 2011, the name a metaphor for their hometown (a “moon city”). Three longstanding friends from the same district - Kelly Wedin (guitar), Sofia Eklund (vocals), Ella Rolf (bass), together with Siri Jennefelt (drums) - started playing together in Ella’s mothers garage, armed with a makeshift drum-kit. "None of us really knew how to play an instrument but our goal wasn’t to be "good" musicians, we were more anxious to pin down the feeling of the s...

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