5 Dec 2025
Gothenburg
Festivals Music

Way Out West – Day Three: I hope she plays HOT TO GO!

If you’ve missed these, here’s Day One and Day Two! The Way Out West Saturday started out with another nice encounter on the bus ride. In anticipation of the day’s main attraction, I had worn my ‘I hope she plays HOT TO GO’ t-shirt, that I had ordered special. Getting on the bus, a nice young […]

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Festivals Music

Way Out West 2025 – Day Two: It’s Charli, baby

If you’ve missed it, here’s Day One – check it out! On Thursday it still felt like there was more space at Slottskogen, but on Friday it was totally packed from pretty early in the evening. So it felt reasonable to take things a bit more easy compared with how much running from stage to […]

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Festivals Music

Way Out West 2025: Chappell, Charli and Free, Free Palestine!

Since its launch in 2007, Gothenburg’s Way Out West has established itself as Sweden’s premier music festival. It is a real cultural institution that consistently balances international superstars with rising talent and Scandi sensibilities in a carefully curated mix spanning pop, hip hop, rock and experimental sounds. The festival’s unique settings in the lush Slottsskogen […]

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Photo by Olle Kirchmeier
Festivals Music Videos

Way Out West – more WOW than ever!

In its 11th edition Way Out West has thrown its biggest festival so far – bigger size, bigger line-up, bigger production… Total WOW factor everywhere! Around 34,000 souls stepped into Gothenburg’s Slottskogen fields every day, looking to satisfy their thirst for excitement, music and fun, because this is what Way Out West is all about, as we could discover by talking to the […]

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Lifestyle Music

Way Out West 2014: Two Days in Search of Flow

I don’t consider myself a music festival-goer. I like music, I like people, I like hanging out in wide open spaces under a pale sun or even clouds filled with rain, but putting all those things together over the course of several days… it’s just something I’ve never really been into.

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