At last...the "Remedy" video!

Via our good friend Damian at the brilliant Swedish Stereo blog, here is the video for Salem's collaboration with J-Son - "Remedy".

"Remedy" video is on the way

According to @jsonchannel on Twitter. Salem and J-Son were shooting a video today. Can't wait to see it :))

Video clips of Salem and September in Norrköping

If you go to http://vimeo.com/20943905 you'll find some lovely live footage of Salem and September from the 5th March gig at De Geerhallen, Norrköping, with the following songs...

Keep On Walking
Kärlekens Tunga
Dream Girl
All Day Love

Thanks to Livestage TV over at Vimeo.com...and thanks to the ever-wonderful Scandipop for the tip.

Enjoy!!

"Chain Gang"

In case you haven't seen/heard it yet, here's Salem and friends with their great cover version of Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang" from Monday night's "Dom Kallar Oss Artister". Sweet, soulful vocals and reggaefied rhythms. Enjoy!

Don't be cruel!

Was anyone at the very last night of Mosebacke? This famous Stockholm venue closed for the last time on Saturday 25th September.

I found this video on YouTube tonight featuring a performance last night by the Off Beat Band - another one of Salem's other musical projects of course - with a cover version of Bobby Brown's old hit "Don't Be Cruel", with Salem on lead vocals. Check it out at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYFjb974P84

Rockbjörnen video: Linda Sundblad sings "Keep On Walking"

Due to a problem with the internet I missed the start of last week's Rockbjörnen transmission on Aftonbladet's website, therefore I also missed host Linda Sundblad's medley of all the songs nominated for Årets låt - song of the year.

But thanks to Aftonbladet, you can watch this again at http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/noje/article7734919.ab - it's a medley of "Keep On Walking"/"Unstoppable"/"Manboy"/"Nothing Without You"/"Från Och Med Du" sung in a jazzy-lounge style!

Gävle flash mob

Here's a fun clip from today's Gävle show, when a flash mob started dancing during Salem's set... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7LUrdHXzgY

Chipmunks....if you like that kind of thing :O

I suppose you could say that it's proof you have "made it" when your songs are "chipmunked"

Whilst on my nightly search on YouTube for any new Salem video clips, I found this tonight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWkj0Sx5Z3Q

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some Finland stuff...

A snippet from Ålandstidningen:

http://www.tidningen.aland.net/article.con?id=23186&iPage=1

...and something from Nya Åland: http://www.nyan.ax/nyheter/?news_id=54978 (they have promised a full review and interview with Salem in Monday's newspaper - I wonder how much of it they'll put on the internet?)

As usual, YouTube is a great place to find all-new Salem video footage and on this occasion there is an interview recorded (by Dagens Tidning), with Salem around his gig in Jakobstad (or Pietarsaari, its Finnish name!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qmto4zg4gA Here are some screencaps from the interview:

By the way, if you watch the interview you'll see that Salem is wearing the Damien Adore T-shirt http://www.merchworld.se/Product.aspx?pid=835 which I will really need to get my hands on if/whenever I get back over to Sweden :)))

And one more thing...if you watch the interview I think you will all agree that Salem looks extremt snygg just nu.... Looks and musical talent: he has it all.

Salem's summer tour now takes a break for a few days: next stop Piteå Dansar och Ler next Friday: http://www.pdol.se/program/stora-scenen/salem-al-fakir/ - Salem will be on Stora Scenen in the northern Swedish city next Friday night at 20:45.

Hope you have a good break over the next few days Salem....you deserve it!!

"I was aiming for Ukraine..." :)))

I know that this has been around YouTube for a while, but I thought I'd mention it if you hadn't seen it yet....a medley of Salem songs ("Keep On Walking"/"It's True"/"Astronaut"/"Roxy") with very humorous Russian-themed lyrics, sung in the style of the Red Army Choir!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYKe7zsa5pI

Interview clips of Salem from Popkalaset

YLE's Radio X3M has a couple of video interview clips with Salem recorded whilst he was appearing at yesterday's Popkalaset. (All interviews are in Swedish)

Salem on not dating his fans: http://arenan.yle.fi/video/1080793

Salem on not listening to music: http://arenan.yle.fi/video/1080239

Salem having his hair straightened! http://arenan.yle.fi/video/1080242
For everyone who loves Salem's wonderful curly hair, this clip is quite distressing :O

That guy with the hair straighteners seemed to be enjoying it a bit too much, although I don't think the same could be said for Salem!

Jakob and Nisse spotted on Sommarkrysset!

I've just been watching this clip of Petter on Saturday night's "Sommarkrysset"....and spotted none other than Jakob and Nisse in his backing band!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTppTFF8aY8

The return of the Kitchen Sessions, and a German snowboarding video....

Thanks Stefan :)

I wondered when Salem would bring us another "Kitchen Session"....well, 'here we go, here we go again...' :))) Yes. "4 O'Clock" has been given the "Kitchen Sessions" treatment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0w83IxwMw8

"Twelve Fingers" is also used as the soundtrack music to the 2010 video "Don't Panic" by the German snowboarding brand Isenseven:
http://vimeo.com/12260747

4 O'Clock: the video

So what's been happening then???

Hello again everyone, I’m back home now from my holiday in Bratislava - which was almost cancelled as the airports were all closed due to the volcanic ash cloud reappearing. However, the airport reopened just three hours before the flight was due to depart, so I was able to get away. Even if the weather wasn't so good, it didn't stop me having a great time in the beautiful capital city of Slovakia.

But that's enough about me, let’s talk about Salem! I’m just catching up with everything that’s happened over the past week...

4 O’Clock - single and mixes-EP released last Monday. Currently at no.45 in the iTunes chart, and No. 60 on Sverige Topplistan. Although I’m sure the song will climb much higher...

4 O'Clock - Video: the video for "4 O’Clock" was premiered on Spotify on Friday. Enjoy!
http://www.spotify.com/se/blog/archives/2010/05/21/salem/

The video was made by Andreas Ackerup and Stefan Segolson - well done, you did a great job! It's a very minimalist, black and white video which stays with the monochrome styling of "Ignore This". Of course you won't be able to ignore this video - and you won't take your eyes off the screen for one second. Some martial arts moves, some dancing, some clapping....and Salem barefoot ;))

Chart positions: Ignore This - no. 10 in the Sverige Topplistan / no. 6 on iTunes.
Keep On Walking - no. 35 in the Topplistan, no. 34 in the SR Digilistan. The song was the most played on Swedish radio for five weeks in a row but has finally fallen from the top spot to make way for Melodifestivalen winner This Is My Life. http://radionytt.se/nyheter/?p=5033
　
Good news - Keep On Walking is still at no. 1 in the Mix Megapol Topp 20: vote at
www.mixmegapol.se/program/mix-topp-20-gbg to keep it at the top for yet another week!

Keep On Walking is no. 2 on SR P3's Tracks chart this week - you have until 14:00 tomorrow to vote to keep the song up there in next week’s chart. Vote at
http://sverigesradio.se/cgi-bin/p3/tracks/index.asp?taskid=1

Djävulsrallyt: sadly Salem and Claudia narrowly missed out on a place in the final (they came third). You can watch last Monday night's programme again at www.kanal5play.se/program/play/djavulsrallyt-s01e01

Webchat: Salem did a webchat for sydsvenskan.se this week, just before his appearance at Lundakarnevalen. You can read the transcript at www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/karneval-2010/article880283/Chatta-med-Salem-al-Fakir.html

In that interview Salem mentioned that he will be appearing with his band at this year’s Malmofestivalen, which will take place between 20th and 27th August - although this hasn’t officially been announced yet, so I don't have any more details at the moment.

Lundakarnevalen 22.05.2010: check out these very positive reviews of last night’s show :-

http://www.lundagard.se/2010/05/23/trallvanlig-eufori-pa-stora-scenen/

http://www.expressen.se/noje/recensioner/konsert/1.1997902/full-fart-for-fakir

I think that's all for now! If I missed anything please let me know :))

School choirs sing Salem!

I think I've just found Sweden's coolest school choirs: Hagaskolan and Navestadskolan performed "Keep On Walking" at a concert today and the video is now on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdk29egUnPs

Excellent work, boys and girls - well done!

Salem, Telia, Prague....videos!

Some very nice behind the scenes video footage of the making of the Telia ("4 O'Clock") commercial in Prague....http://www.telia.se/privat/filmer?mid=D75CC5D4 - there is also a link on that page to a nice little black and white clip of Salem talking about Prague!

EDIT 27.04.2010: if you click on the above link on the Telia website, you can also find a new interview with Salem :)))

The behind the scenes footage is also available to watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7w_yfEKALE

EDIT 28.04.2010: Another day, another Telia video - this time Salem's talking about his favourite songs on his Spotify playlist ....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQPMxoR7b8

Ö-vik slide show!

I thought I would share this with you - it's an excellent YouTube slide show featuring many excellent behind the scenes photographs of Salem taken by Stefan Segolson during the first week of Melodifestivalen in Örnsköldsvik - this is a must-see for all Salem fans. And of course it's soundtracked by the wonderful "Keep On Walking"!

Video: Salem sings "Astronaut" on "Hallå P3" this morning

Enjoy!

I don't think I'll ever stop loving that beautiful song...

Here's a picture of Salem (courtesy of Swedish Radio) which I found on the "Hallå P3" homepage today. You can find more pictures from this morning's radio appearance at http://www.sr.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=3184

"Astronaut" video review

I don't know how long this has been around, but I found it tonight:

http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/reviews.php?film_id=17111

It's a review of the "Astronaut" video, which was recently screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival. A very nice review too by James Benefield who describes it as "an almost magical experience" - which is a perfect description.