The songs which Eva performed during the second season of “Så mycket bättre” are now available on Spotify for all the countries. Here are the links. Enjoy!

Strö lite socker på mig
Mitt hjärtats fågel
This Is The Way
Standing In My Rain
Call On Me
Never Again

Efva Attling was interviewed at Nyhetsmorgon, TV4, last month. Here is the interview!

Eva Dahlgren is one of the 7 artists who participates in the 2nd season of Swedish TV4 Så mycket bättre. You can watch the videos of the weekly program on TV4′s website (you might need Premium access to see some of them).
In addition, the songs are also available on Spotify (Sweden only).
And last but not least, the tracks can also be purchased on iTunes. Again, Sweden only, unfortunately.
According to CDON, a CD will be released on December 12, 2011 with some of the tracks performed by the artists. So far no tracklist is available, but as far as I could see last year’s CD didn’t contain all songs but only 2-3 per artist.

Update December 11: Eva has performed these songs. The last chapter of the season will be next Saturday, where the artists will perform various duets together.

Tomas Ledin’s day: Never Again
Timbuktu’s day: Socker (Strö lite söcker på mig) – she even recorded a video for this one

Lena Philipsson’s day: Standing In My Rain
E-Type’s day: This Is The Way
Laleh’s day: Call On Me
Mikael Wiehe’s day: Mitt hjärtas fågel

Jan Gradvall interviewed Eva Dahlgren while she is in New York. Eva is currently mixing the songs for “Så mycket bättre” which will be on TV4 in Autumn and explains that afterwards she will “hopefully have a nice writing period” and talks about doing something with music again.
Eva also talks about the equipment she uses in her home studio and that she currently listens to Adele and Rihanna (!).

Evadahlgren.com got a new style and some new sections.

On the website you will now find links to Eva’s videos (to Efva Attling jewels and glasses), pictures done by Eva (many of Efva Attling) as well as discography, information about her books and tour (when there is any, that is).

And a funny side note: the covers of some of the albums used on the discography are still the ones I scanned myself many years ago and are actually scans of MY LPs/CDs

Updated: if you missed the show, you can watch it here: http://svtplay.se/v/2514053/tack_for_musiken/del_2_av_6

Eva Dahlgren is going to appear in Niklas Strömstedt SVT show Tack för musiken this Saturday, August 27th at 20:45.
The show was recorded in Juni at Maximteater in Stockholm and each of the 6 chapters is dedicated to a different artist. The TV show had it’s premiere last week and was dedicated to Ola Salo. Other artists are Lars Winnerbäck, Annika Norlin, Orup and Pernilla Andersson.
During the show, the artist performs some of his/her hits with Niklas’ band and is interview by the host Niklas, who also invited some surprise guests who had some impact in the artist’s career or life.

Here you can see a teaser of the show dedicated to Eva:
Ängeln i rummet
Eva about discovering music

Music by Eva Dahlgren

According to some Swedish newspapers, Eva Dahlgren is going to take part in the 2nd edition of TV4 programe “Så mycket bättre”.

Other artists are supposed to be Tomas Ledin, Timbuktu, Mikael Wiehe, Lena Philipsson and Laleh. This info hasn’t been confirmed by Eva’s management or TV4, so I take it as rumours so far.

The first season of “Så mycket bättre” run on TV4 last Autumn with stars such as Lasse Berghagen, Lill Babs or Thomas Di Leva. The 7 artists spent a week in a hotel in Sweden, each of the artists had a day dedicated to themselves where this artist had to organise activities for the other participating artists, and the other artists performed cover versions of the “artist-of-the-day” songs. The show consisted of 8 chapters which were aired between October and December 2010. Wikipedia has a full list of songs which were performed.

In addition, a compilation album including these cover songs was released after the season 1 was over.

Efva Attling has been awarded with the Näringslivsmedaljen (Industry/business medal) by the Royal Patriotic Society (Kungliga Patriotika Sällskapet). Efva received the medal today from the Prince Carl Philip in a ceremony which took place in Riddarhuset, Stockholm (Sweden).

Efva has been awarded for her entrepreneurship and for founding her jewelry company Efva Attling Stockholm AB 12 years ago.

The other awarded with the same medal this year are: Lars Ander (Nya Wermlands-Tidningen AB), Lars Göran Blank (Jula AB, Skara), Anastasia Georgiadou (AB Svensk Personlig Assistans), Karl Hedin (Karl Hedin AB, Västanfors), Torsten Jansson (New Wave Group AB, Dingle), Laurent Leksell (Elekta AB, Stockholm), Jan-Erik Nilsson (Rederi AB Gotland, Visby), Marianne Ränk (Einar Mattsson AB, Stockholm), Jens och Ulf Spendrup (Spendrups Bryggeri AB, Vårby)

You can read an interview in following newspapers: E24.se, DagensPS.se, SvD

Press release

Here are two articles about Eva Dahlgren’s monologue in Uppsala on March 28th.

Ingen är som Eva Dahlgren

Gåtan Eva Dahlgren på scen

Here is a list of articles about Eva Dahlgren which have been published in the last weeks.

I personally found this very interesting both on Österundstidningar:

“Jag dansar helst till min frus kropp”

“Ängeln i rummet har alltid varit en annan del av mig, alltså den goda sidan av mig”

Expressen: “Jag har ett behov att vara omtyckt”

NSD: Review of monologue “Ingen är som jag” in Luleå.

Norrbottenskuriren: Review of monologue

Östersundstidningar: Review of monologue

GD.se announcing the monologue

Arbetarbladet review of monologue in Gävle.

Here is the full list of dates for Eva Dahlgren’s monologue this spring:

10-12/2 Stockholm
17-19/2 Stockholm
8/3 Södertälje
10/3 Östersund
11/3 Luleå
15/3 Umeå
16/3 Gävle
17/3 Mariehamn
18-19/3 Helsinki
28/3 Uppsala
14/4 Lund
16/4 Kalmar
17/4 Växjö

You can find information about the tickets on Blixten or Ticnet.

As you may have read, Eva Dahlgren was one of the hosts, or “master of ceremonies” as some Swedish press called it, of this year’s edition of Grammisgalan. She also joined The Ark with one of their performances, “Calleth You, Cometh I”, which can be seen on Youtube.

Unfortunately, this year the show was not broadcast on any TV (it had to be THIS year or??), so there are only pictures from the event for us to enjoy: Expressen, Aftonbladet.

I also found a “making of” the costumes Eva wore, by Bea Szenfeld.

According to Finnish website Chaos Tube, Eva Dahlgren is going to do her monologue in Finland in March 2011. The dates are as follows:

17.3.2011 – Alandica, Marienhamn
18.3.2011 – Savoy Teather, Helsinki
19.3.2011 – Savoy Teather, Helsinki

Tickets cost 49 Euro plus fees and go on sale on January 17th via Lippupalvelu for Helsinki and Alandica for Marienhamn.

Besides that, Eva will also take her monologue to other cities in Sweden:

08.3.2011 – Estrad, Södertälje (tickets on sale via Ticnet)
11.3.2011 – Kulturens hus – Stora salen, Luleå (tickets on sale via Ticnet)
16.3.2011 – Gävle Teater, Gävle (tickets on sale starting January 17th via Ticnet)

According to Sverigesradio P1-Morgon website, Eva Dahlgren is going to be one of the guests in tomorrow’s programme. She is expected at 8:15