27th MARCH 09 - BIG SCIENCE ALBUM REVIEW !
Dear fans of BWO and friends of Electronordica... Your BWO favourite webiste will be back very soon online with a new design and of course as a big exclusive, the big premiere of the Big Science album ! Yes, you'll be able to hear an album sampler next week and be assured to be completely inside out when you'll discover the album !
We have the huge privilege to have got a copy of Big Science and this exclusively for you all you need to know about it !!!
Big Science is actually the best BWO album in terms of productions and quality. This new album offers 12 tracks + 2 remixes and those 14 tracks are pure wonders. BWO finally thought of changing style and there are lots of new sounds in Big Science. We could say it's the perfect version of Halcyon Days that some fans found with too much ballads. This time only 2 ballads however excellent ballads ! Maybe their best ones !
Let's talk about each song of the album....
Right Here Right Now : This first song is already planned as the next single to be released in May. The introduction of Big Science is simply a pop perfection and certainly one of the strongest song of the band ! A long introduction and a piano verse in it. We could say it's the "Killers Human" à la Swedish. Marina has got a part in it and we adore it ! A pure BWO classic with a great production and lots of backing vocals.
Love Came Crashing Down : A total new sound for BWO. Could be a perfect Army Of Lovers song from the Massive Luxury Overdose album. Once again, a great production on it ! The chorus is strong and dramatic. I should compare the chorus to Madcon "Begin" mixed with a touch of James Bond ! Very classy !
Kings Of Tomorrow : The first ballad of Big Science begins with a Marina saying "Big Science" 2 times. After that Martin sings with a vocoder voice à la Kanye West "Love Lockdown". Difficult to compare the song to an previous ballad... Maybe We Could Be Heroes but not really. And a great surprise this time, not Marina verse but an Alexander one !! Wonderful and certainly one of the strongest ballad of BWO carreer.
Burning Down The House : Another song with a completely new sound. This time a 60's motown sound à la Temptations. Very commercial tune and very "Girls Aloud". This song makes happy and makes smile. We weren't really prepared for this kind of music made by BWO but it's a great success !
Rise To The Occasion : Fans of pure Swedish pop will adore this song ! A stomper on this album. Could be a perfect song for Ace Of Base or E-Type. The song is mid tempo and Marina have a part in it ! Will certainly a future single... We even sure of it ;-)
You're Not Alone : the song almost all fans know. A big ballad and the last one from Big Science.
Bit The Bullet : No... nothing to do with Ride The Bullet from Army Of Lovers ;-) This song is really strong and we're back to a more BWO sound. Very melancholic and optimistic at the same time. One of our favourite actually. Could be compare to Chariots Of Fire and Sunshine In The Rain but different however.
In Too Deep : A mid tempo track this time. Could be the Let It Rain 2009. Melancholic again. Could be a perfect Michael Jackson and sometimes could make think to "Hanging On The Phone" from Halcyon Days with a more strong drum.
Thunderbolt : Back to the dance sound of BWO. This song is produced by Joakim Udd and Johan Fjellström who already made "Burning" from the new Alcazar album and the Swedish dance classic "In The Heat Of The Night" from Star Pilots. So it's the same sound of those 2 songs. Strong song !
Rhythm Of The Night : BWO goes to space in this track. Could be "Kylie Light Years" from BWO in the verse. Sometimes the electronic sound could make think to an new track from Secret Servcie. The chorus is great and it's one of our favourite
Singing In My Car : almost a ballad but not. Could be a song from Halcyon Days album. Very "boys band" song.
Shoot From The Heart : It's the stomper of the album !! Certainly a future single. We could describe it as Lay Your Love On Me mixed with Haunted. One of the greatest BWO track ever. The production on it is amazing and Martin's voice is doubled with a very grave effect. Wonderful ! Lots of vocoder and strings ! A true BWO fan can only adore this
track !
King Of Tomorrow (Disco Version) : Wonderful dance version of this fabulous ballad. The chorus could make very "Killers" style. A pure wonder !
You're Not Alone (Disco Version) : Everyone knows it now. Very September style in the song introduction.
So that's already finished and we cannot say BWO made another BWO album... No, it's more than that. It's the best BWO album with a true handing-over in question. Martin's voice is better than ever and production is massive on this new record. Alexander promised a great pop record and he made it ! We really hope we gave you the envy to listen and buy Big Science and please if you love it, buy it legally ! The album will be out in Scandinavian I-Tunes April 1st and lots of other worldwide countries some days after.
Don't forget the reopening of Electronordica next week with the exclusive album sampler !!
This is exclusively for Electronordica the cover sleeve of the next BWO album "Big Science".
20th February 09 - You're Not Alone Sample
Don't forget today from 13h10 to hear a 60sec sample of You're Not Alone on the Melodifestivalen website.
"You're Not Alone" is a dramatic melodic electronic ballad, much more like Madonna's "Frozen" than the previous BWO uptempo songs in Melodifestivalen. It's much cooler and emotional than the previous BWO songs and more like a taster of the new more mature electro sound of "Big Science".
But it's going to be a tough race between new superstar Molly, EMD and of course BWO on Saturday. BWO is of course the most modern and the coolest of the three.
Let's cross fingers !!
http://www.melodifestivalen.se
Electronordica also launched the official BWO facebook page,
Join it by clicking here You'll find on it some pictures of the rehearsals from yesterday at Melodifestivalen.
19th February 09 - Big Science Tracklisting
This is the exclusive tracklisting of the new BWO album Big Science (source : cdon.com) to be released on April 1st
1 Right Here Right Now
2 Love Came Crashing Down
3 Kings Of Tomorrow (Ballad Version)
4 Burning Down The House
5 Rise To The Occasion
6 You're Not Alone (Ballad Version)
7 Bite The Bullet
8 In Too Deep
9 Thunderbolt
10 Rhythm Of The Night
11 Singing In My Car
12 Shoot From The Heart
13 Kings Of Tomorrow (Disco Version)
14 You're Not Alone (Disco Version)
And don't forget tomorrow from 13h10 to hear a 60sec sample of You're Not Alone on the Melodifestivalen website.
http://www.melodifestivalen.se
1st February 09 - German BWO Fanclub reopening today !
The very good German fan-club of BWO is going online after 6 months of re-working. Feel free to visit it at
www.bwo-fanclub.com
BWO-Fanclub also organised a really good thing for the 5th birthday of existence of BWO. They created "The Anniversary Book" to collect your thoughts and messages to the band in a one physical Big Book that will be sent to Alexander, Martin and Marina once manufactured. Join the "The Anniversary Book" by clicking here
29th January 09 - QX Magazine - February
Martin Rollinski is on the cover of the new edition of QX Magazine among other Melodifestivalen artists. A beautiful portrait of him is also featured in the pages of the mag.
This is the translation of the Martin mini-interview in the QX Magazine about the BWO participation at the Melodifestivalen.
BWO are participating in Melodifestivalen for the fourth time with the ballad “You’re not alone”. They are competing in the semi-final in Leksand, and after coming second and third in the finals of 2006 and 2008; Alexander, Marina and Martin are aiming for the win in 2009.
There has been some talk about BWO taking on a new sound…
- Yeah, it’s a pretty clear difference from what we’ve done before. It’s a little bit The Killers mixed with some influences of Kraftwerk. But the production is still very BWO.
What can you tell us about the song?
- The beginning is very small but the song ends as big as possible with great choirs. It’s a magnificent ballad that gives me goosebumps. It actually wasn’t supposed to be a ballad when we started working on it, it was more uptempo. But everyone agreed on that if we were ever going to come back to the Melodifestival, we had to do something different. The song had to be different from the ones we’ve done before in this contest. (Those are “Gone”, Temple of love”, and “Lay your love on me”.)
Is this the last time you are competing?
- It feels stupid to answer that question, considering I’ve always said yes after the last two times we’ve participated. I don’t think it’s particularly peculiar really, we’re in the competition because we’re artists and we want people to listen to our music. I haven’t really understood the whole thing about it being right or wrong to participate.
What is your relation to Leksand?
- Nothing, other than the fact I think that their ice hockey-team should play in the Elite League.
Exactly how big are BWO in Russia?
- We’ve had a number of number 1 hits, and Russia was the country where we first had our success. Alexander is also extremely famous over there, partly because of Army of Lovers that was one of the absolute greatest bands over there during the 90’s, which means he had a huge significance for the gay movement in Russia. In addition to that he was also a member of Vacuum together with Marina, and they were pretty big in Russia aswell.
Why will you guys win in Russia?
- For various reasons. We’re doing music that’s popular in all of Europe; BWO has a history in many of the European countries. And we have one hell of a great song. When we started talking about this we looked at the winner of ESC last year (Dima Bilan) and thought we could do it so much better. And that’s what we’re doing right now.
A big thank you to Johanna Friss for this translation
(http://gylleneskor.se/blogg/7ohanna)
28th January 09 - You're Not Alone sleeve !
This is exclusively on Electronordica the cover sleeve for the first single to be released from the Big Science album (release date April 1st) "You're Not Alone". Isn't it great !! We love it here !! Very Six Feet Under tv-soap style !!
20th January 09 - You're Not Alone Tracklisting
Here is the now official track listing for the forthcoming 10-track maxi-single of BWO "You're Not Alone".
Only the opening track 1 is a ballad, all the 9 other mixes are uptempo and club versions.
BWO "You're Not Alone"
01 Ballad Radio Edit
02 Skyylab Radio Edit
03 Fatty Phunk Radio Edit
04 SoundFactory Radio Edit
05 Oscar Holter Radio Mix
06 SoundFactory Club Anthem
07 Skyylab Extended Mix
08 Fatty Phunk Extended Mix
09 Oscar Holter Vs Tombola Techhouse Mix
10 SoundFactory Big Room Dub
16th January 09 - EXCLUSIVE NEWS !!!
BIG SCIENCE - The New Album Out in April 2009!
First of all let us wish you a wonderful year 2009 under the BWO sign. And we've got exclusive news for you about the next single and album !!! Let's go...
The brand new BWO album "Big Science" will feature 12 brand new songs and a total of 14 tracks (including two remixes) and be released in early April. Producers include Anders Hansson, Alexander Bard, Henrik Wikström and Johan Fjellström (of Star Pilots fame). The track listing will be set next month. A second single is set for a summer and a third single for a fall release beginning in Scandinavia. BWO promise a brand new sound inspired by such varied sources as Duran Duran, The Killers, contemporary electronic pop, classic soul and R&B, and a brand new look strongly influenced by futurism and science fiction.
The first single "You're Not Alone" will be released both as a ballad and a disco version (exactly like BWO classic hit "Open Door") in early March. The ballad version will participate in Melodifestivalen, the Swedish competition for the Eurovision Song Contest, beginning with the semifinal in Leksand on February 21. The maxi-single will feature a rich variety of remixes by SoundFactory, Michel Zitron, Skyylab and Oscar Holter. A video will be directed by Kamisol.
Electronordica will be next month closed for maintenance and to prepare the 2009 Big Science new look of the website !! Be sure to be the first to know all about Big Science in the next few weeks !
24th December 08 - New BWO single released in UK
Shell Records, the BWO british label has just released on UK I-Tunes a new single. The choice is now stopped to The Attic Remix of The Destiny Of Love. A great choice cos it's one of our favourite remix from the BWO catalogue here at Electronordica.
A really nice gift for Christmas ;-) Be a lot in UK to download it.
We wish you a very Merry Christmas to you all ! We'll be back next year with lots of great news about our Swedish superheroes ! 2009 is going to be hysterical !
27th November 08 - SWEDISH GRAMMY AWARDS
It's with a great honnor that we can announce BWO is nominated at the Swedish Grammy Awards in 2 categories : Best group and best song for Lay Your Love On Me. You can of course make win BWO by voting on : http://vote.grammis.se/
Let's make win BWOOOOOOOOO !!!
24th November 08 - INTERVIEW IN QX MAG
BWO gave a little interview on the QX magazine website and talked about their new participation at the Melodifestivalen. This is a translation of the article in english (kindly translated by Johanna Friis from Sweden).
Why are you entering the contest again this year?
A: - Marina called me after Dima Bilan had won and said that we had to enter the contest again. Sweden has to send BWO who knows this and who people at the press conferences in Moscow will recognize.
So Fredrik Kempe and I sat down together this summer and looked at what would work and what we wanted to do. What really works is ballads, great modern dramatic ballads with show numbers that works with the song. And if we're gonna enter one year after "Lay Your Love On Me" we have to do something different from that. Besides, we have a better song than Dima Bilan, a more good looking singer than Dima Bilan, probably more good looking dancers than Dima Bilan och and we're not as dorky as Dima Bilan. And we're headed straight towards Moscow.
Martin: - Not only do we have a great song, it's a REALLY great ballad. Set up for a real show-off performance.
A: - It's Martin's "I Will Always Love You" . My God, he's such a good singer. The song is both this years "Empty Room" and this years Dima Bilan.
I'm guessing the new rules with more people on stage and recorded backup singers has been welcomed by you...
A: - Yeah, we've absolutely taken that into account. This is a band which is more than happy to singback on television, so that's great.
Is there anyone of the other artists that has been presented today, or that it has been rumored entering, you feel is a threat?
A: - No, we don't even notice them! I've heard pretty much all of these songs and there isn't one of them that I would trade "You're Not Alone" for.
Do you have any preferences when it comes to where you will compete?
A: - That's up to God. Also known as Christer Björkman, so we'll do just like the others and eagerly wait for a spot. Marina, on the other hand, has made sure being in New York during the week of Second Chance Round in Norrköping, so that city is out of the question.
Have you started thinking about your outfits?
Martin: - Yeah, but that's a secret.
A: - It won't be the same as "LYLOM". We're trying to be mainstream but it's so difficult. We're not H&M nor Roberto Cavalli or something else inbetween, that's up to Alcazar and Charlotte Perrelli to wear.
18th November 08 - GREAT NEWS !
Update ...
Some other news from BWO... The song "You're Not Alone" is described as a dramatic electronic gospel ballad ! It's the first time the band will defend a ballad at the Melodifestivalen. The song is co-written with Fredrik Kempe, a famous Swedish artist who wrote several songs for MF participants including the both finalists last year : Charlotte and Sanna Nielsen ! Fredrik Kempe is a specialist to make strong ballad... And with the genius touch of Alexander Bard we can be sure this song will be amazing !
We can also officially announced to the world that BWO left their record company EMI Sweden after 4 years of collaboration. BWO have signed a brand new recording contract with Bonnier Music, Scandinavia's leading independent record company, currently successful internationally with such artists as Madcon and Sunrise Avenue.
Bonnier Music will make sure that all future BWO releases will be commercially released and digitally available in almost all territories around the world. The only exceptions from this global Bonnier release will be the territories where BWO are already signed to other record companies, such as Universal Music in Germany and Avex in Japan. Great news for the many BWO fans around the world who are eager to buy and download BWO's music and not have been able to do so in the past.
You can already join their mailing list to receive news about the band before everyone ! Click here
It's with a great surprise that we are announcing you the participation of BWO at the next year's Melodifestivalen !! The band must take a one year break since their new album but there some changes in their plans for our greatest pleasure !
It was announced today in Swedish medias that the song BWO will defend will be called "You're Not Alone". Other participants are also announced and the concurrence will be hard cause Alcazar, Mans Zelmerlow and Emilia will be in the contest too ! For recall, Alcazar was also created by Alexander Bard in 1998.
We can also announced that the new BWO album will be release in Spring 2009. For example, the latest Girls Aloud album Out Of Control will be definetely a source of inspiration for Alexander and Anders Hansson that really love the Xenomania team work ! It's great to hear that BWO will try a new direction.... Stay tuned for more news next year !
4th November 08 - Some news...
BWO world is spinning slowly those last times... But these are the latest news about charts and rumours around the band.
Some good news about the Swedish Dance Chart first.
BWO enterred one more time this week not less than 3 tracks in the official Swedish Dance Chart !
#24 Gomenasai
#33 The Bells Of Freedom
#40 Barcelona
Gomenasai is also number #25 in the Scandinavian Dance Chart this week. Unfortunally the Gomenasai single didn't do very well in the single chart. The title is however a proposition entry for the P3 Tracklistan Top 20, hope they will enter the chart next week !
Also 2 great surprises from International charts... Sunshine In The Rain seems to be #5 in the Israeli 101fm Radio Chart and Chariots Of Fire enterred the famous U.S. Dance/Club Play Chart in Billboard Magazine at #45!!!
You also know that BWO released their first dvd video collection 2 weeks ago, it enterred #20 at its release in the DVD Hitlistan Top 20 chart and won 4 places to #16 the week after. So congratulations for that !
In the other news, BWO signed a big record deal with the Japanese Record Label AVEX GROUP to promote the band in Asia. Chariots Of Fire will normally be as for USA Chariots Of Fire and will be released featuring new remixes exclusively made for Asia.
To finish, Aftonbladet, certainly the most famous Swedish newspaper revealed the new songs that will participate to the next Melodifestivalen in March 2008. To the greatest surprise, Alexander Bard is part of the writer/composer for 2 songs called "It's My Life" (Bard/Ljunggren/Oscar Holter) and "You're not alone" (Fredrik Kempe/Alexander Bard/Anders Hansson).
We don't know for which artists those songs are written for and we really hope one of those track will be a BWO track even if the band denied the fact of participating to the Melodifestivalen 2009. Rumours tells that Ace Of Base could make a big comeback in Sweden through the MF... We'll see.
Alcazar is confirmed as participant with the song Stay The Night written by Anders Hansson. More news about the Melodifestivalen very soon on Electronordica.
For the UK fans, don't forget to buy your copy of Pandemonium cd that is released now on the British ground !
Finally... finally. A Facebook groupe is created and we invite you to join it : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10040159988
See you soon for more news soon.
6th October 08 - GOMENASAI - out now !
A little news to tell you that the new BWO single Gomenasai is now available on I-Tunes Sweden. The new EP is featuring 9 tracks (see below). Be a lot to legally download it !
24th September 08 - CONGRATULATIONS !!!!
YES, you see it well !! Martin celebrated his wedding last saturday. It was a real fairytale wedding. It standed in a romantic castle in Västergötland. Martin Rolinski, 26 is now united to Katarina Jansson, 30.
Surrounded by family and friends - including BWO, Mr Alexander Bard - popstjärnan said 'yes' on the palace terrace. Ramades environment in a bubbling fountain and flourishing rose bushes.
A 90-speech guests
- It was a great ceremony and glorious weather. Altogether, it was a 90s guests and young couple looked very happy.
The Beatles classic "All you need is love" was played in the ceremony and then continued the festivities with dinner inside the palace.
Martin and Catherine met before his big breakthrough as pop star with BWO and she has been through his journey to becoming a public person. In January last year, they engaged themselves.
If the couple are now having children remains to be seen - but in an interview with Reuters last year, told Martin Rolinski about their future aspirations.
- It is clear I want to have children. There is nothing I can think about, but it is the right nature to be getting married and having children sooner or later, he said.
All our congratulations to Martin and Katarina !!!
23rd September 08 - GOMENASAI - The Single
This is exlusively for Electronordica the sleeve design and tracklisting of the final single "Gomenasai".
01 Radio Edit 3:27
02 Oscar Holter Radio Mix 3:50
03 SoundFactory Radio Edit 3:49
04 Hanssonic Extended Mix 5:45
05 Tor Modern Remix 5:31
06 Oscar Holter Body Mix 3:29
07 SoundFactory Eastern Club Anthem 6:58
08 SoundFactory Western Dub 8:53
09 Miss Leeloo Je Suis Désolée Mix 4:36
The single will certainly be released in October but we've not the exact date at the moment.
22nd September 08 - THE PANDEMONIUM DVD
We have finally more news for you about the release of the first BWO dvd compilation : Pandemonium The Video Collection. The dvd will be released in Sweden on October 8th. The dvd will contain not less than 18 tracks (including 2 bonus video remixes). Check out the full tracklisting below :
1. Lay your love on me
2. Barcelona
3. Bells of freedom
4. Give me the night
5. Destiny of love
6. Let it rain
7. Save my pride
8. Chariots of fire
9. Will my arms be strong enough
10. We could be heroes
11. Temple of love
12. Sunshine in the rain
13. Open door (Ballad version)
14. Sixteen tons of hardware
15. Conquering America
16. Living in a fantasy
17. Lay your love on me (SoundFacotory Obsession Club Mix)
18. Chariots of fire (Hex Hector Club Mix)
We'll be back to you very soon for more informations about the next and final single from the Fabricator/Pandemonium albums : Gomenasai.
We can also tell you that Alexander is in studio working on new tracks for the 2009 BWO album ;-)
9th August 08 - EXCLUSIVE REMIXES !
Dear friends, Electronordica is happy to announce you that the Halcyon Secrets page is updated with the free mp3 remixes of Hooked On The Danger kindly offered by Johan Afterglow and Markymix. Those both remixes are official but unreleased so enjoy !!
We can also announce you that an exclusive Concrete Jungle remix made by Marcus Ullmarker (Clean-Group DJ - artist - remixer for BWO The Bells Of Freedom) will be added in the next few days on this same page !! Stay tuned !
7th August 08 - CHARTS NEWS
Check out the latest excellent Swedish Charts.
The Hilistan Top 60 (Official Swedish Singles Chart)
#15 The Bells Of Freedom (New Entry)
#58 Lay Your Love On Me (Re-entry) certified gold !
The Hilistan Top 60 (Official Swedish Album Chart)
#35 Pandemonium 'The Singles Collection" (Re Entry)
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Chart (top 100 singles)
#15 The Bells Of Freedom
#20 Lay Your Love One
#40 Barcelona
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Chart (top 100 albums)
#49 The Bells Of Freedom EP
#93 Halcyon Days
Swedish I-Tunes Chart (top 100 singles)
#52 The Bells Of Freedom
#72 Lay Your Love On Me
5th August 08 - Europride !
Alexander and I at Nordic Light Hotel - Stockholm
Last weekend was the Europride event in Stockholm, Electronordica was there and it was amazing ! BWO latest single The Bells Of Freedom was played lots of time everyday in the Pride Park and during the Parade. Unfortunally the rain was there again during the BWO Perforamance :-(
BWO performed Give Me The Night, Sunshine In The Rain, Barcelona, Gomenasai, Temple Of Love, We Could Be Heroes, Lay Your Love On Me and finally The Bells Of Freedom joined by Jean-Pierre Barda and Dominika Peckzynski (the ex-Alexander Bard collegues in Army Of Lovers). The audience was crazy and sing along with the band during all the show !
We had the chance to meet Alexander the day before the show and Alexander gave us some news about the next album. It will more dramatic and dark but very very electronic. Gomenasai is a good example of the next song but they'll of course go to other direction for our greatest pleasure! The new album will certainly be released next year but the band need a good break to recharge their battery. The band is completely tired and we truly believe them. They are working so much !
The Europride has a huge influences on the BWO charts ... It's a great premiere, 3 different singles enterred the Swedish Dance chart at the same time :
#14 The Bells Of Freedom (highest new entry)
# 25 Barcelona
# 40 Lay Your Love On Me (remix)
I-Tunes is also completely taken by storm by BWO...
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Chart (top 100 singles)
#2 The Bells Of Freedom (maybe number one during the Europride but we didn't see it)
#21 Lay Your Love One (the title is still huge in Sweden!!)
#27 Barcelona (finally the success is arriving)
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Chart (top 100 albums)
#2 The Bells Of Freedom EP
#84 Pandemonium (but was higher during the weekend)
#91 Fabricator (made its re-entry)
#93 Halcyon Days (made its re-entry)
Swedish I-Tunes Chart (top 100 singles)
#23 The Bells Of Freedom
#90 Lay Your Love On Me
Swedish I-Tunes Chart (top 100 albums)
#27 The Bells Of Freedom EP
Pictures of the BWO performance are on the official Europride website www.stockholmpride.org.
Videos are also available on Youtube.
We'll be back later this week for the awaited remix of Johan Afterglow for Hooked On The Danger !
29th July 08 - CHARIOTS OF FIRE... AGAIN
German maxi-cd single
Chariots Of Fire will be the new BWO German single released by Universal Music. The single will be released on August 15.
And as a good surprise, The Bells Of Freedom will be on the maxi-cd single as bonus track. You can see that 2 new remixes appeared for the song, the first one is the Big World Club Edit (remixed by the German band Big World) and the second one is the exclusive Hex Hector Remix, one of the most famous American DJ.
Watch the full tracklising :
1. Original Edit
2. Big World Club Edit
3. Hex Hector Radio Edit
4. The Bells Of Freedom – Album Version
German promo single
Above you can see the promo cd single circulating in German radios and clubs with a different cover. The tracklisting was different too :
Original Edit
Big World Club Edit
Credheadz Remix
Richmann Remix
SoundFactory Reconnection Club Mix
SoundFactory Reconnection Dub Mix
US promo single
Finally, Chariots Of Fire is also the first single that will be released in the USA !!! Yes BWO is trying to conquer America this time ;-) This is exclusively on Electronordica the US promo cd single cover sleeve. We don't know the exact tracklisting at the moment but it will feature the new remixes by Hex Hector !
You can discover those 3 cover sleeves in higher resolution in the Pictures section (official cover art)
We've also got excellent news about Swedish and UK I-Tunes charts....
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Chart (top 100 singles)
#25 Lay Your Love On Me
#38 Barcelona
#44 The Bells Of Freedom
#50 The Bells Of Freedom (yes the title is positionned 2x)
#89 Temple Of Love (one of the most BWO successful single)
Update... This is the today (July 30th) chart positions for the :
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Chart (top 100 singles)
#26 Lay Your Love On Me (-1)
#19 Barcelona (+19)
#10 The Bells Of Freedom (+34)
#68 Temple Of Love (+21)
Great !! BWO is doing very well in the charts those days !
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Chart (top 100 albums)
#4 The Bells Of Freedom EP (what a great entry!!!)
Swedish I-Tunes Chart (top 100 singles)
#43 The Bells Of Freedom
#75 Barcelona
Swedish I-Tunes Chart (top 100 albums)
#19 The Bells Of Freedom EP (what a great entry!!!)
UK I-Tunes Plus Chart (top 100 singles)
#22 Lay Your Love On Me (Original Radio Edit)
#56 Lay Your Love On Me (Biffco Radio Mix)
Update : UK I-Tunes Plus Chart (top 100 albums)
#74 Lay Your Love On Me EP
We also forgot to tell you last time that The Bells Of Freedom is available to downlaod on the 7digital store so it's not only reserved for Swedish fans this time !
We'll be back next week with lots of news from the Europride gig where we are going this week !!
Stay tuned !!
28th July 08 - BWO RELEASED IN UK TODAY !!
Hello to all the UK BWO fans ! We are happy to announce you that the Digital EP for Lay Your Love On Me is out now on the UK I-Tunes ! The EP includes 7 tracks featuring the new remixes by Biffco and Spencer And Hill !
And for all the gays around the world, don't forget to buy your copy of The Bells Of Freedom, the official Europride Anthem available on www.cdon.com
Tomorrow the Halcyon Secrets Page will be updated with a exclusive "free" remix of Hooked On The Danger kindly offered by Johan Afterglow.... Stay tuned !
24th July 08 - The Bells Of Freedom OUT NOW !
The digital EP of The Bells Of Freedom is released on Scandinavian I-Tunes since July 21st. The Bells Of Freedom is as you certainly know the official Europride 2008 Anthem who is going to begin next week in Stockholm !
Be a lot to buy the single and make it biggest than Barcelona.
11th July 08 - VIDEO PREMIERE
You can now discover in avant-première the new hilarious video for The Bells Of Freedom (The Europride Anthem) on the Official Stockholm Pride website : www.stockholmpride.org
Enjoy !
9th July 08 - The Bells Of Freedom
See above the official sleeve for the next BWO cd single "The Bells Of Freedom" that is set for a realease date on July 23.
This is the full tracklisting of the cd :
01 Radio Edit 3:25
02 SoundFactory Mixshow Anthem 6:54
03 Hanssonic Extended Mix 5:26
04 SoundFactory Club Anthem 8:06
05 SoundFactory Big Dub 8:12
06 Marcus Ullmarker Remix 4:31
The sensational video for the song will be premiered very soon on the Aftonbladet website and Electronordica of course. Stay tuned.
We also received an amazing news concerning UK, BWO enterred the UK Radio Airplay chart at #46 and Lay Your Love On Me is also already #15 in the UK Commercial Club Chart.
To finnish, BWO was on saturday in London for a great promo live act at famous Astoria club for the G-A-Y Party together with Alcazar. Jeremy Joseph, organizer of this party said he's hardly ever seen the club more packed (or the line outside any longer) ! Congratulations to the band !
If you want to see picture of this big event click here
27th June 08 - EXCLUSIVE REMIX !
MARKYMIX, excellent US remixer, official remixer for Erasure and fan of BWO kindly offered to Electronordica a exclusive remix of Hooked On The Danger, title from the Fabricator album. You can listen to it and download it on the official Electronordica myspace page : click here to go on it
More news about UK :
"Lay Your Love On Me" enters the UK Commercial Pop Dance Chart at #24 this week and also the Upfront club chart at #86.
Lay Your Love One also re-enterred the Swedish Singles chart at #60 !! It's a very nice fact since the single is released since March ! Barcelona unfortunally is already out of the Swedish Singles Chart :-(
26th June 08 - BWO ON BBC RADIO 2 !
Brilliant news from London this afternoon.
BWO "Lay Your Love On Me" has been officially playlisted on the B-list at BBC Radio 2.
Above, official cover sleeves for the UK Lay Your Love On Me cd singles : Part 1 - 2 tracks cd single and Part 2 - The Mixes.
Both official sleeves are designed by your favourite BWO website Electronordica ! We are soooo proud of making this for the band !
Lay Your Love On Me is taken from the album Pandemonium who will be released in UK in the next few months.
More news from the UK coming soon...
23th June 08 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTIN!
Electronordica is proud to wish a very Happy Birthday to our sweety BWO lead singer Martin Rolinski who celebrates his 26 years !
Be free to wish a Happy Birthday to Martin on the forum or guestbook !
19th June 08 - BWO & ARMY OF LOVERS REUNITED FOR THE BELLS OF FREEDOM VIDEO!!!
Aftonbladet today revealed the news that Army Of Lovers are reunited to perform "The Bells Of Freedom" together with BWO in the video for the Europride anthem 2008. Here is a link to the news in Swedish:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/noje/article2718114.ab
The video will premiere around July 15. The maxi-single "The Bells Of Freedom" is released in Sweden on July 23.
The main theme is the video director shoting some kind of talantcompetition with look alikes in a 80ths inspired TV-studio.
There will have Kiss, ABBA, Elvis and BWO as Villagepeople etc. A touch of humour and with the pridefestival in mind. It will be awesome.
10th June 08 - New UK Single !
Shell Records, the UK label working with BWO decided to release Lay Your Love On Me as new single in UK. BBC Radio 2 who already well-supported the song Sunshine In The Rain played LYLOM for the first time last week ! The new radio edit version is remixed by Biffco aka Stannard and Howes.
Lay Your Love On Me will be available in July featuring a 2 cd part set. This is the tracklisting :
CD 1
01 Biffco Mix 2:59
02 Original Radio Edit 2:59
CD2 - The mixes
01 Biffco Extended Mix 4:39
02 Spencer & Hill Remix 5:36
03 Organs Without Bodies Remix 5:37
04 SoundFactory Obsession Club Mix 7:48
05 Oscar Holter Club Mix 5:10
06 Ali Payami Remix 6:12
07 Original Radio Edit 2:59
Stay tuned on Electronordica to discover the new sleeves of both singles very soon.
10th June 08 - BWO rule Swedish dance charts !
Not only is BWO "Lay Your Love On Me" holding up incredibly well, still at #6 this week after almost three months in the Swedish club charts. But the new single "Barcelona" is also making an impressive debut straight in at #11 this week, 11 positions ahead of the new Madonna single.
Please click for the "complete chart" at the following link:
http://www.deejaypromo.com/charts.asp
8th June 08 - Barcelona - The Video and Live!
The video for Barcelona is now online on Youtube, click this link to view it (again). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODXP3BJhhGM
A live performance of Barcelona also appeared on Youtube added by the bwo website BWO Fanclub at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_j8RexCe9g
And as exclusive, watch the first live performance of BWO next single: The Bells Of Freedom.
Click here and here
28th May 08 - Barcelona - The Video !
The video for BWO "Barcelona" will premiere at aftonbladet.se on Friday May 30. The video was directed by Mauricio Molinari.
The new Belgian remix producer Miss Leeloo who made the wonderful lounge remix of Barcelona invites you to her Myspace page. Feel free to leave her a kind comment about her work on BWO. And don't forget to vote on the Electroboard to say if you like her remix. Miss Leeloo is already working on a new official remix for a next BWO single... More news in the next few months.
www.myspace.com/djmissleeloo
27th May 08 - BWO back in London !
We can hereby confirm that BWO will make a live appearance at G-A-Y in London on July 5. BWO will perform together with Alcazar.
26th May 08 - BARCELONA ON I-TUNES
The Barcelona EP 10 tracks is out today on I-Tunes Sweden / Denmark and Norway. Be a lot to buy it ! Remixes are sensationnal !
21st May 08 - BARCELONA EXCLUSIVE REMIX !
Electronordica is really proud to introduce you into the remix work of great Belgian Girl DJ named Miss Leeloo !
Discover exclusively in the myspace jukebox her remix for Barcelona ! She turned the song into something very Ibiza à la "Cafe Del Mar" !
We adore it !
http://www.myspace.com/electronordica
The Barcelona maxi-cd single (including the Miss Leeloo Remix) will be available to download and physical purchase on May 28.
We are waiting for your feedback about this fantastic remix !
06th May 08 - BARCELONA SLEEVE
This is how will look like the cover of the next BWO single Barcelona ! In the same style of Pandemonium and Lay Your Love On Me sleeves but with other clothes, more modern and very BWO style !
1st May 08 - BARCELONA TRACKLISTING
This is the full tracklisting of the next BWO single "Barcelona" to be released on May 28th.
01: Barcelona (Radio Edit)
02: Barcelona (Shane 54 & Myon Retrofuturism Radio Mix)
03: Barcelona (Soundfactory Radio Mix)
04: Barcelona (Ali Payami Remix)
05: Barcelona (Oscar Holter Remix)
06: Barcelona (Shane 54 & Myon Retrofuturism Remix)
07: Barcelona (Soundfactory Reconstruction Remix)
08: Barcelona (Soundfactory Pumping Dub)
09: Barcelona (Hanssonic feat. Felix and Märta Remix)
10: Barcelona (Miss Leeloo After Hours Remix)
The cover sleeve will be revealed later this month exclusively on Electronordica.
Another great news, Pandemonium is now Gold Certified in Sweden ! Congratulations to BWO !
29th April 08 - CHARTS NEWS
The new BWO album Pandemonium made a wonderful new entry into the Swedish Album Chart at #3 ! Congratulations to the band !
Lay Your Love On Me also continues its great success into several Swedish Charts :
Swedish Hitlistan Top Singles : #16 (still in top20 after 7 weeks)
Swedish RIX FM Top 40 : #3 (6 weeks in the top)
Swedish P3 Radio Tracks Chart : #14
Svenktoppen Top 10 chart : #7 (after 5 weeks)
Hit FM Top 60 Chart : #2 (after 5 weeks)
We can now tell that Lay Your Love On Me is the biggest BWO single ever !
17th April 08 - BARCELONA REMIXERS
We can now confirm the remix producers for "Barcelona". They are SoundFactory, Shane 54 & Myon (a brilliant duo from Hungary), Miss Leeloo (a girl dj from Belgium who turns the song into an great Ibiza after hours style), Ali Payami, Felix & Märta (who will replace Organs Without Bodies and will make the extended version of the song), and Oscar Holter.
The maxi-single will contain 10 tracks (!!!).
Lay Your Love On Me is such a massive hit now that BWO have to wait with the release of Barcelona until at the earliest late May. LYLOM is now also at #24 at NRJ Russia:
http://www.energyfm.ru/?an=nrj_hot30
17th April 08 - NEW BWO WEBSTORE
BWO opened a new webstore featuring lots of new merchandising items ! Click on the image to go there !
9th April 08 - BARCELONA REMIXERS
SoundFactory, Organs Without Bodies, Ali Payami, Oscar Holter, Miss Leeloo & Shane 54 are the names working on remixes for the next BWO single "Barcelona". More news about the full and exact tracklisting soon.
UK will release in the next months a new BWO single but the track is not chosen yet... More news to come.
7th April 08 - PANDEMONIUM ON I-TUNES
We are really happy to announce that the Pandemonium album is already available on the Swedish / Danish / Norwegian I-Tunes to download ! The physical release will be out in 2 days !
We are also happy to announce that the Myspace page of Electronordica reached the top of 1000 friends ! Thank you to you all for your great support !
4th April 08 - NEW PLANS FOR BWO
The following single to the smash hit Lay Your Love On Me was supposed to be Gomenasai for a May release but BWO decided to change their plans after lots of requests from DJ's, radios and other band entourage ! So the next single won't be Gomenasai but will be the new track from Pandemonium album : "Barcelona" ! But don't worry about Gomenasai, the track is still planned for a future release in late summer and fall. Alexander Bard also confirmed the next single after Barcelona will be the catchy Europride Anthem called "The Bells Of Freedom" in August. Mauricio Molinari will direct the video for "Barcelona". More news to come about remixers and exact release dates.
About the current single, Lay Your Love On Me continues its great situation in Swedish charts !
Swedish Singles Chart #4
Swedish P3 Radio Tracks Chart #1 (for the second week)
Swedish RixFM Top 6 #1
Swedish RixFM Top 40 #3
Swedish Svensktoppen Top 10 #1 (second number one for BWO in this famous Swedish Chart. Previous number one was Sunshine In The Rain).
Swedish I-Tunes Singles Chart #13
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Singles Chart #3
Swedish HITFM Radio TOP 60 Chart #11 (new entry)
But that's not all... Lay Your Love On Me made its entry in the VIVA Hugary TV playlist.
And don't forget to order your copy of Pandemonium - The Singles Collection that will be released on April 9th ! You can preorder here or here
22nd March 08 - CHART BREAKER !
The new smashing BWO single Lay Your Love On Me breaks the Swedish chart this week at the highest point ...
Swedish Singles Chart #2 (last week #16)
Swedish P3 Radio Tracks Chart #1 (new entry)
Swedish RixFM Top40 #4 (new entry)
Swedish I-Tunes Singles Chart #5
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Singles Chart #1
Swedish I-Tunes Plus Album Chart #2 (for the full maxi-cd)
Congratulations to BWO for those first great chart positions !
17th March 08 - Pre-order Pandemonium ...
Via this link, you can pre-order the first fantastic BWO Greatest Hits compilation called Pandemonium. We can announce that the new songs Barcelona and The Bells Of Freedom are 2 of the Best BWO songs ! BWO is hesitating about their following single to LYLOM between Barcelona and Gomenasai... So we'll see in the next few weeks what will be their choice.
We would also like to wish a wonderful Happy Birthday to our genius Alexander Bard ! And please feel free to watch his great performance in the new BWO video for Lay Your Love On Me added on the Videos Page.
In the other news we have to announce that BWO unfortunally didn't win the final of the Melodifestivalen on Saturday ! They finished at third position but the band stays positive and will have the best hit in Sweden ever ! Lay Your Love On Me is already number one in the Swedish I-Tunes singles/albums and number 16 on the Swedish Singles Chart.
5th March 08 - Updates
Pictures section is updated with some new pictures including Behind-the-scenes of Chariots Of Fire video, new sleeve for Lay Your Love On Me single, all the Pandemonium pictures album and a new logo from Pandemonium album back cover.
We've also got some news about the next BWO video for Lay Your Love On Me. Alexander describes it as a bizarre story with lots of trains, perverted toys and sexual sadism... The video will come out next week !
Finally, the version of We Should Be Dancing included on the Pandemonium album will be a shorter radio edit version than the Fabricator previously released version.
Gomenasai is the same version as on Fabricator and Barcelona is definitely not a cover version of Freddy Mercury and Montserra Caballé song.
In 10 days we'll finally know if BWO will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest ! Let's cross fingers !
26th February 08 - So much releases ....
The smashing, amazing, glamourously dramatic new BWO single Lay Your Love On Me will be released in Sweden on March 10th as digital and on March 12th as physical release.
The maxi-cd single and the digital release will contain 9 tracks
01 Radio Edit 2:59
02 SoundFactory Radio Edit 3:54
03 Organs Without Bodies Remix 5:37
04 Ali Payami Remix 6:12
05 SoundFactory Obsession Club Mix 7:48
06 SoundFactory Possession Dub Mix 8:55
07 Oscar Holter Body Mix 3:33
08 Oscar Holter Club Mix 5:10
09 Oscar Holter Techhouse Mix 5:16
The tracks will also be available on the album "Pandimonium - The Singles Collection" in April. This is as exclusive the tracklisting of Pandemonium :
01 The Bells Of Freedom 3:25
02 Lay Your Love On Me 2:59
03 Barcelona 3:45
04 Sunshine In The Rain 3:30
05 Give Me The Night 3:09
06 Chariots Of Fire 4:09
07 Open Door 3:29
08 Gomenasai 3:27
09 Sixteen Tons Of Hardware 3:30
10 Will My Arms Be Strong Enough 4:16
11 We Should Be Dancing 3:34
12 Temple Of Love 3:25
13 Living In A Fantasy 3:39
14 We Could Be Heroes 4:24
15 Voodoo Magic 3:41
16 Let It Rain 3:30
17 Conquering America 3:20
18 The Destiny Of Love 3:50
You can notice that The Bells Of Freedom & Barcelona will be the new tracks added on this fantastic compilation ! More news to come in March. A great surprise is also to see Gomenasai and We Should Be Dancing added on the list... Certainly for future releases... But we are also surprised to not see "Rhythm Drives Me Crazy", "Save My Pride" and "Gone" on Pandemonium.
Today is also the release date of Sunshine In The Rain In UK !
UK BWO fans can buy 2 cds featuring all the new remixes of the song. See details below :
CD 2 Tracks single :
Sunshine In The Rain (Radio Edit)
Sunshine In The Rain (Soul Seekerz Edit)
Maxi-cd single Remixes :
Sunshine In the Rain (Soul Seekerz Remix)
Sunshine In the Rain (SoundFactory Glamourama Anthem)
Sunshine In the Rain (Sound Factory New York Anthem)
Sunshine In the Rain (Johan Afterglow Electro Mix)
Sunshine In the Rain (Italo Mix)
Sunshine In the Rain (Soul Seekerz Edit)
Sunshine In the Rain (Radio Edit)
Finally, Universal Germany is planning a new BWO release for the hit "Chariots Of Fire". See the promo cd single below with the exclusive tracklisting :
Original Edit
Big World Club Edit (new remix)
Credheadz Remix
Richmann Remix (new remix)
SoundFactory Reconnection Club Mix
SouldFactory Reconnection Dub Mix
We could not finish the news without congratulating BWO for their fabulous performance at Melodifestivalen this Saturday. BWO goes straight to the final ! And let's cross fingers they'll win the final too ! Sweden absolutely needs BWO to send something great in Belgrad for the Eurovision Song Contest !
21st February 08 - Lay Your Love On Me
This is the first picture of BWO featuring their new extravagant clothes they'll wear at the Melodifestivalen tomorrow evening ! A new fantastic look signed by the Bjork stylist. We suppose that this new picture will be used for the Lay Your Love On Me cd single !
The 60 seconds of the song available today on Swedish Media is Amazing ! Certainly one of the best song BWO ever wrote ! We really hope the band will win tomorrow !
Let's cross our fingers !
See you tomorrow !
21st February 08 - The Show... very soon !
Only 2 days of patience to finally discover the fantastic performance of BWO at the Melodifestivalen ! BWO are getting great response from the media, they love them. Even though Alexander has brought up Carola again, they seem like favourites. But we can't take anything for granted.
Martin will be in an elevator in the middle of the show, 10 meters up in the air!! See the rehearsals pictures above.
From tomorrow 3pm until saturday you will be able to hear an exclusive 60 sec sample of Lay Your Love On Me on www.melodifestivalen.se.
For the other news about UK, Sunshine In The Rain is released on 2 CDs next Monday, Prototype and Halcyon Days are released on March 3rd here and Fabricator is released on March 10th. HMV here in the UK has them available to
pre-order for only £6.99 each with Free Delivery, that is an excellent price. They have different catalogue numbers, being released by Shell Records, not imports.
Let's cross our fingers for BWO and their song on Saturday.
More news to come...
5th February 08 - Some news...
BBC Radio 2 played BWO "Sunshine In The Rain" four times yesterday. And then a further three times again this morning!
This is this week's new No 1 record in Taiwan and Hong Kong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSp81FDxtDc ... So cool !
We also have some news about BWO's song Lay Your Love On Me in Aftonbladet's special edition of Klick!, the "insider source" who has heard all of the songs (except the wildcards' songs) have made a statement about each and every song.
About BWO's song:
"Bard and co knows how you write choruses that gets a hold of you. 'Temple of love' from 2006 was impossible to listen to and at the same time sit still, but this song is actually better. Electronic, dramatic pop perfectly made for Martin's voice. Great chance of winning the entire Eurovision Song Contest."
The song will be played for the very first time in public on Swedish radio station P4, Friday 22nd of February at 13.05.
60 seconds of the song will be played.
After the rehearsal that takes place at 20.00 the same Friday, the songs will probably be available to listen to on svt.se/melodifestivalen.
The following day, the semi-final takes place.
4th February 08 - Glamour Toujours ...
Marina has won the ELLE Sweden Award for Best Dressed Woman in 2007. Both she her boyfriend and the other members of BWO, Alexander and Martin, attended the show.
Congratulations to our glamourous Marina ! And a special mention to Alexander for his beautiful shirt signed Galliano !
1st February 08 - QX MAG FEBRUARY WITH BWO
On this month edition of QX Magazine you can find a new interview of some of the semi-finalist of the Melodifestivalen and of course of BWO ! Read the interview translated in English and discover some exciting news about the band and their song Lay Your Love On Me.
How was the song produced?
Alexander: Bobby Ljunggren called me this summer and said "if there's anything I want to do for Melodifestivalen, it's working with BWO". And we like Bobby, so he sent a few songs. But I feel like you should think about how it is going to sound like from the very start, so I sent him a few chords to work with. Classic Eurovision-style but at the same time very BWO. Then he answered with a really strong chorus, and I did the rest. Later Henrik Wikström and Anders Hansson joined us and we became the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young of the schlager-world.
Martin: I think it's in the top 3 of the best songs we've ever made. It's perfect.
Marina: If we were going to enter Melodifestivalen is was going to be with this one and no other song...
Alexander: ...and it's absolutely not a "Temple of Love - version 2", this one is more melodic than Temple of Love.
Have you done any changes to it since you sent it in to SVT for the contest?
Alexander: No, the idea was crystal clear from the very beginning and it's pretty close to Madonna's Hung Up and Sorry if you look at the arrangement. It's a modern filerdiscosong and that was the idea we had.
If the fashion blogs are going to express their opinion after the semi-final in Linköping, what will their impression of your outfits be?
Alexander: We are working with the designer who also works with Björk, Marjan Pejorski (who designed the singer's famous swan-outfit...), so we haven't exactly been looking around at H&M. Every single outfit on stage will be drawn and sewn for this occasion only. You can call it Verka Serduchka with good taste.
Marina: It's avantgarde, hysterical and very fashion.
Alexander: We think Belgrade at once and if we aim over people's heads, then let it be so. We can't be satisfied with average and optimal for Melodifestivalen. It should smell Belgrade from day one.
What is BWO's greatest musical sin?
Alexander: When we did a reggae-song called Rhythm Divine on our first album. But then later the biggest pop-star in Thailand did a cover on it and lots of cash started to roll in.
Marina: But we never perform it live. If we did I would have to go off the stage.
Do you visit blogs about schlager and schlager websites?
Alexander: Marina has a lot of gay friends who tells her everything that has been written about us. People who call and boost her ego after every gig we've done. I'm a little interested as we are participating so I look around a little bit.
Is the song a Eurovision winner?
Martin: Yes, if there's any song we've done that is, it's this one.
Alexander: Yeah and it's only Velvet and BWO (in Melodifestivalen 2008) who's got a career outside of Sweden to talk about. We've got fans in Eastern Europe and they settle a lot in that competition. Sure, Carola and Charlotte have both won but that was before a lot of other countries began to participate.
In which countries are you most famous?
Alexander: That depends on the songs but Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Serbia...
Martin: And Turkey. That's where Save My Pride hit no 1. on the charts.
Alexander: we had one of the 30 greatest club hits in the UK last year, and we were offered to enter their competition. But we said no as we are entering Melodifestivalen over here.
You've got an album on the way aswell?
Alexander: Pandemonium, a greatest-hits album which will be released in April this year. It also includes the Europride-theme The Bells of Freedom, which is a real prideparade-anthem. It contains hints about the fact that gay people should have the right to get married.
Martin: It's political, but it's not exactly a "progg-song". (laughs)
Have you been thinking about changing the way BWO "are" in order to win the Melodifestivalen?
Marina: Absolutely not. We're not speculative in that way and we have to feel like it's fun to participate.
Martin: And the way BWO are is what's going to work in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Alexander: It's impossible for a Skaraschlager-song of a boogiewoggie-song to win. We have to send an international pop song in order to win.
Which one of the other participants are you most curious about?
Alexander: Velvet, because she's close to us when it comes to the music. She's really nice and a great singer. And Patrik Isaksson, since he's a friends of our's.
And now you're the school's football team?
Marina: It feels totally natural. I feel like I wanna hit someone (laughs).
Alexander: I have a hard time seeing someone else in this role. This feels so BWO.
31 January 08 - UK NEWS
Hi Friends
BWO ‘Sunshine In The Rain’ in the UK has been added straight to the national Radio 2 A playlist, see below. this is the highest rotation, and is straight in new on the A list, which is unheard of for a new comer, along with Westlife & Katie Melua.
Radio 2 Playlist 30/1/08
A LIST
KATE RUSBY - The Village Green Preservation Society
DUFFY - Mercy
KYLIE - Wow
DAVID JORDAN - Sun Goes Down
MORRISSEY - That's How People Grow Up
SHERYL CROW - Love Is Free
*NEW* B W O - Sunshine In The Rain
*NEW* WESTLIFE - Us Against The World
THE FEELING - I Thought It Was Over
*NEW* KATIE MELUA - If The Lights Go Out
27th January 08 - THE BELLS OF FREEDOM
The Bells Of Freedom is the title of the Europride anthem that BWO will release in August especially for the Stokcholm/Europride event. The song is described as a mix between Chariots Of Fire and Temple Of Love. As reported by Alexander Bard, Lay Your Love On Me and The Bells Of Freedom will be very electronic and both of the best BWO songs ever made ! Those 2 songs and one more song will be of course featured on the Greatest Hits album "Pandemonium".
Be sure to listen to those new tracks in the next few weeks exclusively on Electronordica !
23rd January 08 - PANDEMONIUM !
A little news to give you the title of the BWO Greatest Hits to be released in Sweden on April 9 : Pandemonium.
Pandemonium will include all the singles released by BWO but also 3 new tracks including Lay Your Love On Me, The Europride Anthem and one extra song.
A video compilation DVD with the same title is planned release in the autumn of 2008.
About the song that BWO wil defend at the Melodifestivalen in Linkoping on February 23, Lay Your Love On Me will feature remixes by SoundFactory, Organs Without Bodies, Ali Payami and Oscar Holter.
22nd January 08 - EXCLUSIVE REMIX !
To celebrate the official release of Sunshine In The Rain on UK I-Tunes we are proud to offer you an exclusive unreleased remix of Sunshine In The Rain. This remix is signed Brasco who already made remixes for Chariots Of Fire and Open Door. Discover the remix in the Halcyon Secrets page !! Other remixers are working at this moment for new exclusive remixes for Hooked On The Danger... Stay tuned for more remixes in the future !
17th January 08 - Some news
Hello to you all ! First of all, Electronordica wishes you a Wonderfull and Successful year 2008 ! And we hope BWO will follow the success they know since their start !
Some news about the Sunshine In The Rain UK release. The I-Tunes release date is set to January 21st. In MusicWeek magazine this week Bwo are a new entry on the Commercial Pop Top 30 at No.26 and are on the Upfront Chart Breaker at No.10.
This is what the famous singer MIKA thinks about the song :
"I love BWO, Alexander Bard is absolutely mad, and with "Sunshine In The Rain", he has written one of the world's best pop songs of the new millennium." Mika.
We really hope that BWO will follow this time the success that Robyn and Basshunter know at the moment on UK Market !
29 December 07 - HAPPY NEW YEAR !
Your number one BWO website Electronordica is happy to wish you a Wonderful Year 2008 and would like to thank you all for your great support ! 2007 was a good year for BWO but we are sure that 2008 will be one of the best for BWO ! Martin, Marina and Alexander will participate at the Melodifestivalen again with the song Lay Your Love On Me, which is already one of the favourite of the contest ! Lay Your Love On Me is also scheduled to be release on the first BWO Greatest Hits during the first 6 months of 2008. The Greatest Hits album will contain all the hits from the band and some new fresh tracks with new sound ! The album will be followed by a dvd video compilation featuring all the video-clips of BWO.
We really hope that 2008 will be the year of success in UK too with the official release of Sunshine In The Rain (remix) which is already aired on UK radios and televisions.
So, be careful and we'll be back very soon with lots of news from our Swedish superheroes !
Bisous partout.
ELECTRONORDICA