“”I am the tour manager of the life floor show””
“Ola Salo about his upcoming performance – a ”bombasmfest with a twinkle in the eye” – and how papparollen has changed his life.”
“GOTHENBURG. Ola Salo has tried more roles than most during his career. But the floor show, he has never done before.”
“On Thursday, however, it is the premiere of the ”It takes a fool to remain sane” at Rondo in Gothenburg.”
“Femplus stole an hour from rehearsals to talk about her career, parenthood, the apocalypse and The Ark.”
“nUtanför struggles the people of gothenburg to and from the lunch of the year so far isigaste winds but inside at Lisebergs showrestaurang Rondo, it is considerably warmer. The venue is bathed in glamrockextravagans. A dazzling feature wall blinking in various formations and six musicians are hoisted up and down and in and out on the scene with the Kiss-inspired ramps.”
“In the middle is Ola Salo and sings ”Take a shine to me”, the opening track from The Ark’s last album ”In full regalia”. It should be difficult to create so much magic in the gray sweatshirt and black träningsbrallor the face of seven-eight people a januarimåndag, but Ola sucks the room anyway.”
“He has the ability as soon as he stands on a stage. When he steps out of the he is now just as good to disconnect and go on the streets like a regular tvåbarnspappa.”
“n”Henrik will find it chafe””
“It is, among other things, the duality that the show ”It takes a fool to remain sane” should be about.”
“molly ringwald, who helped with the script, caught it in a TV4 interview:”
“– On the one hand, Ola is at home in their little house and try to mount the down chick trampoline and there is some water damage. Then in the evening, he goes up on stage and is like an elf to draw a raveklubb in Babsans big ass.”
“At a break in rehearsals, over a take-out salad that he forgets to eat,” said Ola:”
“– Henrik is very good at finding it in there that rub a little. And he is the master of self-irony. I wanted to create something that took advantage of the fact that I am a performer who is not afraid of the big gestures. But in the bombasmfesten it was extra important to balance up with the glimpse in the eye.”
“the Show is based entirely on The Sheet of songs, and should be ”maximum with Ola Salo”: ”glam rock, black wings, pyro and psychedelic”.”
“at the same time, it is a story about a 14-year-old utopian way from the early 90s Rottne to the position of unbridled påfågelestradör in one of the country’s biggest band. And on to the artistic multi-talented, Ola is now, more than seven years after The Ark’s very last concert at Gröna Lund in Stockholm.”
“– It’s about how well I live up to the promises I gave myself as a young man. Where is there any sort of squeaks, which can be interesting.”
“But he hesitated a while before he accepted the offer to do the show.”
” I’ve always been hesitant to all types of retrospective activities. But to create something that get a place in the public consciousness is a hell of a fluke. And well, I’ve also got a different view of myself. A relevant artist in the present, I do not know if I either can or want to be longer.n”
“A relevant artist in the present, I don’t know if I neither can nor want to be anymore.”
“Ola Salos career is one of the few I have had the grace to follow even from the beginning. I was popskribent at Smålandsposten in Växjö when some teenagers from Rottne who liked The Doors and Jimi Hendrix in a short time became local pop stars.”
“When I interviewed them in the studio in 1993 was much of the manifest as they banged into the pop-Sweden’s consciousness with the genombrottssingeln ”It takes a fool to remain sane” eight years later, is already clear. Prästsonen Ola Svensson talked about his band wanted to be like a saving ark for the people of the time.it was easy to smile a little at the ideas of apocalyptic rock then, but as the world has evolved appears to be you today, rather, as very much before your time.”
“– Haha, yes. But my focus on the apocalypse and the book of revelation was well simply if it was the ballaste part of the Bible. And a way for me to not be ashamed of my religious heritage was to take note of the pieces which had proved to be viable in popular culture. To strike a Jesus-pose in shirtless had Jim Morrison proved that it worked well. Not at least had Madonna proved that there were great opportunities for any kind of erotic fetishism, linked to the religious.”
“n”Superrelevant for me today””
“the Show is called ”It takes a fool to remain sane”. How do you look at the song of the day?”
” One thing that strikes me is that it is so much about parenting, something that I should not have engaged me so much of when I wrote the 21-year-old. So many parts of the text is superrelevanta for me, today, at 41 years of age.”
“it Was a big change for you to be a parent?”
” Yes. When you have been hugely self-absorbed throughout your life and, moreover, managed to build a career on it gets to be a parent all the time is a challenge. It has forced me to develop a lot of properties that have been quite underdeveloped in me.”
” I think it is good. I can’t say that it is easy for me, but I think it is damn fun and meaningful. After a whole life of being so full of himself and think that I and my thoughts are the most important thing in life, it is also very nice to be a sort of tour manager-of-life floor show, where my children now are the stars, haha. “
“After The Ark have you gotten to try very much. The musicals ”Jesus Christ Superstar”, ”Hedwig and the angry inch”, you typed rockoperan ”Cult”, programledde the Eurovision song contest and was included in ”So much better”. Etc. Just in the last year, did you with ”Star star” on TV4, and the “
” No, not directly. I have ticked of so much on my bucket list. I’m very happy with what I’ve got to do. Until I was 14, I was very set on that I would become a visual artist. And I know how I am drawn back to the visual creation. So, I’ve started to paint again and I get an incredible kick out of it. I will definitely continue to do music but for every year that passes, I feel that it is becoming more and more for my pleasure.”
“How do you choose your projects nowadays?”
“– I go very much on what I am interested in learning me. ”Star star” was a perfect example, it, I only saw that a single long evening course in a lot of different new styles. For me is to learn things very much the quality of life. One day when I have learned something is a day that served its purpose. It was worth living, haha.”
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“Four shots out of the career”
“in 2007 won The Ark in the Eurovision song contest with ”The worrying kind”, a song omnpanikångest.n”Pop music has a very strict form. It should be three minutes, the hook and the chorus within 45 seconds. It needs to be immediate and irresistible. But if it is, you can talk about things that you would not even talk with the close friends about. It fascinated me. In a song which was never completed, I had the line ’a heart of darkness wrapped in candy foil’. It was so I wanted that my songwriting would be.”n”
“”Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Malmö Opera 2008. n”To create a set of ’Jesus Christ Superstar’ was a life-long dream. Especially as I, in addition to playing the title role got the chance to do a own translation. All the roles that I have played ends up with with to I is half-naked and inkletad in something. It has become my niche as an actor.”n”
“One of several Carola-the duets out of Some archives, this from ”the Whole of Sweden rattle” in 2015. n”Carola is perhaps the artist in Sweden that I feel most akin to. The link to the religion, hämningslösheten on the scene and the desire to do everything in the largest possible scale. In addition, we are a little bit brotherly. When I take a high tone, I often think, ’I am Carola fucking Häggkvist and I trust in the Lord’.”n”
“Ola and Lisa Nilsson gästar Sven-Bertil Taube’s concert at Gröna Lund in the summer.n”Among the best with the years after The Ark has been to get to know Sven-Bertil Taube and perform with him. He is one of the most magnetic scenpersonligheter available and shows that it can be a long and exciting second act as a performer. In addition, he is my main style icon in the way I dress in private.””
“Age: 41.nFamilj: Wife Anneli Pekula, the daughters of Judith, 8, and Miriam, 3.nFödd: Ola Svensson in the Avesta, 19 February 1977, raised in Rottne in Småland.nBor: country House in Skåne, apartment in Malmö.nAktuell with: First own show ”It takes a fool to remain sane”, written with molly ringwald and directed by Edward af Sillén, who played at Rondo in Gothenburg during the spring. Premiered on Thursday 24 January.”
