About Amandaism
Amandaism.org is an inofficial website dedicated to Amanda Jenssen, the Swedish gangster jazz sensation.
Our goal is that amandaism.org will be yours and other fans’ first choice when you want to get the latest info surrounding Amanda:
▪ Links to the latest articles, TV clips, radio spots and photos.
▪ News
▪ Dates to upcoming gigs
▪ Concert reports
On top of that it feels pretty awesome to have covered Amanda’s career from the very beginning:
▪ A news archive that can take you back as far as to March 2008
▪ Discography
▪ Gigography
No-Gossip-Policy
Gossip surrounding Amanda Jenssen’s private life is NOT something we participate in. The only rumours and speculations you will read here are strictly concerning her music and professional life in general.
Feel like contributing?
▪ Concert reports. Unfortunately, not even a hardcore fan can manage to be at all of Amanda’s concerts. That’s why we would like to publish concert reports from as many gigs as possible. Anyone who can type decent English, has good knowledge about Amanda’s music and feels compelled to write a concert report is welcome to contribute.
▪ Photos. Our goal is to have a photo from each concert in the Gigography section. There are a number of concerts missing pictures. We would also like to add more photos to our Flickr stream. Therefore we would be truly greatful if you would be willing to send an e-mail with your photo/s attached.
Contact
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Amanda on Go’ kväll
Roger Krook has noted that Amanda Jenssen will be on tomorrow’s Go’ kväll. The show will consist of several spots broadcasted during the season, which means we will probably see a repeat of Amanda’s performance of The rebounder and Happyland that took place October 30th last year.
However, all risk averters out there should turn on SVT1 tomorrow at 18:15.
Happyland on the German singles chart
Newcomer Amanda Jenssen landed on 60th place with Happyland when this week’s German singles chart was presented.
Weekly summary
This week Amandaism’s only updates were on Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. Therefore it’s about time we sum up everything that’s been going on this week.
AmandaLover shared some news on AlltOmTV: Amanda Jenssen was rewarded a scholarship of 40 000 SEK by SKAP, the Swedish pop music composers’ foundation.
At German unikosmos.de we find some lovely new pictures of Amanda.
Through Norwegian Plan B’s interview we learn that Amanda’s gig at Internasjonalen in Oslo was her first concert abroad where she was backed up by the whole band.
Eyjafjallajökull continues to puke ashes, consequently making miss Jenssen with entourage to hop into a car and road trip their way back home to Sweden. The official website documented the adventure.
While you’re on the website, have a look at the new Austrian version. But still it’s the German admins who are best at delivering sizzling hot news about Amanda’s progression in the country. Reviews are especially paid attention to, and a compilation of these will soon be found here on Amandaism.
SKAP scholarship >
Photos at unikosmos.de >
Plan B interview >
Road trip at the official website >
Happyland high on the charts in Germany
Big thanks to Tomas, who posted a comment that informed us about a some delighting news (Amandaism’s translation):
‘And on the German iTunes chart Happyland is now in 10th place! That’s a lot of sold copies compared to a high ranking in Sweden, given that they’re 82 million and we’re only 9. (You can switch country by pressing the Swedish flag on the bottom of the iTunes store page).’
The above mentioned is in regard of the album Happyland – International Version. On top of that, both the single song Happyland off the album and the Happyland EP containing both the original version and the Desert Mist version of Happyland have taken place on the top 100.
It’s going to be really exciting to follow up on Amanda’s progression on the charts. Anyone who would like to have a look for themselves should check out the German, Swiss, Austrian, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian – and even the Swedish – charts regularly.
Switzerland and 2xFinland
Amanda Jenssen has been singing on radio in both Finland and Switzerland. The Finns get to watch and listen to Amanda (wearing a ponytail!) battle with Pär over the small studio’s only mic during the Happyland performance. The following audio interview illustrates the rather amusing contrast between the radio host’s snappy Finnish-Swedish and Amanda’s usual slow-paced southern twang.
In Switzerland they set up a small stage in which Amanda, Pär and Edith (Backlund) all can move around both physically and vocally. The interview is written down and the headline ‘DJ Bobo? Never heard of’ fronts the article. The quote was Amanda’s answer to whether she knew of any Swiss super stars. Shortly after the question is posed Amanda is helped to recall the song Chihuahua – a song some of you might remember was featured in a video clip on a certain blog at TV4 (Swedish TV channel) that Amanda once had.
Amanda sings in Finland>
Amanda is interviewed in Finland > (drag the control until the very end and click ‘Play’ on the selected clip)
Performance and interview in Switzerland >
May 7th has arrived
Happyland – International Version has been available on iTunes for a couple of days and we’ve heard reports from people who have come across preliminarily available copies.
But the official day of the album release has come, and now all new and old fans of Amanda can get a copy of their own.
Go to your local record store, browse the internet vendors or download the album digitally. Do it now, now, NOW!
TV, blog and reviews
On Wednesday Amanda Jenssen made an appearance on Viva Live! – a German TV-show much like MTV’s TRL.
Yahoo Musik Deutschland’s music blog Star Portraits writes about Happyland and got a chance to sit down and have a chat with Amanda. One thing we learn is how Amanda would feel about writing songs to other singers.
Musicheadquarter.de and letmeentertainyou.de have both reviewed Happyland. Amanda can be proud to have received ratings of 7 out of 9 respectively 5 out of 5 from German music critics.
Viva Live! >
Star Portraits >
Musicheadquarter.de >
Letmeentertainyou.de >
Lovely pictures from Copenhagen
Seven beautiful pictures and cozy writing from and about Amanda Jenssen’s visit to Copenhagen, where she performed at Copenhagen Jazzhouse, are now at display at the official website’s English version.
Whole bunch o’ news
A few days of absence is now resulting in a post bursting with news.
Those of you who are following Amandaism om Twitter may have already seen the video interview with Amanda that has been posted on both the German and the English official website. The German online magazine JMC interviews Amanda in English. Amanda, in her own words ”dressed like absinth”, is asked how she felt about performing in Berlin’s Absynthbar – amongst other things.
Womenweb.de offers the chance to win one of the five copies of Happyland – International Version in their possession. And at the official website’s German version we all can download Happyland (Desert Mist) free of charge.
On German radio station Sputnik Popkult they talk about Happyland – both descriptively and in an interview with Amanda. Unfortunately for some of us, we only hear Amanda speak half a sentence in English before the interview is dubbed into German.
JMC video interview >
Happyland – International Version give-away at womenweb.de >
Download Happyland (Desert Mist) >
Listen to Sputnik Popkult >
