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Original post: London is always an alien place. I hate it there more than any other city here, there's a wider metal scene there but only because it's bigger and is the capital.

I get your point though. We're more passive and reserved and the only people that I'm aware of who 'live' their music taste are the ones trying too hard.

The book sounds good though, I'd like to see it translated into English.
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I look forward to an English language version of this.

Returning to Weltering in Blood's initial comments I think much of this comes down to class. I have a friend who's recently married a Swede (not the vegetable) and has been there a few times to meet her folks et cetera. His impression was that Sweden was much more 'middle class' than the UK: people seemed better educated and there were much fewer signs of the mindless anti-social behaviour and rudery that is common on the streets of many British cities (he'd just spent three years at Uni in Wolverhampton, so he knows what he's talking about in this regard). I guess Scandinavian countries didn't really industrialise on the scale of the UK during the nineteenth century so they don't have an enormous residual working class, who at the end of the day are the most likely to the beat the shit out of people for being 'different'. That's why I have a firearms licence and live in the country!

[harmless]

People interested in that subject should check out this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Builders-Historical-Anthropology-Middle/dp/0813512395
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Britain is class society.
About the book, I bought a copy when it came out while in Stockholm. I was lucky enough to see it featured on TV and newspaper as well.
Any news on English version of the book ? I understand a bit of Swedish, not good enough to read the book.
I read the chapter about Dead in English on internet somewhere.

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Funny thing is that we, Frogs, consider British and ergo Germanic populations as bein more open-minded and tolerant. Something coming from their Protestant roots?

It seems to us that looks and appearances are less of a problem than in France where you are looked upon in disdain if you are different and dress different.

A metalhead in Germany or the UK or Scandinavia would not be considered as a weirdo (so we think) something to shun or to be afraid of. My own experience in the Southern England (Wessex, Sussex, Essex) has taught me that you would see much more weird/original/different looks than in Paris and people wouldnt even notice it. It felt like you could dress the way you want and nobody would give you a look of disapproval or even stare at you. That renown Anglo-Saxon open-mindedness. Or was it just a London thing?
In Paris, that so-called great artsy capital, everybody basically looks the same and if you're dressed in a different way people will stare at you. Cool if you're 16, annoying and boring if you're 30...


Concerning music, we dont get as much help as in Sweden but still you can find a lot of decent clean affordable places to rehearse even in suburban towns and you can get some funds (small) from local/regional councils to record music etc. The result? 99% of the bands are SHITE. And suburban rehearsal places are filled with miserable insignificant crappy "bands"
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Can someone elaborate please. The Swedish government funds rehearsal spaces and equipment entirely? Partially? As well as recordings?

Does this happen in Norway and Finland as well?

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