Hellström is celebrating 25 years as a solo artist, but several of the reviewers are like newly in love. Expressen's Anders Dahlblom gives five wasps, knocked out by how Hellström "manages to capture a small, chilly June evening with his fists and squeeze out pure magic on the arena". Probably, Hellström has never sounded better: "Everything sounds so B I G, whether he's pulling it towards big band soul or wild rock attacks".
Aftonbladet's Marcus Larsson gives five plus and writes that you can't ask for more: "The concert is a school graduation and student party, a wedding and a funeral, a baptism and a divorce. Exactly everything that the music captures, at the same time and all the time."
Göteborgs-Posten gives four out of five fours for a "messy and wild" feeling and a "pleasant spectacle". But then Hellström also worked harder than ever before, according to the writer Johan Lindqvist:
"Towards the end, Håkan Hellström was just hanging from the ropes on that command bridge as if it were also a boxing ring".
DN's grade becomes four out of five and Svenska Dagbladet gives five out of six dots. SvD writes that Hellström seemed happy as a child, and that the concert is characterized by "chaos energy" that overcomes everything. When Hellström starts "It will never be over for me", he is almost overpowered by the audience, writes Josefin de Gregorio and states: "Håkan Hellström loves Gothenburg, and Gothenburg loves him."
Håkan Hellström is doing two more performances in Gothenburg: on Saturday evening and on June 13.
