It became a handgun

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It became a handgun

Americana with real nerve, the band that gives you murderous raw swing like there's no tomorrow

Everyone knows who Det Blev Handgäng is. Go out into the forest between Osby and Älmhult and they have been there playing. Go up Kinnekulle and you'll find a dance floor where Det Blev Handgemäng stood and spat and belted out songs all night long. Stop a car between Falun and Gävle and you will hear about a concert memory. Or pop inside the customs in the capital itself and there will be chatter and chatter about the latest gig. Det Blev Handgemäng is probably Sweden's most active band in the Americana genre. Double bassist Elin's old 740 still holds up when the orchestra whizzes around and offers up pubs, dance floors, castles and huts. And once the car gives up and falls apart, then the band simply has to take the apostle horses. 

Despite all the fun, Det Blev Handgemäng is no joker. The music is taken bloody seriously, as it should be. No one escapes it when the machinery starts up. Dumsnäll Svensson and Dumsnäll Jansson whip the groove forward, Bulls-Eye Engberg glues perfectly and gives everything a solid foundation and Licket Johansson floats on top and gives it all flare. The fact that Jansson, Johansson and Engberg have sung together on a thousand stages is also quite clear when the phrasing in the three parts fits like a slap. 

Review from Göteborgsposten, Rating 4 out of 5 lighthouses

“If you take the band name literally and imagine a bourbonstinn southern state bar where the rednecks peel the mustache with one fist and swing uppercuts with the other, it fits. With a cracked pa, wounded amplifiers and an old Elvis mic, they stand there and spit out swamp blues as if there was no tomorrow. The heeling, angular songs excite the audience to the world's barbrawl and once the performance is underway, the band does not pull themselves together to start swinging. Authentic as it suggests. ” - Daniel Claesson

Det Blev Handgemäng consists of:

Elin Engberg: vocals, double bass

Christoffer Johansson: vocals, guitar

Brother Gunnar Jansson: vocals, guitar

Emanuel Svensson: drums

Det Blev Handgemäng also does concerts for children/young people and can be found in Kulturkatalogen Väst: https://www.kulturkatalogenvast.org/Arr/id/5268