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jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

Get your Scandinavian pop fix, hipsters of Korea. I can't remember for sure the exact date, but I saw me a flyer in Hongdae the other day. If anybody knows anything else about this, feel free to fill in details.

Captain Marlow · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Location: darkness

i hope it's before nov20... i'm traveling for a month... i would love to go see him... saw him once in atlanta... great show...

tranamah · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Location: Ilsan, Korea

WOW. Best news I've heard all day.

Edit:
"Jens will be playing two shows, November 29th and 30th at Freebird in Hongdae. Tickets are available at the door."

Sapa · Joined: 05 Nov 2007

fantastic. I only know a couple of his songs but they are lovely guitar folksy style.

Never been to freebird. where abouts is it?

simonandmartina · Joined: 20 Oct 2008

Can somebody tell me how to get tickets for this without speaking one lick of Korean?

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

From what I hear, it's at the door.

simonandmartina · Joined: 20 Oct 2008

How much, then?

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

Cant' figure it out. From what I can tell from Last.fm they've moved the show to Ssamzie Space. Here's a map: http://www.ssamziespace.com/about/map.htm.

I went to Ssamzie space's website and couldn't' find any show info however, so I don't know what the deal is with tickets now. Ssamzie Space has an English website so I think you might be able to email them in English and get a response. [email protected]

Here's the page if you want to look:
http://www.ssamziespace.com/eng/about/about_info.htm

I'm going to go up there next week and try to buy tickets at the actual venue and save myself some headache. If it's just door sales I'll give an update.

EDIT: I sent them an email and hopefully I'll hear back soon.

simonandmartina · Joined: 20 Oct 2008

Thanks. I found out about this at Last.fm as well, and fiddled around ssamiespace's awful website and couldn't find dick-all. I was going to resort to emailing them, but I'm glad you beat me to it.

Again, thanks

Bread · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

Awesome, please update with what you find out. I'll try to go to this for sure.

PS Badass video for people who don't know Jens Lekman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpgkG4TIyvE

cwaddell · Joined: 23 Jan 2006

Think it has been posted in the past a few times, but this website seems to be as helpful as it gets in Korea...

www.koreagigguide.com

I didn't check it right now but I'm sure there were 3 Jens Lekman dates, which is obviously good. All at Freebird I think, I dunno, that link should have it.

Personally, I didn't have any of his stuff before the dates were announced but it sounds good so I'll definitely be there. If you're unsure, give him a listen. I'm sure it'd be of interest to many people.

Sapa · Joined: 05 Nov 2007

did any of you end up getting tickets for this? I don't really want to just turn up on the night and try my luck.

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

I haven't heard anything back from Ssamzie. I'm going to try to find it next week and ask in person.

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

According the FB group I just joined, it's back on at Freebird. But on Sunday? I thought it was two dates. Anyway, here's the info:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=35718602252

Tickets appear to be at the door.

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

It appears that the Saturday show is at Freebird and the Sunday show at FF. Both shows start at 10 and tickets are 25k. You can reserve tickets in advance if you send the money to the Facebook group administrator. Info is on the Facebook group page "Jens Lekman in Seoul".

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=35718602252