Live & Jive started out in February 1997 at the venue Amazon in Flen, Sweden. About one and a half hrs south of Stockholm. From the beginning it was a strict rockabilly festival and among the first bands to perform you could find acts such as Wildfire Willie & The Ramblers, The Go Getters, Phil Trigwell, Ike & The Capers, The Barnshakers. For the first three years, Live & Jive was promoted twice a
year, but later on it was moved out of the city to the beautiful countryside and Ökna magasin where it was only promoted once a year in the summertime, and also welcomed a wider range of music including psychobilly, surf, country and blues. People and bands from all over the world has always been frequent visitors and guests thru out the years and has gained the festival the reputation as the most popular “authentic”rock’n’roll show in Sweden. The show turned into more of a “lifestyle event” with a lot of vendors, american cars, bikes, two stages, drink
and food tent. Thousands of people camped out and Live & Jive grew rapidly and quickly and almost out of control. After a few years of running the show at Ökna magasin, Live & Jive decided to return to the original venue in Flen for a 10-year anniversary show with bands such as Jack Baymoore & The Bandits, Nosey Joe & The Poolkings and The Explosives. Shortly after that, Live & Jive decided to move to nearby city, Katrineholm where it is still Live & Jive has always had a great relation with different sorts of media and has appeared in numerous publications,
newspapers, carmagazines, musicmagazines, national radio, and national TV at numerous times. There has been a plethora of world renowned bands at the stages of Live & Jive thru out the years. The Barbwires, Batmobile, Fifty Foot Combo, Jack Earls, Dale Hawkins, Red Hot ‘N’Blue, Runnin Wild, Barnshakers, Santos, Hi Strung Ramblers, Li’l Gizzelle, Bob Log III, The Turpentines, Dusty Chance, Hi Winders, Slap Sally Combo to name a few.There has also been a compilation CD released a few years ago, in a limited edition that quickly sold out and has now become a collectors item. The story of Live & Jive keeps being written as we speak, but there is no plans of slowing down. International Winter Rock'n'Roll Weekender Extraordinaire!
#24 Friday & Saturday Feb 26th - 27th 2016
For ticket info: http://www.liveandjive.com
