The Schwedenbomben orchestra was founded by Klaus Wunderschön with one - and only one - purpose, namely to have fun.
As a consequence of having fun comes spreading of joy, dancing, feasting and not least the opportunity for restaurateurs to sell beer to happy audiences, who then become even happier. This rubs off on the orchestra, who then have even more fun, and this in turn rubs off on the audience, who become even happier. And so on.
No matter where the Schwedenbomben orchestra performs, there will be, to quote Klaus Wunderschön’s classic expression from the 1970s, “party, party, party”, or, as the Germans say, “Party, Party, Party”.
Why do we have a flamingo in our logo? Because it’s fun. Why do we have two beer mugs in our logo? Because it’s fun.
Why do we have chocolate coconut balls in our logo? Because it’s fun. Also delicious. In addition, in Germany and Austria, Schwedenbomben is the name of a pastry that in all essentials strongly resembles a chocolate coconut ball, which is also fun.
The guiding star for our musical style is for the music to be recognizable, catchy and giving the audience many opportunities to sing along. This style of music has no particular name but consists of evergreens, schlagers, pop, film scores, umpa-umpa-stimmung and the occasional jazz tune, and most of it comes from the 60s and 70s, see the Repertoire section below.
Our guiding stars in the form of orchestra leaders also come from the 60s and 70s and here we find James Last, Herb Alpert, Bert Kaempfert and Berry Lipman, just to name a few. Much of our sound was developed in Germany during this time by these very conductors and arrangers, and was often played at Oktoberfests and at so-called “Vier-und-Zwanzig Stunden Tanz parties”.
Here are a few photos and video clips with the Schwedenbomben orchestra.
In the video clip below, the Schwedenbomben orchestra and the happy audience party hard during an Oktoberfest at Hotel Botanika in Uppsala.
An example of dance music à la 60s.
On Schwedenbomben’s Facebook page you find more pictures and information about upcoming gigs.
Here is a list of representative examples from the Schwedenbomben orchestra’s repertoire:
