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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Vicky Jessop

Way Out West review: this music festival is bursting with Scandi cool

The Swedish city of Gothenburg might not be an obvious location for a world-beating music festival, but those who are in the know say otherwise.

Way Out West has been going since 2007. Back then, it was a smaller affair. These days, it attracts 35,000 people daily and is a massive date in the Swedish music calendar: the it-crowd from Stockholm all head down (Stockholm has repeatedly tried and failed to set up its own festival), as well as politicians, celebs and music-lovers from around Europe.

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