Friday, Apr 4, 2008
Jens Lekman
Night Falls Over Kortedala
Also on the bill: The Presets
- Date
- Friday, Apr 4, 2008
- Venue
- Paradise Rock Club
- City
- Boston, MA
From John's own research pass, compiled Jul 2026. The second album, not the debut. John saw him again at the Sinclair seventeen years later. Also on the bill, recovered from setlist.fm's record of who played this room that night. setlist.fm stores no running order, so the slot each act played is unknown.
What they played
- I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You
- The Opposite of Hallelujah
- A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill
- Black Cab
- It Was a Strange Time in My Life
- Your Arms Around Me
- New Directions
- You Are the Light (By Which I Travel Into This and That)
- A Postcard to Nina
- Maple Leaves
- Sipping on the Sweet Nectar
Encore
- A Higher Power
- A Little Lost Arthur Russell cover
- Shirin
- Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo
- Pocketful of Money
16 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
The moment
Night Falls Over Kortedala had made Jens Lekman the most charming man in indie pop — a Swedish romantic building torch songs from flea-market samples, singing about botched haircuts and fake boyfriends with complete sincerity. The 2008 tour caught the album at full glow. Seventeen years later there's a Sinclair ticket in this archive with his name on it: proof that charm, properly maintained, is a durable good.
From the time
- Night Falls Over Kortedala
“The 2007 sample-pop masterpiece — sincerity as a virtuoso performance.”
The stub
No physical stub on file — this show was reconstructed from the
confirmation email. Drop a photo in public/stubs/ and add
"stubImage" to this show's record to attach one.