Benny talked to the press along with BAO! (Benny Anderssons Orkester), Tommy Körberg and Helen Sjöholm about their forthcoming mini tour of Sweden.

Benny: It's great. It's great with new songs. I think we like it as well, as I think the audience like hearing something new. Well new......2 are quite new and 5 are quite old from the 40's or so.

Interviewer: But new for us?

Benny: New for you - yes.

Speaker: All in all 16 persons will gather together on the tour bus. And to guarantee the dance suitability, they take with them their own dance floor.  Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Skövde, Mariefred, Stockholm, Örebro, Leksand .......and Allsång på Skansen.   All in just one week. Tommy Körberg og Helen Sjöholm had so much fun on last years tour that they even this year join in and grip the microphones.

Helen: Gothenburg was a favourite, I think.

Interviewer: Why?

Helen: Well, it was so beautiful there in the garden. And they had made a huge dance floor. But all places are charming, I would say. Many of the dance floors have been fantastic.

Tommy: Gripsholm will be cool.

Tommy & Helen: It's a new place.

Speaker: And new is also two of the songs written by Benny Andersson together with the old "gee-gee" of ABBA - Björn Ulvaeus.

Benny: It's cool with something new. Especially with the quite new ones Björn and I just have written.

Helen: Oh, they are my favourites right now.

Benny: You don't know what it will turn out to be. We play and rehearse and.....nooo.....it doesn't feel right - and suddenly it feels right. Then I think it's bloody cool!

Translated by Jan Bach

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