A little while back, an Icelandic fan started an online petition to get Pearl Jam to play a show in Iceland. As there are not many places that we would prefer more to see Pearl Jam than Iceland, we had to support the cause – but we were also curious to know more about the background for the petition. Who was behind it and how was the idea born?
We got in contact with Throstur Bragason, the man behind the petition, and did a small Q&A with him.
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. Photo by Brian Rasic/WireImage
I’m an admin and founding member of the online Pearl Jam fan community, Pearl Jam Nordic.
Fan of PJ since buying Vitalogy in the record shop where I was doing an internship in January 1995. I’ve seen the band around Europe, USA and South America. Collector of Pearl Jam vinyl, show posters and all that crap.
I’m here to spread the jam and share my love for the best band in the world with anyone who wants to listen.
Attention all Pearl Jam poster junkies. This is big news for you guys. And for anyone else who’s interested in poster art for that matter. This Saturday, July 27, Haight Street Art Center in San Fransisco is opening the exhibition Pearl Jam: Live In Two Dimensions.
I’m an admin and founding member of the online Pearl Jam fan community, Pearl Jam Nordic.
Fan of PJ since buying Vitalogy in the record shop where I was doing an internship in January 1995. I’ve seen the band around Europe, USA and South America. Collector of Pearl Jam vinyl, show posters and all that crap.
I’m here to spread the jam and share my love for the best band in the world with anyone who wants to listen.
Mike McCready and Kate Neckel, who together form the music/art duo Infinite Color and Sound will be going on the road in the US this summer/fall. They will be joined by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Josh Klinghoffer.
I’m an admin and founding member of the online Pearl Jam fan community, Pearl Jam Nordic.
Fan of PJ since buying Vitalogy in the record shop where I was doing an internship in January 1995. I’ve seen the band around Europe, USA and South America. Collector of Pearl Jam vinyl, show posters and all that crap.
I’m here to spread the jam and share my love for the best band in the world with anyone who wants to listen.
Danish fan Sofie went to see her second ever Eddie Vedder concert in Berlin – which was amazing, of course! Though she travelled to Germany alone, she ended up hanging out with many (new) Pearl Jam friends – and went on a little treasure hunt around town to try to meet Eddie.
After a night of meeting and drinking with other Pearl Jam fans, I met my Norwegian friend Cecilie in front of Hotel de Rome in the morning of the day of the concert. We waited for Eddie to come out for 4,5 hours in the burning sun, but nothing happened. A couple of friends showed up and kept us company for a while and we also talked to two German guys who also waited for Eddie. At noon, I got a tip that Eddie was at The Ramones Museum, and Cecilie and I got a cab – but when we got there, Eddie had already left the building. Cecilie and I hung out and got something to drink in the tiny, but awesome café/museum and the two German guys showed up too and joined us.
Danish contributor to Pearl Jam Nordic. Fan of Pearl Jam since 2015 where I saw the documentary Nine Rocks and heard Pearl Jam’s music. I later wrote my master thesis about Nine Rocks and Henrik Tuxen’s book In Pearl Jam’s Footsteps. I have attended a couple of Pearl Jam and Eddie concerts around Europe, but can’t wait to participate in more!
The following article is a fan review of Eddie Vedder’s first and so far only show in the Nordic coutries, played at Heartland Festival in the small town of Kværndrup in Denmark two years ago today, on June 3rd, 2017. The fan review was written the day after the show and published on the Pearl Jam Nordic Facebook page.
Today, as we anticipate Eddie Vedder’s European tour which starts this Sunday in Amsterdam, we bring this article in remembrance of an amazing experience in Denmark in 2017.
I’m an admin and founding member of the online Pearl Jam fan community, Pearl Jam Nordic.
Fan of PJ since buying Vitalogy in the record shop where I was doing an internship in January 1995. I’ve seen the band around Europe, USA and South America. Collector of Pearl Jam vinyl, show posters and all that crap.
I’m here to spread the jam and share my love for the best band in the world with anyone who wants to listen.
We are giving away one Ten Club ticket to see Eddie Vedder in Berlin on June 28, 2019. The contest takes place on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/pearljamnordicofficial
Check out or Facebook page for a chance to win a ticket to see Eddie in Berlin!
But nothing comes for free! You have to help us come up with a name for our new mascot, the punk skeleton. The artwork was done by Chicho from Tigre Tattoo Parlour in Copenhagen, and we’re already feeling like the little skinny punk is already a part of our Jamily. So of course it needs a name. It is up to you to decide if it’s a boy or a girl or something completely different.
Help us find a name for this little dude/dudette. Artwork: @chichotigretattoo
I’m an admin and founding member of the online Pearl Jam fan community, Pearl Jam Nordic.
Fan of PJ since buying Vitalogy in the record shop where I was doing an internship in January 1995. I’ve seen the band around Europe, USA and South America. Collector of Pearl Jam vinyl, show posters and all that crap.
I’m here to spread the jam and share my love for the best band in the world with anyone who wants to listen.
Three years ago we started the fan community Pearl Jam Nordic. We have put a lot of hard work, blood, sweat, tears and money into getting this fan community to where it is today.
In less than three years we have gained 10,000 followers on Facebook, arranged events and meet-ups, travelled the world, met a lot of beautiful people and had a lot of fun.
However, sadly we have lost access to our Facebook page. To say that we are devastated is an understatement.
But we’re not going to let this bring us down!
And that is why we have decided to start over again from scratch! As of today we are relaunching PEARL JAM NORDIC on www.facebook.com/pearljamnordicofficial
We have a brand new smoking hot logo designed by the incredibly talented tattoo artist Chicho from Tigre Tattoo Parlour in Copenhagen. It is ready to go onto t-shirts, totebags and stickers. We will have some giveaways with some AMAZING PRIZES to celebrate the new and fresh PEARL JAM NORDIC!
New smashing Pearl Jam Nordic artwork by Chicho from Tigre Tattoo Parlour in Copenhagen. Will be available on t-shirts, totebags and stickers very soon. Click to view full size.
So please join us (again) and take part in the fun. Please help spread the word. This community means the world to us, and we would be so happy to stay in touch with all of the great people that we have met and brought together through this community.
We can’t wait to see you on tour around Europe this summer!
I’m an admin and founding member of the online Pearl Jam fan community, Pearl Jam Nordic.
Fan of PJ since buying Vitalogy in the record shop where I was doing an internship in January 1995. I’ve seen the band around Europe, USA and South America. Collector of Pearl Jam vinyl, show posters and all that crap.
I’m here to spread the jam and share my love for the best band in the world with anyone who wants to listen.
Finally , the rumoured European tour has been officially announced. Pearl Jam sent out a newsletter this morning with the final tour dates – many of which correspond pretty well with the rumoured tour dates that have been circulating for quite some time already and that we posted previously.
I’m an admin and founding member of the online Pearl Jam fan community, Pearl Jam Nordic.
Fan of PJ since buying Vitalogy in the record shop where I was doing an internship in January 1995. I’ve seen the band around Europe, USA and South America. Collector of Pearl Jam vinyl, show posters and all that crap.
I’m here to spread the jam and share my love for the best band in the world with anyone who wants to listen.
Today, Pearl Jam released the news that the Christmas singles / Holiday singles/ Annual singles / Fan Club singles are going to be discontinued from 2019.
The annual single, which has been released to fan club members every year (except 1994) since 1991, and has since been a cherished collectible to many fans, is no more. In the beginning, the single was sent to all Ten Club members. However, somewhere along the way, a cheaper digital membership was introduced. Digital members would receive the single in MP3 format and the Deep Magazine in PDF, whereas the Analog members would continue to receive hard copies of both.
The band wrote today in a newsletter sent to their fans, that there will be no more Holiday singles from 2019. Fans who were members in 2017 and/or 2018 will receive their singles from those years as production is finalized.
I’m an admin and founding member of the online Pearl Jam fan community, Pearl Jam Nordic.
Fan of PJ since buying Vitalogy in the record shop where I was doing an internship in January 1995. I’ve seen the band around Europe, USA and South America. Collector of Pearl Jam vinyl, show posters and all that crap.
I’m here to spread the jam and share my love for the best band in the world with anyone who wants to listen.
I’m an admin and founding member of the online Pearl Jam fan community, Pearl Jam Nordic.
Fan of PJ since buying Vitalogy in the record shop where I was doing an internship in January 1995. I’ve seen the band around Europe, USA and South America. Collector of Pearl Jam vinyl, show posters and all that crap.
I’m here to spread the jam and share my love for the best band in the world with anyone who wants to listen.
