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For many millennials, Avicii represents a very specific period of our lives. Slightly blurry but deeply happy memories, often connected to festivals, clubs, holidays, car rides or nights out that somehow left us with surprisingly little footage. Back then, taking out your phone to document every moment was not yet automatic. We experienced the track more than the content we could make out of it.
Avicii managed to embody that era better than almost anyone else. He had one foot firmly planted in mainstream dance music and the explosion of EDM, while his melodic songwriting and instantly recognizable sound allowed him to reach far beyond the genre itself.
“Levels”, “Wake Me Up”, “Hey Brother”, “The Nights”: his tracks became instant time capsules for an entire generation.
Of course, there were the huge stages, the drops and that period when EDM seemed capable of taking over almost every major festival on the planet. But behind the excess, Avicii was also one of the artists who brought a genuine pop and melodic sensibility to the scene, creating tracks that could work in front of tens of thousands of people and still feel emotional through a pair of headphones ten years later.
And this week, it will be ten years since Avicii played his final show.
On August 28th, 2016, Tim Bergling stepped onto the stage at Ushuaïa Ibiza for the final time, a few months after announcing that he would retire from touring.
Two films will be screened alternately between 4 PM and 9 PM. The first, Avicii — My Last Show, revisits his final performance in Ibiza. The second features footage from his last show in Sweden, which took place at Tallriken in Malmö on August 5th, 2016.
The event is organised by Avicii Experience, the Stockholm museum and exhibition space dedicated to the artist. Visitors will need to register in advance and subscribe to the Avicii Experience newsletter to attend.
Avicii died in April 2018 at the age of 28. His legacy has remained deeply present in electronic music ever since. Ten years after his final set, the Stockholm event feels like an opportunity to return, for a few hours, to an era many of us thought we remembered perfectly — until we realised we had barely filmed any of it.