DJ Mårdhund

Malmberget's natural gathering point, the sports hall, is to be demolished to make room for the mine's progress. At the same time, it is more than just walls and ceilings that are lost. How do you move the sense of community?

The Gällivareduo Hooja and DJ Mårdhund went from a fun thing on the internet to becoming polers with the entire Swedish people in just one year. They have had audiences in arenas all over Sweden singing along to songs about fruit drinks and anthills.

Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".