Strawberry Arena

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Gigantic arena at Solna station, next door to the Mall of Scandinavia. Unfortunately bad sound at concerts. They also seem to refuse to have the roof open at concerts, so summer concerts get a bad feeling during the summer months.

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When you approach Friends Arena it's hard not to feel small, Friends is big, but not too big lixom. I've only visited Friends under Taylor Swift so it was crawling and Swifties, wonderful. I may be biased but what a nice environment it was outside the arena during this afternoon. All I heard were Swift songs and happy Swifties with glittering outfits.

But let's go back to the arena itself. I read earlier that Friends is lousy at big concerts - I don't agree. I have to say that everything went great, from getting into the arena to getting out. The sound system was much better than my air pods and even though we didn't queue for several hours, we saw Taylor very well from our stand.

I couldn't see any food and snacks but there was a bar where you could buy "take-away" beer and bring to your place and a bar where you could hang out if you wanted. There was also free access to water at the stands.

The atmosphere in the arena was nice. I'm satisfied. As I said, I think that the sound system worked great and the stage was built in a way that everyone (hopefully) could get a glimpse of the star. I will definitely book another concert in Friends!!

When you approach Friends Arena it's hard not to feel small, Friends is big, but not too big lixom. I've only visited Friends under Taylor Swift so it was crawling and Swifties, wonderful. I may be biased but what a nice environment it was outside the arena during this afternoon. All I hea... Show full »

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Friends has gained a reputation for being bad to visit for concerts. And how it lives up to its reputation! Lousy acoustics for the music events, incomprehensible how it has succeeded so insanely badly.
But the football atmosphere here is all the better, cool to visit at an international match, good bar and actually ambitious attempt to sell something other than sausages and coffee in the overpriced kiosks.

Friends has gained a reputation for being bad to visit for concerts. And how it lives up to its reputation! Lousy acoustics for the music events, incomprehensible how it has succeeded so insanely badly.
But the football atmosphere here is all the better, cool to visit at an international match,... Show full »