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2008-04-08Pranksters on Television

Latest act on HepTown Records, the Copenhagen heroes Pranksters live intervue on Danish Television.
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2008-04-01Hot spring in Copenhagen!
Copenhagen spring 2008 is Europe's most swinging place to be - no less than 5 international workshops!
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2008-03-30New swing classes, courses, themes and camps

Lots of new stuff just added to the course schedule.

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2008-03-18Lilla Anna tillbaka i HepCat köket

Den 29 mars på Mejeriet är det allas favorit kock ”Lilla Anna” som står för matlagningen

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2007-11-05Are you on Facebook?

Here are some cool groups:

HepTown Records, our own label:
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5114278983

Black Cats Blues Lounge, an unofficial cocktail party...
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6826992533

Cats' Corner, givin' ya sweet Swing every Thursday
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4998681870

Hepcats Copenhagen, the CPH Swing Cats.
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2423594008
HepCats Scania, an independent group for all the Cats & Kittens in the region.
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4067359675

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2007-10-14Cultural Night - HepCats featured in TV and Newspapers

Danish "TV2" and danish "Politiken" fell in love with "Swinging HepCats" dancing at Arbejdermuseet this Friday.
They were playing 50's music and the HepCats were dancing and giving free "Learn-The-Moves" classes. And this caught the attention of the media. See the pictures at Politiken and the video at TV2 (requires Windows Media Player).
And...in case you are not a dancer, swing by "www.swing-dans.dk" and sign up for one of the coming Beginners Weekends.

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2007-10-11Photos from Club HepCat with Ray Collins Hot-Club
Photos from Club HepCat in Lund on the 6th october are already up. Check them out in the photo galleries.
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2007-09-30Succesful premiere for Scat Cats Live Ballroom

As expected, last thursdays big premiere for Scats Cats Live Ballroom at Tangopalatset, featuring Round Midnight Big Band , became a big success... Check our galleries!

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2007-07-05Frankie's book reviewed in Politiken (DK)
Frankie Mannings Biography was released on his 93rd Birthday on May 26th this year. Politiken in Denmark printed a long review on July 2nd, which is also available for free online.
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2007-06-24Thanks for the Stocka Möllan Swing Festival

Big thanks too all volunteers, organizers, dancers, listeners, musicians and all other that made this camp happen. A special thanks too Gunhild Carling whom without none of this would have happened...

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2007-06-20Lots of new photos!
Lots of new photos have been uploaded recently, check them out in the photogalleries.
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2007-06-11Cop-Hop Spring 07 - thank you!

A big thank you to all involved in the "Cop-Hop Spring 07" in Copenhagen June 9th-10th!

We hope that everybody was happy (and tired) Sunday evening.

A huge thank you to the people volunteering to administer registrations, to take care of the food at the party, to decorate Studenterhuset and of course to the band at the party.

A special thank you to our fantastic teachers: Joanna, Henric, Jessica and Dan.

And finally a very special thank you to all the participants; you made the workshop!
Videos and pictures from the workshop are now available on-line.
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2007-05-12Frankie Manning's biography and birthday

Finally a biography on the life of the legendary Frankie Manning has been released. Written by Frankie himself and Cynthia Millman this book portraits his life as one of the legendary Whitey's lindy hoppers in the 1930's until his life today as a lindy hop teacher.
To celebrate his birthday on the 26th of may, the international lindy hop community encourages you all to buy this book on that perticular day on amazon.com to make it a no.1 bestseller.

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2007-02-27New site enhancement
For all registered users there is now the option to filter all news and calendar items which are shown on the start page. To test it log in and go to your site settings
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2007-02-19Photos from Club HepCat are up
Now you can find photos from Club HepCat in Malmoe 10th of February in the photo galleries
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2007-02-04HepCat Café Copenhagen
We are happy to announce that HepCat Café Copenhagen now have their own page on our site presenting all things they do and all their events. Check it out!
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2007-01-04Small site improvement
We have made a page featuring all Big Events. You can from now on always reach it from a link right below the listing of big HepTown events on our start page.
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2006-12-16Opening of HepCat Store Showroom
16th of december HepCat Store opens a show room in cooperation with Amerikanska motorimporten. We celebrate this with barbeque, live music with J-Tex etc. from 14.00-18.00 hours
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2006-12-12Photos from DJ Battle and Christmas Lunch
Now you can find photos from both the DJ Battle in Malmoe 9th of December and the Christmas Lunch in Copenhagen on the 10th of December in the photo galleries
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2006-12-05Article in news paper about HepTown
HepTown have been featured in an article in the news papers Ystads Allehanda and Trelleborgs Allehanda. The article can be read here and is in Swedish.
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2006-12-05Photos from Club HepCat are up
Now you can find photos from Club HepCat both in Malmoe 11th of November and in Copenhagen on the 2nd of December in the photo galleries
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2006-11-14Photos from the Leo Mathisen celebration are up
Now you can find photos from the Leo Mathisen celebration in Copenhagen on the 5th November galleries
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2006-11-05J. Tex & the Volunteers - debut album on HepTown Records
J. Tex and the Volunteers release their debut album "Lost between clouds of tumbleweed and space" on HepTown Records. Release party at Vinylbaren 9th November
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2006-10-31Photos from the Dick Dale concert are up
Now you can find photos from the Dick Dale concert in Lund on the 29th October galleries
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2006-10-16Photos from last Club Hep Cat are up
Now you can find photos from Club Hep Cat in Malmö on the 14th October with Betty Blue and the boat gig crew and from the Swing battle in Lund on the 6th of October in our galleries
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2006-10-05Photos from the dance party are up
Now you can find photos from the dance party in Malmö on the 30th of september in our galleries
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2006-09-12Photos from last Club Hep Cat are up
Now you can find photos from Club Hep Cat in Copenhagen on the 1st and Malmö on the 2nd of september with Jennie Löbel & Swing Kings in our galleries
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2006-07-13Sweet Emma in the news
Sweet Emma and the Moodswingers, recently signed to HepTown records have been featured in a news paper.
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2006-07-02Gunhild Carling receives jazz award
Gunhild Carling has received the Kobe Jazz award. Which means she will go on tour to Japan.
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2006-06-15Forum spam killer
We have made two enhancements to avoid spam in the forums, first we have changed the registration forms and second we have installed a spam filter for all posts.
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2006-05-22Photos from the support party in Copenhagen are up
Now you can find photos from the Hep Cat Cph Support Party in our galleries
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2006-05-19HepTown Records release new album with Jet Black Combo
Our band Jet Black Combo from Malmoe is now releasing their second album "Southern Style" to follow up on their debut "Out of Control"
Get it at Hep Cat Store now!
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2006-05-17HepTown Records release album with Buckshots
Swedish band Buckshots from Gothenburg is releasing their second album, their first on HepTown records.
Get it at Hep Cat Store now!
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2006-04-29Photos from last Club Hep Cat are up
Now you can find photos from Club Hep Cat in Malmö on the 28th of april with Elin Wrede Quartet in our galleries
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2006-04-27New album release from Swing of Sahara
Danish band Swing of Sahara releases their second album "Balk'n'Roll" on HepTown records. Get it at Hep Cat Store now!
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2006-04-24Site calendar enhanced!
Our event calendar has been enhanced with a search function.
You can also bookmark your search results and it will automatically do the same search when you open the bookmark next time.
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2006-04-123 HepTown Bands at Radiohuset Rocker
3 HepTown bands will perform at Radiohuset Rocker in Copenhagen on the 29th of april. El Ray, the Untamed and Screamin' Eric have all been booked.
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2006-04-09Photos from the Swing Battle are up
Now you can find photos from the Swing Battle in Lund on the 8th of april in our galleries
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2006-04-06Gunhild Carling on TV
If you want to wake up to happy and swingin' music, turn on Swedish TV4 - Nyhetsmorgon on saturday 8th of april.
Gunhild Carling will be playing the music in the show.
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2006-04-03New Online Swing Magazine
A new online magazine called Swing Dancer Magazine has been launched. You can read it online at swing-dancer.com
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2006-04-02Photos from the D.J. Fontana concert are up
Now you can find photos from the D.J. Fontana concert in Lund on the 29th of march in our galleries
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2006-03-06Photos from last Club Hep Cat are up
Now you can find photos from Club Hep Cat in Lund on the 5th of march with Doxy Music in our galleries
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2006-02-25Photos from Club HepCat 24/2 are up
Now you can find photos from Club Hep Cat in Malmoe on the 24th of february with Joe Spinaci & the Brookolino Orchestra in our galleries
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2006-02-15Photos from last Club Hep Cat are up
Now you can find photos from Club Hep Cat in Lund on the 11th of february with Gunhild Carling in our galleries
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2006-02-14We have booked Slim Jim Phantom
We have managed to book Slim Jim Phantom for a gig in Malmoe. He will be playing together with Darrel Higham at KB on the 15th of april.
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2006-02-06New cheap dance instruction series - Clips on DVD
Hep Cat Store now sells a new cheap series of DVDs with dance instructions, Clips on DVD. The series contains different aspects of lindy hop and other related dances.
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2006-02-03HepTown music featured in movie
Two songs from the first HepTown Records release with danish band the Untamed are featured on the soundtrack of the new Swedish vampire movie Frostbiten which will open in theaters on february 24th
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2006-01-31Photos from last weekend are up
Already you can find photos from the Dance Party and the Robert Gordon & Chris Spedding concert in our galleries
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2006-01-29Herräng Dance Camp in danger!
Politicians want to shut down the school in Herräng! This would be devastating for the village and the camp during summer 2007 and later years (2006 will still happen).
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2006-01-24New gallery feature
We have a new feature in the photo galleries. You can now find out which photos have been commented on lately
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2006-01-17HepTown gets a new web site!
You're all welcome to this great new web site! Great new design, lots of new functionality and better integrated discussion forum. And of top of that you can control the information you want.
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