Teddybears

Luger Presents:

TEDDYBEARS

Pustervik

4 November 2026

Age restriction: 18+

On stage: approx. 20.00

Teddybears on a club tour of Sweden with “Rock’n’Roll Highschool” – without the iconic masks

More than 25 years after the groundbreaking album "Rock’n’Roll Highschool", Teddybears are hitting the road again for a tour of Sweden. This time without the iconic bear masks that have become one of the most recognisable symbols of Swedish popular culture.

Today, genre boundaries have largely collapsed. Different forms of expression constantly cross-pollinate, and unexpected combinations no longer raise eyebrows. That was not the case in 2000. Back then, the boundaries were much clearer, more important and more closely guarded. So when Teddybears released the hyper-eclectic album "Rock’n’Roll Highschool", they were nothing short of pioneers.

The album went straight to number one in the Swedish charts and won four Grammis awards, including Album of the Year, marking the start of a period in which Teddybears went from Swedish clubs to MTV, international radio, world tours and television appearances with both David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel. The band tore down the walls between punk, hip-hop, electronic music, dancehall and pop long before the rest of the music world caught up. At the same time, they continued to make music that sounded like no one else and influenced far more people than they themselves seemed interested in talking about.

“We still don’t really know what Rock’n’Roll Highschool is. But plenty of other people seem to,” say the band.

This autumn, Patrik Arve and brothers Joakim and Klas Åhlund are taking the album back to the clubs. This time without the now-iconic bear masks – masks worn at every performance since 2005. Addressing the persistent rumours that it has not always been the members themselves behind the masks, the band have this to say: “Our stand-ins of 15 years are in rehab. Looks like we’ll have to do this tour ourselves.”

And perhaps that is a perfect fit, because Teddybears have never been about the masks, but about the energy. About the restlessness of punk, the immediacy of pop music and that sense of controlled chaos that has turned their concerts into maximalist explosions of energy with singalong potential. Things are unlikely to get any less intense now.