During the summer of 2018, we have seen them reunite for their thousandth gig - which took place in front of 35,000 cheering rock fans at Sweden Rock on July 9 - and at many other festivals around the country.
A nostalgia trip? Forget it. Nisse Hellberg, Jalle Lorensson, Thomas Holst, Sticky Bomb and Janne Lindén showed during their successful comeback tour that Wilmer X sounds more vital, pug and denser than ever.
As a tribute to one of Sweden's best and most consistently uncompromising rock bands of all time, Wilmer X is now documented 40 years on roads, clubs, festivals and the top of the sales lists in the book "Wilmer X - 40 years of blues, sweat and tears" by photographer Anders Roos and the author / music journalist Sven Lindström.
The book is an entertaining trip through the band's entire career with interviews of all band members, generously illustrated with a long list of hitherto unpublished pictures, text documents and diary entries. The flashbacks to the band's wild progress through the decades are exchanged with reflections in the present through newly taken pictures and reflections from all Wilmer X concerts in the summer of 2018.
Sven Lindström has written about music in Sydsvenskan and Nationalencyklopedin. In 2007, his critically acclaimed biography "Being Per Gessle" was published, which has been followed by three more acclaimed books: "He sits down there between Clapton and Hendrix", "Roxette - the unlikely journey back and forth" and "Olympus - the artists, the audience, concrete ". Anders Roos is a photographer who has, among other things, made the books "Alla tiders Gyllene Tider", "Min plass i Skåne" and "Roxette on the road", in addition to participating in about 30 other books.