Our Story
Written by Jessi in 2016
When I was a kid I always wanted to become a journalist. By that time I couldn’t even imagine a life without the weekly Bravo magazine. I loved music and I loved writing so why not writing for the Bravo magazine 🙂
So when I found out that the original official Ace of Base fanclub didn’t exist anymore, I applied to the German record company to base a new one. I got a denial some weeks later with the apology that the band decided to have one international fan club instead of several in each country. I think the actual reason was that they though; I – at the age of 15 – was far too young.
By that time I had around 50 penpals all around the world. Most of them were Acers of course. Soon I realized that even though there weren’t official fanclubs there were several unofficial fanclubs in different countries. So one day at the age of 16 I decided to create a German fanclub, since I wanted to support the band and deliver news, bring the fans closer together on the other hand I could do what I loved most beside singing, I could write.
In 1996 I published the very first issue of The Bridge To The Base’s fanmags. I sent out advertisement to my penpals to spread the information and soon the club was growing.
Anja and I met in 2002 during a German Acermeeting. We connected immediately, talked the whole night, we had a whole Acerlife to catch up. She was also in my fanclub and told me that she had tried to contact me before but since I already had so many penpals and was busy running the fanclub I couldn’t take any more penpals.
By that time I had a collaboration with the German Acerdom website, who promoted my fanclub and Anja was working as a ambassador for the German 4-ever website. So when the collaboration with Acerdom stopped Anja and I talked about creating our own website. By that time I had no idea how to do that. I told Anja what I would like to have and how I imagined to site to look like and she created the very first version of Aceisland. Btw. the name Aceisland happened because our domain provider had a special Easter offer if you have the German word „ei“ (egg) in the name, so the decision was easy.
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In between Aceisland is history and The Jenny Source celebrated 15 years…
Looking back on the past 20 years I’m impressed how the journey of The Jenny Source started… I could never imagine this would go so far…
* updated 2022