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Gangs of New York
02/04/2011 01:54
Nina Persson victim of three burglaries
During the interview with the British Sunday newspaper says Pearson that her colleagues in the band Cardig Nina Persson, the singer of the Cardigans and A Camp, bought a house in Harlem with her husband Nathan Larson and his parents. In 18...
The "Best Of" interview
02/04/2011 00:54
We speak to Nina Persson
Did you all muck in on the tracklisting for the Best Of?
Nina Persson: Yeah, we did! In the first place, when we finally agreed to do it, we wanted nothing to do with it – we said “do whatever you want”, because it is kind of a product of the record...
We shouldn't have done that record (reffering to Gran Turismo)
01/04/2011 22:37
How The Cardigans survived success
"We were messes. We shouldn't have done that record," says Persson - but she is proud the clipped, precise recordings "captured the atmosphere" in the studio.
As an example, Sveningsson explains that the hit single My Favourite Game, a driving...
The delay of Super Extra Gravity in the USA
02/04/2011 01:45
The L-words: an interview with the Cardigans
“I don’t know if you remember when Universal merged with Polygram, which was our record company at the time? But it all took place during the release of our fourth album Gran Turismo. And we had such a bad experience, especially in the...
My ´censored´Favourite Game
02/04/2011 00:12
Cardigan's crash video banned
Guitarist and songwriter Peter Svensson told NME: "It's just so, so silly. It's a damn good video; we're really proud of it. It cost a lot of money - the most ever by a Scandinavian band, I think. The violence in our video is pretty harmless, it's quite...
Recording My Favourite Game
01/04/2011 22:06
The Cardigans are the biggest thing to come out of Sweden since, er, Ace Of Base, and their recent hit 'My Favourite Game' represented a successful change of musical direction. Sue Sillitoe tracks down their regular producer Tore Johansson in his Country Hell studio to talk about how the...
An interview before Gran Turismo were released
01/04/2011 23:57
The Cardigans: Warm and fluffy and the best friends.
Their success led to tours supporting Blur and then Beck. "I think we pissed them off," says Nina of Blur, with a high-pitched chuckle. "I know what went wrong: someone tried to make a joke, like saying, 'we sell more records than you in...
First interview after the Shepherd Bush Empire concert in 26/Nov/1996
01/04/2011 23:11
First Tour On The Moon
Upstairs, one of the most successful current alternative pop-rock acts in the world was just chilling out before the show. I was allowed to interview part of the band (namely the bass player, Magnus Sveningsson andthe keyboard player Lars-Olof...