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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 funny, and there's far worse on the television in the daytime. There's been no problems in Germany, the US or Scandinavia, why here? Maybe with you guys writing an article they might show it." An MTV UK spokeswoman told NME: "There are scenes in the video that are questionable and we're still investigating them at the moment. It's with our legal department right now." She added that she did not know if the video would ever be shown on the station.

 NME, September 8, 1998

Read the full interview here.