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Sverige – Marie’s opening act

Written by roxeteer on June 16, 2000 to .

The Daily Roxette finally managed to get some more information on the band Sverige which will be the opening act on Marie’s summer tour, as we first mentioned in an earlier report.

Their official biography from their record company Universal Music says that the band was founded on a winter evening in 1999, when Peder Ernerot (aka “Pedda P”) and Johan Forsberg were listening to Johnny Cash in a local pub. They noticed that no-one had done a good Swedish country album, and decided to make a good one themselves. When Peder’s brother Markus said that he already had some song ideas and Gustave Lund (aka “Gurra G”) came in, starting up a band became reality.

It was Johan who came up with the name Sverige. All the band members immediately thought that it was a great name, but then they became unsure. What if the name is misunderstood as a nationalistic statement? Peder, however, said that the fear of misunderstanding leads to great art, so the band decided to keep the name.

Later, bassist Thomas Lindberg, drummist Stefan Carlsson and keyboard player Joakim Uddling joined the band. After some practicing and purchasing a banjo, the band had a great premiere on stage in Tantogården. Johan Norberg told the band that he was interested in producing their album. Sverige’s debut album “Som Landet Ligger” was released in April this year.

In Swedish newspapers the album has got rather good ratings, but according to the papers, the album is “missing catchy songs.”

Image courtesy of Universal Music.

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5 comments

mmm see comment “Ironic” @SmallTalk...Marie shud’ really change the supp. band! And when they dont have catchy songs, she’ll bore her fans with them.

In my opinion, the band doesn’t sound bad at all. I wish people wouldn’t criticize the band without hearing them, or because of some stupid statement they made when they we’re young and foolish (*grin*). And they’ve never said (as far as I know) that Marie’s music would suck. In Sweden, there are people who like only Marie or only Roxette, and not blindly loving everything that’s remotely connected to Roxette (like we do... :-).
I’m pretty sure that even though Sverige’s management probably proposed the band to EMA Telstar and Marie (and not vice versa), Marie is also supporting the decision.

Hmm...I hated Brainpool too first! Now I own 2 CD’s from them! So, let’s see. The best thing about opening acts is that you can save a place in the first row during that time ;))) I wish you all much fun!

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