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August 1989 - Hultsfred Festival
The Wannadies play the Hultsfred Festival, after which they sign a
record deal with MNW Records.
"They asked us if we had material for an album, and we said we had
loads of songs. We lied. We had about six songs, our instruments and
amps sounded shit (Fredrik didn't even own a bass amp!), but we really wanted to record an album!"
May 1990 - 'My Hometown'
The first single from the forthcoming self titled debut album is
released.
August 1990 - 'The Wannadies'
The debut album 'The Wannadies' is released. A second single, 'Heaven',
is also released.
"After 'The Wannadies' we appeared on tv, toured Sweden, Finland
and Norway, played festivals in Copenhagen, Berlin (where we played
with Robert Forster from the Go-Betweens!) and Cork in Ireland
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- and all we wanted was to play two gigs in a row, so that we could call it a tour!"
April 1991 - Paris
"It was a Nordic music festival in Paris. One band from each country. We played with 22 Pistepirkko (Finland) and
the Sugarcubes (Iceland). Very exciting for us, since we were big fans of both bands!"
October 1992 - Aquanautic
The Wannadies finish the recording of their second album, 'Aquanautic', and it is released by Snap Records, a division of MNW Records Group. Singles are 'Things That I Would Love to Have Undone', 'So Happy Now' and the hard-rocking 'Cherry Man' (featuring cover versions of 'Children of the Revolution' (T Rex), 'Lee Remick' (The Go-Betweens) and 'Blister in the Sun' (Violent Femmes).
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