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Artist
Andra Sidan
8+ albums
swedishrocknew wavepost-punkpostpunk
about
It all started as a crazy idea down in Henrik's room in the basement of the family Schildt’s house . We (Henrik and Michael) must have spent a hundred nights, drinking his dreadful home brewed wine, discussing the eternal dream of having a band of our own. Henrik was kind enough to share his somewhat limited skills on the Guitar with me, and coincidentally one night his sister's boyfriend, Peter, showed up and claimed that he had always wanted to play the Bass guitar in a band. Even though we considered him a bit old for the mission, we were happy that we now only were short of a drummer. A phone call later I had managed to convince a previous classmate, Lasse, to procure a brand new drum set, and believe it or not - we had a band. This was 1980 and Henrik and I struggled with our Electronics Engineering degree. Lucky as we were, we had a weird guy in our class, Bosse Sound. We managed to convince Bosse Sound to build a combined guitar and vocal amplifier, all in the spirit of saving money. We were also lucky to find a suitable rehearsal area in the basement in our school, Berzelius-skolan. The first period was pretty tough. We certainly loved it - but the way we sounded and played really sucked. We tried very hard to make it sound Punk Rock but due lack of skills we never gained any control over the music. It simply took a direction of it's own. Surprisingly, we were offered a first gig at the very prestigious venue -The Cave-. I believe Bosse actually hooked us up for it.
