Club 8 is a nice indiepop band from Sweden released under Labrador Records, after their release with FFWD Records a few years ago in Indonesia, they become a very influential indiepop sound here in Indonesia. We are lucky to catch their live in Bandung a few months ago. And now I’m trying to catch them again to answer some short questions, and talk about their future release “The Boy That Couldn’t Stop Dreaming”.
Hello Karolina, I’ve got a few short question to ask you… how are you?
I’m fine, thank you. This magic year 2007 has been so good to me, the best one in a very, very long time. It’s been full of surprises, creativity and love. Club 8 just finished the recording of a new album and i was more inspired than ever before. And the trip to Indonesia in March filled me with happiness and still does. And I’ve been working with a film script, something that I’ve been dreaming to do for a long time. I write it together with a Swedish author called Hans-Eric Hellberg and the script is based on his very controversial and debated books from the seventies. It’s a beautiful story about love between two very young people who live with their families in the same house.
Would you mention 5 (or more) records that had been influencing you until now?
Some of the records below have had a big influence on me as a person, some of them have influenced our music a lot and I think it’s quite easy to guess which ones.
- The Field Mice: Coastal
- Blueboy: If wishes were horses
- The Smiths: The Smiths
- The Radio Dept: Lesser matters
- Felt: Poem of the river
- Leonard Cohen: Songs
- Television Personalities: Far away and lost in joy
- The Sea Urchins: Stardust
- Ingenting: Mycket vasen for ingenting
- Mazzy Star: Among my swan
What is on your heavy rotation playlist lately?
- Club 8:
‘The boy who couldn’t stop dreaming’
(the 12 song album which will be out in September)
It’s just finished and I can’t stop analysing every detail on it, to see if there are things that i want to change in the production. But that’s so silly, cause it’s being printed right now so i should leave it. But I’m happy to say that both me and Johan are very satisfied with it. It’s such a good feeling.
- -Morrissey:
‘Your arsenal’
I just say one thing: the song ‘Seasick, yet still docked’ is so beautiful it hurts. My heart is too small for it.
- -Labrador 100
Labrador records is our Swedish label and early this year they released a 100 song compilation including one song from each release from the start 1997 up to now, and Labrador’s very first album was actually ‘The friend I once had’ with Club 8. My absolute favourites on Labrador records are The Radio Dept, The Mary Onettes and Ingenting, which is the only band who sings in Swedish on Labrador.
Is there any band in mind you would recommend our readers to listen?
I recommend you go for all the bands I mentioned in the first question. Their songs will make you smile and cry and smile and cry… and afterwards you will feel soothened, comforted, awakened, cleaned and enlightened, more alive than ever and never lonely again :)
What do you miss about Indonesia after the show a few months ago?
I miss the whole thing… especially the people. I still think about Indonesia every day and i have SMS and myspace contact with quite a lot of the fans who were there and listened to us.
I don’t know why but I felt a very special connection to Indonesia. The friendliness and warmth of the organizers and the people in general, touched me.
Any plans for the future release?
The next step is to release the second single, called ‘Heaven’ in the beginning of September and after that we’ll release the album ‘The boy who couldn’t stop dreaming’ in the end of the same month. Very soon we’ll start recording our 7th album and also tour a little. We’ve been invited to many Asian countries but we think we’ll play in China and Thailand to begin with.
Thanks for the time.
Sounds: www.labrador.se/sounds.php3
Info: www.labrador.se/artists/club8.php3
www.myspace.com/club8
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