The Cardigans on Morning Becomes Eclectic

part 1

Pictures from the Exit Festival in Serbia 2006

Thanks to Marija for not only trading a copy of the DVD of the live performance of the Cardigans at the Exit Festival in Serbia, but now also giving me some pictures from the festival.

The Cardigans best of album cover art revealed

Magnus of the Cardigans has already announced the Best of the Cardigans CD that will be released last January 2008.

 Here is the exclusive cover art of that album 

Nina Persson and Jill Johnson demo mp3

Thanks to naylor_tiago for the tip. Jill Johnson feat. Nina Persson – Why’d You Come In Here Looking Like That (Demo in Studio) mp3

Nina Persson on vocals

A very interesting video with Nina Persson on vocals  

Nina Persson joins H&M in battle against AIDS

H&M and Designers Against AIDS (DAA) are joining forces in the battle against AIDS and are launching a collection for guys and girls together with Rihanna, Timbaland, Chicks on Speed, Good Charlotte, Henrik Vibskov, Jade Jagger, Katharine Hamnett, My Chemical Romance, Rufus Wainwright, Scissor Sisters, The Cardigans, Tiga and Ziggy Marley. The aim is to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS, which affects many young people all over the world. The collection “Fashion Against AIDS” will be available in H&M’s Divided departments from February 2008.The artists participate free of charge and 25 per cent of the proceeds from the collection will go to HIV/AIDS-prevention projects around the world. This will be coordinated by DAA and YouthAIDS, Population Services International’s (PSI) HIV/AIDS prevention initiative which reaches more than 600 million young people in 60 countries.Prices vary from £7.99 to £19.99. All garments are made from 100 per cent certified organic cotton and carry a special hang tag that reads: “This might be the most important piece of clothing you’ve ever had your hands on.” Pictures on page 4 of the Nina Persson page. 


PROMO VIDEO

Nina Persson shopping

Added some more pictures of Nina in page 4 of the Nina Persson section plus a video of her out shopping

Plain Picture Parade turns 10 years old

it’s the 10th birthday of Plain Picture Parade. It all started the summer of 1995 when I was in Sweden with my family and we stopped at a used CD store. I had heard some chatter on alt.swedepop mailing list about this band called the Cardigans. I found a CD single “Carnival” for 10 SEK at that shop. I couldn’t stop listening to it. I then bought the Life album in Sweden as well and as we were heading to Malmö, I heard that there was a festival and the Cardigans were part of it. We rushed to the hotel and rushed to the festival but just missed seeing them play. I was addicted!I opened up a Geocities account at http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/2567. I taught myself basic HTML and just put up some pictures of the Cardigans. As a small community began to grow, I started gathering more pictures, more CDs, more videos, and it just steamrolled from there. I soon had to open up 2 more Geocities accounts to hold all the pictures as I up to 30 MB of stuff.In 2001, I registered the domain name “cardifans.com” and moved my page there. I also purchased Adobe GoLive and couldn’t believe how fast and quickly you could update the entire site. I then moved to Dreamweaver which I use now. You can see some old snapshots here, here, here, and hereI saw the Cardigans for the first time in February 1997 in Providence, Rhode Island. I thought for sure I would get to meet the band but Loevfool had hit and the US was Lovefool struck. I did get to meet Magnus which was very cool. Then they came to Dallas, Texas in May 1997 where I got to meet Nina and get her autographI then saw them at Roskilde in 2003 and in Malmö in October 2003, and finally in Las Vegas in 2004.What a great ride it’s been. Thanks to everyone who has sent me pictures and has supported my efforts. Long live the Cardigans.

Magazine articles from 2004, 2005, and 2006

Vincent contacted me with some magazine articles and pictures of Nina. First, we have Musicexpress Magazine page 1, 2, and 3 in the 2006 magazine section. Then we have Dutch OOR magazine from Nov 2005 and Visions magazine from Germany in Dec 2005 in the 2005 magazine section. Then in 2004, we have Stalker magazine from Germany, and lastly some new pictures of Nina Persson in the Nina Persson page 4 section.

A Camp live audio recordings

Got my hands on two fantastic audio recordings of Nina Persson’s solo project A Camp. The first performance is from 6 of August in Brooklyn and the other is from the Knitting Factory in New York, New York.