Backyard interview with A Camp

A great interview with A Camp in a backyard from Vimby.com

A Camp interview on WFUV

A Camp is interviewed on WFUV

Includes a very long interview, enjoy!

Interview with Nathan Larson on A Camp

Most the time when people want to do an interview with A Camp, they interview Nina Persson. This time, they’ve done an interview with Nathan Larson. Enjoy!

A Camp interview with TV Guide

TV Guide did an interview in HD with A Camp during their recent tour. Enjoy!

Nina Persson interview Hultsfred 1994

The Hultsfred Festival is a festival in Sweden in the city of Hultsfred. Here’s a clip from 1994 of Nina Persson at that festival. I’m a sucker for old school Cardigans clips.

For those of you who don’t speak Swedish, they ask a lot about females in bands. Katty A Ståhl gets pretty irritated with the questions but Nina seems fine with the questions,

Here’s a picture from that same festival, notice the same dress.

Threadless Tshirt interview with A Camp

A Chat with A Camp from Threadless.com on Vimeo.

Threadless Tshirts did an interview with A Camp! Enjoy!

Interview with Nina Persson

My Style just did an interview with Nina Persson, and so of course, I’m going to give you the link!!

Denver Post interview with A Camp

The Denver Post interviewed A Camp recently.

Cardigans’ singer off to Camp
By Ricardo Baca
Denver Post Pop Music Critic

Nina Persson enjoys being in a band with her husband.
With piercing, blue eyes and the skin of Scandinavian porcelain, Nina Persson is a beautiful woman. But the Swede’s most stunning attribute is her voice, the sleepy soprano that took her band the Cardigans to multiplatinum success.

While the Cardigans are on hiatus, Persson’s other band, A Camp, is seizing the spotlight with “Colonia,” its second record in eight years.

Like that of the Cardigans, A Camp’s music is built around Persson’s honey-coated vocals. The men surrounding her in this band are fellow Swede Niclas Frisk and Nathan Larson, who is Persson’s husband and the former guitarist for Shudder to Think. The band is touring North America as a five-piece, and it’ll play the Bluebird Theatre on Saturday.

“I felt that we had established such a strong sound in the Cardigans,” Persson said earlier this week. “And that’s great. I don’t think they should be the place for me to experiment with my own music, and that’s why (A Camp) was needed.”

A Camp’s music is considerably more varied than that of the Cardigans. “Colonia” contains memorable pop moments (“Stronger Than Jesus”), sentimental rock jams (“My America”), chamber pop-styled songs (“Love Has Left the Room”) and bright lullabies (“The Crowning”). “Colonia” almost feels like an indie-rock record, with its smart instrumentation and sprawling nature, but there are also some serious, radio-worthy hooks. We asked her to talk about her bands and A Camp’s all-covers EP coming out Tuesday.

Q: How does it work, being in a band with your husband, Nathan?

A: It works really well, actually. As long as we’ve been together, we’ve always worked together, so the big difference now is that we’re touring together. This is the first time we’ve gone on tour together. I don’t know that I would recommend it to everyone, because it could be a disaster. But it works well for us.

Q: Has it changed your relationship at all?

A: Not really. We have to be aware that we don’t become a weird awkward unit among other people. People need to know that they can talk with us individually — and that’s something we were aware of in the studio as well.

Q: Why such a long break between your first and second CDs?

A: I did two Cardigans records in between, and we also toured those records. We would have done a record earlier if we had been able to come up with the time, but we couldn’t.

Q: Will we have to wait another eight years for the next A Camp record?

A: We can’t wait another eight years — that would be devastating.

Q: Will you guys ever release the first record in the U.S.?

A: We have it in our contract that it will come out after “Colonia.” Right now we can’t even sell it on the road, and we play a lot of the songs on the first record in our live show.

Q: And what of the Cardigans? Are you all still a band?

A: We’re just on hiatus. We tend to do this.

Q: You all are releasing an EP of covers next week, and I was hoping you could tell me why you chose the songs and artists you did. Let’s start with Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them.”

A: We’re all Pink Floyd fans, and we listen to a lot of their music. The song felt like a song that could be an A Camp song musically and rhythmically. We had also just embarked on these new aesthetics where we wanted to be really massive instead of being minimalist, and we thought it would be a good song to take on.

Q: And what about David Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging”?

A: You don’t hear this song so much, and we thought it was a good one to bring out. It also makes all the sense in the world to sing as a girl — sometimes being a woman and singing a song by a man brings out something interesting in a song.

Q: And Grace Jones’ “I’ve Done It Again.”

A: With “Colonia,” we played around with the idea of a time-travel theme, and we thought this song went along with that. “Time Bandits” was a movie we talked about quite a bit while covering this song.

Interview with Nina Persson in Vancouver newspaper

The Vancouver Courier did an interview with Nina Persson from A Camp recently.

A Camp from an ex-Cardigan
Vancouver Courier
Published: Friday, June 05, 2009
CAMP NOT CAMP
On a new EP, Nina Persson’s band A Camp covers David Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging,” Grace Jones’ “Done it Again, and Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them.” “I think the lyrics are timeless,” says the Swedish singer, reached at a Minneapolis tour stop, of the Floyd tune. Well, we’re not sure about that. But we are sure that Persson’s latest album with A Camp, Colonia, will please both fans of her former band the Cardigans (“Lovefool”) and bring some new ones into the fold. Reviews of A Camp’s current tour, with a lineup that includes Canadian Emm Gryner on keyboards, have been positive, too; at least one reviewer noted the singer’s “fierce” sense of humour. Sure, some people can’t resist the urge to shout their requests for Cardigans material. And, says Persson, she feels sad at not being able to accommodate them. A Camp plays Richard’s June 10. Tickets at the door.

Nina Persson and A Camp bandmates, at Richard’s June 10, hold a press conference defending the lyrics to Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them.”

Village Voice does an interview with A Camp

Village Voice did an interview with A Camp.

It sounded when A Camp was first getting started it was a very scaled-back affair, especially compared to the Cardigans. But now, maybe not so much. The new record is very big at times.

Yeah, absolutely. The first record I had a need to do something minimalist. The music I was listening to at the time was certainly a lot more minimalist than the Cardigans. I felt the need for doing something that was worked more with the gaps in between those sounds. Also, I was working with Mark Linkous then, who is the master of noise. And that’s something I was wanting as well [laughs]. Beautiful noise. But all of us have it in our veins–the “pop” sentiment–we are builders, we like to add stuff, we’re maximalists at heart. We all have that drive in is. But in a way, I think this record might be truer to our instincts.