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The Wannadies

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The Wannadies were an alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Skellefteå, northern Sweden. [1]

76 relations: Alternative rock, Aquanautic, Arvika Festival, Autumn, Bagsy Me, Bass guitar, Baz Luhrmann, BBC Three, Be a Girl, Before & After (The Wannadies album), Bertelsmann Music Group, Black Francis, Compilation album, Concert, Cooking Vinyl, Coronation Street, David Platt (Coronation Street), Denmark, Drum kit, Finland, France, Gail McIntyre, Glastonbury Festival, Gothenburg, Greatest hits album, Guitar, Hultsfred Festival, I'm with Stupid (TV series), Iceland, Indolent Records, Japan, Keyboard instrument, London, Mike Hedges, MTV, Music video, National Records, New York City, Nicaragua, Normandy, Norway, Paris, Power pop, RCA, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Recording contract, Recording studio, Ric Ocasek, Richard Hillman, Romeo + Juliet, ..., Roskilde Festival, Sandinista National Liberation Front, Sarah Platt, Skellefteå, Skellefteå (album), Sleeper (band), Smile (EP), Sony BMG, Soundtrack, Stockholm, Sverigetopplistan, Sweden, The Cars, The Lightning Seeds, The Sugarcubes, The Wannadies (1990 album), The Wannadies (1997 album), UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, United Kingdom, United States, Violin, Yeah (The Wannadies album), You and Me Song, 22-Pistepirkko, 60 Ft. Dolls. Expand index (26 more) »

Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Aquanautic

Aquanautic is the second album by the Swedish alternative rock band The Wannadies.

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Arvika Festival

Arvika Festival (Arvikafestivalen) was an annual music festival held in Arvika, Sweden.

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Autumn

Autumn, also known as fall in American and Canadian English, is one of the four temperate seasons.

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Bagsy Me

Bagsy Me is the fourth album by Swedish band The Wannadies, released in 1997.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann (born Mark Anthony Luhrmann, 17 September 1962) is an Australian writer, director, and producer with projects spanning film, television, opera, theatre, music, and recording industries.

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BBC Three

BBC Three was a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Be a Girl

Be a Girl is the third album by Swedish alternative rock band The Wannadies.

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Before & After (The Wannadies album)

Before & After is an album by Swedish band The Wannadies.

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Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group (abbreviated as BMG) was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.

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Black Francis

Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (born April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Concert

A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.

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Cooking Vinyl

Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence.

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Coronation Street

Coronation Street (also informally referred to as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.

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David Platt (Coronation Street)

David Platt (also Tilsley) is a fictional character from the British soap opera, Coronation Street.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gail McIntyre

Gail Rodwell (also Potter, Tilsley, Platt, Hillman and McIntyre) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. Portrayed by Helen Worth, the character first appeared on-screen on 29 July 1974. As of 2018, Gail has been on the show for 44 years, which currently makes her the third longest-running character on the show after Ken Barlow and Rita Tanner. Gail is the daughter of Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) and Ted Page (Michael Byrne) and is the mother of Nick Tilsley (Ben Price), Sarah Platt (Tina O'Brien) and David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd) and has featured in some of the most controversial and high-profile storylines in the soap involving her family and her number of relationships — jointly with Steve McDonald, she is the soap's most married character, having been married six times. Gail's storylines include her marriage to Brian Tilsley (Christopher Quinten); her vicious feud with her mother-in-law Ivy Tilsley (Lynne Perrie); coping when Brian is killed in a knife attack; marrying the much younger Martin Platt (Sean Wilson); coping when her teenage daughter Sarah falls pregnant at the age of 13; divorcing Martin and marrying serial killer Richard Hillman (Brian Capron); being kidnapped with Sarah, David and her granddaughter Bethany Platt (Emily Walton/Lucy Fallon) by Richard and being driven into the canal by him; her feud with Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver) after her son Todd (Bruno Langley) comes out as gay while dating Sarah; throwing David out after he hides drugs in Bethany's toys; being pushed down the stairs by David after he discovers that she took Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan) to a private abortion clinic to terminate a pregnancy fathered by David, marrying Tina's father Joe McIntyre (Reece Dinsdale); being imprisoned for Joe's murder when his plan to fake his own death goes wrong; a feud with David's wife Kylie Turner (Paula Lane); coping with the secret that Kylie slept with Nick and that her unborn baby may not be David's; marrying the burglar who robbed her home, Michael Rodwell (Les Dennis); keeping the secret that Andy Carver (Oliver Farnworth) is not actually Michael's son but an impostor; trying to help David come to terms with Kylie's death; and locking David in the cellar of the Bistro after discovering that he is going to kill Kylie's murderer.

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries.

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Greatest hits album

A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hultsfred Festival

The Hultsfred Festival (Hultsfredsfestivalen) is an annual music festival held in Hultsfred, Sweden.

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I'm with Stupid (TV series)

I'm with Stupid is a British television programme starring Paul Henshall and Mark Benton.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Indolent Records

Indolent Records was a British record label set up in 1993 as a subsidiary of RCA Records and BMG.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mike Hedges

Mike Hedges is a British audio producer/engineer.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Music video

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

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National Records

National Records was a record label that was started in New York City by Albert Green in 1945 and lasted until early 1951.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Power pop

Power pop is a rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919.

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Reading and Leeds Festivals

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual rock music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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Ric Ocasek

Richard Theodore Otcasek (born March 23, 1944 or 1949) (sources differ) known as Ric Ocasek, is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.

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Richard Hillman

Richard Charles Hillman is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, played by Brian Capron.

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Romeo + Juliet

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (shortened to Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 American romantic crime film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann, co-produced by Gabriella Martinelli, and co-written by Craig Pearce, being an adaptation and modernization of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet.

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Roskilde Festival

The Roskilde Festival is a Danish music festival held annually south of Roskilde.

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Sandinista National Liberation Front

The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a democratic socialist political party in Nicaragua.

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Sarah Platt

Sarah Platt (also Tilsley and Grimshaw) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

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Skellefteå

Skellefteå is a city and the seat of Skellefteå Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden, with 32,775 inhabitants in 2010.

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Skellefteå (album)

Skellefteå is an album by Swedish band The Wannadies, named after the band's home town Skellefteå in northern Sweden.

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Sleeper (band)

Sleeper are an English Britpop band, fronted by Louise Wener and formed in London.

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Smile (EP)

Smile is an EP by Swedish band The Wannadies.

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Sony BMG

Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a multinational record label, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann Music Group.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Sverigetopplistan

Sverigetopplistan (lit. "Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, earlier known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (in Swedish Grammofonleverantörernas förening).

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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The Cars

The Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s.

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The Lightning Seeds

The Lightning Seeds are an English alternative rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1989 by Ian Broudie (vocals, guitar, producer), formerly of the band Big in Japan.

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The Sugarcubes

The Sugarcubes (Icelandic: Sykurmolarnir) were an Icelandic alternative rock band from Reykjavík formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992.

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The Wannadies (1990 album)

The Wannadies is the début album by the Swedish alternative rock band The Wannadies.

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The Wannadies (1997 album)

The Wannadies is an album by Swedish band The Wannadies.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Yeah (The Wannadies album)

Yeah is an album by Swedish band The Wannadies, released in 1999 in Scandinavia and spring 2000 in the UK.

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You and Me Song

"You and Me Song" is a song by Swedish band The Wannadies.

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22-Pistepirkko

22-Pistepirkko,, is a Finnish popular music band formed in 1980.

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60 Ft. Dolls

60 Ft.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wannadies

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