Peter
Morén
Peter Bjorn and John
What was the best album released in 2006 that few people heard?
Richard James’ The Seven Sleepers Den. Gorkys Zygotic Mynci is one of my favourites bands ever. Now they have split, but left us with two great solo albums this year and I prefer this to Euros Childs’ more well-known one.
With the rise of MySpace and the ever-increasing presence of bloggers, what is your feeling about using the Internet as a promotional tool? Will MySpace last and are you actively involved in your band’s MySpace page? With the music blogs seen as an increasingly influential source for breaking new artists, do you read them and are they a positive influence that bypasses the industry machinery or just empty hype?
I do think it’s positive. I’m sure it has helped us a hell of a lot. I started our MySpace myself and still check it once in a while. I don’t read a lot of blogs, but I’m sure a lot of people do and if it functions like a word-of-mouth thing for lesser-known bands then it’s great.
In 2006, what was the best movie you saw, book you read, and/or TV show you watched?
Movie: The Squid and the Whale. Book: Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. On TV I just saw amusing crap like the Swedish version of American Idol.
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