This is Mando Diao
The band we started in Borlänge, Sweden.
In the mid 90's my dear friend, the great Björn Dixgård, formed a band called Butler. They played the kind of music loads of small towns don't have, sweet pop, raving rock'n'rolland soul music that ment more than life itself.
After a couple of months I met Björn on a big party in a park. We were too young to go to bars so we pretty much lived in different parks. Björn asked me to join and so I did. Bang! We changed name to Mando Diao. God knows where it comes from, probably heaven.
After a year of rehearsing we found Samuel on drums and C-J on bass. It was very important to become a clan, a unit, something more than just friend playing music. Corleone-style. We didn't care much about getting signed by big labels. We knew that that day was gonna come. So we started building our own studio at our former organplayer Daniel Haglunds basement. When it was done we recorded demos after demos. This was year 2000 and the music scene was very dull at the moment. But in some way we felt that there was something going on.
Our strategy was to play so many gigs that eventually everyone whoud know about us. And so in 2002 we signed with Emi. We didn't care who or what we signed with, we just knew that nothing could stop us. We released our demos as an album, called it Bring 'em in and toured the world. That's the history. Here's our page and present. /Gustaf Norén
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Signing Session at Bengans in Stockholm! We wlll have a signing session on Sunday to celebrate the release of The... http://bit.ly/4saow2 03:35 AM October 05
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come back to berlin! your concerts are great - the best!! love you!!
Dec 01, 01:31 AM
Damn it! after 4 hours by train I arrived to Lyon for the concert and I found out that it was canceled, so people check the web page out!!! hope mando diao are going to play another time!!
Nov 20, 12:09 PM
LOVE the 'cocktail version' ! It would be a fabulous bonus track on the next album.
Nov 20, 12:08 PM
LOVE the 'cocktail version' ! It would be a fabulous bonus track on the next album.
Nov 09, 03:58 PM
Many people would love to see you here in Mexico. You got a great audience here, believe it or not.
Cheers!
Oct 25, 05:20 AM
mando diao. leipzig. exorbitant.
Sep 26, 01:28 AM
Color Line Arena- sjukt coolt!
Sep 22, 07:27 PM
your show was soooooo exciting @ summer sonic 09 in tokyo! i never forget it.. pls come to japan again!!!