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About Me

Fueled by love and vacation, Emanuel Lundgren writes a couple of explosive happy pop songs and decides to gather all his friends to put them on tape. His apartment turns into a friendly factory as people come and go loaded with banjos, accordions and kazoos. Some weeks (and lifetime memories) later, a homemade EP is finished and Emanuel collects almost all the 29 participants for a first and last live show in August 2005.What he thought was an ending was a beginning of numerous rumours and talk about this new and exciting band. One show soon turned into plenty. Swedish media goes out of control and bloggers all over the world starts sharing their knowledge about the Swedish big band. In only a couple of months more than 20 000 people have downloaded songs from the bands website. Today over 140 000 people have watched the video for We're from Barcelona on the website youtube.com!The EP "Don't Give Up On Your Dreams, Buddy!" is released on EMI Sweden in early 2006 and is followed up by the full length album "Let Me Intruduce My Friends". A record full of euphoric pop gems and sing-a-long friendly choruses . The anthem "We're From Barcelona" climbs the charts and the band is headed for a summer of festivals, including Primavera Sound in Barcelona.I'm from Barcelona embraces the do-it-yourself mentality and live it's hard to say where the band ends and the audience begins.

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Member Since: 7/13/2006
Band Website: imfrombarcelona.com
Sounds Like: We're From Barcelona

Collection Of Stamps

Rec & Play (non official, but nice video)
Record Label: EMI
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New tour dates!

Finally we can announce the first tour dates for this spring and summer. We have some exciting days ahead!We're very happy to be able to go back to our friends in the states and this time visit the mi...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:43:00 PST

Upcoming tour!

Hi everybody!If you are in Belgium and France the upcoming week and feel bored - come to one of our shown and bounce balloons and throw confetti! Check the dates out!And by the way, you could hear Ove...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:32:00 PST

New song added!

Listen to our summer greeting called Britney. It's an upcoming single, but it's only available here on MySpace right now. It'll be available on iTunes and as a limited vinyl single shortly! Enjoy! Hug...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:44:00 PST

New summer dates!

Hello everybody out there! It´s time to release some new exciting summer dates! Our only gig in Sweden this summer is at one of the nicest festivals on the planet.26 july Emmabodafestivalen, Sweden We...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Wed, 23 May 2007 08:54:00 PST

Summer Festivals

Here's the first posting of festivals we will visit in may, june and july! More exciting news is on the way.We will share stages with many of our favourite bands and meet a lot of our friends in the a...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:30:00 PST

Årets nykomling / newcomer of the year!

This is a message in swedish to all people who voted for us in the Swedish P3 Guld Awards: Tusen miljarders tack till alla som röstade på oss i P3 Guld så att vi blev årets nykomling! Vi var typ glada...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:42:00 PST

Mute US

We are proud to announce that our debut album Let Me Introduce My Friends will be released in the US March 6 2007 by Mute US! Read more on Pitchforkwww.mute.comAnd finally, a promise:I Will Become A ...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:21:00 PST

A MESSAGE FOR OUR FRIENDS IN ENGLAND

Hello England!Here's a reminder that our album, 'Let Me Introduce My Friends', comes out this Monday 25th September in all good record shops including HMV and Virgin Megastores! Plus you can pre-order...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:48:00 PST

HAVE YOU EVER FILMED US? DID YOU BRING YOUR CAMERA OUT IN THE STREET AT ROUGH TRADE?

If you by any chance ever stuck a videocamera or something like it our faces and filmed us we would really like to get in contact with you!For example if you have anything from when we sang a bit in t...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:34:00 PST

NEW GIG!!!!! NEW GIG!!!!

Hey everyoneWe're very proud to announce ANOTHER LIVE SHOW THIS WEEK!!!!We are special guests at cult London indiepop club How Does It Feel To be Loved? on Friday September 15th, a very special night ...
Posted by I'm From Barcelona on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:38:00 PST