THE INDEPENDENT, SAN FRANCISCO ^SOUNDCHI^E’m^CK From Barcelona

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Being the lead singer of a 29-member band has its perks. “I’m usually the only
one who gets to stage-dive,” explains Emanuel Lundgren of the confusingly
named Swedish outfit I’m From Barcelona. But Lundgren’s crowd-surfing
supremacy is due to safety concerns, not solipsism. “We’ve tried the multiperson
stage dive before,” he says. “It was too much for the crowd.” Meaning? “People
fell on their faces.” (For more on Swedish bands, see page 76.)

PHOTOGRAPH BY MISHA VLADIMIRSKIY