Video Lunch: Mando Diao – “The Wildfire (If It Was True)”

Since it’s a big holiday/travel weekend beginning today, here’s a cute video from those plucky Swedish lads of Mando Diao. This single’s called “The Wildfire (If It Was True)” and it features a rollicking road trop across what appears to be the great American West. Yee-haw!

These boys have been making music together since 1996-ish when they were wee little things. And they’ve put out three albums since 2002. Their latest, Ode to Ochrasy, has gotten them lots of attention and they’ve rocked out at Coachella and the Live Earth show in Hamburg earlier this summer. Generally, they perform about 150 gigs a year. Yep, they stay busy. They even manage to keep a spiffy photoblog.

This pic (from their photoblog) was taken of Mando Diao's guys (that's frontman Gustaf, right) while on the road in San Francisco. Who doesn't love dinosaurs?

Not only are the Mando Diao fellas handsome (frontman Gustaf was voted "Sexiest Man in Sweden," or something like that) they’re also evidently pretty nice fellows. This past January they were performing at a show in their Swedish homeland, and a portion of the floor where the audience was standing collapsed and at least 25 people were injured, and several were taken to the hospital. Being nice guys, the band stuck around the town where this happened, in case there was some way to help, and they visited the hospitalized fans personally. Awww...

Just so you know, among their top MySpace friends are Jet, Oasis, The Bravery and some other cute band of Swedish pop/rocker boys, Sugarplum Fairy.

And that name, Mando Diao? It came to guitarist Bjorn Dixgard in a dream. So there...

Enjoy the clip and maybe these pics, too... They’re nice to look at!

 

Comments

[Emily]

Very interesting.