Fresh from the makers of IKEA, H&M, and surströmming (fermented Baltic herring), please allow me to introduce to you, Moneybrother, Sweden’s Grammy award winning version of “The Boss” (with a lil’ ABBA singing backup). “Well, I really worked on a name for my solo work that sounded cool. Moneybrother, sounded cool when I said it,” provides the accented Mr. Anders Wendin a.k.a Moneybrother. This straight shooter is no stranger to the game even though you might not recognize his name in Swedish.
The Grammy strapped to his hip is thanks to his first solo record Blood Panic in 2003 after leaving pop/ska band Monster. 2009’s Real Control, saw his first full length, English only, album to be released on our fair shores. Which he has regularly been supporting with US tours for names the like of Bedouin Soundclash and most recently Celtic punkers Flogging Molly. Tours partly financed by his buying of Martin guitars on Craigslist in the US and flipping them for a “plane ticket or two” thanks to the nonsensical value of the US dollar in Scandinavia.
I caught up with Moneybrother at Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica where he is recording part of his globetrotting next album and watching a lot of soccer…
