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| JasonTX |
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Two landmarks - Plain Picture Parade (www.cardifans.com) has turned 9 and I've surpassed the 2000 picture mark.
It all started the summer of 1995 when I was in Sweden with my family and we stopped at a used CD store. I had heard some chatter on alt.swedepop mailing list about this band called the Cardigans. I found a CD single "Carnival" for 10 SEK at that shop. I couldn't stop listening to it. I then bought the Life album in Sweden as well and as we were heading to Malmö, I heard that there was a festival and the Cardigans were part of it. We rushed to the hotel and rushed to the festival but just missed seeing them play. I was addicted!
I opened up a Geocities account at http://www.geocities.com/Colle...ad/2567. I taught myself basic HTML and just put up some pictures of the Cardigans. As a small community began to grow, I started gathering more pictures, more CDs, more videos, and it just steamrolled from there. I soon had to open up 2 more Geocities accounts to hold all the pictures as I up to 30 MB of stuff.
In 2001, I registered the domain name "cardifans.com" and moved my page there. I also purchased Adobe GoLive and couldn't believe how fast and quickly you could update the entire site. I then moved to Dreamweaver which I use now.
I saw the Cardigans for the first time in February 1997 in Providence, Rhode Island. I thought for sure I would get to meet the band but Loevfool had hit and the US was Lovefool struck. I did get to meet Magnus which was very cool. Then they came to Dallas, Texas in May 1997 where I got to meet Nina and get her autograph
I then saw them at Roskilde in 2003 and in Malmö in October 2003, and finally in Las Vegas in 2004.
What a great ride it's been. Thanks to everyone who has sent me pictures and has supported my efforts. Long live the Cardigans.
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