“At the outset, we assumed that this was something we could do for a couple of years before going into corporate fucking finance or something…”

Here, in this second part of our chat with the free-wheeling front man of The Hives we talk about the nature of the music industry cycles, we cover Spengler’s The Decline of the West, how The Hives were born from a response to Nu-Metal... in a way. Pelle maintains that there was no artifice in the early confidence shown when the Swedish rockers first burst on to the scene. He reveals why there is an acceptance AND motivation to record new material twenty years into a career that has seen them play to millions around the world. Also, at the end of the chat, there’s recorded proof, even if meant sarcastically, that Pelle and I are now friends. If you are yet to check out part one of this conversation, please head there and give it a listen…Cheers