"Peter Bjorn and John" is not a real rock band.

Peter doesn't like to sign breasts, Bjorn bought his first leather jacket at the age of 27 and John can neither spit cool nor spin his drumsticks. Still they recently found themselves touring the world, playing in front of real rock audiences that just kept getting bigger.

Is that really possible to pull off without a proper "rock band history"?

Well OK, Peter once actually had a "shoegaze hairdo," Bjorn once got laid after a party and John performed five songs by W.A.S.P. at a school party in fourth grade (including the tune "I Fuck Like A Beast") but still...

How can you create rock music having grown up with nice parents? How could they make rock music without taking any drugs stronger than light-beer? Where did the Peter Bjorn and John rock music come from?

PB&J did not talk that much about this interesting subject. Not at all, as a matter of fact. But during a flight home from London something else came up. The band started to remember their years in elementary school and among the subjects was the frustration of listening to and sometimes having to play in school orchestras.

Being musically interested kids all they wanted to do was to play modern music in a band. Unfortunately that did not happen. Instead they stayed at home and made music on their tape decks.

But as grownups, the memory of the sound of the Swedish music school orchestras from hell wasn't really that bad. When Peter Bjorn and John thought about it, they realized it was kind of fantastic.

The timbre of a bunch of youngsters trying to play saxophone and failing is a good sound. The sound of a violin being played by a beginner who hates it is superb.

Soon the idea of making an instrumental album with these types of sounds seemed like a great idea. And since the childhood of each of the three members was quite similar (growing up bored in small villages located near water in the north of Sweden), Peter Bjorn and John decided to have the themes of water and boredom as inspiration for the record.

The title of the album Seaside Rock came naturally.