Brainpool

Brainpool is a pop music group from Lund, Sweden, cited as "Sweden's Oasis". It was most popular in the mid-1990s, mostly in Sweden, and never really made it abroad. The band was "found"

Brainpool is a pop music group from Lund, Sweden, cited as "Sweden's Oasis". It was most popular in the mid-1990s, mostly in Sweden, and never really made it abroad. The band was "found" by Per Gessle, mostly famous from the band Roxette, who signed them to his music publishing company Jimmy Fun Music that later merged with another publishing company and is now called Tom Bone Music.

Janne Kask left the band in 1997 to pursue a solo career. For a while the other band members were looking for a new lead singer, but soon gave up. "It didn't take long for us to realize that it would be impossible to let another person join", David Birde explained in an interview to The Daily Roxette. "It would have to be the three of us, or split up. At first we thought about changing our name, but that turned out to be difficult - Sony Music had already paid for the recording of You Are Here and they wanted us to keep the name. We had to choose between ditching the recordings and lose our record deal or go on calling ourselves Brainpool. We cowardly chose the latter."