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 elle Almquist of the Hives is a Swedish sex god, the Mick Jagger of Malmö. With liquid hips and a lethal microphone twirl, he totally embodies the band's amicable Scandanavian punk sensibility. By the end of every set, his shirt is inevitably soaked, his bowl cut is stuck to the sides of his head and groupies are chasing him around the block.The singer was recently in New York to promote the new Hives DVD, Tussles in Brussels, which includes an hourlong concert, a documentary about the band, four music videos and six TV appearances. When we met, Pelle was wearing a white perforated leather jacket. He had unexpectedly large eyes. We sat in swivel chairs and talked, he in a lovely Swedish accent, about his relationship with Maria Andersson of Sahara Hotnights and the strangest place he's had sex. — Sarah Harrison
Very friendly! [laughs] They hang out at the hotel and they give you teddy bears and stuff. Very classically girlish pop fans. They'd give us socks too. They seemed to care about us taking care of ourselves. They'd write letters and end it with "Take care of your physical condition." Speaking of letters, you solicited pictures and movies for this new DVD. Did you get anything lewd? Yeah, I think we got a few naked pictures but, like, what do you do with that? I think people misunderstood it. They just sent us pictures of themselves that didn't have us in them. We just mostly ended up using what that we already had. Which band member gets the most women? Currently Chris. He's the only single guy in the band right now. With your intense tour schedule, how do you manage to have a relationship? My girlfriend is Maria, who sings for Sahara Hotnights, and they tour a lot too, so I think that helps the situation. You just have to make it more intense when you're actually together. I'm in a long-distance relationship too. When we meet on the weekends, we have to get into each other really quickly. Yeah, exactly. There'll be a day of weirdness, but then it'll be fine and you can hang out with each other for a month and then leave each other for a month. It's just a different scale of things, like for regular relationship you go to work for eight hours and then you spend eight hours at home, and then you sleep for eight hours, whereas we spend a month away and a month at home. You toured with Sahara Hotnights right, for a little while? Is that how you and Maria met? No, we met a long time ago at shows and stuff, in Sweden. How long have you been dating? For like four years. It's been working out well. Fortunately, they're a good band so we could bring them on tour. Are you getting married? No, I don't think so. Not right now, at least. So how do you relieve sexual frustration on the road? I guess the old-fashioned way. Actually, playing the show lets out most of the frustration that you might have, sexual and otherwise. You're so tired after the show you just want to go to sleep. So how do you deal with the groupies you attract? It's interesting, they kind of react the way you react. We got chased out of the Radio City building by a bunch of girls after we'd done a TV show. They saw us and we started running because we had to go, someone told us to run, and we were like, yeah sure, we'll run, and then they run after us, and then as soon as we stopped and just started talking to them in a normal tone of voice they stopped being so hysterical. Are the girls different in different countries? Yeah, yeah, they are. Like in Japan, there's the teddy bear phenomenon, but in other countries it'll be more about sex than giving away teddy bears. I'd say the U.K. is the most about sex. Is there any sexual tension between band members? There is something weird about spending all your time with four other guys from the time you're fourteen. I think it's impossible to be in a rock band without there being something like that. It's kind of like being in the army I would assume, or being in prison, because you just hang out with four other guys all the time. We've done nothing more than kissing though. I love bands where the boys kiss each other. You can kiss your friends. Usually it would involve alcohol. It's probably been a few years. We should kiss more again. I agree. Do you think that you guys are a sexy band? Yeah, I think the other guys are kind of hot — just the fact that they are proper good men is very sexy. What do you think is the best album to have sex to? It depends how you want to have sex. I don't really like music while having sex actually, do you? I don't. How about lights — on or off? Both, it depends. What's your biggest turn-off? Maybe Barry White? I'd have a hard time keeping a straight face. [laughs] Anything classically sexy, if it's done with no sense of humor would be a turn off. I think I'd have a hard time with rose petals and candlelight and all that stuff. Are you a romantic guy? I think I am, but not in that way. I think it's tough to just be classically romantic without it just seeming kind of dorky, but I do buy flowers and stuff. What's the most unusual place you've ever had sex? Trunk of a car. How did you manage that? It was open. I don't know whose car it was, either. It was in a parking lot and it wasn't even a station wagon, it was just a regular compact. It wasn't my idea, but it worked out all right. What's your worst sexual experience? Probably when I don't remember it, from just being drunk. I have sex more often sober than I do drunk, but it's a bad thing if you don't remember. You guys always wear black and white — what inspired that? It started with us trying to separate ourselves from what other bands were wearing. It was the grunge phase when we formed the band, so it was taboo to wear anything that wasn't your street clothes. It worked in the beginning, but now everybody dresses up to go onstage. Do you have a blog? Yes, something like it, we have like an internet diary, but I spend too little time writing in it. I probably will start doing it more now that we have time off, or we're making a new record. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing though. I mean, what do you actually say after a while? It does become mundane, but people really like looking into the lives of other people. Yeah. And it's not just necessarily like, "Went to the store, bought spaghetti." It could be more interesting than that. What was your last day job? My last day job was schoolteacher or postman. Schoolteacher. No, actually, I was a postman afterwards, in 2000. What did you teach when you taught school? Sixth grade. So math, English, everything, all that stuff. These days are you spending more time in Sweden or elsewhere? More time in Sweden still. Some of the band members have kids so we spend a lot of time at home. Do you want to have kids? Some time, but not now. I see the other guys have kids and I think, I'll wait a while. I get to hang out with their kids, and as soon as they start crying, I give them back. n°
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