Article: NO RASH WITH HIVES.

WHEN you think of Swedish the first thing which may come to mind is Ikea, the furniture giant which had made flat-pack household items the must-haves for trendy urbanites.

Or the chessey but annoyingly catchy pop songs by ABBA, but chances are The Hives wouldn't be one of them.

Having burst onto the music scene with the garage rock floor-stomper Hate To Say I Told You So, The HIves were a breath of air from the rubbish and dire pop that was dominating the charts in the early naughties.

But their impact quickly dissippated with the emergence of Franz Ferdinand, Block Party and Snow Patrol under the 'second wave' of Brit Pop. In fact they were ...

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