Sometime in 2005 Emanuel Lundgren wrote several songs and gathered his friends to record them. Weeks later, a homemade EP was completed and a one-time live show featuring all 29 band members was performed in August 2005. I'm from Barcelona's story was only beginning, however, as the Swedish media and bloggers around the world started buzzing about the band.
EMI Sweden signed the band and
Dolores Recordings released the EP ''Don't Give Up On Your Dreams, Buddy!'' on February 15, 2006 featuring the band's first hit "We’re From Barcelona", named as an homage to the Spanish waiter
Manuel, a character on
BBC Television's
Fawlty Towers ("He’s from Barcelona"). Their debut full-length, entitled
Let Me Introduce My Friends, was released on April 26, 2006 in Sweden, with international releases to follow including an EMI UK release on 11 September 2006. In July 2008, it was announced that the band would be releasing a full-length album in fall 2008, entitled
Who Killed Harry Houdini? The album features French singer
Soko on the track "Gunhild". The album was released on October 14, 2008 and to promote it they toured the UK finishing at the Scala, London on the 25th of November 2008. They also made an appearance on the children's program
Yo Gabba Gabba in 2008. Their song "The Painter" appeared in the CBS television show
How I Met Your Mother, in the episode "
Everything Must Go", aired on May 12, 2008. A version of their song "Get in Line" has been used in European adverts for
Babybel cheese since 2012, whereby the band re-recorded the song with a children's choir. ==Members==