The band worked on recording the album off and on from April to December 2000
Despite not having a record company The Wannadies toured extensively throughout the summer of 2000, played the Glastonbury and Carling festivals in the UK, Roskilde in Denmark , Hultsfred and Arvika in Sweden and completed a mini-tour of Japan .
The latter half of 2000 and much of 2001 saw the band construct their own recording studio in which they would record much of their sixth album.
Further albums For Monkeys and compilation The Melancholy Collection followed, but the band’s popularity increased in 2000 with the release of Pennybridge Pioneers , an album with more of a rock influence than the band’s previous skate punk / ska punk sound. The recording took six weeks, following which they…
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They were signed to Burning Heart Records , an independent record label notable for being the home of many influential Swedish punk rock and hardcore punk bands in the 90s and 2000s.
A documentary was also shot the same year, Så nära får ingen gå – ett år med Kent (“No One Can Get This Close – a year with Kent”), produced by Per Sinding-Larsen and Mathias Engstrand.
In December 1999, Kent released Hagnesta Hill , named after Hagnestahill, a part of Eskilstuna where the band had their first rehearsal space. The first single from the album, ” Musik non stop “, a disco-rock song, became a huge radio hit. The album was, for the most part, faster…
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Cherry co-wrote and sang on “Wishing It Was” on Santana ‘s 1999 album Supernatural , as well as in films such as Wim Wenders ‘ The Soul of a Man , Y tu mamá también , The Love of the Game , GO , Best Laid Plans , Holes ,…
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The band kept active, recording and releasing their fourth album, Tonight’s Decision , in 1999.
Yeah was released in the autumn of 1999 in Scandinavia and early spring 2000 in the UK. BMG decided not to release the record in America however, refused permission for the band to release it on another label and eventually dropped the band altogether.