producer Nille Perned. The album was finally finished by late 1994 and was released along with second single, "You and Me Song", to critical acclaim in their native country. Shortly afterwards the band came to the attention of Indolent Records in the United Kingdom who signed The Wannadies in the summer of 1995. The group's first British gig followed soon after, a sold-out show at the Dublin Castle, Camden in the autumn of the same year. Throughout winter the band toured extensively with labelmates Sleeper and The 60 ft Dolls as well as with Lightning Seeds and Frank Black. At the same time they were regularly commuting to studios in Gothenburg, Skellefteå and Stockholm to record tracks for their next album, again with producer Nille Perned. Further singles "Might Be Stars" and "How Does It Feel?" were taken from Be a Girl but it was not until the re-release of "You and Me Song" in April 1996 that the band really made an impact in the United Kingdom, where the song peaked at number eighteen on the UK Singles Chart. The track later appeared on the official soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet, further increasing their popularity. Troubled times (1997–1999) Problems with Swedish record company MNW led to delays with the release of the group's fourth album, Bagsy Me (a translation of the Swedish children's expression 'Pax jag!'), which was eventually released in January 1997 on Sony/BMG Records. The album included the hit singles "Someone Somewhere", "Friends", "Hit" (which made No. 20 in the UK Singles Chart) and "Shorty". "You and Me Song" was also included to capitalise on The Wannadies post-Romeo + Juliet success. A revised version of the album (with two more singles from Be a Girl replacing two album tracks) was later released in America under the title The Wannadies. The next few years were a turbulent time for the group. In Spring 1997 drummer and founding member Gunnar Karlsson left, to be replaced by Erik Dahlgren (born 25 August 1965), a long-term friend of the band. After sorting out problems with their Swedish record label The Wannadies now felt they were suffering from a lack of support from BMG in the UK and went on strike. A compilation album of the best of their first three albums featuring tracks chosen by the band and entitled, appropriately, Skellefteå, was released in Scandinavia in the spring