of 1998 with the band touring the region in support while their problems with BMG were being resolved. Relations with the label had sufficiently improved for the band to begin recording their next album in the autumn of 1998 with a ten-day session at the Chateau De La Rouge Motte studio in Normandy, France with producer Mike Hedges. Only one track, "String Song", was completed however and it was not until the winter of 1998/99 that the band recorded the bulk of the tracks for fifth album Yeah. With former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek at the helm The Wannadies began recording at Electric Lady recording studios in New York City and continued work at studios in Stockholm and London. 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. Recent times and break-up 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. With Nille Perned again producing, the band released Before & After in 2002 in Scandinavia through the National record label and on 8 September 2003 in the UK on Cooking Vinyl records (who also handled distribution for the rest of the world). The album featured the singles "Skin", "Disko" and "Little by Little". In 2003, "You and Me Song" was used in the climax to an episode of Coronation Street in which Richard Hillman drives his new wife, Gail Platt and her family into a canal (in which he dies); and later, in 2007, an episode in which his stepson, David Platt, drives his car into that same canal as a suicide attempt, only to survive, ruining his sister Sarah's wedding day. In 2006 "You and Me Song" was used as the theme song to the BBC Three TV series I'm with Stupid. The band were thought to be writing and recording songs for their seventh album, and are preparing to release a twenty track best of, however,