"There was this one guy whose name meant something like 'flat' in English, but Google translated it into Swedish as 'lesbian', which caused me a bit of confusion at first."
Booking shows in Japan with only online translation software to help throws up a lot of hardships, but fortunately for Sweden's SideChild, the solo project of a man known as Pontus Andersson to his friends, music speaks louder than dubious software algorithms.
Before moving to focus on SideChild, Andersson was playing in a "funk-oriented thing" called King Kong Crew. "I loved it," he says, "but more as an opportunity to play together with some of my best mates. It was never entirely my own thing."