The Cardigans fair trade campaign. Persson also appeared on the Manic Street Preachers' album "Send Away the Tigers" (May 2007), providing guest vocals on the UK Chart #2 single "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough". She shared vocals with Manics frontman James Dean Bradfield, who also appeared on stage with the band at the Glastonbury Festival 2007, and who has rated Peter Svensson as his second favourite guitarist. In the band's break of 2007, Persson recorded the second A Camp album "Colonia", which was released in early 2009. A Camp supported the US release of "Colonia" with a tour, which began in
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