“For those in Egypt, we’d love to play there someday,” Coldplay said back in December. Exciting as that was, the rock band threw in a shout out to an Egyptian tribute band named Strawberry Swing. Ahead of their latest gig on Saturday night, organized by Starfish Campaign and Patient Support Team to fundraiser for Abu El Reesh hospital, Egyptian Streets spoke to the band about their music, inspiration, and dreams. Egyptian Streets: First off, why Coldplay? Strawberry Swing: We love the band, starting from their music, to their message and spirit. ES: How did you all come together to form Strawberry Swing? Could you tell us a bit about each member? SS: It started when Abdelrahman Sherif (Aka:Boudy) came up with the idea and wanted to form the band so he called Mohamed Tarek (Aka:MishMish) and together they started the project then Ammar Joined them as he’s Mishmish’s best friend and then Patrick joined the band as he is a friend of Boudy and together we started jamming. We just felt the chemistry floating in the air from the very first jams so we knew it was kind of meant to…
