Delirium Hits Lund and Life as we know it is replaced with Frozen Yogurt
I am Ginger, not Ginger ex Wildhearts but Ginger as in GingerBread cookie. That is what happen when you challenge the sun and go on a bikeride for 3 hours wearing nothing but a little Motörhead-tanktop. It seems, I am still wearing that top actually, cause I´m creamy white as frozen yoghurt where it used to be…Motörhead forever.
You see, it´s darn hot here and my body never reacted in a good way to heat. I think I have actually had a sunstroke cause my head is blank and seem to have been filled with…frozen yoghurt instead. So, let the keyword of this update be frozen yoghurt, it is silky smooth and cold….A couple of days ago, another kind of delirium came to town, 
Backyard Babies.The band who do not only have the modern male version of a pin-up doll as a member but also the only swedish punkrock band I know who has fans both among oldschool punkrockers as well as the teenyboppers who put their BBposters up next to a Britney…
After the last record, things just went insane, mainstream media had someting about BB in every issue and every 15year old, especially the girls, had a BB album… and had screamed “Dregen/Nicke, I love you!” on at least 2 different shows…Now, as you know me; I am not too very fond of screaming 15year olds. They can scream as much as they
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want to, just as long as they don´t do it in my ear. They can hail Dregen (the guitarist) as their King as much as they want, as long as they don´t shove their posters up my face. So, I was pretty glad that the nearest BB show was at Smålands, were you have to be atleast 18 with a members card to get in. But, then BB had to release their album “Making Enemies Is Good” just in time for it to go straight to number 1 on the Swedish Bilboard a couple of days before the gig…and of course, the insanity started again..
Not that I don´t think it´s cool that their album sells and that they have fans who love them, but I want to go to a show, not a circus.I´m an old sour bitch and I am proud. A drunken circus in fact; it was almost sold out when we came and we came early. Smålands sell cheap beer and even cheaper drinks. It´s a wonder that they´re weren´t any fights that night. The show started early, a couple of minutes past 11 at a place where they bands usually don´t enter the stage before 12 and I had to fight my way through the crowd to get to the stage with beer in one hand, camera in other. Another new thing, was the crowd. Smålands must have sold a big bunch of new memberships, cause the majority of the crowd looked like they just came from a hockeygame; testosteron and hormones. A lot of fingers in the airs, saluting, screaming, wanting to shake hands with the band and begging for picks.
When I think of it, it was more of a ¨”festival-behaviour”, when there are no rules more than;
A) have FUN
B) get DRUNK…
Not the typical punkrock behaviour, but it was fun for a change.
So, what about the band?!
Well, they were actually better than I expected. The songs I´ve heard from the new album hasn´t really struck my fancy, a bit too sleazy for my liking, (even though there were bits from Nirvanas“Negative Creep” baked in) so I was a bit worried that they would have gone all soft even live. Drenched the sound in syrup and spandex. Some of the songs sound a lot like mid 80´s hard rock. I guess I wasn´t the only one who´s first record was a Twisted Sisters…The sound was a bit different live, a bit smoother but I´m not sure what exactly made it so. The singers voice has gone cleaner, it´s not so rough anymore and I guess he isn´t putting that much strain on his vocal cords anymore. My guess is vocal lessons. Sounds better and he´ll be able to sing in 10 years from now. More backup, singalongs, handclaps, screamalongs, well just more of everything. They played songs from both the new album and the last one, but none from the first one, which I was quite happy about. That album wasn´t even mediocre…The band has grown since I last saw them. Back then it was mostly about Dregen and Nicke but the bassplayer Johan has grown in to quite a stagepersona; posing, having fun and keeping contact with the crowd and interacting with it. The gig lasted for almost an hour with encore included. The crowd was more than pleased and the band seemed to be enjoying themselves.
I had fun, even though I had to fight a couple of guys to keep my spot up front at the riotfence but it was okay, got rid of some latent agressions for free. My legs are all blue and purple, looks like..frozen yoghurt with blueberries. It was quite a battlefield up front and at least one girl fainted…The rest of the night was spend in the bar with my new drinking-compadre Caroline who has the same opinion as me; there is never something called too much!!
As I never found the merch-table, (probably due to too many vodka russian) I had the more money to spend on booze. And so I did….
For more info on Backyards and to listen to some samples from the album; http://www.backyardbabies.com/
So what is up next?!
Well, there is the Devil Dolls festival with Thee Ultra Bimboos, Launderettes and 
Voladoras. 3 bands for 60SEK, now that´s affordable, especially as Launderettes is one of those bands. Launderettes released a 7″ , “Rebel-Love” on Anouschkas Thunderbaby Records, appeared on some compilations and have a quite addictive poppunkygarage sound of their own.
On Thursday the 17th they´ll be playing at Mejeriet in Lund and the day after, the 18th, at Stengade in Copenhagen. Also, on the 17th, Loppen are having a little Birthday Party with the Burnouts and Tremolo Geer Gut on stage. 24th of May is the date when Nomads and the Turpentines take in Stengade and 26th of May is the big day when some of Denmarks best punkrockers salute and remember Joey Ramone. Some of the bands that will be playing at Loppen are President Fetch, Heatfarm, Los Retardos and Hellroute16. The first of June, El Curado at Mejeriet are coming back in big style. Not that they were in any way gone, they are just doing a summer-party big style; Danko Jones, the man who sounds more like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion than Jon himself. The party will not only give you this man, but also cheap booze and barberque.
Now, this was all for me for this time. Martin is waiting at the coffeshop with another story about Ronan Keeting and I can´t wait to hear it…or atleast get some coffee and blueberrypie…with frozen youghurt.
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