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This how it all starts. Martin says , “Wow, LisaFisa, it´s Möllefesten/Folkfesten/Whatever in a week or so. Let´s go, it could be cool. Pretty girls, beer and good bands”. I say “Nah, boring bands and ugly kids in too much makeup, I´d rather stay at home with Patsy Klein”…

Two weeks later, it´s saturday and I´m at the minifestival in question, outside in pouring rain cause some newage-hippe band is playing in the tent, while my boy Martin is at home in his warm comfy couch, watching soccer. This never fails. I´m always there alone and it´s always raining. I´m a sad person, it´s all true…

This time, there were 3 bands I wanted to see, but they were playing with a 2 hour pause between them. A 2 hour pass that held nothing but rain, boredom and beer that for some reason, didn´t get your more intoxicated than the rain itself. I came just in time to see Eilert Pilarm. He´s not only spokesman for a brand of swedish dairy products, he´s also an outstanding Elvis interpreter. Well, he´s not even that, he´s beyond that. He deliver Elvis-songs the way no other man has. I you didn´t know it´s Elvis, you´d never guess it. Eilert doesn´t really care that much about rhythm or if a song´s in a certain time, he has his own rhythm and time! Most important of all, he´s having fun. You can see it clearly, this is no old has been that wants to give it another go. Eilert loves performing and he loves Elvis. So, he combines that and creates something unique. As always, some people don´t really get it…I heard a lot of booing and people laughing. He´s not young, he´s not hip or trendy and…”oh, damn it he doesn´t even look like Elvis!”. Later, one magazine even wrote that he was retarded…Whatever happened to recognize something for what it is and that somebody having fun, trying to entertain us?! Why should everything be like on MTV, shiny, glossy and no texture?! Nah, I like Eilert, I like people that are having a go at what they like doing instead of just living their lives according to some standard sheet from the retirement annuity!
http://www.eilert.nu

The day before Möllefesten, Danko Jones had been playing at Mejeriet in Lund. Bad Taste, the local skatepunk/hiphop recordlabel that signed Danko Jones, and El Curado, the club which brought us the Maggots and Neanderthals, were having a barberque with the cheapest beer since ´77 and the main course was Danko Jones. I wasn´t there as I was working, helping customers how you find porn chatrooms on the internet (don´t ask…) but from what I was told, it was a wet, wet, wet affair with a lot of people of which most were so drunk they didn´t make it to Möllefesten. So, I had high expectations…and they delivered!! Damn, that singer/guitarist is a full-fledged rockstar! A peacock with an attitude which was exactly what we needed, standing there in the rain. It´s the soundtrack that Bonnie&Clyde would have done. Rocknroll with a lot of soul and a bit of funk. Sexy,shouty, mouthy and quite elegant.and it´s all about getting what is already taken…and getting rid of the boyfriend. A lot of moves and a lot articulation, they were working hard. The first fullenght is out on Bad Taste and is called “I´m alive and on fire”. If you´re a lucky gal/lad, you´re going to Hultsfreds Festivalen and the you can see them Friday at 21.15 on the Stora Dans-stage.
http://www.dankojones.com
http://www.badtasterecords.se

Then again, there was a big pause. We looked at kids stalking poor Dregen in the rain, goths trying to save their makeup from the merciless rain, hippes playing with their kids and at the line to the bar in the tent get even longer, bigger and wider. It all scared us, so we did the only thing possible, we stood in line for some beer…Unfortunatley, they had the most terrifying music in that tent, everything from 80´s synthblipp with “I´m so deep it kills me”lyrics to a wannabe Black Sabbath who didn´t know when to stop and go buy some beer…

So, we stood in the rain instead. For almost 6 hours, in the rain. As evident as ketchup is red, I had a serious cold the next day. I still do, in fact.

Backyard Babies…well, they were the pulp of the peach that day. Not only on the posters but also to all the kids who came. 40 minutes before they were supposed to go on, about a 100 of kids had gathered in front of the stage to be sure to get a good spot. Even if the majority of their fans right now are kids under 18, atleast they´re faithful..

I saw a lof of the “old people” there. People who used to hang out at BB´s gigs a few years back but now claim that the band have “gone all Corey Clarke”. It´s quite funny though, this people never buy a ticket to a BB show nowadays “cause the band sold out” but at the festivals, they´re still there in the crowd. It´s like they´re sneaking, peeping…I think it has the more to do with that BB has been polished up, sold and marketed to the mainstream kids and with success. We are not the only one who knows about this band as we might do with Twopointeight and therefor we can´t listen to it anymore. You know, it´s not cred anymore.. Apparently, I did a NO-NO thing when I wrote this months playlist for Deadbeat, I listed Backyard Babies. I usually never get email about those things, but this time I did. Can you guess what the subject was?! You´re right, “what kind of punkrocker was I who had Backyard babies up on my list?! What would be next, SheBangs?”. Nevermind that I had Patsy Cline, I had Backyard babies on my list…bad, bad Lisa. I should have known better…haha I think it´s plain pussy to try so hard to be a punkrocker/garagerocker/whatever. I listen to what I like, when I want, dressed the way I want. Maybe this is the right moment to tell you that I have records with Jeff Buckley as well as Afghan Whigs??! So, back to Babies. The most awaited show of the day for the majority. A big stage with kids screaming. A good show even though you loose some when it´s that big. As usually I was on the left. Right is the side that Dregen´s on and therefor the side where all the screaming girls are. You live and you learn. A couple of bruises and scratchmarks will make you learn…Basically the same set as on Smålands a couple of weeks before, but the crowd was even more ecstatic. I managed to take some pics until a guard put his hand palm over my lens. I was not allowed to take any photos of the band. I got pissed with a big capital P and left the front. Took a beer, called my hubby..and went back to see the rest of the show. The fact that I was not allowed to take pics got me really frustrated. Not only do I always take pics, even the 64th time I see C-Men, but also, I have never been told that I´m not allowed. In Sweden, you´re usually allowed to take photos with the camera of your choice unless they´re taping the show or it´s a band who´s sold more records than Pezcandy I´ve eaten…So, after the show, I took the opportunity to talk to the guard. His version of it was it was the bands request. That answer didn´t really lighten up my day, so I emailed the band to ask them what the hell was going on. Less than 24h later, I had an email in hand saying that they´d never ban photographers from an outdoors gig. So, there it is. I have no clue of what happend….but I did manage to take a few pics before the guard spotted me, so you´ll have to be satisfied with that result.

Backyard Babies plays at this years Hultsfreds festival too, at 17 o´clock Thursday. For more info about Backyard Babies go to http://www.backyardbabies.com and about the Hultsfred Festival,http://www.rockparty.se/

69hard is that kind of band you want to get a recorddeal now, preferably yesterday. You wanna tell your friends about them, spread the word and start a 69hard-cult. But, there´s only a couple of 7″ out and we´re only about 50 people in the cult as of right now. My guess, though, is that 69hard won over a few more who´ll give them all their earthly possessions and join the cult without any questioning and a 69hard button on their jacket. You see, this a band that turns into your four-headed God onstage. If a band can´t rock your arse off on stage, then they don´t rock at all, is a lesson these fellas were the first to stitch on their pillows. After a few songs, the place in front of the stage was crowded. A bunch of kids recognized it for what it was and started a riot of their own…pawing the people around them. Maybe Danko Jones´ message hit them 2 hours too late?! The set ended with “Taxidriver”, the song BB used to close with. If you´ve missed it, 69hard play rough rockabilly with a little punkrock twist to it. As I´ve been

raving about them every other update, I don´t think there´s even the slightest possibility you haven´t read their name. Alongside with Flaming Sideburns, 69hard is my favorite band live and favorite band to take pics of..which shows in the updates…But readin´ ain´t all, I think you should go to the site http://www.69-hard.com/ and have a listen.

So, what else is new and what´s happening?! Well, as mentioned, there is the Hultsfreds Festival which I apparently won´t be going to this year as I´ll be working. The 14th of June, Nashville Pussy will be playing at Loppen and the day after, Dropkick Murphy at the very same place.

That´s about it and this was it.