*Pictures will be added soon*
It's a nice little town we’re playing in tonight. Arrived to the venue – The Brook, around 12 and since I went to bed pretty early last night I went straight to the dressing room, which is like a small apartment above the stage, that we share with the Backyard Babies. There was nothing to eat for 2 hours so when it finally arrived I ate too much and I haven’t stopped yet.. guess my stomach learned that you’ll never know when you’ll get food next time.. I’m constantly thinking of all the food I’m gonna cook back home again.. There’s a washing machine in the dressing room tonight and it’s going on full speed since the whole day. I planned to share one with Klara but it’s only 3 more gigs and the clothes that has already rot can remain wet and disgusting ‘til I get home instead…
The venue is pretty cool tonight. Different from all the dark rocknroll venues we usually plays, this feels more like a blues rock club, and it’s really nice. And fresh, the toilets and the showers are clean and well functioning, the dressing room is clean… a very nice brake from the standard. Really looking forward ‘til today’s gig, even though I heard ticket sales wasn’t too good today, it will be fun just to play this stage, sound check was great!
19:12 –tourbus outside the Brook
I went back on the bus again just to not eat myself to death before the gig.. But I did order a Indian Chicken Jalfrezi dish before I left the dressing room...Everybodies dinner is on the way but now it’s only 1 ½ hour before gig so I guess I’ll have to save it ‘til later. But then I know something hot and good is waiting for me after the gig mmmm…
Today Backyard found out about the Swedish blog that I also update on the newspaper Aftonbladet’s website. Good I haven’t told too many juicy tour stories and secrets yet he,he. Actually I’ve got some pretty funny pictures of both bands but I'll keep 'em in the private collection.. For CB I know pretty well what’s ok and not,.. which reminds me I have to find that picture of Ida showering in the garbage bin after the gig at Cathouse in Glasgow…
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The gig went really good today, the sound was great on stage and they said it was good in the room as well. After the gig we were supposed to go to an aftershow party, but when everybody was ready to go the clock was already 2 and the club has closed so we didn’t make it unfortunately. Everybody was really on their way and I was really looking forward to it as well since I just went straight to bed last night after a huge pizza… But instead we spent the night on the bus, I tried to learn how to play poker and stayed up ‘til 5.30 –whohooo! One of the Barbaras was up even ‘til 10 in the morning. Looking good for the next gig J
måndag 15 september 2008
tisdag 9 september 2008
7 sep, Academy 2, Manchester
The gig was definitely the hottest one so far, and the smallest stage as well I think, but the audience was amazing and we had good fun on stage so for me at least it was the best gig so far. It’s really difficult to fit in on the stages since our drumkit has to be in front of Backyard Babies’ but in one way or another we make it every night.
Believe it or not – we didn’t have Indian food for dinner tonight, we went to a Thai restaurant right a cross the street. Extremely good!!!
8 sep, Manchester –DAY OFF
Everybody had been talking about relax,spa, baths, going to see a movie etc on our day off, but pretty soon in the morning it was clear nothing would happen. Everybody was just tired and slow.. so we just enjoyed the beautiful backyard of Manchester Academy and had sandwishes from Subways.. at 4.30 I got ants in my pants and took a walk to Manchester city. Normally I get lost pretty easy so I usually don’t go on long walks on tour but today I was lucky, just one road the whole way so I could walk for 40 minutes and only turn 3 times. 7.30 it was time for a crazy question game that Toffsy, Backyards merch master, had put together. The winners was Klara and Peder, both 6 points –impressive, but I’m not surpriced ‘cause Klara’s got a sharp brain!! She won a sewing kit, she had to choose from that, a spiderman chocolate bar, a glossy girl magazine with Mascara included, 4 pack of cans with spaghetti and tomato sauce, and 2 kinder eggs.
That’s about everything that happened today!
Believe it or not – we didn’t have Indian food for dinner tonight, we went to a Thai restaurant right a cross the street. Extremely good!!!
8 sep, Manchester –DAY OFF
Everybody had been talking about relax,spa, baths, going to see a movie etc on our day off, but pretty soon in the morning it was clear nothing would happen. Everybody was just tired and slow.. so we just enjoyed the beautiful backyard of Manchester Academy and had sandwishes from Subways.. at 4.30 I got ants in my pants and took a walk to Manchester city. Normally I get lost pretty easy so I usually don’t go on long walks on tour but today I was lucky, just one road the whole way so I could walk for 40 minutes and only turn 3 times. 7.30 it was time for a crazy question game that Toffsy, Backyards merch master, had put together. The winners was Klara and Peder, both 6 points –impressive, but I’m not surpriced ‘cause Klara’s got a sharp brain!! She won a sewing kit, she had to choose from that, a spiderman chocolate bar, a glossy girl magazine with Mascara included, 4 pack of cans with spaghetti and tomato sauce, and 2 kinder eggs.
That’s about everything that happened today!
6 sep, Concorde 2, Sheffield, UK
16:11 dressingroom
Just arrived to the venue in Sheffield, took a walk around the block and had a late breakfast. Våfflan, our backline tech got us a big dressing room this time, we were supposed to go in a small one first like yesterday but somehow he could change it. He is doing such a great job, it’s the first long tour we have him on board and everybody just praise him.
The dressing room is pretty big, purple walls, 5 chairs, a refrigerator that doesn’t work and smells bad, a heating system and a carpet with unidentifiable stains all over.
The toilet is right outside –hurray! – but the light doesn’t work and it’s unable to lock. But since the light doesn’t work, no one can see you if they open the door so it’s ok.. Klara took a shower and the water just switched to ice cold and refused to stop running so she had to run out with just a towel and high heels to get help from the local staff.. But today everybody is happy, the venue is really good, the stage is great and our dressing room have plenty of room, we don’t have to sit on each other today. Looking forward to a great gig tonight!!!
23:43 Dressing room
The gig went very well tonight, the crowd was great and once again lots of CB t-shirts and I recognized many faces in the crowd, it always feels great to have good support in front!! The sound on stage was good and we all had fun.
Right now I’m a bit tired, the other ones are having some drinks at the moment but I’m not really in the mood for it. Need to be in good shape for tomorrow as well, then we have a day off in Manchester. Thinking about borrowing some DVD’s from someone but on the other hand I don’t wanna take the risk of falling asleep; maybe they order Indian food when I’m sleeping – I can’t risk to miss a midnight Indian dinner, no way!! By the way, the toilet broke down totally right before we went to the gig, water just started to leak out on the floor.. It takes more to surprise us ....
later same night..
5 sep Cathouse, Glasgow, Skottland
We arrived around 12 and heard that the dressing room should be ready for us at 2 o’clock. So we went back to bed again and slept a bit more –can’t get enough of that!! Around 2 we took our bags and went to check out our dressing room.. and realized pretty soon that the dressing room they had been talking about was for backyard babies and we weren't really in the planning.. a few steps lower down in the career stairs.. The last thing that leaves a woman on tour is hope!! Haha.. Another small ..box.. but this time with couches at least..Soundcheck was a disaster, it was extremely loud and wierd on stage and I’ve never heard so little of my own voice and there wasn’t much to do apparently. My plan was to stay sober this night, my voice is getting rough and I’m pretty tired over all but after the shitty soundcheck and lots of small annoying things happening, we went straight on the red bottle we got from the Skintight Jaguars and it tasted delicious.. just what we needed!!
The gig went as expected, we made it with some struggling.. the audience was good and kept us going, even though no one of us really heard what we were doing. We must have done good though ‘cause we sold out on CD’s –on the 4th gig!
After the gig we went back to our little cabin and finished the vodka… we all needed a shower but since it was upstairs at the Backyard dressing room and a security escort was needed we did it our way instead.. I “washed” myself with my make up wipes and Ida took a shower in the garbage bin… later the skintight boys came by and had a few drinks. They’re the real party animals on this tour for sure, and we just wanna go eat all the time, haha.. Also this night! We and some of the Backyard guys took a walk to find an open Indian restaurant, which we did after walking way too long. Took a cab back to the venue and had one more fantastic Indian dinner on the bus.
After the dinner I got totally knocked out and went straight to bed. It was around 2 in the morning and after the hard gig tonight I felt I had to rest my voice seriously and not sit up nagging for hours. The other girls were the fighters once again and stayed up ‘til 6 in the morning, painting our traditional mustasches and whatever.. torsdag 4 september 2008
Rock City, Notthingham, 3 sep
Kl 17:00 Rock City
The gig went extremely well yesterday, a crowded venue and some cool headbangers in front, singing along with the old songs, and screaming when we played the new songs. It was the first time we played 4 songs from the upcoming album and it was so much fun to finally try 'em out on a crowd. -They seemed to like it!
After the gig we went back to the dressing room, had some wine and a shower. We have 6 more gigs in a row so no one was in a real party mood, we just chilled out and had a nice time. Backyard Babies did a great show!
Later when it was time to leave the venue we were really hungry since we hadn't had time to get dinner earlier. After some crying Dregen saved us lost souls by ordering some extremely tasty Indian food from a take away place. So 30 minutes later a small man in a small car came and delivered a huge bag of food that we threw ourselves over back in the bus. After finishing the food I got extremely tired and went straight to bed. The other girls stayed up 'til 5 in the morning, playing poker with Backyard Babies.
20:13 prison cell dressing room
The soundcheck went really good today as well, besides that I got an electric shock from the microphone and Ida's bass amp just stopped working all of a sudden. But after figuring out the right connections it all started working and I could continue lickin the mic..
Now we have just finished a big tasty meal; sausages, cottage pie, yorkshire pie, HP-sauce etc.. Now it's just to keep our fingers crossed that it will sink in a bit before the show, so we don't have to stand on stage like 4 swollen cows burping in an hour.. But it will be alright..!!
They say it will be crowded tonight!
The gig went extremely well yesterday, a crowded venue and some cool headbangers in front, singing along with the old songs, and screaming when we played the new songs. It was the first time we played 4 songs from the upcoming album and it was so much fun to finally try 'em out on a crowd. -They seemed to like it!
After the gig we went back to the dressing room, had some wine and a shower. We have 6 more gigs in a row so no one was in a real party mood, we just chilled out and had a nice time. Backyard Babies did a great show!
Later when it was time to leave the venue we were really hungry since we hadn't had time to get dinner earlier. After some crying Dregen saved us lost souls by ordering some extremely tasty Indian food from a take away place. So 30 minutes later a small man in a small car came and delivered a huge bag of food that we threw ourselves over back in the bus. After finishing the food I got extremely tired and went straight to bed. The other girls stayed up 'til 5 in the morning, playing poker with Backyard Babies.
20:13 prison cell dressing room
The soundcheck went really good today as well, besides that I got an electric shock from the microphone and Ida's bass amp just stopped working all of a sudden. But after figuring out the right connections it all started working and I could continue lickin the mic..
Now we have just finished a big tasty meal; sausages, cottage pie, yorkshire pie, HP-sauce etc.. Now it's just to keep our fingers crossed that it will sink in a bit before the show, so we don't have to stand on stage like 4 swollen cows burping in an hour.. But it will be alright..!!
They say it will be crowded tonight!
tisdag 2 september 2008
UK tour day 1
Kl 03:00 Pub Anchor, Sveavägen Stockholm
After a pretty tired evening with metal quiz and Metallica songs all night, we have to drag out all our bags and stuff back out on the street again. Begin to walk towards the central station but after too many stops and bad jokes that slow things up we catch a cab. We get on the airport bus in the last minute. A kid is screaming for more than 20 minutes and I'm glad I brought the big pack of earplugs..
05:20 Skavsta Airport
We arrive at the airport and get a fast check-in. Well there we meet half of the Backyard gang, and the other half will meet us at Stansted. As soon as we get on the plane, everybody falls asleep as little pigs..
08-something, Stansted Airport
We arrive at Stansted, take our luggage and we sit down and wait for the bus that is an hour delayed.
09:40 Stansted
The buss arrives, a nice nightliner! We say hello to the rest of the backyard boys, peeping out from the beds. All of us get one bed of our own, so we crawl into them and fall asleep pretty immideately. I've been counting that if we really want to , we can sleep at least 19 hours a day when going with a nightliner. But that wouldn't be much for a tour diary so we'll try to stay awake a bit longer.
14:00 -somehere on the way to Birmingham
2 hours late, some problems with the trailer and then the bus. We jump of and go to get a burger. It's incredible how good it tastes everytime!! We don't dare to tell that the bus problem must be a result of the Curse of The Crucified.. Things like that always happens to us. On the motörhead tour we had to spend one night in a toe truck god dammit.. But maybe it's just the Curse of being on tour.. Now the bus is working again, after some "jump-startin" so we're rollin.. Hope to be there on time.
19:47 Carling Academy 2, Birmingham
Just finished soundcheck. It's a small, cool stage and it will be hot, loud and wild gig tonight!!!
After a pretty tired evening with metal quiz and Metallica songs all night, we have to drag out all our bags and stuff back out on the street again. Begin to walk towards the central station but after too many stops and bad jokes that slow things up we catch a cab. We get on the airport bus in the last minute. A kid is screaming for more than 20 minutes and I'm glad I brought the big pack of earplugs..
05:20 Skavsta Airport
We arrive at the airport and get a fast check-in. Well there we meet half of the Backyard gang, and the other half will meet us at Stansted. As soon as we get on the plane, everybody falls asleep as little pigs..
08-something, Stansted Airport
We arrive at Stansted, take our luggage and we sit down and wait for the bus that is an hour delayed.
09:40 Stansted
The buss arrives, a nice nightliner! We say hello to the rest of the backyard boys, peeping out from the beds. All of us get one bed of our own, so we crawl into them and fall asleep pretty immideately. I've been counting that if we really want to , we can sleep at least 19 hours a day when going with a nightliner. But that wouldn't be much for a tour diary so we'll try to stay awake a bit longer.
14:00 -somehere on the way to Birmingham
2 hours late, some problems with the trailer and then the bus. We jump of and go to get a burger. It's incredible how good it tastes everytime!! We don't dare to tell that the bus problem must be a result of the Curse of The Crucified.. Things like that always happens to us. On the motörhead tour we had to spend one night in a toe truck god dammit.. But maybe it's just the Curse of being on tour.. Now the bus is working again, after some "jump-startin" so we're rollin.. Hope to be there on time.
19:47 Carling Academy 2, Birmingham
Just finished soundcheck. It's a small, cool stage and it will be hot, loud and wild gig tonight!!!
onsdag 11 juni 2008
Last days in the studio!!
So.. we're finally done recording! ..actually we finished it already on June 2, but after that we had to hurrt down to Sweden Rock Festival so that's the excuse for being late :-)
It has been some bisy days -and nights- in the studio. But also this week we had some nice visitors; Adde from Hardcore Superstar came by to secure that Nicki hadn't stop practicing the drums even though she is done recording! He seemed to be pleased!
I have had some lonely nights in the studio with myself and the guitar, to finish everything on time. It has been an interesting experience. Most of the time me and my guitar went along well...
...and here am I with Jockes Gibson Baryton guitar, taking pictures of myself.. because it's a cool guitar and I don't know when I will see her again!! :-)
And here are the other beauties that you'll hear sing on the album.. 
..hope no one gets a chock to see the acoustic guitar in the middle. But she was so happy to finally get the chance to participate on a CB recording so I just had to put her there.. And she IS makin noise on the album so you better prepare to hear some different tunes as well ...
It started out well, just changing strings..
It has been some bisy days -and nights- in the studio. But also this week we had some nice visitors; Adde from Hardcore Superstar came by to secure that Nicki hadn't stop practicing the drums even though she is done recording! He seemed to be pleased!
I have had some lonely nights in the studio with myself and the guitar, to finish everything on time. It has been an interesting experience. Most of the time me and my guitar went along well...
...and here am I with Jockes Gibson Baryton guitar, taking pictures of myself.. because it's a cool guitar and I don't know when I will see her again!! :-)
And here are the other beauties that you'll hear sing on the album.. ..hope no one gets a chock to see the acoustic guitar in the middle. But she was so happy to finally get the chance to participate on a CB recording so I just had to put her there.. And she IS makin noise on the album so you better prepare to hear some different tunes as well ...
It started out well, just changing strings..
But of course that damn white little shitty thing broke.. 
But it ended out well, Klara ran to a musicstore and got some new ones for me.
After all the guitars were recorded it was finally time for the vocals. It went all good and was really fun, couldn't get a better coach than Mats Levén .. !! I'm a bit sad there aren't any good pix at all from the vocal session but I guess I scarred everyone away from the studio room with my angry screams so no one dared to go in there. Nicki did some good tries at least, she's a brave girl!! 
We're honoured to have Mats MAXX LAXX on backing vox ..and who knows what more..!!??
..And on the last day, we requested some guests in the studio, guitartech Våfflan and live sound engineer Mattias-Tobias was called in to add some final backing vox and listen to some new tunes that they're gonna hear 'til their ears are bleeding in the future to come..
..and Mats brought a cake to us the last day!! SWEET!
..well.. it's not really done yet.. Jocke and Mats have just began the hard work putting all the noise together tryin to make music out of it! The mixing will be finished in about 2 weeks, then it's time to start rehearse again for the live gigs hell YEAH!!!
End of the studio diary, next report will be from the best rock'n'roll party in the world; Sweden Rock Festival!!!!
// Mia and the Barbs
tisdag 27 maj 2008
Day 17...
The songs are taking form for real now, and I have finished the vocals on 7 of the songs and will be done by the end of the week. Yehaa! We're really happy about the Jocke Skog and Mats Levén team working hard to help us in the making of the album of the year.. The sound is so good already that we almost wet ourselves everytime we listen to the songs :-D More pictures to come..!
Cheers, The Barbs
Mia
Cheers, The Barbs
Mia
lördag 24 maj 2008
Week summary!
Saturday night, in the studio ...so excited I can't hardly breath here all alone, how will this end, will Charlotte Perelli get any points in the Eurovision Song contest..!!!??? HOooooOOOooooo!!! But at the moment Sweden is no 20 of 25 so it doesn't look good. I definitely need to get one of those diamond covered microphones like she had. Or one covered with old teeth, then I wouldn't be mistaken for being Paris Hilton.
Today Klara finished the guitars of 2 of the 4 songs she had left and we'll finish the last ones tomorrow!!
Klara gets an extra star in the book for her skills in leaving her guitar in different strange positions... and it could be fine unless someone else mostly passes by...and most of the time it's enough with a breath take to make it fall. Strange enough the guitar is still in 1 piece and in pretty good shape. 
Take care of each other out there!! We'll be back soon again!
Cheers and Good night,
Mia and Crucified Barbara
Today Klara finished the guitars of 2 of the 4 songs she had left and we'll finish the last ones tomorrow!!
Klara gets an extra star in the book for her skills in leaving her guitar in different strange positions... and it could be fine unless someone else mostly passes by...and most of the time it's enough with a breath take to make it fall. Strange enough the guitar is still in 1 piece and in pretty good shape. Yesterday we had a reporter here in the studio from DN, swedens biggest news paper. She did an interview with Ida that will be out on Friday.
..and here comes a picture summary of last weeks recording and visits!
Our best rock'n'roll friend Laura came to visit us, with a bag full of fruits, cookies and wine.. She now a days lives in BULLET land and it was great to see her again! Some of our swedish -and Italian fans have also met her, she use to help us out selling merchandise at some gigs. Pluppi rocks!!!! 
Last thursday me and Ida had the unique opportunity to jam out with 2 members of the rap-metal kings Clawfinger... Jocke and Bård!!! 
I found handsome Pontus from Bonafide at the central station so I invited him to the studio and gave him something to eat, and somewhere to spend the night as well ... :-)
This is the castle at the moment..
Ida is done with the bass....
...we're still working on some lyrics..
A guest musician came by as well one day to add some percussion to one of the songs. We weren't really satisfied with the sound 'cause the paws ripping the skin of the drums wasn't really what we had expected. He got upset and ate one of Nicki's drumsticks. Lucky enough she's got endorsement so it wasn't a big deal. 
...Jocke have lots of favourite lots-of-fat-strings-monsters hangin on the wall and this strange one is one of his favourites I think.. As passionate as in this picture we've never seen him, even though he is rockin out hard every day!!! :-D 
and here is the album, a bunch of new heavy CB songs taking form....
Take care of each other out there!! We'll be back soon again!Cheers and Good night,
Mia and Crucified Barbara
torsdag 22 maj 2008
Late night..
Life is damn unfair and unpredictable. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Michelle Meldrum. Colleague in rock, friend and the greatest guitarheroine. Rest in peace Michelle.
It has been a while since we updated the studio blog, sorry for that. But since I'm the one who has been starting this blog thing and I have been bisy recording and doin stuff 24 hours a day there hasn't been much time to even make the other girls write something.. But after this message I hope someone else will take over .. Anyway we're done with drums and bass, and me and Klara are workin hard to finish the guitars now. I think we will be done by tomorrow! The songs are taking form for real know and we are really excited about the massive sound just with rough drums, bass and a few guitar ads. So it's all looking very good..
It has been a while since we updated the studio blog, sorry for that. But since I'm the one who has been starting this blog thing and I have been bisy recording and doin stuff 24 hours a day there hasn't been much time to even make the other girls write something.. But after this message I hope someone else will take over .. Anyway we're done with drums and bass, and me and Klara are workin hard to finish the guitars now. I think we will be done by tomorrow! The songs are taking form for real know and we are really excited about the massive sound just with rough drums, bass and a few guitar ads. So it's all looking very good..
We'll upload some more pics from the recordings during the weekend, when our men in charge have their days off and there might be a few hours to kill..
/ Mia and Crucified Barbara
onsdag 14 maj 2008
Day 7 - setting up the guitar sound
Today we started out early in the morning with a visit to Stockholm Aquaria and watched their 2 new strange sting rays. 
Then we began to set up guitarsound for the 2 guitars.
In rock music today it's important you find your own original sound and we don't have any limits when it comes to find the right one. 
Marko from Sonata Arctica came by and thought that the guitar sound was a little bit to "TOTO"..
..Klara fainted from the shock. 
Ida was flirting with Tomas Haake like always...
...and Mia ate all the choklad by herself...
..and then went back to work..
..when Mats 'MaXxLaxX' told her to.. always respect the producer!!
PS Don't worry, Maxx Laxx and Joxxe Skoxx won't let any TOTO guitar sound pass through in the mix.
Then we began to set up guitarsound for the 2 guitars. In rock music today it's important you find your own original sound and we don't have any limits when it comes to find the right one. Marko from Sonata Arctica came by and thought that the guitar sound was a little bit to "TOTO".. ..Klara fainted from the shock. Ida was flirting with Tomas Haake like always... ...and Mia ate all the choklad by herself... ..and then went back to work....when Mats 'MaXxLaxX' told her to.. always respect the producer!!PS Don't worry, Maxx Laxx and Joxxe Skoxx won't let any TOTO guitar sound pass through in the mix.
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