crucified barbara - days of our life

New blog at Rockspot.se

2009-08-08T01:12:00.000-07:00

The official Crucified Barbara blog is moving to a new adress: www.rockspot.se/crucifiedbarbara

I have for a year been running 2 blogs, one in Swedish and one in English, for different reasons, but it's taking too much time and I prefer to spend time making music than sitting in front of the computer, even though I enjoy this too :-)

So I will now continue to write in English only, at the swedish rock forum Rockspot.se

The rest of the website is in swedish, but it's a great place to find out more about Sweden's rock scene and all the best rock clubs, for those who are planning to go to Sweden on vacation. There's also daily updated photo albums from Swedish rock clubs, events, festivals etc on the page "VIMMEL", so check by and see if you can spot any members from your favourite Swedish acts :-)

So make a visit to our rockspot-site, I'm just about to upload a lot of new pix from our latest gig at Masters of Rock, Burn Out and the 3 days tour in Italy... so check by -and leave a comment if you feel like!!

Cheers, Mia & Crucified Barbara

Rockweekend + Masters of Rock

2009-07-13T03:28:00.000-07:00

BIG thanx to Rockweekend- and Masters of Rock festival for a great weekend, thanks for all our great fans and friends who came to the gigs to rock out! We had a great time!

I will upload some pictures from the weekend soon so check back soon again!!

Cheers/ Mia CB

Kobetasonik festival, Bilbao

2009-06-26T15:12:00.000-07:00

Travelday Thursday:
I took a cab from our rehearsal place, with all the guitars and stuff, and met the others at the Central Station in Stockholm at 5.30 in the morning. Everybody (not me) were more or less a mess, after staying out all night partying (and some fights as well) with Hardcore Superstar who played the night before, and had a aftershow party at Harry B James. We flew to Barcelona, where we had to wait for a couple of hours for the next flight to Bilbao. We spent the day eating extremely discusting sandwishes and salads that the airport could offer.

Don't try this at home!!! Uäääh!

My legs in the sky
Nicki is bored....
Ida's fantastic burger....

When we finally arrived in Bilbao, we were greeted by Roberto, who had the pleasant mission to look after us during this little road trip. (on the picture above! The guy below has nothing to do with Roberto!!)(as far as we know!!!)Then we went out for a drink and was entertained by a spanish accordeon player. The other girls wanted me to play as well but I wasn't drunk enough so I didn't want to. Then we spent the rest of the evening writing a nasty short story together and having some more drinks, and we went back to the hotel around 11 in the evening, pretty exhausted. Me and Nickis' room. The view sucked but the room was good!

GIG DAY FRIDAY
Next day we went for a radio interview in the morning, before going to the festival.
We arrived at the festival around 12. I just love the festivals, it reminds me of a stable when it looks like this, but instead of horses every box has a rockband in it! :-) The first thing we saw was that Hot Leg was our neighbours, and a bit to the right we had Machine Head, among others. Pretty cool!

We even got name on our wine.. a whole fridge with good stuff.. dangerous when you have a early gig.. and there was also a free bar... even more dangerous! -but we love it!!! :-)After making ourselves a home in the dressing room, it was time for a quick sound check. Unfortunately the weather wasn't that good, it even rained, but it wasn't cold at least. The sound check went pretty quick and we all had a great sound. I was really happy with my 4 (!!) monitors, just perfect!
On the way to the gig: Klara, Nicki and Champagne
Before the gig..

..the gig!
View from the festival

Hot Leg (almost) caught in action
eeeh.. Ida is trying out Justin Hawkins crutch during their gig.. don't tell anyone!

Ida and the singer of Cradle of Filth are posing backstage at the Hot Leg gig.
After the gig we had lots of interviews, here is Nicki and some journalists in the press tent.

Later in the afternoon we had a crowded signing/photo session.
A guy with good taste just bought our brand new t-shirt.

THE DISSY PART OF THE NIGHT starts here..

After all the interviews were done, the gig and the signing session was done, -what to do!? Explore the free bar, and enjoy the fine company consisting of all the bands playing at the festival! At the bar, I found the Cradle of Filth guys, and I think I convinced them that I should be their new tour manager. I really don't know exactly why we came to this bright conclusion, but it had something to do with my plan to fill up a whole container with beer and put on their tourbus as they were leaving for Hell Fest in France one hour later.

Here is a picture of the singer in Cradle of Filth, taking a picture of a mountain that looked like a pyramid in a beautiful sunset.
When I abandoned my new job and went back to the backstage area I -OH MY-found Klara in full action reading the dirty short story from the day before, for a very interested Hot Leg band and everyone interested. Then all of a sudden a crew guy passed us, probably on the way to his tour bus. I am glad I don't know which band this fitness ball belongs to. But I'm impressed of who ever they might be, serious dudes!Later in the night, Machine Head was leaving the festival, and I took the opportunity to ask Rob Flynn for a picture. God damn couldn't anyone have told me I had lipstick on my chin..!? But anyway it's good that I washed away the mustasch pretty quick, it was only on for half an hour or something (I'm not sure though)
Then we went out in the crowd to watch Marylin Manson.
Flying water bottles..
A dude I met during the MM gig....
Backline/stage boss Tomt'n and booking agent/care keeper Roberto.
As I was too drunk to get any new rockstar friends at this late hour, I was still capable of taking pictures. And of course I had to save the moment when Nicki had a talk with the drummer of Marylin Manson. Sweet!
Around 2 we drove back to the hotel, together with Hot Leg. Then of course we all went straight to bed.

There are some rumours -spread over the whole festival next day- that some of the Crucified Barbaras had been running around naked in the hotel, but of course we deny everything, it must have been some other swedish girls.

Sound engineer Mattias -always smiling. Nicki Wicked - have seen better days.
Don't bring your favourite boots to a festival... (Nickis') Then we had to spend 7 hours at one airport before we could get on the plane back home to Stockholm. We read books, slept on the hard couches and ate discusting stuff served in a shitty restaurant where I think the owner wanted to see all his customers/guests dead if it wouldn't be his way of making a living.
When we arrived to Stockholm, we were picked up by the same driver who drove us to the airport 2 days ago. He was laughing at us and said we looked tired. I could only agree...

Big thanks to Kobetasonik for making a great festival, everything run very smooth, people were very nice and we had a fantastic day. Hope to come back again soon!
Cheers'n'Beers
/ Mia & the barbs

2009-06-08T05:49:00.000-07:00

Some pictures from Sweden Rock Festival and GråHalle in Denmark. The story will be added soon!

CB is watching ZZ top..

Sweden Rock + Motörhead!

2009-06-03T12:03:00.000-07:00

Hello all you cool people!
In a few hours we're on the roads again, we're headin for Sweden Rock Festival where we will headline the Zeppelin Stage on Friday (20.30). It's gonna be loads of fun, we have been looking forward to this for a long time now!!! Ida and Nicki has already arrived to the festival, so tomorrow morning it's me, Klara, sound engineer Mattias, backline tech Tomt'n and our friend Laura who take all the backline in a van and drive all the way down to Sölvesborg. Since we were so few in the bus, Klara looked up some people on the net who needed a ride down to the festival from Stockholm. We added coffee and cinamon rolls to the price so it's a very good deal! :-) Now I have spent too many hours baking so I need to take a walk or something... But the result is tasting good!

On Saturday we're out again, then we drive to Denmark and open up for Motörhead in Christiania. It's gonna be a blast and we are so looking forward to see them again, and meet all the nice people that work with them as well.

So... this weekend is looking good so far. I'll be back with a report later :-)

Cheers'n'Beers
Mia and the Barbs

PS - If you've never been to Christiania in Denmark, you MUST go there when you get the chance!!! Trust me!!

SHOCKING NEWS!!!

2009-06-01T04:08:00.000-07:00

Scary news that you might not did know about Crucified Barbara....

WITCHES!!! READ IT ALL HERE.....

Usine, Istres, 9th of May

2009-05-12T14:59:00.001-07:00

Another trip with the train and then we got a ride by car to the venue. When we arrived for the sound check there were no double kick or pedals so they drove us back to the hotel instead while they were looking for all the stuff we needed for the stage. Got some nice rest at the hotel by the pool together with Quireboys in the sun, and one hour of sleep before we could go back to the venue. It was a great place, big and nice stage. After a fantastic dinner we got a ride back to the hotel to change and rest some more, and then back again. It’s a lot of travelling back and forward all the time! This night Koritni opened up the gig, and after Quireboys it was time for us to play. By then the stage was steaming hot and the sweat started dripping already after the first song.. and we did 16..! I have never experienced a hot gig like this, it was unbelievable. I had some moments when I almost thought I should faint or fall down, but we made it, and the audience was really supportive this night as well. Afterwards I took a shower together with my stage clothes, they were just as soaking wet as myself, and then I just sat down felt like a hurricane had blowned through my whole body, empty and exhausted. But after 30 minutes I was ok enough to go out and say hi to the nice people waiting outside.. .I’m not really looking forward to see the pictures from that night though, no make up and just a red tired face.. but I don’t really care, we had a good night and a good gig. Signing lots of cd's for a contest...
Then we got back to the hotel and had some beers together with our new friends in Quireboys, and Koritni. At 3 in the morning I started to feel sick ‘cause I was so exhausted, so I went straight to bed. 4 hours later it was time to wake up again and drive to the airport, to take us back home to Stockholm again, -if you don’t like to get up early in the mornings I don’t recommend you to become a musician!!

Monaco, Le Moods, 8th of May

2009-05-12T14:57:00.000-07:00

We were picked up very early in the morning, 8.30 and drove to the Orly airport. Unfortunately the flight to nice were very delayed but lucky enough they had massage chairs so we could re-charge our tired bodies a bit. In Nice a bus drove us to Monaco, through a fantastic landscape. The hotel was incredible, never seen anything like it, extremely luxury. The receptionists looked at us as we were dirt under a shoe, and asked our Dominique in French what he had dragged in. He explained that we were supposed to play at the club next door .

Our booking agent and tour manager Dominique da Man!

In the hotel

Then when they spoke directly to us they were extremely friendly. –oh make suuuure you try out our new pool and relax area on top floor and ohh you have breakfast between blabla and ask us if you have questions.. Well the rooms were incredible and the beds were out of this world. Right before sound check we had to check out their new pool as well of course…

The view from my hotelroom...

Klara and Nicki on topfloorThese cool rockers showed up early in the day!StageDressing room
The gig was awesome, great sound and nice venue!! It was pretty strange to have a audience sitting down eating shrimps and drinking champagne and headbanging, but it worked out really well. And we had a lot of cool rockers there as well, 3 guys had been waiting for us for many hours. It turned out to be a really great gig and night! Pictures with the rockersOur friend Lea is taking a pictureWall artOutside the hotel later in the night....Ugly but probably very expensive dress..
Afterwards we went back to our nice hotel for some drinks at my balcony, and since Tomten, our backline tech had to stay at another not so good hotel, I offered him my room instead and I went to share bed with Nicki, just to let him enjoy the nice view as well.

Me and Tomt'n

Tired rock-mumie with clothes on

Me and Nicki in the kingsize bed

We fell asleep around 3 in the morning, and 4 hours later we had to wake up again. It was a pretty nice wake up anyway, with the sun in the face and the awesome view from the balcony.

Sunrise....

Paris, La Trabendo, 7th of May

2009-05-12T14:56:00.000-07:00

We were lucky this morning, got to sleep until 10! Then we took the train back to Paris. We had been whining before, that it was such a pain to go by train, carrying all the stuff and the big risk to loose something with so many stops.. But even though I lost one bag and one cap it was anyway worth it, ‘cause we saved many hours compared going in a van.

We arrived to La Trabendo and got amazed by the great venue, it was just perfect! After the sound check we said hello to the Quireboys who just arrived, then we went out to take some pictures for the biker festival we will play in September. For dinner we went to a nice place outside the hotel and ate some ribs and stuff, then back again to the venue to warm up and check out Dollhouse and the Quireboys. The gig was fantastic, we all had lots of fun and I think it was one of our best gigs in a very long time. Mostly because the audience was fantastic, it made us play good and feel great! So many people singing along, cheering, headbanging and even crowd surfing… And it was pretty packed. It was a totally awesome night for us. After we hanged out backstage for a while and then all of a sudden it was time to leave and after one good night beer it was time to go to bed, after a good, long day.

Morning view from the hotel as we had breakfast. AND there was hair in the food.. didn't eat much this morning..

Cheers. Mia and the Barbs

Chez Paulette – Toul wed 6th of May

2009-05-07T04:03:00.000-07:00

A cab picked up me and all our instruments outside our rehearsal place 4.30 in the morning. Then we picked up all the other girls and backline tech Tomten at the central station, and then we headed off for Arlanda airport. Everything went surprisingly smooth. They didn’t even charged us for the instruments, just put a blue sticker on each and then let us pass through.
The flight went fine, and we arrived 40 minutes ahead of schedule and took 2 cabs to the Paris est train station where we had a quick coffee and sandwich before it was time to jump on the train to Nancy. After we arrived we had a short walk to the hotel, where we got a well needed rest for 2 hours before it was time for sound check. At 4 we were picked up by a shuttle and went to Chez Paulettes. We played there 4 years ago with American Dog so we already knew the place.
It took pretty long to sound check, we were using the support acts backline (Seyminhol; thanks for letting us play on your stuff! ) and it took a long time to set it our way. But as soon as the set up was ok, the sound check went fast. Then we went for dinner at a restaurant and then back again to warm up before the gig. Old memories from our gig here with American Dog 2005!!

It was pretty crowded at our gig and it went really well, even though the amp they had rented for us sounded like shit… After the gig we tried to cool down a few minutes but it was difficult, ‘cause our dressing room was just a 2 m2 big hole in the wall with a curtain, so people just walked in there all the time. Since there were no showers we had to wash ourselves with some stuff I brought with me, meant to wipe baby asses with.. better than nothing….

Then we went out to the crowd to say hello, take some pictures and sign stuff. Unfortunately we didn’t have any cd’s with us, because of misunderstandings between our recordlabels or something, any way out of our hands. It is always fun to meet the people after the show but this night it became a bit stressful, some people were really too much and I almost freaked out once. But then it’s great to have these nice people around as well who just takes it easy and behave good. We really appreciate that and it makes it worth to go out.

the nice people!!

If people continues acting crazy as some did this night, we won’t be able to go out and meet the fans after the shows ‘cause it’s just too stressful. We’ll see what happens tomorrow… :-) Paris here we come!

/Mia
Crucified Barbara

(more pictures will be added later!)

THUNDER ROAD, Pavia, Italy 29 march -and the trip back home...

2009-03-31T15:26:00.000-07:00

Gianrico explain the road trip for today..

...so.. time for the last gig of the short italian tour! Like always when we are in Italy it's bad weather, I don't know if it's us who brings it from Sweden... Anyway, we drove for a couple of hours in heavy rain, and went straight to Thunder road to load in.
Ida with her Alien head holder
When we arrived, we were personally welcomed by the staff of Thunderroad, which immideately gave us a good vibe of the evening!! We were impressed by the cool venue as well, it all looked very good. We just hoped that people wouldn't care about the rain and come to the gig..

Since we had missed dinner every other night, our tour manager Gianrico ordered dinner after the gig instead of before, so we could eat at least sometime during the night. Great idea!! So instead of waiting for dinner, we ate some sandwishes and went to check in at the hotel...

....GaaaAAAHHH hhhhh ..... the hotel was ... a 2 star hotel worth -1 star! It was a combined gas station with "hotel" and when we entered the doors we were struck by a horrible smell of old sweat and cigarette smoke, mixed with a taste of whiskey breath. We got our keys as quick as possible and then ran up to our rooms. Ida and Klara are happy in their nice room...
I shared room with Nicki again and we just went in through the doors and laughed, it was just terrible. We sat down on the beds and looked around, there was a balkony and window with view of the highway, and the sound of the heavy traffic was mixed with the rain hitting the roof. A cold constant draught came from the windows and the floor was ice cold, so it was impossible to walk without shoes on. The view from our hotel room

Since Nicki still was a bit sick she went straight to bed. Somehow I found the room and hotel pretty entertaining, it was just too aweful. It felt like being in a Psycho movie. I layed down under the bed cover and watched the swedish movie Let the right one in on my laptop, as the sky got dark outside. -trying not to smell the cloth of the bed.. After that I fell asleep and didn't wake up until both mine and Nickis cell phone alarm woke us up at nine. We put our stuff together pretty quick and went back to the venue.

This night it was a festival, with 7 other italian rock bands except from us. We got some time to watch the 2 last bands a bit, Tarchon Fist and Heller. Ida and Klara did an interview with italian Rock Hard magazine as we warmed up and tried to get in shape for the gig. Thunder road wins the dressing room price this time, Jailbreak was great as well, with fantastic service .-) but this was a bit bigger...! I was so happy when I saw that there was a shower as well.. but my happiness didn't last very long since there was a "flood" in the toilet and shower so it was quite impossible to stay in there... Of course I had to take a picture of the toilet, it will be posted here soon :-)

There weren't so many people from the beginning at the venue but at least it felt like there were more when we entered the stage. It was a fun gig, lots of well-known faces in the crowd and lots of happy new ones!! We played for about one hour, and I went of the stage still full of energy. I think it was because the atmosphere on Thunderroad was so good, and the stage wasn't that steamin hot like some other stages use to be, it was just perfect. Good sound as well!

After the gig I took my regular towel-and-water-bottle-shower in a corner of the room, trying to be quick since people ran in and out in the dressing room all the time. After putting some dry and a bit better smelling clothes on, we went out to say hello to the rockers. Then back to the dressing room for our d i n n e r! Mmmm... good hot pasta and some meat with mushrooms, the first real meal we had this tour!

In the end of the night there was just us and our italian friends left (http://www.crucifiedbarbara.it/) so we invited them to our dressing room for some drinks and to hang out a bit, it was a nice last night of the tour for us!!

Thanks to all the bands this night: LUCKY BASTARDZ, Salt Flats, Reckless, Charcharodon, Tarchon Fist and Heller!!!!
And thanks to Thunderroad, we'd love to come back again!

We came back to the hotel around 3.30, and had a small party in one of the rooms just to have a nice last night chat + birra.. but since we got yelled at, first by 2 dogs and then some people who tried to get some sleep, and threatened us that if we didn't shut up soon they would get "ten people"... so we decided to finally call it a day, we weren't really up to find out how THAT hotel's 10 people looked like..

We always eat breakfast in the morning, it's something we can't live without without turning to monsters, but this morning we just flied out through the hotel. I ain't that picky with things but when I came down in the lobby again and was hit by that horrible smell I couldn't just stay in there for one more minute, just took my bags and ran out in the rain instead, much better.
We drove for a couple of hours, and arrived to the airport around 11. Checked in and then had a meal at McDonalds.. Really sad to know that we've been in a country with such fantastic food culture and we didn't see much of it.. :´-( especially since we all are true food lovers... :-)

The travel back home to Stockholm went smooth, no delays. Våfflan, our stage manager was stopped and searched for drugs, poor boy, what a welcoming treatment ha,ha..

So now we're back home again, clean and dry with all the dirty stage clothes in the washing machine.. Now the regular after tour-recovering starts, to straighten out the body after all the hours in a bumpy car, trying to cover the darkness under the eyes, trying to comb the frizzy hair, stretching the muscles and sored neck....

Thanks to all of you who came to the shows during this italian tour, it was great to see you all and meet you after the gigs. And thanks to Gianrico at Getrocked.it who is booking our gigs, and to Davide and Marco for a great time and work together.
We have 2 gigs coming up in the summer, it will be published on our myspace as soon as they are confirmed. Hope to see you then!!!

Ciao with love and scarrafaggios,
Crucified Barbara g:m Mia

Siddharta, Prato Italy 28 march

2009-03-28T12:37:00.000-07:00

Today we got to sleep extra long in the morning and a short travel which felt great! We arrived to Prato right after lunch time and checked in at the hotel.

Hm....

Our sound engineer Marco was sooo sweet and bought us A LOT of sweets!! MMmmmmm!!!!

Extremely tasty.....

Five minutes later..!

After some rest we went to the sound check at the Sidarta club which went pretty smooth, the sound is ok on stage and the venue is cool. When we had finished sound check we were told there should be dinner in 1 1/2 hours and since we didn't want to wait we went back to the hotel for some delivery pizza instead.... hm.... we've been waiting for 1 1/2 hour soon... Don't know what happened, maybe the portier ate the pizza...

Anyway, we're really looking forward to play tonight!! We'll be back soon :-)
Now I'm gonna keep waiting for the pizza so I can't write more...

/..../

Ida ordered a salad.. maybe not exactly what she had expected :-)
The pizza finally arrived.. not really the best pizza we've had but still something to eat.... After the late dinner we went back to the venue and watched some of the other cool bands that played, Vice Dolls and H.A.R.E.M. as we warmed up and prepared for the gig.
It ended up being a good gig, it was pretty packed with people!! Nicki had a fever in the afternoon but lucky enough she got better during the night, I think she replaced the fever with adrenalin during the gig... No signs of a cold afterwards! :-)

Thanks to HAREM and VICE DOLLS (nice caps, thanx :-) and SIDDHARTA alternative Club!!

Ciao, Mia & CB

self portrait after the gig

Nicki Frog in her regular pose

Sottottetto Bologna Italy 27 march

2009-03-28T07:14:00.000-07:00

After six hours of constant driving in the white hellride car we finally got to our hotel where we could stay for 40 minutes before going to the venue for load in. Me and Klara shared rooms and since there wasn’t much time for anything we just laid down on the beds starting to talk about/dream how we can arrange the coming tours so we can afford to have a better tourbus with beds or at least normal seats so we don’t have to break our backs every time we go somewhere.

We arrived at Sottottetto some minutes after five in the afternoon. Our backline tech Våfflan had been there with Backyard Babies some months before so he knew the place already. The container outside that he said used to be the dressing room had been on fire so it wasn’t in use anymore, so our room was a shelf right next to the stage. Like always the work with the stage was delayed so we sat down in our “dressing room” and waited, there wasn’t much we could do.

In a great party mode..
The worst thing was that we had nothing to eat, usually we get some coffee and sandwiches at the arrival but there was absolutely nothing there, and nothing around in the area but green fields so we couldn’t go and buy something either. Since we hadn’t eaten since breakfast we started to become a bit grumpy eight hours later…
Klara is writing set lists on plastic plates...
At half past eight it was finally time for our sound check. It was a really bad sound on stage and we only got about 7-8 minutes sound check since it was so delayed, and the monitor tech just decided that we got one more minute to sound check.. Pretty pissed off because of that -if someone wants you to play on their club at least you want it to sound as good as possible?? -Shitty sound check

Anyway then we sat down and waited for the delayed dinner for almost 1 hour, had some pasta and then we had to hurry back to the hotel before the main dish arrived because we had no dressing room at the venue and we needed to get change and warm up before the gig.

Our dinner...

Stage Boss Våfflan
We tried to get some sleep just to recharge the body batteries ‘cause it’s always a physical explosion to be on stage. I was really worried because all the travel in the uncomfortable bus, the flight and two long days before had really made my voice rough in a bad way –it felt like I’ve been on tour for 2 weeks at least! I slept for a half an hour and then we got dressed and did make up in 10 minutes before going back to the venue. I tried to warm up my voice as much as possible but it was still not good. Unfortunately we missed almost both bands, Neronova had already played and we saw the last few songs with Rain, who just came home from their European tour.

Normally on the few venues that don’t have showers, I use to "shower" by pouring water on a towel and “shower” in the bathroom after the gig but now there wasn’t even a toilet or room to be alone, just an open shelf for us, and since I didn’t want to stay there naked next to the stage after the gig trying to shower with a towel and water bottles, I decided to not use my leather pants this evening. ‘Cause they make me extremely sweaty. Instead I just put on my working pants and sneakers because I was pretty pissed off at the whole day. But there comes something good out of everything, 'cause this night I learned how great it was to play in sneakers instead of boots. It doesn't look as good as boots but I play better and that's more important...

Then everything turned out to be a fantastic night!!! The gig was really good, lots of people and they seemed to enjoy the show. It’s so amazing for us to see so many people knowing all the lyrics and really singing along, and having a good time. That makes us play even better!! And my rough voice worked at least ok during the whole show. For me I was so happy to see all of my friends from Bologna in the crowd, I had been looking forward to see them this night and when I did, all the last irritation and anger ran off me and the whole night turned out really great. So we had a great time on stage and afterwards we went out signing cd’s and stuff, and I got to hang out a bit with my friends.

All the lovely crazy heads :-)

Gio, Våfflan and Manu

So in the end it went out being a good night and the venue was great, if we get to play here another time we will remember to eat something before arrival, and to bring a bath tub..

A short after party in our room... but ..butt...???
Our Italian friend Gio, also brought the new CB t-shirt design that she was asked to create for us. It looks very good so in a short while we’ll have some new hot t-shirts for you!!

Ciao // Mia Maschiacchio

Our italian friends Lorenzo and Roberto (www.crucifiedbarbara.it) are making secret plans in the dark.. or having a birra :-)

Jailbreak again..

2009-03-28T07:11:00.000-07:00

Just want to write a few words after the show as well...to thank Jailbreak for a fantastic night and royal treatment, thanks to Davide who looked after us in the dressing room and made sure everything was ok all the time, and to all the staff at the club. And thanks to all you crazy rockers who showed up and made our first gig in Italy 2009 to a fantastic night!! See u soon again!!

Ciao :-)
Mia & Crucified Barbara

Jailbreak Rome Italy!!

2009-03-26T13:30:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody!
Right now we are in Rome, at the cool rock club Jailbreak and just had a good sound check. We arrived to Milan yesterday and did some photosessions and a signing session in a music shop. Today we had a long drive, like 6 hours, and our asses are really flat and the backs are quite broken but now we have got some great food in the dressing room, and since also the sound check was great it is looking good for the night.

We are also happy to share stage with a really good band tonight, called Stick it out Looking forward to see them play tonight, it sounded great on the soundcheck.

So now we are just hangin out at the venue, waiting for the night to begin.. hope to see a lot of people showing up tonight cause we are ready to rock :-)

Cheers, Mia
Crucified Barbara

Friday 13

2009-03-13T13:59:00.000-07:00

Tonight we're playing in Borlänge in Sweden. It's a great rock venue called S2 and everything's looking good for the evening. But since it's Friday 13 it couldn't just run perfect, so Vains of Jenna's trailer broke down on the way here and my amp broke as well on the sound check.. but lucky enough the guys got here in time and I can play on one of their amps instead. So now lets hope nothing more will happen.. we're looking forward to a steamin hot gig tonight together with Vains of Jenna and a band from around here: http://www.myspace.com/vietcongpornsurfers

Cheers, Mia and the Barbs

Swedish tour

2009-03-12T14:52:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody!

Lots of things going on now! First of all, thanks for all the great response we get from all of you!!! The album has only been out a few weeks but there are already lots of great reviews and comments on our website/myspace, which feels fantastic!

Last week we started out Thursday with playing in the biggest Swedish morning news show, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. It was a long night with driving, unloading, soundcheck, breakfast.. and then we did our first song 8 in the morning, and the next 9.. even though it was early I think we did ok. There's a video clip on youtube but me personally I'm too weak to watch anything from live gigs on youtube so I haven't seen it yet, haha... But if you dare, you can look it up!

Later the same night, Klara and Ida were still going strong and hosted their rockclub Metalheart, fun as always. (www.myspace.com/clubmetalheart )

Then we did 2 shows in Karlskoga and Västerås in Sweden during the weekend, together with our new friends; and great band, Vains of Jenna. We had a lot of fun both on and off stage!!

Tomorrow we're driving to Borlänge and then Sundsvall. We expect some crowded hot gigs -and lots of snow on the road..

Feels great to be back on the roads again!!
Talk later!

Cheers, Mia
Crucified Barbara

Latest updates..

2009-02-18T04:14:00.000-08:00

Hello folks!

It's been a while since we updated this blog, sorry for that! Since last time a lot of things have happened!! Only good things so far :-)

We have made a video for Sex Action, we went to Paris for 3 days of promotion and radio interviews,

we've had our release party (thanks to all of you who came to party with us!!) and the new album is finally out!!

It feels extremely good that it's released, all this waiting is over and we're ready to go back on tour! We are all very satisfied about the result and hope that you will like it too.

Now we are working hard to book gigs and tours, and the page is almost daily updated with new reviews, gigs and other news so keep an eye on the website for the latest news!!

Take care and see u soon again!
Cheers, Mia

Crucified Barbara

10 sep, The Brook, Southampton

2008-09-15T05:01:00.000-07:00

*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…
….
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

7 sep, Academy 2, Manchester

2008-09-09T07:00:00.001-07:00

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!

6 sep, Concorde 2, Sheffield, UK

2008-09-09T06:26:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-09T06:18:00.000-07:00

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.

Våfflan with girlsAfter 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..

Rock City, Notthingham, 3 sep

2008-09-04T05:41:00.000-07:00

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!

UK tour day 1

2008-09-02T10:45:00.000-07:00

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!!!

Last days in the studio!!

2008-06-11T15:52:00.001-07:00

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..

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

Day 17...

2008-05-27T16:24:00.000-07:00

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

Week summary!

2008-05-24T14:16:00.000-07:00

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.

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

Late night..

2008-05-22T17:43:00.001-07:00

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..

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

Day 7 - setting up the guitar sound

2008-05-14T02:49:00.000-07:00

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.

Day 6 - First bass tracks recorded!

2008-05-12T13:14:00.000-07:00

Good news, everybody are getting used to the camera as well he,he... Look what a sweet pic I found all of a sudden..

Today Ida recorded 3 songs on the bass. Her Ampeg pig is a really mean bastard, some people even wore ear plugs as she was playing !! :-D

Day 5 - finishing the drums!

2008-05-11T05:43:00.000-07:00

Today Anders Thidell came by the studio to drop off our guitars, wow.. Then Ida and Klara began to clean the studio once again inside and out... Haven't been done for a long time as it seems so...why not :-)

AND NICKI HAVE FINISHED ALL THE DRUMS!!! YEEHHAAAAA :-) After finishing all the drums, Ida and Jocke began to set up the bass sound. Her old Ampeg amp (aka Grisen) is an evil son of a amp-mama, GRRRRRROCK!!!!

Since it's friday afternoon and we're right on time, I won't complain about this view from the studio room :-) Next week we'll begin to record some rythm guitars and bass. Wheeeehoooo!

Have a nice weekend and.. fun in the sun! Cheers // Crucified Barbara - Mia

Day 4 - Crowded studio

2008-05-11T05:39:00.000-07:00

Today it was Mia and Idas faces that were a bit green-ish. Urban came by in the morning and fixed some stuff with Nicki's drums again, thanx a lot!!
At lunch time our label manager came to make sure that we aren't spending the days sitting out in the sun drinkin coffee. We were also honoured to have a visit from Pontus Norgren (Hammerfall).

I think he was there to say hi to Jocke and Mats but we pretend that he was there to see how the Barbs are doin.

Nicki has been working hard and will finish the drumming tomorrow, only 2 tracks left!

Today's thanx goes to Pontus Norgren for trying to help me out with the ringtone of I love Europe (Christer Sjögren, Sweden's finest däns bänd singer). Unfortunately it didn't work out. But it was worth a try. Cheers and good night!Crucified Barbara // Mia

Day 3 - drums and driving around town...

2008-05-11T05:30:00.000-07:00

Woke up early and went to our record label to borrow their van. Lots of things to do!! Drove back to the studio and loaded in some amps that we had borrowed. While Nicki continued to record drums, me and Ida drove to Fitzpatrick to leave the amps and buy some guitar strings. There she met the Sandberg family, awesome GOOD lookin basses from Germany.

It was love at first sight, and even me who never touch a bass unless I really have to, seriously started to think what band I could play bass in... just so I could buy one myself :-)

After the visit at Fitzpatrick we drove through Stockholm to the south part of town, to leave our guitars in for service at Anders Thidell. Had a nice chat with him and checked out his guitarnecks.. Always fun! ( www.truetemperament.com )
Then we drove back to the record label, left the van and went back to the studio pretty exhausted. Nicki had finished almost half of all the tracks, it's going very well !! Later we went down town, to meet our friends for dinner.DAAAAMN that was good and needed after 3 looong days of recording :-)

We forced Nicki to go home 10.30 since she had to work hard today as well, but the rest of us stayed out a bit longer...

Today's thanks goes to Ulrika and Ola for inviting us to the extremely tasty dinner and a very fun evening! :-)Crucified Barbara // Mia

Day 2 - Drums

2008-05-11T05:25:00.000-07:00

Today is still yesterday; but it's beyond ghost hour and no sleep yet - So it's still tuesday even if the calender says something else. Today Nicki beated out 3 songs on the drums, while the rest of us kept on fighting with the angry computer, recording "slask" guitars/bass. I think we're almost done with the Pod now, piuh.. There's not much to say about the 2nd day in the studio, no one came to visit us, Mats left the baseball bat in the corner, Jocke got his normal skin color back...
I really hope that Nicki sleeps well tonight, her head is so full of beats, fills and songs at the moment so she hardly notices when we speak to her... She's done a great job today, the songs sounds great already, with only drums ha,ha.. -So tired that the eyes are walking in cross, as we say in Swenglish, änna! X-S

Today's THANKS goes to Nigel for letting us borrow the car tomorrow.... Good night friends & enemies,Crucified Barbara // Mia

Day 1 warming up (May 5th)

2008-05-11T05:06:00.000-07:00

Me and Klara arrived around 10.30 to the studio. Nicki, Mats and Jocke were already here, carrying around pieces of Nicki's drumkit and looked bisy. Mats got a bit upset 'cause we were late and threatened Klara with a baseball bat, but went back to being normal again when klara offered him a cake that she just had bought.

When Ida dropped in we all had a coffee and laughed a bit at Jocke who's face was a bit green-ish today. Then Nicki spent the whole day together with Mats and Jocke, setting up a kick ass drum sound.

Me and Klara tried to record some guitar tracks for Nicki to play along with, but the computer had other plans unfortunately.. but at least we got some things done. Ida cleaned the whole studio, played some bass, and pinball...

Tomorrow Nicki will start to record the drums. It has been a big day for Crucified Barbara; A brand new song was played on swedish national TV (Garage show) and our first day in the studio. -Fun like a birthday!!!

Today's BIG thanx goes to Urban Näslund who came by with lots of drum skins and Sabian cymbals, and helped out Nicki to set up the drums. (She is very happy about "Osten" :-)

Good Heavy Metal Night!!Crucified Barbara // Mia