lördag 8 augusti 2009
New blog at Rockspot.se
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
måndag 13 juli 2009
Rockweekend + Masters of Rock
I will upload some pictures from the weekend soon so check back soon again!!
Cheers/ Mia CB
fredag 26 juni 2009
Kobetasonik festival, Bilbao
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.

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 FRIDAYNext 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 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.









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.




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