IDIOTS

This year, Backyard Babies celebrate their 20th anniversary tour and a lot of surprises is to be expected.
So far, only dates for Spain and Great Britain among others has been posted. I know there will be dates for Sweden as well, but when and where is still uncertain. Dates are being booked at the moment.

How does everybody feel to this tour? I am really worked up, and I'm really looking forward to it.
I will be heading off to London with Lee; my partner in crime on the 9th february 2010.
That Backyard is celebrating their 20th anniversary is really huge to me. They started out when I was only 2 years old. I never thought that I would get to see them as many times as I have. I've lost count, stopped counting at about 70.

I remember when I forced my mother to Gröna Lund when they played with Hellacopters 2001, I was 13 at the time. I've been hooked ever since. Next year will be my 9th, why haven't I lost interest one might wonder?
 
When I was sixteen, my mother let me go all alone on a tour that was called "kalasturnén". It was a one-day festival that was held in differnt cities in Sweden. She refused to help me book my tickets and so on, she wanted me to earn them.


So I scrubbed our porch, took out the trash, cleared the horsedung out, took our dogs for walks, stayed in school, did my homework and so on for a month.

After that she did help me with my tickets and travels. In a way I hated her, because I felt like I was doing all the work at home, but she wanted to make a point - you should always fight for what you want, and on top of that I learned to help out around the house ;)

I feel like this tour will be really special! I am ready to show up most of the gigs, to show my support. This is my 8th year... Sick. But I have no plans drop travelling to see them.

That music can touch and inspire one as Backyard Babies has done for me, is incredibly awesome.

I taped this video at Eksjö stadsfest....Hope you like it.

When I got to Sandviken I got a taxi and asked the driver to take me to a youth hostel.

I was about to check in when I got a phone call and apparently it was better for me to check in elsewhere. I didn't mind though as I was stil happy I had somewhere to stay.

So I called the taxi again and asked him to take me to the Princess hotel where I hung out with Toffsy for a few hours and listened to some old music - which was cool.

I stood by the merchandise stand all night because I couldn't be bothered to be in the crowd and get crushed, I honestly feel like I am too old for that now since I've done it over 60 times already - (which I quite don't really get actually).

Sure it's a lot of fun and there's a really strong and lovely feeling about singing along with the band in some way. Oh! I hope I still feel this way in Eksjö.

 

The gig was good but I really wanted to hear "Back on the Juice" (although I suspect that my memory has failed me and that it might actually been played)

Nicke had to stop the gig for a short time due to the fence by the stage breaking, it's a disgrace that there wasn't even a descent fence, I mean its not like that it was Sven Ingvars playing tonight.

The best song was absolutely "Come Undone" and the audience was completely ecstatic (which they all of course were the rest of the evening as well).

I just wanted to jump and scream but it was a bit difficult since I had to handle the merchandise and sell t-shirts at the same time.

 

As you all know, every time they start to play "Minus Celsius" you can be sure to see the crowd go bananas, which is totally understandable since the song is good and a hit and all. But then sometimes it tends to gets a little bit too crazy.

 

When they played "Abandon" I got goose bumps and felt tears in my eyes. I tend to get a little sensitive but this time it was crazy since I even felt like wanting to leave the room because that feeling was so new to me and I couldn't really handle myself.  It might have something to do with me missing a friend and I talked to, a person that just hours before and a song like "Abandon" might have triggered those feelings and maybe wasn't the best timing for me.

(Even though I love that song).

But I suspect I would have been sad if they wouldn't have played it too ha ha.

 

I met a lot of new people!

Met Solj too which was very nice!

The entire night was gold and I don't regret going there for a second.

Thank you everyone for making my night!

We havent been so good at posting stuff here. But Next week i will post some pics from shows i've seen this summer. Promise!

Have you seen any shows latley? Let us know and we will post it here

Happy Birthday Nicke!!