For the first time since
2005 Backyard Babies played in Karlskoga, Sweden, and a couple of hundred people
attended the show. Backyard Babies entered the stage at midnight and started
with the song 'Degenerated' from their self titled album released last year,
and the audience went wild. The gig continued with songs like 'UFO Romeo' and
'Star War'. Nicke Borg, guitarist and singer, took a moment to talk to the audience
about their 20-year anniversary and about him having a cold, and asked the audience
to sing along as much as they could. At the end of his speech he asked the audience
to once again show that Karlskoga has the wildest audience. The band played
it hard and with lots of energy, and tried to make the best of the show, even
though Wictoria has a terrible sound system and the acoustics is possibly the
worst. But songs like 'Look At You' and 'Minus Celsius' lifted the gig and made
it a bit worthy at least. The best thing about the gig was the fantastic comments
by Dregen; he talked a lot and didn't seem to be serious at all, he also seemed
to have missed the smoking ban, since he gladly smoked on stage.
A nice piece in their performance was the playing of the new single 'Fuck Off
and Die', it was energy and the audience more or less had stopped caring about
the quality of the music, they just wanted to rock. Bottles of beer flew around
and the audience started to crowd surf. They wanted to get out their 'Brand
New Hate' later on played as well.
A nice ending of the concert was the chef's hat Dregen put on for the final
performance, and when the show was over it was easy to state that Karlskoga
still has the wildest audience, because the floor was almost completely covered
in broken glass.
This could have been a good gig if it wasn't for the terrible sound that was
even worse than it normally is, and if this is the way they sound live, then
they shouldn't play. The gig had its highlights but with bad sound, not even
this could save the show. Let's hope they prove they're better than this next
time.
Rating: 4/10
by Johanna Salo
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