Thanks to all who came out to see us at Kulturhuset, Örebro at the Live At Heart festival this past weekend! We had a blast. And our good buddy Matte Holm even got two clips from the show, which we’d like to share with y’all.

First, show opener Just Ain’t Right and Yesterdays & Tomorrows (which is also featured on the CD with the new issue of Classic Rock Magazine – check it out!)

And then, Nick The Dick singin’ and playing his ass off on Out Of Here:

Backdraft are proud to return to the Serie Z Festival in Jerez de la Froñtera in Andalucia, southern Spain! We played in 2002, which was something like our Spanish breakthrough, with a few thousand die-hard rock fans attending and the event broadcast on teevee (we even held a drunken, confused press-conference, more about that further on…)

The festival takes place on October 7th-8th at Sala Pául in Jerez, and also appearing are Swedish bands like Nicke Andersson’s Imperial State Electric and Stevie Klasson’s Black Weeds, our Spanish friends ’77 and The Soulbreaker Company as well as international doom legends Pentagram and our buddy, US outlaw country singer Bob Wayne & The Outlaw Carnies. We will play on the Friday so make sure you don’t miss out!

In other gig news, these two Swedish shows have just been added:

• Live at Heart festival, Saturday 7th of September at 23:00 (Kulturhuset, A-Salen)
• Püssy a-go-go, Friday 14th of October at Nalen Klubb (with Dead Man)

Now then, here’s a (slightly sloshed & embarrassing) old interview and some live footage from the original Serie Z Festival back in September of 2002. Enjoy!

Backdraft in the media this week:

Our old label-mate from Backdraft’s early days at Lunasound Recording, Kevin Stewart-Panko (who used to be in a band called Association Area), got in touch recently to do an interview for Decibel – one of the biggest metal magazines in the USandA!

Check it out! Photos by Ricky Franzén.

Follow this link to read the full interview!

“This quintet may have called Stockholm home, but they churned out the southern rock so authentically on their debut album, 2001’s Here to Save You All that you wouldn’t have been kicked out of the barn for assuming the band hailed from somewhere deep beneath the Mason-Dixon Line.

Apparently, Swedes steeped in stroking themselves silly over the sort of cultural exports comprising the recent “American Fest” held in Upplands-Väsby on the 4^th of July weekend agree, as Backdraft played this fest and, more recently, at a drag racing event at the drag racing hotspot of Ljusdal.

I discovered, via the wonders of J. Bennett’s interhole, that the band have recently released a new album called This Heaven Goes to Eleven. So, I quickly tracked down bassist (and former label-mate) Mats Rydström who took time out from his busy schedule of shopping for bell-bottoms, growing his beard, driving his General Lee-painted Volvo around Stockholm and filling old-timey spittoons with tobacco spit to answer a few questions.”

Gig today, added on short notice, at a dragracing event outside of Ljusdal! We just got in the van, and don’t know too much about the details of it, but you may be able to find directions and more at drcljusdal.se.


Nick just got off his night shift an hour ago, feeling a tiny bit worn out, but Jonas keeping spirits up, playing Gervais-Merchant-Pilkington podcasts.


Anyways, we’re on at around 9 pm tonight!

If you still haven’t got our latest record, which a considerable lot of these following reviewers call our masterpiece, get it NOW! Here are a few retailer links, if these don’t suit you, there’s this marvellous gizmo called Google!

CD – GMR Music, Deaf & Dumb, Bengans, CDON…
VINYL (180 gram gatefold ltd. ed. with free CD) – GMR Music, Deaf & Dumb…
DIGITAL – iTunes Music Store, Amazon, Rhapsody…

THIS HEAVEN GOES TO ELEVEN REVIEWS

Sweden Rock Magazine (7 out of 10)
Close-Up Magazine (9 out of 10)
Dangerdog, USA (4 out of 5)
Rockblaskan, Sweden (excellent)
Red Hot Rock Magazine (excellent)
Smålandsposten, Sweden (4 out of 5)
Festivalphoto.se, Sweden (4 out of 5)
CrankItUp, Sweden (8 out of 10)
Metal Temple, USA (8 out of 10)
Sea Of Tranquility, USA (4 out of 5)
Fotoconciertos, Spain (excellent)
RockWay, Greece (excellent)
Hard Rock Info, int’l
Crows n Bones, int’l
Zware Metallen, The Netherlands (80 out of 100)
MetalKaoz, int’l (7 out of 10)
Global Domination, Sweden (6,5 out of 10)
ProgressiveWaves, France (7 out of 10)

AND A FEW INTERVIEWS…
(please mail us if you’ve seen other reviews or interviews not listed here!)

P3 Rock, Sweden (with Rob & Nick)
Jocke13, Sweden (with Mats)
CrankItUp, Sweden (video interview from SRF 2011 with Nick)