{"id":38434,"date":"2019-09-11T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=38434"},"modified":"2019-10-14T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T21:00:53","slug":"nicke-borg-of-backyard-babies-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2019\/09\/nicke-borg-of-backyard-babies-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicke Borg of Backyard Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing it basically as you said for our whole lives at the moment and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if this is what I\u2019m gonna do for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: For 30 years, BACKYARD BABIES has delivered top of the line dirty rock ‘n’ roll, both live and recorded. The fact that the original four guys that started the band still are playing together, is next to unique. Now for the first time in over a decade, BACKYARD BABIES are touring Australia thanks to Silverback Touring. In 1989 childhood friends Peder Carlsson, Dregen and Johan Blomquist were joined by Nicke Borg and BACKYARD BABIES was born. Fast forward to 2019 and 7 albums later, the band recently released their latest album \u2019Sliver and Gold\u2019 it is energetic and powerful, the band prove that they\u00b4re in better shape than ever and most certainly have enough material to last the coming 30 years.<\/p>\n

We gave Nicke Borg a call while he was at home and discussed the upcoming Australian tour, new music, the band\u2019s thirty year stability, the Swedish music scene, opening for AC\/DC, and more\u2026<\/p>\n

You\u2019re heading back to Australia for the first time in over a decade, tell us what can people expect at a Backyard Babies show circa 2019?<\/strong>
\nA lot of things, to start with, first I should say we haven\u2019t been in Australia for way too long, for various reasons I guess it\u2019s not really around the corner, and also we haven\u2019t been given the opportunity. So we\u2019re super excited of course because we got the offer to come and play. Any of our fans in Australia that have been following us during the past ten or fifteen years have seen a band developing and also had time to even take a bit of a break to do other stuff. So when we started to record this new album it was really weird because we felt it was like a debut album we kind of wrote again, so I think you will get a really hungry and excited band for many reasons coming to play in Australia.<\/p>\n

With eight albums in tow is it a challenge to put together a set list these days?<\/strong>
\nNo I would say it\u2019s easier because you have your own favourites and most of the time these are also the audiences favourites so I think the set list that we put together this summer and even this spring in Europe has been one of the best set lists we\u2019ve done so far. I feel we have fun playing and the audience has the same reaction.<\/p>\n

You released your newest album \u2018Sliver and Gold\u2019 this year, how if in any way has the writing and recording process changed for the band since your beginnings?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s changed basically for every album we do, sometimes I wrote everything myself, sometimes we write everything together and there\u2019s everything in between also. I think the big difference this time is that we really got back together as a band and wrote and the songs came together in the rehearsal room, it was very few songs that were like finished before, I mean if you take the album before that, the comeback album or whatever people want to call it that we released in 2015, that was an album basically more or less written by myself and on my own and then I presented the songs to the band. This time we were in the rehearsal studio, started with a riff and out came a finished song which is I think is the most fun process of doing it, everybody gets involved and I think you can hear it in the songs also.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s quite rare for a band to have its original members for the life of the band, what do you put this thirty year relationship down to?<\/strong>
\nYeah I mean this is a really interesting question because it comes to us after thirty years as a band, there\u2019s two ways of looking at it, I see there\u2019s one side which is of course the really proud of actually managing being together for this long and not letting things come in between. We did the right things here and there while we\u2019re still able to play but also you need to renew yourself in a way because you take each other for granted a little bit too much. It\u2019s really hard, I don\u2019t have a good answer to all these questions, I guess we just learned to be on stage and love our music and we didn\u2019t have any other option for a long time *laughs* but I find it really unique when you talk about it but when we\u2019re not talking about it I don\u2019t really think about it like that, we still have major issues that has a band in the first year but it\u2019s not, there\u2019s friction, there\u2019s bullshit band stuff going on and it\u2019s been going on for thirty years, sometimes I have no idea how we even can stand each other, but now for example coming to Australia after such a long time it keeps pushing the band to do more stuff. It\u2019ll be interesting, after Australia we have no really set plans what to do, we might just take it easy for a while or we might start to dive into a different project with the band, so let\u2019s see. We\u2019ve been doing it basically as you said for our whole lives at the moment and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if this is what I\u2019m gonna do for the rest of my life. I do other stuff also *laughs* but we won\u2019t talk about that.<\/p>\n

Over the three decades you\u2019ve been together it can be easy to say what\u2019s changed in that time and besides the four of you what for you is the one thing that\u2019s stayed the same in your time together making music?<\/strong>
\nGood questions *pauses* I think it\u2019s what I said there, what\u2019s stayed the same is you have some kind of driving force that you want to move forward, of course you always have a dream of reaching out to a wide audience, I wouldn\u2019t say that money itself is the driver but you want to be more successful on every level and that is of course something that stays the same from the beginning of the band up until we are now. I mean it\u2019s easy for me to say now because we never really had that mega success ever in our career but if we were to become an arena band twenty years ago, or fifteen years ago or something I\u2019m not sure if we would actually be playing today because I think the kind of slow struggle, the slowly moving forward thing is something that\u2019s been constant throughout our whole career and that might be a good thing, I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n

The Swedish music scene just seems to be one of the best and most flourished out there, what\u2019s in the water over there, why is it so good?<\/strong>
\nYeah that\u2019s also something that people have been asking us ever since this Scandinavian active rock thing happened in the late 90\u2019s with us, The Hellacopters, The Hives, Millencolin, all these bands. Of course all our colleagues in Sweden are amazing bands, you have lots of great artists that are successful around the world we have songwriters that are successful all around the world that are behind monster hits on charts around the world. I have no idea I seriously don\u2019t have a good answer for that. We are fortunate in a way that I think we have more support maybe from lets say the government or whatever if you decide to go and start up your own your own business and keep it going, I don\u2019t even know if that\u2019s the reason. Sometimes you become a better artist if you really have to struggle so I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n

Since 1989 what has been the biggest and most memorable thing to happen in the last thirty as a band?<\/strong>
\nOne think which is actually interesting because I\u2019m speaking to you, we have done great things and been able to play and meet bands that we look up to for example we were offered to support AC\/DC on the Stiff Upper Lip tour back in 2000 and that was like one of those landmarks in our career and you\u2019re like OK, done, played with AC\/DC fine, now we can be happy *laughs* I joke about that a little bit. All this stuff that you think as a kid growing up would be impossible like playing with AC\/DC, going to Japan and Australia for the first time and things like that, playing in Los Angeles, meeting that person, making a record, even all these types of stuff. So there\u2019s thousands of things in our career that are like these things but there are special moments when you can share the stage with your favourite bands.<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me, in 2020 Backyard Babies want to\u2026<\/strong>
\nWant to have new music out and start a new tour, because we have some great ideas about that, and maybe also want the music business to change a little bit and people will come and continue to buy records *laughs*.<\/p>\n

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Backyard Babies Australian Tour Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 4 October<\/strong> – Sydney – Manning Bar<\/p>\n

Saturday 5 October<\/strong> – Melbourne – Max Watts<\/p>\n

Sunday 6 October<\/strong> – Brisbane – Woolly Mammoth<\/p>\n

Tickets from: https:\/\/silverbacktouring.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong>\u00a0Sweden<\/p>\n

Band members:\u00a0<\/strong>Nicke Borg \u2013 lead vocals \/ rhythm guitar, Dregen \u2013 lead guitar, Johan Blomqvist \u2013 bass guitar, Peder Carlsson \u2013 drums<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.backyardbabies.com<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Latest release:<\/strong> \u00a0Sliver and Gold (Out Now)<\/p>\n