Is Johan (bass) still the Backyard Babies Guitar Hero champion?
Yes, definitely. I suck big time, and Nicke is the king of suckiness. I play sometimes to keep myself occupied on long bus journeys, but that’s about it. What was it that got you started in music? Actually it was a picture of Kiss. They did a photo session in 1976 up on the Empire State Building in New York, and actually I think that Kiss photograph isn’t so far away from the colours and theme of the Backyard Babies album cover. That was my first introduction to rock ‘n’ roll music, and then I got ‘Kiss Alive 1’ and ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’ by the Pistols pretty early on. You’ve obviously got more than music in your life. Tell us about the Gingerbread design you did at the PUB Department store in Stockholm? PUB is the biggest department store in Stockholm – it could be compared to Harrods in London. Every year around Christmas they close down the windows for a month or something before Christmas, then two days before Christmas they open them up and there are all these crazy designs an
