I recently conducted a fun online interview with D.C Danny from the Swedish Hard Rock band Crazy Lixx.
Hey there danny, for those who dont know already, can you tell me a little bit about Crazy Lixx?
We’re a swedish hard rock band that has been around for roughly 6 years and we’ve just released our debut album ‘Loud Minority’ in november 2007.
Awesome man, i loved Loud Minority, especially the song Dr.Hollywood. What would you say inspired the band to form and play rock music?
Woa, we’ve done it for so long I can hardly remember why we even began to do it in the first place =) No, but I guess it’s the rock n’ roll dream that some kids have, some of us don’t grow up! And frankly, playing rock music is about the best thing I know so why should I persue something else?
The decision fell on hard rock cause that’s the kind of music I love playing the most, i do listen to other kinds of music aswell
Would that explain the Avril Lavigne T-shirt? i’d been meaning to bring that up at some point
Hehe, gotta love Avril, mostly because she’s hot as hell but I must admit to the fact that I have some of her songs too. Funny thing, ’cause I really got lot’s of questions ’bout the shirt in the UK.
Yes, when i went to see you guys play with Hardcore Superstar a few people in the crowd spoke about the t-shirt amoungst themselves while you were setting up! How did you guys feel about the UK tour, did you enjoy it?
It was great! It was the first time that we toured in a bus like that and the first time we played 7 gigs in a week so it was a good experience. The guys from Hardcore are great to hang out with and we were really surprised that the audience in the UK gave us such a warm welcome, us being the support band and all. Seems you guys really like 80’s hard rock over there =)
Ah well you guys got a good reception because you put on a bloody good show in my opinion, as good as Hardcore Superstar. I think UK rock fans that are able to find out about the new Hard Rock bands like Crazy Lixx and Hardcore Superstar love it, sadly its not a very supported genre in the mainstream media at the moment here so its good to have bands like yours keeping it alive. How would you compare UK audiences and shows to Swedish audiences and shows?
Well, in Sweden we’re used to people knowing some of our songs and maybe they’ve been to one of our shows before so there’s a differance but actually I was a bit surprised that people could sing along to some of our tunes in the UK aswell, that’s really cool ’cause we kinda thought we’d have to start from square one in Britain. Kinda’ like when we started doing gigs in Sweden five years ago, but luckilly, that wasn’t the case.
I think the internet is probably the reason why. I personally wouldnt know about any of the bands coming from the Swedish scene if it wasnt for the internet and i certainly wouldnt be able to get my hands on any of the merchandise if it wasnt for online stores either. Will your album be released in the UK and/or USA at some point?
Yes, If everything went as planned it should have been released in the UK on the 23rd of January but then it’s up to the stores to actually order it in. I’m not sure ’bout USA at the moment, but I guess our label is looking at distribution there aswell.
I did not know that, a call to arms for the fans in the UK to phone those stores up for the album is needed i think haha! Are there any plans for the band to return to the UK for another tour soon, or any other countries for that matter?
Not any plans at the moment no, we’re currently looking at booking some festivals for the summer and I guess most of them will be in Sweden but we’ve already got two festivals in Switzerland booked and we’ve had request from all around, including Brazil! We also had a tour in italy planned for april, but we postponed it since we’re going to do some more support gigs for HCSS in Sweden during spring.They’re really big over here and to support them is a great opportunity to get some more fans.
Ah Brazilians, this type of Hard Rock seems to be in high demand over there, those guys know how to rock. I could see how youd want to tour Italy also, alot of Sleaze Metal bands have been coming from the underground there lately. What would you say playing Rock N Roll gives you Danny?
First of all it gives me the possibility to use all of my creativity when writing songs, I would go mad if I wouldn’t be able to write and record all the material that’s popping up in my mind. And the feeling of performing live is unbeatable, it’s the recognition that all people are looking for, no matter the proffession. To stand on stage and feel you’re entertaining hundreds or thousands of people by doing your thing… that’s just fantastic.

Thats great man, and would you say your living the Rock N Roll dream, or isnt it what you expected it to be?
I’d say I haven’t reached it yet =) But I do have to say that all things aren’t exactly the way you thought they’d be. Most of the downsides have to do with the music industry ,it isn’t always I walk in the park but don’t get me started on the industry or we’ll be stuck here all day… =)
haha i know what you mean, alot of people i talk to who have been or are in proffessional bands often complain about the music industry, and rightfully so. Moving on then haha, does the band plan to release another single soon and can you say what it will be and when it will be?
We’re currently discussing it with our label and we’re hoping on releasing it in Sweden sometime during march-april. It will feature one of the songs that was left over from the recording of ‘Loud Minority’ and at least one single from the album, most likely ‘Make Ends Meet’.
Thats great man, so like a B-side kinda thing. Will there be a video in filmed in support of the single also?
Nothing planned yet but I’d love to do another video, not sure it pays of in this day and age though, the music channels playing videos are becoming fewer and fewer in Sweden and most people don’t have the big channels like MTV and VH1, but, I’d like to do another video and you can always put it on youtube or myspace right?
Totally, im always embedding youtube videos on my myspace profile for people to check out. And its also a good way to link people to knew bands who are too lazy to search them for themselves. I think music channels are still very importent here in the UK however channels such as MTV dont really play good rock n roll music anymore, they tend to love hip-hop and rap here instead.
Id like to thank you for taking part in this online interview Danny, its been a pleasure! Is there anything else youd like to say on behalf of Crazy Lixx and yourself?
“If you book us, we will come…”
You can check some of the bands music out here!
http://www.myspace.com/crazylixxmusic
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