The atmosphere was thunderous today in the rehearsal room, as I met the band a couple of hours ago. They had just received a letter (you know, a snail mail), where the label threatened to postpone the release of “The World of Voodoo”!

The reason for this seemed to be that the band is handing out CD:s to everyone at the release party on Saturday, for free. And the label want their share.

- They can have their share alright!!!, Maniac boomed.
- 80% right? And they will have their 80%…out of nothing, he said with a grim smile on his face.

He got more and more agitated, walking around the room, shouting some sentences I don’t really want to translate here. Suddenly he stopped and said slowly:

- I can tell you. NOTHING comes between us and our fans! NOTHING! Get that?

He picked up a bunch of papers that was lying on a chair and held them up in the air:

- This is the contract with the label. I think you should give it back to them…

And he started to tear the pages apart. Since it was 200 pages or so, he was quickly joined by the others, giving him a hand with the tearing and tossing. Especially 3B seemed to be enjoying the drill, as he said it reminded him of the good days in school.

5 minutes later, the contract was in shreds. Maniac shoved most of the thousands of small pieces of paper in a bucket, opened a can of beer and poured the contents in the bucket.

- Here, take it to the label, he said. There will be a release party, no matter what. It’s all in our own hands, hahaha.

As usual I had to try to fix things, so I went over to the record label, and met with one of the executives (he wanted to be anonymous, if I were to write the story).

- Well, I can tell you that the contract is quite clear about this. I know it by heart and on page 143, paragraph 246d it clearly says….

I stopped him, muttered something about the contract and pointed at the bucket.

- Haha, do they really think it’s that easy, he said calmly. We do live in a digital age, and ripping some signed papers apart won’t help you. We have a special department for this and with their modern methods they glue this contract to one piece again, in no time.

- And how long will that take?

- Well, normally I’d say a couple of weeks, as with normal bands. But normal bands don’t pour beer over their shredded contracts, so let’s say a month.

- But then the release party is over?

- Yes I know, but then they will have to undo it.

- Undo it? How?

-We have our methods. For example, we can confiscate all images, video clips and sound recordings from the party. And if there’s no evidence left, it didn’t happen. Hahaha…

After this last statement I left the building, leaving the executive laughing behind me. I’m sure we will hear more about this later on, but for now I’m satisfied that the party on Saturday is on, no matter what.

/a tired manager

The only schooled musician of all members, who acctually knows the names on every scale and all “musical terms” ever made.

The Rock accidently met up with Maniac a few years ago. They met at Smålands Nation who is located in Lund, they got drunk on red wine and found out that they had the same taste in music and that they both were musicians more or less. How the night ended? Well, I have heard that they crawled around on the dancefloor, and from there I let your imagination run wild…

Maniac and The Rock have had a couple of bands together through the years. The Rock were actually Killer Clans first bassplayer, but he disbanded from the band and went off on other musical adventures. And when The Mutt quit the band, The Rock called us immeditley and wanted to have another shot. Stuff and Bedlam were not so fond in the idea at first. Stuff didnt knew much about him, only that he didn’t had long hair. And Stuff fighted in the longest to not have him aboard just because of that. But when the Rock showed up unannounced he quickly changed his mind, the same goes for Bedlam.

And now, the band sounds stronger together, than they ever had. History can begin now!

The Rocks first bought album:
“Acctually I bought 3 albums at the same time, I bought: Metallica: Whiplash, AC/DC: For Those About to Rock and least but not last I also grabbed AC/DC: Flick Of The Switch. My first liveshow-experience was when Mötley Crüe played at Olympen in Lund in ’85”

The silliest phobia:
“Hights and small spaces, and I am a little scared by Maniac”

The most secret wet dream:
“All my wet dreams has run dry, they are all fulfilled, I think…”

My favorite drink:
“Whiskey and coffe, but not goddamn mixing those two togehter”

My favorite food:
“Homecooked”

My best gig so far in life:
“I’d like to think that my next gig will become the best one!”

The best thing about playing in Killer Clan of F.U.N.:
“It’s fun, and all members are so cool. To share stage with Maniac is one part”

The worst thing about playing in Killer Clan of F.U.N.:
“Maniac…”

Who I would most certainly NOT choose to spend the night with on a desolate island:
“Maniac…”

My top ten songs of all time:

Back In Black – AC/DC
Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Orion – Metallica
Midnight Train To Memphis – Steeldrivers
Hurt – Johnny Cash
Last Of My Kind – Alice In Chains
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Child In Time – Deep Purple (Live In Japan Version is way cool)
Brown Sugar – ZZ Top
Breakin’ The Law – Judas Priest

Yes! It’s true!

You’ve probably heard the rumour by now: Killer Clan of F.U.N. have a new bass player!

The guys had been auditioning bass players for a while, ever since The Mutt left us in December. And you may remember the band’s history with auditions from before, and as you understand it’s not an easy thing to run if Maniac handles them alone.

This final audition last week, though, the entire band was present to make sure that Maniac didn’t do anything stupid, forgot about it or hired a trombone player instead of a bass player.

We were waiting in the rehearsal room for the whole thing to start. BBB told us after having briefly opened the door to the hallway outside, that there were 15 people out there waiting to audition.

And finally Maniac yelled: “THE FIRST ONE CAN COME IN!!”

The door opened and in came a guy with sunglasses, carrying a bass guitar case. He walked slowly to the middle of the room, carefully put down his case on the floor, looked at us and said with a deep calm voice:

- “Rock”

- “Rock you too dude”, Maniac said. “And what’s your name”

- “I am Rock”, he answered.

-  “Hell yeah!, we’re all rock, dude, Bedlam is rock, BBB is rock, Stuff is rock and I am so much fucking rock that it pours down on the floor.”, Maniac shouted.

Maniac, not known for his patience, turned to us and carried on shouting and making jokes out of it for a while. When he finally stopped we looked at the bass player again, and there he was, already with the bass in his hands, with the hand on the amp switch. He said slowly:

“My name is The Rock”, and he turned on the switch…

And boy did he blow us away with his playing. After 15 minutes of solo play even Maniac’s jaw had dropped to the floor. Maniac took a few paces towards The Rock and asked him:

“Do you like JD?”

The Rock nodded.

“YOU’RE IN!”, Maniac screamed, looking at us and we were all nodding and giving the thumbs up.

“Well, I have to tell the other players that it’s over for them then”, Bedlam said.

“That won’t be necessary”, The Rock said.

“Sure, it will”, Bedlam said, but when he opened the door to the hallway, no one was there. Everybody was gone.

We have no idea what happened to them, but we’re really excited to have The Rock as a member of Killer Clan of F.U.N. Welcome!

/The Manager

“I’m the one they call Karl” he said to us, stating it in such an obvious way that we started scratching our heads, trying to remember something we felt we should remember.

“And I’m Maniac, arm wrestling champion of the world!”, Maniac said in a desperate attempt to win back the crowd’s attention.

“We’ll see about that”, Karl said.

It was in the middle of the night, we were celebrating a successful gig on Rockbåten, some fans had joined us backstage, and Maniac was on top of the world.

The two contenders eyed eachother cautiously, nodded and sat down. A silent agreement to start an epic arm wrestling battle:

I thought it would be nice for you to hear a sane voice among the ramblings which have been going on here on this page the last month. And tell you a little about what’s going on the upcoming weekend.

Well it’s Rockbåten in Helsingborg of course. Sticky Dirt, the furious party rockers, Killer Clan of F.U.N. of course and Dirty Penny.

Dirty Penny came here from the US for the Stockholm Rock Out Festival last weekend, and took the opportunity to make a minitour in Sweden while at it. They wanted to feel the rock temperature in Skåne, and of course, Rockbåten is the place for that. Saturday, September 18, 21.00.

Listen more to Dirty Penny on their Myspace page.

Lastly I just wanted to tell you that the guys are really flying right now. After two tremendous gigs last weekend at Stockholm Rock Out Festival and Halmstad Kulturnatt they are full of energy.

Well some of them are maybe flying a little too high, but there’s not much to do about it. Maniac for example is running around shouting to everyone that his hand hurts. Why? Because he had to write so many autographs. And he claims that all the american rockstars asked for more than five signatures each!

BBB on the other hand stated boldly, when he arrived home, that he obviously is the girl magnet of the band. He refuses to wear a t-shirt anymore. He even had proof he said, and showed me a paper, where a long list of numbers were written. 30, maybe 40 of them.

- These are phone numbers to my chick following I got at Stockholm Rock Out. Hehe, I have my own chick army now, he chuckled.

I had a closer look at the list and asked him:

- And, BBB, why is it that every number starts with 555?

I left him with a puzzled look on his face…

/the Manager

Unfortunately I couldn’t be with the band at Bunkerfestivalen yesterday. I’ve heard that the festival went great and that the band made a great gig. But what happened after their gig is still unclear.

Did Maniac set off one of his plans against The Soundtrack of Our Lives or Sator or one of the other bands? I don’t really know right now. All I have is this photo I received this morning in my mail:

/Pär
- the manager

…it really wasn’t.

I told you the other day about Maniacs vicious plans to interfere with The Soundtrack of Our Lives‘ gig at Bunkerfestivalen on the 3rd of July. We exposed him to the world and and Ebbot gave him a strong word of warning, so we thought that we could stop worrying about it.

But we were wrong. He just shifted his focus to another great band that will be playing there, Sator.

Yesterday I found a clip that revealed what he was up to. At first I thought it was just his usual ramblings, but when I listened closely I could clearly hear that he’s now targeting Sator . Well, time is too short to stop him now, so lets hope for the best on Saturday.

- the Manager

After we exposed Maniac’s plans yesterday to take over Bunkerfestivalen, the reaction has been very strong from the media as well as from the rock world. Peruvian TV, Chinese rock magazines, radio Kazachstan, you name it, have all covered the story today, and the pressure have been quite heavy on all of us in the management today.

As you might expect, the strongest reaction came from Ebbot, ofThe Soundtrack of Our Lives, himself. At a press conference early this morning he sent this message to Maniac:

Look at this picture above I took the other day. It’s a actually a picture of Maniac, apparently dressed in some kind of Santa Claus outfit. But why?

He came out the door and I was there with my camera, but before I could ask any questions he pushed me away and ran off. Of course I got very suspicious, as the others in the band didn’t know anything about it. What was he up to now?

The following days I started playing detective, looking in his bags, sneaking into his room, eavesdropping, and it payed off! Through scraps of papers, drawings, strange statements I think I finally solved the puzzle.

As you all know, Killer Clan of F.U.N. will be playing at Bunkerfestivalen in Bengtsfors on the 3rd of July. A great festival with 18 bands. Sator will play too, The Generals, Kid Down, Social Siberia and lots of others. And….The Soundtrack of Our Lives!!

And that’s where Maniac has his thoughts now. With The Soundtrack of Our Lives. As if  Killer Clan’s fantastic show wasn’t enough, Maniac wants to take over the entire festival! His plan is to lock up Ebbot somewhere (we think he’s aiming for the toilet), and then impersonate Ebbot, and take over their show too!

The rest of the band and I thought that this was such an evil plan, that we had to bring it to your attention. Hopefully this will make him put his plans aside, at least for a while.

Pär
/The Manager

A couple of weeks ago Maniac and Stuff took over the radio station Radio AF and promoted Stockholm Rock out for an hour in the show “In Rock“. During the show Maniac interviewed Terry, the singer of XYZ. If you haven’t heard the interview you can listen to it here.

As you can hear there’s a certain challenge in the interview. Maniac actually states that he will get all the girls, and leave nothing for Terry and XYZ!
Well, I’m not surprised. Maniac’s a nice guy, but he just doesn’t like to share.

BUT, and there’s a big but. As it now happens, Killer Clan of F.U.N. won’t be playing today at Stockholm Rock Out. They will play in September instead. But XYZ is here, all of them, and they certainly will play today. And they sent Maniac a message:

That was Joey, Pat and Tony. Later on Terry wanted to say something too:

I don’t know how Maniac will react to all this, I prefer not to think about it. All I can say is that XYZ is a hell of a band and yesterday at the pre-show at Harry B. James they performed one of the best acoustic sets I have ever seen

And many more will come today to Stockholm Rockout and enjoy this band and of course the other great bands too.

/Pär
- the manager