Interview with Mainliners, 30 August 2004

NB - Tell me the Mainliners story - when and how did you meet etc?
M - In the late 1990 ten small boys meet in the shallow end of the local swimmingpool and together they believed that they were strong enough to take a swim to the deep and dark end of the pool.But that was not the case. Cuz when the boys started their journey,they were one by one forced to meet the Man. At the end there were only five left. As they were floating there in the cold cold water, looking at each other and realized that they weren't small boys anymore, no sir, NOW WE WERE MEN!!

NB - Please tell me about band members?
M - We five Mainliners are all from different mothers but from the same stallion.That makes us very complete as a band.

Robert Billing,Singer :A big voice acting like a marionette puppet when he's taking over the stage.

Niklas Nordstrom,Guitar :With three different rythms in his body at the same time, he rear's like a wild copulating horse when playing his riffs.

Erik Daghall,Drumms :Well this little prince is a hard hitting mystery.

Mathias Wennergren,Guitar :The flower from the ditch and the last one to be cut free from the umbilical cord.

Magnus Granstrom,Bass :He caresses his instrument like he fondles his women.

NB - Where in Sweden are you exactly?
M - All five of us are from Ludvika a small industriall town in the middel of Sweden about 20 miles northwest of Stockholm.A shit hole to be exactly!!

NB - How do you spend cold winter days?
M Like all other swedes we spend cold winter days in the nearest sauna, stroking,washing and hugging each other.

NB - Which bands are your main influence?
M - We dont have any special influences that we know of. We listen to all kind of music like: Remains, Bjork, Blues magoos, Nick Cave, Cramps, Professor Longhair, Sam&Dave, Otis Redding, Standells, MC5, Namelosers, Creeps, Roky Ericson, Johnny Cash, Eddie Meduza, Milkshakes, Wailers etc etc.

NB - You listen to 60s stuff a lot I guess. But tell me what you think about new garage bands and which are your favorites?
M - Of course we listen to a lot of 60s but we dont listen so much on new garage but there are some good bands like King Khan from GER and Strollers from SWE.

NB - Any less known Swedish bands you would recommend to No Brains readers?
M - Yea we have played with a band called Nocounts you can check e'm up on their website, they are quite nice boys!(naked)

NB - You will soon release a 7". On which label?
M - Allready released on Crusher Records.

NB - You mentioned LP. Are the recordings ready? When will LP come out?
M - The LP is recorded and will be released on Get Hip Records sometime in the end of this year or in the begining of the next.

NB - Do you play lot of gigs and which countries?
M - We havent playd so many gigs this summer cuz we have been working on the LP but we hope we can get a lot of gigs over the fall and the winter.We have been played in England and recently we playd in Italy at the BeatFeaver Festival and we got great respons.

NB - Any crazy things that happened on your gigs?
M - Not on the stage but offstage the weirdest things has hapened.And of course all that regular "throwing the tv out of the window" rock n'roll shit to, like we have been baned for life on a Hotell for having to much fun!! the bill landed on 1500 euro but we did not learn much of that, we are still having fun! but in a different way, the naked way!

NB - 12. Any messages to Dutch girls? Can we expect you in Holland?
M - We really want to come and performe hell of a show for the beautiful people of Holland so if any gig organizers or club owners read this dont be such a wanker, just book us!!

AND DUTCH GIRLS.......BEWARE OF THE SWEDISH STEEL!!