1.Growing Up
My parents were musicians. I remember listening to my father repeatedly playing passages from classical music on violin, over and over again. I guess it affected me not wanting to play music at first, but I still ended up there anyway.
2.Inspirations
One of many, but I’ll go with Peter Green because of his beautiful guitar tone. Really like his voice too.
3.Your Band
Axel (drummer) and I, Joakim (singer, guitarist) played in a band before, often with the bands that Truls (bass) and Jonatan (guitarist) played in. So we knew of each other. When the old bass player Rikard Edlund and I started Graveyard we brought Axel and recruited Truls and then later Jonatan.
4.The Music You Make
We want to put everything we’re listening to in our music so I guess the foundation is some kind of hard blues/rock but with jazz, punk, folk and metal influences. Our first three albums were recorded in Gothenburg by producer Don Alsterberg. The next one is gonna be recorded in Stockholm by Johan Lindström. We always try to bring the whole spectrum of our music into the live shows and they are always high on energy.
5.Music, Right Here,Right Now
If you’re into music there’s always a lot of good bands coming through Gothenburg. I’m not really interested in the bigger bands, [but] in Gothenburg there are smaller venues like Truckstop Alaska and Pustervik that always have cool bands.
Graveyard play at Oxford Art Factory onWednesday March 4.
