Crucified Barbara Comment On French, Russian Tours Prepare For Summer Festivals

The all-female Swedish quartet CRUCIFIED BARBARA – whose debut album, In Distortion We Trust, is now available – recently completed a nine- show Tour de France, which included a concert alongside the legendary Killing Joke.

“The shows were packed with crazy people having a good time,” says guitarist/vocalist Mia Coldheart. “We had a great crew with us that really saved our asses a lot of times. My rented amp was missing a footswitch, so our lovely guitar tech Danny impressed us all by building one from a lamp button. It looked quite funny, but it worked out great!”

Recently, the band also performed a rare acoustic show, one of a
handful of concerts CRUCIFIED BARBARA played alongside Jon Oliva’s Pain. Says Coldheart, “The Jon Oliva's Pain shows were great! First of all, the music and their show kicks ass, and the guys are really nice so we had a great time. The acoustic show was really cool, our best acoustic gig ever.”

CRUCIFIED BARBARA’s current European tour also included gigs alongside Doro and Sonata Arctica. “Those shows were great as well,” Coldheart says, “with really nice people, good music and beer, beer, beer – but we had to watch our tongues since the Finnish guys also know Swedish! It was so cool to play with Doro, and we can't thank them enough.”

As for CRUCIFIED BARBARA’s just-completed first erformances in Russia, Coldheart says they couldn’t have gone better. “We just came home from Russia, totally exhausted and totally happy about everything. It was a great experience, and a really fun ending of the Hellride tour: eight days of no sleep, too much Russian vodka and plenty of rock n’ roll. We’re looking forward to going back there again as soon as possible!”

This weekend, CRUCIFIED BARBARA kicks off its busy summer touring season with performances at two major European festivals: Gods of Metal in Italy (alongside Guns N’ Roses, Down and Motorhead), and Rock Hard in Germany (also featuring Dio, Soilwork and Celtic Frost).“After six crazy weeks on the road,” Coldheart says, “we are now looking forward to the really hot summer festivals, and maybe getting some hours of rest in between playing and working on new material.”

The American version of In Distortion We Trust includes a bonus track– a blistering cover of Motorhead’s “Killed By Death” – as well as music videos for the three singles CRUCIFIED BARBARA has released in their home country. The clip for “Losing The Game” can be seen here:
liquorandpokermusic.com/video/LosingTheGame.mov.

CRUCIFIED BARBARA on tour:

6/3 Milan, Italy – Gods of Metal Festival
6/4 Gelsenkirchen, Germany – Rock Hard Festival
6/10 Solvesborg, Sweden – Sweden Rock Festival
7/7 Nehren, Germany – Motorradfreunde Festival
7/8 Osterade, Germany – Rock Harz Festival
7/9 Neuve Eglise, France – Decibulle Biere & Rock Festival
7/16 Zlin, Czech Republic – Masters of Rock Festival
7/29 Herxheim, Germanz – Tobacco Rock Festival
7/30 Gernika, Spain – Metal Way Festival
8/5 Pratteln, Switzerland – Metal Dayz Festival