Transcript of an interview I recorded with Jocke of HARDCORE SUPERSTAR - 20190914. Full article here. MAL-
It's good to welcome back Jocke from HARDCORE SUPERSTAR. Jocke, thanks for talking to me again. JOCKE- Thank you for having me. MAL- Now we spoke in May of last year, just before you came to Australia on your tour here. How did the tour go? JOCKE- Really great, really great. But we were a little bit surprised because we always think that Australia is hot, you know, all year, but when we arrived it was like 12 degrees Celsius. And no, no one of us had, you know, trousers, pants. So we had to go and buy it and Sydney the first thing we did, and it was it was quite funny, actually. Because when we when we come came to the customs. When we arrived in Sydney, there was this old lady in the customs who was like, watching us, and she told us, 'What's your purpose here? It must be rock and roll, isn't it? Yes, it is'. And then she then she said that, 'Okay, what's the key word to enter Australia?' And we were like, What the fuck is what the fuck is going on? And the Adde the drummer, he said that.. 'what's the password to enter Australia?' He was like, 'AC/DC?' 'Welcome to Australia'. MAL- Please don't tell me you've been touring the whole time, since I spoke to you then. But have you had some time off? JOCKE- Yeah, we've been touring, you know, weekend shows in Sweden. And after that, and we did the European tour, and we went to Japan after Australia. And we play constantly. I mean, that's, that's what HARDCORE SUPERSTAR's about. I mean, the best thing is to watch us live, you know. So. And that's my favorite part, as a musician, to you know, to play live shows. MAL- So what we've got is a pretty spectacular tour coming up with BUCKCHERRY and HARDCORE SUPERSTAR in October here in Australia. How did this tour come about? Have you toured with BUCKCHERRY before? JOCKE- Yeah, we toured with them back in 2013. We did this European tour, five weeks in Europe. And we become became instantly friends you know, because yeah, worked really good together as a touring, you know, party. So I think that they wanted us to come with them to Australia this time, you know, we try to keep in touch. I try to write to Stevie and Kelly, you know, to stay in touch. You know, we follow each other on Instagram and stuff. I mean, it's like they live in the US. We live in Sweden. So it's quite far away from each other. So but we met on you know, festivals in Europe and stuff. So So yeah, they're nice guys. MAL- I interviewed Steive D a month or so ago and he spoke very highly of HARDCORE SUPERSTAR. So they're looking forward to coming out here with you guys as well. So it should be very interesting. JOCKE- Likewise, yeah. MAL- Are you touring much in between? Are you on tour at the moment? Sounds like you're home. JOCKE- I'm home now. We We just finished off the summer, two weeks ago. The festival summer we finished it up off in Finland. So now we're, we're off for until we go to Australia. We're doing some rehearsals before we go to Australia, but from that we're off. Being with the family, you know, recording some new stuff. MAL- Okay. And working on a new album, obviously. And when would that be released to you think? JOCKE- We talked about, you know, release a single, you know, January next year. MAL- The weather will be a little bit warmer when you come here to Australia this time, so pack some pants anyway, and just remember the secret password to get in. JOCKE- Yeah, of course. Of course. Yeah. Yes. That wasn't so hard. Yeah. MAL- No, it was pretty obvious. It was either going to be that or kangaroo. JOCKE- Yeah. MAL- Did you get any time off when you were here last time? JOCKE- You have to fly in between shows because distance and stuff. But we went out in Sydney. You know, we had one or two days off in Sydney, you know. And of course, we went to the opera house. MAL- As you do, you have to. JOCKE- Yeah, we have to do it by the book when we were in Sydney, you know. We went to Brisbane the first time, that was beautiful, I must say. And our tour manager's sister and her husband live in Brisbane. So we we had some gathering there and a few beers. MAL- All right Jocke, not long now, and we'll see you here in Australia again with BUCKCHERRY HARDCORE SUPERSTAR and BAD MOON BORN who are very good by the way. That's early October all around Australia. Great to talk to you again. JOCKE- Great to talk to you looking forward to come to Australia again. Comments are closed.
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