Steel Notes Magazine
Spring 2017
The Cruel
Intentions
Rockfiend
Publications
Scotland with
Colin and Suzy
The Cruel Intentions Interview At Rockmantic Carlisle 10th Feb-
ruary 2017 Lizzy - So when I heard that I thought ooh, add "the" and "s" on
the end and we have a band name.
Rockfiend - Is this the original line up? Mats - I called Lizzy and told him the band is going to be called
"The Cruel Intentions", he did not know about Nasty Idols, he had
never heard of them.
Lizzy - Everyone apart from the drummer, the original drummer
Eiliv left and we saw Robin on Facebook, his other band had post-
ed a video of him playing drums.
Mats - I saw him on my news feed somehow, and I thought this
guy is great. I said to Lizzy look at this guy, I love the way he's
playing! Lizzy - I was blown away.
Mats - My favorite band, I loved them for years and years, it's
like a homage to them. The bass player didn't take it so well. He
thought I was just stealing.
Lizzy - Stealing his idea.
Mats - I said contact him. Rockfiend - You do have a really good
style. Mats - I was kidding with Lizzy, "get this guy in the band!" Mats - He's been harassing the subject on Facebook, but that's
because he's old and done, and we are not.
Lizzy - All of us live in Oslo Norway, except for him, he lives
in southern parts of Sweden. He has to travel to rehearse, but it
works out, he's a good fucking drummer. Rockfiend - You are ready to take their position?
Rockfiend - It's worth doing it?
Lizzy, Mats - Yeah Lizzy - I don't know if he's happy in the band or
not haha, if he's happy to play with us, so far so good.
Rockfiend - Where did the name "The Cruel Intentions" come
from?
Lizzy - We really didn't have an idea for a name, so we were
throwing some ideas around and Mats is a really big fan of...what's
that band called again?
Mats - "Nasty Idols" from Sweden, and they have an album called
"Cruel Intention".
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Mats - I took his position, I was blonde as well as playing bass, I
was better suited, haha.
Lizzy - It's a good name like he said a cool homage to a band he
loves.
Mats - But he didn't get it.
Rockfiend - Yeah with a capital F! Where d