VAINS OF JENNA is a brand new band from Sweden, a country that recklessly provides us with some of the finest rock n roll around.
You're a new band, super young and super fresh, can you describe your brief history in a few lines?
Started up in January 2005. Recorded one song during that month ("Heartbreak Suicide"). Put it online at www.vainsofjenna.com.
13 Hours later we reseived an e-mail from the Cruefest staff asking us to play the Whisky A Go Go.
After that the band has been playin' local shows in Sweden. Played the Whisky. Recorded with Gilby Clarke.
Played at Glamfest06 in Stockholm. And now we're hittin' Italy.

You sound to our ears like e perfectly blended mix between Faster Pussycat and Scandinavian Rock a là Backyard Babies. But if you were asked, how would you describe your music?
Like the perfect rock n' roll cocktail. It's a mixture between the bands we've grown up with. Guns N Roses, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Faster Pussycat and Mötley Crüe.

Sweden has a blossoming rock scene: with which bands do you get along the most and do you have any bad blood with any of them?
Hot Rod of Gemini5 is a cool fuckin' dude. Rob from Loud N' Nasty has always been supportive. The boys in Crashdiet rocks.
Don't disslike anyone that's into rock n' roll.

VAINS OF JENNA must be one of the coolest names of the last five years. Italy surely is the land of pornography, and Jenna sports quite a following over here: is there a particular reason behind this monicker?
The band name is all about SEX, DRUGS & ROCK n' ROLL. And that's what we're all about.

You're very young so it comes natural to ask how you ended up being influenced by the L.A. Metal scene; nowadays it's all about emocore and nu metal stuff when it comes to heavy music, so where did you get your influences from?
See question above. Like we told you earlier. We have all been listening to that kind of rock music since childhood.
It's party music. And we're all about having fun.

You have achieved quite much in a very little time, from recording in LA with Gilby Clarke, to being invited to Cruefest, and last but not least being invited to tour Italy which is becoming more competitive day by day for rock bands. How could you put all this together in such a short time?
We've been tryin' hard. Music is our #1 priority. All other things, like work, relasionships and other shit has been put away to achive
what we've always dreamt about. And luck has helped us out a bit to.

This upcoming italian gigs will be, at least for a while, your last concerts in Europe since if I'm correct you're moving to LA in April. How did the chanch happen?
We're movin' to the US as soon as all the paperwork's been done. In the meantime we're movin' to the UK. Tearin' up the London streets.
It's a pain in the ass for a European band to move to the US. So we need a cool place to stay, London seams to be that place for us.
The whole US move is because our manager is located there and we fell in love with LA last year.
The Swedish rock scene is great, but it's not big enough for alot of bands. And we wanna give the american people some fresh rock n' roll air.

You are managed-represented by Stevie Rachelle and also have been featured on his Metal Sludge website: how did you hook up with him?
He saw us play at the Whisky last year. He liked what he saw. And now we're workin' together.

What are your expectations regarding America?
The get our name out and be apart of the new rock scene that we predict will arise in the near future. We'll work hard and try to gig and tour as much as possible. Have fun all the way. We might crash and burn, but at least we're trying.

The death of Dave Lepard, the singer of Crash Diet, seemed to have quite an impact in the Swedish Scene. A young talented musician with a major label deal committing suicide surely impressess. Italian rockers Crackhouse, which by the way will be sharing the stage with you in the Padova gig, have recently toured Sweden and noticed how his death was mourned and remembered basically in every bar, rock club and record shop: how did this affect you personally? How would you describe the impact this had on the Swedish rock scene?
We got a shock when we heard it. It's a tragady. We played with Crashdiet just a couple of weeks before this happend.
Dave Lepard was a cool fuckin' dude. He liked our music and we liked his.
Crashdiet was the band that brought back the rock scene and opened up the young kids eyes.
Don't really know if it have effected the Swedish rock scene that Dave died. 'cause Sweden still rocks.
It's just such a shame. They could have become a much bigger band.

Final words for your italian soon-to-be-fans!
Come and check us out at a gig or go to www.vainsofjenna.com or www.myspace.com/vainsofjenna.